Truth or Dare?

Tigress / Po

By: Skyyler

A.N: If you want the extended version of this one-shot, find 'Is It Love?' in Lovestruck. It explains a lot that's happening in this chapter. Read it, then this, and you'll most likely understand everything. Please tell me how I'm doing. Thanks a bunch!

"Truth or dare, Crane?" Monkey nudged his lips into a grin, as the five looked up at each other through the rather large campfire that was situated in between them. They kept their respective distance from it, to keep themselves from burning.

Crane looked around. "Wha... me? What are you asking?"

Monkey blinked. "You don't know how to play truth or dare?"

Tigress rolled her eyes, soon cutting in. "If you say dare you must do whatever Monkey tells you to do. If you say truth you have to answer one of the questions he asks you with your honest truth."

"Well," Crane cocked his head a little to the side. "When have I ever lied?"

"He's being honest, he never would lie." Viper forwarded her attention back to Monkey. "If you want to actually play this game you may want to ask him to just say dare."

"Truth." Crane lightheartedly smiled. "Give me your best shot, Monkey."

Monkey's grin came back to him, as he soon brought his hairy fingers to his chin in thought. "Do you think that panda will really be the Dragon Warrior?"

Tigress shook her head and growled with disgust. The thought of that fat excuse of an animal lurking around their Jade Palace made her sick to her stomach. And yet, Oogway says that he will be the Dragon Warrior. She looked at Crane, who's mouth was half open as he was about to talk, but took his words back once Tigress made her gesture. "Well, are you going to answer?"

"Well, I..." He looked around. "To, my... honest opinion I think anyone can be up for something such as the role of the Dragon Warrior, but... I really don't know. That panda probably has no experience, and nonetheless, could not handle such a duty as that of-"

"He's not fit for the job, Crane, we all agree with you." Mantis shot in, soon after laughing with all the others at his crude remark. Crane giggled with the others, but didn't certainly agree, but of course the others could not see his regretful face afterward.

As the laughter slowly decrescendoed, Monkey looked back at the bird. "Now it's your turn. Ask one of us 'truth or dare'."

Crane immediately looked at Viper. "Viper, Truth... or dare."

Viper bit her lip. She wasn't that big of a dare-devil, but then again what dare would Crane give? He was too nice to do anything horrid. But then again, picking truth did sound much better. "Truth."

Crane spoke up. "Do you, think that that panda should belong here?"

Everyone's eyes directed over to her, as she began coming up with a quick answer, but soon hesitated to speak. "I... think that he does belong here."

Tigress glared at her. "What? Viper you can't possibly-"

"Lend me my time to reason." The snake looked around innocently, meeting each of the others eyes, and ended on Crane's. "Yes, I am in complete enigma that the panda has joined us, but I say we should give him a chance. Maybe he's more fit than what we had expected him to be. We should not blow something as crazy as this away, because that shows us as poor masters."

The group fell silent. Crane lifted his head, as he began to agree with her. "We, should, train ourselves more mentally than physically, Master Shifu always says." Everyone agreed with him, as they went back to staring at the fire.

"Tigress." Viper spoke, with a solid look on her face. "Truth or dare."

Tigress examined her nails. "I want no part in this game."

"Come on, Tigress, loosen up, are you saying you can't take the truth, or a little tiny dare?" Mantis wooed.

The tigress pinched her lips to the side. "I... didn't say that." A clash of voices came from the other four, as they pushed her to give her answer. "Fine! Fine, I pick dare."

"Ooh, bad decision. Dares are always the worst." Mantis shook his head.

"I can take a dare. Any dare." Tigress glared back at the insect.

"Are you sure? I'll let you change your mind if you'd like." Viper asked in a soft voice.

"No, Viper, I pick dare. Give me anything, and I'll do it." She kept her head tall, as low giggles came from the others.

"Okay, if you insist..." Viper looked up at the blinking stars above in question. A dare quickly came to her mind, as she smiled. "Since you love that panda so much, I say you should go over to him, and kiss him right on the lips."

Bursts of laughter exploded from the others, all the while Tigress sat, with her mouth hung open. "There is no way I'll kiss that bear!"

"Ah ah," Monkey raised a hand. "You picked dare, and now you must do your dare."

Everyone seemed to stare at the feline, as her brows slowly lowered in surrender. She began to shake her head and clench her fists. "No, I am not doing it." She looked away, as if trying to hide something.

A pause fell amoung them.

"I knew it." Viper squinted her eyes. "I knew you were never up for something like this. Even though, the role of a good master is to have wisdom in all the parts of the spectrum, but I guess you're just not completely wise yet, hmm?"

"What is wise about kissing a panda?"

"As unbelievable it sounds, it is the result that counts, not the doing." Crane lightly spoke up, eying the crackling fire.

A hesitated moment passed, as Tigress rubbed her head, and finally sighed. "Fine. I will do it... but only on the cheek!-"

"On the lips, Tigress, that was the dare." Viper shot back.

Tigress grunted. "On the lips. But none of you can look."

"Then how will we know that you did it?" Monkey asked.

Tigress planted the palm of her paw onto her forehead. "I'm never playing this game again." She got up, and began walking towards the Jade Palace, finding the others following her intently.

"Where are you going?" Tigress demanded at the panda, who was quickly walking to his room.

Po spun around and saw her. He gulped, and bowed. "Master Tigress! I was uh... getting ingredients for the soup I'm making for you guys tonight."

Tigress kept her arms crossed and almost seemed to inspect him with her bright orange eyes. His black and white figure dimly shined in the candle light that was coming from all around them. His green shorts were loose, surprisingly, and his hands were... shaking. He was nervous to see her? Well... she guessed he was, because she was a master, and he was not. "Carry on." She followed him into his room, as the other four quickly followed behind, but did not go into the panda's room, because Tigress lightly shut the door.

Po turned around and looked at the door. "Did you just..."

"So what ingredient are you looking for?" Tigress more like commanded, rather than asked.

"Uh..." Po seemed to stare at her. "Curry... I'm... I'm looking for curry." He walked over to his rather large backpack, and began to rummage through it.

Tigress already knew that they had plenty of seasonings, including the one he was looking for, in the kitchen of the Jade Palace, but she preferred kiss- or, doing her dare someplace alone with him, so that her master would not walk in on her, and the only good place now was his room. It felt so awkward to be in there.

"No, don't open it!" Mantis loudly whispered at Monkey, who had his hand on Po's door.

"Why not?" He whispered back.

"Because then he'll know what's going on! Go into Tigress' room, there's a little opening there where we can peek through." Mantis replied, as everyone quickly rushed over to the feline's room.

"Is it in there?" Tigress lightened up her voice, as she tried to sound a bit more nice.

Po sat with a light thump on the ground, and shook his head. "No curry... maybe I should've packed my bags myself instead of having my dad bringing it up for me." He lightly chuckled, as he looked over at Tigress. She was a bit closer to him, now. He backed up a little.

"May I look?"

Po blinked, as he quickly covered his bag up. "Uh... uh no, you can't." He smiled, although his eyes did not.

"Oh, what could you possibly want to hide?"

"Everything! I'm talking to a master here. I wouldn't want to show my personal belongings to someone I've always looked up to my whole life, it would just be... weird, you know?"

Tigress blinked. "No." She thought for a moment. That is actually the first time that I have heard such a thing from a townsfolk, someone looking up to me... Shaking her thoughts off, she sighed. "I'm sure I'll be fine with whatever I find in your bag."

"No you won't. No, no you won't." He replied back, pulling his bag away.

"Let me look, panda."

"You don't want to, master, trust me-"

"Just give me the bag." Tigress began to tug at his bag, as he tugged back.

"I won't give you the bag-"

"Don't you know who you're talking to-"

"I don't want you to-"

Rrrrrip!

Po's mouth shot open, as he looked down. His bag was heavily torn from the middle down, and what was on the inside of it was now scattered all over the floor.

Tigress felt the need to apologize, but she did not want to give herself a bad name for ripping his bag, it wasn't that important of a bag, anyways. She looked down, and blinked at the items that were laying all over the ground. Some shorts, utensils, cooking items, and a... Tigress squinted at the item, and picked it up. Po shut his eyes and looked away, as he waited for her reaction.

"It's... me." Tigress slowly began to notice something. Something strange. The picture she was looking at was her, but younger. What she was looking at was her past. "Where did you get this?"

"I uh... I drew it."

"You?" Tigress examined the picture closer. She was sitting on a hard bed, with her paws held on her face, to keep back her crying. She was in a jail cell, of a certain orphanage. "I remember this..." Her eyes slowly began to turn blurry, as she clenched her jaw tightly shut. "I... I remember being here."

Po hesitated to speak. "I do, too." He slowly walked over to her, and sat with her, as they both looked at the picture.

"How did you know...?"

"I met you, Tigress. That was the first time I met you. And you made me want to draw this picture."

They exchanged looks of grief, as Tigress shook her head. "That's... impossible, you could not have possibly even known be back then..." Her lips began to quiver, as she started to stagger her breathing.

"Well, look at this." He brought his large paw over to the paper, and pointed out a spot that seemed to be erased many times, over and over again. "This was supposed to be me, comforting you. But... you would never want someone like me to do that... so I drew you alone, but then I didn't want you to be alone, so..."

"You do not remember what you did when you first met me? I remember you heard my cries in that cell of mine... and..." Her eyes began to fill up with tears. "And you saw me, and had no fear of me. That was you..."

"Yeah I remember it, but... but I thought you didn't want me there?-"

"I..." Tigress interrupted, but soon remembered that the other four were still watching them. She closed her eyes, and sighed. She lessened her voice. "I didn't care! I just wanted someone around, I wanted someone to care for me, and..." She looked back at the picture. "And you came by..."

"The fat, immature panda that you know now?" Po replied with a pitiful look on his face.

"No. I don't care what you look like, I only care about how you... how you are, now." Tigress brought her eyes over to his. "And I'm glad you're here, like you..." She sniffed. "Like you were in that wretched orphan home I was stuck in. I can't believe I'm saying this, but... I-I missed you." A faint tear slowly began to drizzle down her furry cheek.

Po slightly smiled. "I love you, too." He looked back into her bright, glowing orange eyes, as he brought his paw up, and wiped the tear from her eye. Her ears slightly inched down, as she slowly began to lean forward. Her white whiskers moved back, while underneath them, her soft lips lightly puckered.

Po leaned inward, towards her, and closed his eyes. The zenith of his sensations he could feel now was the soft feel of their lips lightly touching. The fur on her face slowly moved across his, as she slightly brought the bottom of her lips to the sides of his, and moved across, dipping. A bit of saliva smothered each of their lips, as they opened and closed their mouths in response to each others lip movement.

Tigress pressed harder on him, as she began to breathe through her nose. She brought her hands up to his neck, to keep herself steady. Po took his hands over to her waist, and grasped, as he took her in, closer...

Viper kept herself from gaping her mouth in a surprised response. The others were behind her, begging to take a look through the crack.

"Well, are they kissing? What's happening?" Mantis impatiently asked.

The snake took one last glance, before looking at them. "Oh, nothing." She smiled, and began to head off. "I don't think we should stay here any longer, she looks like she's never going to kiss him. We might as well save our time." She held herself from chuckling, as she head out of the room. The others didn't bother to look into the crack either, as they headed out, remembering they still had to put out the fire they made.

Once Viper made it to her room, she collapsed to the floor, and smiled. "I guess felines really are the best dare-devils." She slowly rolled over, and blew out the candle.

Good Night.