A/N: Thank you for a favorite and a review! This story will hopefully come out quicker than my others, since it's such a blast to write. Also even though I liked the third, this fic takes place instead of the third. But, you will see some familiar faces from the third movie in here!

I still don't own Karate Kid, though I would really like to.

Enjoy!

Chapter 1 Daniel

"Hey Mr. Miyagi I got the mail," Daniel said as he walked into the room.

Miyagi looked up from his bonsai he was trimming at his student. He simply nodded a response and continued working on the baby tree as Daniel-san calls it.

"Alright here's your mail," Daniel continued setting down Miyagi's, "And this is mine."

The boy had one envelope in his hand. Daniel-san sat down next to him and began to read his mail. Miyagi watched his student's expression change.

"Who's it from?" Miyagi asked.

"Kumiko," Daniel replied as he set down the letter, "She wants to thank me for convincing her to go dance school."

Miyagi nodded. He understood completely. Though Daniel-san really liked Kumiko, he couldn't let her pass up an opportunity of like that.

"There goes another girlfriend," Daniel said sadly.

"Plenty fish in the sea," Miyagi added.

"I had a feeling you were going to say that," Daniel said crossly.

He got up and began to pace.

"I mean my sea already lost two fish, that's not making me very confident!" he said exasperatedly throwing up his arms.

"Right girl will come, be patient."

Daniel stopped and thought for a moment.

"Yeah I guess your right," he said sitting back down, "I just hope she doesn't take her sweet time getting here."

Miyagi chuckled at his student. The boy sure had a lot to learn.

"Hey Mr. Miyagi I totally forgot," Daniel said suddenly excited, "You wouldn't believe what I found!"

He rummaged through his jacket until he pulled out a magazine. Daniel quickly flipped to the back cover and excitedly showed it to his teacher. It was an advertisement for a karate tournament for karate champions.

"I figured since I won't be defending my title this will be a better substitute," he said hopefully.

Miyagi studied the ad before shaking his head disapprovingly.

"Daniel-san already won tournament no need to fight," he told him.

Daniel frowned,"Come on Mr. Miyagi I like karate, I don't want to lose what I learned."

Miyagi merely nodded. Daniel taking that as a no, groaned loudly and started to storm off to his room.

"Daniel-san," Miyagi calmly ordered.

"What?" came Daniel's usual annoyed reply.

"We'll see about tournament."

"Oh thank you you won't regret it!" Daniel shouted racing back to him.

xXXx

It had been two weeks since Daniel brought up the tournament and the two of them had laid the matter to rest. But the moment he woke, Miyagi knew something was off. The house was unusually quiet. Of course it was normally quiet in the morning since he was usually the first to wake and Daniel slept in. But Miyagi had a feeling that he would not find a sleeping teenager in his bed.

"Daniel-san," he called outside of his young charge's door.

There was no answer.

"Daniel-san," he called again.

Again no answer. Miyagi opened the door and his premonition was correct. Daniel's bed was empty! He walked to the front door and gazed out, the teenager's car was missing too. Miyagi knew this could mean only one thing. He quickly returned to Daniel's bedroom and sure enough found what he was looking for. A note sat on Daniel's bed.

Miyagi picked up the note. It read:

Dear Mr. Miyagi,
Sorry about leaving so abruptly without any word but this note. I had to do it though! I really enjoy karate and don't want to lose what I've learned. I'll be back as soon as the tournament is over or if I lose a match. That is if I'm still welcome. Once again I'm sorry and if I'm still welcome I'll be willing to take any punishment you have in store for me.
Love, Daniel

Miyagi shook his head in disapproval.

"Daniel-san what have you done?" Miyagi whispered to himself.

A/N: I hope the first chapter was to your liking and I'll see you soon. R&R please!