I am interested in getting a beta reader or two for this story - if you are interested, please send me a PM through the site. This story will also mention Johnny, Tommy, Bobby, Dutch, Jimmy, Kumiko and Yukie - it's just a matter of working out how they will all fit in. So, for the sake of this story, pretend The Karate Kid Part III doesn't exist, apart from the part when Daniel is on the phone to his mother and mentions that Kumiko got a job at a dance school in Tokyo.

As he got out of the taxi and waited for Mr Miyagi to pay the driver the fare, Daniel LaRusso looked around him and realised that they were at the International Arrivals terminal of the airport.

He had been surprised when Mr Miyagi had told him literally minutes before the taxi had arrived that they were going to the airport but he didn't ask who they were there to meet and Mr Miyagi didn't say anything about who they were meeting either. It hadn't occurred to ask him. He reasoned that perhaps it was a way for him to get out of the house for a few hours as he was now inclined to spend a lot of his time moping, spending time by himself, keeping himself out of trouble.

Sure, he was still training for the tournament but that was still a few months away and it would be interesting to see if any of the Cobra Kais would be there, seeing that they had imploded after the tournament that Daniel had won. After Kreese's attack on Johnny for finishing in a position that wasn't first, they had all chucked the Cobra Kai dojo in. They hadn't treated Daniel badly since the tournament and would frequently say hi to him if their paths happened to cross. They would also give Daniel a few pointers on the odd occasion also. They were all at a new dojo - one where the sensei wasn't as ruthless as Kreese - but he knew that it would take them some time to get rid of the mentality that Kreese had installed in all of them. They would get there. They just needed the right teacher and it wasn't Kreese.

Daniel heard the taxi pull away from the kerb behind him and felt, rather than heard, Mr Miyagi move to stand by his side.

"Come, Daniel-san. Hopefully, no wait too long."

Daniel shoved his hands into the front pockets of his jeans and grunted a little as he followed Mr Miyagi into the crowded arrival terminal, finding himself dodging people at the last minute who simply decided to stop where they were standing. That wasn't doing his mood any good. He saw Mr Miyagi look up at the arrivals board and smile somewhat when he saw something on it that he liked the look of. There were numerous flights listed on that board and they could've been there to meet someone off any one of them. Some of the flights had a "Landed" status, others had "Processing" and others simply stated when the flight was due to land or if the landing time originally stated had been changed.

Daniel found himself watching various of groups of people who were there to do what he and Mr Miyagi were doing. Once they found who they were waiting for, their faces all lit up and they jumped up and down in excitement, hands waving every which way. He was wondering if he would be doing that. He hoped he would but of course, it depended on who they were meeting.

Daniel turned to look at Mr Miyagi and saw the slight smile on his face. The more he looked at his mentor, the more Daniel realised that he knew precisely who they were there to meet, he himself didn't know and that Mr Miyagi was intending for this to be a surprise for him. It was something that he should've seen coming but he hadn't because he had been caught up in his own little world, content to while his days away without really doing anything worthwhile.

The next thing was how long did they have to wait for Daniel to see who they were there to meet?