Ah, I've returned, with another story. What? A way to get out of writing Heart of a Warrior? Psh…nooo…eh…anyway…

I bring you KFP: Drabble Edition!

#87: Obsession

Firstly, an angry panda thought as he listened to the hysterical laughter around him, it's not an obsession; it's a dedication. Secondly, since when had he become the punch line for everything? He was pretty sure they had jumped a stepping stone by finally getting over that.

But as he now found horribly obvious, they were jumping right back on that stone.

"It's not that funny," Po grumbled, wishing he could bury his face in his bowl of tofu. He avoided eye contact with the Five, namely Tigress, who seemed to be contemplating laughing as hard as the others, or the damage she could do to his face with her chopsticks.

"Yes! Yes it is!" Mantis could only manage between spurts of laughter.

"Stop!" Monkey grabbed his sides. "You're killing me!"

"I hate you guys so much right now."

The comment only drew more laughter of the 'tormentors'. Crane had been doing his best not to show his amusement as loudly as Mantis or Monkey, but even then was laughing fairly hard. Viper had tried being the voice of reason, she really did, but it was only a matter of moments before she was suppressing giggles herself.

"You know what he doesn't hate?"

The enraged glint in Po's eye only said one thing: Don't finish that joke.

"His Love Chunk!"

Oh, that insect could go to hell.

As more guffaws followed the stupid pun, Po could literally feel the humiliation welling up in his face. Out of pure aggravation, he snapped his chopsticks in halves, failing to notice the look of stunned shock on Tigress' face. If anything, she actually looked just as embarrassed as he felt about the whole thing.

'Thing' being the awkward confession he'd been forced into saying.

Po's first day at the Jade Palace was literally the day when his dreams came true. Or, started coming true anyway. Even if he was being dissed (constantly, he reminded himself gruffly) that day was seriously memorable. So of course he kept something from it; something that just happened to be the small—no, tiny chunk of glass that had landed on his head after Tigress' completed that perfect split.

No, that did not make him a Tigress fanboy. Hence him saying dedication rather then obsession.

And 'Love Chunk' was bit below Mantis' usual insulting standards. Not exactly the cleverest name in that minute bug brain of his…

"It's not a Love Chunk!" Definitely below standard. He felt stupid by simply saying it.

His outraged cries were ignored, as expected. Viper, the supposed nice one, finally calmed herself…

…Just long enough to quip, "Aw look, Tigress is blushing!"

Gasps met the comment, and silence followed close behind. Finally more guffaws, perhaps with more gusto this time, filled the quiet air.

"It's too much! I'm dead! You have killed me!"

"So worth dying after this!"

The pandas' and tigers gazed met awkwardly. "Team up?" Po offered.

"Just this once," Tigress agreed, looking a bit more colored in the face then usual.

Nonetheless, as Master Shifu strolled peacefully down the hall, he was nearly trampled as a snake, praying mantis, monkey, and crane came blitzing around him, hooting with laughter as they were chased by a flustered looking panda and tiger, yelling something about a love chunk.

His expression that of a confused soul, Shifu blinked rapidly. "I...no. No, I don't want to know." He spun on his heel, and walked in the opposite direction the said party was going.