AN: Greetings fellow fanfiction members. This is my first fanfic I've written as you propably have guessed, so bear with me. Please leave me comments about things that you noticed in my writing, point out any flaws, or have any requests about the bosses on the floors in your reviews. It would be greatly appreciated. I'm going to try to have the boss battles in the storyline actually written out Particularly the Skull reaper (really wished they actually showed the struggle of the combat.)

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STORY START

A boy walks in to a game store with a girl following not too far behind. His black hair fell down his face in the form of a bang falling between his eyes the rest fell off to the sides and gave him a slight scruffy look. His calm expression betrayed by the annoyed look in his eyes. "Ah, Welcome, if it isn't Mr. Kazuto Kirigaya. What can I do for you today?" asked the man behind the counter.

"Kon'nichiwa. I'm here for the order I placed a few months ago." The boy now identified as Kazuto said.

"Alright I will be right back with it." The man behind the counter walked into the back room for a moment and returned with a small box in his hand. "I have your order right here. One copy of Sword Art Online and Nerve-gear headset. I take it that the young lady behind you is your sister Suguha?" her hair was the same color as his but maintained and the bangs stopped right above her eyebrows, their faces looked similar but the difference being, her face had a soft curve to it, whereas Kirito had a more egded face.

"Yeah she is" Even though were actually cousins, but it doesn't really matter to me anymore.

"Well, that's nice. Ill ring this up and we'll be on our way. Please sign here and we'll be done." They finished and headed home.

Meanwhile:

"Kaa-san. I'll be getting on now. I'll try to get off before dinner." A blond boy said. On his face were birth marks in the form of three whiskers on each cheek, his eyes deep cerulean pools that shined with mischievousness. His blond hair was a wild mess but it and his features gave him a foxy look.

"Alright Naruto-kun, don't be a pain to the other players and be sure to say hi to your cousin, Kayaba, for us will you." She replied.

"Kushina, you know he's not going to be online, he's got a company to run." The boy's father called out.

"Minato, you're not helping." She responded.

"He'll be fine, nothing is going to happen. It's completely safe."

"I know, but I worry about him, all he does is spend time playing that game."

"At least his cousin's paying him to beta test his equipment and the game." At this point Naruto put the Nerve-gear on, "I love you mom! Link start."

(Suguha and Kirito)

"Ready Sugu?" Kazuto asked.

"Hai, Onii-chan, I'm ready." Suguha said.

"When you get in wait for me, in the Town of Beginnings to find you." Kazuto ordered.

"Hai. Link start!" Suguha declared.

"Alright then, now for my turn." He walked out of her room and into his and laid down on his bed. He turned on his nerve gear and waited for it to boot. When it finally did he exclaimed "Link start!" and was immersed in a cascade of colors and a soft ringing. Then the machine calibrated itself to his five senses. He chose his default language and signed in as his beta test file Kirito. Then was immersed onto another cascade of colors and fully emerged into the virtual world of Sword Art Online. He was standing up and looked around getting a feel of himself, and he said one thing. "Hello world. I'm back!" and he clenched his fist in front of him. He opened up his window and sent a message to his friend from the beta test. Hey Swirling-Maelstrom I'm on and in the town of beginnings, brought my sis and going to show her the ropes. The reply came back. Hey, where have you been? I've been on for an hour now and had to get started without you, and it seems I've picked up a passenger. I'm showing him the ropes now and I'll meet up with you outside the eastern gate in a bit.

I'll be there, I have to find my sis and we can get started. He sent back then looked around for Sugu's Avatar. He found it and ran over to her. "Hey Leafa, how does it feel?" using her avatar name. Sugu's avatar had long flowing blond hair held in a ponytail, green eyes, but everything else looked exactly like her, against Kirito's advice*.

"Hey, Kirito. It feels different but not in a bad way."

"Well you haven't seen nothing yet. Come on well get you your gear and equipment and meet up with one of my friends after and then well show you how to play SAO." He grabbed her hand and guided her through the town and surrounding areas, buying supplies and other necessities before heading out to the eastern gate, she bought a moderate sized Iron Katana for her weapon and a green dress-like suit of armor that matched her eye color*.

"There sure are a lot of people here today."

"Of course there is today is the official release of the game and it was the talk of the gaming community for a few good years before the beta." Came a voice next to the two of them. They turned to see a young man with blond hair deep blue eyes and three whisker marks on each of his cheeks, his armor was a bright orange color*, oddly enough it only made him look even better he had two Iron Daggers on his hips. "Hey Kirito, how you been? Is this your sister?" he asked.

"I'm good and this is my sister, Leafa. Leafa meet Swirling-maelstrom. We worked on the beta test together, he's the reason I was able to get up to floor 8." He said

"Don't sell yourself short there, Kirito. If it weren't for you my death count would be twice the size it is. And how many times have I told you to call me by my name?" Swirling-Maelstrom asked. His eyebrow twitching a little bit.

"Too many, and I still won't." Kirito responded.

"What is your name anyway?" Sugu asked.

"The name's Naruto Uzumaki."

"Hello Naruto, my name is Suguha Kirigaya"

"So Naruto, Who's the noob?" Kirito interjected ruining the moment that was beginning. Sugu looked over to him, eyebrows twitching and Naruto glared at him. You think I'm just gonna stand here while you get all buddy-buddy with my sis, you've got another thing coming. Kirito thought.

"Dude, not cool." The stranger said, his hair a red-ish pink and fell down the side of his head. All of his hair was held down by a bandana wrapped around his head, except a bang that fell out the front. "Anyway the name's Klein."

"Hello Klein," Kirito turns to Naruto, "We gonna get started or are we just gonna stand here talking?"

"Lead the way, you're here to teach your sister how to play. We're here to watch how much you screw up and laugh about it, while helping out where is needed." He responded, "So, Suguha, was it?" getting a nod from her he continued. "I see you have a Katana as your primary weapon, so I assume that it's safe to assume you're gonna be a close range dexterous fighter?"

"Yeah, it's safe to assume that." She answered. "Good, that makes our job a whole lot easier. Let's go." Naruto lead her, Kirito, and Klein into the fields for a good bit of time. They came up upon a wild boar. Kirito took the lead at this point, "The first thing you need to familiarize yourself with is how to use your sword skills. Since you have so much experience with swinging that type of blade from all that kendo practice we did then all we need to do is to get you familiar with them. Pay attention to what I do." He lectured. Kirito pulled out his Iron Longsword and held a stance. His left leg in front pointed towards the boar, and his right foot behind him perpendicular to his left, his sword held out to the side behind him and his left hand palm out and ready to swing, when the blade of his sword started glowing a light teal. He took a step forward and lunged at the boar. Swinging his sword almost perfectly splitting the boarin half. "Now you try it" Sugu approached another boar in the field. She held her katana above her head, and her left foot forward and her right slightly behind her. Her sword began to glow and she stepped forward and unleashed the skill, cleaving the boar in half.

They stood in silence, Naruto, Kirito and Klein stared at her with looks of respect, pride and awe respectively. Kirito spoke first "told ya she'd get it on her first try. Now where's my money, Naruto?"

"You'll get it later, now we are going to farm for experience." And so they did for a good few hours bring everyone's levels up by two, or three in Naruto and Klein's case. They sat on a hill gazing out to the sunset relaxing and enjoying the peace and quiet. Sugu kept asking Naruto questions about his life and Klein kept begging for spoilers on the lower floors, which he kept denying. Then Klein stood up "Well, it was a pleasure to meet you all, I've got to go and get something to eat. See ya." And he opened the menu and scrolled down to the bottom of the menu for the log out button. "What?!" he exclaimed "Where's the logout Button? Hey guys. Where's the logout button?"

"Dude you're playing a game and you don't know where the logout button is?" Kirito asked incredulously.

"I know where it's supposed to be but, it's gone." Naruto, Kirito, and Suguha opened their own menus to find the logout button gone from their menus and an empty slot in its place. "What the hell is going on here? Can anyone get ahold of the game masters?" Kirito asked.

"I'm trying but no one is answering. Give me a minute to try and contact my cousin." Naruto responded.

"Who's your cousin?" Sugu asked.

"Akihiko Kayaba. And before you ask, yes. He's the one who developed this and the Nerve-gear." Naruto said.

"Sugoi! I bet you got lots of rare items from him didn't you?" Sugu asked.

"No, not really just a paycheck every other week for beta-testing." Naruto responded. Then, the bell tower in the town rung out with a low dull note, and he started glowing in a blue mist, then Sugu and Klein then finally Kirito. The four of them found themselves in the center of the Town of Beginnings along with several thousand other players. Everyone was looking around in confusion, mumbling to themselves until a red hexagon appeared in the sky labeled 'warning', everyone quieted down. As it spread across the sky giving it an earie red glow, then blood began dripping from the seams of the hexagonal cage. Coming together in the air above the courtyard taking the form of a man in the dark red cloak of the game masters, his face shadowed by the massive hood. "Attention players" it called out "Welcome to my world, I am Akihiko Kayaba, and as of this moment I am the only person in control of this world. I'm sure most of you players have noticed something missing from your main menu. This is not a defect within the game. This is how SAO was designed to be." Itoko, what do you think you're doing? Naruto thought, what is the meaning of this? "You are no longer able to log yourselves out of the game. And no one from the outside can save you. For if anyone tries to remove or shut down the Nerve-gear while it is on your head, a transmitter within the nerve-gear will emit an electrical pulse into your brain killing you, the same will happen if your hit points reach zero you will die in and out of game." Silence reigned for the moment he paused, letting the information sink in. "Despite my warning, families and friends of some of the players have attempted to remove the nerve-gear from their head. Because of this 213 Players have died." No! That can't be possible, he couldn't have done this. My cousin can't be the one responsible for this. But he was the only one to have access to the nerve-gear inner processes, except Koujiro Rinko, but she wouldn't do this. Why would he do this? What would he have to gain from this? This just doesn't make any sense! "The only way from you to escape is to defeat the final boss on the final floor. One of the last things for you to know is that I've given every one of you a little gift. Please take a look." Every one opened their menu and pulled out a Mirror. Then in a brilliant flash of light everyone's avatar was replaced by their actual appearance. Naruto looked around for his friends, "Naruto?" he heard. He turned to a girl looking like Sugu, but with dark hair, and onyx colored eyes and a beautiful soft face, "Sugu!" a boy called out, "what happened to your avatar?" he looked like a male Suguha, with the same hair and eyes, but a more masculine face. Sugu looked into the mirror in her hand to see her hair and eyes to be their normal colors.

"Kirito, your avatar has changed. You look like yourself." Sugu said.

"How are you able to tell who I am, Sugu? I don't look anything like my Avatar." Naruto responded.

"Your eyes haven't changed and your whiskers are still there. Never thought they'd be real, are they scars or birth marks. You know you look a lot cuter then your avatar, as well as more handsome." Sugu said with a light blush on her face. "Well Sugu, you look a lot more attractive like this then your own." With that the blush darkened, as well as Kirito's expression.

"Definitely birthmarks, girl they are birthmarks." A man said. He had shaggy red-ish pink hair and a small beard.

"That you Klein?"

"Yeah it's me, what the hell just happened?"

"The Nerve-gear has a scanner that is able to scan your fascial features and it got our height and body type from the initial calibration test, and how did you know they were birthmarks?" Naruto responded. "Ok then and they aren't the right color to be scars." Klein answered. Then Kayaba spoke up again. "Now that I've, peeled away your masks hiding who you really are. I'm sure all of you are wondering right now, why I have done this. The answer is simple; I've always wanted a place where I can play god. This hereby marks the end of the tutorial and the official launch of Sword Art Online. Players I wish you the best of luck." And with that he disappeared and left the rest of the players stunned. Then panic spread through the crowd as they realized the implications of this.

In the midst of this panic Naruto approached the front of the crowd. He took a deep breath and shouted "SIIIIILEEEEEEEEEEEENCE!" and everyone shut up and looked to the front. Naruto walked up to a stack of boxes and climbed up. "EVERYONE CALM DOWN AND LISTEN UP, I'M NOT GOING TO REPEAT THIS! WE ARE GOING TO CALMLY AND PEACEFULLY DEAL WITH THIS. WE ARE NOT ANIMALS! NOW THAT I HAVE EVERYONE'S ATTENTION I WANT EVERYONE TO OPEN THEIR CHAT WINDOWS AND ADD SWIRLING-MAELSTROM TO THEIR CURRENT CHAT WINDOW." Everyone did as instructed. "Good. Now this is easier for everyone here. I want every beta tester to come to the front." People began shuffling around letting people through to the front. "Good, Fellow Players listen closely. Those of you who do not wish to risk your lives in a fight for the people around you, I want you to sit down. The rest of us who remain standing, do not criticize them for doing so. Those of you who want to sit, but don't feel up to the task, we will not force you to fight against your will. I want you to make this choice solely on your own. Not everyone is capable of risking their lives for others or themselves." Several hundred people standing sat down. "Now those of you who remained standing, look around you. The ones standing with you are brothers and sisters in arms. Everyday we're in here, you will fight alongside them. The ones siting down are the ones whose lives are in our hands and it is our responsibility to them to get them out of here safely. I will not lie to you. This journey you have chosen is a dark, and perilous path, one where many of us will not survive, I am telling you this because I want you to know that when you feel you have reached your limit do not be afraid to say 'I can't go any further'. Just be sure to remember that those around you will be there to help you back on your feet when you fall down. Remember your homes and your families, who are waiting for you to get out of this mess and come back home. Remember this as you fight your way through this prison. The men and women siting down. It is you, who must make sure that those who are siting with you are taken care of. It is you who are the ones to make sure that we, the ones who are fighting, don't have to worry about what we leave behind so that we may focus on the road ahead. You are the ones who support us who will find a way to save you from this hell. It will be your responsibility to take care of the young ones who aren't ready for the horrors of this world. Beta-testers, each of us are going to take the warriors standing before us and show them how to use their weapons, skills, and equipment to survive. This will be a long selection process, and an even longer process to train them. But without them we are not likely to survive, and neither will they. Now back to everybody, I will have to share some unfortunate truths with you all. We are under a strict time limit," and with that statement the crowd became unsettled. A voice cried out from the crowd "What makes you say that?!" and people started shouting indignantly at him. "SILENCE YOURSELVES, YOU FOOLS!" Naruto shouted silencing them all. "While we are in this game, what is feeding our bodies, what is keeping us healthy in the outside? While I am sure that the authorities and going to keep us alive for as long as possible the can only do so much before our bodies naturally collapse and die. I say at most we have three to four years to clear through this floating castle and go home. Now Beta-testers we are going to select our students in a simple manner we are going to line up. This will take a long time, so in order to make this easier warriors, I want you to band together into groups of seven to nine, be it with friends, family or complete strangers. Do this quickly. Civilians I want you to go out and find places for you to rest comfortably, it has been a long day for all of us and in the coming months we will need your strength to rely upon." And so it was done and the teams were selected and taken by the beta-testers, they went to inns and taverns to rest for the next day when all hell would begin.

THAT NIGHT;

"Damn Naruto that was some deep shit you said and honestly I have to say damn inspirational." Kirito said. "Thank you, Kirito. If it helps I wish you good luck out there tomorrow it seems that we are going to be very busy for the next few days. And were not going to see each other much till this is these next few weeks are over so I have a proposal to everyone in this room." Naruto said. Klein, Kirito, and Sugu, who managed to change her hair back to the state it was before as well as her eye color and found an armor to match it, looked over to him.

"Yeah what is it?" Klein asked.

"I propose we start a guild, comprised of the four of us, and we call it the Pillars of Konoha."

"I like it, it's original and unique." Sugu said.

"It doesn't really matter to me" Kirito said.

"It sounds Bad-ass. I like it." Klein said.

CHAPTER END

AN: yes I have Kirito in a guild, no Klein is not going to be the leader of the Fuurinkazan Guild, and he didn't sign on with any of the other members. Yes, Asuna is going to join them. As will Agil, Lisbeth, and Silica.

*Sugu's avatar is the same as in ALO, along with the kind of armor and weapon.

*Naruto's armor is like Kirito's armor in GGO except without the lower skirt thing

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