Can't Have Both

Denial? No. Anger? Yes.

Tory stormed out of the Miyagi Do backyard crying. All she wanted was to fight. She needed to do this, for her mom. She had spent all this time taking care of her mom, getting her medication, suffering, all for the doctors to miss a pulmonary embolism. They had one job. Tory knew her mom was dead. She had spent the day crying in denial. With her brother away she didn't have a distraction. She had tried. She really did. She needed to fight but Daniel Larusso had to have it his way. He couldn't let her have this. He had to protect little miss Larusso.

Tory finally made it to her destination after driving for 10 minutes. She walked and ignored the fact that it looked abandoned and people were staring at her.

She entered and sure enough John Kreese was standing inside the old Cobra Kai dojo.

" What's the plan sensei?" She asked, her eyes bloodshot from crying. Kreese smiled and nodded.

" Why, we win of course." He replied. " No one can beat us with my champion, the queen cobra back in line." He took Tory and told her, " Pack your bags. Because starting today we train to win the Sekai Tekai. "

" Yes Sensei." She replied. No way in hell was she letting Larusso and the others win. Not with the way they treated her.

The next days she trained. She earned the spot as captain for Cobra Kai. She got calls from others, condolence gifts, and other things she never asked for.

But there was one complication that had kept her on edge. Something she had been dreading and as she faced the others in Barcelona, Spain, she finally realized.

If she wanted to win the Sekai Tekai she would have to give up Robby Keene. And that was going to be very hard.

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Robby Keene had called Tory. They were supposed to be practicing for the captain spot, but Tory wasn't answering. He wasn't that worried and figured she was practicing by herself. When she showed up at the sparing deck for his fight with Miguel, he remembered there promise.

" No matter what, we stick together, and we win the Sekai Tekai. " Robby kept playing that over and over in his head as he looked at Miguel, he had a passion to make that promise come true.

" And.... Fight!" Sensei Larusso said.

Miguel and Robby slowly circled each other, and then Miguel struck and Robby landed a point on him.

" Point Keene." Larusso said. Miguel and Robby faced each other and Robby tied points.

" Miguel," Sam said as he looked to her. " Whatever happens, it'll be fine. Ok?" She said.

" No. " He replied shortly. " I need this." and went back to Robby. They faced each other, bowed, and Daniel shouted " Fight! "

They circled each other, and they kept throwing punches. They fell to the floor and tackled each other.

Robby won.

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Tory entered Miyagi Do. She needed to win. For her mom. She owed that to her. Devon immediately saw her and told her what she missed.

" You ok? " She asked with concern in her eyes.

" Fine." Tory replied. Not looking at her.

" Hey, " Mrs. Larusso said,  " Break a leg. Not literally!" She said, hoping the girl didn't take it to heart. 

" I meant..."  But Tory had already went up. Before Tory even knew it Sam had landed a point. Tory wasn't thinking clearly. All she knew was she needed this win and Sam wouldn't make it easy. 

They circled each other and Tory got a point on Sam.

" Point Nichols! " Johnny shouted, but Tory wasn't done. She kicked Sam as hard as she could before they could stop her. Tory looked fierce. 

" Hey, Ref! That's a little overkill. That should be no point." Daniel said. But Johnny shrugged it off. Then again Sam earned a point. 

At this point Amanda got a call and as the girls were fighting turned to Daniel terrified and said, 

" We have to end the fight. " The look in her eyes told him it was bad. 

Tory was about to strike Sam in the face and the looked in her eyes scared Sam. Before she could though, Daniel grabbed her hand and said, " The fights over." 

" That's not fair!" Tory breathed. " That could have been a point." 

Johnny was butting in and told him he was the ref and Daniel insisted on ending the fight. 

" Why?" He asked. 

" BECAUSE MY MOTHER DIED!" Tory shouted. She had enough. She needed to fight and then needed to know. 

" Tory, I'm so sorry for your loss, but we have to end the fight. " 

They kept arguing with her about not fighting and in the end she realized Kreese was right about something. 

" When push comes to shove they'll always figure out a reason to keep you second fiddle to Larusso's kid. " 

" You want this fight to be over? Fine, its over. " 

" Tory where are you go-" "I'm DONE! " She shouted and marched off. 

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Standing in front of all of them for the Sekai Tekai she remembered all this. All these feelings she tried to boil off. All this anger she will use to win the Sekai Tekai. But Robby could possibly be her weakness.