Hmm I'd like to say on a note first things first. Kai is a year older than Aichi, the ages work like they do in the anime ^w^
I do not own Cardfight Vanguard!
Two words ran through Kai Toshiki's mind "No".
It was early Monday morning today and Kai did as her uncle said.
"Wait outside the Sendou's gates. Their son will show you the way to school." Or so her uncle said.
The boy was running 15 minutes late, enough said. Ah well that's fine that just means less time wasted to Kai. She doesn't listen to lectures anyway. The only unacceptable thing was well…it was too damn cold waiting out in a short skirt!
"Ahhh! Sorry I'm late!" cried out the blunet rushing out the gates.
"Yeah…" said Kai but really she was irked.
"Come on! Let's go!" Aichi ushered grabbing Kai's wrist running like heck which caused another inward frown or two for Kai enough to inwardly groan.
"Let me go." Kai rather said bluntly
"Eh?" Aichi gave an oblivious look
"My hand. There's no need, right? I can just follow from behind."
"Oh my bad, I apologize it's become a bit of a habit. I mistook you for someone else for a moment."
"Hmm?"
Well Kai sure did dig out a good memory by the simple hold of his hand too, how pleasant.
"No, never mind it's nothing let's go." Aichi said.
"We…made it…on…time!" he panted
"Yeah. Thanks well see you." Kai said walking away.
"Wait!" he called out, "Do you know where your class is?"
Kai turned around for some reason finding him really annoying. Her gut once said "stay away". She'd listen. This short blue haired kid's awful friendliness reminded her a bit of someone else. Perhaps that's why she feels so agitated to even be around him.
"I can find it I'm not that stupid."
Aichi just stared at Kai questionably.
Ahhh that's right, now Kai knows what she hates about this shrimp. His attitude, it's exactly like Serra's, when she first met him, specifically her ex.
"You," Kai looked down at him with a frightening glare. "Do you like me? Listen up guy's like you are cheap trash so get rid of that facade will you, it's irritating."
At that moment Kai walked up to him seeing the face of Serra on the boy and gave him a quick sharp slap to his face.
Aichi stared at the girl dumbfounded in confusion, bewildered!
"Uh-um…" he stuttered. "Did I do something wrong?"
Kai snapped back into reality and looked at the red mark on the right side of his cheek. A pang of guilt and shame washed over at the realization her sudden action led her to. She took out a paper from her pocket pretending to red and to not acknowledge what just happened and walked away.
"W-wait! Kai!" Aichi called out after the taller girl who ran down out the halls but was silenced by the call of his name.
"Aichi?"
"Kourin!" Aichi snapped his head around to the blonde figure behind.
"Good morning." She said with a graceful smile intertwining her hand with his.
"Yeah…good morning…"Aichi said looking at the floor.
"Aichi? What's wrong?" Kourin looked at him some more for closer inspection and saw the red mark across his cheek. She furrowed her brows together and spoke to him in almost a vexed tone. "Who did this to you."
"Don't worry Kourin. It's nothing serious. I don't think they did it out of ill intention, I think it was just an accident." Aichi sheepishly laughed scratching his head upon the threating death glare the blonde had.
"Let me rephrase my question Aichi, tell me who did this to you." She demanded the fiery aura around her grew.
"Kourin. It's ok, this is my problem. I have to fix it." Aichi waved his hands.
"Jeez seriously Aichi? Just promise me you won't get into a fight. You're too kind honestly." She shook her head taking a deep breath
"Sorry."
"Don't apologize! You made up your mind already!" she yelled
"Yes!"
Aichi would look around back and forth during the lecture. He and Kourin made it late to class earning clean up duty today.
Somewhere his mind drifted to Kairi. Kairi was one of his net friends he met almost 2 years ago and what's silly is that none of them even know how the other looks like after this whole time. Aichi could say he deeply regrets it now because he doesn't know how she looks like. Kairi recently disappeared two weeks ago and she hasn't responded to a single message he'd send to her every day. Aichi hopes she's safe. He'd known she's had some trouble out in her life and sounded like she was into a really toxic relationship with some guy she knew and they were dating. But somewhere along the lines she'd disappeared after telling Aichi of her troubles.
Miwa being one of his guy friends say she'll come back if she really wants too or she's just tired of typing and this came out rather bitterly no matter how kindly he tried to put into words. And Kourin says don't bother because she doesn't want him to hurt anymore and to move on. Those two are about the only ones that really know right now about his net friendship with Kairi.
Aichi sighed debating the problem, but for some reason he held tightly onto hope till the day she comes back. He knows she will. After all they get along so well though distance separates them apart.
"My name is Kai Toshiki, nice to meet you."
"Well Toshiki-san how about you sit next to beside Miwa right over there. Miwa raise your hand!" sensei called out to a sleeping boy whose face was in the book.
A girl with long pale lavender in a single braid raised her hand in Miwa's stead. "Sensei, Taishi-san is asleep."
"Again." The teacher took note and aimed a piece of chalk at him like a bullet, hitting the blond wide awake.
"I'm awake!" he cried out embarrassingly to the entire class that laughed.
"Taishi this is the third time I've warned you! Detention!"
"That's not fair sensei."
Kai didn't wait for the teacher and walked to her assumed place behind the blond slouch pretty boy.
"Sorry about that, he's slouch." Whispered the girl from earlier who ratted out Miwa whom she happened to sit next to.
"No, that's ok." Kai assured the girl.
"I'm Tokura Misaki." She introduced herself
"Likewise, I'm Kai Toshiki, just Kai please." She said to the front of her, wishing not be called by her first name.
The brunette felt relieved that someone had spoken to her and a girl too. She could still faintly remember the other voices from back in the city that haunted her.
"Just because you think you're perfect."
"Pretty girl."
"Don't get all high and mighty just because all the boys like you. They only want your money."
"She's a child of misfortune she even killed your parents."
"Attention whore."
"You're not needed."
"You're worthless."
"It'd be better off you were just dead."
Kai remembered the awful words her classmates would say about her but then she would also remember him and the words he told her the very first day of spring. The one she used to so call the love of her life.
"Your Kai Toshiki correct? You're a kind girl." Serra would say…
Back then she would smile a lot, she remembers. Serra would be the one to always pick her up and giver strength but all of it was a lie and not worth it in the end. The result led to unamendable broken heart.
Full of resentment Kai cursed Serra from that day on and her naïve attitude. Having a soft heart to her in this world meant weakness and she was weak.
Kai took a gander of the classmates around her, listening attentively except for-ah she should have known.
The blond boy in front of her still had his face in the book and the girl who the deemed to be most normal to her was actually reading a novel behind the text book itself.
Kai's hopes of a normal life took a turn.
After class…
"Hey Kai."
The brunet turned to look at Misaki before she could pack her bag and walk out the door.
"Yes."
"You play cards miss?" the blond butted in, a grin on his face with a wink holding his thumb up in the air
Kai gave them a stern look.
"Yeah? I guess?" she raised her brow
"That's great! Join our club! We're the smallest group at our school."
"But everything about your school is small." She bluntly told him giving him an odd stare which earned a sweat to drop from Miwa.
"I'm sorry about this idiot what he means is do you play vanguard?" Misaki explained
Vanguard? These guys play vanguard? That's pretty rare.
"Yeah I do."
"I see then would you like to join us? It'd be nice to have another second year. There are only two of us."
"Just you two?" Kai asked Misaki
"Yeah."
"Then who are the rest?"
"First years. We have a great leader too but he's pretty strong despite his looks and really smart."
"Tch. What about me?" moaned Miwa.
"You're just plain stupid." Commented Misaki giving the blond a flick on the forehead
"Nee-san that's not very nice." He groaned.
Kai ignored the blond boy groaning to her left and pay attention to the girl.
"I'll go with you two. Where's the clubroom?"
"Over here." Misaki led the way
Miwa rolled his eyes and dragged his feet out of being ignored and followed along behind the two second years. Why does the new club member listen to Misaki and not him?
Once they made it Misaki opened the door for Kai welcoming her into the club room. When she walked in she saw a fiery child and kid with glasses bickering at one end of the table choking one another with words.
"I dare you to say it again granny glasses!"
"What's that you impulsive jerk!"
Misaki didn't stomach well what was going around in her surroundings and stomped over immediately pulling the two first years by the ear. Kai's gaze immediately strayed away from the scene, careful not to catch idiot disease and made a mental note not to mess with Misaki apparent and hit her sights on something else. Two people laughing. One blonde chick and…her neighbor…sweet. Of course it wasn't as sweet until the blonde stopped laughing seeing the newcomer and her two friends.
"Ahh Misaki, Miwa, welcome back. I made some tea sit down and who may you be? A new club member?"
Was that not obvious to the blonde? Kai nodded nonetheless. Aichi turned around in his chair to see, his gaze catching the brunet's serious emerald hues.
"K-Kai!?" he let out a surprised noise
Kai didn't say anything for the first few moments and scratched the back of her head collecting her thoughts. Oh damn that's right she slapped him this morning, she could feel the guilt surface over her conscious wellbeing. The blood began to surface itself upward against her cheeks out of embarrassment but forced it right back down.
"What do you want?" Kai spat rudely. "No Kai that isn't right, that's not what you want. That's not how you answer someone! What should I do?! I never meant to slap him or say something like that so cruely!" she berated herself though on the inside, imagining herself puling the sides of her hair.
"Oh well about that this morning-I! Never mind, I'll lend you the book you asked for this morning." His lip twitched upward, a smile suddenly painted across his face, obviously lying but only went noticed between him and Kai…or so he thought.
"Yeah…" Kai responded
Kourin didn't take much liking to the girl's rude response and faced a worried Aichi. The blonde suspected the tall brunette. She mad dogged Kai following he every movement as she was about to take seat and noticed Kourin had move beside her leaving Aichi's side as Miwa stole Kourin's spot chatting away with the blunet.
The blonde tapped her shoulder faking one gleeful look and Kai faced to see her.
"I'm Tatsunagi Kourin. Nice to meet you Kai, I love your long hair." With the single minutes of introduction Kourin's expression went down to hell and whispered into her ear while no one looked. "I don't know who you are but if you lay a finger on Aichi again and hurt him, you'll regret it."
Kai was frightened but scoffed it off and smirked, pretending that she wasn't.
"And you are?" Kai questioned her
"His girlfriend."