Chapter 1

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It was a late peaceful evening in the blissful fields of ALO. Some birds flew across the sky chirping worry free. As the sun set a feeling of fatigue fell on most. The wind was blowing a light breeze rustling the blades of grass. Yes all was peaceful except for a certain group of fairy's coming over a hill.

"Well that could have gone better!" Klein yelled throwing his hands up.

Kirito sighed and smiled "Yeah if someone hadn't been a showoff and jumped into the action headfirst it would have been easier." The entire group laughed except for Asuna who had logged out early.

"Hey that's just part of my samurai way," Klein replied buffing out his chest.

"Says the samurai who didn't know that fire skills were magic," said Lisbeth smirking.

"Shut up," Klein exclaimed causing even more laughter. The group was walking back to a nearby town after having completed a quest. "Well its 7:13 and I've got work tomorrow so i gotta log off and get some sleep," Klein said as they finally reached the town.

"Well me and Liz have to do some homework'" Silica stated. As the three fairy's opened their menus and logged off, disappearing into blue pixels.

Leafa placed a hand on Kirito's shoulder "I'm going to log off and eat dinner, are you coming?"

"Save me some left overs im gonna stay on a while longer," Leafa nodded and began to log out as well.

Kirito sighed and turned around walking a few steps before stopping and staring in shock. "Sinon you don't have anything to do in IRL?"

The Cait Sith stood there awkwardly and shook her head. "I thought I'd uh stay on and try to level up my bow skill," she said kind of shyly.

Kirito looked at her smiling "Mind if i help you partner?" Shino had a slight blush, partners...she thought on the word before replying.

"Sure I'd appreciate it...partner," she smiled and lightly punched his arm. Kirito smiled back and motioned for her to follow "I know exactly where to go."

The two walked for about twenty minutes out into a field talking as they went. Sinon was confused "Why don't we just fly?"

Kirito just smiled at her fondly "Because i enjoy walking with you." Sinon was starting to blushing again, but it was cut short by his next set of words "And besides we're almost there." She was still confused by where "There" is, but it was revealed soon enough when they came over the next hill.

"Wow," was all she could say as they came upon a small ranch secluded from the rest of the world. Sinon looked at kirito with wonder "How did you find this place?"

"I heard some rumors about it in town and decided it would be the perfect place to bring you" he said staring out at the ranch.

She was very curious now "Why's that?"

"Because there's only one quest available here and it requires the bow skill," Kirito said as they continued forward closer to the ranch. "Also since not many people use a bow in ALO, you might even get some rare items," he said as he watched her face show a slight bit of excitement.

Sinon shook her head and quickly recovered her cool. She took off in a sprint towards the ranch and turned and yelled "Well come on then!"

Kirito gave way to the chase until both were now at the bottom of the hill, and the foot of the ranch. An NPC was standing at the entrance with a question mark icon. As they came closer they saw that it was an old farmer. Sinon walked up to him and a box popped up and read "Would you like to start the quest 'Thieves in the night?'"

Sinon clicked the blue button and an icon over the farmers head read "Quest Accepted." The farmer now looked at the two "Greetings my kind fairy's would you mind helping an old man and his family with a task?" "You see recently our ranch has been the victim of several robbery's of both goods and cattle" the man continued. He then looked at Sinon and stroked his gray beard "We would need use of your archery skill due to the thieves riding horseback." Then text appeared above the farmer once more reading "Quest Progress."

Sinon and Kirito exchanged a nod and walked further into the ranch. The sun had just went down and the time was now 7:41. Sinon and Kirito stood in the center of the ranch waiting for something to trigger. All that could be heard was the sound of crickets in the woods near the ranch. There was a calm feeling in the air until suddenly several shadows jumped over the nearby fence.

The dark figures were clad in ragged brown robes and the hoods of the robes were pulled down to where you could only see their mouths. Some of them bore swords while others carried bows, but all of them were on horseback.

"Here we go," Kirito said as he watched Sinon take an arrow out of her quiver and ready it. The thieves charged at the two but Sinon took them down with precision shots. Now the thieves loaded they're own arrows and fired straight at Sinon. Sinon gasped as she saw the arrow fly her way and knew she could not dodge in time. She closed her eyes waiting for the impact but was shocked to hear the sound of metal hitting metal.

She opened her eyes to see that Kirito had deflected the arrow with his sword. For a brief moment she saw the Kirito she had met in GGO when he had just sliced a bullet in two. Sinon stood there slightly shocked but eventually let out a sigh of relief "Thanks partner."

Kirito smiled at her "Don't mention it."

The battle continued like this with Kirito deflecting enemy arrows while Sinon was on the offensive. They had kept at it for about ten minutes when finally all that was left was four thief archers. The thief's fired all four arrows at the same time and Kirito knew he couldn't stop all of them at once so he rushed in front of Sinon and deflected one but the other three had hit him in the chest and sent him to the ground.

Sinon watched as she saw the impact of metal and flesh "Kirito!" She quickly finished off the remaining thieves and rushed over to where he had fallen. She knelt down next to him and shoved a red potion in his hand. He quickly drank it and watched as his health bar was raising backed to the green zone.

Kirito sat up and sighed "Thanks." He then received a burning feeling across his right cheek as Sinon slapped him.

"Y-You baka, why did you go do a thing like that," she exclaimed.

Kirito rubbed his cheek, even though they're in a VR it still kind of hurts. "I couldn't stand to watch you get hurt when there was something i could do to stop it" he said gently.

"Well how do you think i feel," Sinon let out. Kirito just looked at her kindly and pulled her into a hug "Its alright, its just a game in the end remember?"

Sinon just stood there blushing as she comprehended what he had just done and all she could let out was "Yeah, sure."

The two stood up and walked to the entrance of the ranch and talked to the old farmer. "Thank you my kind fairy's you have saved my family and my ranch and here is your payment" the old man said smiling. A box popped up and said "Quest Complete" and had a list of all the items gained and the EXP earned. The items gained were moderately good and the EXP was decent. The two then flew off to the nearest town.

When they arrived in town they purchased an inn room and were about to log out when suddenly Sinon hugged Kirito. "U-uh S-Sinon," Kirito finally let out.

"Thank you," she said as she hugged him tighter.

Kirito was very confused "For what?"

"For protecting me, for helping me on the quest, and most importantly," she said. "For showing me this world," she said as she starred straight into his eyes.

Kirito rubbed the back of his head sheepishly "No need to thank me i was happy to help." "Anyways," he said as he let go "I'll see you tomorrow okay?"

"Definitely," she said as both of them opened they're menus and logged out.

As Kazuto finally came back to the real world he sat there thinking. 'I wonder what got into Sinon' he smiled as he thought. His thoughts were interrupted though by the sound of his phone ringing. He had just received a text from Asuna Yuuki. The message read "Kirito we need to talk."