My experiment into the SAO/KHR crossover based upon someone else's on tumblr. If you are a SAO fan and expect me to do more then please don't follow me as I'm unlikely able to do anymore about SAO. Thank you.

Once again as all my stories I use the British spelling. God save the Queen.

"Meow" is English as KHR/SAO are mainly based around Japan and I am under the assumption that everyone who lives there probably speaks Japanese as well as maybe English.


So it's like this, little Tsunayoshi Sawada had a few friends at age 6, they think he's small and clumsy, and that's okay because he's cute but when little Tsunayoshi Sawada is 8 they think he's useless, worthless, clumsy no-good Tsuna and why can't he be more of a man?
He's 8 already; boys shouldn't cry because of dogs and he's so loud with his high pitched voice and a coward to boot so his few friends leave due to peer pressure and spite, telling all of his secrets along with them.

He's heartbroken and lonely, and his mother tells him he can easily make new friends anywhere just like his recently dead papa. He tries, he really does but the whole school seems to know about him and nobody wants to be near him, not even as a gopher.

So he tries the neighbourhood but everyone is too old for him and doesn't want to be seen with a little cry baby kid least they seem like a paedophile.
So he spreads his search but it seems like everyone has known about no-good Tsuna before he even got there so he gives up and the bullies move in.

He turned to video games because the power of friendship was always present and what he craved.
He skipped school; it was the little things like saying he was feeling sick on the worst days (and maybe he was sick or was it tired?).

Then technology rapidly changed in gaming, a new type of occulus rift came out on the market, ever changing and little Tsunayoshi was changing as well; from being excited about JRPGs about friendship to craving real human interaction again so he looked into MMORPGs yet none of them looked too be what he wanted (needed). While looking he found a VRMMO by a company called Argus and he wanted it so badly!

But this game was what he was looking for.

He begged his mother to buy it for him, she hadn't seen him this happy in nearly 3 years, and she couldn't say no.
She reserved one for him.
It was still in closed beta, whatever that meant, and was quite expensive too for there was only a limited amount of copies released.
It came with a delightfully weird helmet as well (she'd come to hate that helmet soon through years of worry and crying and hoping).

In another universe he'd ignore the new game, go back to school and get a crush on a girl who seemed impossible to date for being the only girl apart from his mother to talk to him in over a year.
His mother would break down in tears from the relief that her baby boy decided that he'd wait a day before playing it thus being locked out of the game forever.

When it came out and he could play it, it was such great fun creating a new self; someone tall, someone strong, but most of all someone that was friendly so people would talk to him.
He created a tall blonde man because people always flocked to foreigners.

But naming his new self was the hardest thing to do, he didn't know any other language apart from elementary school Japanese really, so he couldn't name himself an English name - no he could.
He did know some words in English.

People like animals and cats aren't as scary as dogs, so little Tsunayoshi typed in the word Kat and was quickly denied the name before he realised it was spelled "Cat" and was quickly denied that name as well and if "Kat" and "Cat" were out then Tora would probably going to be denied as well.

Little Tsunayoshi thought about it hard, he hasn't wanted to exit the game and lose his perfect blonde foreigner in the process just to find a cats' name (it was probably for the best, his mother would have had found him dead otherwise).

He began pressing random letters and hoped one of the things he pressed would make sense.
He got lioN, that was, that could be a type of cat, it looked enough.

So lioN it was.

A cut scene happened and then the game showed him Sword Art Online.
Around him there were masses of other players swarming around as they went through the tutorial area.
Some helping, some laughing, some play fighting.

Little Tsunayoshi is only 9 and it was everything he ever wanted.


So my research presentation time:

No-good Tsuna = Tsuna's nickname because he's apparently useless
JRPGs = Japanese Role Playing Games aka RPGs made in Japan originally
MMORPG = Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, the most famous one is World of Warcraft
VRMMO = A term from SAO, which is Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online
Tora = A general cat's name

This fanfic might probably end up just being a one-shot since due to my research I've found that the actual game mechanics for SAO are really flawed and if it was a real MMO I wouldn't touch it even if it was free. I really want SAO to have a good game mechanic but it just doesn't and it really depresses me.

Also not info dumping is really hard when writing.