Yes, They're My Brothers

Chapter 4

Master Shifu and his students sat down to eat. Shifu was about to finish the story when Po interrupted him.

"Master, forgive me for interrupting, but I was wondering… why don't you eat with us very often?"

"Po, when you were at school as a kid, did your teacher sit with you?" Shifu asked.

"No… I guess not. But, this is different. We all live here and learn kung fu every day. We don't go home at the end of the day, and we don't get a single day off. I know that you have a different reason."

Shifu sighed. "You're right. I wish that I could tell you, but I don't think that you would understand."

"Does it have something to do with Tai Lung?" Po asked. Shifu didn't reply.

"It does, doesn't it? I know what you're thinking. You are afraid to become too attached to us because Tai Lung hurt you. Am I right?" Shifu sighed again.

"…..Yes."

"Well, you don't have to distance yourself from us. We would never do that to you."

"I'm just trying to be careful. You have no idea how it feels to lose someone that you care about more than anything. It happened to me twice."

"Twice?"

"Tai Lung and Master Oogway."

"Oh, yeah. Well, don't worry about it. We would never do anything to hurt you."

"It's not just that. I train you as hard as I do because I'm worried that if I don't train you really hard, you could get hurt in battle or even killed. But… I think that I have already become attached to all of you. I… I'm sorry."

"It's okay master."

"I'll sit with you more often… if you really want me to."

"Okay. You can if you want. Uh, you can go on with your story now. Sorry for the interruption."

"It's okay. So, a few years later, S became the world champion in boxing, X became a math teacher, and I was becoming more skilled in kung fu. I wasn't a master yet, because as I said, it takes years."

"Uh, master," Po interrupted, "you still haven't told us what happened between you and S."

"I was going to get to that, and it wasn't just between S and me. It was between a lot more people. What happened was that S became mad with power. He always wanted to show off, and he was too proud of himself. "S was coming home from a boxing match…"

*Flashback*

"The greatest boxer in the world is home!" S exclaimed. X rolled his eyes. "Yeah, and so has the greatest math teacher."

"Shut up! Boxing is more important than teaching math."

"No, it's not. Math is very important, and boxing is merely a sport for entertainment. And I don't even see how it *is* entertaining. Beating up others for fun is not entertaining."

"I think it's entertaining, and my fans think so too. And math is boring."

"It is most certainly not boring, and you have fans?"

"Of course I have fans. I'm the greatest boxer in the world."

"Whatever. You do what you want. As for me, I would rather be doing 12x53+600 divided by 20, which is in fact, 61.8 exactly."

"You are such a nerd. You didn't even use a calculator?"

"Nope, I don't need to."

"You didn't even do it on paper?"

"No."

"You are the nerdiest nerd I ever seen."

"Nerdiest isn't even a word."

"That doesn't change the fact that you are a really big nerd. I don't care about your stupid math skills, you show off. I'll show you skills!" S then punched X in the face. "Look, I don't want to start a fight..." X started. S punched him again.

"You broke my glasses! I need those."

"Yeah, well, I don't care, math boy!" S yelled.

"SHIFU!" X screamed.

"You're yelling for Shifu? How could that possibly help you? He's not even a master yet and I am the world champion at boxing!"

Shifu ran from upstairs. He heard his brother's call. When he saw the mean look on S's face, he gave S a roundhouse kick to the face.

"Shifu! What do you think you are doing? You don't seriously think that you could beat me." S growled.

"I'm protecting my brother. Why did you attack him?"

"Because he is an annoying math show off and he insulted me!" S yelled.

"I didn't insult you! I just said that math is more important than boxing and that boxing is not entertaining!" S protested.

"That is too an insult! If you insult boxing, you insult me too."

"Stop it! There is no need to fight." Shifu said.

"I thought that was Calculator Brain's line." S said.

"Hey!" X exclaimed.

"Just stop it, S!" Shifu yelled.

"I'll call you by your real name!" X said.

"Don't you dare! If you want to keep your head attached to your body, you won't call me that!" S warned.

"Shick!" X said. That did it. S ran at X with a knife in hand.

"No!" Shifu yelled. He kicked S down and grabbed the dagger. He quickly said to X, "Get help! Now!" X did as he was told. S got back up and glared at Shifu.

"Who could you possibly get to help you? No one can defeat me!"

"Just stop it, S!"

"Never!" S yelled. They started to fight. It went on for five minutes. Then, S gave Shifu a headbutt, and Shifu tried to hold on to consciousness, but it was no use. Shifu was out cold.

*End of Flashback*

"What happened after that?" Viper asked.

"S took his pointless rage out on the village and killed 5 villagers. Then, X came with Master Oogway, and Master Oogway caught S by surprise and did a nerve attack on him and S was taken to prison. I regained consciousness soon after. None of you know about that?" Shifu said.

"Oh, yeah. I remember now! Someone told me about that down in the village." Po said.

"Oh, yeah, I heard about that too," Crane said. All of them nodded in agreement.

"I guess we all just forgot about it," Mantis said.

"Well, that's the whole story," Shifu said. "Goodnight, everyone."

"Wait," Monkey said. Shifu turned around and looked at him questioningly.

"Where was your mother during all of that?"

"She was at a grocery store," Shifu replied.

They didn't bother asking about his father, because they all knew about that story.

Everyone walked out of the kitchen and went to bed.

The end