Hang Out and Hunt Cards!
Time Setting: After Legion Mate and Before Vanguard G
Pairing: (Hopefully) KaiMisa (or KaiSaki: Kai x Misaki)
Rating: T
Summary: Misaki was on her quest, hunting rare cards in the national entertainment centre like Akihabara for her uncle, Shin. She chose to drag Kai along to end this task as fast as possible. This idea could help… really?
Disclaimer! I don't own Cardfight! Vanguard and another brands
WARNING! Heavy reference on real brands and some OOCness (laugh)
It was eight O'clock in the Sunday morning at Card Capital shop, green hair man in his late twenties was opening the shop as his teenage niece was carrying some boxes. The man took out a small red notebook from the drawer within the counter and tore one page of it away. "Misaki, could you do me a favour?" He called.
Tokura Misaki sighed as she fulfilled the showcase. "Yes? What is it, Shin-san?" She could sense Nitta Shin was sending her to do something strange.
"Oh! Could you help me find these cards?" Shin gave the list to her.
"In this shop or else?" Her eyebrows raised as she looked through the list in her hand.
"I couldn't find them anywhere in our shop. But I'm sure there are outside" The man was putting down the chairs while he answered. Misaki shot a glare at him. "I hadn't explained you earlier, these cards are what our customers have requested and I promised to search those cards for them today. This is a new system of searching card, you know…" Shin concealed his mistake with laughter.
"You promised to search for them. But you don't even know where those cards are." The lavender head stated coldly. "New system? How manual… Sending shop owner's niece for rare cards hunting? Great… just great" She murmured in the volume which her uncle could hear.
"Oh please, Misaki! I give you a day off!"
"Day off for outdoor job… yeah" The girl continued working on the shelves.
"Please! I'm begging for you!" Shin begged like he was going to die.
Misaki sighed once again. "Okay-Okay I will do this quest" Knowing her uncle was going to annoy her all day forced her to accept this hunting. She also didn't want Shin to break a promise with their customers. "Anyway, you should give me an extra charge." Misaki could hear Shin gulped. She started searching where she could find all cards she need at once on her smartphone. There were not only Vanguard in the list, she also saw some trap card, nexus or even pokemon. She had seen some of the customer who doesn't only play Vanguard in her shop. The fact 'Cardfight! Vanguard was the mainstream card game' didn't mean minimal card game didn't exist in this world. So she didn't wonder why there would be some minimal TCG request. The lilac beauty remembered how the western foreigner visited Card Capital and asked for somewhat Magic many years ago. That warned her not to overlook another card games.
In a few minutes later, two boys in Misaki's age entered the shop, the blond with silly grin and the deadpan brunet. "Welcome, Miwa-kun and Kai-kun!" Shin greeted.
"Good morning, Shin-san" Miwa Taishi greeted back while Kai Toshiki was just nodded. "What are you doin', Sis? Planning of hanging out at Akihabara!?" The blond boy asked after he saw Misaki was sliding her finger on Akihabara pictures in her smart device.
"I'm not going to hang out, Miwa" She replied. "I'm hunting for the cards… the cards in this list" Misaki showed the list to Miwa without looking. "Why don't they gather in one square? Why do I need to climb up the building and then duck down the dungeon like that? No… I didn't mean any maid café… It is a card shop- a card shop, not a shop for ABK fan!" She muttered to herself while using Google Walk service and it lead her to somewhere weird. She did not notice her murmurs cause Miwa' laughter and Kai's chuckle.
"Kai, is Exile Dragon is what you requested Shin-san last month?" The blond asked.
Kai nodded. "Why?" The brunet was about to ask Shin his card.
"It's in Sis's hunting list." Miwa stated. "She's out for hunting today" he added.
"Out for hunting…? Sound likes a mother wolf…" Misaki didn't believe Kai made fun of her with that emotionless face. "By the way, I don't think Card Capital's card searching system is such a manual" The brunet commented.
"Do you really think I accept this system?" Misaki groaned. "Ride the tubes, climb up the buildings and walk for miles for the rare cards are how this system work." She memorized all the shortcuts she need with her sapphire eyes. The lavender head stood up and prepared to leave.
"Do you need our help, Sis?" Miwa offered. Our include Kai… of course. "You are goin' to Akihabara, right? So let's have some fun!" The blond clapped his hands of joy. "What do you think, Kai?"
Misaki narrowed her eyes at Miwa. "Having some fun waste my time of searching" She took Shin's credit card and about to leave. "You should stay here and help Shin-san more than chilling out in some popular maid café there, Miwa" Like she could read teenage boy's mind, he stunned. She heard Miwa say something like 'Sis is an evil' and so on. "But for Kai, I allow" She said without looking. "No- I mean you must go out with me"
Before Misaki could order him furthermore, Kai interrupted. "Er… You want a date with me? Seriously Tokura?"
What on Cray Kai turned to a flirting type? The lilac beauty swore the dragon freak, Kai was joking. "It's not funny…" Misaki remarked.
"I heard you said 'go out with you'" The little smile of winning painted on the brunet's face. "See?" Kai shrugged his shoulders. Miwa gave him a thumb up like 'Thank you for the revenge'.
Misaki gritted her teeth. Kai wasn't different from other boys in his age. She knew it after many Vanguard adventure with him and her friend. Everyone grew closer and closer to each other. She was close to him enough to "*Bang!*" Misaki slapped the back of Kai's head hard. "You idiot!" The smash was so hard. It made him about to fell. "Since Exile Dragon is your order, you must come with me" The girl crossed her arms.
"First hit my head… Second order me. How can you be this cruel?" Kai murmured as he rubbed his pain head.
"Kai-kun please help Misaki out." Shin requested. "I won't charge your Exile Dragon in return." He added.
It was not a fair condition. But Kai agreed to help her. Letting the girl travel around the city alone wasn't a good idea, even that girl was Tokura Misaki the boss lady. "If you said so, Manager" The brunet turned to Misaki. "Shall we go now?"
"Why did you only pick Kai, Sis!? I want to go too!" Miwa sound likes crying.
"Shut up…" Misaki ordered.
"Please take care of Misaki" Kai nodded at his friend's uncle.
"I'm leave" The lavender head stated and got off the shop with Kai tailing.
"If you see NYAKB with Tsuchinoko panda's album, please buy it for me, okay!?" The blond yelled at Kai's back. But the brunet didn't listen.
Misaki and Kai walked their way to the nearest train station. The weather of the early autumn was nice. If it was not Sunday morning, the footpath they walk would be very busy with salarymen in this rush hour. They arrived the train station in five minutes. Kai stopped by the huge map which showed all train routes. He was looking for the route that went straight to Akihabara since he had never been there before. This map is goddamn complicated… Kai complained. Before he finished looking the map, Misaki dragged him out by his arm. "What are you doing? Follow me this way"
"So you know the route?" Kai asked, thinking she was just hurry and forgot to check out the map.
"Yes, I do know" The lilac beauty stepped faster. "I can remember all train routes which pass this town. And yes, I've memorized all the paths and shortcuts for the hunting too" Misaki felt in was unnecessary to explain her ability to Kai since he should understand by himself.
"I see…"
"Could you step faster? The train's leaving in this three minutes" What the girl stated forced Kai to rush his paves. They both almost fail to reach the train but finally caught it. There wasn't any seat left. The train to entertainment centre like Akihabara was always scary like hell on the weekend.
A half hour of scrambling for oxygen and standing passed by, Kai and Misaki eventually got off the train and tasted the fresh air once again. "Why do I feel tired like this? We've just started" Misaki complained as she reached the bench outside the station and sat down.
"You just lack of oxygen… like I do…" The brunet leaned against the nearby wall and breathe slowly. He couldn't image how the mission would end since they would game over from only using public transportation.
The lavender head put her hunting list out. "To be honest, I've never used the train alone this far and congested before" Misaki tried to get back to her usual mode.
"Neither I have" Kai agreed. He sighed before continued the conversation. "Anyway, how many cards we need to search for?" The brunet stepped closer to the lilac beauty to see more of her list.
"Twenty-six cards: fifteen Vanguards, two Battle Spirits, two Magic the Gatherings, one Weiss Schwarz, one Buddyfight, four Yu-gi-ohs and one Pokemon" Her answer was like a Da vinci Code. He couldn't understand those strange names.
"Excuse me, what are those names after Vanguard mean?" Kai was the great cardfighter with wonderful-fantastic-whatever skill. But he might not notice or may overlook minimal TCGs. Who could blame since Vanguard was a mainstream here.
"They are other TCG names, Kai" This morning, Misaki started to know that Kai wasn't 'the one who know everything' which he (was likely to) acted like one. So, she explained him with a calm expression. "You may not notice, but there are other TCGs. Some of our customers play Yu-Gi-Oh too if you've ever seen." She saw Kai nodded. "Also, TCG like Weiss Schwarz is popular in otakus and anime fans while Pokemon (TCG) is popular with the kids" Misaki pointed the name in the list. "While Vanguard is attracted to most groups of people in our social, others serve their exact target, you see…"
"Interesting…" Kai placed his hand on his chin. The brunet could not underestimate her knowledge of card games since she was born and lived with them for her whole life.
"Get back to our mission, we have to check out for at least four card shops before the sunset" Misaki show him a picture of those card shops on her smartphone. "Which are: Otaku Mode, Ice Ball, Duel Kingdom and TCG Utopia. Most of them sell Vanguard except Duel Kingdom. Don't even think of cardfighting there." She warned after seeing Kai got fire up hearing those shops' names.
The brunet look at the entertainment centre around them. There were tons of weird shops and cafés everywhere. "You will lead me, right?" He asked. Kai secretly afraid to get lost in this colourful town. It made him wasn't sure if he would take care of Misaki or being her drag.
"Yes, definitely" The lilac beauty answer as she stood up. "Follow my path, Kai" Misaki led the way. "We will visit Ice Ball first. It's on the highest floor of that skyscraper" She pointed out. Kai's face was like 'what are they doing up there?' as he look at the building. "Don't worry. We have got a shortcut" She guided him to the weird violet walking street which contained a numbers of bookstore along its side.
"Are you sure this is a shortcut?" Kai chilled down his spine as he saw first bookstore of this street with purple 'Boy x Boy R-18' banner on it. And the worse was seeing a cg poster of feminine his friend (Sendou Aichi) in seductive maid outfit on the other store. What's on Cray with that!? My eyes! The brunet mentally screamed.
"Yes, this is the shortest way to that tower, Toys Empire" Misaki didn't see Kai was already colourless. "Oh! Wait here for a minute!" She said like she found something interesting. Kai finally figured out this place was a yaoi street and he was the only man here. He wanted to leave this violet land but he couldn't because Misaki told him to wait there. Kai's mind repeated the word 'goddamn' again and again. She came back with one strange book in her hand. "I guess we should get going" The lavender head called.
"We shouldn't stop at first…" Kai muttered. "And I don't think you like these type of book too, Tokura" He remarked.
Misaki groaned. "Nah… I actually don't like yaoi. I'm not a fujoshi. (A/N girl who loves yaoi- yaoi fangirl in short) But excuse me? Why can't I read some yaoi novel with a good plot and beautiful language, huh?" She saw he opened his mouth to ask her further. "In fact, I read all kind of novel, action, sci-fi, romance, mystery and whatever if it is well written"
"All type?" Kai decided to have a conversation with Misaki. So he could absolutely ignore those whispers like 'That's Aichi's husband' or 'Why does he betray on my lovely blueberry with Misaki?' etc. On the other hand, he needed to admit he liked talking to Misaki. "Even a wuxia novel or ero… erotic too?"
The lilac beauty's eyebrows raised a bit before she answer. "Um… Yes, I'd read wuxia too. My favourite author for these must be Huang Yi for sure" She didn't notice her steps were slow down to walk beside Kai. "I also had read erotic novel… I don't hate it. But I can't say I like it either." Misaki laughed as she blushed of talking about erotic novel a bit. "Don't tell me you are a Vanguard freak and don't read any novel or comic. Because I won't believe it"
Kai could feel the atmosphere was getting fresher. "I usually read wuxia novel and some love-comedy light novel" Misaki was laughing when she heard love-comedy section. "Hey, don't laugh… Boys have their own romantic imagination too…" Not a quite romantic imagination, but he read it for his own fun sometime. Light novels were easy-digest literature which waste him five hours or less to finish.
Misaki stopped talking as she saw her first target before them, a super big building of toy and kids stuffs. "Here we are" The girl entered its gate. "What are you waiting for? Come in!" Kai was just wonder if he could examine Bandai's section for an hour or more. "We must take a lift on the left, here" The lavender head revealed.
Ice Ball card shop located on the twentieth floor of the building. The shop was quite big compare to ordinary card shop. It was more like a card department instead of card shop. There was a long glass showcase on the wall which contained dozens of expensive cards from many brands. Since it was Sunday, Ice Ball was full of visitors which most of them are children or middle schoolers. "It's surprisely bigger than what I thought…" Misaki nodded of impressive. Kai was about to examine every tables for the hidden strong cardfighter but the lavender head pulled his arm back. "Stop, we aren't come here to play, remember?" Only thing the brunet could do was a sigh.
A middle age male worker approached them. "How can I help you, Miss Tokura and Mister Kai?" It wasn't weird thing if he knew them both. Since they were top class cardfighters, People who worked with Vanguard society should know Q4.
Misaki handed him a list. "Has Ice Ball got any card in this list?"
"Oh, follow me. I will search them for you" The man took the list and rushed to the computer. Misaki and Kai watched him keyed those cards' code. The girl wished Shin would upgrade Card Capital's collection system sooner. "Sorry, but we have got only these cards…" He handed the list back. Ten names of them were checked with red marker.
"It's okay, thank you very much" Misaki replied. "So how much are these?" The worker told his co-worker to pick those card they needed from the exact lockers.
"Ten thousand yen, crash or credit are all accept" The man smiled. In a few minutes ten rare cards arrived on the counter. "Here, please check if they're correct" He gestured.
Kai helped Misaki check all those cards and answered the worker. "They are correct. Thank you" The man packed them in the paper bag and handed to them. Misaki paid the bill with Shin's credit card.
"Here are your lucky draw tickets, there is a lucky roulette outside the building. And thank you very much for coming" Misaki received two lucky draw tickets and the paper pack.
"This shop's system is great. I wonder when Shin-san added this system to our shop"
"The bad thing is the premium… You paid that much but they gave only two stupid roulette tickets" It was meaningless for the cardfighter if the premium from a card shop isn't a card-related things.
"I agree with you at this point. Shin-san give more premium" The girl giggled.
"Free one booster pack for buying three thousand yen…" Kai remembered Card Capital's promotion last summer. "And he's still benefit" The boy added.
Some young boys in the shop noticed Kai and Misaki. "Hey! Those are Kai Toshiki and Tokura Misaki!?" one boy yelled. "Just wait there, Kai Toshiki, I'll fight you!" another boy shouted. "I challenge you, Tokura-san!" another girl threw her punch in the air. The chaos had just begun. Young cardfighters ran to their admirable idols. The lavender head sweat dropped and the brunet was stunned. He decided to grabbed Misaki's hand and turned his back to leave. But it was too slow, they were surrounded by the kids.
One of them stepped forward to Kai. "Would you play one game with me, Kai-nii?" An eight years old girl asked. The girl held her deck and looked up with puppy eyes.
Misaki afraid if Kai broke the girl's feeling with cold-hearted words he usually use. But she still wanted him to deny the challenge because if he accepted one, there would be the next and it would end up by stuck in this shop fighting the kids all day. "I don't fight the weakers" The brunet answered shortly without any explanation. That is Kai we know…The lavender head heard the little girl's sniff. He needed to be responsible for this.
"Kai-san is right. You are the weakest of us, Miu. You don't deserve it!" The boy who seemed to be Miu's brother aggravated and the brunet heard it. The stiff turned to the sob.
"Being a weakling is bad. But bullying the weakling is worse" Kai stated with a sharp glare. The boy and the other were pale by his words. The girl named Miu turned back to the brunet cardfighter with watery eyes. He kneeled down before her and patted her head. "Stand strong… If you don't give up a fight and believe in yourself, one day you will be stronger" The girl sniffed. "And when you can prove that you are strong enough, challenge me again…" The girl tried to wipe her tears. But she's still shaking.
"You will accept my challenge?" Miu asked as she was still sniffing.
"I will" Kai nodded.
"Promise?"
"Promised" The brunet made a pinky swear. Miu stopped sniffing and smiled. A gentle smile of sincerity appeared on his face. This scenario of him secretly impressed Misaki. Kai suddenly stood up and gave the other boy a short glare. "We leave" He used this chance when the young cardfighters were dumbfound pulled the lilac beauty's hand and walked off the shop. Before they reached the lift, they found Miu was walking after them. "What is it?" Kai looked back a bit and asked.
"Thank you very much" The girl thanked him happily and Kai nodded. Miu noticed the brunet was holding Misaki's hand. "…And have a nice date with Misaki-nee" She added with more cheerful voice. That made the lavender head blush and speechless.
"Thanks…" Without any excusing, he replied the little girl shortly. He turned back, heading to the lift as Miu ran back to the shop.
When they were alone in the lift, Misaki spoke out. "Excuse me? You are holding my hand" She knew this cause that girl a misunderstanding.
"Huh?" Kai looked at his left hand. "Sorry then" The brunet released her hand from his grab. He might did it without thinking.
"Why don't you say anything since that girl got such a wrong idea?" Misaki asked as she looked another way, avoiding him to notice she was blushing.
"It's no need to excuse. Excuse or not make no difference" That was true. They shouldn't waste their time excusing themselves stupid thing. He looked up. "And I hope that wrong idea might be the right one day" Kai muttered.
"What did you just say?" Misaki didn't hear his murmur clearly. "Complaining?"
"Nothing, forget it" He relieved she couldn't hear. The lift's opened its door as it arrived the first floor. They quickly got off the lift.
The lavender head remembered what to ask the brunet. "Anyway, do you really keep that promise?" Even if she was impressed by the way he comforted the girl (who he made her cry), Misaki wasn't sure his word was trustworthy.
Kai looked at Misaki's eyes. They stopped walking. "Say, you think I am that kind of person" The brunet was waiting her to speak.
Misaki sighed. "If you can keep that promise, it is good" She felt Kai was thinking she didn't trust him. "Don't forget that I can remember your words clearly. So prepare if you break the promise"
"That's why I can promise that girl" Kai chuckled. "Because if I forget it one day, you will warn me" His doubt seemed to disappear.
"Don't speak like I will be with you like this forever, you know that" Misaki laughed. She didn't see he was hiding his disappointment. The lilac beauty led the way as ever. "Hey! Though we said roulette tickets are stupid, we shouldn't waste them right?" The girl two tickets in her hand. There was a lucky roulette beside the stairs down the road. She gave one ticket to him. Kai kept it and say nothing. She headed to the roulette and handed her ticket to the staff. The roulette span and stopped.
"Here is your Jibanyan plush" The roulette staff gave her a red plushy two tails cat. It was not too big to keep in her bag.
"Th-thanks" Misaki was a bit confused. But her luck wasn't bad at all. At least she didn't get something nonsense like tissue. "Kai, your turn" She called.
Kai took his turn, span the roulette. "Yours is photo booth coupon, sir" The staff announced and gave him a pink coupon.
The brunet was speechless. Taking self-portrait wasn't his type and the photo booth miserably mismatched with him. Kai had got no idea to do with this silly coupon. "Tokura…"
"It's yours, so keep it" That sounded like ordering. She didn't seem like she need this paper either. Kai had got no choice but to keep it in his pocket.
"So what's next" Kai managed to continue their mission.
Misaki point at the narrow gap between two stores across the road. "We will walk through that gap and get to Duel Kingdom" She stepped forward.
"Why it sounds like Diagon Alley…" He walked after Misaki to cross the road. "I don't think it is a good idea passing this shortcut" Kai remarked after he saw the gap was too long and dark. It would be dangerous.
"Scare?" Misaki asked in the voice like 'are you a man?'
"I scare if you get into the trouble" The brunet answered.
"Me? Get into trouble? I don't think so" The girl giggled. "Hurry up follow me, you waste my time" She gestured.
"I warned you"
"I know- I know! Let's just follow me" Kai looked left and right and followed her in to the dark walk way. They didn't know something would follow them after they entered the gap.
They both walked in dark alley which the only light source was the sky that could be seen from a small gap. "Don't you aware if I'm going to rape you in the place like this?" It wasn't a joke. It was not good for a girl, being with a guy in this desolated place, even that guy was the girl's bestfriend.
"I always aware of that, Kai" Misaki fired back. "Thinking of that and you will be sterile" She slapped her thigh as a sigh. Guess, she trusted her kick so much.
They soon heard a horrible bark came from behind. The berserk footsteps were coming closer and closer. Kai looked back and saw a big dog was running after them. "Run!" They hadn't got even a time to think how a stray dog could wander around this place. Misaki ran as fast as she could to reach the exit. The dog was gone when the two approached the street which on the other side of the alley. Feeling of their lungs were burning attacked them. The brunet and the lavender head panted hard. "I told you! You see!?" His sound was like he was throwing out his ribs. Working out were not their type. Running full stream for a short distance could exhaust their life points. He gasped.
"I'm s-sorry" Misaki tried to stand on her feet panting. She took a deep long inhale.
Kai wiped his sweat of his face. "In a narrow place, it's hard to escape or encounter the danger. That's why I warned you" The girl just nodded. She was too tired to speak. He examined the surrounding area with his eyes, waited Misaki to restore herself. There was a second-hand figure store beside them. He saw a cosplay shop and classic manga store. His eye stopped by the bricks decorated house shop with the big Egyptian eyelike symbol above its door. "Tokura, is that 'Duel Kingdom'?" Kai pointed at the house.
"Yes, that's it" Misaki grabbed her hunting list. "Let's go and get these four Yugioh stuffs, Kai" She called. They entered the mysterious shop. The atmosphere was different from the shop Ice Ball. This old card shop was full of working age men or university students. Everyone here played a card game with brown and black swirl on card's back. You could hear 'open trap card!' 'Fusion' or 'Pendulum!' along the way. It made Kai and Misaki felt different. The girl gathered her courage and walked to the counter.
"Hello! Welcome to Duel Kingdom!" The middle-age manager greeted without looking. And found out the two customers were Vanguard celebs. He was a bit surprised. "What're Vanguard celebs like you doing in the place like this?" The manager's sound wasn't like he welcome them anymore.
"We are here to buy Yugioh cards in this list" Misaki handed out the list. "We are requested to find these cards. I heard your shop has got every single Yugioh cards" She avoided to begin any arguing.
"Are kids these days interested in duel too?" The old man laughed. "I thought they all addicted to the luck-based game like Vanguard… too bad" Misaki tried to stand his sarcastic remark of Vanguard.
"You shouldn't talk like that" If he hadn't played Vanguard, he shouldn't say that. "You've never play Vanguard, you will never know" Misaki retorted.
The manager raised his eyebrow. "Well, Miss Tokura the great Goddess of cardfighters" The lavender head shuddered of what the man called her, an exact designation of her in Vanguard society. "I've ever played Vanguard too. Why do you think me, a card shop manager, haven't tasted new card games? I've tried all of them" He shook his head like saying 'You are too young'. "The world of card games is wider than your Vanguard. I must give the same question to you, Miss Tokura… Have you ever played Yugioh? Magic the Gathering? Or even Battle Spirits?" She was stunned by his question. The manager laughed. "You are too young. Kids these days first tasted the fun of Vanguard and shut themselves from another games. There are many of card games which are worth to try, Yugioh for one"
Misaki understood what the manager said. It was so true. But she couldn't help feel a bit angry. "So? Will you sell us the cards?"
"I won't, unless you win a duel here" He gestured. Misaki bit her lip.
"Duel me if you like" Some university student smiled at Misaki. When another boy looked at her. "Don't be scared. I will be gentle!" One man stated with teasing tone.
"Who scare?" The lavender head shot a death glare at them.
Those people triggered Kai's anger. He gritted his teeth, tried not to express his range. "Tokura, leave. We have no business here" The brunet whispered.
Instead of agreeing with Kai, Misaki looked at her opponent with the eyes of determination. "I'm fine, Kai" She would become the owner of Card Capital shop one day. It was time to learn how the world of card games beyond Cardfight! Vanguard was.
"Then leave it to me" He thought he could blow them away like in Vanguard game.
The lavender head shook her head. "Don't forget it's not Vanguard" Misaki whispered back. "I'm sure I can do these. Don't you remember who am I?"
Kai sighed. "A future card shop owner" He looked at the guys surrounded them. "So, don't let them even touch you" The boy ordered with heavy hearted feeling. He meant what it meant. She might not know he had somewhat jealous feeling toward her.
"Decided?" The manager asked. Misaki nodded. He placed four Yugioh decks on the counter. "I'll make it a fair game. You will choose one of these decks and your opponent. Then your opponent will use one deck here" He explained.
He wasn't that bad. Misaki thought as she looked through each decks. Pendulum Thing, kind of new one… The memories of dueling which she had seen with her eyes ran to her mind like a river. With those memories, she need not to learn about the rules. She could understand how it worked. She picked one of those decks and pointed at the man who teased her before. "You" He stepped forward. The girl watched that man selected the deck carefully. Even if she had looked through those four decks' build, she needed to be careful because she was new to the game.
The lilac beauty took a seat at the closest table. "Do you want me to explain the rule?" The man asked as he shuffled his deck.
"No, thank you" The man was surprised. But he didn't say anything.
"Okay then, DUEL!" The manager shouted like a referee. The game started. The tension was filled in the air. Misaki wasn't like a beginner if we looked at this point. She may made some mistake but played like the ordinary duelist should play. He didn't know much about this game. But Kai was impressed by her look. She was so calm. Vanguard taught her to stay cool in every situations. This lesson could be use with another card games.
The game became heavier in the twenty minutes later, the lilac beauty received a huge damages. Her field hadn't got any monster left and her life points was thousand out of eight thousands. This situation was the worst. The man called to attack her furthermore. He smiled with joy of crushing the girl to pieces. But Misaki opened her set card and beautifully turned the table. We could see she bet on everything she had got to end the game in this turn. Her opponent couldn't resist her attack wave and finally lose. "Winner, Tokura!" The manager announced like a referee. All guys clapped their hands for Misaki. She offered her a hand for a sport manner. Their shook hand before the lilac beauty threw her weight on the chair and panted of relief. "Impressive, Miss Tokura. It doesn't seem like your first time, huh?"
"Sorry, I haven't told you first… I'm working for my parents' card shop. So I do remember how to play it" Her reply made the manager surprised even more.
"How can you remember those tactics and use it fluently like that!? Guess, I must change my attitude on you, cardfighters now" He laughed.
"Tokura, are you alright?" He couldn't believe Misaki could win without any experience on any duel before.
"I don't think it would be this difficult" The lilac beauty whispered. "I tried to maintain my calm all the game, you know" She added. Kai could felt she had been trying so hard to control the situation.
"Oh! I forget to ask! How does it feel?" The manager asked.
"Not bad… But it's not my style" Misaki handed back the deck. "Thank you"
"You welcome" He took it back with a friendly smile. "How about Mister Kai? Interesting?" The man looked at Kai.
"We are in hurry. There are some cards left to hunt" The girl didn't want to waste more time. "Or you want to?" She turned to asked Kai. But he waved his hand.
The manager disappeared behind the counter and came back with four certain cards in the paper package. "Here you are… and these are promo cards for you two" Misaki nodded. "It's two thousands six hundreds and five yen. We only accept cash" He stated. The girl gave him money. "I hope I would heard your names as a duelist someday" That bitter smile showed both happiness and sadness. There wasn't many cardfighter who gives this old-fashion card game a try. He also knew his hope was too impossible to become true, the day of glory which wouldn't return in this near future.
"How disappointed! I don't have a chance to fight you!" Some man blurted out. "Come back anytime. We are welcome!" Another boy yelled. "Your boyfriend too! Teach him how to duel!" Someone added.
"Tch" Misaki blushed. "He's not my boyfriend!" She could see everyone laughed. Kai remained in silence. "We leave. Thank you very much, manager" The lilac beauty returned the man a friendly smile.
All customers and shop staffs waved back. "Good luck with your hunting you alphas! Come back anytime you want!" The old manager shouted at them with smile.
Kai started to talk after they left Duel Kingdom. They were walking to the next target. "Don't you think that guy you fight with was trying to molest you through the duel?" He did felt that way with no reason. It might because that guy looked equivocally fun to advance her all the game. So lucky, Misaki hadn't shown any of her panic or even a shudder which could entertain the male opponent for some reason.
"What? I don't think so! What make you think like that!?" Misaki didn't understand what Kai mean. How the man would molest the woman through the game. She didn't think so.
"You don't think so?"
"Yeah… Why?"
"Never mind- forget it" Kai looked another way.
"I don't like it, when you say something like 'forget it', but you don't make it clear" The girl complained. "Make it clear, Kai. It must be something you want me to know"
Misaki's eyes pushed him to answer. "It's just my feeling. There is no reason why I think like that, satisfied?" He mustn't tell the truth her why this idea came out. It wasn't come out of nowhere. He knew it by his heart.
The lavender head still curious. "Huh? Really?"
"Yes…" Kai tried his best to hide the real reason.
"Fine then" Kai knew why he thought like that. Because he had ever felt like raping a girl through the cardfight. And that girl wasn't anyone other than Tokura Misaki. He didn't know how this sinful imagination started. But until he realized, he couldn't unravel from it anymore. Driving her crazy with the retiring, tasting her range and thrust her with his powerful final attack. He could see her shudder. He could see the lilac beauty lost her cool during their cardfight. He loved it when she fought him to the end no matter how the situations were. He loved how she trapped him. And he loved to break her cage again and again. The brunet didn't care about the result. They were a close rival for all this time. They could push each other to the climax every time they fight which really served Kai's somewhat desire (which never happened from cardfighting against the guys). He afraid if someone would think toward her in the same way he did. He always wondered if he had got a feeling for her. A feeling which beyond a queer lust…
Kai secretly looked at her right hand. It would be wonderful if he could hold that hand now. But he couldn't. It was so good they were growing closer. They could smile laugh and talk the random topic together. But it couldn't be any closer. A thin glass wall which called 'friend' was obstructing him from getting her. She was so close, but he couldn't even touch her. He was drowning in his heartache until she snapped him out. "We will take this shortcut, Kai" Misaki showed the way down the electricity appliances building's basement.
"Okay, let's go then" The brunet tried to get himself out his blue. "Anyway, if I say the shortcut is too dangerous, just turn back. Understand?" He stated like ordering.
"Tch… Whatever" Misaki sighed.
"Don't make the sound like you are annoyed. I said it because I worry about you" The last sentence filled with seriousness. Kai turned his back to Misaki and started leading the way to hide his blush.
The lilac beauty raised her eyebrows and then blushed. She hurried follow Kai. "I'm the leader of this hunting, Kai!" The girl called and giggled.
To be continue
A/N: I didn't think it came this long! I guess I must cut this fanfiction to two chapters. (Arghhhh! Over 6,000 words! Really!?) Kai and Tokura might be OOC but I want to write when they are together as 'friends'. I wonder how they will talk a random topic out of Vanguard. And for Yugioh situation in this fanfiction, it's just like my country's Yugioh situation! T^T I respect every card game players! Please trust me!