I wrote another story yesterday, but when i woke up this morning i felt like this one was much better, depending on the comments and likes depends on which one I will work on more.

I don't own SAO or any of it's characters, this is a pure fanfic no profit or any money involved at all. It starts after this period.

It's been two months since the death game SAO has started. 2000 people have now died, and the numbers are still increasing with normal players pointing blame and shame on the Beta-testers. This didn't only worry players but, also families, and parents.

Mikazuki, Asuna's older brother was especially worried about her, so much so that he stayed in her room a few days while she was logged in, and would even see her in the hospital everyday.

One day when Mikazuki walked into the small hospital room to change her flowers he looked closely at her nerve gear. He started wondering if she was safe in the game. He sat next to her on a small green stool just thinking about the whole thing. When he remembered that his girlfriend dies he starts to think hard about the situation Isn't there something I can do. Maybe, just maybe I can login and save her so she doesn't end up like Ayumi.

For the next few days he stays in his room researching SAO and the nerve gear and even though it has been two months since the game has started he decides he has to go in also to save his sister. Even if he did have a low level he became confident that he could master the game quick, he's played many MMORPG's.

He combs his long brown hair back. Brushes his teeth, and finally puts on the nervegear.

"Link-start!" he says. As the game loads he thinks about how he is trapped in here now and the horror of that, but then his Little sister takes over his thoughts and he overcomes his fears.

As many little colors go flying by his face he does the calibration, and configuration for the nervegear. When he gets to his avatar modifying screen all the switches are set to gray except the hair color switch which he doesn't want to change. As he finishes setting up his avatar he his asked to put in a name, so putting some thought into it he decides his real name suits him best.

After that he loads in the town of beginnings; the first thing he does is go to the weapon dealer to look for a sword, but instead there was only a large two handed battle axe left that did hunourmous damage but he couldn't use a shield. The large axe on his back went good with his tall and large body type.

it's been a day since a party of people defeated the first floor boss, which made Mikazuki sad that he couldn't participate, but he was fine because he was still leveling up.

So he was walking in the fields when he seen this girl struggling to fight a boar. In fact she was almost losing to the level 1 enemy which was a surprise to him. He ran over pulling out his axe and starts to attack the boar and kills it in two large swings that look like they used up all his strength to do, but he did it.

"Hey miss, if you don't mind me asking what are you doing out here alone?" He asks her.

"Thank you for saving me. I'm out here looking for material." She replies.

Mikazuki then puts away his axe and reaches out his hand and says "My name is Mikazuki, it's nice to meet you!"

She then grabs his hand and replies "My name is Lisbeth it's wonderful to meet you. Oh and just call me lis."

"Alright Lis, are you alone or... do you have friends somewhere." he says kind of shyly.

She looks down and says "No, I have one friend but she's on the assault team now."

"Isn't it dangerous to be doing this alone though?"

she makes a pouting face and says, "Yeah, but nobody will party up with me, and my Friend Asuna is always gone."

The second she said Asuna he froze. This girl is friends with Asuna. He thinks to himself feeling like he got a step closer to his goals.

"Well umm... you can party up with me anytime." He says hoping she will say yes.

She looks up and gets a big smile that would brighten anyone's day, "Truly!? You mean that!?"

"Yeah of... of course, feel free."

So they add each other in their friends list which for both of them was pretty empty.

"So tomorrow at 12 let's meet in the town of beginnings to look for material together." Lis says so happily she can't hold it in, "Oh and by the way if your were wondering why I am gathering materials it's because I am a blacksmith."

"Oh wow, that's great now I know where to go when I will need anything."

The next day Mikazuki was reading the in game daily announcements, and found out they already made it to floor 5, but that a certain player was getting singled out from every guild and party because he was a beta-tester. His name was Kirito, which for some reason sounded really familiar.

"Hey Mikazuki?" A guy with a red headband said waving, "is that you?"

Mikazuki looked around but couldn't really see who was saying that or where it was coming from. He just went back to reading until the guy with the red headband came up to him and wrapped his arm around his neck and said, "Mika buddy, long time no see." Mikazuki looked up and say his friend from work Klien staring right at him.

"Klien is that you?" Mikazuki said wondering what was going on.

"Yeah bro," he said grabbing the chair across from him, "Well how did you end here I don't remember you saying you bought this game."

"Yeah well... you see my sister is stuck in this game," Mikazuki said with a sigh looking down, "So even though I knew I would be stuck in here I decided to log in to try to help her, but it was a large price to pay ya know?"

"Yeah bro," Klien said noticing how he felt, "Well Mika I really admire you for that, I wouldn't have done something like that."

"Thanks, I heard she is in the assault squad now though."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

Klien looked around then said to him "Well Mika buddy I got to go meet my friends want to come?"

"Nah, thanks for the offer but I'm already going with someone else."

"Oh... alright then see ya later bro."

"Yeah see ya."

With that Klien walked away, but something made Mikazuki feel different around him then before in the real world. He seemed more mature and smart than in the real world.

It was almost 12 and Lis still hasn't shown up yet, Mikazuki started to wonder about things and eventually fell asleep near the teleport plaza. He woke up to some one poking his cheek.

"What?" he said irritably.

"Wake up sleepy head." Lis said with a charming smile.

"Woah! I didn't see you there at all. When did you get here?"

"Just now right at 12."

"Let's get going then huh."

For the next four hours Mikazuki and the blacksmith went exploring defeating foes together and gathering materials. They even got to the third floor, but it was a little rough for Lis, Mikazuki on the other hand was doing great leveling up really fast.

They decide to take a break at a small town on floor 4. They went to a small restaurant it was warm and cozy on the inside with a log cabin type design. So as they found a seat at one of the tables with little chairs, they unequipped their weapons and Mikazuki unequipped his matte black armor that covered his chest.

"I got to say for virtual food this looks really good." Mikazuki said admiring his plate top to bottom.

"Yeah I guess, my mom's food was way better though." Lis replied while taking a bite.

"Well of course, same thing with..." As Mikazuki said that he looked down at his food, and his usual happy face now looked sadder than anything Lis has ever seen.

"What's wrong?"

"My girlfriend Ayumi died in this game 2 weeks ago." he said as a tear rolled down his cheek, "that was before I logged on."

"wait!"

"what?" he said looking up in shock.

"You mean you just started the game?" Lis asked with a blank face, "Knowing it was going to be like this?"

"Yeah,"

"Why?" she demanded.

"Because, I needed to protect my little sister, and after Ayumi died I became really worried." he said looking down again.

Lis' face brightened up when he said that, "You know Mikazuki, that's really brave of you."

"What?" he looked up shocked at what he was hearing.

"I really think that's cool." she said with her big smile.

That night they both stayed on floor 4 for the night. When Mikazuki layeddown he stared up at the ceiling thinking about the stuff him and Lis talked about and the adventures they had and if they were going to stay partied or not. In any case they decided to attack the next boss with everyone else now that they are up to level, but Mikazuki knew it wasn't going to be easy.

As he stared up at the ceiling he just started having flashbacks of when his girlfriend went to the hospital because of SAO. And all the things they promised, but as these things went through his head, his blue armor shined onto the ceiling snapping him out of his daydream.

He rolled over and hopped out of bed and decided to sit on his small balcony for a little while. The two small chairs and little table made a romantic setting, with a full moon above him. He then thought about Lis, and wondered how how she can be so positive even with everything that his going on. Isn't she worried about her family, friends, and other important people. He tired himself out by meandering through his thoughts and he fell asleep on the balcony.

"*knock**knock* Wake up Mikazuki." a voice said through his door, "Wake up."

Mikazuki got up and walked over to open the door, then some else opened it anyway.

"Geez, lazy as ever huh?" Lis said with a sigh, looking at Mikazuki stretching with really messy hair and clothes everywhere."I didn't even know you could have this many clothes in SAO."

"Yeah, I usually never have it like this though." he said kind of sheepishly watching her pick it all up.

"It's time for us to go if we want to catch up with the assault team for the next boss." Lis said liking as pumped as ever.

"Yeah I guess let's go." Mikazuki said putting his axe on his back, "but it's going to be tough think you can handle it?"

"Yeah I can, but what do you think the boss is like."

"I heard they call it storm griffin or something like that."

On their way they had an encounter with a huge beast from floor looked like a boar, but it was way bigger and green. It had frightening red eyes, and huge fangs, and sharp beastly claws. And it looked like it hadn't blown it's nose in 4 years, BUT he was disgusting. And according to Lis he was "Unbearable to look at."

"Lis just hid behind me, and get your crystals ready." Mikazuki said using an uppercut sword skill on the monster. Huffing and puffing he said "Lis it's not safe you should leave."Lis then pulled out her Mace, "Lis no, go back it's not safe." Just then the monster hits Mikazuki making his HP drop into the yellow.

Lis looked over and seen her partner in trouble and through him a health potion, then jumped and used a smashing sword skill that she used to hit the monster with in the head then said "Switch Mikazuki"

"Alright," he yelled as he used his most powerful sword skill and swung and hit the monster in the back of the head then in his face knocking out the boss. "We did it Lis!"

"Yeah all thanks to you though." she said cheerfully as usual

"You did quite abit yourself."

"Who do we got here?" They heard a voice from behind a tree

"Mikazuki... who... who was that?" Lis said holding onto his arm scared.

"I... don't know," he said looking for where the sound came from, "there are so many trees that I can't tell where the sound really came from."

"You sir, the big blue and black guy." Then came out a kid dressed in all black.

"Who are you?" Lis asked

"I can only answer that if... you guys tell me who you are."

"I'm Mikazuki, and this is my partner Lisbeth, now who are you?" Mikazuki said in a demanding tone.

"Hmm, I feel like I heard these names from somewhere, oh well," the boy said, "I'm Kirito by the way," he then reached out his hand, but Mikazuki looked at him with a really unsure face, and didn't know what was going on. Lis then grabbed Mikazuki's hand and made him shake with him.

"I have heard quite a bit about you." Kirito says, "actually more like I have seen a lot from you."

"You've been watching us!?" Lis asks with a somewhat irritated voice.

"Yeah, I am scouting out members for the Assault team, and you two are on the top of the list." Kirito said.

"Well whatever the case, this girl here is a blacksmith, I am just helping her for a little bit and then-"

"You're not going to stay with me!?" Lis interrupted.

"Long story Kirito, but hey as soon as we are done with whatever we are doing I will join," Mikazuki said, "but we are going to the boss fight on floor 11 today."

Kirito looks at him, then studies him top to bottom, "What's your level?"

"Mine?"a shocked Mikazuki asks.

"yeah."

"I am level 45."

"How?" Kirito says looking at his own level, "I'm only 2 levels ahead of you." Still shocked Kirito doesn't know what this guy did but thatch high for not doing any boss fights yet. "Well I guess I will see you two later." then he walks off into the distant forest.

"Well that was awkward." Lis says, "What should we do next?"

"I don't know," Mikazuki said, but now he is thinking of Lis, and he is starting to get worried for her. She's not the best fighter ever and the bosses are tough, but she's still just not strong enough. He looks at her with a worried face and says, "Lis, I need you to stay for now okay."

"Why?"

"Because... I just don't want anything to happen to you." he said trying to think of better words.

"But!"

"No please stay," he says looking down, then looks straight into her eyes, "Lis, I promise that I will see you again, but I need you to stay."

She looks down, she really wanted to go, this is tough, "Okay then, but Mikazuki promise me that you will stay alive, and find your sister."

"I will." he said with his best voice.

"Okay then... I guess I will see you later."

"Bye Lis, stay safe okay?"

With that she walks back to the closest village. That whole talk filled Mikazuki up with courage and he is now ready for anything. He rushes to the boss room smashing through every monster in his way, not stopping for anything. He stops at the entrance to the floor 11 boss tower when he sees a familiar face staring right at him.