We now focus with Musaki, Arizona and their Shanghai Secluded Valley buds.

Chapter 19: Catching On

After everyone got through with their stories and family fun, Musaki and Arizona were heading to one of the guests rooms where Liu Shang, Shao and Taji were and Liu was the first one to see them come in and he said, "Hey, guys. What's up?'

"Nothing much." Arizona replied, sitting down.

Liu chuckled softly at this and he felt like he was already having fun there and he said, "Saki, I didn't know that your uncle's place was a lot of fun."

"Oh, yeah...many things happen when you're here. Me and Ari have been living here for a few months now. If I had spent my whole teenage years here, that would've been a lot more fun than ever." Musaki stated.

"Just be lucky you're keeping up." Arizona added.

Musaki couldn't argue with that and there were a lot of stuff he should be keeping up on; recapturing most of his youth with his cousins and getting to know more about Okinawa. His whole family heritage definitely needs a lot more reconnecting and memorizing and he chuckled at that and said, "True that."

"I bet you missed living in the Jade Palace." Taji said.

"A little bit, but it was actually the best thing that could ever happen. Don't get me wrong; it was an absolute honor to live side-by-side with the best kung-fu warriors in all of China, train with them, go on dangerous missions with them and things like that. But do I really want to spend the rest of my life doing the same things over and over? I'd much rather spend it getting to know more about my relatives and to do some soul searching on my own." Musaki replied.

"If it was me, I would've stayed there until I was 25 because I would've been fighting side by side with Tigress. Put it that way." Shao added.

Musaki glared at Shao for a few seconds and said, "And she'll kick you to the next dynasty."

"I'm ready to have my butt kicked by her any day of the week." Shao stated.

Arizona scoffed in response and said, "Good luck with that."

"You know...we could be the next generation of the Furious Five. Three wolves, one lion and a panda." Taji added.

All five of them agreed on those particular roles and Liu ended with, "Musaki should be the leader because he's loyal, reliable and always helpful in any way."

"Plus he doesn't have any ego." Arizona stated, giving him a noogie.

"Okay, guys..." Musaki said.

Just then, Okinawa comes in the room and he sees the rest of the guys around and he said, "Sup, guys?"

"Hey, Okinawa." everyone stated.

"So...where's Willow? Why didn't you bring your girlfriend with ya?" Liu asked.

"Yeah, big bro. Why didn't you bring Willow with ya?" asked Musaki.

Okinawa lets out a big sigh and he told the rest of them, "She's going to Thailand to see family for the holidays. Her family's like half Thai."

"Cool." Taji said, wide-eyed.

"So...how does it feel to have Musaki back in the picture, Okinawa?" asked Liu.

Okinawa chuckles softly and he responded on the best way possible, by giving Musaki a noogie and Musaki was laughing all the way through and Okinawa said, "Does that answer your question?"

"Got your point." Taji answered.

"Better make that two brothers if you count Arizona." Musaki stated.

Okinawa looked at Arizona for a few seconds and he lets out a big smile and grabs him by the neck and gave him a super noogie and Taji shouted, "Noogie war!"

Everyone piled on each other and gave each other rounds of noogies and Liu shouted, "1-2-3-4! I declare a noogie war!"

"Okinawa wins!" Musaki exclaimed.

Okinawa laughed at that particular assumption and he said, "I don't know about that."

All of a sudden, all of Okinawa's friends; Liu, Hokkaido, Trey, Seung-Hui, Aang, Zuko, Sokka and Sora joined in for a noogie fest alongside Takeo and just had the best fun they ever had.

"This is gonna be a great holiday." Musaki stated.

Now how cool is that? A huge family friendship for the holidays. Stay tuned!