Ichigo Ichie (a karate kid 2 fanfic)

Chapter 3: airborne

Victoria stepped into the apartment, her mother in the kitchen.

"Mom I'm so glad to see you, but couldIgoonatripwithMrMiyagitoOkinawatoseehissickdad?" Victoria asked speeding through her words

"What?" Sarah was flabbergasted by her daughter's request

"Please mom, I won't say anything else to Steven if you let me." She begged

"First of all you shouldn't say what you say to him and second no Steven was going to take us somewhere tomorrow." Sarah turned around

Victoria face fell, "now you're trying to be my mom?"

Sarah faced her daughter, "what?"

"You were never there when I was young, you missed my Karate tournament which I won last year but you meet a new guy and now you're trying to play the perfect mom!" Victoria yelled

Sarah looking dumbfounded at her daughter not knowing where this sudden outburst came from.

"You always think a new guy is going to fix everything but you always pick loser. I thought you would've stopped at dad!" Victoria face contorted with anger as tears threatened her eyes.

"I'm doing the best I can for you. I don't have a choice Victoria." Sarah answered somberly

"Maybe you don't but I do, you want what's best for me? Let me explore the world cause if not like you said I'm going to end up bitter and alone." Victoria voice was soft

Sarah nodded and walked up to her daughter pulling her into a hug. Victoria squeezed her back.

"I'm sorry for not being at the tournament." She apologized

Victoria replied. "Thank you."

The two girls pulled away and Victoria hurried down the hallway and to her room grabbing a backpack and stuffing it full of what she needed.

••••

"Final boarding call" the woman said into the microphone

Mr. Miyagi walked down the hallway towards the plane. He was sad he didn't get to say goodbye to Victoria and Daniel but he had to see his father.

"Hello." The stewardess said to him

"Good evening." Mr. Miyagi said back

"You will be in seat 32-B." She handed his ticket back to him. "Enjoy the flight"

"Hey, Mr. Miyagi!" Daniel called

"Wait up." Victoria said as well

The old man looked back at where he came from seeing Daniel and Victoria running towards him. Victoria held a huge smile.

"Wait up! I'm coming with you! My mother said it's okay." Daniel smiled. "I mean if it's okay with you."

Mr. Miyagi looked at the girl, "I've always wanted to go to Japan so I took my chances, mom let me go."

"Very expensive tickets." He replied

"Well, no, no, no. I got the money out of my savings account. It's all taken care of." Daniel answered

Victoria's eyes went wide, "but that's your college savings Daniel."

"So I'll get a job when we get back, and I'll go six months late. It really doesn't make a difference when I go." Daniel responded