This is a Sword Art Online Fanfiction only.

In my life, I had many deceptions and some of them had changed how I lived my life. The biggest one had to deal with the people I called my family. For years I came to think of the people I lived with to be my family, even felt sad at the passing of the man I once thought to be my father.

I guess a bit of an explanation is involved, otherwise, you will not understand where I am coming from. My name is Kazuto and for many years I thought that my last name was Kirigaya, much like my sister Suguha.

My family is very strict and demands much from us, this caused us to focus on our studies and the only extracurricular activity we had growing up was attending a local kendo dojo owned by my grandfather. For some reason grandpa always gave me the impression he hated my guts.

He was always more strict with me, and would take any chance to punish me for the slightest of errors, sometimes even beat me up with the shinai I often used.

It was when I was nine that I finally had enough, and I did something just to stick it to the man who's joy, according to what I saw, was to beat me up half to death. I first told him exactly where in his body he could sheath his shinai in, I believe the words corn and hole were mentioned.

The second was I promised never to practice Kendo for as long as I lived, and since I had to have a martial art I picked one just to upset my abusive grandfather. I decided to pick jujutsu. I first did it, since I always heard stories that he picked Kendo since he failed at this martial arts style.

I did not fail like he did, I excelled and even won the national competition on my first try, the kicker was that it was a mixed martial arts competition, so in order to win I had to fight members of my grandfather's dojo, even my own sister.

I beat every single member of his dojo and won the competition outright that is when I learned the first deception, he told me he wished that his daughter had never adopted me in the first place.

As this was an embarrassment for her father, I was taken out of my dojo, and forbidden from ever practicing martial arts again. That is when I decided since I already knew everything I needed to learn to be a black belt in both of them, I would concentrate on electronics, most specifically computers.

I had to find out if the thing the old man told was true if indeed I was not really a member of his family like he said. I began going around the city, and I would pick up broken or abandoned computers. I dissembled them and from spare parts I built my own computer.

I learned everything I could about computer language and my final self-imposed test was to hack the government's family registration records. If I wanted the truth about my life it would be there.

There is a saying that sometimes the answers we want most, are the ones we always regret obtaining. I learned that indeed I was not a member of the Kirigaya family at all. I was adopted after my mother died in a car accident, the records state that I got the name Kazuto as her final wish before she died.

I spent every second doing odd jobs for different computer research companies, one of the people I work for most was the man I admired most in the world, he was a scientist by the name of Akihiko Kayaba. The ideas for his full immersion virtual reality system were phenomenal.

I did mostly organizing data and was paid well enough, my family pretty much left me to my own and with grandpa living with us at the time it was not hard to see the reason for it. I think Grandpa Genji actually forgot my name since he often called me either traitor or leech these days.

As I entered high school, I truly began to feel no longer welcomed in my supposed family home. I was an honor student every single year and the fact that I got better scores than my sister I guess rubbed them the wrong way. That coupled with the way grandpa talked about me.

Let's just say that I felt like if I was abducted by aliens and never returned they would not shed a single tear about it, or worse grandpa would make a shrine to the aliens thanking them for taking me away.

On my eleventh birthday I registered to play the first full dive MMO game on the new gaming platform, a real virtual reality game console that would allow the player to feel, taste, smell and experience everything the virtual world was as if it was real. The Nerve Gear was finished and now I wanted to play the Beta of the first real game on it, Sword Art Online.

I was one of the lucky players that got to be a Beta tester for this monumental game, and in this game, I felt alive and happy than I did back in the supposed real world. I even made friends with some really fun guys and even joined a guild.

The time I spent in the world of that flying castle was the best therapy I could ask for, why was it therapy you ask? In the castle Aincrad the place the game took place I was one of the most feared bounty hunters of the most feared guild during the Beta, my friend called it something just for laughs, he called the guild Laughing Coffins.

One year went by rather quickly and before long I was saying goodbye to my friends and I only knew their user names so the final day of the Beta I said goodbye to my friends, PoH, Xaxa, and Johnny.

I waited for the actual release of Sword Art Online, and thanks to me working in the company that developed it. I was given a bonus that year, a bonus I never expected. Usually, we got an end of year check as a salary bonus, but not me. I got a copy of Sword Art Online.

To be back in the world that I loved so much, it was a real blessing to me. I could go back and maybe play again with my old friends. I could spend time with people that as much as I knew really cared about me, unlike my adoptive family.

As I plugged in the Nerve Gear and the game loaded, I opened my eyes and I was on the entry plaza in the city of beginnings. I could not help but to feel happy about it. "I am finally home again."

I began to great the people in the city and didn't care that they were not players. I often did treat them as people and as such they treated me the same way. I wanted to go to the fields and fight some monsters to see how much the world had changed.

Just as I was near the exit to one of my favorite feels, I felt a person grab me from behind and that was when my martial arts training took over. I grabbed the hand and with a kick to the legs of my would-be aggressor I slammed him hard on the ground.

"Damn, that was a good throw. Had I not been in the city my HP would be nearly down to zero. Sorry if I spooked you, man. I just saw you walking and talking to the NPC and realized that you knew what you were doing. You are one of the guys who was a Beta aren't you?"

I looked at the guy, he had the look of a bandit down to the hairs on his chin. "Yea, I was a Beta but what is it to you?"

He put his hands up in a clear sign of surrender, "Hey, no need to be hostile. I was just going to ask you to teach me the basics. This is my first game on this thing, and since you clearly know what is what I wanted to ask you to teach me."

I knew just the field he needed to learn the basics. I was trying hard not to laugh as the boar basically kicked him in the family jewels. It was really funny to see since you can't feel that pain at all.

"Will you stop doing that? You can't feel it anyway." He stopped and laughed as he realized I was telling the truth.

"I guess you are right, but I can't hit that thing if it moves around so much." I picked up a pebble and looked at him. "As long as you do the initial movement for a skill, the system will always help you hit. Just watch and you should see what I mean."

I did the movement for a simple strike and just as the stone shined I let go and sure enough, the stone went flying and hit the boar's right ass cheek. He didn't like it so it came charge it at. I blocked it with my gauntlets.

"See just do the motion and just as you feel your weapon vibrate let go and let it fly." He didn't believe me but since he had no other choice he did as I asked and finally he used the curved sword skill reave.

His strike sliced the boar in half and it broke into a thousand pixels. He was really happy until after he saw the results. "Hey man why is the reward so low?"

I looked at him and smiled, "You won't get much fighting these boars, they are the same as slimes in other RPG games. Good targets for practice, though, no real danger with these things as long as you know what you are doing."

"I am a master blacksmith and using jujutsu. I don't need a weapon, I don't because as long as I can use my hands I am my own weapon. At worst, I can use my skills to disarm my enemy."

He looked downright impressed as I said that and began to pat me on my right shoulder. "That is something, My name is Klein. If you have time later I would like to introduce you to some of my friends, we had a guild in a previous game. We sure could use an expert blacksmith in our new guild. I welcome you with open arms."

"The name is Kirito, I am also known by the Betas as Thousand Striker." He began laughing and pulled me into a one arm hug.

"You got to be kidding, you are the most feared Bounty in this place? Now I have to have you join our guild. No way I am giving up till you join us if only to never be on your hit list."

I looked at the clock and realized I still had to make dinner. "Well I might join if your friends don't have a problem with me, but I really need to log out of here. I still got to make dinner."

That was when he finally looked at his own clock and began to freak out. "Darn I also need to log out, I ordered a pepperoni and mushroom pizza with a bottle of ginger ale."

I had to admit that did sound rather tasty, just as he called the menu he became rather pale. He quickly turned around and asked me a question I would always remember.

"Say Kirito is there an emergency log out function on this game? Cause there is no logout button anywhere on this menu." I looked at it and sure enough, there was a button missing.

"No, the nerve gear pretty much prevents us from moving, or even talking when we got the nerve gear on. It pretty much takes over all our sensory centers of our brain and prevents movement to prevent self-injuries."

"This is not a bug I can tell you this much if it was they would forcefully log everyone out, and repair it. To have a bug of this caliber would pretty much kill the nerve gear and this game."