Chapter 19 is here~ I don't own cardfight vanguard~

"This girl won't leave me alone! I beat her in a cardfight and now she keeps challenging me!"

Miwa called, the brunette looked over to where the blond was pointing to see Emerald. A soft sigh escaped from the brunette as he shook his head.

"Miwa just battle her"

The blond shook his head and hid behind Kai playfully as if the brunette would actually protect him.

"I have.... all day, I'm tired....."

The blond sighed, the green haired girl smiled when she noticed the brunette.

"Oh Kai, nice to see you again!"

Emerald chirped as she pulled out her deck from her pocket, eager to battle the brunette whom had just arrived.

"Wait?! Don't tell me you sent her here...."

The brunette called, not believing that his friend would betray him like that.

"Tch......."

The brunette silently walked by the two loud teens in the lobby and headed towards his room, ignoring any further conversation for he knew that it would be pointless and loud.

When the brunette arrived in his room, he noticed that there was food left out on the table for him. He felt slightly guilty for ignoring the blond but he didn't bother to go back to the lobby, instead he slipped the food into the microwave and waited for it to heat up.

After Kai had finished eating the leftover curry, Miwa entered their shared room. Grey orbs narrowed slightly at the brunette before the blond walked over to his own bed and flopped onto it exhausted.

"........."

"Kai that was uncalled for......"

Miwa whined as he rolled over to look at the brunette.

"Tch....."

"Will you at least explain? You don't know how confusing it was to have some random girl barge into this room and challenge me to a cardfight...."

The blond complained, the brunette sighed.

"Just a person I met at a card shop, I didn't want her to pester me so I wrote down directions to the hotel"

"....... So you sent her to bug me instead......"

Kai nodded silently before putting the trash from his supper away.

"Think what you want"

"........ Well you said there was a card shop right? Were you there all day?"

The brunette nodded, he still wanted to keep the meeting of Aisen to himself so that things wouldn't turn out badly if their search for Aichi ended up being a dead end.

"Cool, can you show me where?"

Miwa asked, curious about fighting new people.

"Sure but Emerald apparently works there...."

The brunette smirked when he noticed Miwa hesitate slightly, as if he was unsure as to whether he still wanted to go or not.

"That's fine..... I can just battle other people still"

The blond sighed.

"Okay then the card shop is called..... Azuki Shoku"

The brunette lied, for he didn't want his loud friend being at the place that was going to be his cover for the next day. He just hoped that there was no building with that name in China.

"Thanks Kai! I can't wait to see all the different strategies"

The blond murmured happily, half to himself, making the brunette feel slightly guilty once more.

"I'm going to bed now"

The brunette said before turning off the lights to leave the blond in the dark.

"Hey Kai! what about me?"

"........"

"........I guess I'll go to sleep as well...."

The blond sighed, not surprised by his friend's actions in the slightest.

The brunette woke up early in the morning from his dreamless sleep, it surprised him as to how early he actually woke up compared to his usual waking time.

Silently, so as to not to awake the blond sleeping in the other bed, the brunette grabbed an apple and ate it quickly before heading out the door.

It surprised him to see that other people were awake in the lobby, he hadn't thought that many people woke up around 8am if they could help it.

He quickly left the hotel and headed towards the place where he had been yesterday, guessing that the other two would most likely meet him there.

Kai was relieved that the sunlight was weak and that the cool air seemed to re-energize him.

When he arrived at the narrow path, the brunette decided to sit on a rock and wait, he wondered if he had left too early. After a while, the brunette heard the sound of rustling leaves, jades looked over to see Mizuha pushing Aisen in his wheelchair down the path. Sapphires looked over at the brunette in surprise.

"Ehhh you're already here?....."

The beige haired boy laughed at the disappointment that laced the younger's voice.

"Yeah, why something wrong?"

Kai asked, curious to know what had caused the smaller boy his disappointment.

"No....."

Aisen murmured, flickering his gaze towards the ground.

"He just wanted to spend some time on the beach with me before searching"

The beige haired boy replied, causing the younger,s face to turn a slight shade of pink.

"Mizuha!!!!"

The blue haired boy called, embarrassed that the brunette witnessed the exchange.

"Did you get everything you wanted?"

The brunette asked, not showing his amusement from the youngest boy so as to not further embarrass him.

"Yeah"

Mizuha replied as he pulled out a few long ropes that each spanned a few hundred meters.

"We're going to tie them together then?"

"Yeah, we don't know how deep the caves go and I don't want to have to turn around in the middle"

The brunette nodded, he understood the beige haired boy's reasoning, for turning away half way through would feel very frustrating and annoying.

With that, the three boys worked on tying the ropes together so as to create one ridiculously long rope.

"Okay we're ready to go"

Aisen chirped when the last knot was made, both older teens nodded before the brunette tied the rope to a sturdy tree, making sure to use quite a few odd knots for reassurance.

Mizuha then hoisted the younger boy onto his back while the brunette took care of the wheelchair before the three headed down the narrow path that lead towards the caverns.

Thankfully neither Aisen nor the wheelchair were too heavy.

Me: the main search has started!

Kai: hmm isn't it risky using OC as characters

Me: yeah, but one of them could be Aichi for all le readers know

Kai: so there's a chance....

Me: hehe who knows~~

Kai: ..... Well what about the others?

Me: I reuse and introduce my OC in different stories

Kai: *sigh*

Me: anyway~ hope ya people enjoy le chappy~