We see the orphans having to get to know the huge family of the Bushido-Akio's.
Chapter 11: Adjusting with the Bushido-Akio's
By the next morning, Max, Bakari, Duke, Isaiah, Hachiko and Mokani were asleep in Max's room and as the heard the morning gong sounding, they knew that it was time to get up...except for Duke, Bakari and Mokani because they were very heavy sleepers and soon enough, Luna comes in the room and she said, "Wake up, guys."
Max slowly opened his eyes, then he lets out a big yawn and scratches his back after getting out of bed, completely sluggish and exhausted but eager to see what's in store today and everyone else got up as well and when they left Max's room, Mokani asked, "Where's your bathroom?"
"I think you have a better chance of using my dad's bathroom. Sage or Yow-Ni hogs the bathroom every morning at 6:30." Max answered.
Mokani rubbed the sand from his eyes and asked, "Where is your dad's bathroom?"
"Third room from the right when you walk past Phoenix's room." Max answered.
Soon after, Mokani made his way to Mako's bedroom to find the bathroom and as soon as the others made it, they saw Samurai, Phoenix and Logan standing in line and Max said, "Morning, guys."
"Hey, Max." Logan said.
"Let me guess, Sage?" asked Duke.
Samurai sighed heavily in response and asked, "Not this time. Sage is sleeping in. It's Yow-Ni."
Logan wasn't one for waiting around and he pounded on the door and said, "How long are you gonna be here, Yow? It doesn't take you an hour to take a dump, you know!"
"Too bad! You snooze, you (bleep)ing lose!" Yow-Ni exclaimed, on the other side of the door.
Samurai looked at the other younger kids and he told them, "You guys didn't even need to hear that."
Just then, Arizona comes out of his room and sees everyone standing at the bathroom and he said, "You can use mine and Musaki's bathroom."
The rest of them wasted no time in going to both bathrooms and Phoenix, Duke, Bakari and Logan used Musaki's while Max, Hachiko, Isaiah and Samurai used Arizona's; each of them either doing number one or two, brushing their teeth, washing their faces and taking a shower. While at Arizona's bathroom, Hachiko was a little curious as to how it always has been and he asked Max, "Does this happen often?"
"When you're in this house, plenty stuff happens." Max answered.
Later in the morning, everyone came to the dining room to get some breakfast and Mokani was surprised as to how many people are actually sitting at the table for breakfast and he never thought things like that were possible and as he sat down, he could see everyone there. Reiko comes over with the babies and she sets them down in individual baby seats and kissed them on the forehead and tickled under their chins to hear them giggle.
"Are those babies adopted?" asked Hachiko.
"Nah. Mom gave birth to them." Shinoda replied.
Just then, Mako and Cody served up some ginormous food to fit everyone's palate; kung-pao chicken, rice, potato pancakes and several other breakfast foods and as they passed it around on each table, everyone started digging in on the food. Reiko was looking forward to see what's gonna happen on the agenda today and she asked, "Mako...what have we all got to do today?"
"Well, we know we're gonna do some holiday shopping to see what everyone would like to have this year; me and Cody are gonna head to the orphanage to do some volunteer work and we're all going back to the Jade Palace to continue helping out Po and Tigress." Mako replied.
"Uh...can we talk?" Sage asked.
"You're not talking your way out of this, Sage. We're all going and that's it." Mako stated.
Sage lets out a frustrated grunt and slouched down on the chair and Mako turned to Samurai and asked, "You got anything for work, Sam?"
"Nah. I'm off for the entire holidays." Samurai replied.
"Perfect. We all meet at the Jade Palace by 1:00 today." Mako stated.
Soon enough, they received a little visit from one of their friends from the Jade Palace and said, "What up, Bushido-Akio's? Kiba Toshida's here!"
Everyone greeted Kiba as he came here and Max couldn't help but resist greeting him and he said, "Kiba!"
"Maxie boy! How are you, my little dude?" Kiba said, happily.
Both of them fist-bumped and high fived each other and got a huge hug from him and Max replied, "Pretty good."
Soon, Kiba noticed Max was growing a little bit and he said, "Whoa...have you grown a little taller?"
"Since dinner last night." Cody stated.
"K-dawg! What up?" Phoenix exclaimed.
Kiba chuckled softly and said, "Hanging good, Phoenix Fire!"
Both of them gave each other a bro hug and laughed with each other and Tsunami chuckled at this and said, "I have no idea why you guys are best friends."
"Hey, we can kick it." Phoenix replied.
Mako chuckled softly and offered Kiba to sit with the others for a little bit of breakfast and Kiba rightfully obliged to accept it as he sat down between Max and Phoenix as he received a huge plate of breakfast right in front of him and proceeded to eat. Zoey chuckled in response and said, "You like to eat, don't ya?"
"Not as much as Ryo." Kiba responded.
"Hey, we're all coming back to the Jade Palace to help out the preparations for the event they're doing." Cody stated.
"Aw, cool. Po told me about what you guys did yesterday and I got mad respect for you guys. Tigress...wasn't so much cool with it. She was a little upset anf somewhat guilty for letting you guys help her out as well." Kiba responded.
Logan sighed at that and he said, "It's not like we didn't have to take over. We were just easing a lot of burdens off of her and Po."
"I know. And I applaud you guys for it. It's just not good enough for Tigress when someone else helps her out." Kiba stated.
"Well...don't worry about that because we're coming back anyway." Mako stated.
Kiba smiled at this and said, "This is why I like you guys a lot. I wish I can be a part of your family."
I thought I would add Kiba onto the mix and began thinking...what if Kiba and Phoenix were tight? Like best friends? Stay tuned for the second helping of their volunteer work at the Jade Palace!