Title – Destined together

Disclaimer – I don't own Cardfight! Vanguard or any of its characters…

A/N – Hello, minna-san! Thank you for the wonderful reviews until now! You guys are awesome! And I hope you'll like this chapter as well! One more thing… Sorry guys, I typed 'robe' instead of 'rope' in the last chapter. I didn't notice it while typing as I was in a hurry. I'm really sorry about that, hehe…

'…' - Thoughts

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Chapter 8

No one's POV

"Wha-…?" muttered Kai, as he looked down and was surprised to see he was holding Misaki and his arms were around her stomach, trapping her. Before he could act or say anything, he was pushed back with a force by none other than Misaki as she didn't know it was Kai.

"You pervert!"

Kai fell on the floor taking Misaki with him and his back hit the counter, which prevented him from falling flat on the floor. Then there was only the sound of their falling…

'THUD'

"Uuff!"

Misaki couldn't believe that there were three of them. She had come to get some water but just then she was attacked by the two of them. As it was dark, she had grabbed the nearest thing for defense after punching one of them on the stomach, causing him to fall on the floor in pain and found the other one was not there when suddenly someone sneaked upon her from behind and snaked his arms around her. It took her off guard.

"Hey! I found the rope!" she heard someone, from near the switch board.

Misaki's eyes widened when she felt she was trapped. Just then the lights flicked on and she glanced at the person near the switch board with the rope in his hands…

"You pervert!" exclaimed Misaki to the person who was holding her.

And then… She had pushed back with a force to release herself but the arms around her were strong causing her to lose her balance as well. Everything happened too fast.

Misaki's back crashed on the person behind her and she was about to elbow him using her free hand when…

"Stop, Tokura"

Too late… Misaki's eyes widened when she heard Kai's voice that came from just beside her ear.

Kai, on the other hand, grabbed her hand with one hand to avoid her upcoming attack. He was slightly surprised at her defense.

"Kai-kun! Are you alright?!"

Misaki glanced at the person who spoke and saw the boy she had punched before, who was lying on the floor before but was now up and standing in front of her, clutching his stomach. He had red hair which was pushed back, noticed Misaki.

"You Four Eyes! You are late!" exclaimed the red head, glaring at the person holding the rope.

"Kai, l-let go of me" said Misaki as she saw Kai had his hand around her stomach while his other hand held her hand. "They are intruders!" she added, glaring in front of her as she fidgeted to get back at the red head.

"Stop moving, Tokura. They work for me" said Kai and released her instantly when he suddenly felt strange as he held her. He noticed Misaki was sitting in front of him, with her back against him. He shrugged of the strange feeling when she stood up. He sighed and looked at the intruders who gave him questioning look.

"I'm sorry, Kai. Here" said Misaki, as she extended her hand towards Kai. While Kai was busy glaring at the new people in the room who glanced at each other than at Kai as they understood Kai knew the woman.

Hearing Misaki, Kai looked up at her then blinked twice, noticing her clothes. He looked aside causing Misaki to look at him quizzically. He grabbed her hand without looking at her and stood up. He cleared his throat.

"Hm" he grunted, running his hand through his hair.

"Man! I mean… a woman?! She hits hard! Like a man!" exclaimed the red head, clutching his stomach and glaring at Misaki who glared back at him and crossed her arms.

"Kai-kun, who is this woman? And she's wearing… indecent clothes. I'm surprised there is woman here when…" said the person with glasses, pushing his glasses up.

"When there is no Rukino-san around. Hmm… I can't believe, Kai could do something like this! The first thing when we came back, we see a thief who happened to be a woman Kai knows! What is happening behind ours backs! Come on, Granny glasses, we don't need to know" exclaimed the red head, as he dragged the other one with him to exit the kitchen.

"Ha?" muttered Misaki, glancing at her clothes then blushed furiously.

"Stop right there, you two. And Naoki, if you are saying what I think you are saying, you are in deep trouble" stated Kai, crossing his arms across his chest, however, he was having difficulty trying to sound cool after he heard Naoki's words.

"Tokura is my maid" said Kai, smirking and earning a glare from Misaki. "And Tokura, they are Ishida Naoki and Komoi Shingo" he introduced, pointing at each of them and before anyone could say anything… "We'll talk in the morning. Lock the doors and go to your rooms" he added.

"Uhh… right…" said the red head named Naoki while the one with glasses, Shingo, sweat dropped as they both left hurriedly, sensing the dark aura behind them.

Kai turned to face Misaki with narrowed eyes who stood an arm length away from him. He shook his head at her.

"Tokura… Why are you wandering… like this?" asked Kai, pointing at Misaki's clothes as she was wearing a loose long white shirt and short pale yellow shorts but due to the long shirt, the shorts were hidden under it.

Misaki looked up at Kai, narrowing her eyes but her cheeks were red. "What's wrong with them?" she asked while he merely stared at her. "T-they are my n-night clothes!" exclaimed Misaki, with red cheeks.

"Tokura…" said Kai, his voice low. He was angry, noticed Misaki. "What's wrong with them, you say?" he stated, furrowing his eyebrows. Then he closed his eyes and sighed. He glanced at her, his face void of any emotion.

"I don't want others to see you like this and think wrong" he stated. 'What will they think when they find her roaming around like that when we're alone in the house… Seriously…' he thought and shook his head.

Misaki, on the other hand, glared at him. "Right… And you are still standing here and looking at me which is fine by you" she stated, sarcastically. She grabbed the bottle of water from the fridge and muttered, "Such a pervert, grabbing me like that" as she left the kitchen.

Kai heard it and smirked. 'Indeed, she is right… but wrong about the 'pervert' part though' he thought and glanced on the floor and found a spatula. 'So she picked it for defense… good thing it was not a knife though…' he added as an afterthought and put it back. He sighed and followed her suit.

Morning…

"Kai-sama, wake up" said Misaki, monotonously but got no response. Her eyebrow twitched as she was trying to wake him up for five minutes now.

"What do you want, Tokura?" grunted Kai, from below the covers.

"I wanted your permission" said Misaki and saw he made no other movement. Her eyebrow twitched again. "Kai-SA-MA" she said again, her voice hard.

"Do whatever you want. Don't disturb me for another hour" came Kai's sleepy voice. Misaki smirked and left without saying anything.

Two hours later…

Kai glanced at the clock; it read fifteen past nine. It was Sunday so he was enjoying his tea, sitting on an arm chair and flipped on to the news channel, bored. He noticed he had been glancing around, his eyes searching for his 'entertainment'. He sighed, noticing what he was doing. 'Where is she…?'

He wondered if she had really come to his room before or it was his dream. 'Ridiculous! Why would I dream about her?' he thought and spotted Ishida Naoki, his loyal butler walking a few yards away from him.

"Naoki? Where is Tokura?" asked Kai and took a sip of his tea.

"Oh, Boss Lady went out" answered Naoki.

Kai almost dropped his tea and looked at Naoki. "Why?" he asked, as he put the cup down. 'Boss lady…? Anyway, that means I was not dreaming about her coming in my room. And she asked when I was half asleep. Really smart, Tokura… I told her not to go out but still…' he thought and sighed.

"I don't know. She said she had something important to do and she had asked for permission as well" explained Naoki, as if thinking something. "She asked, right…?" he added, raising his eyebrows.

Kai stood up from his arm chair. "Did she say where she was going?" he asked instead.

"Well… she said some café…? What was the name again…?" Naoki wondered out loudly.

"It's Café Espresso. She'll come back in a little while she said. And I gave her my cell phone in case of emergency" answered Shingo, coming from a room.

"More like ordered us to complete the works before she comes back. Talk about being Bossy" stated Naoki and huffed while Shingo snickered.

"Because you were slacking off and you splashed water on her new shirt, as she had said"

"Shut it, Four eyes! It was an accident!"

"Right… You deserved it for being a delinquent in the early morning"

"Enough you two" Kai cut them off. He was feeling relieved that she was not wearing the maid dress and wandering off. "Alright. Now leave me alone and don't fight" he said. The other two who were glaring at each other, left glancing at Kai.

Meanwhile…

"I wonder if Misaki-chan will come at our regular café…? I should check it out anyway as it's our regular Sunday meeting spot… I hope she's alright…" Akari wondered out loud as she walked through the side walk and as she was deep in thought, she stumbled and crashed. "OUCH!"

"I'm really sorry, Miss! Are you alright?"

Akari rubbed her nose and glanced up to see a blonde with a pair of grey eyes staring at her. It seems she crashed into him, causing his bag to fell on the ground. She noticed he held her shoulders to prevent her from falling.

"I'm fine, thank you" replied Akari and stood straight. "Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was walking. Let me help you…" she said as she saw the scattered things on the ground.

"It's alright! You look in hurry, Miss…" said the blonde, smiling brightly at her. Akari smiled at him.

"I'm Akari… And it's my fault anyway. So here" said Akari and helped him pick up the groceries that had fell. 'I think I have seen him somewhere…' she thought.

"Oh, I'm Miwa. And thank you" said Miwa, as he picked up his bag and smiled at Akari who started walking after nodding at him. "Hey, nice to meet you, Akari-san!" he exclaimed when she was about to turn around the corner. 'I think I have seen her somewhere…' he thought and then shrugged before walking off.

Few minutes later

Misaki glanced on her sides, to see if anyone was looking at her. Seeing everything was normal and clear, she proceeded towards her destination and sighed. She was not feeling awkward to walk now that she was wearing normal clothes such as a pale yellow blouse with elbow length sleeves and dark brown knee length pencil skirt.

'I should have borrowed some money… No! He will mock me again! He just searches a chance to mock me… the only guy who had managed to look down on me is Him! I can't believe that he was also a pervert! Seriously… Guys now a days… And I have to return the favor to Narumi Asaka as she had sent me these clothes' she thought as she walked.

As soon as Misaki entered the café, she glanced around. As this café was meeting spot of her best friend and hers and no one knows about this beside the both of them and she knew Akari will never give out their 'hide out' for anything, she felt relieved. She hoped and assumed her best friend will come here and she was right…

"Hey!" greeted Akari as she tried not to attract any attention and didn't shout Misaki's name to which Misaki was thankful. Misaki nodded in Akari's direction as she approached her best friend.

"Oh my goodness, Misaki! I'm so happy to see you! I was so worried!" exclaimed Akari as she hugged Misaki who was thankful they were not attracting other customers. Misaki patted Akari's back, smiling as she returned the hug.

After Akari explained the situation to Misaki, she sighed. "They did interrogate me as if I'm some kind of culprit. I met Shin-san yesterday and he's really freaked out, Misaki. He tried searching for you everywhere, you know… but that's good because it told them he doesn't know your whereabouts. I was really shocked when I read the newspaper and read you were missing. That's really a bold move, Misaki but be careful" said Akari.

Misaki sighed. "I can't believe Shin-san didn't tell me the name of the person they set my so called marriage interview with. That lead me to take a favor from a wrong person…" she said while Akari looked at her questioningly.

And then… Misaki told her…

"So you mean to say YOU are working as a… maid…? Are you serious?!" exclaimed Akari, covering her mouth with her hand, surprised.

"Akari! I told you to keep your voice down!" said Misaki, glancing around and sighed when no one was watching them. She had told Akari about her predicament in brief and as expected of Akari's reaction, it was...

"Misaki… that is so romantic! You know he's really popular with women… and he's still single, not interested in any women… Oh my! They will die to be in your position. I'm telling you, its fate!" said Akari, sipping her chocolate shake.

Misaki's eyebrow twitched at that. "It's nothing like that Akari… Back to reality…" said Misaki as she saw Akari's eyes sparkling and looked like she was in her fantasy again.

"Okay, okay. Take this" said Akari as she handed Misaki a small purse. "You'll need it. I know the one you are working for… is not so… uh… generous person on earth… Hey! I read magazines unlike you! So I know the things that you don't know" she added and laughed.

"Akari… not everything in the magazine is true… And thank you for this… I'll return it soon" said Misaki as she took the purse with some money in it.

"He hadn't tried anything, right…?" asked Akari, smirking at Misaki who narrowed her eyes. "Okay… tell me everything in detail the next time we meet. It's almost time to open my café and I should be there to avoid suspicion. If you have anything to say you can leave a note for me at the reception here, alright Misaki… You know you can ask me for anything" said Akari, smiling while Misaki returned the smile and nodded.

"Thank you, Akari. Take care" said Misaki as they stood up to leave after Akari paid for their drinks.

"Oh come on! I'm your best friend, no need to thank me... but… I expect some juicy gossip next time!" exclaimed Akari while Misaki sweat dropped as they parted. "Take care of yourself and your master!" she added, laughing, causing Misaki to glare at her.

At the same time…

"Hey Tetsu! You are already here? Hello, our Beautiful Assassin. Huh? She's not here…?" asked Ren as he took his place on the chair in front of Tetsu.

"Beautiful Assassin…? You are calling her that… means you need something. And we are in her apartment so behave" said Tetsu as he handed Ren a cup of tea and took one for himself. Ren sweat dropped.

"I was thinking that since we live in the same building, we could have some fun together but first… I need breakfast" said Ren and smiled as he took the cup of steaming tea in his hands when…

"Good morning, Ren-sama" greeted Asaka as she came from the kitchen with a tray in her hands.

"A-chan! You were making breakfast for me?" asked Ren, pointing at himself. Asaka smiled.

"Actually, I made for everyone since its Sunday, Ren-sama…" said Asaka as she put the tray on the table and smiled. Tetsu chuckled but hid it behind his cup but Ren heard it and narrowed his eyes at Tetsu. Ren huffed.

"No need to laugh, Tetsu. A-chan will make lunch for me, you know! And you'll get nothing!" exclaimed Ren and smirked in Tetsu's direction. "You will, right A-chan?" asked Ren, smiling innocently at Asaka.

"Whatever…" muttered Tetsu and shook his head when he saw Asaka nodding at Ren with a pink face while Ren looked happy as he grabbed a plate. 'He really is dense…' he thought and sweat dropped.

To be continued…

A/N – Okay! I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter! So now review time guys! Share your thoughts, comments and views! And I apologize for any grammar mistakes. Thank you! ^^