Johnny and Bobby enter Tommy's room at the hospital, a woman is sitting next to her bed and reading a magazine, to Johnny's confusion, Bobby laughs.
âExcuse me, Madame, your patient has visitors.â
You smile at your friend's voice. When you look up, you make an effort to recognize the blonde man in front of him. After a few seconds, you do, he does too.
âFor all the gangs in California, look what the Trouble Fairy Tommy brought, Johnny Himself - the damn tough - Lawrenceâ
âHey, hey Y/Nâ he laughs and hugs you âA word of advice about insults after saying helloâ
âYou never recovered from the insults, did you?â
"I tell you?" You tapped him on the shoulder, you stepped aside so he could greet Tommy, while you did the same with Bobby, then he brought your brother and practically everyone was there, not knowing what else to say to Tommy, the blonde headed towards you
âSo you grew up to be a sexy nurse, huh?â
âNope, on Harley Quinn.â
"Psychiatrist?" Bobby asked confused.
â˘More than 25 decades could have passed, but what you loved most about their friendship was that their dynamic had never changed. A night at the bar was perfect for everyone.
âSeriously Johnny, disappear again for so long, and I will kill you.â
âCalm down Siconics, you could have called meâ
âIt's psychotic Johnny from the P-S-Y-C-H-O-T-I-c,psyche, it doesn't matter that you don't know what it meant, as long as you know how to say it, it's fine, for me I know that you are eating the P... and you could have visited meâ
âMan, I hate visitors.â
âAnd I hate making calls, I talk Face to Face, you see that's why you are my favorite, we are ideal together, yes we are equalâ You commented, finally bringing the beers to the table.
âYour Favorite? How drunk do you have to be to say that?â
âVery, very Drunk, in fact they should take me out of here and take me to a cold water shower, with a tub included, include the tub and ice!!! Patrick, my ice!!!â You responded, pretending to be drunk, everyone laughed
.âOh seriously, Johnny, don't get your hopes up, she also told me that she was her favorite, she just met me,â Bobby commented jokingly.
âGuiltyâ you declared, patting your chest, with a funny face.
âHey, but what's wrong with me, I'm the one who makes you laugh the most, where's my merit, I saved your assâ Tommy, who had hit the nail on the head, butted in, acting offended, like the old ones.
âListen to me old man, you are the one I love the most at this table, but if you are going to start showing off, I not only saved your ass more times... I also defended your sexualityâ you drank your beer satisfied with the chaos that ensued. form
âI swear before God, with heaven, my friends and my savagery as a witness that I don't know what this Drug Trafficker is talking aboutâ
âDrug trafficking, your damn last name, hey ,priest, He swear before God and his house, that is a mistake, put on your cassock, even if in his mindâ You alleged, offended.
âI'm not Priest,I have said it I've said it so many damn times."
âmoutch, sir, we are in a bar but God continues to look at us, especially you, gentleman, with what face are you going to receive your faithful, Mr. Shepherd?â
"better thanks And I stop being a priest as soon as I walk in here, everyone at this table is dirty sinners.â
âI want to make it clear that I am the cleanest at the table, nor should I fall into that category.â
âAs I say, miss, well behaved with her rudeness,â your brother responded.
âYou and your friends infected me with that despicable evil that I have struggled with all my lifeâ you said too dramatically.
âMy God, I'm so sorry, I didn't imagine how much it had affected you.â
âWell now you see it.â
âI will fight to change, I promise... I love youâ He took your hand, you wrinkled your nose.
âWell, they already finished the novel, we are drinking, not raising awarenessâ
âWell, Johnny, you learned a complicated word.â You high-fived.
âYou see, practice especially for You .â
âNot that we were in a bar, sir?, make up your mind,â said your brother, apparently irritated. âI want to make something clear to you, you damn cretins, she is my sister, so technically I am her favorite from day one, her first word was my name.â taunts were renewed
âThat day the universe let you know that the first 17 years of my life would be difficult, you forced us to meet Jimmy, technically that is the reason why you are my least favorite before Dutch.â
âPlease, I was your first love.â
âDude, you're going to make me throw up my beer at them.â
âYou shouldn't be shy around boys, there is confidenceâ
âYou shouldn't get your endorphins out in front of the kids, there's gossipâ they made fun of the boy for a while, Johnny was the first to confess.
âI didn't understand why we were laughing.â
âlessâ they said at the same time, you found out your tired head
âYou know, at times like this, I would get a time machine, I would force myself to visit Dutch in the reform school, and I would blackmail him so that a criminal wouldn't come back.â
âExtortion so as not to be a criminal?â you raised your shoulders indifferently.
âLeave her, that's what happens when you're desperate.â
"So what I really wanted was the 'biggest bully'? You're a pretty interesting girl Y/N," Tommy commented.
"I have never hated nor will I hate any boy in my life like him, except Hittler but he stopped being a boy, anyway, I would think 5 times before saving Dutch from drowning, but I wish he were here, it's not a reunion of former cobras if the true representation of 'No Mercy' is not there,He was an idiot but that idiot belongs here, and... And I dont know, I feel like this is not complete without him, after all I had to endure, I would like to see him drunk enough to breathe with you again.â
One thing led to another so Johnny told you about his dojo
âIt's really cool, Johnny, you know, I never thought you'd have that kind of job.âYou said, sounding nice, although
you felt your chest shrink, bringing up everything about Karate again, more than 3 decades enjoying the tranquility of being with your old friends without karate, so that it will return as if nothing to alter the life of the one who suffered the most with him?, life kicked
âYou thought Sid would support me for a lifetime, ha! "That great idiot, I would have thrown myself into the street from the first moment if it weren't for Mom... The dojo is great, I always knew that he wouldn't work in a horrible office, wearing a suit as if it were a wedding toy."
âYou're right, it's worse than that, hello wedding dollâ You said, offering your brother to shake your hand, he hit it, he said in a playful tone.
âSeriously, you have to know the dojo, Diaz would like you, he's like my favorite.â
"Sure, send me the address, and I'll get you in these days"
âFor the love of God, Johnny tell him Kreese is thereâ An InterviHe intervened irritably, your smile faltered and horror took hold of you, you hid your hands under the table, so that they would not notice that they were trembling, you made a great effort to speak, ignoring the rapid beating of your heart.
âHe is helping me with the children, he has experience as a senseiâ you took a quick drink and instantly regretted it.
âJohnny, but what kind of experience? After everything he did? âYou are going to let him be there with children, close to you as if nothing had happened.â
âListen y/n I know it's hard to understand, but the change is just working, it's not like I'm going to trust him again and Go to be my sensei, I watch him all the time, the children are not in danger... God! Even the inhabitants of the street deserve work, don't they?" He said this last thing smiling, you smiled back at all the eyes on you.
âDo you want another round?â everyone confirmed âIt's on me, I'll be back in a few minutesâ you pressured yourself not to run to the bathroom while you felt that everything you had taken was about to come out.
By the time you returned with the beers, you witnessed the fight, you almost lost your balance, seeing those karate movements again, the rage, the blows and the blood as if they were children again and were still old enough to participate in the valley. To hell with the nausea, you took the entire round you brought them in an attempt to calm yourself down, it was in vain.
âGod, I shouldn't do this, I definitely shouldn't do this, it's a damn bad idea... To hell with it...ÂĄÂĄÂĄ place bets on him here on the quartet of karate midgets or on the idiots they's getting pummeled.!!!â
indirectly, you also participated in the fight, a guy who was beaten came limping to complain that you were marketing this without his permission for having participated, He was not willing to reason. And at any moment you will enter the drunk category,you smashed the can of beer that you were about to open, and he fell asleep for a while
You filled your pockets abysmally in 15 minutes
âSeriously, gentlemen, you are 64 years old, you have gone through 5 divorces, 7 children, 2 guardianships, 4 lawsuits and 45 years of street sweeping to fight with a single guy in a bar, if it were an army of bodyguards, it would hold up, but one, only one "One, so many years of being slaves to the beatings are worth more than that."
âAgain, we are 17 years old and we don't understand anything you have said until now.â
âWhat I said is: âSeriously, Karate? After all this time... Whoever is going to answer me from you always say with confidence and drama or I will have them run overâ
âThanks Tommy, I'll cross it off my list when I get homeâ to everyone's confused faces, you explained âReader thingsâ
âOkay, whatever you say, but you can't claim anything from us, you got money for our beatingsâ Jimmy alleges
âI'm their manager, that's what you do, plus my partners, with what we win I'll take you to the moviesâ you responded, surrounding Bobby and Tommy with your arms.
âPlease, the current cinema stinksâ
âFor God's sake Johnny! Don't be like one of those, who think that everything in the past is glorious, the past sucks as much as the present and less than the future, you just have to learn to deal with that... you still love Sylver Stallone right?
âYes, it is my reason for living,â he answered too quickly.
âOkay, there we have to end things right where they started Ramboo 5: Last bloodâ
âTake me to the movies, girlâ and as if they weren't over 50, she offered to take you on a piggyback.
âWe look ridiculous right?â You asked your friends
âThe most pathetic thing my poor, cursed eyes have ever seen.â
âOkay, let's go,â you ordered and the trip began.
You and Johnny continued dating after this.
âI really didn't have your address.â
âMuch less will you have it now, you don't deserve it.â
"Oh, come on!! âDonât tell me you were offended.â
âWe wouldn't have seen each other for the last time, 5 years ago, if you had a phone, we both hate letters, Johnny seriously! Now it's impossible to survive without those thingsâ
âI don't think so, Miguel has tried to explain to me, but it's the smallest box, but it's damned more complicated to use.â They both came face to face with that acquaintance, neither of whom wanted to see him.
âNah!â they said in unison
âtssk, please, it's envy because you don't have anyone from school to meet with.â
âOuch, you started by making me bleed.â
âI don't know where that came from.â
âAhhh... I understand, I understand, everything is clearâ They both looked at each other confused âYou are meeting everyone at school, to screw up my days, but I warn youâ
âGod, almost 40 years, he has that damn voice and he still believes he is the center of the world, did you never want to return to your city, kangaroo child?â
âI'm from Jersey, not Australian.â
âYes, sorry about that, I don't know where it came from...again.â
The talk ended with you warning Daniel that he would receive a slap from you.
you met Miguel, and as a student you stayed to watch the class, seeing Johnny as sensei was killing you in the good and bad sense, a mixture of pride Fighting against your breathlessness, the pain in your chest and the cramp in your hands, you decided to kr. to take a walk around the dojo for a few minutes and when you returned, someone else was teaching the class, you didn't notice, you got distracted by a comic strip lying in Johnny's office, but before sitting where you were, you took a quick look, processed it and then froze: John Kreese several centimeters away but certainly in front of you, he stopped his class, looked at you intently, and you turned a statue, feeling mute, hands behind your back holding on to reduce the pain, your heart and brain stopped
Who are you?" you felt tears in your eyes, he had no time to waste "Who is she?"
âIt's Y/N sensei, sensei Lawrence brought her.â
âhey, I see that you two met againâ the man commented, inexplicably smiling, Kreese gave the order and the class continued your mind full of âno mercyâ, âfinish himâ, âsweep the legâ and quick images of everything they had been willing to do. make your friends for him
âWho is this girl, Johnny, and why does she have the look of having seen her great-grandfather come out of his grave?â
âY/n are you okay? You looked at them and at the whole place, they were there but now you see a statue, you let go of Johnny's grip, and without knowing when and why you ran out of the place, Johnny followed you without even bothering to say that he was coming back,
"Come on... where did the girl come from?
âshe is a good friend of Sensei's, since high school it seems to me, as I understood it, you know each other, you just didn't see each other much" He looked at the door of the dojo, but nothing was intentional. to move "Maybe I should follow them, the sensei doesn't know how to help people, I'll be back sensei Kreese"
before the man could say anything, the boy also left the place, he made a mental note of all that
Johnny found you in a park sitting in a chair rocking you, holding your head with his hands, he tried to talk to you but you were too numb to pay attention to him, after a few minutes Miguel appeared, he was more successful, he managed to calm you down, he brought you water, and little little by little you recovered your sanity
âYou've already been through this, rigth?â the boy asked, you smiled shyly.
âNice to meet you, ma'am, maybe you should go to the doctor.â
"I'll keep that in mind." Johnny put an arm around you.
â˘the cobras called you to leave in the mountains
âListen, get your things ready, we're going to spend the weekend in the mountains.âYou meditated for a few seconds
âOf course he more than agreesâ
âGreat...I'm not goingâ
âIt's a joke, right?.â
âSo now it's the perfect time for you to spend time with him, you know what kids do, I feel like I've spent all these years helping you pretend that he and Dutch were just swallowed up by the earth, and now you have the perfect opportunity for them to âformer cobras live togetherâ
âGod mine doesn't make sense, you know how ridiculous that sounds, Tommy wants you there.â
âI'm not going jimmy,You won't make me change my mindâYou said firmly
âThank you Bobby, it's better I delay it because I'm going to get sick.â
âWe are going to miss you, get betterâ
It turns out that you received the bad news when they were about to return, it really hit you
you and the cobras were practically Step Brothers :
â˘you and Dutch had been united enemies (the only thing you shared in common was that you hated each other, and that's how you worked wonderfully)
â˘Bobby, he's like your best friend, your soulmate and all that stuff (He had made you feel comfortable from the first moment until now, he was definitely the best of them, and you loved him for that)
⢠Johnny was that person you didn't want to meet, the leader of them, popular and too rich to breathe, sexist cretin, and with a slightly worrying obsession with love, who would have thought that you were going to adopt him just for all that, almost too perfect for society and at the same time too human and accessible, (He wasn't very convinced of you or that you would spend time with them, But he had not objected, nor did he deny you the possibility of meeting him, you would carry his ass to the end of the world without protesting)
â˘Jimmy was your brother, and as much as you would hate everything he agreed to do when he joined the Cobras, he was still The same with you was strange but he was the most perfectly imperfect older brother you could have asked for. (He really had been your first love and he was going to be your last) (really strange to say).
â˘But Tommy, God!!! really Tommy was different from everything previously described, he was your partner in crime, he was not your best friend and yet he was your least favorite, you would never ask him for help and you would still beat him up if he had gotten in the way. a problem, you wished more than a thousand times that he would never set foot in your house again, and even so you were happy to see him every day in the hallways acting strange to you, you had always been clear about it, you were going to miss him at any moment in your life, even so If you had last seen him 2 minutes ago,Now you would have to miss him every day.
The boys knew it, you didn't need company But you were family so providing it didn't hurt.
âaaaahhhhh!!â You screamed, when the noises you heard turned into 3 men you knew well, obviously seeing what they were wasn't going to miraculously calm you down.
âLittle Girl how can you scream like that?â You made signs with your hands without looking at them , and they understood,You needed to recover, Maybe you would be hoarse, it had been a good scream and scare, the typical situation in which someone would say you wanted to kill me? or you almost died of fright, right?, but since they were going through a death, You wouldn't use that word by accident,
âBetter honk?â Johnny asked, returning with food from your fridge, thatâs something Tommy would do, Gonna your refrigerator and bring Johnny to him and would both eat while the others faced your interrogations, now Johnny looks for his own food and eats alone in front of you...yes, it would definitely hurt a lot
âWhat are you doing here?"
âWe came to visit you darling.â
âWe met your friend at the door, Betty, right? SHe left us open.â
âQuite pretty, but do you think she likes men? She didn't seem interested in me..âYou couldn't help but laugh at the comment, it had to be him,
âJohnny, for God's sake!â
âDid your closet flood?â Bobby asked,It seems like it wasn't normal for a middle-aged woman to be lying comfortably in a scattered tangle of clothes and hooks.
âJust a relapse.â You replied nonchalantly, pointing at the TV.
âDue to laziness,I have been since I was 9, I will be until the last of my breaths in this old rag called world.â
âThank you, it comes naturally when you work listening to extinct types of human variantsâ
âIt's a toy, right?It looks like painted, burned and remade plasticâJohnny had to be
"It's not dear,It's just a tree that never grew,As if Peter Pan had been sent to Wonderland,When his parents discovered that he had been born drugged".
"I thought it was neverlandâ
âJohnny and I personalize thingsâ
âWhy is there so much Chinese shit here?â
âThey are gifts, I never reject gifts, and it's Japanese!!!â
âMan, remembers her dead old manâJimmy reminded him,
Although you scold him (and scold them) a lot, normally you would let Johnny get away with various issues, especially ethnic ones (it's not like the boy deals with people from different cultures frequently) but it was easy for him to understand why you corrected him. abruptly this time, it was your friend with Chinese eyes, He had never been able to discover if you loved the other or him more(and that 'he had not known him')
âWell You discovered that my Addiction keeps rolling But controlled,And I saw that you have not left Let Johnny hide again,so Nice visitâ
âGuys, I've been going out, I work, I shop, unfortunately I talk to people, and I keep myself busy At home, it's not like I've been choking on gallons of cerealâ
âY/N we know, that we would be the last person we would have to worry about in these situations, you are the older sister obviously you are the example, but hey let the troublemakers try to take care of youâ
âDo you want to take care of someone? this guy escaped from us since he graduated, don't be hypocrites, and dutch is in jail without decent visits, and a windstorm could have killed him To the other cobras and to the other friendsâ
âDon't be rude, we just want to go out okayâBefore you could protest Johnny was carrying you headfirst onto his shoulder.
â"I'll throw up your sneakers, your socks or your ankles, I don't know what Johnny, but rest assured I'll hit something." Useless protest you were already out of your roomâWait! At least let me changeâ
âThese You are a cute bouquet baby,â
âPlease, these are home clothes not worthy of seeing the street light at 3 pmâ
âYou take a long time choosing, and you will continue watching TV, you won't convince usâ You sighed, exhausted.
âfor that reason, which of many?â
âThe ones from school, with Susan and Barbara on boardâ
âI saw those girls less than 3 months ago, I guess the idea of ââbeers erases anyone's memoryâ
âsometimes i asked me how you have so many friendsâ
âsame thing, I gave up 2 months agoâ finally let you down
â˘Johnny was aware of something, maybe you hadn't seen him in 5 years, but that didn't mean you had stayed away from âhis family.â
You walked calmly through the noisy and crowded streets of DownTown, âGodmotherâ you heard a child shout, you stopped to look, it was not a child, it was a young man, he came up to you, you looked at him kindly.
âI think you got confused kid, I don't have godchildren.â
âOh yes, I'm sorry ma'amâ
he retraced his steps, and then back to you, they both smiled.
âHello almost gomotherâ
âWhat does my only and favorite almost godson say?â They hugged each other.
It all started 10 years ago, you were visiting his mother and he told you
âYou know, Aunt y/n? I asked mom if she had married dad Johnny, you would have been my godmother and she told me yes, so now you will be almost godmother y/n.â
âIt's a clever nickname almost godson Robbysâ
the shortest story you could have ever told
"What are you doing here?"
âTaking advantage of my rest time so that my blood circulates, you already ate?â The denied âWell then you know where we are goingâ
You'd seen him once or twice since he'd been paroled, so they had a lot to say.
âYou can stay at my house, indefinitely, it's small, but really spacious for 2â
âThank you almost godmother, it would be good for me, I had been staying at the cobra dojo, but they discovered me, I thought I would return to the reformatoryâ
âThank God they didn't do it, it's better that you get out of there as soon as possible, those guys are unreliable."
Although you hated that subject with your life, and just thinking about it caused shivers and cramps throughout your body, karate was an important part of Robby's life (why did everyone who knew that sport make it the only way of life? So they talked about him
âI think I'm going to train againâ you swallowed dryly, you felt a little dizzy, Not again!! after everything it had caused!! karate would continue, you tried to act calm
âGood for you Robby, and for Daniel you must be his best student.â
âWho said I would go back to him, I don't even want to see that guy on the billboards, I'm going to train in cobra kaiâ your throat was irritated, you hid your hands under the table, you pretended to be full so that they would tremble calmly in your wobbly legs surely stunned by the beating of your veins,
You had obtained information about how things were with that dojo now, you mentally prayed that there had been a sudden change when you subtly assured
âWell, I think Tasmanian devils are adorable puppies compared to those kids, but your dad will know how to control them.â
âJohnny is not there, if he was, he would never have spread sheets there.â
âok... so who is in charge of the dojo?â a tremor of your voice at the last words
"A new sensei, his name is Kreese...Jonh Kreese, I think you know him, he met all the cobras years before Daniel appeared to beat the valley"
You took a few seconds before responding, your trembling hands hugging your nauseating stomach, you'd have to be Katharine Hepburn to act like nothing was wrong.
âYou think he's a bad person, right?â
âI just think he would have been a high-ranking general in the Hitler regime.â
"So he shouldn't train in his dojo," He said half affirming and asked
âYes, yes and yes, that's just what you should do, stay 550 miles away from him, help me put him in jail and make sure fucks him jail time, then we'll move to a new state and we can all make friends and eat potato pudding." You really struggled not to say this. You sighed and forced yourself to say the following. "I think you have to make that decision on your own. I think you've been through a lot and you have the ability to choose what's best for you. Maybe you'll make such a mistake. Maybe not, that's what learning to live is all about, at this point in life listening to so many different advices will lead you to do whatever you want to get revenge, and I don't want to contribute to that, so I'll stay out of it, and I'll carry your back if you need itâ He meditated on your words and smiled, He simply smiled.
That damn good boy smile that you knew from your childhood friends, who guaranteed that they would do just what they shouldn't do, so hopefully the pain of your chest would turn into a heart attack in the middle of the night and in the end you would rest next to Mr Miyagi and Tommy, being placed on the hypocritical blacklist that Dutch resided on years ago, fake smile and
you wasted half a bottle of wine, unfortunately it wasn't red, nor vodka
âIt's easy to understand why you're a human resources manager.â
âAfter half a lifetime of putting up with people's mental bullshit, I realized that I could use my retarded Diamond in Rough of patience and diplomacy to generate profits that guarantee me surviving at the end of the month, and keeping my cyanide jar in optimal conditions. "You know, a drink, in case Russian roulette doesn't work for me."
â˘You invited him to spend the rest of the afternoon in your office, anyone would be surprised how an almost involuntary murderer would have fun at his aunt's work as if he were 8 years old, it made you feel good to see that, it would be fine despite everything, even there was humanity in
You couldn't interfere directly in his affairs, ..
âGood morning Jefferson.â
âGood morning sir, welcome, ah Mr. Larusso, this young woman was waiting for youâ
âSo Hi There Danieâ You greeted harshly, he looked at you seriously and sighed overwhelmed, which gave you more enthusiasm âYour dollhouse is huge, it's the perfect place to abandon a child. Hasn't it happened yet?
"No, it hasn't happened, thank you for receiving it, Jefferson," he said curtly, he motioned for you to follow him and suddenly stopped suddenly, saying before continuing walking "By the way, in case your eyes didn't notice it, 20 decades and 9 years ago, it stopped being considered a young womanâ
âGood people age beautifully, I hope you don't feel envy.â
âDon't worry, not a bit.â
"That's great, because I wouldn't want that horrible defect to rot your pure soul." You said in a loving, sarcastic way, he forced himself not to laugh or smile.
âYou know he was flirting with you right?â
âPossibly, but don't pay much attention to it... it doesn't make you happy?!! "Your employee was not a victim of Cruella de Vil's evil plans."
âAren't you worried about your husband? "Isn't he one of those super jealous types?"
âDid I look like a girl who would marry a depressive drug addict?â
âI don't have to worry too much about him now, I pawned him for the swimming barbie, the first one divorced me because I faded all his underwear, the second one I gave him a dog with rabies for his birthday... I don't know why I demand, and for the third one I baked a cheesecake in the shape of a cookie, it turns out that he was allergic to cheese...and to the cake...and the cookies aroused trauma, He present a restraining order, sensitive puppies."
âI understand, you didn't get married...children?â
âAny relationship regardless of whether it was meaningfulâ You denied âAt least you've had sex right? judging eyes and your raised eyebrow
âI didn't know we had that kind of trust, old buddy, I don't even tell that to my girlfriendsâ this time he did laugh, just a little, he tried to hide his amusement.
âOk, sorryâ was a little strange, LaRussian just smiling and laughing in front of you âIt's just not every day you meet a woman who hasn't had those kinds of connections.â
âI once met an old man with the life that he understood at 17 years old that he would have, without a wife, children, voluntarily distanced from his family and place of birth (not the latter) an anti-traditionalist, simple life, it didn't make him very happy, because of a hard past, which lost him, but for me, he was worth more than the milky way and more, and since I have always accepted that my past, humanity and my life sucked, this type of life is a culinary delight for meâ
They finally arrived at his office.
âSo what did you want to talk to me about?â
His brown eyes fixed on you, you regretted a little of the pleasant atmosphere that had been created, perhaps the best thing would have been to tell him between shouts and pushes, your suspicions, but your God, almost 34 years of that, you wanted even that to mature, you felt that You would fall at any moment, were you starting to see blurry?
âOkay, well the situation is...ah look, I've been accused of being a gossip almost my entire life, deep down I know it's true and I hate that, and I don't want to come off as a savior, but I feel that if I don't say the truth, I take half responsibility for the problems.â
âVery well...the situation is?â You sighed, either you said it or you vomited at that moment, maybe both would happen.
âRobby wants to join cobra kai, which now belongs to...Kreeseâ you said this last thing almost out of breath, maybe you will die right now, your heart would finally stop, or accelerate until you fell to the floor, you would be in the same mud as Tommy and Mr Miyagi?
âWhat!!?? ... I don't think so it must be... God despite everything he is a smart boy, he has heard a lot about Kreese, he wouldn't do it, no he definitely wouldn't do itâ
âAdam was smart and still ate the forbidden fruit. He is an intelligent boy, but he is still a child. He is an old man of 180 years old, a war veteran, a ruthless emotional manipulator, but he knows the devil for being old than for being a devil. â
"This is not the time to be philosophical" he demanded angrily.
"not even to be naive" you counterattacked, both of them gave each other furtive glances, you walked around the office, a useless attempt, the knot in your stomach continued to grow, you would definitely faint, you wanted to go through that door, and ignore the existence of karate, which everyone they would give them their damn sport
The man composed himself before you, with a coldness that you had never seen on his face. "Look, Robby has already caused a lot of pain around here, let him do whatever he wants, let him mess with whoever he wants, as long as he stays away from my family."
"You're fucking with me, right?!" A tear came out of your cheek, and the stress little by little consumed you "This must be a damn bad joke, right?, RIGHT?!!"
"You're going to tone it down in my office y/n, I don't make jokes like this, I tried to get close to the boy, he ran away, I don't even know why he tried, he participated in the fight where my daughter was injured"
"Everyone participated in the fight where your daughter was injured, the tall nerdy boy, I think he was Jewish, threw a rack of trophies at the young version of the Man is German, the disciple of Jesus Nathaniel, Chris, and many of your pigeons of peace, they broke bones, maybe you are just defending yourselves, but what does it matter if you cause the same damage as the bad guys?â
"Why aren't you going to complain to Johnny huh? Or is he going to continue being the poor little guy in this situation?" that stress or that eight quarters, now it was rage, in its pure state, red, liquid and bubbling
"You know, I actually thought about doing it, I was going to tell him all this before you, but he's trying to help Miguel recover, and he's weakly trying to get closer to his son, too late but he's trying, so I stopped. to think, and I realized what the main difference between you is, he feels guilty, you don't, he thinks it's his fault that Miguel attacked Robby, he thinks it's his fault that Robby threw him, how curious isn't it? He believes that it is his fault, that your student, whom you only taught to defend himself, has shot another, you, on the other hand, go through life without regrets, the humble boy who surpassed himself, won trophies after trophies, had a lovely family, and he became successful, he had the best sensei that any human being could have asked for, and yet he never learned to forgive."
"I forgive those who deserve it"
Like who? " Silence, you laughed ironically, you wiped your tears accumulated on your cheek, you sat on the floor, for a while no one said anything, your heart fell asleep
"forgiveness is earned, it is not something you have to receive for existing!!"
"You're right but human beings make mistakes, you never let Mr Miyagi down?"
"It's none of your business, I'm not going to discuss a matter about my past, my sensei and I, with a damn cobra feeder and breeder, who scolds and threatens everyone when they bite people."
"Hey!! Be careful with your tone" you saw him swallow dryly, and back away on instinct, you were sitting on the floor, quite far away, and your face was a mess even so, he had feared
"Seriously, Larusso, after these years without seeing each other I keep infusing you Pee âŚwow I could have been a big bully"
"No, I wasn't" Cold and wild look, he looked away from his, and you smiled, with anger but you did it.
"Well, perhaps you have never let Mr. Miyagi down, because you were purely good, why do you think you were and are? Because you had examples, I only know your mother and your sensei, but surely you had much more, Robby is 2 alcoholic parents, one negligent and the other absent, he has survived on the basis of friendships, and now he meets a good guy who takes away his support twice, and a girl who betrays him even so, he defends her when a violent blonde hits her, and Who wins with this? Let another boy who is attracted to her confront him, Miguel has a good mother and grandmother, he has no shortage of love, but the tiredness of being bullied at school leads him to take up karate and he doesn't. mercy, to the next level, when he realizes this, it is too late, he receives a kick in the stomach, and falls down the stairs, do you know why this rivalry between both boys started?âŚover a girl, it brings back memories of "Is your mind too busy denying everything?"
The man closes his eyes and takes deep breaths, so when he gets angry at you again, you see them dead.
"You and Kreese are the same, you get under people's skin, and try to weaken them, you won't be able to do it with me" you struggle to breathe and bury your head in your legs, faced with the sudden pain that attacks you, you take a while to respond
"and you will never be like Mr. Miyagi, he did not judge anyone, he knew how to forgive, he helped even the most unfortunate"
"You didn't know either of us, I don't allow you to talk about him"
"I MEET HIM!!! ... I really did,... not like the guy who hit my friends, who I sued before listening, who saved Johnny from being suffocated, and I am grateful to him every hour of my life, I met him outside of that, but I suppose that for you, the only stories that deserve to be told are where you are, as the protagonist." Nothing more was said
Before you left, he gave you a handkerchief and a glass of water.
"You know even though we ended up arguing like we did when we were 17, this is the first conversation I liked having with you, I never thought you would let me talk and listen to me, thank you for that" You knew I wouldn't answer, you crossed the door
â˘You found out about the cancellation of All Valley, and the appeal, you decided to go, you arrived late, which was useful so that your 3 acquaintances wouldn't see you, but you didn't miss any details of the meeting, you patted your forehead when they couldn't hide their rivalries at a time like this, a bunch of immature people who didn't grow up according to their bodies, it seems like they were about to cancel it definitively, you might later regret taking it easy, and say
"People of the council, I would like to give a brief testimony about what I know about these 3 people related to karate"
"Request granted, come forwardâŚWhat is your name?"
"Y/N Nomen Nescio born in California on (âŚ) identified with ID (âŚ) permanent resident of this city, human resources manager"
"It seems that there is finally a serious woman among us, I hope she can give us a reliable testimony" you blushed at the compliments, but you remembered who and where you were, it could be some kind of manipulation to tell them just what they wanted to hear "we listen to you ma'am"
"Before she starts giving us her testimony, my team and I would like to ask you some questions," commented one of the managers,
"Have you practiced Karate?"
"Did you work for any of these 3 men?"
"Did any of your children take classes from any or all of them?"
"No sir, I don't have children"
"Well, I don't see how his testimony could be relevant." You knew perfectly well what was happening, when someone let themselves be intimidated by these types of people and their questions, that afternoon you were not one of them.
"In fact, members of the council, I studied with Mr. Larruso and Lawrence, and my brother, he was a student of Mr. Jonh Kreese here, for 5 years I was constantly hearing about karate, and how that world works, 34 years later karate continues live my environment, that is why I consider that my testimony could be useful for your final decision, if you allow me to testify
"She's already doing it," one replied coldly.
"Well then I proceed to continue, my brother joined Cobra Kai in the summer of 1979, by his own choice and the support of my parents, who thought it was a good sport for their son to develop strength, dexterity, discipline and character, And so it was, my brother, he began to be more responsible, more organized, he improved his grades at school and made great friends, however his attitude also changed, he became aggressive and conceited and superficial, he gained popularity for his abilities and for being part of An extremely demanding dojo, that made him believe that he could mistreat those who were not like him, the 'losers'
âAllow me to interrupt his testimony ma'am, so karate turned him into a savage?"
"I need a strong answer, yes or no, not an intermediate"
That guy was giving you a headache, as if standing on a stage almost in front of all those people, a friend you had decided to speak for, a boy who hated you who also deserved to look good, and one of the beings most detestable things on earth for you, which was also the reason why you had nightmares once or twice a month, why you hated karate, why you had to stare at the jury creating a script of what to say in your mind Because at the slightest lack of concentration, the penetrating gaze of that man that you felt would cut the back of your Nape at any moment would make you go completely blank, and perhaps you would break down in front of people for the first time in your life.
"I don't want to make fun of you, much less disrespect you, but life is not a complete yes or no, there are maybes, in the case of my brother I would say that he became a little wild, I'm not saying completely, because he is my brother "But because I have known worse cases from that dojo, who completely lost the reason for good and evil and until now have not been able to recover."
"in Mr. Kreese's cobra kai?"
"objection" the man shouted, you shuddered and the nerves you had tamed were quickly released your heart reminded you that you were alive with wild beats, your throat became dry and johnny realized that your legs trembled "she was never in my dojo, she never attended my classes, she never spoke to me, recently she came into my dojo, and she didn't say anything, she just ran away" block, block, block... mental block,
your brain screamed, again it was a pillar of salt, although this time you were conscious, you struggled to move your right arm, you subtly placed it behind your back and it clung to your another arm pinching it subtly, it worked, your heart came back to itself, and your negative emotions that you needed to get through to face this did too. angry, but with a calm voice you responded
"Sorry, for being afraid of the man who mentally destroyed my friends, and who almost murdered one of them in a parking lot for not winning first place" murmurs invaded the room, for the second time in your life you challenged, you competed with the gaze of Kreese, you pooped with fear, but even if your body or your mind didn't help you, you wouldn't back down, you never backed down from a confrontation.
âDo you consider that problem children were victims of karate?"
"Sir, this is not a court, you can object but it will not prevent the lady from speaking, you had him turn and you chose to fight like a teenager of Miss Brown's age, or even less."
"Why do you think it's not the sport's fault?"
"because I met a different teacher, Mr. Larusso's sensei, Mr. Miyagi, he had different teaching methods, although like Mr. Kreese's I would say that they were established, they did not change, they wanted you to connect with the sport, not to force you to dominate it, They were ascentral methodsâ
"Miyagi, is that the name?â
"Last name, his name was Nariyoshi Kesuke Miyagi, born in Okinawa, Japan, July 9, 1925" breathe a sigh of relief, the memory of Mr Miyagi was what was necessary to calm you down, it was incredible how the legacy of a person could continue helping you like 15 years after his death
on the benches sam asked his father
"Why didn't you tell me that the ally of your enemies at school knew so much about Mr Miyagi?"
"You can't know anything about everything, Larusso, that's why you have to trust."
Dad and daughter looked at the blonde man in surprise.
"it's strange that it comes from you Johnny"
"sometimes I'm a deep guy"
"Very sometimes," commented the girl, father and daughter laughing, he just rolled his eyes and focused on his friend.
"Did the United States come to war?
"Not for love, and to avoid a fight"
"Brave guy" commented one of them
"It really was, he defied family traditions for love, when he saw that it was not possible for him to make a change, he ran away but he didn't just challenge the system of a family, maybe if anyone fought with his cousin for love, a love that would last 5 months ,a lot"
âA man without flaws for you as I understand itâ
âHe had defects like every human being, he had no problem recognizing them, and talking about how these had affected him, he was a very human man. Not only did he teach his students, all of us, even those of us who did not practice Karate, could learn from him.â
âWell, you will forgive me for finishing the old sensei's part, What a student with Mr. Lawrenceâ
âYes sir, that's how it wasâ
âAnd he, at the same time, was a student at Mr. Kreese's dojo?â Johnny, Kreese and you confirmed, you became a little more alert.
"And as I understand it, Mr. Lawrence reopened the Cobra Kai dojo, and hired Mr. Kreese, therefore the teachings with which you learned, the boys are also practicing"
âThat is his honor, but Mr. Kreese and I no longer work together, I have a separate dojo.â
âOkay, but Mrs. Y/N, by accusing Mr. Kreese, wouldn't you also be accusing Mr. Lawrence, since they were both teaching the same thing, separately and together?âagain fear, fear of making a mistake and harming the kids, fear that your attempt was not enough... but here you were, no one forced you to stop, no one forced you to get involved in the life of your brother and his friends, you chose it and you would hold it You rushed to answer.
"Although technically they teach the same thing, their methods and the purpose of their teaching are different, Mr. Kreese believes that all his students should only worry about themselves, betrayal, dishonesty, and violence do not matter as long as they achieve their goals, they work hard to be the best, but once they achieve it they become damn egomaniacs, and no one can condemn them for that, Mr. Lawrence also teaches hard work, and egocentrism but without destroying everything around them. They are always with guard up, enough to doubt but not to trust, and Mr. Larusso's Miyagi do, in case you wanted to ask me, teach you how to defend yourself, they don't attack first but that doesn't mean they are going to let themselves be trampled, they seek to connect with the sport and Show the best qualities and attitudes all the timeâ
âIf everything you say is true, why did the students of both dojos fight to the death?â You sighed, not even those children could explain it, and now you were going to play psychologist.
âWell, they are still children, and just because they have good principles doesn't mean that they are going to apply them all the time, I don't think it's their teachers' fault, but it's not all their fault either, in a way, we adults get carried away by our own ideas. emotions (As you could see here) with more reason a group of teenagers, and let's be honest sir, how many of us would not have taken a situation like that to the extreme if we had the chance to do so" It was a bad argument, you noticed it before the murmur of everyone, another Maybe your heart was beating slowly, almost on the verge of stopping 'Were you going to die in front of everyone?'
âGod, I think She's ruining it.â
âWhat does it matter if she did it? By the damn God you said, she's been talking for almost 45 minutes to fix our butts, not even we could stand properly in 5 minutes, Larusso, you should be more grateful!!â
âCouldn't it be that by having a rivalry between both dojos, they influenced their students to hate each other? And if so, how could you continue defending them?
âRivalry exists, in all teams, groups, places, especially in sports, and we see the same questionable acts that we are analyzing today, why not suspend football due to the disturbances it generates? Why not eliminate from television teen movies that in some way romanticize family problems, mental illnesses, toxic friendships and relationships? Because it is an unstoppable global phenomenon, right? And given that, there is no need to raise awareness among the population. Well, in karate, exactly the same thing happens, the students took everything too far, but that's not why their senseis rule them out of the sport and their lives. They seek to teach them that everything is in its proper place, the sport when it is time to train and share, the teachings at any time in life, and the use of karate only when there is a threat, but in a responsible, calm and conscious manner, if they take away "the possibility of competing, both children and their teachers will not be able to correct their mistakes, and how will they learn the consequences of their mistakes"
âAnything else to say?â one of the members asked tiredly.
âThat's all, thank you for allowing me to speakâ Surprisingly, people applauded you, Miguel arrived just in time, he and Larruso's daughter gave their version and all valley not Should be suspended, you left quietly, you managed to reach your car but obviously you had company
âYou arrive without saying hello, and you leave without saying goodbye, you never heard of manners right y/n?â Before you could answer the guy hugged you tightly and even spun you around, it was fun like old times, you slapped him playfully.
âGet off Johnny Lawrence, we are no longer children, we have just come out of a 'trial', those effusiveness are not appropriate, it would be good for you to learn from Daniel Larusso, always boringly stoic.â
âThank you for being here and cleaning up my mess y/n like I was one of your cobras, even after how badly I treated you, and I'm sorry Saying you couldn't talk about Mr Miyagi, it seems like you knew him better than me."He smiled at you, but you didn't let yourself be convinced so quickly, looking at Johnny you said
âHe can say positive things and ask for forgiveness, did you throw him out of Banquet Coors?â
âVery funny, I don't only open my heart when I'm high.â
âAre you on drugs, Larruso?â They asked at the same time curious like little children
âYou know I'm trying to say thatâŚâ
âYes, yes Larusso understood what you wanted to tell me half an hour ago, it's just fun to make fun of your zero sense of humor, but hey, everything's fine, the past was already run over a long time agoâ You extended your hand to him, he rolled his eyes smiling and shook it. That's when the children arrived
âHi, I'm Sam, I just wanted to say thank you very much for your help, that testimony was great, destroy you allâ she hugged you, and for a few seconds your arms were hanging, until you were strong enough to hug her, you knew the chaos that had generated, but hadn't you said for 5 minutes in court that they were just children? You definitely understood why Miguel and Robby were crazy about her. She was as pretty as an angel, As cute as a cat, and with the voice of a 12-year-old girl, but you felt that same itch on your shoulder that you had when you saw her father for the first time. time, it was definitely better to have her as a stranger than as an ally or enemy
âNo problem, Dear,â you stroked her hair, âyou look a lot like her father.â They both smiled, it might have seemed like a compliment, but it wasn't, you knew chaos generators when you saw them, and that was in their genes.
âMiss Y/N, nice to see you again, thank you for the help.â
âOh hello Miguel, nice to haveâ gave each other a hug
âHey, do you have something you're doing right now?â Daniel asked.
âIf in fact, they're expecting me at a baby shower right now, I'm supposed to be in charge.â
âOh, I'm sorry to delay you, maybe one day you can stop by my house or the dojo.â
âSure, I'll just change the schedule of the workers who build the ball pit for my daughter, and I'll be there any day.â You got into the car, winked and before Johnny couldn't say anything.
âWait a minute she doesnât have kids.â
âShe could have a knife full of blood and a corpse next to her, and she would still make you doubt for 2 minutes whether or not she had something to do with it, she never doubts what she says... I guess that makes her so smart.
Well maybe you were smart enough to fool 𪤠2 old men who couldn't get over the events of 3 decades ago, but not smart enough to believe that you could just leave the place where you had exposed John Kreese for the rot that he was, without running into him. before reaching the parking lot.
You were walking fast as fast as the blood was burning your body, your vision was a little blurry and you could bet that you would throw up as soon as you touched the car door...if you were lucky, feeling dying, the malboro of the man standing where you were passing was not felt, but you felt a familiar chill that turned your blood into icy clots, you were not willing to stop, but obviously his voice did.
âSo you spoke...as you could see, I swore you was muteâ he approached, standing behind you, he spat his smoke on your Nape and it got all over your face âor retardedâ
âWell today you could see that I am none of those things.â Your eyes threatened to leave their sockets, and you cursed yourself for never thinking before speaking, Maybe you were finally going to die.
"It's neither of those two things, but it's something much worse... it's a witness" chills again you couldn't help but shudder, he enjoyed that he had the power at that moment you knew how dangerous a psychopath with power could be " A rather brave witness, I must admit, the first person to speak against me in court, and in general, the first woman... Maybe I underestimate them a little... Please look me in the eyes when I speakâ the return, a lump in your dry and choked throat, your eyes struggling to carry your tears, yes, the guy had control
âa cowardly brave witness, but... regardless of their qualities, witnesses are still witnesses, the only ones who have true control, because they can or cannot participate in the events, but they look, they look at everything, some hidden in a perfect hiding like you, it doesn't matter if they decide to speak or not, the only thing that matters is that they know, and perhaps a little mouse is less dangerous than a rat, not for me, the people who know are the first to fall, to be set on fire as evidence Are you afraid of fire? Gasoline? to harm your family? or to weapons?â a loud silence from you, but the guy wasn't blind, and your chest was rising and falling faster than a roller coaster, he laughed sarcastically "I thought so..."
You started making strange noises as if you were drowning, he ignored them and continued with his speech that little by little began to become mute for you, your ears covered and you stopped seeing, you closed your eyes and covered your ears but you still did.
You could see in your mind, your knees were bending and you began to think that you were going to get out of here on a stretcher, and from one moment to the next without explanation you kicked his testicles so hard that your knee was hurting.
You looked really surprised at what you had done, a old man, war veteran, who lived alone lying on the ground, you could really be a monster, but you were not going to apologize or give in, An inexplicable disgust covered your chest, and turned your hands red
âThis is for Johnny and for every cobra of every generation that I knew, know and have not known,And for the people they hurt ...And for Daniel Larusso...I hope he lives long enough for life up yours what deserves.
He didn't say anything, you just saw his pain, a silence from both of you, you looked at him for the last time, he didn't look at you, you continued on your way.
â˘Again it didn't feel good, the plug in your chest grew and grew, your hands redder, your face itched, your knee felt bleeding inside and your soul felt miserable, more than it had ever felt or could have felt. *for Johnny's trauma, for forcing Bobby, for Tommy's death, for Dutch's criminal life and for recruiting your brother into his ranks, for Miguel's temporary paralysis, and the prison for Robby, the fight in school* you repeated yourself but it was useless, it didn't give you a feeling of rest but rather a tangle of anguish in your stomach, it didn't matter if you died today, the day after or tomorrow because you were already dead in life,
and Lawrence and Larusso were never going to find out what happened before they caught up with you in the parking lot.
-From season 3 in Forward-
â˘You continue to maintain yourself in the following seasons, it's just that you took a break from solving other people's problems, you're just out there
â˘Johnny hasn't told you yet but you will be the godmother of his baby with Carmen (You have a bet in which you defend with blood that it will be a girl)
