I thought it would be fun to try to do Tigress' version of moving out. Slightly different to Po, since Tigress had no habit of collecting stuff (she is not a sentimental type). So here you go, hope you all like it.

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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
– Dr. Seuss

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

-James Dobson

"Tigress...? Are you there."

The feline's ear perked up hearing familiar voice. Her best friend's curvy silhouette glimmered against the the thin rice paper door by her room.

"Come on in Viper..." She grunted as she tried to move her bed, trying to retrieve something that she had hid under the floorboard.

"Woah... I didn't know you have that." Viper watched her friend carefully slide the wooden plank to the side, revealing a black wooden box.

"Well, I kept it here to avoid anyone discovering it. I always had a feeling Zheng pried on my diary and such every time Shifu asked him to clean up our room." Tigress concluded. Viper knew that the middle age goose whom officially engaged as palace messenger, doubling as cleaner probably own a side job as Shifu's spy.

The goose always appear to be timid and excessively intimidated when the Masters tried to hold conversation with him, but yet he seems to know most of their darkest secret, their past or their biggest fear, to the point they fear if Shifu ever mistreated or dismissed Zheng - he would threaten to sell their story to some evil villain as a blackmail.

"I always suspect Zheng was an undercover." Viper groaned. "I swear he deliberately placed Crane's calligraphy under my bed."

"Are you sure it's not Mantis or Monkey playing pranks on you?" Tigress said.

"No, they were both accompanying Po on two weeks mission. And Crane hurt his wings and had to stay back. So he spent his day perfecting his art. One day he decide to make this words "Love and Purity" and drew a snake and a crane intertwine with the letters, it gone missing right after the room being cleaned, and reappear a few days later under my bed." Viper scoffed. But truth be told after that incident, Crane did invite her for a date. "However annoying he is, had to admit he is a good matchmaker." Tigress snickered.

"Did he never did prank on you?" asked Viper.

"He did,... he actually found my diary one day. This is way before we started courting. I pretty sure the curiosity get the best of him and he read it. But, I think he was wise enough not to admit it and keep his mouth shut." Tigress explained. Zheng obviously knew the punishment for trespassing Master Tigress belonging will be a gruesome death.

"How did you know he found it?" Viper was getting curious.

"I am a cat Viper, I had an excellent sense of smell. Anyway... I had my way playing a little detective work to found that out."

"So, what happened next?"

"Few days later, me and Po involved in a 'heated conversation' about something small. For the whole week we continued to bicker at each other, normally I would help Po to clean up training hall, helping to carry the palace grocery shopping, or washing up after dinner, but since we were fallen out - neither me or him willing to do it. And of course if no other Master took up the responsibility, it would become Zheng's." Tigress secretly regretting that silly fight.

"So, one night me and Dragon warrior found a letter on our desk. Both letter just simply stating to open our drawer and look inside. It doesn't say who is it from or what is it for." Tigress said. "And when I opened mine, I saw this." Tigress opened the black box she retrieved from under the floor and pull out a scroll from it, and hand it to Viper.

Viper carefully and gasped. "Is this Li's letter to Po?" (Li - Po's panda dad). Viper continued reading the scroll. It didn't say much, but it did said the a few crucial thing.

Dear Little Lotus,

Sorry I couldn't extend my stay in valley of peace, but me and all the pandas would like to wish you a happy birthday. It's been a month since we bid our goodbye. My life had return to normal here, some of the panda had decide to move out of seclusion - which is a good thing, they felt there was no need to hide anymore.

I had to say practicing Chi definitely lighten up my spirit. Nonetheless, I do missed you. I had been meaning to invite you and your tiger friend back to panda village. Hope you've got the courage to confess you feeling for her. You've excelled a lot in your kung fu career, it's time for you to think about your love life, because it is far more important than a title or mastering a scroll. Please send my regards to Ping and Shifu. Tell them I miss their company too.

p.s : Grandma panda said she missed Shifu too.

Li Shan.

"So, Po had your diary and you've got this?" Tigress nodded nonchalantly. "We made up soon after, I had never discussed the content of that scroll neither Po brought up anything inside my diary that he read. He simply returned my diary and told me I can keep the letter."

Viper mouth curved and a smile appeared. "And look at where you are now! You are getting married to your panda in 2 weeks time! So you probably did owe Zheng some kind of 'love-favour' huh?" Viper narrowed her eyes, enjoying watching her sister turning orange-red.

"Talking about that let's start this packing business. You don't seem to have a lot to move. Are you sure you need my help?" Viper glanced through the room. It's true that Tigress, unlike Po, wasn't a person who is into ornamentation. But as she saw Tigress lifted yet another piece of the floorboard, she began to feel strangely suspicious there was an army of boxes underneath her entire bedroom. It's a false pretenses to make everything look minimalist and tidy. 'She probably hoard stuff as much as Po down there.' Viper took a mental note not to be immensely surprise.

"Well, I can start with this box, you can start on my wardrobe." Tigress instructed. The snake obeyed and start pulling out stuff from her closet. She quickly get started and lifted the lid of the box.

"So, are you ready to be a wife?" Viper teased her friend. If she were to be very honest, she had always imagine that Tigress would be the very last one of the five of them to get hitched. She was certain the rest of the five, as much as Tigress herself, were astounded to learn that she not only become the first to relinquish her maiden status, but she was going to marry a panda - who often make fun of himself, often forgot mannerism in front of other masters, have some appetite problem, not to mention being cuddly, plushy, super awesome at reciting kung fu story with a goofy grin and cute eyes.

"I was born ready." She smirked.

"Gosh, I think being with Po really gets into you." Viper rolled her eyes."No seriously Tigress, are you ready to become a wife? let alone a Dragon Warrior wife." Tigress stopped whatever she was doing and found herself contemplating her query.

"I don't know Viper, but I've done all I can to prepare." She confessed. Viper knew that Shifu had given Tigress time off to pursue and learn a few 'ladylike' thing like sewing and cooking. For her friends, it was really out of her character. She had spent quite a few nights at Mr Ping to learn the art of culinary excellence. Viper even caught the feline was calling his soon-to-be-father-in-law 'Master' in the kitchen, much to the goose disapproval.

Viper rummage through the closet and folding up all the loose paper, safety pin, sash, buttons to collective pile. Then she found a green box on the corner of Tigress closet. Seems like Tigress had a habit of hiding everything inside a box. "Tigress, shall we sort this one? may I open this?" The tiger turned her attention in response. "That's where I kept all the present from Po, you may opened it, no real secret there." She said coolly. Viper didn't ask her friend twice just in case she changed her mind about prying her private collection.

Viper found a bunch of necklace, yin and yang bracelet, arm bands, few scrolls, and a stash of papers. Indisputably a mountain of them, but Po was really that kind of person who enjoyed giving more than receiving. For every special occasion, winter festival, autumn festival, successful mission, even his dad's birthday - he would make it as an pretext to give Tigress something. While Viper busied herself examining most of Po's gift, she heard Tigress spluttering into laughter.

Viper raise her brow, and realise her best friend just sitting cross-legged down going through some scrolls.

"What's about it." She joined in trying to read whatever Tigress indulged in.

"Do you remembered that we ever tried to raise money for Bao Gu orphanage once, and Po auctioned his fanfiction?" Viper nodded. She recalled that week all the Master can come up with any means to raise money for charity to aid the orphanage where Tigress was previously adopted. And Po's love beside food and kung fu would be writing fictional story or romantic poem.

"I bid one of them and paid 300 yuan for it." She fondly reciting the story that Po wrote. "The story was about a beautiful Tiger princess that fall in love with mighty warrior disguised as a panda." Viper inwarly face-palmed herself. "Isn't that sound familiar?" She snickered. "I think Po's obsession of you runs deeper than we initially thought." But at least those story Po's made during his stay as a student in Jade Palace wasn't that far-fetched. Master Tigress was indeed his best friend, and it's not remotely impossible for her to fall in love with the Dragon Warrior.

"You should have seen this Viper," Tigress handed a stack of paper which appear to be fan-art drawing.

"Po made this?" Viper was quite flabbergasted, she never knew Po had quite a streak of artistry in him.

"Yes, Mr. Ping gave them to me (much to Po's disagreement) on his birthday. Mr. Ping told me since it is his birthday he could do whatever he pleased. Those Po's made during his teen years." She clarified. "This was made long before he was appointed Dragon Warrior."

And if anything else Tigress should made aware about Mr. Ping was the goose had his own way of showing his fondness to her especially (beside hugging and cooking). Mr. Ping often randomly dropping embarrassing hints, thanks to her orange fur, that he hardly knew that her heart nearly stopped hearing his comment. Once particular occurrence she vividly recited was when Mr. Ping asking Po when will he gave him grandchildren while she was standing earshot distance to him, on their second or third date. Another one was when he was whispering loudly at her son 'she is definitely a keeper' one time after they came back from mission in his restaurant that was bursting with feisty villager. The effect almost like that he had hoped for, 'Dragon Warrior laid his eyes on the leader of Furious Five' made it to number one list on village tribune - gossip section. And the teasing even got worse sometime Po would just wished he could perform wuxi finger-hold himself to disappear to other dimension.

Viper closely closely observe the intricate detail of Po's drawing. It was an sketch of her and the rest of the five, with Po posing in the middle, striking a kung fu pose with his fist clutches in the air. On the bottom of the paper written, 'Heroes aren't born, they are made'.

Another sketch picturing all six of them sat down enjoying picnic in the woods. All of them were looking extremely contented, even Tigress was smiling, small caption on the bottom of the page read 'There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same foods'. And there is another one with all of them walking down a path, with their pack on their back, almost look like a mission trip. On the bottom it's written. 'Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find'. Those words strung her heart. Po had been fantasising them as his best friends since he was teenager. 'Your friendship I will treasure forever, Brother.' She mumbled to herself.

The last picture she saw is of Po and Tigress. They were sitting back to back under the peach tree. Both smiling, looking extremely peaceful with their eyes tightly close. Again, there was a super small inscription, almost unreadable. 'Love and Sacrifice'. Looking at the picture made Viper's scale tingle. It's almost like Po had certain kind of super power to see a perfect vision about his future self, without realising even his wildest dream will transpire into reality.

"You know what Tigress... there is no many people out there that be willing to wait that long for to pursue the person they loved. Most of them had move on after couple of years. But Po was something else." Viper sighed admiringly, and Tigress knew exactly what she meant.

"I know, I count my blessing."

Then Tigress saw the Dragon scroll Po gave her right after defeating Tai Lung. She vividly cited how much she resented him at the beginning, and defeating Tai Lung had earn him that little credibility as kung fu prodigy, but nothing more. However, it didn't stop there, the panda never stop to astonish her. A mental picture of his relief feature when she accepted his gift - the Dragon scroll - that he never even think was rightfully his. Right then she was convinced that Oogway didn't make a mistake not picking her as the Dragon Warrior.'There is no accident'.

Next to the Dragon Scroll, is a worn sack cloth tied with silver ribbon. Tigress let her paw grazed through the surface of the sack feeling the clinking sound of rectangle wooden object inside it. The dominoes had been her first symbols of love and hope, although her childhood wasn't perfect nonetheless it reminded her to first person that despite all the adversaries wouldn't simply give up on her - her adopted Father. After what happen with Tai Lung, he could gave her back to orphanage, or sending her to other kung fu school - saving him all the hassle, heartaches, sorrow and mistake he was too afraid to repeat. But he didn't. Instead he brave himself to train her under strict regime, swallowing all the heartache once again having to watch her suffer and grew distant from him. The present Tigress knew better - Shifu had always love and proud of her, he just couldn't brought himself to say it because he believes it praise, love and pride would harm her in the long run. However absurd it might have sound, Tigress knew one thing, Shifu had never gave up on her.

Another object soon catches the feline attention. An old panda doll, laying still on the corner of her box. That toy brought somewhat a warm feeling to her every time she looked at it. It severely ragged form earn it's way from abandonment under all natured element, its colour had faded, one of it's eye nearly fallen off, but the little panda doll connected her with the deepest secret of certain someone that she loved dearly. A secret that may be all his comrades knew, but they would never understand the raw emotion of keeping something to remind you of someone's love and sacrifice. Everyone knew Po has lost a mother, but only Tigress knew how it really felt. For Po the ragged doll reminded him of a certain tragedy of losing his own family but also bitter sweet ending of finding the others. For Tigress it reminded her of certain heroine whom willing to give away her life, and now in return giving her chance to love her son.

"Tigress..." Her snake friend called her, handing over a bunch of scrolls. All look similar, it's of the same colour, all have the same seal, might be a good indication those come from the same person. The handwriting on the seal looks familiar, but Viper couldn't pin point who, what or why.

"Oh that's the letter from my secret admirer." Tigress said flatly.

"You mean those that you receive on Valentine day?" Tigress always received an annual letter from certain someone, it had never failed to emerge year to year. Tigress was unarguably beautiful, although her built was muscular and slender, but she was amazingly graceful and elegant. If she was more welcoming, less intimidating, tiny bit feminine, slight better temperament and do the talking with her mouth than her fist, Viper dare to bet there would be a lot of creature, commoner and Master alike, that desire to capture her heart. However the combination of her deadly short fuse, overly strong character and habitual random punching on anyone standing her way made her far less favourable candidates. It's no wonder that she hardly receive any letter on Valentine day, however this particular guy must have been her real secret admirer because Viper notice those letter didn't stop coming from the time Tigress was 16. Nonetheless, it was soon stop after that particular mission in Gongmen.

"Did you ever found out who was this guy?" Viper was watching her feline sister scanning the letter once again, occasionally a small smile formed on her maw.

"You would never guessed." She replied cordially, and pointing her claw to the room across hers.

"What? you mean... this guy is Po?" The serpent was absolutely surprised. That panda had taken such measure to make sure that the letter was sent always drop by Mrs Chang, the seamstress, and ask she'll pass it to the palace's messenger, so even Zheng wouldn't suspect the identity of the secret admirer, and Tigress would never think Mrs. Chang in anyway interested in her or her kung fu. And he'd been doing this for more than a decade, while any other guy would just drop the scroll secretly in Tigress' bedroom which practically just across from his.

"I know, isn't that crazy, he apparently sent it to me ever since Furious Five was formed. Do you remember how big fan of us he was?" Viper believed no one could forget Po's first day in Jade Palace, how much he idolised them. Anything about the five was a holy grail for the panda.

"Well, he still is! Almost forgetting sometime he is a greater hero." Viper put on a smug grin. "When did you found out?" She asked again curiously.

"I found the same seal in a mess in his bedroom. And he soon admitted what he'd been doing." Tigress revealed.

"Did you...get upset and...beat a pulp out of him and ask him to spar with you for a month?"

"No,... I just... gave him a quick peck on his cheek." Tigress stammered, unsure whether it's a good idea to spill the beans.

"And, are all these yours?". Viper pointed at a big hammer, a misshaped wok, a straw hat resembles cranes, a cannon ball, and a big patch trousers (which clearly wasn't Tigress').

"No, those were Po's stuff, his room are so full of stuff that he need to move some to mine. That hammer is Master Thundering Rhino's hammer, do you remember we saw that hammer in front of Gongmen Palace on the very spot he was shot?" She mentioned, while tracing her paw over the weapon that now consider valuable kung fu artefact.

"And that misshaped wok, was the one Po used while facing Tai Lung, the straw hat again comes from Gongmen when he was about to free us, and the cannon ball was just a memorabilia he found it laying somewhere before our trip back home." Viper chuckled on the mental image of a Panda, coming home from Gongmen with a cannon ball, straw hat, and a hammer. Tigress knew what her friend was thinking about. "Hold on that thought, he actually kept the dragon costume as well, also the rubble from my split kick demonstration on his first day here and the debris from Ms. Xiang roof that he broke during his battle with Tai Lung."

"What? I didn't even seen that on our way back, wonder how he managed to sneak in item that big without Master Shifu yelling at him." The snaked certainly both impressed and dumbfounded. Why would someone spend energy to collect 'junk'?

"He had his way Viper, Po is more determine than we all know if he set his mind to something - he can be quite stubborn." Tigress replied dryly. She swore one of these days Po might be able to open his own kung fu museum that compete with Jade Palace Hall of Fame.

"You mean like when you told him to stay in the jail?" Viper threaded carefully. The Tiger replied with a nod.

"How about this trousers, isn't this Po? I wonder why he left it here." Tigress face began to heat up. Various excuses raided through her mind, but nothing sensible come out on her throat. "Uhm, actually... I did ask him... because."

"You asked Po to give you his trousers?" Viper can see clearly her best-friend embarrassment.

"No, no... I meant, it was torn." She grab the trousers and shown Viper exactly what it meant. "It was ripped in a few places during the combat. And part of my 'wife' training was to learn how to sew, so I was offering to mend it, obviously I haven't get around to do it since there is tons of things to do before the wedding." If Tigress want to terribly honest, the particular was actually involving Po asking Crane to carry him to arrive faster in the battlefield. In which Crane incredulously replied either Po was overestimating his strength or he was underestimating his own weight, and they both forgot that the trousers itself might not stand the strain of Crane strength and Po's weight.

Finally they both done, everything had been stacked neatly, and separated to the pile that she would take with her to her new house and the pile she will put in the basement.

"I am ever so excited for you Sister!" Viper squalled excitedly. However Tigress didn't share the same sentiment.

"Tigress... is everything okay?" Viper move closer and coiled closed to the tiger, tapping her tail at her paw pressing for more honest answer.

"I am okay Viper, it's just...never mind." She regretted not finishing her sentence, she knew Viper won't be leaving it at just that.

"Tigress, you are having a second thought are you?" Her friend asked with a worried tone.

"No, it's not like that. It's just... I am worried I can't give Po what he really want." The feline sighed dejectedly, she cupped her chin with her paw. She throw her glance on her engagement ring again. It was a simple silver band with the word 愛 (love) engraved on it. She could imagine that the ring had passed down through time from one panda to the other of the next generation, carrying its legacy while witnessing a beginning of a beautiful union and promise of love. And for once, the ring had landed on it's first Tiger proprietor.

"What do you mean? To all things in the world, I knew what he wants... is to be with you. Do you remember he actually ready to resigned as Dragon Warrior should the Master Council never appeal for that decision?" Viper reminded her.

"There is something else Po really wants beside being with me." She let a long breath, with a look that clearly portrayed defeat.

"Ok, I am all ears." Her friend conceded to get the truth out of her.

"Po wanted to be a father." She sighed dejectedly. "And I am worried I might fail him on that."

"Because you are a tiger and he is a panda?" Her serpent friend frowned, pressing her eyebrow together in confusion.

"I know what are you going to say, even Shifu try to console me by saying we can always adopt, after all both Po and me were adopted. But that would still be different." Tigress stubbornly replied.

"You don't have to be look alike to be able to love them if that what's you worried about. I mean, you love Zan, you love Lei Lei, none of them looked like you." Viper tried to understand what troubling the feline. But Tigress just let a blank stare on the paper wall in front of her. She tap the feline paw, brushing it with her tail to win her attention.

"Tigress, do you remember what Mr. Ping said on Po's birthday card last year? It was so profound that I kept on remembering the words 'You may not have my eyes, my wings and my smile, but from the very first moment you have my heart.' You have to know Tigress, love is such a simple four letter word, yet it can means most complicated things and defined in thousands different way, or you can accept it and just make it simple, just like Mr. Ping loved his son. Beside if it is not because him adopting Po and Master Shifu adopting you, you both probably wouldn't have what you have now. A Love for each other."

With that Viper coiled around the Tiger, gently giving her a sisterly hug. "I am sure everything will be fine."

"Thanks Viper, I've felt better." Tigress gave her friend a sincere smile.

"So, I take it you are ready to move out of this barrack?" She grinned teasing her friend.

"I never be more ready."