Perspective: Kazuto Kirigaya
I open my eyes to find that I am standing in the middle of grandfather's dojo. The walls are covered with dark wood and the floor is clear as ever. Looking up, I watch as two figures enter the room. One being my grandad and the other looks like a younger version of myself. The younger me has tears streaming down his face and grandad is gritting his teeth and staring at the younger me with eyes full of wage as he pulls on his long grey hair.
"Grandpa, I'm sorry, I just can't do it any lon…."
*SMACK*
"You little ungrateful little brat! You have been doing this for so many years now and you decide to quit now?! Do you know how much hard work I put into training you?!"
"I'm sorry grandad..."
"SHUT UP!" He bellow as he throws a punch into my younger self's stomach. I try to run up and stop them, but I find that I can't move. I look down and darkness is starting to consume the room. The younger me is walling in pain and tears and snot streak down his face, while I notice a younger Suguha and my aunt run into the room and pull my grandad away from me. I can hear my aunt and my grandfather yelling at each other from the other room and Suguha and my younger self are sobbing into each other's arms. So it's this memory huh. But before I can react, the darkness consumes everything and I am greeted with someone staring down at me. I jump and slam my head into the person's head, causing them to rear back in pain. Wait a minute, why is this girl in my room?! Could this be the beginning of my very harem?! Before I can be stupid in my head any longer, the events of yesterday come flooding back, why is she out of bed?!
"Shino, why did you get out of bed, you're hurt and you need to re..."
"Because you were crying, Kirigaya."
Huh?
I feel my face and it feels damp with tears
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"No. I'm fine." I say coldly. She can't know about this, no one outside of my family can.
"Okay…. But if you need to talk I'm here. I can't really get far with this bruise y'know." She says chuckling
I nod and tell her I'm going down to make us breakfast, she tries to get up to help but I force her to get back to the bed. Damn she is stubborn! Going down the stairs, I look to see Suguha cooking breakfast. This ought to be a good time to mess with her. She's facing the stove and listening to music with two earphones in her eyes. I go up behind her and grab one of the knives that were on the counter and quickly move it to the other side of the kitchen. I stay behind her do she doesn't see me. When she goes and reaches for the knife, she looks confused and I quickly hide behind the counter topping ducking. I watch as she franticly searches around the room for it. When she's getting close to it, I quickly jump up and walk behind her. Before she can grab the knife, I rip one of her earphones out of her ear.
"BOO"
"AHH"
*SMACK*
*THUD*
Huh, when did the floor get here?
"Oni-chan! You can't be scaring me like that!" She says with a pout
"Sorry Suguha, but I couldn't resist."
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." I say as I yawn
"So, how was spending the night with that cute girl?" She says with a small grin. This causes me to trip and I slam my head against the table and into the floor. I have a feeling that I'm going to be having more dates with the floor in the future. Suguha looks worried for a second, but after seeing my blushing face, she begins laughing. Do you not care for your dear Oni-chan?!
"It's not like that!"
"Heheh. I know Oni-chan, I'm just messing with you." She says smiling at me warmly "How is she doing? She looked pretty beat-up when you brought here her last night."
"I think she's doing fine, but there is a large bruise on her stomach and I know she won't be able to walk for a while."
"Is that so?" She says, as she reaches for her cup of coffee, when did she make coffee? After placing it down again having taken a few sips, she grabs the knife and moves over to the stove, where I notice about 5 tomatoes sitting on the cutting board.
"Really Suguha? How much tomato salad do you even eat?"
"Want some, Oni-chan?"
"I'll pass." I say as I move towards the refrigerator, looking inside, I see that we have only a gallon of milk and 3 eggs left in terms of breakfast items. I should probably stop for groceries today huh? Or maybe aunt will do it, but she's normally busy with work. [1] Guess I'll go. I grab two eggs and the gallon of milk from the refrigerator and place them on the counter and head to the cabinets to grab some flour. I'll make pancakes today. I begin going through the recipe based off of my memory, before hearing something moving.
*THUD*
I look back to see Shino kneeling at the stairway, breathing heavily as she holds her stomach.
"SHINO!" I say as I run toward her and grab her so she is resting on my side "Are you okay?! Why did you come down here?"
"Umm, I wanted to know where the restroom was." Oh. Shit
"It's down the hallway to the right." Suguha says as she comes from around the counter, she lifts Shino up and takes her from my grasp.
"Thank you, urm…"
"Suguha."
"Right, thank you Suguha-san"
They disappear around the corner from the hallway so I continue to make the pancakes. After around 10 minutes, Suguha and Shino come back into the living room with Shino still in a limp holding onto Suguha. Suguha moves Shino to the couch, much to the relief of Shino and comes around the counter again and finishes preparing the salad. I think the pancake batter is almost done, so I grab a pan and place it on the stove turning it on, and placing the batter on it. I look back to Shino and I notice that she's somewhat drooling. I laugh, which causes her to notice my staring and she blushes heavily. Suguha also notices this and punches me in the shoulder. Causing me to rub my arm and pain, which causes both Shino and Suguha to giggle. Why do you guys enjoy my suffering? I make three pancakes and place them on a plate and give them to Shino, to which the thanks me and says thanks for the meal. I make another 4 and do the same, and Suguha sits down with us. I flip on the television and flip it to a channel with anime, I think this anime is called Kabeneri of Iron Fortress [2] The main character, Ikoma is fighting Kabane as the train with all of the officials and civilians watch him as he moves to lower a gear. This anime is actually pretty damn good. Shino looks mesmerized by it and Suguha looks kind of afraid, I think she's scared of the undead. It's only fair because you hurt your dear Oni-Chan. Looking at the time, I notice that it's nearing 8 which means I need to start walking to school. I grab my things and proceed to walk out the door only to be stopped my Shino calling me.
"Kirigaya"
"Hmm?"
"I'm going with you, just give me a sec…" She says only to collapse on the coach. I run over to her and help her get steady
"I need to go to school today, I have to get my notes."
"I can take them for you, don't worry."
"But we're only in one class together, how can you even ge…"
"I'm going into all of your classes today in your place, I'll copy notes for you."
"You're being stupid Kirigaya, you have classes too you know."
"Don't worry about it, I have straight A's. I'll be fine."
"Show off." Hey! I work hard in school you know. I stand up and wave her goodbye as Suguha also begins to leave and head towards her school, leaving Shino alone. I hope she doesn't try to do anything rash while I'm gone, I'd rather her not hurt herself. Today is going to be quite awkward to explain the situation to both my teachers and Shino's. I'm lucky I swiped her class list at the last minute when she was asleep.
Perspective: Shino
Well, now I'm alone in Kazuto Kirigaya's house, the fresh prince of bel air, I mean the freshman prince of the high school [3]. Looking around, it doesn't take one long to notice that Kirigaya lives comfortably. The walls are dark, along with the floor, but the floor is very clean and I think this is Mahogany. The massive TV they have implanted into the wall doesn't help to the hide fact that they are rich either. I decide to flip on the internet function of the television and go to kissanime [4] to watch the rest of Kabeneri, which takes me around 5 hours to finish. It was actually pretty good. I'm kind of hungry, but I choose to ignore it because I don't want to barge into their kitchen. I sit on the couch, thinking about everything that's happened in these two days. I don't even know why I agreed to be here with them, if they knew who I was they'd probably hate me and throw me onto the street…. Or finish me off…. But the thought of what Kirigaya said "I don't believe them" comes back to me and I smile a little bit. I've heard that he was stupid nice. I decide to watch a few random anime for the next couple of hours when I hear the door burst open, revealing Kazuto, drenched in sweat. What the hell is wrong with him? Before I can ask anything, he quickly sprints up the stairs and into his room. Okay Kirigaya, what the hell is going on? I stand up, but the pain in my stomach starts to come back with a vengeance, causing me to stumble. I won't let that beat me though. I slowly get up and head up the stairs into his room opening the door slightly to see if he is in there. I look to see that he is on his computer reading through an email when he suddenly jumps up into the air and does a few fist bumps. He looks like a little kid with his excitement. This causes me to laugh, which makes him notice my presence and he begins to blush uncontrollably, which makes me laugh even harder. This boy is so damn cute sometimes.
"Heheheheheh"
"Umm, I…"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA"
"It's not that funny!" He pouts as he blushes uncontrollable, geez Kirigaya, you're going to kill my heart with those types of reactions.
"Whatever you say, Kirigaya. Heh" I say after my giggle fit was over, "What were so excited over?"
"Well, umm… I got into a video game beta, I'm kind of a nerd heheh" He says, rubbing the back of his head
"What kind of video game is it?"
"It's a game called Sword Art Online, it's virtual reality so you can move around and be totally immersed into the game, it's like you can get away from reality."
Get away from reality?
"Where do I sign up?"
"Eh?"
"Where do I sign up? I want to know."
"On their website, but you need an email."
"I have one, can I register here?"
"Sure, I don't mind… But it's a very small chance that you can get in, only a thousand make it in."
"It's worth a shot."
I go through the whole registration, filling out everything required, date of birth, etc. I have to get into this game. If it means that I can finally escape from reality than I can finally be free. I can finally be strong. Kazuto looks a little confused at my determination, but I ignore it. The only thing on my mind is this game. I will become strong in this virtual world.
Author's Note: Hello my babies, It's Papa Onethirdparty here. I hope you guys like the first real chapter of the story. I put a lot of work into this you know. We got fluff, we got foreshadowing, and we got backstory. You know, all the good shit. I'm going to rush through most of the beta so we can actually get to the full release, but I will be including some moments with Kazuto and Asada in school. I've also tried doing a bit of referencing in my stories now, so I hope you guys enjoy it. Anyway, here are the references.
[1] "Guess I'll go." A line from One Punch Man, that Saitama says when there's trouble
[2] Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, a really good anime that is out. At the time of this been writing it has 7 episodes with one coming out tomorrow. I really recommend it
[3] Fresh Prince of Bel Air, a common meme that is still good no matter what you say
[4] kissanime, the best anime watching site as of now, seriously, why aren't you using it?
See you guys next chapter!
