Yo! Your favorite snowy owl again!

Now, I know what you're thinking: "What's this? You're already writing two KFP stories and you make another one?" Well, allow me to explain you what's this story's nature.

While my New Legend Reboot Saga remains my most successful story franchise on this site, I received a lot of criticism for many things:

-First, some of my characters are undeveloped as I didn't showed enough of their stories or moments to develop their personalities and characters

-Second, some of my relationships aren,t very sensed as I tend to make them forced and not natural. A perfect example of this is Koji and Suya's love relationship. I actually forced them into love instead of developing it.

-Third, I don't really make good use of my secondary characters. I'm so focused on my main characters like the New Legend that the others end up being nothing more than cool undeveloped background characters. Good examples includes: the Elemental Five, Imperial Ten, or even Master Yoshi.

-Finally, my vilains are too cartoonish. Whenever I create a vilain, it seems to only be for the purpose of them being evil and giving my good guys someone to fight. In the end, my vilains might look cool, but they are not interesting with the best vilains I created being Xie Zhen and Kaiba.

So, this story serves to show flashbacks of my characters to help develop their characters and explain some details, give a chance to develop my secondary and background characters, and also write story arcs I judge to not be important enough to include in my main stories. That doesn't mean they won't leave an impact though.

We will start this with a little KojixSuya short story as, like I mentioned earlier, I made their relation a bit forced. Enjoy ;)

A few years after following Master Yoshi to his dojo and starting Kung Fu, the group who will latter be known as the New Legend were now full grown-up teenagers and mastered Kung Fu on a good level.

For today, Suya was training to dodge arrows shot by automatic crossbows across the room by flying while also being tasked with saving a training mannequin from a small fire. Her body had matured and she recently changed her old vest from her village for her trademark black top and shorts which made it easier to fight at the cost of also getting unwanted attention from the boys.

"Crap!"

She failed yet another time to save the mannequin which got consumed by the flames and also made the automatic crossbows stop shooting. She sighed as she flew back down and looked down at her failure. Again. Not matter how hard she tried, this trial was too hard for her. She truly couldn't do it.

"I win!"

Turning her head, she saw that to the other side of the room, her friend Koji got knocked down on the ground with a foot trace on his chest. Another student - an ox - was laughing as he clearly defeated him.

"No matter! Let's do it again!" Koji said with determination as he kicked up and got back in his fighting stance.

"And why? You really enjoy to get your butt kicked that much?"

"No; it's because I'm determined to prove to you and all the other students in this dojo that I'm not a failure like you all think and that I can be a great warrior!"

The ox let out a big laugh which was shared by some other students around. "You? A great warrior? While you're unable to produce the slightest bit of Chi and have so much difficulty learning a Kung Fu style that you ended up making your own? Don't make me laugh!"

"We'll see if you still laugh after a knock your teeth outta your mouth!" Koji angrily said and dashed for another attack.

Suya couldn't help but smile at Koji's determination. Ever since arriving at the dojo, he's been taking on every trials and challenges he could find in here and always managed to overcome them. After tens of times of trying, of course, as he failed time and time again. But that only made him more remarkable for his determination and unbreakable will.

Suya wished she had the same as him...

Later on, after the training was over, the students were allowed some free time before going to bed. Koji decided to take a little bath in the boys' bathroom which was located right next to the girls' one. As he splashed water over his exoskeleton to clean it, he heard footstep in the hallway heading toward his position.

"Huh? Who's there?" he asked.

"Oh! Hum, i-it's just me, Koji," Suya shyly said.

"Suya? What are you doing here?"

"I-I couldn't get to sleep, so I decided to take a little bath before going to bed," she explained and went into the girls' bathroom, removed her clothes, filled the tub with warm water and lounged into it to relax.

For the next minutes, the bird and bug just remained silent as they cleaned themselves and relaxed into the warm water. That was until Suya decided to start a conversation:

"So, you did well at the training today?"

"Oh yes!" Koji declared with sudden excitation. "Amex tried to make a fool outta me by defeating me in sparring matches, but I definitely kicked his butt!"

Suya giggled a bit. "You're sure? I saw your matches and it seems like he actually left you a few marks."

Koji's enthusiasm dropped a bit and he rubbed the side of his head. "Huh... Yeah, but I still knocked him down after three tryings. A victory's a victory. Speaking of which, Toka did a lot of progress too; Master Yoshi thinks he will make a lot of advancements in the Tiger Style of Kung Fu for the next weeks. Neyo is also progressing well; apparently, he fights with his quills like no one has ever done before. As for Alena, well I don't really know 'cause she never wants to talk to me. But I'm sure she's getting good too. Master Yoshi sees her as the strongest of the dojo at the moment."

Koji stopped as he heard a strange noise from Suya's side. Like...sobbing?

"Suya? A-Are you crying?"

Indeed, the young snowy owl had tears flowing out of her eyes, trembling in her bath.

"I-I'm sorry, Koji... I-It's just..." She marked a pause to sob and whip her tears which immediately got replaced by another flow. "Sometimes...I feel like I don't belong here... You and toka and Alena and Neyo, you all have a place here because you are great warriors... Toka and Alena are naturally gifted fighters, Neyo the smartest guy I've ever seen, and you have an unbreakable will and never give up against anything... But what do I have? Nothing! I can't even save a simple mannequin from fire..."

Koji, who has been trembling during her whole speech, suddenly had enough and jumped up and out of his bath, ran out of the boys' bathroom completely naked to the girls' one and caught Suya from behind in a hug. She widened her eyes in surprise as she felt his warm exoskeleton against her back and his little arms wrapped around her waist.

"K-Koji..."

"Don't say that, Suya..." he softly mumbled behind her as his head was resting against her soft, fluffy back. "You might not be the strongest, smartest, or even most gifted one of this dojo, but there's one thing I know; you're my friend and an incredible person. When we met at Toka's village, I though you were a soft girl who couldn't hurt a fly to save her life, but when we faced this gorilla, you did not hesitate to charge into danger to protect everyone. So one thing's for sure; you're the bravest of all of us. Your bravery is as strong as is my determination. And if your dream is to get this Pearl of Hope from your village, then I don't even doubt for a second that you'll get it."

Those words... They felt warmer to Suya than the warmest of bath she ever took. Right now, all the sorrow and fear in her heart got kicked away by those soft words Koji just told her. A gentle smile formed on her beak.

"Thank you, Koji. This means a lot-" She stopped as she realized Koji turned around and quickly ran back to the boys' bathroom before she could turn around. "Koji?"

"Sorry, but I don't want to start nose-bleeding again," he called from the other bathroom.

This made Suya giggled as she forgot that Koji would always start nose-bleeding upon seeing a naked girl. Specially a beautiful one like her.

"Still, thank you, Koji..."

I hope you enjoyed this short story as I will make more to explore Koji and Suya's relationship.

Also to let you know that I accept all suggestions in reviews or PM for side stories and flashbacks you'd like as well as which character you think I should put in the spotlight or even plot-holes you'd like me to explain.