Chapter 1: Mysteries

A/N: This is my first fanfiction story/ First time writing! As well as my first crossover between Sasuke and Sword art Online! There aren't many stories with Sasuke and Sao, so I decided to give it a try... And also i will give Sasuke more personality, so that he's not as bland! give it a chance!

Please, no hate comments…and leave reviews that will help me write a better story. Constructive criticism is welcomed!

music suggestions will be included in certain parts of the story, so make sure you listen if you want to get those feels

Now are ya ready?! Join Sasuke on this detailed adventure!

"Sasuke"- Speech

'Sasuke'- Thoughts

"Sasuke"- Flashbacks

"Starburst Stream"- Sword skill/Location/player abilities

July 3rd, 2022

~Family is not an important thing. It's everything

'It's starting to rain?' Sasuke thought. Sasuke was inside cleaning his room when he heard a knock on his door. "Come in," he said. The door opened and Itachi walked in. "Oh, hey brother." Sasuke smirked.

"Sasuke, how many times did I tell you? Just call me Itachi. You don't have to address me as brother all the time." Itachi chuckled

"Hn, whatever, I can call you whatever I want," Sasuke replied while folding his arms with a pouty look on his face.

"Well, I'm going for a walk, wanna join?" Asked Itachi.

"Nah I'll pass, and besides, I have to get all these chores done that mom and dad assigned to me," Sasuke sighed as he was about to start cleaning again. "Oh, and also, mom just called, she said she is about two minutes away.

"Maybe we can spar once you're finished ok?" The older sibling suggested. Sasuke closed his eyes and smiled

"You're on then, and when I win, you have to give me your necklace." Itachi closed his eyes before opening them, giving him a look of determination.

"We'll just have to see about that," Itachi finished with a warm smile. Itachi's necklace had three silver rings with red gems inside them. That hung ever so loosely around his neck.

"We'll see about that," the young Uchiha replied with a determined look on his face.

"Very well, I'm going to head out now, I'll be back in a few."

"Alright, see ya," the boy replied./p

'Be careful…'

Growing up, Sasuke mainly studied martial arts and with the help of his older brother, Itachi, excelling greatly in that category. His daily schedule consisted of Yoga, aerobics, and strength-training. Which he personally thought they were all excellent ways of getting in shape. One thing is he always looked up to his older brother...even more than his own parents. People would bully Sasuke in school because his parents were one of the wealthiest people Tokyo, and would often think he was just some snotty rich kid but in fact, he was very opposite.

Now Sasuke had an amazing house, as some would say. His parents, Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto Uchiha, were pretty damn wealthy and attempted to spoil Sasuke in as many ways possible, but Sasuke absolutely despised that. The color of the whole house had a mixture of a light shade yellow mixed with white giving that cream look to it. It had a three car garage located right side from the door. Although fourteen year old Sasuke wasn't old enough to drive, his parents had bought him a black Yamaha YZF-R1. The front of chestnut colored Door were a little roof is just above it. At the end there are two white pillars giving it an embellished look to it.

At that given moment, time seemed to slow down and the wall clocks ticking seem louder. An uneasy feeling set upon the boy's stomach, as if it were being pulled on

*SCREEEECH!...BANG!

"What the-" Sasuke ran out the closet and slammed the door as he ran to the window to see what the loud noise was. His eyes widened at the horrific scene only to see his beloved brother lying on the sidewalk as blood was scattered across the street.

"NOOO! ITACHI!" Sasuke cried out while he ran down the stairs and bursted through the door as if he wanted to break it. The car started to peel off in the distance only to never be seen again. He could only stand in shock to see his older brother, whom he had always looked up too, dying in front of his teary eyes. "This..this isn't real right!?" Sasuke shouts; he began to hyperventilate; his pupils begin shake in their sockets.

Add song: Clannad Roaring tides II

"MOM!..DAD! Of all times," he grunted. Sasuke runs over to Itachi only to see what shocked him to the very core. His legs looked as if they were hyperextended, mangled legs were only matched by the blood as it was running down his head and arm.

'As I looked down I thought maybe if would ran back inside to call the ambulance, I could have saved him..but I was too busy cowering in fear..'

"W-what's with my body?! I can't move!" The young fourteen year old just stood there, shaking in total complete fear and shock while staring at his battered brother. The rain drops grew louder and stomped the ground harder, making the blood on the street rush too a to a nearby drain; Lightning trickled through the sky,

"Sasuke kneeled down next to itachi. "I-I'm too scared." He trembled.

"Sas...sas..ke." Sasuke snapped his head up in a fast motion as if were to give him whiplash. "Itachi...no please...don't die!" He cried out.

"Itachi managed to squeeze out all the energy he had left in his body to lift two fingers, dripping with blood, and moved them towards his neck. Sasuke's eyes widened to to only hear what his brother was about to say. "I-Im s-s-sorry, p-please live for me," Itachi says, struggling to get his last words out, now starting to wheeze.

Itachi took off his necklace and gave it to Sasuke. "W-why Itachi?!" Screamed Sasuke. Then he reached up slowly to the inanimate young Uchiha and slowly brings up his two fingers to poke sasuke's forehead ever so gently.

"This is g-good bye farewell S-Sasuke." Itachi pulled one last smile as his arm fell and his body relaxed in the ground signaling his death. Sasuke's tears welled up around the lower rim of his eyes.

"ITACHI!"

Sasuke backed away and started to run inside to search for a phone to call the ambulance. As he was stumbling around trying to desperately find a phone he yelled, "MOM, DAD, WERE THE HELL ARE YOU!" Sasuke's parents go out from time to time.. this just happens to be one of those times. Sasuke managed to snap out of it. He ran back inside, desperately stumbling around trying to find a phone.

A female voice spoke. "119, what is your emergency?"

"My brother, he's dying!"

Time Skip 2 hours later at the hospital after Itachi's death

It's was 8:50 pm. The waiting room was awfully loud and filled with annoying people...well to Sasuke that is. The young Uchiha was sitting alone, still trembling from the flashbacks of his brother lying on the asphalt.' Make it stop'! Sasuke thought. His mind kept racing from what happened a little over an hour ago. He sat there with his elbows on his knees and his hands covering his face frantically tapping his backheel against the cold hard floor.

Words of his deceased brother echoed in his mind. 'please live... for me.'

'What did he mean for that?! This is all too surreal. And it happened so...fast.' He held his head down to where his bangs covered his eyes and a shadow fell over his face. A tall figure, that had black Hair and was tied in a ponytail, walked over to Sasuke and looked at him for a bit before moving closer to him. He could only help to feel bad for him.

He smirked and placed his hand over Sasuke's shoulder. With his head still down he said, "what" in an annoyed tone. After the tall man heard the tone in his voice, the man decided to pull up a chair and sat next to him.

"Whenever you're ready," the man said. A couple of seconds later Sasuke finally turned to his right and looked to see a lazy faced detective smiling at him.

"What do you want?" Sasuke grumbled, with a now more serious tone.

"Hello, I'm detective Nara. I have a few questions for you, if you don't mind." Sasuke sat up slowly and threw his back against the chair.

"Sure... go ahead," He scoffed.

Nara smiled and said "Well first, how about I introduce myself? It'd be a weird just to see a random person asking you questions."

Sasuke just looked at him in a serious fashion."Ok then." Nara leaned back and sighed.

"Ahh, now, where do I Begin?"

"How about your name," Sasuke replied.

"Well then, alright. People call me detective Nara but I just prefer Shikamaru, it's kind of stuffy having people call me by my last name...too much of a drag," He said as he scratched the back of his head. "Supposedly my IQ goes over 200, which is probably why the wanted me as a detective in the first place."

Add song: Death Note- L's theme A

"Ok then, now let's get to business," Shikamaru said with a serious look on his face.

"Question one what is your Name?" Shikamaru asked while grabbing a clipboard while twirling a pen on his hand in an epic way.

"Sasuke Uchiha."

"Ok then, next question."

"Question two, how old are you?"/p

"Fourteen."

"Question three, when is your birthday?"

"July 23rd, 2009"

A/N since this is 2022, I tweaked sasuke's birthday date a bit so don't freak out!

"Where are your parents?" Shikamaru asked. Sasuke paused for a moment and said to to himself,

'Yeah...where are my parents?' "I don't know... they are hardly ever home, so I wouldn't know of their whereabouts as of today," said the boy.

"Hmm have you tried calling them yet?"

Sasuke grunted. "What, do you think I haven't tried that already!?" He shouted. Shikamaru gazed at him in an understanding way. Sasuke sighed. "Sorry about that, look, I just want to go home."

"Well, we'll have to call them to get their permission first, since you are a minor, sorry."

"Hn, well you can try, but I doubt anyone will answer."

"Well it's worth a try isn't it?" The ponytailed man had got up from his chair and walked to one of the phones on the counter. He picked up the phone, held it towards his ear and turned towards Sasuke and says, "Ok, what was the number?"

After Sasuke gave the number to Shikamaru, he got up and headed to the nearest bathroom. Sasuke looks at himself in the mirror and saw the dried tear lines on his face.. He slightly squinted his eyes, quickly turned on the water, and splashed water on his face. After he dried, he began to think.

'Itachi...what did you mean..live for you? Sigh* something doesn't sound right.' Sasuke looked at himself and gripped Itachi's necklace, squeezing it slightly. 'I...I promise, brother, I will keep living..for you!'

He sighed as he walked out of the bathroom. The young Uchiha looked around for Shikamaru but couldn't find him. Sasuke searched over to find one of the nurses at the counter. The young Uchiha corrected his throat before walking up to her. "Hello, have you seen Shiki- err...I mean, detective Nara anywhere?"

The nurse turned around with a wide smile. Her name tag read had slender body and was dressed in a light pink sweater under her sweater was her regular nurse outfit and. It was topped of with her braided hair and glasses.

"How may I help you?"

"Errm.. yes I was looking for Detective Nara, have you seen him?"

"Ah yes, he just stepped outside for a quick smoke," she sighed, "but I sure wish he'd quit smoking. It's most certainly bad for his lungs. By the way, what was your name?"

"Sasuke blinked twice and said "Sasuke...Sasuke Uchiha." It wasn't very often he gave his name out so blatantly.

"Well nice to meet you Sasuke Uchiha!" She exclaimed in a welcoming tone.

"Any ways, how do I get out of here again?"

"Just take the elevator down to the first floor, walk to the first corridor on the left, go out the door on the right and the door to the outside should be right there," Aki said smile just as big as ever.

"A little bit slower please," Sasuke said as his right eye twitched. Nurse Aki chuckled a bit before personally escorting him through the hospital. Aki and Sasuke were walking down the hall with his Hands in his pockets as always, becoming sort of a trademark for him. Suddenly, he happened to look over at the room next door, only to see a body bag with a tag that had writing on it.

Add song: Clannad Roaring tides II

Sasuke squinted his eyes to the room on his left. As he veered off from Aki whom still kept walking,he slowly paced his way towards the the door. His eyes widened to see the name imprinted on the tag.

"Itachi" He quietly whispered.

"But yeah, I don't know wh-" Aki paused to see where Sasuke went. She quickly turned around with a anime-like angry face for him leaving her, but she quickly soften up to see that Sasuke was fighting back tears that were about to crawl down his face. His fists were clenched as well as his teeth, shaking with anger and sorrow. Sasuke. slowly walked towards him to comfort him when he shouted.

"GET AWAY!" Aki paused as the Uchiha broke down. He never thought the that the day he would see his brother in a body bag come to reality. The one who he loved the most..gone..forever. Sasuke broke down and began banging his fists on the ground, to the point where they were starting to change color. He kept saying to himself, 'Coward...you're a damn coward!' Aki did the only thing best.. she immediately grabbed Sasuke's shoulders, turned him around and hugged him to where he cried in her right shoulder.

"Sh-sh-shhh, it's okay, I'm so sorry for your loss Sasuke," She said in a soft tone.

"No! It's not okay….how is death okay Aki?! It's my fault he's gone. I was too scared to ask for help, and I-"

"No, Sasuke... this is not your fault." She pushed him away slightly so that she could see his face; Sasuke's head, still hanging low. "Look at me, Sasuke," Aki says in a comforting tone. He slowly raised his head up at her while the tears were still dripping on the floor. "It's only natural to feel fear, we are human after all."

After saying that, Sasuke got up and said, "I made a promise to him…" He grabbed his necklace, squeezing it slightly. Aki got up as well and dusted her uniform off.

"And what would that be?" She asked. The Uchiha put his hands in his pocket and walked as Aki soon followed after.

"To survive," he stated with a little choke in his voice. Although he still was unsure as what that meant.

"Aki caught up with Sasuke and grabbed his hand. "Come on I know a shortcut!" Sasuke sighed and he looked back at the room Itachi was in.

"I promise... Itachi." He turned around to look at his hand that Aki was holding. And does she have to hold my hand?

After he got on the first floor with Aki, Sasuke thanked her for her support. "Thanks you for help..." Sasuke said with his hand out while holding a small smile. She looked at him with a bright smile. Instead of shaking his hand, she hugged him tightly.

"Shikamaru sighed, "I guess I'll just take the kid home to his parents." Shikamaru takes one last inhale of his cigarette and flicked it away. He closes his eyes. "I hope he's not too hard on them." Shikamaru put his hands in his grey leather jacket side pockets and walks towards the hospital entrance to meet up with Sasuke.

Add song: Death Note- L's theme A

"Hey, you ready?" The Nara questioned.

"Yeah, by the way, thanks again, Aki." She looked at Sasuke, returning a bright smile. As he was walking towards the exit, Shikamaru came over and taped on Sasuke's shoulder.

"Hey, Sasuke, can you wait outside? I need to talk to Aki for a sec." Sasuke nodded as he turned around closing his eyes and proceeds to walk towards the exit. All of of sudden his ear twitched to the distant sound of whispering between the two. Sasuke was always good at listening especially during the training days with Itachi.

"He focused in..."Ok, so did you gain any information on the tattoo?" Aki asked.

"Yes, it would appear to look like a serpent, but I can't tell what color it is because it is covered by a scab that formed on top of it. It is located to the left of his shoulder. But that's all the info I could gather since his tattoo looked as if he was trying to scrape and/or, burn if off," Shikamaru said.

'A serpent tattoo!?' Sasuke thought. What does that have to do with anything?.. for them to send me off like this..

"I'll continue to further my research on the topic."

"Thank you, we are proud to have you on the T.U.S.S," Aki replied.

"The T.U.S.S .eh?" Sasuke opened his eyes. "Well I'll further my research as well...Shikamaru."

Time Skip: on the drive home

It had been a long car ride home, only of the light pitter patter of rain droplets and the engine of the car was audible. Sasuke, still deep it thought, tilts his head against the car window, feeling the coolness of the surface.

"Sasuke," Shikamaru spoke, interrupting the silence, "You know that number you gave me?" Sasuke's heart immediately started racing.

"Yeah, did anyone answer?" Asked the Uchiha.

"It was...your father."

Without moving his head sasuke shifted his eyes to the the very corners of his skull. "Oh really now," he said in a cold way; his eyes were hidden from the shadows of his black bangs. Shikamaru turned towards the Uchiha.

"Sasuke look, I know you're mad, but please, find it in your heart to forgive your parents, they're the only ones you got, take my word on it." Shikamaru came to a stop at sasuke's house.

Sasuke replied with silence as he got out of the car. He stood out from the open car door, with his back still turned away from Shikamaru.

"Don't be too harsh on em kid."

"Like you'd truly understand," Sasuke muttered as he closed the car door and walked off.

'Sasuke... Shikamaru thought and drove off shortly after.

As Sasuke slowly approached the front door, he noticed that it was slightly cracked open. He walked over, slowly bringing up his left hand and openly gritted his teeth. As soon as his palm touched the door, he used as much force as he could to swing the door open, nearly breaking the wall behind the door. Before Sasuke entered the home, he spoted something white in the corner of his eye.

"A note?" Sasuke picked it up, put it in his pocket, and entered inside.

"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!" Fugaku and Mikoto shouted.

They ran down the stairs as quickly as their feet could carry them. "Oh, Sasuke, you're finally here!... where have you been!" Said Mikoto as she set her hands on her hips.

"I should ask the same for you, do you know how many times I called you earlier? Why haven't you answered ?!" Sasuke shouted.

"Now son, that's no way to talk to your mother, and besides our phone ringer was off and we were on our way from our get together, when not a minute too soon we started thinking about you. And so, we bought gifts for you, I hope that this makes everything up," Fugaku said with a hearty smile on his face.

"Y-yeah, Sasuke." Mikoto added as she walked up to him while she was reaching in her bag. "Now I know how much you're into technology, so I brought you this maga-" Mikoto was then cut off when Sasuke slapped the magazine out of from her wrist.

Add Song: Fate Zero- Greif

"ALL YOU PEOPLE THINK ARE WAYS TO SPOIL ME, DO YOU EVEN CARE WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH MY LIFE RIGHT NOW!" The boy snarled. He took a deep breath before saying, "Ever since we have become one of the wealthiest people in the country, you have changed. Before, you were home every day-" He paused. "You know, before you cared about me that is...And now, you're hardly ever home anymore...why is that? I WANT TO KNOW THE REAL REASON!" There was no other answer but just the look of guilt on their faces.

"Do you know about what's been happening to me at school? Oh, let me guess you don't know do you? Well, Itachi knew. At school, people used bully me everyday, not because it's nitpicking, but because of YOU and YOUR wealth." Sasuke held his hands out, still looking his parents.

"He...he is the one I look up to the most... even more than you. Itachi knew right away that something was wrong with me or if I had a problem, he would would be the first one to step in to help me." Sasuke put his hands down. "He trained me everyday so I could defend myself from the bullies at school," he chuckled coldly. "Now looking back then, and the training I've gone through, I wanna hurt those people so badly…" Suddenly, Sasuke every muscle fiber in his body started to tense up.

"People…He squeezed his fists tightly. "... People like you, make scum of the Uchiha name, and all you care are yourselfs and ways to spoil me!"

"SASUKE THA-" Fugaku's sudden outburst was only interrupted as he saw the glare in Sasuke's eyes...eyes that looked like he had just about enough.

"You guys make me sick," he grunted. As Sasuke starts walking up stairs, he stoped without turning around and said.

"As of today, July 3rd, 8:25pm, Itachi Uchiha was pronounced-" The two motionless parents stared in shock from what Sasuke was about to say.

"Dead."

"A wave of silence covered the home as the young Uchiha revealed the devastating news to Fugaku and Mikoto. Sasuke walks upstairs to his room, opens his room door and hits his bed with his body as he sleeps to the sounds of his mom and dad screaming and crying.

Two days after the funeral

Sasuke sighed as he as he was sitting on his bed playing with a rubix cube. "This gets boring if you solve it so many times in a minute," he said inattentively. It was almost time for school and Sasuke could wait for it to start...not really. At his school, each person had to wear the same uniforms, for girls ,except for skirts, and boys, but Sasuke had a unique look to his uniform. It consists of a dark blue jacket, that his collar was always popped, with the school's insignia on the left side, a white, long-sleeve shirt with a collar that has two light blue lines forming an "X" on each side, and the same insignia of the school on its left side as the jacket, a red tie and dark blue trousers.

A/N: think of Kirito's school uniform...only as for sasuke, the collars were popped up

'School starts at 8:30 so I have plenty of time to kill right?' Sasuke looked towards his clock. '8:20 huh?...He paused. 'Wait what!?' He mentally screamed as his eyes turned to white Anime-like circles.

'Oh crap, I'm going to be late!'

Time Skip: 3 hours from now

"Ok class, talk amongst yourselves, I am going to step outside for a bit." Sasuke was never the one talk in class. Instead he like to listen on other people's conversations.

"Omg you know she is lying right!?" Sasuke heard as two girls gossiped. Nothing he hated more than to see others talking about each other.

'Next'

"Did you hear about what happen Uchiha guy?"

"..Yeah that's so sad." Sasuke frowned at that.

"Hey, did you hear about that new Sword art Online vrmmorpg coming out!?" A boy asked.

"Yeah, they're accepting beta testers soon! Hopefully I'll be picked.

'Now this is more like it.' Sasuke thought.

"Yeah there are codes on these special magazines, that are only sword art online exclusive. Once you get the code, type it in on the main website. All you have to do is wait for a day or two to see if you won the privilege of being a beta tester!"

"Oh cool!"

Sasuke had a quick flashback of him knocking some sort of magazine out of his mom's hands. He silently grunted.

'Whatever..Next'. Sasuke had his eyes closed as both hands came together, covering his mouth. Then a second later, Sasuke heard two sets of feet tapping on the ground and they were growing as it sounded like they were closing in on him. Sasuke could tell he was coming from his left side. So he slightly turned his head. The steps came to a halt.

"Tch, what do you want," Sasuke asked as he was looking at Eric with his cold, black, eyes. Standing from his left side, one of his buddies, Hido, was right behind Eric. Eric was a fairly big guy about 5 or 6 inches taller than sasuke.

(Sasuke at 173 cm or 5ft 6in)

Eric had two piercings, one on each ear. He had short spiky, black hair and a rather deep voice for his age. Behind Eric, was Hido. Hido was a shorter than Eric but taller than Sasuke. He was slightly bald and had a scar coming down his right cheek. He seemed to frown most of the time he was at school. Aside from everyone else that envy Sasuke in a way, these two scourges seem to take the icing off the cake.

"I'll ask again, but this time, I expect an answer, from the both of you." Sasuke frownedwhile giving them a cold stare.

Eric popped his knuckles and grinned openly, "Listen here kid, you know that everyone here doesn't like you, so why bother even coming here?"

"Yeah, you and that attitude of yours," Hido added.

"Hn, whatever move out of the way, I like to keep my space pest free," Sasuke said as he turned around.

Eric's eye began to twitch"Oh yeah?" He paused.

Add song: Bleach- Chokkaku

"Well ya know, that's probably that stuck up attitude that got your brother killed, you brat!"

Sasuke opened his eyes widely. "What did you say?" He snarled. As Sasuke turned around he caught a glance of Eric's fist racing towards the left side of his face.

He took the hit but smirked right after. "Idiot." Sasuke quickly grabbed his arm and judo flipped Eric, slamming him on his back.

He angrily kicked Eric over on his stomach. "AHH"! He screamed. The young Uchiha grabbed his arms then held it an uncomfortable fashion. Eric slowly turned around to see sasuke smiling darkly. "Wha-what to t-th-the weak and f-frail sasuke?" Eric was on the verge of screaming for help.

Sasuke darkly smiled as he brought his left foot up and slammed down on Eric's back. "Arghh! Please stop! I give!" Eric begged. Hido was just standing there staring in shock as his partner in crime easily got taken out. The Uchiha lightly chuckled.

"Now that you're experiencing what pain truly really like-" He leaned over, "I kind of wanna break this arm of yours, I mean you did try to hit me with it?" Sasuke said mischievously.

"Noo!" Hido shouted. He charged at the Sasuke with his fist raised, closing in on the Uchiha. As He swung, without looking Sasuke squeezed his fist tightly and backfisted Hido onto his cheek and was sent crashing into the nearby desks.

'What the hell?' The instructor thought. He barged in his room to see what the ruckus was to only find out that one of his students knocked out on a couple of desks, and the other on the floor crying. Sasuke was standing over him.

"Ok, what is going on here!?...Sasuke? Of all people, what happened?"

Out of the blue, the bell was released for everyone to go home and before the instructor could say anything to Sasuke, he had already ran off.

Time Skip: 15 minutes later

Sasuke, walking with his hands in his pockets, was on his way home as thoughts were racing through his head.

'What was that just now? I mean, sure the training with Itachi paid off, but this-"/ He paused to look at the hand that held Eric down. 'This was different'...And it felt...good'

As sasuke was walking down the sidewalk, another person was walking, but in the opposite direction, both not aware as they were thinking too heavily.

'Also I would of nev-

"OOF" They both grunted, as they fell back on their butts

'Ow, what the heck.' They both thought. Sasuke looked at the young man. He seemed to be the same age as Sasuke, has a calm and collected type of character, also like Sasuke. He was wearing the same uniform as him, but he hardly ever sees him in classes. He was just a tad taller than Sasuke, but what intrigued Sasuke the most, was a Sword art Online magazine in his hand.

"Hehe, sorry about that," the kid said as he got up while dusting himself off. He started walk over to Sasuke and held his hand out. The Uchiha looked at him for a sec and grabbed his hand to pull him up as he patted himself off.

"It's no big deal," Sasuke replied with a smirk on his face. He once again eyeballed the magazine in his hand and couldn't help to ask.

"Hey, so about that magazine, I'm taking it that you're signing up for the beta?"

"Oh this?...yeah I'll probably go for it. It peaked my interest when I was surfing through the internet the other day. Then, I came across an ad that said, 'New Sword art Online game for the Nerve Gear," The kid said. "So are you going to get? And if so, we should team up," he said with a small smile. Sasuke chuckled.

"Yeah, I'll think about it."

"Alright, then I'll see you later."

"Alright," Sasuke replied.

The kid held out his hand. "Wait, what's your name?"

"It's only common courtesy to give out yours first," he said as he bring out his hand from his pocket.

"Very well then." They both touched palms.

"I'm Kirigaya Kazuto," he replied with a light smile.

"I'm Sasuke-" He was about to give out his last name when he remembered how everyone treated him in school. Ever since the 'Uchihas' have grown in wealth over the years, everyone thought that they were irresponsible on how they spent their money.. not even thinking about others.. only themselves. And you know what?...they were right. And now it just had to be Sasuke's parents, Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto Uchiha who soiled that title.

'It seems he doesn't know well enough to know about my last name... but just to be safe...He didn't want to ruin the chance to have..His first..Friend.

"Just Sasuke," he stated.

"Well, it's nice to meet you, Sasuke," Kirigaya said. After they departed, Sasuke began to smile.

"Sword Art Oline huh?"

Time Skip: 15 minutes later

Sasuke had arrived home. "Mom, Dad!?" He shouted. No response.

"Tch, of course." As he walked up stairs to his room, he began thinking. A serpent tattoo huh? Why did he want it off? And what did he truly mean by 'please live', was it a hint of some sort?"

He opened his door and saw at what was on his bed. It was the sword art online magazine. He squinted his eyes and remembered when Mikoto was trying to hand him a magazine, but he just smacked it out of her hands. And to the left was the note he picked up a couple of days ago at the doorstep of his house. He walked over, picked it up.

October 3rd 2022

"It's human nature not to realize the true value of something-

-unless they lose it"

~Anonymous

"What the hell?" Sasuke said to no one. "This was the day Itachi died."

END CHAPTER

I Really hope some of you enjoyed my first fic! Had a lot of fun writing this.

Feel free to share ideas with me!

Lots more adventures to come

"Peace out~ Aniarchive