A/N: Hi everyone.

This is my first fanfic ever published… It took a while before I finally got the courage to post it. The beginning of the story is kind of slow, but I promise that there'll be a lot more drama, mystery, romance and excitement in the chapters to come.

A little warning though, this story is rated T for a reason…

Disclaimer: I do not own Kickin it.

Chapter1.

Celebration

I dodged at the last second, making my opponent lose his balance as his too forceful kick hit the mid air. I saw my chance and threw a low kick, swiping him of his feet. He hit the mat hard. The crowd went wild as the judge declared me as the winner.

I grew a huge smile, exhausted but satisfied, as my friends threw themselves at me, almost tackling me to the floor.

"You did it, Jack!" Rudy's voice came out in a high shriek.

"Of course he did. He's Jack!" Eddie said. His confidence in me was pretty big." No one stands a chance against him."

"Yeah, that's right." I said cockily, even though I had had quite a hard time taking down this last guy. I actually thought at more than one point that I would lose the match, but of course I would never admit something like that to the rest of the guys.

"You were awesome." A tall and skinny boy, better known as Milton said.

"Yeah, I know, but thanks anyway." Jerry said with confidence.

"I wasn't talking about you, you moron."

Jerry just shrugged casually, ignoring Milton's last words. To be honest with you I don't think Jerry paid enough attention to what was going on at the moment…or at any moment actually. Anyhow…The feelings of pride and joy were rushing through me as I received all the attention. As usual after I win a match (yeah, that's right. It has happened quite a few times before…) I felt as if I was at the top of the world. An astonishing feeling, really. I didn't think that I could get any happier until a certain blond flung herself at me.

"You were great, Jack." She said as she squeezed me into a hug. I hugged her back, a warm feeling spread through my body. Now, don't get me wrong. Kim and I are just friends, nothing more… Okay maybe a bit more... We're best friends, but that's as far as it goes.
She let go of me, looking me in the eyes. For a brief moment it felt as if the outside world faded away in the distance and all that was left was Kim's bright face smiling up at me. The moment was abruptly interrupted though, as a small boy stepped in between us.

"May I have your autograph, please?" he asked holding out a Bobby Wasabi flyer and a pen.

"No problemo, little man." Jerry stepped in pushing me aside as he snatched the flyer and the pen from the surprised boy.

"He wasn't talking to you." Kim said annoyed. Jerry was already signing it though.

"To one of my many fans, let my awesomeness guide you so that you one day may have a chance with the ladies. Yours truly Jerry. " Jerry said the words out laud as he wrote. I raised an eyebrow at him. He proudly handed the flyer back to the confused boy, before turning around heading towards a bunch of giggling girls on the other side of the room. I turned towards the boy who reached out the piece of paper to me again.

"What's your name, kid?" I asked as I took the flyer.

"Bill."

"So Bill, are you going to be a black belt?"

"Yes, I am." He answered with a bit more confidence as I wrote 'To Bill, always follow your dreams, Jack.' I handed the flyer back to him.

"There you go, bud."

"Thanks" he said as he ran of with it.

"Wow Jack, you're starting to get famous." Kim teased. "Well I deserve to be, I am pretty good." I smiled cockily. She just rolled her eyes at me.

"Excuse us," a deep voice came from behind me. I turned around, facing a tall, ginger-haired man and a just as ginger-haired girl standing next to him. She was kind of pretty as she smiled shyly when my eyes met hers.

"My daughter and I are most impressed." The man said. "You've got some talent, boy."

"Thank you."

"We were just wondering if you could take a picture with us." He smiled. "Or with my daughter actually, since I'll be the one holding the camera." The girl's face turned red.

"Sure, no problem."

The man gave his daughter a slight push as a silent suggestion for her to come up to me. She nervously kept her gaze to the floor as she moved to stand beside me. I smiled at her, in an attempt to get her to relax. It didn't work though. I put my arm around her shoulders as I smiled towards the camera. The girl tensed at my touch, but I ignored it. The flash went of blinding us for a split second.

"One more. You blinked Tess." The man said.

In the corner of my eye I could see her face get even redder. If that even was possible… The bright light hit us once again.

"That will do" the man mumbled, obviously satisfied with the result of the second picture.

They thanked me before leaving. I turned around to meet the other guys' faces. They smiled at me, their eyebrows raised.

"I see you've got some admirer and a pretty one too." Rudy said. I blushed a bit in embarrassment. The guys giggled except Kim who hade a slightly annoyed look on her face. Thankfully the awkward moment was cut of as Jerry came running. Just as he was about to reach us, a shoe hit him in the back of his head, knocking him to the ground.

We quickly helped him up as a high voice was heard through the crowd. "You IDIOT!" the girl, who obviously threw the shoe (cause the one she wore matched the one that was laying on the floor next to us) screamed at him.

"Our dojo is finally getting some reputation; now let's go before that reputation turns into a bad one." Rudy said. "You guys wanna go grab a pizza, to celebrate."

"Yes, definitely, I'm starving." Eddie said. And with that we all left the dojo.

The rest of the evening went on quite harmoniously. I kept teasing Kim about me starting to get famous. Not that I really cared about the whole famous-thing, it was just fun to bug her until she hit me -hard- on my arm. Jerry kept talking about how bad the girl back at the dojo, had treated him and for no reason at all according to him. Eddie kept complaining at how small the meals were and that his cousin was coming to visit next week and of course Rudy went on planning our future as a successful dojo. Milton just handed in some good advice every now and then. With other words it was just like any other ordinary evening out with the gang…

The weekend had passed quickly with all the excitement of the tournament and on Monday morning I was pretty tired as I walked toward my locker. Kim was standing next to it waiting for me.

"Hey", she said as I approached her. "How did you do on your English essay?" I stopped dead in my tracks.

"The essay…? Right, the one about how we would live our lives in 10 years from now." I said holding up a finger for emphasis.

"You forgot, didn't you?" Kim stated the obvious.

"Kind of…" my hand fell down my side. She looked at me as if I was stupid. "It's just that I was too occupied with the tournament this weekend."

"Well, Mrs Palmer won't be too pleased." She said, but when she saw the worried look on my face she quickly added. "Lucky for you we don't have English until after lunch. So if you want I'll help you write something down at the recess, so you at least won't have to come empty-handed."

"Really? Thanks." I lit up and she gave me a smile. That was Kim; she lives to annoy me but in the end she's always there to back me up.

I opened my locker to get my stuff when a voice rang through the corridors. "Attention all students. Due to recent events, all students and teachers are to assemble in the lecture hall immediately."

"Wonder what's going on." Kim looked at me with a puzzled expression on her face.

"Their probably just heard about my outstanding performance and want to make an announcement and congratulate me to…" I was cut of by Kim punching me playfully in the ribs.

"Ouch! What was that for?" I rubbed my ribs, it hurt quit a bit.

"For being an ego-tripped jerk." Before I could say anything in my defence she was gone, heading towards the great hall. I followed trying to catch up with her.

Three familiar boys stood outside the entrance discussing.

"Relax. He's only going to stay for two weeks." Milton said trying to be reasonable, as usual.

"You don't know him. Two weeks are more than enough for him to ruin my life."

"What's going on?" I asked curiously.

"Eddie's cousin Austin is coming on Saturday." Milton explained.

"Is that so bad?"

"Oh, it's bad I'll tell you." Eddie shuddered at the thought." He is always bragging about himself and he makes me look stupid."

"Eddie, calm down." I said." If he's mean to you in any way, we're always there for you. You know that."

"Yeah, I know that." Eddie said somewhat calmer. "I guess I'll just be hanging down at the mall a lot for the next two weeks, so that I don't have to see the jerk that much."

"Come on, hurry up." Mrs Palmer came herding up the scattered students that still lingered in the hallway.

The great hall was already full of people when we entered and it took us a while to find us any seats. Oddly enough with such a big group of people, there wasn't much noise to be heard. The air felt heavy and many seemed down, others looked anxiously around trying to figure out what was going on. I didn't have a too good feeling about this, but it wasn't until we passed four girls in the midsection that were crying that I started to get really worried. They all shot me curious glances when we walked by and I swear that they were starting to talk about me as our distance became longer. This of course, didn't make me feel any better.

"What's going on?" I whispered to Kim as we took a seat next to each other.

"I have no idea." She whispered back. "But I think we're about to find out." She gestured towards Principal Burke who was heading over to the podium with a very serious look on his face.

So, what did you think? I have the next chapter ready for posting, but I will need at least a couple of reviews so that I'll know that someone is reading this. Otherwise I will not bother to continue.

So if you have read it (and want me to continue...) please review...
/MJ