2025
It was a cold afternoon today. In Kyoto, Japan, a girl stood in her room against the beige, splintered, wooden door. Tears ran down her pale-brown cheeks underneath her coal colored bangs. Her hair cascaded all the way to her heels, surprisingly very full of life and bounce.
This girl was fourteen, almost fifteen in a month or two. She was 5'7 and seemed like someone who genuinely smiled a lot.
She raised her head from the wooden floor she stared at for so long since she entered her room. She glanced around her room. The walls in her room were completely bare, save for a single framed picture that hung above her twin-not-so-twin bed. She stumbled over to her bed, emotions overflowing from her heart in handfuls.
She raised her hand and brushed her thumb over the right side of the photo. On it, was a younger her from nine years ago. The younger her held up a big sheet of paper with a picture of her on the center. Around the portrait was her named scrawled on the presentation board, along with words of things she liked at five. Next to her was her older brother, who would have been twenty years-old in five minutes if…
The girl clenched her eyes shut and shook off the overwhelming feeling. He wouldn't want me to be this sad! Stop!-she thought.
She turned to the nightstand next to her bed. On the wooden stand was a VR headset she had purchased a while back with all the money she had collected with her brother a few summers ago. She didn't feel bad about spending it because she knew her brother would have done the same exact thing.
She reached over then pulled the device to her lap and opened the little game slot. On the game cartridge (That's what she preferred to call it anyways) were the words "Sword Art Online".
She closed the slot and placed the headgear on. The girl laid down on her bed and took a deep breath.
This is for you brother…
"Link start!"
A/N: I've been wanting to do a SAO fanfic since I first saw it a few years ago, and now I'm actually doing it. I don't own SAO or any of the characters, unless said otherwise by me.