Daniel LaRusso moves from Newark, New Jersey to Reseda, California with his mother, just as he is starting his senior year on High School. He struggles to fit into the new invironment, and soon get on bad terms with a group of karate students. Johnny Lawrence is the tall, blonde leader of the gang, star pupil of the Cobra Kai dojo and also Daniel's mortal enemy. However, anything can happen when you are stuck alone in detention with the boy you are supposed to hate...

Johnny Lawrence hates Daniel LaRusso's guts or... perhaps he wants him to rearrange his guts. Johnny has fallen for the dark brown-eyed handsome boy, but he'll be damned if LaRusso finds out so in order to mask his puppy love feelings he instead beats the shit out of LaRusso because then surely no one will suspect a thing.... That is until Johnny's guard starts falling and trying to convince himself and everyone else that he hates Daniel he begins to waver. This is set in 1984!