I limped into the house with my copy of Sword Art Online. I looked into the living room and saw my uncle Minetaka, passed out on the couch. There were quite a few bottles of alcohol on the floor.

"Looks like the drunk bastard woke up." I muttered as I rubbed my mouth.

I limped upstairs where my "sister" Sugu was coming out of her room.

"Why are you limping?" She asked.

"Take a guess as to why I would be limping. I'll give you a hint, it's passed out on the couch." I said reaching the top step.

"Sorry, I didn't know."

"Bullshit! You've got to be deaf not to hear him beat me at night."

"Calm down Kazuto."

"I'm not gonna calm down. I am sick and tired of being beaten every day. Every night I dream of killing that drunk bastard."

"K-Kazuto?"

"Shut up!" I said backhanding her.

She fell to the ground with tears running down her face, and holding her face.

Present Day

I walked into town of Tolbana, where the Floor boss meeting was being held.

'The clock says 1:27. The meeting doesn't start till four. Might as well kill sometime in the Labyrinth, probably won't have time to loot the dungeon when we going to fight the boss.'

I grabbed some provision and made my way to the Labyrinth. A few floors later, I ran into a cloaked rapier user fighting a couple of Ruin Kobold Troopers. I leaned against a wall and just watched them overuse the Linear skill.

"Overusing sword skills leads to exhaustion, exhaustion leads to death. Continue to fight like that and you'll die."

"Everyone dies, it just depends on how. And since I've survived four days out here-"

She was cut off by Troopers spawning in. "Rapier" went to attack but I kill the Troopers, before they could even react. Afterwards I turn around and watched "Rapier" collapse to the floor.

"Why does no one listen to me?" I said lifting her up and carried her outside to a field. I laid her in a field underneath a large tree. After a couple hours I heard a groan.

"Why?.. Why did you save me?!"

"To be perfectly honest, I don't why I did it either, maybe it was pity. Pity that a submissive girl like yourself has to survive on her own."

"DAMN YOU!" She yelled as she charged towards me.

I dodged her attack and dodged the next.

"I mean you gave up far too easily." I said still dodging her attacks

"SHUT UP!" She shouted swinging her sword wildly. I drew my sword and launched her rapier out of her hand, and knocked her off balance. I grabbed her before she fell and placed my sword against her throat.

"Honestly I don't give a damn if your here by mistake or even if your entire family was slaughtered right in front of you. If you want to die there's the Labyrinth, otherwise make your way to town and help us fight." I stood her up and sheathed my sword and walked away.

"You were right about one thing. About how death can be unavoidable in SAO, however your logic was wrong. If it were me, I'd try to go out in style while fighting a floor boss."

I got to Tolbana just as the meeting was about to start. A player with blue hair stood in the center of the stage addressing the players that attended the meeting.

"Now I don't think I need to tell you why you guys are here, but I'll remind you anyways. If your here then you're fighting on the frontlines, and it's our responsibility to ensure that all the players trapped here are released from the game. Diabel said.

"Hold up! I think some of you guys should apologize to the 2000 that died!" A cactus haired player yelled making his way to the stage.

"Hold on, you're not talking about the beta testers, are you?" Diabel said

"Of course I am. They're the reason why 2000 people are dead! If they didn't leave us new players behind, those 2000 would still be alive. Kibaou said trying to get the players to agree with him.

"What about the strategy guide" said a giant axe wielding behemoth.

"And who the hell are you?" Kiboau aid.

"My names Agil, now if you'll please shut up and listen! This is the strategy guide provided to everyone." Agil said pulling out a book. "Put together by Argo the Rat and the Ex-beta testers. Everyone read it yet some still died. Now I'm not here to point fingers, I'm here to learn from those players deaths and escape this damn game."

Kibaou didn't seem to take getting cut off very well as he stormed off. Diabel walked back to the center of the stage.

"Now getting back to the meeting, I want all of you to form parties of 6 players."

After everyone scrambled around to form their parties.

"Now the latest edition of the strategy guide was just released, it says the boss's name is Illfang the Kobold Lord he fights with an axe and buckler. And when his health goes into the red he switches to a weapon called a Talwar and his attack patterns change too. Any objections. Good, we'll meet back here at 10." Diavel quickly said.

I stood up and tried to sneak out to the center of town, when Diabel shouted at me.

"Hey! Obsidian haired kid. If your fighting the boss you need to party up with someone."

"I work better alone."

"You can't go alone. Why don't you form a party of two with that cloaked player over there?" Diabel said pointing towards a cloaked player.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" The cloaked girl and I said in unison as we look at each other. "I'm not working with them!"

"Listen, you either party up with each other or you don't fight the boss, and that's that." Diabel said walking to the center of town.

I flipped off Diabel when he turned his back. Then I turned to the girl.

"So, you decided to live then?" I said crossing my arms.

She stood up out of her seat and walked towards me. "I'm taking your advice. If I'm going to die I might as well die doing something important."

"What advice? I never gave you advice. You were suppose to die in the labyrinth" I turned around and walked towards my rented house.

"Hey! Where are you going?" She said following me.

"Home, to take a bath."

"What about partying up?"

"What are they going to do kill us?" I stopped and sighed. "If you feel safer send the invite."

I kept walking and a window popped up.

"Asuna has invited you to their party." I sighed and hit accept.

I arrived at the house I rented out for 80 col. After hearing footsteps I turned around to find Asuna standing behind me.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

"We're partied up, so we've got to stick together, right?"

I let out a big sigh. "Fine." Then walked through the door.

"What? That's it, I expected you to object in some way."

I stopped and turned around.

"If I were to have said no, and closed the door on you. You wouldn't have left, you would have stood at the door knocking until I gave in and opened it. Like every other pain in the ass girl."

"Jackass" She said as she walked passed me with a pissed look on her face.

"Heard worse."

A few minutes passed, Asuna stole the bathroom to take a bath as I fell asleep on the living room couch. When I woke up, it was 9:50 in the morning and Asuna was nowhere to be found. But there was a sandwich on table.

I chuckled and ate the sandwich, then walked to Tolbana.

"You're late!" Asuna said.

"My apologies, your Highness. I overslept."

Asuna rolled her eyes after that remark. We made our way outside of the boss room where Diabel gave a short speech to boost morale, then we entered the room. Diabel shouted out commands from behind us after a few minutes we managed to drop the bosses HP to the red, when Illfang threw away his axe and shield. Suddenly Diabel charged at the boss.

"Stand back everyone, I'm going to finish this!" Diabel yelled.

It was then I noticed the boss's back-up weapon was a No-Dachi, not a Talwar. Something compelled me to warn him.

"That's not a Tarwar, It's a No Dachi!"

"What!?"

That was the last word Diabel said before Illfang bounced off the walls and slashed Diabel to death.

I towards Illfang and deflected the his sword skill with my own knocking him off balance as Asuna switched in for an attack, but somehow the he managed to regain his composure and swung at Asuna,

"Asuna!" I yelled to warn her.

After realizing what was happening, Asuna dodged Illfangs attack but he somehow managed to tear off her cloak revealing her face, she activates a sword skill that stuns the boss. I stood up and got in between Asuna and the boss and blocked his sword skill attack with my own, the impact of both sword skills clashing launches me and Asuna to the floor.

Just as Illfang was about to finish us off, a green beam of light sends him flying backwards.

"We'll hold him off for as long as possible" Agil said.

All the players finally decided jump into the battle and attack Illfang.

He knocked them all back then jumped high into the air. I grab my sword and met him half way through his descent, I block his attack and strike him to the ground like a meteor.

"We're ending this, now!" I said to Asuna.

We blocked Illfang's attacks and I waited for the right moment and slashed the him in half. Illfang the Kabold lord was defeated; a window appeared in front of my face.

"Congratulation, You got the last attack bonus, Reward: Coat of Midnight"

I knelt there to catch my breath, listening to the player's cheers.

"WHY!? Why did you let Diabel die, you knew what the bosses back up weapon was and you didn't tell us, IT'S YOUR FAULT!" Kibaou yelled.

"He must have been a beta tester, he knew what the bosses attack patterns and kept it to himself!" Another player said.

"And that snitch Argo lied in her strategy guide. She selling lies!" Kibaou said

"If it wasn't for him, you'd all be dead. You owe him your worthless lives." Asuna said reaching for her rapier.

I felt my fist clench, Kibaou was really getting on my nerves and the fact that he's assigning the blame really pisses me off.

"Honestly, I don't know why you're so angry. Diabel played his part perfectly, as cannon fodder like the rest of you." I said laughing.

"GODDAMN YOU!" Kibaou yelled charging towards me. I drew my sword and knocked his out of his hand, then plunged mine into his chest. My player cursor turned orange.

"Next time you do that, I will kill you. Understand?" I pulled my sword out of his chest just as his health was about to hit zero. Then slammed my knee into his face.

"I'm going to activate the transfer gate, if any of you follow me, be prepared to die." I said walking through the door.

I apologize if the chapter is awful. With my luck chapters 2 and 3 may also be awful, but fingers crossed.