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"You did good." Kwon smiles, leaning against the doorway of the arena as I'm about to leave to refill my water bottle before the next match.

"Not good enough." I avoid his gaze, disappointed and embarrassed.

"Kiara." He uses his hand to softly turn my head to face him.

"You're one of the best fighters in the Sekai Takai. And that loss wasn't even your fault, it was your teams. You scored a point."

"Thank you, Kwon." I reciprocate his warm smile.

He then leans in to give me a short but gentle kiss. It's cosy and affectionate. We then beam at each other until we're interrupted by a familiar face; or faces.

"What the hell?" Demetri blurts, arms crossed, standing next to a jaw-clenched Hawk.

"Ah, it is you. The bad fighters. I do not know why you both are here, you cannot fight properly." Kwon steps forward towards them, smiling smugly.

"She's just using you as a tactic, you know that?" Hawk smirks.

"Yeah, I knew that already. Got any others?" Kwon's smile grows wider.

Hawk and Demetri both seem taken aback.

"You've been pure Miyagi-Do since day 1. You with a Cobra Kai, really? He's probably just using you as a tactic." Demetri voices, expressing fake concern.

"You don't know shit about Kwon." I step forward, pushing him back aggressively.

Although I don't notice because I'm too busy defending him, Kwon's smile turns from an aggressive one to a cheerful one.

KWONS POV:

"She's defending me to her teammates?" I think and smiles to myself.

"Seems like his cobra kai's rubbing off on you, huh? Maybe he'll poach you too." Hawk replies, glaring at Kiara.

"Got something to say?" Kiara sternly scoffs.

"Maybe I do. What are you gonna do about it?" He steps forward, making Demetri step backwards.

Kiara then attempts to punch Hawk, to which Miguel and Robby then appear and Miguel grabs Kiara's hand to swerve her punch.

Kiara and Miguel both then stare at each other, their gazes fixated on one another. Do they still like each other? I unknowingly clench my jaw.

No, surely not. Their kiss happened a little less than a year ago. If they liked each other, surely they would have acted on it, right? I'm just overthinking this. I need to stop letting bad thoughts linger for far too long. They're just friends.

"What's going on?" Robby politely and calmly asks, his demeanour changing the moment he spots me.

"What are you doing here?" Robby glares at me, while clenching his jaw.

I then walk over to Kiara, slightly pulling her away from Miguel and putting my arm around her shoulder.

"Here to comfort her after your team's horrendous loss. Got a problem?" I snarl.

"Maybe I do." Robby replies.

"Strike first then, come on." I mock him teasingly and provokingly.

"Kwon, come on. It's not worth it." Kiara then looks up at me pleadingly, with a beautiful and seductive expression in her eyes. An expression that would make me not hesitate to listen to her.

"Fine." I give Kiara a quick squeeze and a gentle kiss on the cheek before I walk away.

KIARA'S POV:

I then clench my fists, ready to punch Hawk. Then when I finally strike, I feel a hand gripping my fist.

I then look up and see Miguel? What is he doing here?

He gazes at me with a concerned & anxious expression in his eyes that I can easily read like clockwork. His expression reads: "I won't ask now, but tell me what the hell is going on later."

I stare back, still a bit taken aback from his presence but subtly nod.

Then Robby stoically asks, "What's going on?"

He then notices Kwon and his body language completely changes, clenching his jaw, his eyes squinting, furrowed eyebrows. "What are you doing here?" He furiously inquires to Kwon.

Kwon then obviously changes back from his vulnerable, soft self to his arrogant and mean self. Although, I can't really blame him. They did try to convince me to toy with his feelings as a bet, after all.

He then suddenly puts his arm around my shoulder, which surprises me a bit, but I'm not complaining. Kwon then replies in a vivid cocky tone, "Here to comfort her after your team's horrendous loss, got a problem?"

"Maybe I do." Robby states, not breaking eye contact with Kwon.

"Strike first then, come on." Kwon provokes Robby, his Korean accent is so obvious when he says that; but it's a very attractive accent.

"Kwon, come on, it's not worth it." I proceed to then look up at him, his eyes soften when our eyes meet.

"Fine." He squeezes my shoulder softly and kisses my cheek; which sends me a billion butterflies in my stomach, before glaring at the rest of my teammates before walking away.

"Will someone please explain to us what the hell is going on?" Miguel desperately asks, gesturing the us is him and Robby.

"Hawk and Demetri are being dickheads about Kwon, although frankly, it's not their business." I glare between Demetri and Hawk.

"She was seriously about to punch Eli over it! I think he's a bad influence and you should drop him." Demetri states with his hand gestures.

"Yeah, he's gonna bring you over to Cobra Kai." Hawk adds.

"Why do you both think he's gonna poach me? He's not like that, y'know? I have quite literally been Miyagi Do since day 1. There's nothing to worry about."

"Yeah, I'm with Kiara on this one." Miguel agrees.

"He's quite annoying, but yeah we can't tell her what to do. So, Demetri, Hawk, just drop it all right?" Robby replies, looking between Hawk and Demetri to which they reluctantly nod.

"Thank you." I sarcastically beam.

"The next match between Cobra Kai and Tiger Strike will begin in 15 minutes."

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