A/N: This is how Li Jing looks like. Her dragon form will be shown soon. Art by WolfFang012. Do not steal or re-upload!!

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Nuo could be seen petting the monkeys that are surrounding her as they cuddle her. She's looking up the sky as she could see two gold flashes against each other. Mk and Wukong could be seen having a spar as they train. Nuo decided to go with Mk after amounts of begging from him even though she had seen Wukong at some time, it would be nice to see him again while seeing how his training went. Her quiet moment was cut off by Mk's scream and she looked up right on time to see him falling down towards her. She gently moves the monkeys out of the way and catches him in bridal style.

"Thanks, Nuo..." Mk panted, looking relieved.

"No problem. You lasted more than a second, I admit." Nuo said.

Mk gasped loudly at her in disbelief.

"How could you ever doubted me?! I'll have you know I was THIS close to beating him."

"Sure, you are." she playfully rolled her eyes.

"Hmph!" he pouted, crossing his arms.

Wukong comes down with a loud thud.

"Better. Way, way better."

He grabs Mk from Nuo and spins him around before placing him down.

"You're totally getting the hang of this, bud!"

Mk looks at him with a smile.

"Aw, really?"

"I mean, it does make sense. You are getting trained by me." Wukong bloated with a wink.

"And being a showoff." Nuo rolled her eyes.

"Now, we just gotta work on your focus." he continued, ignoring her.

"Yeah, I am the best of focus—" Mk said with a confident smile on his face.

He completely dropped when he recall what Wukong just said and zoomed up to his face, creating a gust of wind as it blows Wukong who's unfazed, smiling.

"What do you mean, "work on my focus?!" I-I'm like No. 1 Focus Guy!" he exclaimed, climbing on him.

Wukong pushes him away with a slight glare.

"Ugh, if anyone is No. 1 Focus Guy, it's me."

"What?!" Mk and Nuo exclaimed in unison.

"If I read your story correctly, you're not that much of a responsibility type." Nuo stated with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah!"

Mk pulls out his book.

"Literally, your entire legacy is about you being impulsive and dodging responsibilities!"

He pushes down the cardboard of Wukong to reveal a real Wukong sitting further away from them, eating peach chips.

"Mmm! That's where you are wrong."

Mk gives him an unimpressed look.

"The time that you ate all the that you were meant to guard?"

"That was a long time ago." Wukong defended, digging his hands into the bag of chips.

"When you kept annoying everyone at the Celestial Realm?" Mk continued, crossing his arms.

"That's a matter of opinion."

"The time you pick a fight with Buddha—"

Wukong shoves a Peach Chip up MK's mouth, shutting him up.

"See, that right there is the problem."

Mk angrily eats the peach chip, enjoying the taste while listening to him. Nuo listens while petting the monkeys that came back for more cuddles. Wukong sees that and gets jealous.

"You stressed too much about the negatives. Focus is taking in everything, but honing in only on the one thing that matters. Right now, I'm talking to you while also honing in the speed of the wind, the moisture in the air, these 37 emails for my , the first 18 seasons of . The inner resonance of my soul that contemplate the fact that I am an , who will never be able to die. And that bug right over there. But..."

He eats another Peach Chip.

"I'm paying attention to you. Take in everything, choose what you want to do, and then do it. That is focus."

"That sounds... super confusing, and like you're just constantly distracted." Mk said with confusion.

Wukong raised his eyebrow with a sound of a gun clicking.

"Or maybe, you just can't handle real focus?"

That literally shoots Mk in the chest, causing him to fall back with the words "SHOTS FIRED" Mk gasped, looking defended as he quickly got up.

"I-I can totally focus. I focus all the time! In fact, the very next thing I do, is gonna be the most focused thing ever!"

He then rushes off, leaving Nuo and Wukong.

"And it looks like he's forgotten about me." Nuo commented.

"Nah, he'll come around." Wukong assured her.

"Do you think he'll be able to focus?"

"Probably."

Nuo then thought of something if she's going to ever spend some time with Wukong. He appears to be shy as he tries to think of something to have a conversation with her when she beats him to it.

"Hey, monkeys can climb and swing vines, right?"

Wukong looks at her in surprise.

"I mean, obviously yeah. Why do you ask?"

She gets up and comes up close to his face, causing him to blush a little.

"You can teach me!"

"W-What?"

"Teach me how to swing the vines! I've never tried swinging before and I think it would be fun if you help me!"

Wukong gets nervous.

"Oh, well you know, I've always been kind of solo. So that kind of... rules that out."

Nuo raised her eyebrow with a smirk.

"I wonder if you actually do swing."

"Oh, I actually do do swing." he quickly defended himself.

"Show me." she said.

"Show me? What are we? 500 or something?" he joked.

"I am 500! Yes. Maybe more."

Wukong tries to think of an excuse, but gives up with a sigh seeing a determined and excited look on Nuo's face.

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Before he knew it, they're in the jungle standing on the large branch of the jungle tree, holding the vine. Truth be told, Wukong is nervous as he hadn't been swinging for a while as he only did flying most of the time. He looks down, seeing how high they are.

"Okay. Hoo... Alright." Wukong said, trying not to show his nervousness.

"So when do we get to the part where you do all the moves while swinging? That's what you monkeys do, right? I saw your little ones do that and they're pretty fun." Nuo said with eagerness.

"Uh, well this is a beginner's class and that's a pretty advanced maneuver."

"Okay, how do we begin?"

Wukong rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Well, it's a bit complicated, unless you understand the whole pitch and yaw arc... and gravity. All that stuff, which I won't bore you with."

He did a few quick stretches while shaking off his body to calm his nerves.

"Okay. Phew!!"

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"You need a push?" Nuo asked with a smile.

"No!" Wukong quickly said.

This made her giggle.

"Just watch and-waah!"

Wukong turns to her only for Nuo to lightly pushes his face to the side, causing him to swing forward.

"Whoa!!"

Wukong goes flying after accidentally releasing the hold of the vine, luckily he caught onto the vines as they wrap around his legs. He sees the branch of the jungle tree and bites onto the branch with his teeth. Nuo follows him as she swings gracefully before flipping and grabbing onto another vine, wrapping them around her legs and bites onto the branch right next to him with her sharp teeth she summoned.

"Like that?" she muffled.

"That's one way of doing it. Sure!"

Wukong slips his teeth from the branch and goes flying once more as he screams. He hits the back of his head by the coconut tree and falls onto the giant spider web with his face. Instead of getting stuck, he bounces off of it and grabs a hold of the branch tightly. Nuo was impressed at his action.

"Wow! You used the web!"

"Y-Yeah! Totally! We used the web!"

Nuo pushes herself off the branch and lets go of the vine with a cheer as she flips and lands on the same web he landed on with her face, of course, and bounces up to another vine and grabs a hold of it. Wukong watches her in awe.

"This is so fun!"

Wukong swings himself forward, getting used to this as he lets go and flips only to hit against the tree bark and falls down, bouncing off from another spider web. Nuo did the same thing and bounces off from the spider web, going to the other side. Wukong and Nuo grabs onto the vine and swings towards each other with a cheerful yell as they're having fun. They swing past each other as Nuo jumps onto each vine she can grab while doing the moves and flipping and back flipping. Wukong lets go of the vine again and triple flips towards another vine, but he ended up missing it as he falls towards the ground. He was about to transform himself when a pair of hands grab onto his. He looks to see a smiling Nuo swinging with her legs holding onto the vine as they landed to the other side of the tree. As soon as they did, Nuo nearly falls off when Wukong quickly catches her as they spin around for a second until he finds himself dipping her with their faces inches apart from each other.

They stare into each other's eyes, panting from all that swinging as their faces turn pink. Wukong quickly shakes off his daze and lifts her back up, holding her hands. Nuo could only say something that comes to her mind.

"Wow!"

"Heh. Wow, indeed." Wukong said with a chuckle.

Suddenly, a loud grumble was heard and they look down to see it was their stomach. They look at each other and laughed.

"Noodles?" Wukong asked.

"Noodles." Nuo nodded.

Then at the moment, Nuo pushed Wukong back and jumped towards the vine and swings.

"Last one here gets to pay for the noodles!"

"Hey! That's cheating!"

Wukong quickly swings after her, who laughs along the way. In the end, Wukong lost and has to pay for the noodles from Pigsy's Noodles as they wait for their order in Wukong's Shame Temple, which Nuo teased him about it, much to his dismay.

"So, you have how many siblings?" Wukong asked as they're having a conversation.

"Five siblings. Four of them were older than me and Sisu right before they were Druuned." Nuo said.

"Man, you have a big family!"

"Heh. Do you have a family? Well, besides those cute little monkeys."

This made Wukong silent as he frowned. Nuo noticed it and gets concerned.

"Wukong?"

"...I used to have a family. We used to be sworn brothers, but..." he said in a sad tone.

"What happened?"

"...I'd rather not talk about it. Let's just say things didn't work out, especially the one friend I'm really close to..."

"I'm sorry. You don't have to tell me if you're not ready. But you can trust me as I trust you."

He stared at her in shock before smiling.

"Thanks, Nuo. I..."

Their moment was cut off by the sound of the knock on the door.

"I'll get it."

Wukong gets up and approaches the door. Just as he was about to open it, someone barges in and breaks down the door, slamming it on Wukong's face.

"Pigsy's Noodles!"

It revealed Mk that was delivering the noodles. Nuo gaped at the sight.

"Mk! The door!"

"Oh, whoops! Wait, Nuo?!"

"Uh, yeah. It's me." Nuo said in a duh tone.

The door flips down to revealing a smiling Wukong, looking unfazed from the hit of the door.

"You finally made it."

Now Mk gets more surprised.

"Monkey King?! Wait."

He thinks for a moment before gasping in realization. He turned to him with excitement.

"This was all a lesson to see if I could focus!"

Wukong looks confused while Nuo covers her mouth with a giggle, to which he glared at her.

"Uh... yes! I wanted to teach you a valuable lesson. I definitely didn't just order three helpings of noodles to my... shame temple." he said, coughing a little at the last part.

"So, did you learn something?" Nuo asked.

"Yes! You were right. I really was, honestly, terrible at focusing. But then..." Mk rambled.

Wukong quietly takes the bags of noodles from him as he talks.

"I'm just gonna take those off ya."

He looks inside and frowns, and Nuo looks over his shoulder and frowns also. Little did she know, he blushes at how close she is.

"I paid attention to everything, but I only focused on one thing: delivering... your... noodles!" Mk declared, finishing his speech.

"That's great, bud. I'm proud of ya. But... this isn't my order." Wukong said.

Mk was silent for a moment before his eyes went wide.

"What?!"

"Try check from your cart." Nuo suggested.

Panicking, Mk quickly zoomed back to his cart to check on Wukong's right order. Nuo smiled in amusement and turned to Wukong.

"Thanks for teaching me how to swing. You sure know how to show people a good time."

"Well, it's kinda what I do." Wukong said with a confident smile.

"I don't know about that. You look pretty challenged out there when you were swinging."

"T-That was just a quick test! You saw nothing!"

"Sure... But really, thanks."

Nuo then kisses him on the cheek, causing his eyes to go wide before giving off a goofy smile with a loving sigh.