'Sanctuary' By: Utada (Slow English Version)

Requester: Br00klynb0y96

Characters: Po & Tigress

Hey all! I'm back with another epic Song-Fic for everyone! I don't want to talk very long, but I haven't updated this in a while so I don't know how many of you that had a request is still active. So if you had a request and are still active, please re-post your request (or PM me) and I will happily put you back on the request list. Also, I plan on ending this collection of Song-Fic's after this one, and get a new collection going!

(START) You know what to do! Make sure to get the Slow English Verison of the song to have it sound right, unless you love the song and writing so much that it doesn't matter to you. :] I'm just hoping I got the right/good version.

Disclaimer: NO! I own nothing! All is owned by DreamWorks and Utada! I can only claim my ideas, so no thieving!

It was only a week after the defeat of Shen and the recovering warriors were helping around the city trying to get it back to normal. Tigress had stayed by herself mostly and furiously thought about what had happened over the past few days that ranged from easy going that has become her training since Po had lightened everyone's mood to him hugging her after she had pulled him from the harbor's waters. Actually Po was all she could think about at this moment

For some reason it pulled strings inside her mind. And not until a day later in that week, when Tigress and Po had been helping people whose houses and business had been damaged in the explosions, she had finally seen what those strings had been pulling at. Her feelings. Emotions. Everything that had defined her was either crumbling away or being added to her previous beliefs of hard rigorous training and a hardcore exterior. But it was Po that reminded her, on the boat sailing towards Gongmen City a week earlier, that she did feel, she did care what people think, and that she didn't want to truly be seen as a 'hardcore' female warrior. It was all thanks to Po.

Po was her guide to her new future and a friend that would stand the test of time. She truly believed that Po was the only one she could say, was close enough to her to allow him to know personal facts of her life. She wouldn't even consult Shifu, who is her closest father figure, or Viper, who is the closest to a female friend she has ever had, before talking to Po about it. And it shocked her to realize this.

Not only did it shock her, but it brought her to realizing that her emotional change gave way to something extremely new to her: Love. She brought herself to accept the fact that she was indeed falling for the fun loving, noodle cooking, and good hearten panda they call the Dragon Warrior. Little did she know, Po was going through the same emotions but much less then his feline friend was going through.

Some may tell you love doesn't just happen over night, and they are usually true. But there are a select few who see how love can form fast between friends that are so unlike one another that they are drawn together. All it takes for the feelings to be stamped into place is one event.

"Everyone ready?" Shifu looked at his students as they gathered around him at the docks. "Good. Let's catch our ride home before it leaves us here." Shifu and his students climbed onto a cargo ship and allowed themselves to smile about Shifu's small addition to their new found laid back personalities. Night was quick to approach and one easy going panda was still wide-awake.

He sat on the edge of the boat and looking at the stars as they were the most beautiful things on Earth, when in fact he believed a person was much more beautiful. As a child Po had looked towards the Furious Five for comfort, always secretly wish them to be his very best friends. He never realized that this dream would become true.

Tigress was always his favorite of the Five and was his biggest inspiration. From the first moment he saw her smile at him, after the defeat of Tia-Lung, until now he had considered her to be his best friend. It was something he always needed, a friendship, more than what his father could ever produce. Now after the events with Shen, Po realized that his feelings for the young female tiger had, not only grown into something new but also pulled his destiny together with hers. The only problem was how to confront his best friend about the growing feelings that he now possessed for her. Luckily, she was going to make it a lot easier on him.

"I see you're still awake." Tigress's soft features were covered by the night.

Po was shook from his thoughts by Tigress, who he had been thinking about moments before. "Yeah… couldn't sleep. You're not going to make me punch your paw again, are you?"

A small smile spread across her face from the panda's small joke. "Not at all, I wouldn't want to work you too hard, now would I?"

The panda merely chuckled and resumed his star gazing, and they sat there in silences looking at the sky. Both contemplating on what to say to the other, and both on the nervous side of sitting next to their crush. Tigress was the first to speak.

"So what are you thinking about?" She asked calmly. "About what had happened with Shen?

"No." he simply replied.

"Then what?"

"Us. I'm thinking about us."

Tigress was confused. " What do you mean?"

"You and I. How we work as a team, the things we talk about, why we are friends, and… the hug you gave me in the prison."

"What about the one you gave me?" She asked.

"I had a reason for that." Po smirked.

"And what would that be?" Tigress looked into his deep jade eyes.

"I… I was happy that you were okay and…" Po stopped and refrained from saying the last part. "Never mind."

"Wait! You can tell me, can't you? I go as far as calling you my best friend… I've never had that before." Tigress' ears laid down and her eyes drifted away from him.

Po looked at her, and suddenly felt like he had hurt her in some way. "I'm sorry I didn't realize you wanted to know." He reach over and put a paw on her shoulder causing her to turn back to him.

"Tell you what, you tell me why you hugged me in the prison and I'll tell you why I hugged you." Po looked into her bright feline eyes, wanting to look at them for the rest of the night."

"Promise?"

"I promise." Po said making a small cross over his heart and his cheesy grin shown through the night. Tigress contemplated it for a moment then silently nodded.

"Remember that night in Shen's castle when he opened all his feathers and hypnotized with that symbol?" She asked receiving a nod from Po. "Well, after that I was scared that I… we would lose you."

"You were scared that you guys would lose me?"

"Yeah, you scared me so much when you froze in front of him and the wolves like that." Tigress held her upper arm with her other paw. "Now you." She pushed.

"Oh… yeah… I hugged you because I…"

"Hey guys what are you talking about?" Mantis said as he came up behind them.

Tigress face looked as if she didn't care but on the inside she was raging. Someone always has to interrupt her and Po's conversations. Not to mention her face was only inches away from Po's.

"Nothing." Tigress stood up and began walking back inside the boat. "Nothing at all." She almost sounded disappointed.

"Thanks Mantis." Po turned back to the stars.

"What did I do?" Mantis hopped up onto Po's shoulder.

NEXT DAY…

The boat had docked early that morning and the warriors filed off the vessel methodically, each thinking of the long walk back to the palace. Unknown to them several pairs of eyes watched from afar.

Walking down a dirt path through the woods, in single file, they were trying to make the best of it by telling jokes and stories when Tigress stopped abruptly. She heard something, it sounded like a whistle that was getting closer to her. Her friends only looked on with curiosity. Tigress felt as if she had heard the sound before, the sound that had almost ended her life… and Po's. She went wide-eyed as she noticed what it was and it was headed right for her and her friends.

"Ambush!" Tigress bellowed, and they all dove for the side of the path trying to avoid the incoming cannon ball. When the cannon ball hit it created a massive dust cloud covering everybody and obscuring vision.

Po looked up to see Tigress struggling to stand up in the thick cloud of dust. He looked to his right and saw a wolf, still loyal to Lord Shen, running towards Tigress. Po tried yelling at her to warn her but the heavy cloud of dust prevented him from yelling her name. What he saw next horrified him.

The wolf reached the disoriented Tigress, pulled out a knife, and plunged it deep into her abdomen. Tigress let out a loud roar of pain, but couldn't see because of the thick dust. The wolf tore out the knife with such violence that is made Tigress turn her body a whole ninety degrees. Then as the wolf walked pass Tigress, he stabbed her in the back and left the knife in her and turned his attention on Po.

Tigress was unable to stand anymore and fell to the ground face first; a groan escaped her mouth when she fell. The wolf walked up close to the panda struggling to get to his feet.

"You took our master from us… I took the one thing you held most dear from you." He evilly laughed and walk off, Po made note of the direction he took off in. Po crawled to Tigress' body and pulled the knife out of her back, flipping her over so that her head lay in his lap.

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In you and I,

There's a new land,

Angels in flight

My Sanctuary,

My Sanctuary, yeah

Where fears and lies melt away...

Music will tie

What's left of me?

What's left of me?

"I'm sorry… Po… I failed you… and the team…" Tigress said struggling to breathe.

Po now had tears in his eyes as he cradled her head. "No… No… you didn't fail them or me." He calmly said and stroking her head to calm her.

You show me how to see,

That nothing is whole

And nothing is broken...

T-thank you… Po for everything." Her voice had gotten considerably weaker.

In you and I,

There's a new land,

Angels in flight

My Sanctuary,

My Sanctuary, yeah

Where fears and lies melt away...

Music will tie

What's left of me?

What's left of me now…?

My fears...

My lies...

Melt away...

I...

To Po, Tigress felt cold and lifeless. Po cried as he held her body, which he though contained no more life and all he could think about was the last thing she had said to him. Po turned to the knife that had recently been inside Tigress, and he looked at it for a moment. Then rage filled his eyes. Setting Tigress down as gently as he could, he took of in the direction the wolf had ran off in. The dust had cleared now, the five and Shifu watched as Po ran off, and then they saw Tigress' body.

Po picked up speed as he ran through the woods, pushing small trees out of his way, and barreling over small bushes when the popped up in front of him. That's when he saw three of the wolves walking down another path through the woods, joking around.

Po ran out of the woods at the wolves, the first one didn't see him coming and was clobbered by Po's fist. The second was knocked out with a spin kick to the gut and an uppercut to the jaw, all before the first had hit the ground. The ringleader, who was the one to stab Tigress, took off running to try and get away from Po. The black and white bear chased him down and his speed training had paid off.

Tackling him to the ground and pinning the wolf to the ground, Po pulled out the knife that had been in Tigress. Po saw the terror in the wolf's eyes as he raised the weapon hi above his head.

"You forgot this." Po bluntly said and slammed down the knife, then stood up. "I don't want to ever see your face ever again."

The wolf opened his eyes to see the knife lodged in the ground next to his head and the Dragon Warrior in a fast walk back to where everyone else was.

"Shifu!" Po yelled when he got back to where the cannonball had hit. "Shifu!"

"Yes Po?" the old master came from behind him.

"Where is she? Where is everybody?" Po frantically asked. Shifu didn't say anything, but he pointed to a tent that was set up behind some trees.

Po ran to it and opened the flap of the tent to reveal Tigress lying on a mat with her abdomen wrapped up with bandages. The rest o the five got up and filed out of the tent.

"Go to her Po, she has been asking for you." Viper whispered as she slithered out.

"Tigress?" he whispered.

"Po?" she weakly said.

"I thought you were… gone." Po keeled beside her and held her paw.

"Po, I…" She started but something stopped her, a pair of lips. Po's lips. Tigress was shocked when she realized that he was kissing her, but she for got about it when he started to pull away. Tigress put one of her paws on the back of his neck and pushed him back into the kiss, both melting into it. After a few minutes they broke apart.

"That's what I why I hugged you… I loved you so much that I was happy to see you unharmed." Po returned to holding her paw.

"Thank you. You have done so much for me. Thank you, Po." Tigress' voice was still quiet. Po stayed by her side until they got back to the palace, and as soon as Tigress was better Po asked Shifu permission to date Tigress. And people say love doesn't form over night…

All right that's the last of this Collection! Brooklynboy96 I hope you liked it, because it felt good to me! Keep a look out for the new collection that will be coming out called: DJ Simba593: Emerald Edition. You guys should be really happy; I stayed up till 2 a.m. this morning to finish this after playing airsoft all day. Simba593 over and out.