Hello Fanatics of Sword Art Online! This is my first time writing a fan fiction, i have loved sword art online (the books, the shows and of course the fan fictions!) for a long time now and figured "what the heck lets give this a shot!" So without me going on a rant, lets get on with chapter one. Oh, one last thing i promise! The prologue is taken from the end of chapter 16 and beginning of chapter 17 of Sword Art Online Light Novel: Volume 1—Aincrad. I just wanted to reiterate one of my favorite scenes in sword art

before beginning where they left off. Now sit back and enjoy...

Unfortunately i do not own sword art online, Reki Kawahara does.


Prologue

8:45 PM 10/23/2024

A Single candle atop the table stayed burning; its thin rays of light made Asunas skin glow faintly as she slept in my arms. I ran a finger gently down her while back; the warm and smooth feeling that traveled up from my fingertips was absolutely intoxicating.

Asuna slowly opened her eyes and looked towards me. She blinked twice and then smiled.

"Sorry. Did I wake you?"

"Yeah. I had a strange dream. One about the real world..."

She continued to smile as she rubbed her face against my chest.

"In the dream, I wondered if entering Aincrad and meeting you had all been a dream, and i was really afraid. Its a relief... that it wasn't all a dream."

"You're a real strange one. Don't you want to go back?"

"Of course i want to. I want to go back, but i don't want everything that has happened here to disappear. Although... it took us a while... but there two years are precious to me. I'm sure of that now."

Asuna suddenly switched to a serious expression and grabbed my right hand, which I placed on her shoulder, they brought it to her chest and hugged it tightly.

"...Im really sorry, Kirito-Kun. I should... I should have resolved it myself..."

I breathed in and then exhaled deeply

"No... Kuradeels target, the person who made him that way was me. It was my fight."

I nodded slowly while looking into Asunas eyes.

Tears formed in her hazelnut eyes as Asunas silently pressed her lips against the hand she was holding. I could feel their soft movement.

"Ill also... bear it with you. Every burden that you have, Ill carry them with you. I promise Ill definitely protect you from now on..."

This was-

The line that i couldn't say even once up until now, Yet in this moment, my lips trembled, and i could hear the sound unveiling themselves from my throat, from my very soul.

"Me too."

A very thin voice reverberated across the air.

"Ill protect you too."

Although these were simple words, i had said them in such a pathetically quiet and unreliable manner. I smiled bitterly as i help us Asunas hand and said:

"Asuna... You really are strong. You're far stronger than me..."

After hearing that s, Asuna blinked several times and then smiled.

"No, im not I usually hide Behind other people in the real world. Even this game wasn't something I bought."

She laughed as if she had just thought of something.

"It was something that my older brother bought, but he had to suddenly leave for business; so i got to play with it on the games opening day. He was really disappointed about that. He must be really angry now that ive occupied it for two years."

I though that Asuna was even unluckier to have come here in his stead, but i just nodded.

"...You'd better get back quickly and apologize."

"Yeah...Ill have to try harder..."

But Asuna trailed off weakly as she said this, casting her eyes downward as if she was afraid of something and then moving her entire body closer to me.

"Umm... Kirito-kun, I know this is contradicting what I just said... but can we leave the front-lines for a bit?"

"Hmm...?

"Im scared somehow... We finally managed to convey our feelings, so i fell like something bad will happen again if we go to the front-lines straight away... Maybe im just a little tired."

I brushed Asunas hair back and nodded so meekly that i surprised even myself.

"Yeah, you're right... Im a bit tired too..."

Even if the numbers didn't change, the battles that we fought day after day accumulated plenty of fatigue that couldn't be seen. That's especially the case for situations as extreme as today's. Even a strong bow will break if one pulled on it excessively. We definitely

needed a break.

I felt the impulse that drove me to fight relentlessly drift further away. Right now, I only wanted to deepen the bond between the two of us.

I wrapped my arms around Asuna, then buried my face in her silky hair and spoke:

"On the northwestern part of the 22nd floor, amongst the forests and lakes... there's a small village. Its a good place with no monsters. They sell a few cottages there. The two of us can move there together... and then..."

Asuna looked at me as I stopped talking.

"Then...?"

I managed to move my frozen tongue and kept talking.

"... Lets, lets get married."

The perfect smile that Asuna showed me that moment, i would never forget it for the rest of my life.

"Okay..."

She nodded slightly as a large teardrop ran down her cheeks.


Chapter 1 The big day

8:50 am 10/24/2024

The beautiful sunlit room was the first thing that Asuna saw when she opened her eyes, however... no Kirito-kun, as she noticed this she quickly started scanning the room for her boyfriend. No. Fiance, the thought of that brought a smile to her face which quickly wore off as she continued to get more and more worried about Kirito.

"Where can he be?" She though "Oh no!" A thought passed though her mind which she quickly dismissed. "No, Kirito-kun would never do that to me. Especially not after happened between us last night. However she was extremely worried and was now getting out of bed and starting to panic, she then looked around the room checking the bathroom then the living room. "Hes not in the house..." As a slight tear ran down her face then disappeared onto the floor the front door started to open.

Just then a grinning Kirito walked in the house caring a bad of what looked to be a beautifully prepared breakfast. She then ran back into the bedroom without Kirito seeing her and stood looking in the mirror as she tried to wipe the tears from her face.

"Good morning Asuna I brought you some breakfast in b..., uhh what are you doing over there Asuna? I figured that you would still be in bed by now."

"I-I... just saw that Kirito-kun was missing from bed and i was going to make sure he was ok..."

He looked at his beautiful fiance. She had been crying, he put the bag down on the bed then slowly walked over to her lightly grabbing her hand with his and using the other to wipe away the tears form her eyes. "Whats wrong Asuna?"

"Oh its nothing don't worry about it Kirito-Kun." Embarrassed at the fact and didn't want to tell her love the real reason she had been sobbing. Kirito knew her better than that.

" Come on Asuna we have been though hell and back for each other many times, I can tell when your not telling me the truth." He said this while looking deep into her eyes smiling but still holding her hand enough for her to feel the love that he emitted.

"Oh Kirito-kun!" She threw herself at him while starting to tear up again. He slightly fell back after he caught her then regaining his posture and held her tight as she continued. "I thought that maybe Kirito-kun had left, that he was having second thoughts about getting married."

"What?!" He held her tighter now as he stared stroked her hair and speaking softly. "I would never do that to you Asuna... I-I love too much to hurt you like that" He smiled as he said "I love you Asuna, you and only you. All I want is for you to be as happy as I am every time im in your presence."

Asuna looked up at his smiling face, she felt so silly thinking that Kirtio-kun would even leave her, she was so happy, relieved, and excited that she had been wrong.

"She threw her arms around his, still shedding small tears, and kissed him passionately. He threw her onto the bed continuing to deepen the kiss between them. They unfortunately, eventually, had to break apart for air still looking into each others eyes as if they were looking into the depths of each others souls.

Kirito gently slid Asuna off of him as he gently placed her on the bed. "Ill be right back, stay here okay?" As he walked over to the food which was now spilled all over the floor. He picked up everything then decided to walk over to the kitchen and set it all on a tray which he saw protruding from on top of one of her shelves. He organized everything neatly then walked the tray to Asuna who was now sitting indian style on the bed waiting for him to return.

"Bon Appetit" he said in his cutest french accent while placing the food on the bed between them. He then sat across from her while explaining what he was doing up so early.

"Im sorry Asuna... I only wanted our first day as a true couple to start off special so I set my alarm to go off at eight because I know that you usually get up at around nine and went off to the nice place down the street to get some breakfast for us and..." She leaned forward, pecking his lips with hers, just enough to shut him up. He touched his lips, he could still feel the heat from that her lips emitted as she leaned closer to him. "...what was that for?" He asked as they separated from one another. "Dummy, you don't have to apologize. After all im the one who jumped to conclusions before finding out what happened. I should have know better than to think that my Kirito-kun would leave me on our wedding day." They both smiled at each other while starting to eat the food that Kirito had gone out and got for them.

The rest of the morning was spent in bed, laughing and smiling at each other and completely forgetting the dangers that lurked outside in the death game that was SAO.


Later that day they were walking hand in hand to Agils place to tell him and everyone else the good news. He sent a message to everyone earlier telling them all to meet up there at two a clock sharp, because he had important news! Asuna was wearing her KoB uniform with her Lambent Light was strapped to her waist. While Kirito was wearing his usual attire, an all black coat with black gloves and black boots and of course he had his beloved Elucidator and the Dark Repulsor on his back. They had just got off the teleportation pad at floor 50 still walking hand in hand when they saw a group of three people running towards them. One was running faster so he was of course ahead of the other two. He stopped at the couple and looked with amazement for a moment then he turned his head and shouted.

"Guys come quick guys, I was right!"

As the other two hurried over Kirito and Asuna then looked at one another and wondered what was going on. Then all three started starring at Kirito, not Asuna, but Kirito. He was starting to get uncomfortable with all of these guys looking at him when the biggest one finally said.

"Oh, im sorry to stare at you but... your the famous black swordsman, right? The one that single handedly defeated The Gleam Eyes! With nothing but swords, both your swords?" The other two ood as Kirito just shook his head confirming the mans question.

"That's incredible! Once I heard that, I knew that I just had to meat you and ask you something." Kirito didn't like to talk about that fight, or any fight for that matter. He thought that this question was going to be about how he did it, or the question that everyone wanted to know... how he got the skill duel blades. However what Kirito heard was entirely different.

"Would you do me the honor of dueling with me Kirito?"

"Ehh...? You want to duel with me?" He asked confused.

"Yes!" The man said enthusiastically "Since I read that I thought that you must be one of the best... no... the best player out there!"

Asuna had recently thought the same thing but after his defeat with Heathcliff she didn't knew which of the two were stronger. She admitted to herself however that his strength was unlike any other out there. Personally she liked the idea of Kirito-kun dueling someone for fun with no real danger involved.

"Well I don't know, I mean me and Asuna actually have somewhere to be..." He was interrupted by Asuna squeezing his hand gently. Then saying so everyone could hear. "Kirito I think that we have enough time for a quick duel" She smiled while looking into his onyx eyes secretly saying "I want to watch you fight without any danger." He then turned to look at the man and said "Sure id love to have a duel with you..."

"Oh im sorry please forgive me, I forgot to give my name, its Akio and these are my friends Ryo and Taro." "Its nice to meet you" The four then bowed to one another as Akio sent Kirito the duel request. Asuna stepped back with Ryo and Taro while the site of the black swordsman dueling with someone caught the eye of everyone in the plaza. He heard the whispers of everyone around him, but he didn't focus on that he looked at his opponent who was drawing a long two handed sword from the sheath on his side. The man stood the normal fighting stance while Kirito pulled his beloved Elucidator and the Dark Repulser from their sheaths as took his more unusual stance. He then heard from the side lines "Go Kirito-kun!" He turned then smiled at his fiance cheering him on from the side lines.

3...2...1... Start. Kirito saw Akios blade start to glow bright red but before Akio even had a chance to move Kirito was already in his face his Elucidator glowing bright yellow as he lunged at Akio striking his side then sliding past him. This was a move know as Sonic Leap a one handed sword skill.

"Wow your a lot faster than I expected." Akio said as he turned to look at Kirito again "But I wont lose that easily." He then sprinted forward slashing at Kirito but with no real pattern of attack. Kirito could tell that this man wasn't use to dueling but fighting monsters instead. However Kirito wasn't going to go easy on him with Asuna watching. Kirito blocked and parried his attacks then used Double Circular which was a low leveled Duel blade attack. Akio tried to block it as best as he could however they both ended up hitting him. He then activated avalanche one of the best sword skills that can be used by a two handed sword. Kirito knew it well as he thought "I cant let a high level sword skill like that hit me but if I can just doge it then..." As Akio lunged forward to strike Kirito caught the attack perfectly right in the middle of his crossed duel blades. Kirito then pushed Akio back and used this chance to end things. He used his strongest Duel blade attack Starburst Stream The 16 hit combo then sent the mans health instantly to a more than half, it was almost in the red but Kirito stopped before he actually hurt the man.

Winner! Kirito. Was shown above his head as Kirito helped the man up from the ground. "Dang, I didn't know how strong you actually were until I saw that power before my own eyes."

"Kirito-kun!" Asuna ran up and tacked Kirito the ground, kissing him on the cheek and saying "I knew you would win Kirito-kun." "Thanks Asuna, I couldn't lose with you watching now could I?" He joked "But Asuna, everyone is watching..." "Ahh" she squealed as she jumped up turning a light shade of red. Kirito and Asuna then turned to look back at Akio. "Uhh, are you two, you know... together?" He asked almost confused. He knew that she was Asuna the Lighting Flash and the assistant leader of the KoB and he didn't think that they were, well, a thing.

Asuna was blushing bright red now as Akio asked this question, but slowly nodded her head as she heard Kirito say. "Yes, me and Asuna are a couple, in fact we will be getting married this evening!" He said loud and proud. Asuna gasped slightly as Kirito said this as did most of the crowd. Granted he knew that they didn't want many people knowing about the arrangement that was going to happen this evening, because of the many followers they both had but, but he was proud to have Asuna at his side. He wanted everyone to know that he was the luckiest guy in the game... no the world! He smiled as Asuna grabbed his arm and pulled herself closer to him.

"Wow so the black swords man, and the lighting flash huh?" He was still looking confused then he laughed and said "Well congratulations you two, thanks for the duel Kirito, it was a good fight and I learned a lot from it too." He said goodbye as he waved, then he walked away as did the crowd of people, since the duel was over and the excitement was gone. After a bit it went back to people walking past them as Kirito and Asuna were walking to Agils place. Kirito looked at the clock 1:53pm it read. "Shoot we have got to hurry Asuna."

"Hey, Kirito-kun?" Asuna asked in a low voice "Yes Asuna." "I thought we weren't going to tell any one... you know that we were getting married?" He sighed as he looked down, then said "Im sorry Asuna but Im just so happy to be with you. I want everyone to know that im such a lucky man." He looked at her for forgiveness. "I have never been happier than I am with you Kirito-kun, I was just surprised is all, but I don't mind telling people if you get so happy about it." She blushed again while squeezing his hand and looking at those onyx eyes again. "Thanks Asuna." He then pecked her lips before they walked up to Agils place and they could see all their friends. He looked at Asuna and they grabbed each others hands lovingly before looking at the building. "Closed" read the sign on the door because of the news that they had to tell the others. "Ready?" Kirito asked as he patted her head with his free hand. "Ready." She said squeezing his hand one last time, then they opened the door walked in then began to walk upstairs where the others waiting for them.


Well, that's my first chapter of my first fan fiction ever! Please leave a review and let me know if you liked it or if you hated it. What I should change and what I should keep. Heck anything you guys say I will appreciate because all of this is about you guys whether you like my story or not! I will be coming out with a chapter two soon, and maybe a lot more if you guys like them. Thanks for reading ladies and gents! Oh and sorry if you didn't like me taking the prologue from the book I probably wont do that again, unless you liked it that is!