A/n: hi, guys. I'm back. It's a good thing that I have my inspirations back. This will be kinda... you'll know what I mean.

Enjoy...

Aichi's POV

I kept holding myself from remembering her. It was so hard that I got tired of it as I started to rest my eyes by closing them from the world. I was about to fall asleep when I suddenly felt someone pulled my sleeves softly and lightly.

I opened my eyes and saw a long hair little girl with her friends. She was holding a Vanguard deck while she stared at me nervously.

"Excuse me, Aichi Sendou. May I... " She glanced at her friends for a moment before looking at me again. "Have a cardfight with you?"

I blinked my eyes to take a process of her low voice then I smiled in consent as she smiled brightly in return. She sit on the bench and set up the play mat while I took out my deck and changed my position, facing her.

We shuffled our decks and put it on the play mat. We put a grade zero card on the Vanguard circle and draw 5 cards. I glanced at her as she looked nervous when she was busted staring at me for a long time.

I put my full effort friendly smile to calmed her tension and it worked. Her friends were watching us and I probably just saw one of them recorded us. 

"Hoho, cool. You got a chance to fight the famous Cardfighter, Aichi Sendou." Her friend said to her.

"Don't worry, you guys can also fight me." I replied then her friends shouted happily.

I just realized myself that I finally can freely having a fun time on cardfighting with somebody without worrying about Link Joker seed's crawled inside me in every move.

We started to touch our starting Vanguard. "Stand up,... " We said together. "Vanguard!"

"Advance Party Seeker, File."

"Desire Jewel Knight, Heloise."

I gasped and my eyes widened with all their might when they met that grade zero unit. 

Jewel Knights?! 

No, keep it together!

Focus on the game!

I didn't want to look at her cards. She has all of the units she once played. All of it. 

C'mon, Aichi! Don't remember that things right now! You could hold back Link Joker. Then why can't you hold back those memories from appearing in your head?

"Um,... Aichi Sendou." She called, resulting me to quickly looked at her. "I heard that you have a Cardfight Club at Miyaji Academy. I want to enter that high school and join that club." She said as I kept silent while she borrowed my ears to listen what she said.

"Me too."

"We want to join too."

"We want to go to VF High School Championship like you."

I looked down as I remember the time me and my friends spend time together before Link Joker invaded. But I won't remember anything that is about her. I tried to remember that there is only my friends in my memories.

And she was only just a shadow.

I turned my head to them and smiled. "I'm sure you guys will reach your ambition. Study hard and never give up. That is the only thing you can enter Miyaji Academy and go to the VF High School Championship." I advised.

"We will." They shouted.

"That's good." I said then I pulled my eyes back to the long hair girl in front of me.

"But you know, not only I want that kind of stuff... I also want to be like Kourin Tatsunagi." She said.

My hand started to tremble in anxious as I tried to keep myself to be normal. But it's too hard when her name is mentioned. "Stop, don't mentioned anything about her!" I thought.

"She is my idol and I feel like I want to be like her. She is beautiful, a great Cardfighter, she is kind, and I like her serious face so much when she is cardfighting. She is the best." She continued.

"Stop! I told you to stop mentioning her!" 

"Yeah, she is so cool."

"I want to be a good singer like her."

"Yeah, she really has a good voice when she sing."

All that they mentioned has quickly made my struggle from remembering her weakened. She mentioned everything that made me fall in love with her.

I slowly panting hard and couldn't hold the memories of being with her.

"Why it is so hard for me to make you go away from my life, Kourin? Why can it be this hard? How can you keep appearing in my head?" I thought as I looked down and tried to hold my tears.

I could feel the stares from all of them. I could only chuckled shoftly, "It brings back memories. I love that place. The place where I feel like I belong there." I said then I touched my Vanguard. "I attack... your Vanguard."

That attack made her in 6 damage and I won. "I lose... " She said then she lifted her head up to me. "That was a great fight. Thank you."

I could only smile at her and gathered all of my cards. "I'm sorry. I'll fight you guys later. I have to go." I said as I shoved my deck to my pocket and stood up. "Bye, there."

"Bye." They said as they waved their hands.

I waved them back and then walked away. When I had enough distance from them, I ran as I tried to hold my tears along my movements.

I entered my house and went straight to my room. I locked the door and leaned myself to the door behind me. I was panting hard before letting my tears fell.

It was so painful that I almost cried in front of those kids. My struggle has shattered that easily. 

"Kourin, Please stop appearing in my head! I don't want to remember any of that again. I can't take it anymore. Those memories are now a knife that will stabbed my heart in no time." I thought as I covered my face and slid down to the floor.

A/n: oh my, I think I've gone too far. Well not FAR enough. *evil laughed before frowned.* Actually I feel a little bad for Aichi. But I also can't hold my imagination. Well, see you in the next chapter. Bye...