Hey there guys well this is my first foray into writing Sword Art Online this story is a slight retelling of the story with me changing a few things. The first being that Gleam eyes will be the boss on the 70th floor and not the 74th floor, the others being that they do not actually escape till about a month after the do in the story.
Also please note there are a couple of things in here that were not mentioned in the anime but were in the manga and light novels just to add to the plot.
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:::February 24, 2024 Floor 35 Mishe Inn:::
The light from Pina's heart died down to show Pina floating there Silica jumped for joy that Pina was revived.
"Pina! It's so good to see you." Silica yelled out as she hugged her little dragon familiar.
Silica pointed to Kirito. "Pina this is Kirito-Niichan he helped me get the flower to bring you back." Silica stated without skipping a beat.
Pina flew over and licked Kirito's face which confused Silica as familiar's would normally only act like that towards there tamer.
Kirito looked at Silica confused. "Niichan?" He asked.
Silica blushed. "Gomen'nasai Kirito-san you said I reminded you of your little sister and I am a only child and today being with you honestly felt like I was with a big brother, Gomen'nasai." Silica responded.
Kirito looked at her and smiled. "No it's ok I like it." He said as he placed his hand on top of her head patting it.
Silica looked up at him with a smile across her face. "Arigatō Kirito-Niichan."
At that point Kirito got up to leave when Silica grabbed his arm to stop him.
"Silica I have to get back to the front lines I have been away for 3 days now I am part of the assault team." Kirito stated.
"Please let me come with you Kirito-Niichan other than Pina I really don't have anyone here but the fan boys and to be honest I feel lonely and you look lonely." She stated to him.
"Listen Silica it is dangerous on the upper floors for you and I am a solo player." He explained.
She looked down at the floor. "Oh ok but no one should really be alone in this game Kirito-Niichan today was the first time I actually felt wanted and liked and I don't want to lose that is all Gomen'nasai." Silica stated.
Kirito interrupted her before she could continue. "Listen Silica I work alone for a reason people tend to get hurt when they stay with me for too long and I don't want any more people to get hurt because of me." Kirito explained.
"I'm not looking to fight on the front lines with you Kirito-Niichan just be there for you like a little sister someone for you to come home to someone that would look out for you I promise I will not put myself in danger." Silica stated.
Kirito sighed. "Very well I live up on the 50th floor you can come stay with me for a bit ok, but you are not to follow me when I join the assault team got it not until your level is a lot higher, and I guess I can take you to lower floors to help you level when I have the chance." He explained to her as she smiled and as Pina cooed as she landed on Silica's head.
They arrived at the teleport gate and both called out to teleport to Algade, once they arrived they headed to Kirito's place.
"Listen Silica my place is not very large but does have 2 bedrooms and I should warn you I eat out a lot due to my cooking skill being non-existent." He explained.
Silica giggled. "That is ok Kirito-Niichan my cooking skill is halfway to max so I can cook for you on some nights." Silica stated with a smile.
Kirito just stifled a small laugh as they headed to the apartment is the best way to describe it.
::: March 6, 2024 The 56th floor assault team meeting:::
All the clearers were standing around a map laid out on the table discussing the field boss GeoCrawler, Asuna vice commander of The Knight's of the Blood Oath stood at the head of the table with Klein Leader of the Furinkazan guild standing off to her right.
"The best way to take this boss out without losing anyone would be to lead it into the small village and have it focus on the NPC's there while we attack it." She explained.
Kirito slammed his hand down on the table. "We can't do this NPC's are not like rocks or walls they are." He starts to say but is interrupted by Asuna.
Klein shaking his head watches as Asuna lay's into him. "Are what alive, if they are killed they will respawn unlike any of us if we die they are game objects." She explained rather angrily.
"I cannot be a part of this." Kirito states and goes to turn around when Asuna speaks up.
"I am in command of this operation and as a clearer you will obey my orders got it." She commanded him.
Kirito just nodded his head and went back to where he was standing while the meeting continued.
After the meeting was over Kirito was walking out to get prepared for the assault as he was called over by Agil a friend and the shop owner on the 50th floor that Kirito did all his business in.
"Agil how come you're not at your shop?" Kirito asked.
Agil just smiled. "Silica is watching over it today for me so I can help on the front lines, but what is it with you and arguing with the Vice Commander like that man?" Agil asks.
"I guess we just don't see eye to eye." Kirito says as he remembers what he told after they defeated the floor 1 boss together.
"You told her that she could be powerful and if someone she trusted invited her to a guild she should join it." Agil stated.
"Yeah I did tell her that I just did not expect her to become a ruthless hard liner in the top guild on the front lines though." He said.
Agil just smiled. "Well you might feel a bit better because Argo just went into the cave to talk with Asuna." Agil stated.
Kirito looked at him oddly. "What does that have to with anything she is most likely selling information to her." Kirito said.
"I don't know man Argo likes Asuna but anyway she was seen earlier scouting GeoCrawler so maybe she found a better way to take him out." Agil stated.
"And he would be right Ki-Bo." A female voice stated which startled Kirito.
"Jeez Argo can you not scare the crap out of me like that, anyway what did you find out." Kirito stated then asked.
"Hmm well I guess since I already gave the info to Asu-Chan I can tell you since you two seem to be fighting if a certain lullaby is sung GeoCrawler will go to sleep for five minutes which should be enough time for you guys to beat it." Argo explained.
"ArigatōArgo."Kirito stated.
"Hey don't think just because I gave you this info for free I will not charge you next time Ki-Bo, anyway where is Sili-Chan I got more tamer info for her." She stated.
Kirito got a scowl on his face. "She is covering at Agil's shop and don't you think of overcharging her for the info either." Kirito growled.
Argo jumped down from where she was perched and patted Kirito on the head. "Don't worry Ki-Bo I won't, now you have fun storming the castle." Argo stated as she took off.
Kirito just shook his head as Argo ran off Agil looked at him and laughed. "Look at the solo beater black swordsman protecting Dragon-tamer Silica." Agil says as Kirito just shrugs and heads off with the rest of the assault team to combat GeoCrawler.
::: April 11, 2024 59th Floor fields just outside of Danac :::
Asuna is walking down a path when she notices out of the corner of her eye Kirito just laying down in the field. "Look at him being lazy while the rest of us try and clear the game." She thinks to herself.
She walks over to him and nudges him with her foot. "What are you doing?" She asks him.
Kirito opens his eyes looking up and the Vice Commander. "Oh it's you." He says sighing afterwards.
She looks at him angrily. "The other Front liners are out clearing and mapping the labyrinth, and you're out here laying down taking a nap." She says with a scowl.
"Even as a solo Player you have to take things more." She starts to say till Kirito interrupts her.
"This is Aincrad's nicest weather during its nicest season." He states.
"Huh?" Asuna replies slightly confused.
"Crawling around in the labyrinth would be such a waste." He continues.
She glares at him even more angry now. "You don't get it do you, everyday that we waste in here is a day lost in the real world." She explains.
Kirito with his eyes closed again sighs but replies nonetheless. "But Aincrad is where we live right now."
Asuna just looks confused slightly and as a breeze blow's through Kirito continues with his reasoning for napping on the field.
"See the wind and sunlight feel so good." He states.
"Do they?" Asuna asks now interested in his reasoning.
"Don't we always get the same weather?" She asks him.
"If you'd lie down for a bit, you'd understand." He explains.
He then dozes off as Asuna looks around, she then finally lies down on the grass and ends up falling asleep.
After about 2 or 3 hours Kirito wakes up and looks over to see Asuna sleeping.
"I honestly did not expect her to fall asleep like that." He says as he looks over at her.
He then walks over to the wall and sits down content with watching over her so no one tries to sleep PK her .
5 to 6 hours later Asuna finally wakes up she is groggy and confused as to where she is when she notices Kirito sitting on the wall staring at her, she jumps up and grabs the hilt of her rapier and glares at hi.
Kirito jumps down off the wall putting his hands up.
"One meal." She growls out at him.
"Huh?" He asks.
"I will treat you to one meal for watching over me while I slept then we will be even." She explains to him.
Kirito just nods, and they walk off towards the teleport gate.
::: 50th Floor Algade Agil's shop:::
Agil and Silica where sitting behind the counter talking about random things.
"So now I just hit level 55 I'm slowly catching up to Kirito-Niichan soon I will be able to join him on the front lines, and thanks to the info Argo-san has given me on tamer's has helped Pina here get stronger as well." Silica stated to Agil with a huge smile on her face.
Agil smiled at her. "True but to be honest not sure if he would be ok with that he has become very protective of you since you started living with him, he even threatened Argo not to rip you off on the info." Agil stated.
"That and with you heading to the mid to lower floors your helping me get info and supplies to aid the mid level swordsmen to level up and survive better." Agil explains to her.
Silica just looks at him. "Kirito-Niichan really did that to Argo-san?" She asked.
Agil just nodded. "Believe it or not Silica you living with him I think helps him more than even he or you would know." Agil explains.
Silica blushed. "I understand Agil-san but why was he like that before?" She asks.
Agil lowers his head he had heard bits and pieces of what had happened from other players and Klein as well.
"Just before last Christmas I want to say about 3 or 4 months before I had heard that Kirito had joined a guild which surprised me, since the defeat of the first floor boss Kirito took the title of beater to spare the other beta testers, and if he did party up with someone it was only Asuna and even that did not last long then went their separate ways and now just argue at the boss fight meetings." Agil explained.
"But then Argo came to me just before Christmas Eve telling me that Kirito was prying her for information on the event boss Nicholas the Renegade, and if the rumors were true about the item he dropped, she also then told me he no longer had a guild tag." He continued.
"I saw Klein about a week later and he told me he had run into Kirito on floor 35 on his way to the event boss Klein and his guild had followed him to more or less help him so he did not do it alone but he told me Kirito was adamant that he do this alone and that he was severely withdrawn and depressed not the Kirito he had met on the launch day, Klein actually worries about him a lot." He went on.
Silica was hanging on to every word. "Then the Divine Dragon guild showed up having followed Klein so Klein and his guild stayed behind to keep the other guild from interfering, Klein and the other guild leader agreed to a duel to decide the outcome and Klein won."
"Klein then waited for just over a hour with his friend list up staring at Kirito's name till Kirito came out of the portal and walked over still depressed and tossed the item to Klein and told him to use it on the next person he saw die because it could only work for ten seconds after the person dies." Agil stated.
Silica was surprised and taken aback. "What was the item Agil-San?" She asked
"The Divine stone of resurrection, it was at that point Klein kinda figured out why he had no guild tag and walked up and placed a hand on Kirito's shoulder and told him that he needs to stop with the suicide runs." Agil stated.
"But Kirito basically shook it off and lumbered away still depressed Klein was worried he was gonna kill himself in the morning, but that never happened the next time Klein saw him he was in a far better mood, the thing is he is closed off about that whole thing and really won't talk to us about it so we don't pressure him about it." Agil explained.
"There are days he returns home looking worn out and sometimes he cries in his sleep I can hear him from my room so I go in and sit beside him while he sleeps and place my hand on his shoulder or hand depending on which way he is sleeping and I stay there till he calms down, he kinda doesn't know I do that so please keep it secret." Silica says as Agil smiles and nods.
"Hmm you really care about him don't you?" Agil asked with a smile on his face.
Silica nodded. "One thing I have learned since I started staying with Kirito-Niichan is that having someone that cares about you even if it's a sibling type of love can make it easier to survive, I was so scared and lonely when this all first started it got less scarier for me when I tamed Pina, but it only became even better when I met Kirito-Niichan a person that actually cared to help me, even though he did it to lure out Roselia his first concern was my safety and that really made me happy." Silica said.
Agil patted her head. "I like to think you both saved each other that day, but I have come to see Kirito like a close friend and little brother, that is one of the main reasons I go out to frontlines for boss battles with him, though he thinks it's so I can get good loot to sell so let's keep that between us." Agil says as Silica laughs.
"I guess we are his secret family looking out for each other." Silica says as Agil laugh's when the bell above his door rings letting them know they have a customer.
After the customer left Kirito walked in carrying a large red sword with spikes coming out of it.
"Hey Agil another happy customer?" He asks with a smile on his face.
"Hey Kirito you know my motto buy low sell low." He says as they bump fists.
"Not so sure on that last part." Kirito says giggling.
Agil looks up and sees Asuna standing at the doorway he grabs Kirito and pulls him down. "Hey man I thought you and the Vice Commander did not get along what are you doing with Asuna here?" Agil asks.
"We need a favor." Kirito says as Agil lets him go and he straightens up Asuna waves at him looking a little nervous.
Just then the back door to the shop opens up and out runs Silica and Pina. "Kirito-Niichan welcome back." She says as she runs up to him with Pina cooing as she lands on Kirito's Shoulder.
"Hey Silica been helping Agil again." He says as he pats her head affectionately.
Asuna looks at the exchange confused. "Niichan I did not think he had any family in the game."
"Wait Kirito I thought you were a solo player your little sister is here too?" Asuna asks.
"No no she is not my real sister we live with each other and see each other as big brother and little sister is all, I figured Argo would have given you that little piece of info." Kirito says confused that Asuna did not know.
Asuna just shakes her head no Kirito looks over at Agil. "Any way Agil we need you to appraise this sword for us it was used to kill a player within a safe zone without a duel, and we want to see if there is anything special about it." He says as Agil gasps in surprise the one main rule of the game unless there was a duel you could not lower anyone's HP in a safe zone.
"yea of course man lets head outback, hey Silica can you watch the front for me please." He says to Kirito and then asks Silica.
She nods and then looks up at Kirito with fear in her eyes.
He looks back down at her and places his hand on her head. "Don't worry Silica I won't let anything happen to you." He says as Pina flies off his shoulder and lands on the counter next to Silica.
She smiles slightly and nods as the others head out back.
Silica takes her place behind the counter while Pina nudges her she looks at her familiar. "I hope Kirito-Niichan is gonna be ok this worries me Pina, if anything happens to him I don't know what I would do or vice versa if something happened to me if someone can be killed in a safe zone like out in the fields." She says to Pina as the dragon stands up and trots in front of her acting like a protector.
Silica laughs slightly. "I know you would protect both me and Kirito-Niichan Pina and Arigatō." She says as she pats her familiar.
After about a half hour Kirito and Asuna head out of the back room. "Hey Silica will you be ok tonight I am gonna help Asuna with investigating this." Kirito states as Silica looks at him with a small bit of fear in her eyes.
Agil speaks up. "Don't worry Kirito she can stay here tonight with me till you are done looking into this man I will watch over her and her over me." Agil sates giving Kirito a thumbs up.
"Arigatō Agil and don't worry Silica I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation about all this." Kirito says as he pats her on the head.
Asuna looks at Silica. "It was great to meet you Silica-Chan I will look out for your Niichan while we are investigating this ok." Asuna says.
"Arigatō Asuna-san." Silica says.
Just as they are about to leave she runs up and hugs Kirito. "You better come home Kirito-Niichan." She says with a couple of tears coming out of her eyes.
He hugs her back. "Don't worry everything will be ok." He says and then he walks out of the shop.
:::April 13, 2024 Agil's shop:::
Silica is at the front counter with Agil worried about Kirito wondering if he is ok she knows he is alive because he is still showing up on her friends list but has not messaged her or Agil since they left the other night.
"Hey Silica could you grab those throwing spikes and help me set them out on display?" Agil asks.
She nods and brings them over to him as the door's bell goes off letting them know someone is coming in.
Both Silica and Agil look up and see Kirito and Asuna walk in.
She runs over to him while Pina flies over she wraps him up in a hug while Pina lands on his shoulder.
"Kirito-Niichan I was so worried about you, is everything ok now?" She asks him.
He pats her head and laughs a little. "Yeah Silica everything is ok no one actually was murdered in the safe zone the 2 people that we thought did faked their deaths using a well timed teleport crystal and running their gear durability down to zero, there guild master had been killed they were trying to find out who did it, they did and they are helping him now to get better and over what he did." Kirito explained and yawned.
"Hey you should head home and get some sleep Kirito-Niichan I will come by later and bring home dinner." She said as more of a order than suggestion.
He nodded and walked out to head to their apartment.
"Thank you Asuna-San for looking out for him I was very worried." Silica said.
Asuna smiled and looked at her then opened her menu and sent a friend request to her.
" This is so you have another girl to talk to and if something happens to Kirito-Kun we can let each other know." Asuna said.
Silica smiled and accepted. "Arigatō Asuna-san." Silica said with her face beaming with joy and then looked over at Agil who gave her a thumbs up and a smile.
Asuna left to head back to her home and or guild, after a few hours Silica noticed it was almost 6 Agil told her to head home he had it all set for the day and thanked her for her help.
She told it was no trouble and headed to grab some dinner for her and Kirito and went home.
As she was walking in Kirito was waking up. "Hey Silica what you bring for us to eat?" Kirito asked.
"Just two curry plates Kirito-Niichan." She said as she laid out there dinner on the table.
"Hey Kirito-Niichan you ever gonna pick up a good second sword in case you ever have to break out that dual wielding skill in battle?" She asked having been the only other one to know of Kirito's secret Skill.
He swallowed his food. "Yes Asuna recommend a friend of hers that is a really good blacksmith so I'm gonna head over there tomorrow, and while I am there you and Pina should head to floor 45 and do some leveling there." Kirito said.
"Ok Kirito-Niichan I will do that me and Pina are gonna try some new skills Argo-San told me about and don't worry she is not over charging me for the information." Silica said, the last part of the statement caught Kirito by surprise.
"So you found out about that huh try not to let it out ok would ruin my solo beater rep you know." He says jokingly with a smile.
Silica heads off to bead about 4 hours later after her and Kirito stayed up just talking.
::: The next morning Algade teleport gate:::
"Ok be careful leveling while I am gone Silica and remember to carry a teleport crystal with you at all times and do not hesitate to use it if you get overwhelmed ok, and Pina look out for ok." Kirito says as he pats her on the head as Pina coos and nudges Kirito affectionately.
"I will be fine Kirito-Niichan, you be careful too." She says back to him smiling.
He laughs. "Hey I'm just going to get a sword forged for myself and it's on the 48th floor what could go wrong." He says as he walks up to the gate.
"Teleport Lindus!" He shouts out as he teleports out of sight.
"With you Niichan anything and everything can go wrong." She says jokingly as she walks into the teleport gate herself to head off to train and level a bit.
Well there we are folks first chapter done this one as you could see focused mainly on Silica and Agil while next one will focus on Lisbeth and Kirito getting closer with Asuna, as always please review they give me special fuzzy's and inspire me to continue writing.
Till next Chapter catch ya on the flip side.