Here it is! The final chapter!

Chapter 22: Stay Strong

As the days went on, Musaki and Nuka spent more time training while also looking forward to the end of the week in the Jade Palace after teaching some responsibility, self-respect and discipline for Nuka's self. They were gonna live out the final days like it's the last one they ever had. Nuka also started to see the fun side of Musaki as they had some fun playing mahjong, archery and reading comics.

Shifu began to see that there was a brotherly bond between Musaki and Nuka and he smiled at the fact that Musaki had tamed the wild tigon cub and brought him into a respectable, disciplined person at the end of the week. He had his doubts, but he knew that Musaki could prove them wrong and can face any challenge without any second thoughts.

One the final day of the week, Nuka packed up mostly everything as he was ready to go and as Musaki came in, he said, "You ready?"

"Yeah, I guess. I sure am gonna miss this place." Nuka replied.

Musaki chuckled softly at that and he said, "You know we're like 5 minutes away from here, right? Well...despite the million amounts of stairs that leads to the palace."

Both of them started laughing at this and when they stopped, Nuka sighed heavily and Musaki scratched the back of his head and he said, "Your dad's gonna be here in a few minutes, so...will you swear to keep your word that you'll start showing respect to your dad and your stepmom?"

"I'll do the best I can." Nuka added.

"And at leats give your stepmom a chance. I know she's not your real mom, but you need to respect her as well and she'll never replace your birth mom." Musaki explained.

Nuka agreed with what he said and added, "I know that now."

As they came out of the room and onto the Hall of Heroes, they see Shifu, Po and the Five standing there and Shifu carried a box of Nuka's items; some drugs and sake, intending that he might want them back, but the looks of it made Nuka think twice before retrieving them and Shifu said, "I see you haven't caused us any problems throughout the week thanks to Musaki. I am certain you'll have those items back."

"Actually...I don't need them anymore. Besides, it'll put me back to where I was before." Nuka answered.

Shifu was surprised to hear what Nuka just said and that he didn't need his drugs and booze anymore and he was also impressed that he's giving it all up and said, "Very well then. I see Musaki has taught you well."

Nuka smiled and said, "He helped me a lot."

Monkey chuckled softly and said, "That's our Musaki...always a good helper to us. And turns an impossible task into an accomplishment."

"We can barely keep up with him." Mantis implied.

Viper gently slithered over to Nuka and he said, "I hope you'll do your best to stay out of trouble."

"I will...Viper."

"You've got a lot of potential. You just have to learn how to keep yourself from falling down the wrong tracks." Crane explained.

Tigress only stared at Nuka and she added, "Whatever they said."

Nuka smiled at all of them and told them, "I'm grateful to have this experience...even if I didn't want it the first time, but I'm glad you guys gave me a big kick in the ass."

Shifu shook his head at his language and Nuka realized that he just cursed again and said, "Sorry. That's one habit I'll have a hard time breaking."

"Come here, Nuka."

Nuka came towards Shifu and out of nowhere, Shifu whacked him on the head with the flute one last time and added, "Anytime."

A knock on the door came along and Musaki already knew who it could be and said, "That ought to be your dad."

As they all opened the door, in comes Rasta and Mischa coming in to pick up Nuka and bring him back home and Mischa said, "You ready to come home?"

"Yeah, I am." Nuka answered.

Rasta looks over to Musaki and he was so overwhelemed with a lot of emotions that he can't even put it into words and he just hugs him deeply with a deep purr coming out. Musaki then told him, "It's gonna be okay. Things will get better from now on."

As they broke off, Shifu then came up to Rasta and he said, "Thank you for letting Nuka spend a week with us."

"If anyone should thank you, it should be me...for helping my son out." Rasta said.

Shifu bowed to him and added, "My pleasure. Now listen...you have to understand that both you and Mischa are in charge, not Nuka. Put your foot down and give him some very strict discipline. Do not be afraid to get tough on him."

Rasta nodded his head in agreement and said, "Yes, Master Shifu."

"Yeah, and you've gotta be strong too. Don't let him take advantage of you." Musaki added.

He then turns to Nuka and he said, "Even if your dad or stepmom says something you may not like, you don't have to talk back at them. You just do what they say anyway."

"Yes...Master Musaki."

Musaki seemed very flattered by the fact that Nuka called him 'master', but he felt humbled by this and said, "Call me...Saki."

"Okay. I just wanna thank you, Shifu, the Five, Po, my dad and my stepmom for bringing me here and I'll never forget that." Nuka added.

"You're very welcome. We'll be checking in every now and then to see how you're doing and I'm gonna be pulling for you, Nuke." Musaki said.

"All right."

Soon enough, all three of them left the palace saying the 'bye's' and 'thank you's' to them and as they walked down, Musaki lets out a big sigh and he turned to Shifu and said, "Told you I was gonna handle a challenge."

"Yes, you did...and I am so very proud that you've accomplished what is impossible." Shifu added.

"Thanks, Shifu."

"You are welcome...Master Musaki." Shifu added, before chuckling.

Musaki lets out an amused sigh and said, "You too, huh?"

'Hmmm...Master Musaki...doesn't sound half-bad.' Musaki thought.

And that's it! Just so you know, the reason why I ended it like this is so that you guys can hope the best for Nuka; whether he'll try to change or fall back on what he used to do. Even though we want happy endings, sometimes we put in some realism to sorta say 'this is the way it is' and we hope everything will work out regardless if it's not the ending we want. But no worries...Musaki will check on Nuka for another story. Big thanks to my friends who reviewed this! Appreciate it! I've got more KFP fics coming up, so AniUniverse is out!