"He's right. You couldn't"

When Faith woke up, Miguel was gone.

She opened her phone and saw it was around 11, He walked in the room "oh, you're awake. Your dads back, he said no to teaching me karate" Miguel frowned.

She sat up, slipping her phone into his shorts pocket.

"What do you wanna learn karate for?"

"When school starts those guys are gonna make my life a living hell, I just wish I knew how to defend myself" he said.

"Well if he won't teach you how, I will"

"Seriously?"

"Yeah. But not right now obviously I'm tired as fuck" she yawned.

He laughed, muttering a yea.

She stood up, "I'm gonna head back if he's home, thank you for letting me stay. Tell your grandma and mom I said thank you, to."

"Of course" he smiled as she walked out, the house being empty.

She didn't do anything for the rest of the day, when night came she heard a crashing sound.

She hoped out of bed to see her dad was gone and the tv was broke, she looked down to see a broken beer bottle.

Faith rolled her eyes, not even surprised.

she went back to her room, Getting a Dm from Miguel.

Hey
I was wondering if I could get your number

She responded with her number, smiling when he texted her a 'Is this Faith?'

She edited his contact and saved it, responding.

Faith 🥋
Yes lol

Miguel
Lol I had to make sure you didn't give me the wrong number 😭

Faith 🥋
😭😭
Read 9:30 pm

She chuckled and sat her phone to the side, deciding to go to sleep earlier then usual as she didn't have anything to do.

Faith woke up to her phone going off at around ten, seeing Miguel had messaged her.

Miguel
Faith
Faith
Faith guess what
YOUR DADS GONNA TEACH ME KARATE

Faith 🥋
YAY

Miguel
Your coming to the lessons right?

Faith 🥋
Duh

Her dad walked in her room in his gi, throwing a water bottle at her "get up it's time to go to the dojo!"

"What dojo, we barely have an apartment—"

"Quiet!" He yelled from the kitchen, she laughed before getting ready and following him out the door.

In the dojo which she had no idea existed, and had no idea how he did it so damn quick, he can barely stand up sometimes.

Miguel and Faith stood across from Johnny, silence filling the room before he spoke "so am I gonna get the karate pajamas to?"

"Quiet! A student only speaks when they're Spoken to, is that understood ?" Johnny said, "yes." Her dad looked at him as if expecting something else.

"..yes sir"

"You will always address me as sensei is that understood?" He spoke firmly.

"Yes sensei." Miguel and Faith responded before he spoke again "these aren't pajama this is a gi and you'll get one when you've earned it" "Alright you ready to begin your training?"

"Yeah sensei, What the—" he flipped Miguel onto the mat as Faith stepped back "lesson one! Strike first. Never wait for the enemy to attack."

Miguel wheezed, saying that he could've gave a warning only to be hit with another quiet.

"We do not train to be merciful here. Mercy is for the weak" Miguel pulled out an inhaler, taking a puff.

"Here, on the street in completion, a man confronts you, he is the enemy. An enemy deserves no mercy. What is the problem, Mr. Diaz?" He stopped as Miguel took more puffs

"There's no problem sensei, you- you punched me and I have asthma so.." Johnny grabbed his inhaler, throwing it to the wall.

"Dad!"

"Not anymore. We do not allow weakness in this dojo, so you can leave your asthma and your peanut allergies and all that other made up bullshit outside. Understood?"

"Yes but those are real medical problems I was.. Yes sensei, understood." He stopped.

"Cobra Kai isn't just about karate, it's about a way of life. Take that first lesson, striking first is the initial step towards victory. Ok? Like when your at a party and you see a hot babe, you don't wait for another guy to talk to her first do you?"

"I mean I've never been to a party so.."

"Big surprise. All right look, striking first is about being aggressive, all right? If your not being aggressive you're being a pussy, you don't wanna be a pussy you wanna have balls."

"Bro?" Faith spoke up, her dad ignoring her, "don't you think you're doing a lot of genderizing?" Miguel said.

"What?" Johnnys brows narrowed.

"Oh,sorry. Don't you think your doing a lot of genderizing sensei?"

"No what the hell are you talking about?"

"Oh, uh, my guidance counselor says that certain words perpetuate the sexist world view that can trigger—" Faith smiled at the boy before her dad yelled once again "quiet!"

"From now on you won't listen to your guidance counselor, your gonna listen to me is that understood?"

"Yes sensei" he shook his head up and down.

"Good. Now stop yapping like a little girl and give me fifty push ups on your knuckles, both of you." They both dropped down, She started hers but Miguel seemed to not be able to even lift up.

"All right just do some crunches, don't you have gym class or something?"
"Yea" Miguel groaned.

"Hi there, Mr. Lawrence?" A guy walking through the door said, Miguel correcting him "oh it's sensei."

"Miguel, shut up" "what brings you in?" He asked.

Faith stopped doing her push ups to listen.

"Looking to lose that gut and learn how to kick some ass?" Johnny asked, She rolled her eyes.

"No. I'm from the city health department. This is a list of requirements needed to open up an exercise studio."

Miguel did his scrunches slowly, counting.

"This isn't an exercise studio this is a karate dojo"

Faith wasn't interested anymore until the health department guy asked them if they where customers "no, that's my daughter and her boyfriend there helping me set up."

Faith dropped her head into her hands, blushing.

Her dad and him talked for a second before he walked over to the cobra Kai logo on the wall. "Cool rattle snake."

"It's a cobra." She spoke up, "oh right, I'm such an idiot. Cobra Kay."

Johnny rolled his eyes at his mid pronunciation.

Miguel and Faith where cleaning the mat when Johnny walked in, "looking good. Make sure you get both sides." "And after you're done with that you can take care of these exposed wires. That's gonna be a lot of work."

"What does any of this have to do with karate sensei? Miguel asked.

"Do not question my methods, Just be thankful your not a sumo wrestler those guys have to wipe there senseis asses." Faith made a disgusted face, Miguel walking over to the trophy's set up.

"So I, uh, see you where a karate champion sensei."

"You don't have to call me sensei everytime"
"Sorry, sensei. Or— I'm sorry."

"I won a couple all valley tournaments, didn't lose a single point in my junior year." He said, Faith already knowing this story.

"All right ! What happened ur senior year?"Miguel asked.

"This isn't twenty questions. Get back to scrubbing."

"Yeah."

Miguel's phone began to ring "what's that garbage, you hear that?" Johnny said, referring to Miguel's ring tone.

He answered his phone, the conversation was short but finished with a love you "don't tell me you have a girlfriend."

"That was my mom actually" he blushed.

Faith was for some reason relieved to hear that?

" I told her I joined the debate team cause she doesn't approve of violence."

"Yeah what about your dad? Is he okay with you getting your ass kicked up and down reseda boulevard ?"

Knowing Miguel's dad isn't around, she flicked him with water.

"I never uh, really knew my dad so.."

"..alright well Stop standing there both of you, get back to training"

"Ok. Yeah sorry"

Faith let out an audible groan as she dropped to the ground dramatically.

"And change that ringtone, get some Guns N' Roses or something"

"What's Guns N' Roses?"

"I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that" she gave him a judgmental look along with her dad.

The next day, she sat at the lunch table at school with Eli and Demetri.

Miguel was walking around looking like a lost puppy, before she called him Over.

"Hey, is it cool if I sit here?" He asked.

"Sorry, tables really blowing up right now. I can put you on the waitlist but it's probably next semester at the earliest." Demetri responded jokingly.

"Okay.." he began to walk away "he's kidding, sit." She said, he sat down in the chair next to her.

"I'm Miguel"

"Demetri, this is Eli. He's a man of few words."

The popular girls walked by, Miguel watching them.

"Don't torture yourself. Those are the rich girls"

"Do you ever talk to them?" He asked, Demetri giving him some long sarcastic remark back.

"Oh shit, yasmines looking at us. Probably just making fun of me." Eli covered the scar on his lip.

"I don't think she's making fun of you, just because there hot doesn't mean there mean."

Faith scoffed at his words, taking a drink of her milk.

"Well your not mean?" He said, she raised an eyebrow at him, blushing.

Realizing what he'd said he quickly looked a different direction.

"I don't care if Yasmin's the meanest girl at school, I'd kill both of you just to get her to spit it in my face."

"Well if you don't make a move yours never gonna have a shot with her"

"True" Demetri pointed "but I'll also never suffer a humiliating rejection. I'm at peace with my depression, last thing I need is to be suicidal."

They watched as Miguel said he was 'striking first' and began to walk over to where Moon, Yasmine, and Sam where sitting.

Kyler and brucks sat down before he could get over there, cussing him to drop his head and sit back down.

"So how'd it go player?" She shook his shoulder.

"You can't strike first if you don't know how to strike" Johnny said, standing in front of a Dummy.

"I can strike." Faith said, standing up straight with her hands behind her back.

"I can't" Miguel frowned, Johnny continuing his lesson.

"The cobra strike is composed of two parts. The lunge, which requires the use of the whole body" He lunged at the dummy before punching it square in the mouth area, "and the bite. Which is everything that happens after you make contact. All right? You don't stop here where knuckle hits the bone, you punch through the bone like the guy you really wanna hit is standing behind this asshole" he pushed its head back with his fist.

"All right?" He repeated the whole process quickly, striking it In the face.

"Strike here, you bloody his nose." Johnnys fist went to its nose
"Strike here, you break his teeth." Then to its mouth
"Strike here, you could severely damage his trachea." And then its chest area "obviously that's only for extreme Situations."

"All right, line up" Miguel stepped up to the dummy "ok. Focus. I want you to practice" His phone rang just then, he stepped off to answer it.

Miguel punched the dummy weakly, "keep practicing punch through the dummy"

He leaned into it, his thumbs up for every soft tap he hit the dummy with.

"What the hell is that?" Faith said, nudging Miguel out of the way.

She now stood in front of it, in her fighting position.

"Do you think you're gonna do anything to anyone with that punch? No. I don't know about you but when I get in a fight, my only focus is beating the absolute shit out of them." She pretended the dummy was Kyler, who she still got flashbacks of during certain times.

And then she struck it, hard.

She did it a few times, then letting him step up but he did it the same way.

"No, no, no, no. You're doing it all wrong" Johnny walked back up, what do you want those kids at school to keep dumping shit on your head? You want all the girls to think your a wantless dork? Cause you can stop your training now, walk outside and let the whole world know your a loser." He pointed at the door, his voice loud.

"Or you can plant your feet, look your enemy in the eyes, and punch him in the face!"

"Picture your enemy. Alright you got a picture in your head?" Miguel nodded his head up and down.

As Johnny instructed, he punched him in the face. Right this time.

"Again!"

Faith was surprised at how aggressive he was getting "are you a loser?"

"No sensei!" He yelled, continuing to punch it.

Later at night, Miguel and Faith sat in the bathroom of the dojo cleaning the toilet, just finished with the windows.

"I'm not touching that" Faith made a disgusted face as he finished up.

Miguel rolled his eyes at her, saying he was done.

They walked out into the training room, "bathrooms clean! Is there anything else you need us to do?" He yelled, Johnny giving him the hold on hand.

"Oh.. I'm sorry sensei."

"Sensei?" The man across from her dad scoffed, "Oh my god, kid. I don't know what he's told you but you shouldn't believe a word he says, or you're gonna end up exactly like him." Faith now recognized this guy as Daniel Larusso, him switching his attention back from Miguel to Johnny.

"You and I.. this. We aren't done" he began to walk out, Johnny stopping him "I'm right here man!"

Daniel laughed, shaking it off.

"Sorry for interrupting sensei, should I do twenty push ups on my knuckles?" Miguel asked, both teens standing there awkwardly.

"Right, like you could." Johnny chuckled.

"He's right" she squeezed his arm gently, "you couldn't" she smiled.

Miguel looked down at her, smiling sarcastically.

Okay, i feel like there relationship or whatever is going to seemed rushed but please remember I also fit a bunch of different scenes into one chapter, and most episodes are more then just a day. <3.