Prologue

I got inspired by MaxGundam1998 and SSJC J's stories "YuGiOh: RWBY Chronicles" and "CardDimension Neptunia! Let's Duel!" and thought I'd throw my own hat in the ring. Don't expect much, I'd consider myself more of a math nerd than a writer but here is my attempt.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or SAO. I highly doubt anyone thought that, but still needed to be said.

Warning: SAO spoilers, if you can even call them that at this point.

It was an average day for Kazuto Kirigaya, nothing special had happened, which was slightly strange for Kazuto, but not abnormal. Ever since the SAO incident, 6 years ago at this point, his life never seemed to be normal for long. During the SAO incident, 10,000 people had been trapped in a new VRMMORPG game called Sword Art Online by its creator Akihiko Kayaba. No one knows why he did it, but he designed the NerveGear headset used to play SAO to fry the brain of anyone who's HP hit 0. The only way to escape the game was to beat floor 100. The game took years to complete, but luckily for Kazuto, in-game Kirito, he somehow managed to beat the game on floor 75 by taking on Kayaba himself.

After escaping the game things didn't settle down. In SAO he met a girl named Asuna, who he eventually married in-game. When the SAO incident ended she, and a few hundred others hadn't woken up. This somehow lead to playing another game called Alfheim Online, or ALO, to save her. Needless to say, Kirito being Kirito single handedly defeated the GM again and save Asuna.

Then there was a whole other time when players were dying in real life playing Gun Gale Online or GGO. Being the man who beat SAO, the government asked Kirito to investigate and chaos ensues. This time Kirito didn't magically beat a GM again, just a guy named Death Gun who had an accomplice poisoning players irl at the same time he killed them in-game.

Needless to say, such an adventurous life has you meeting many different people and making many friends (read harem). Somehow all of his friends lived close enough to meet up with each other regularly.

Today Kazuto was finishing up some homework when he received an email from Asuna.

I found this great new VRMMORPG we should try called Yu-Gi-Oh! or YGO, here's the link.

Kazuto was a bit suspicious, Asuna isn't normally the type of person to recommend a new game to play, but he shrugged it off and checked it out.

It seemed to be good quality and best of all it was free to play. He quickly downloaded the game and plugged in his AmuSphere rig which had replaced the old NerveGear and promised it wouldn't fry your brain if you die in the game.

Kazuto put the headset on and lied down in bed. "Link start," Kazuto said to start the AmuSphere, right as he received a text from Asuna just a little too late.

My email account has been hacked, disregard anything you get, probably a virus.

AN: what do you think? Like I said earlier, I was inspired by MaxGundam1998 and SSJC J's stories and thought, I'm want to try my own spin on it, what's the worst that could happen? I'm not sure if I'll keep going for long, I've never been much of a writer, but something seemed to tell me to try.

If I do continue I'm still debating whether or not to base this on the Anime or the Games. If I base this on the games I have several extra characters I could add, but then I'll have to deal with people saying, "that character doesn't exist, where did she come from?" I tried to be vague on some of the backstory, partly for spoilers, partly for if it is the game lore, but clearly it's leaning towards the Anime. I'm also placing this before season 3 of SAO, solely because its still in progress and I'm not following it close enough.

My chapters probably won't be that long unless I get really inspired and commit to this story. For all I know it could be a huge flop and I abandon writing for the rest of my life and miss out on a huge opportunity as an amazing writer and end up working at a McDonald's all my life, or maybe not. I seriously doubt I will ever become a professional writer, I'm more into coding and .Println("Hello"); isn't the best for descriptive writing.

I may type the next chapter of this story before I release the prologue so they go up together. I always hate waiting for the next chapter so here's two. If I didn't pre-type the next chapter, I probably deleted this paragraph.

If your wondering about the T rating, that's more of a blanket for me incase I start to get a little more violent, probably not though. Worst case there is some swearing later, or its rated T but could be lower.

Next, actually first, chapter we will meet our protagonist and his friends.