street lights - kanye west
"let me know..."
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"Uh huh, no we're always looking for new recruits." Sensei said talking into the phone.
"We have a 4:00 pm class and a 5:00 pm class but they're filling up fast."
"No no we accept boys and girls."
"Gender what? Hey is this a prank call?"
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"What do you think?" Hawk asked, we were in the dojo practicing.
"Shithead One and Shithead Two?" Hawk said talking to these two boys that were here before.
"Well I'm Chris-"
"Did I say you could speak?" Hawk shouted, Miguel came reassuring them.
"Guys, look. They're just messing with you." Miguel said.
"Besides everyone knows your names are AssFace and Douchebag." Miguel said, everyone started to laugh
Then suddenly the door bell rang, an old man walked in looking around. He looked really intimidating as people took a second to stare at him.
"Who's that?" Hawk asked.
"I don't know." Miguel answered.
"Hey uh can I help you sir?" Miguel said standing in front of the guy, I stood next to him.
"No. But maybe I can help you two." The guy said.
"Uh Sensei..." I said looking back at Sensei, he walked up to us.
"What the hell is wrong with you? I said tomorrow." Sensei said talking to the guy.
"Oh. Tomorrow, today..who can keep track huh?" The guy said.
"Class, we have a visitor." Sensei said, we were all in rows ready to practice.
"This is Mr.Kreese he's just an observer." Sensei said as Mr.Kreese stood next to him.
"Pretend he's not even here." Wow, seems like they have a little rivalry.
"Diaz, warm them up." Sensei said walking away, Miguel then walked up to the front standing in front of everybody.
He bowed and so did everyone else.
"Fighting positions!" Miguel shouted.
"Front kick. Yuh!"
"Yuh!" Everyone shouted.
"Forward strike! Yuh!"
"Yuh!"
"Side jab! Yuh!" Everyone started laughing after.
A/N: the way i only laugh at that part because of just the fact it's cringe 😭
"What the hell was that?" Sensei asked.
"We were just messing around." I said.
"We have 11 and a half months until the next All Valley." I said.
"Yeah, besides we already know how to kick ass." Hawk said and everyone chuckled.
"Oh yeah really? So you know everything." Sensei said talking to Hawk and I.
"There's nothing left to learn, huh?" Sensei said, Aisha then laughed and I knew it was going to be bad.
Sensei walked up to Aisha and stood in front of her.
"What's so funny, Ms.Robinson?" Sensei asked.
"I'm sorry, Sensei. You just wouldn't understand." Aisha answered.
"Try me."
"It's a snake-do." Aisha said.
"What's a snake-do?" Sensei asked looking confused.
Then all the students started to hiss.
"Quiet!" Sensei shouted which caused me to flinch really bad, everyone then turned quiet.
"5 am tomorrow morning. Corner of Fulton and Raymer. You don't show and you're off the team. Class dismissed." Sensei shouted before walking to his office.
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next day..
I passed a heavy bag to Bert, he could barely carry it. I saw him struggle and it looked like he was about to fall down onto the ground. I then walked over to the wagon where cement was being poured and I picked up a shovel.
"Don't add too much water. You want to make it nice and thick." Sensei said. I was busy mixing the cement with a shovel which hurt my hands badly. It was 5 am and I'm already doing work, I would be asleep well actually on my phone laying down on my bed hoping that my mom didn't catch me... yeah..
"Sensei why are we mixing cement?" Miguel asked mixing cement as well while Hawk was pouring a bag into the wagon.
"Keep stirring!" Sensei shouted. The intimidating man from yesterday, Mr.Kreese just watched us.
"Their muscles are going to ache, sure, but if you want to make them tough. You got to give them something to be afraid of." Kreese said talking to Sensei.
"No ones afraid of a little cement." Sensei said.
"They will be." Kreese said.
Then a horn was blowing and a big truck came. It was hissing loudly and a worker got out of the truck.
"You think winning the All Valley gives you the right to goof off? Well I got news for you. Winning one championship don't mean squat, a true champion never stops training. You got to keep moving forward or else you could get stuck exactly where you are. It's like the cement in this truck. That drum doesn't start turning, the cement inside will harden and get stuck. Is that what you want to happen to you?" Sensei asked.
"No, Sensei." We all answered.
"Good, then climb up get inside and make it spin." Sensei instructed, we all looked at each other confused.
"Sensei, we're sorry for messing around." Aisha apologized.
"We learned our lesson." Hawk said.
Sensei then pulled the ladder from the truck down.
"Get in!" Sensei shouted.
"Sensei, this seems dangerous. I mean the fumes alone-" Miguel tried to say until he got cut off.
"Quiet!" Kreese yelled.
"This man led you to the mountaintop. And you question him? Look at you, look at all of you. I can't believe this pathetic pack of pussies competed in the All Valley and let alone won. It's an absolute miracle. And who's responsible for that miracle? Johnny Lawrence. The best student in the history of Cobra Kai. My student." Kreese said pacing back and forth.
"You were Sensei's Sensei?" Hawk asked Kreese.
"You better believe it kid."
"And I tell you I've never trained a tougher student in my whole life." Kreese said turning to Sensei.
"So if you know what's good for you. You better listen to every damn word he says." Kreese said.
Miguel walked up closer to Sensei and Kreese.
"I'll do it Sensei." Miguel said climbing up the ladder, Hawk followed him. I decided to follow them both.
We climbed up and looked at the empty hole. It was dangerous, we could have got chemical burns. If we fell down on our face and got the cement in our eyes, it would have hurt and we could be possibly blind after this.
Miguel crawled in and fell down but thankfully he didn't fall on his face. Hawk and I followed him trying not to fall on the cement. It was sticky and my feet felt like it was attached to the ground. I couldn't move but if I moved it was so sudden.
"Don't just stand there. You want to get stuck? Move!" Sensei shouted climbing up the ladder and looking at us.
I realized Aisha was also in here, she was struggling to get up from the ground so I helped her. We then started to grab onto the side of the cement wall. We tried to push but it was difficult. It wasn't moving at all, we were grunting and tired. I just wanted to sit down but my ass would have been stuck to the bottom.
"Come on Giselle don't just stand there!" Hawk shouted, im trying!
The truck's container thing then started to spin, we then suddenly got faster while pushing it which caused the thing to spin more quicker and efficient.
"All together!" Sensei shouted standing in front of the truck.
"Get up man come on!" Miguel shouted.
"You got this guys let's go!" Sensei shouted.
"We're doing it!" Hawk shouted.
"All right! Faster! Faster! Faster!" Hawk shouted, the thing started to spin way more faster which caused us all to fall down onto the ground but we continued to keep pushing.
"That's it! That's it!" Sensei shouted cheering us on.
"Come on! Come on! Yes!" Sensei said as everyone else started clapping.
We then got out of the hole thing, we were covered in cement. My hair felt so disgusting and my pants were now stained of brown.
Sensei then turned on a hose and sprayed it at us.
"If you keep pushing and keep pushing forward. You're going to go to places you never even dreamed of." Sensei said.
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a few hours later
"I got to tell you Johnny, I didn't see that coming." Kreese said, he was with Johnny in his office.
"I mean the whole thing could have gone south real quick." Kreese added.
"Somebody could have died."
"Takes guts as a Sensei to put your students through that."
"I know what I'm doing." Sensei said while writing down something.
"Didn't say you didn't." Kreese said.
"Thanks for giving it an extra kick in the pants today. They needed it." Sensei said.
"Anything I can do to help." Kreese said standing up in front of Sensei.
"What do you say.. you and I go grab a couple of tallboys? My treat." Kreese asked.
"No im good." Sensei politely declined.
"Come on. You can walk me through tomorrow's lesson." Kreese said.
"You're coming back tomorrow huh?" Sensei asked.
"Well if that's okay with you." Kreese said.
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"Sensei, you home?" Miguel asked walking into his place.
"I used your spare key to drop off some food." Miguel said holding a container of food.
"My mom doesn't want you eating Slim Jim's for breakfast anymore." Miguel said, he then noticed something on the fridge after he opened it.
He looked at a picture that was on the fridge, he grabbed it and looked at it.
"Robby Keene?" Miguel asked looking at the picture of Robby when he was a kid.
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"Hey hey, why don't you say that to my face next time." The cashier said at the store.
"Both of you are idiots!" The man yelled in Spanish.
"It's called America big boy love it or leave it." Kreese said walking with Sensei. Sensei took a sip of his drink.
"He's a real son of a hitch, isn't he?" Kreese said talking to Sensei.
"Dead my ass." Daniel said standing in front of them.
"Well what do you know. The gang's all back together. Well, almost all of us. My condolences." Kreese said placing his hand on his chest. He was referring to Mr.Miyagi, who taught Daniel karate.
"You're lucky he's not here. How are your knuckles doing there Kreese?" Daniel said referring to something that happened in the past.
"What's this? All part of your... your new Cobra Kai, Johnny?" Daniel asked.
"You don't know what you're talking about, man." Johnny said.
"Yeah, right. I've seen plenty." Daniel said walking away.
"Well, maybe you want to see a bit more." Kreese said causing Daniel to turn around.
"Because this man's going to make Cobra Kai bigger and better than ever." Kreese said placing his hand on Sensei's shoulder. Sensei then walked up to Daniel.
"What are you even doing here?" Sensei asked Daniel.
"I came to ask you a question..and I got my answer. You're both in for a rude awakening." Daniel said walking away, Sensei and Kreese turned to look at each other and just stood there as Daniel's car drove off.