Disclaimer:

I do not own any of the Karate Kid franchise. Neither goes for the characters of Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, or any of the mentioned Cobra Kai members, or any other mentioned characters. This fanfiction plot is all mine.

AN: I want to be specific: the last time the Cobra Kais picked on Daniel (the gang-up mentioned in first chapter) was when Johnny demanded Daniel to stay away from Ali, which will be significant in this chapter.

Chapter Three: The Interesting Encounter

DANIEL LARUSSO POV

It was the next day, and I was back in my history class, but this time, I was on edge instead of perpetually bored. It was today that I had to present my interview results as an oral report as well as returning Mr. Harris the question sheet back so he could make a comparison with the oral report with the answers provided.

After Freddy Fernandez finished giving his oral report with "Jerry reckons that he wants to be a fire-fighter one day." The class clapped politely, some tediously.

Mr. Harris looked down at his attendance list and randomly chose the next pair. "Mr. LaRusso come up and give your oral report. Mr Lawrence, you're going next." The teacher warned the rich, sneering blonde boy across the room from me.

After giving Mr. Harris the question sheet back, I stood in front of the class. Suddenly, I was overcome with a hot flash, and slight light-headiness and my breathing sped up. I absolutely hated public speaking, but I closed my eyes and ignored everything, calming myself down. Once I opened his eyes, I began "My subject of interview was Johnny Lawrence. I discovered that Johnny's favourite ice-cream was chocolate, his best-friends in the world are Bobby and Dutch, his hero is Joe Lewis the kick boxer and his favourite subject in school is autoshop..." As I nervously rambled on with the answers from the question sheet, I couldn't resist glancing in Johnny's direction to check upon his reaction, but his expression was blank, giving no measure to what my archenemy was thinking or feeling.

Once I finished, the class applauded with the exception of Johnny and the Cobra Kais. Mr Harris said "Thank you, Mr. LaRusso. Now, Mr Lawrence, it is your turn for your oral report."

Johnny got up from his desk and stalked over towards me and the history teacher. As I headed towards my desk, my arm accidentally brushed with Johnny's as we passed each other and I flinched. Johnny just gave me a pinning short glare as he swung past me. After Johnny presented Mr. Harris with a crumpled question sheet, the rich blonde-haired teen stood in front of the class, and began in a dismissive, bored tone "LaRusso was my subject of interview. I discovered the twerp's favourite ice-cream is boring vanilla, Uncle Louie is his favourite relative, his worst subject is geometry, his favourite book is Lord of the Flies by William Golding and his favourite animal is a German Shepherd..." Johnny rattled off my answers while subtly insulting me at the same time. I sighed and slouched down in my seat, resigning to the fact that Johnny Lawrence still would inflict any form of torture on me whether if it was his fists or psychologically abuse me with his subtle insulting words with sadistic pleasure.

When Johnny finished and the class burst into raucous applause and I watched Johnny bask in the admiring applause with a triumphant smile upon his face, I had the urge to punch his face yet again, but realised he'd catch the punch and punish me doubly worse. I snapped out of my gloomy thoughts as the bell rang for lunch, which threw the room into chaos, with students scraping chairs back, with few clattering to the floor, and students jostling their way out of the room. I stayed where I was as the room quickly cleared out, then slowly stood up and patiently packed my books and pencil case into my blue backpack and zipped it up, swung it over my shoulder and headed out of the classroom. As I exited the room, I found Ali waiting for me. Surprised, I took a step back, but a pleased smile found the way upon my face.

Ali said "Daniel you did a great job today!" she smiled her gorgeous smile at me, tilting her head flirtiously. I instantly caught sight of Johnny leaning against his locker, his hateful glare drilling into me and my smile faded. I quickly made up a lame excuse to Ali and fled towards the Men's'. I needed to think. I had to decide Ali was worth being continually beaten up and suffering Johnny's mercurial rage and jealousy.

I entered a cubicle and locked the door, put down the toilet lid and sat down. I buried my hands in my head and bemoaned to myself "What have you gotten yourself into LaRusso?" Daniel tried to sort out his chaotic thoughts, but a vicious kick at his cubicle's door cut his thoughts off. He instantly knew that kick was from Johnny.

"Come out, twerp!" Johnny angrily demanded for me to come out. I hesitantly thought of staying here, but Johnny knew what I was thinking, snarled out "Get out here, or I'll get the boys." I closed my eyes and groaned.

"Okay. Okay. I'm coming out." I appeased my archenemy. Once I exited, Johnny was already on me, grabbing at my shirt and slamming my back against the wall behind me. I groaned in excruciating pain as the wall hit the exact bruise on his back from yesterday's locker slam. I stumbled, but the force of Johnny's physical strength had held me up. I was forced to stare into Johnny's mercurial blue eyes, as he demanded me "What the hell did I tell you the last time?" I hesitantly stilled unsure what he was on about, but Johnny, impatient for an answer from me, slammed me against the wall again. I groaned again, and then simultaneously realising the answer as I quickly said "Okay! Okay! You told me to stay away from Ali."

"Bingo, LaRusso." Johnny said triumphantly yet still furious.

At that exact time, the door opened and a bespectacled nerdy freshman entered and froze on the spot at the sight of the two boys there, and Johnny's dominating position in front of me.

"Get the hell out!" Johnny snarled. Daniel winced at both the magnitude of Johnny's rage and the freshman's predicament. The freshman nervously squeaked then obeyed the blonde-haired teen's demand and scrammed, the door slamming behind his exit.

With no distractions, Johnny focused back on me, it dawned upon me that he had his fists still in my shirt the whole exchange. I shifted uneasily, but the fists had tightened even further. I shook my head, focusing back upon the subject of the heated discussion we were having before the freshman interrupted. I retorted, "It wasn't my fault. She approached me, not the other way around."

Johnny snarled.

Oops. It was the wrong thing to say.

"Goddamit, LaRusso!" he shouted. I flinched. I was praying that that freshman had gone and told a teacher or anybody outside would hear Johnny's temper tantrum and would come and investigate. But then I realised it would not turn out a positive situation if a teacher tried to intervene. Obviously, nothing would come in between the subject of the fury or the furious person. I realised instantly it was up to me to try to placate Johnny before the situation became even more disastrous.

"Okay, maybe I shouldn't have intervened when you were talking to Ali that day at the beach. But I was just being a concerned citizen-"

"Just shut up LaRusso!" Johnny spun and kicked one of the cubicle doors again. Rage influencing his motions grabbed my face in his hands and roughly kissed me. I struggled, trying to push him away, but his captive hold tightened, his kiss once spurred by anger changed to hard yet passionate.

My struggles quieted as I sank into the kiss we shared, my own hands wreathing in Johnny's hair, holding him closer. As the kiss went on and increased in potency, the two of us could not get enough of each other.

Suddenly, I was shoved away against the wall. Johnny spun and stomped out, slamming the door on his way out.

Confused and dazed, I slid down the wall, staring at the closed door.