Ok, you know the drill, I don't own .hack or any of the characters in this story, aside from Unison and any other OC I bring in later.
Also please note that in trying something new with my writing, ther WILL be sexual content, and it WILL be very quick to happen. If this is offensive, then... well you know not to read things that offend you...

Chapter One: Ω Discovered Corrupted Safe Haven

Part one: Unexpected Arrival

"Ahh Thursday…" she said reading her latest fantasy novel. She never understood why it was so empty on Thursdays. It was as reliable as the suns rising. Not even a teacher would enter the library on Thursdays, but that was fine. With the whole library to herself, she could do whatever she wanted for two whole class periods, and on Thursdays, often she would. Being an avid reader and a librarian in a library completely devoid of people for 3 hours every Thursday, she was living her dream. That is, she was living one of her dreams…

Often, while reading, one hand would hold open the book while the other was free to roam about and do whatever subconscious task it was instructed. Whether it be aimlessly teasing and twirling her short black hair, which was cut similarly, though decidedly more tame, to her character's avatar, to scratching at an itch that seemed to move around, to fixing her round, yet not unbecoming, glasses.

Occasionally though she would drift off to sleep on Thursdays, from boredom and absence of interesting reading material. Then there were even the days when she would do things certainly not meant for a school environment. Today would perhaps be one of those days she thought deep in the back of her mind. Subconsciously her hand trailed its way down to her side and hung limply for a moment. Lingering for a few seconds it proceeded to a crease in her navy skirt and began kneading it as though it would unfold and be smooth, though it never did. Finally it snaked its way to the recess of her pleated garment, where beneath there was no limb to support it but rather on either side thereof.

Receding back a bit, the migrant appendage finally found its mark. The unneeded hand grazed back and forth slowly and idly about the area as she was becoming more and more engrossed in her book. It was no great distraction as it was now but more so an enhancement to the peaceful state she was entering. The world was blackness now, nonexistent and unimportant. The further she got into the object of her concentration, however, the limb too progressed as if trying to keep pace with her ever increasing page count. Finally, now completely unaware that her hand even existed, or anything aside from the fantasy she was entranced upon, the hindrance of the pleats was flipped aside so as to get to the heart of the underlying matter.

By now both phrases and fingers were frenzied in each one's respective act. The descriptions off the page were mesmerizing; the digits off the palm, masterful. Competing now were the two hands, to see who was the faster, the hand of pleasure or the hand of the page, and in both book and body, a climax was fast approaching. With release and revelation at hand nothing was a possible threat to her moment—nothing accept….

"N-Natsume….wha.…I-err- uhh…sorry I think I'll leave now!" said some unrecognizable thing which she quickly began to realize was a student who'd walked in… She couldn't let word of this get out, she'd be in detention for months, but even worse than that, banned from the library! Acting more quickly than her normal inclination she grabbed the teenage boy's arm just before he could run out.

"Wait just a sec! I-uhm… You can't-err…." She was at a total loss for words… but he wasn't exactly spinning any yarns either, in fact he looked a bit pale. His eyes were focused on something and his mind was obviously working on something quite profound…

"My arm….its….weeh—" and with his last unintelligible muttering he fainted. As his body fell limp and his arms loosed from her grip she realized what had struck him. It wasn't the innocent book hand she had used but its slightly more than moist opposite…

She stared at the offending hand and back at the boy and back at the hand again. She didn't time to contemplate her adrenaline-induced folly, class was nearly over for the day and she couldn't risk someone finding them this way. 'THINK, Natsume, THINK! Think, think, think!' Much to her dismay nothing came to mind, so as an act of desperation she mustered all her strength, picked him up (as best she could, which was about waist high, feet still dragging heavily on the ground). Clumsily, she brought him to a bench outside, leaning his heavy, limp form on it as though asleep in the wonderful weather of the day.

Natsume herself, on the other hand, not particularly fond of strenuous physical activity, practically collapsed on the bench next to him, panting heavily. But no! She couldn't rest yet she had to leave and hope he'd forgotten what he'd seen when he collapsed. On that day she did more running than ever before in gym. She'd run all the way to her apartment complex.

Horrifying as it was, she couldn't stop thinking about it, she had to tell someone about it, though certainly not in detail! 'The World!' she thought 'I'll login and play some that'll calm me down…' Placing the headgear in its rightful area she nervously pressed button to login from her ALTIMIT desktop.

Golden rings spiraled down her avatar's lithe frame as she appeared in The World. Looking around for a moment she spotted Kite and immediately ran over to him saying, "Kite! Hey, the most embarrassing thing happened to me today!!" She was winded and seemingly distraught.

"Yeah, I know… I mean, me too," came his wavering reply. "I thought I'd come here to clear my head," he said finishing mentally, 'but it looks like the event will be following me…'

"Oh really? Well mine was pretty embarrassing so, I'll let you go first, ok?" she said quickly with an energetic yet obviously nervous smile. The World was many amazing things, it could read your gestures translate your voice into text, and even mirror your own blush and facial expression, a fact that wasn't working in either .hacker's favor. Kite's face had paled, in a stark contrast to the red of his teammate Natsume.

What to do now, what would he say to that? He couldn't simply explain the events as they had happened, that would be a dead giveaway. 'I really don't like lying to people, but this time I have to! Hmm, GOT IT!!' he pondered in silence for no more than a second. "I, heh, I guess I um… I spilled soup on my pants…" he explained, putting on the best (and worst) acting performance of his life.

"Oh that's horribly embarrassing! Well, I guess its my turn now…" she looked away, face glowing even redder. Kite then interrupted, "Hey its ok if you don't want to tell me, I wouldn't want to know if it was that bad!" She looked up at him through her avatar's ever-closed eyes and smile brightly. "Thanks Kite that's so sweet! But, in truth… I won't be able to stop worrying about it until I say something…" Kite's plan hadn't worked quite so well, it seemed he would yet be reminded of the events from earlier in the day.

"Well, I guess I'll give you the watered down version, ok? Well, as you know I'm the librarian at my school. Well, I was reading a book, and I have sort of this habit, and well, its not something you would want most people to find out about. I uh, and then, well, a boy came into the library and caught me with my embarrassing habit… It's really strange since nobody EVER comes in on Thursdays!" she explained with nerve-wracking amounts of fidgeting and blush.

Kite was in utter mental agony, having been through exactly what she had described, only in reverse. She obviously never considered who he was or why he'd been there, which was good, sort of. "So, Kite, do you want to go to a dungeon?" she asked, breaking his thoughts into bits. He couldn't think of anything better to say so he blurted, "I-uhh I have some chores I have to do today, I just remembered!" and promptly logged off. Natsume completely oblivious to the workings of Kite's mind simply stood confused.

All was not lost for the day though, as Blackrose logged in shortly thereafter. "Hey Blackrose, can we go to a dungeon and talk some?" she asked with one hand grasping the opposing arm from behind her back. "Okay," came the reply, "but where do you want to go?"

"Hmm," she mumbled. Thinking of the only keywords seeming to fit with her situation, she said, "How about, Ω Discovered Corrupted Safe Haven?" And off they went to fight and talk…

Part two: Unexpected, A Rival

Elsewhere in that very dungeon, on the 3rd floor, in the large room east of the entrance, battle was already waging, fierce battle at that. "Come back here you little whelp!" yelled the gray twinblade as she ran top speed at the blademaster. "Stop please don't kill me I didn't do anything to you!" he pleaded using another speed charm in hopes he could outrun her. It was to no avail, she was still the faster, with blinding speed she lunged at him. "Tiger Claws!! Stacato!! Saber Dance!! Gale of Swords!! Tempest Strike!!" she was unleashing several skills at once, a trait that meant she was obviously no natural player. Her body move so fast it was as though there were five of her.

Blackrose and Natsume descended the stairs and into the next room. A portal gave way to a chest containing some useless item. Continuing through the rooms Blackrose commented, "Natsume, I'm really impressed, you're really opening up! I mean granted that wasn't the type of conversation I expected to have with you, but I think you really are getting more in touch with yourself!" To which Natsume replied, "Yes, but I'll certainly not be getting in touch with myself in the library anymore!" Blackrose couldn't help but laugh, "You know that's not what I meant! But see even that was just proof of what I'm saying! You're even making jokes about things you would normally be stressed over!"

Natsume looked over with a smile and said, "I suppose it's good that I had this talk with you, now I feel loose and free, I had tried to talk with Kite about it but that only got more stressful…"

"No kidding, guys aren't really the ones to talk to about this stuff. How about this, if you need to talk you can flashmail me kay? Anyway let's check out the next room!" Blackrose exclaimed growing more and more excited about the possible treasures. Walking through the next door, at the east, she heard cries for help and sprang into action, Natsume quickly after.

"Help! Somebody— Hey you two, help, give me a hand!!" his cries were all too slow as the twinblade clad in gray leapt from her position across the room and landed her dagger into the back of the pleading and scrambling blademaster, killing him off at last. "Hey you! I don't know what he did, but player killing isn't very nice! Natsume lets teach her a lesson!" Blackrose yelled. "Right!" came the reply.

An email sat in his mailer. He couldn't understand why it would be there, the title and sender confused him even more so. It was marked 'urgent' from Aura. Not wasting any time puzzling over the message's origin he quickly opened and read what it had to say

"From: AuraSubject: Urgent!

Kite, they are in danger.

You must go to the bottom of Ω Discovered Corrupted Safe Haven.

I fear they have gotten themselves into something they cannot handle alone.

Please, Kite, you must make haste!"

This was a very startling message in many ways, Aura had never before commanded him, nor did he think there was anything dangerous left in The World in the absence of the cursed wave. Now was not the time to worry about such things! He had to login now, and help whoever it was that was in danger! Placing the headset on, he tapped buttons quickly, entering his password in record time. No sooner than he gated into the root of Ω, Lia Fail, did he receive a flashmail from Helba. It instructed him that she too had received the urgent message and to meet her in front of the Elf's Haven ASAP. Running quickly to the point he was told, he met Helba and they gated directly to the bottom floor via a Helba gate, not bothering with pleasantries.

In the large room toward the east, as Blackrose and Natsume were about to face off against the malicious twinblade, she smiled at them. She raised a hand and pointed her palm at them. Her smile widened. Blackrose suddenly became very queasy at a thought that had just occurred to her. "Natsume…isn't that…the same stance that…." she started mumbling. Before she could finish the revelation, large black, gray, and purple angular shapes appeared about the mysterious PKer twinblade's wrist. "Hnhnhnhahahahahahaha!!" she laughed in a maniacal gesture. "….Data Drain…." she mused and an even more frightening quiet manner.

Rushing through room after room Kite and Helba finally reached the designated area only to see a terrifying vision ahead of them. 'Data Drain….' The angular symbols around the twinblade's wrist began to spin and large angular wings formed behind her, in the exact fashion of Kite's own Data Drain. Helba immediately raised her 8 Wise Men and brought Wryneck Rf upon the gray twinblade, as a stall. It didn't have any noticeable affect on the horrific bracelet wielder.

Beams of light exploded out of the black bracelet, and all seemed lost to Natsume and Blackrose. Suddenly Kite sprang forward, taking the blast. Falling and tumbling on the ground Kite yelled, "Are you alright!? Get him out of here!!" Due to the bracelet on his own hand he was protected from Data Drain somewhat, but bad status effects were still inflicted upon him.

"I see, so the other one has appeared to me, I am Unison." the gray twinblade said, "and I will take great pleasure in killing you." Raising her blades, she began to unleash many techniques at once again, but before they could connect with the weakened Kite, whom Helba had not yet had time to heal, something stopped her.

"I don't know what you are or where you came from, but you will be deleted!" Said an unmistakable voice from the back of the room.

"So the Pig-Head has finally arrived. Now gating all player characters out," Helba said with a slight peak of amusement in her voice. Unison was now in a rage, blinding fast attacks at the Administrator all failed to reach him as he said the words, "Please forgive the inconvenience, but this area shall now be deleted…" And with that the picture flickered and the area was gone, along with the mysterious twinblade, Unison.

Ending Notes:

So thats the basic first chapter of this story which i hope will prove to be enjoyable to all who read it. Please read and review, let me know how I can better adapt my story to the tastes of the readers (provided it still goes on with my plot XD)