And a typical dinnertime at the Bushido-Akio clan.

Chapter 5: Dinnertime

Soon enough, Kiba and Max got back to the Bushido-Akio house and saw Samurai standing there and Kiba was deeply excited to see his best panda friend coming in and Kiba said, "What up, Sam?!"

"Kiba-man! How goes, dude?" asked Samurai, happily.

Both of them came towards each other and greeted them with their signature handshake/bro-hug greeting and Samurai said, "How goes, K?"

"Doing awesome, Sammy! How's everything at the noodle shop?" asked Kiba.

Samurai sighed in response and replied, "Exhausting. But...it's all good, among everything else. Plus, I've always seen you around the noodle shop a lot...mostly with Ligress."

Kiba blushed a little bit when Samurai mentioned Ligress right in front of him and he's always been very secretive when it comes to the two of them and he said, "We're just friends. Nothing more."

"Not from what I saw when you two came there for a little 'date'. I saw Ligress licking your nose when you had that little strand of noodles on top of your nose." Samurai added, with a teasing smirk.

"You saw that?" Kiba asked, very shocked.

"Trust me...when people go on dates at the noodle shop, lots of things can happen. First dates, second dates, cute moments, embarrassing moments and stuff like that. Things like that cannot be turned away by those eyes. There was one moment where you guys tripped and she was on the floor and you were on top of her." Samurai stated.

Kiba had no idea what else to say about that and he was a little speechless for the moment and Max asked, "Really?"

"Uh...something like that." Kiba answered, trying to keep himself from being embarrassed.

"Hey...we've all been there, Kiba. You just have a little crush on Ligress, that's all." Samurai added, patting Kiba on the shoulder.

Kiba smiled a little bit and just wanted to move onto another subject and he said, "Anyways, I came bring back Max before you guys chow down."

"Thanks. Dinner's about to start anyways, so he's right on time." Samurai said.

As Max walked towards Samurai's side, Kiba also said, "Just wanted to make sure that he came home okay."

"Appreciate it, buddy. Guess I'll see ya later." Samurai said, smiling.

"You too." Kiba said, smiling.

Samurai and Kiba gave each other a little fist bump and Max joined in as well, receiving a chuckle from Kiba and as he left the house, the two brothers went inside the house to join in for dinner. Mere minutes later, everyone was sitting around the table, talking about their day at the MMA class and at the house or work and Mako asked Max, "So...how did it go in MMA class?"

"Really awesome. Me, Jason and Kiba were learning about teamwork and we demonstrated on what we do when it comes to taking down your enemy." Max replied.

"Kiba was part of the class?" asked Samurai.

Max nodded his head quickly and said, "Just for the day."

Blackhawk blinked his eyes for a second and he asked Max, "So...how's Jason?"

"Jason's so cool. He's like the best person to train with and we learn a lot from each other through it all. He makes me feel like I can succeed in anything and each time he encourages me to try something new, even when I think that I'm not sure if I can accomplish it, he always tells me to believe in myself and never let anything hold me back. For a while, I forget what I was so nervous about and just go for it. We do a lot together; from sparring, learning to punch, wrestle and self-defense. He makes me so excited about coming there every day and I like that it's just us instead of an entire class. Makes the whole day easier for me." Max replied.

"How come we've never met him before?" asked Reiko.

"Not sure exactly." Max answered.

Mako clears his throat and he chowed down his chow mein noodles and he said to Max, "I think you should invite him over to our house for dinner. Maybe when you see him tomorrow, you can ask."

Max could tell that this would be a good idea for him to introduce Jason to the rest of the Bushido-Akio family and he agreed with that plan and said, "Okay. I'll do that."

"Where does he live. by the way?" asked Mako.

"You know...he hasn't told me where he lives. I'll probably ask him that too." Max replied.

We've got more of Jason coming up soon! Stay tuned!

Voice of Samurai: Josh Peck

Voice of Mako: Kyle Hebert

Voice of Reiko: Lori Loughlin