A/N: I hope everyone had a merry christmas! Sorry for the long wait (wanted to upload on christmas, but FF had some problems)! So here is the new chapter hope you like it! :D I changed the NerveGear to AmuSphere. Thanks to Ethorin for telling me because I totally forgot about the AmuSphere.


Finally the long awaited month had passed and Kazuto and his friends were waiting in line for three days to get the game. The Kurosakis and friends were waiting in the line as well, not as far in front as Kirito since they only came two days ago. It was eight a.m. and the fifthteenth July when Kirito woke up sitting in his foldable chair. Happy that it was finally the day, he woke everyone up as they would open the shop at nine a.m.

"Ah... I never thought I would be sitting in a chair waiting for three days only to get a game like that again." Klein said yawning.

Giggling Asuna agreed: "Yeah, that's true. I never thought I would be doing this again."

"Even though I didn't do this for SAO, I did it for one or two other games too." Kazuto said giving everyone a sandwich that they had packed in a big bag.

"Hopefully, once we're done eating it'll be nine already." Suguha said excited.

Joining the conversation, Egil said: "Yeah, then finally at one thirty, when the game starts, we can all log in together and play."

"I heard that those who are getting payed have to login at eleven a.m. already and get ready. I wish we were one of those people." Kirito informed them, taking another bite of the sandwich Asuna made for everyone. Everyone nodded in agreement.

They ate the rest of the sandwich quietly and once they were done they packed whatever they took out back into their bags. When everyone was done it was nine already and them being quite far in front, got their games after waiting for another twenty minutes and headed home. On the other hand, Ichigo and all the others had to wait a whole hour long until they got their games as well and headed home.


As Kazuto said, all the Shinigamis playing logged in to the game at eleven a.m., having had their games picked up in the real word by Yamada Hanataro, the seventh seat of the fourth division, yesterday already. When they logged in, they found themselves at the Soukyoku Hill. The first thing they noticed was that everything was somehow also made of virtual spirit particles. So everyone did as told and made their way to their division headquarters. When the captain-commander however, went to his division headquarters he found a third letter from the anonymous person, the second one stating where and how to pick up the games, on his desk. He opened it wondering what it was this time:

Dear Soutaicho,

First of all welcome to the game, Soul Society. As you most likely noticed already it is also made of spirit particles and you can use the Hell Butterflies as well. Now, I thought I would tell you rather than make you find out your self. All the 13'000 players will be divided into your thirteen divisions each having 1'000 players each. Your fellow Shinigamis will have to train them to be Shinigamis and each of the headquarters have an entrance which will lead them to one of thirteen towers with 130 floors. Each floor will have a dungeon filled with Hollows and a boss Hollow. That is how you will complete the game and get out of it. By getting out of it I mean that you can't logout of this game unless cleared. I shall also tell you that if you do not do what I say there is a chance of you never getting out. I wish you lots of fun playing this game.

Best regards,

The Founder

P.S. I left a list of the people which says in which division they're going to, which is empty at the moment and will get filled with usernames once the players login. It will be based of the players capability in the real world.

Not wanting to waste any time the captain-commander Yamamoto summoned twelve Hell Butterflies to his divisions explaining everything that was in the letter not wanting to make a meeting because of this.


Since Kazuto's aunt wasn't at home, he and Suguha had lunch alone. After they were done, both of them stormed up to their rooms, not wanting to be a second late to log into Soul Society.

They unpacked their game and Suguha placed it into the disc slot of the AmuSphere and Kazuto into his NerveGear. Then they laid down on theirs beds and set their AmuSphere and NerveGear on their heads and watched the digital clock on their top left as it showed one twenty-nine p.m. Once it changed to one thirty both of them shouted without hesitation: "Link Start!" So loud that they could hear each others voices coming from the room beside them, before they switched to virtual reality. Kazuto, once he reached the place to choose your name, didn't think twice and wrote Kirito. Suguha also stuck to hers and entered Leafa. Soon, they found themselves on a large hill where they could see more and more people logging found the rest of their friends standing together quickly enough. Another thing that was special about this game was that everyone looked like their real selves. Everyone from the group kept their same usernames that they had been using since SAO.

Ichigo, his family and his friends also logged in at exactly one thirty and were now also standing together, talking about how the whole place really looked and felt like Soul Society.

"Hi, everyone!" Leafa called, approaching them, followed by Kirito who felt at home as he was once again in virtual reality. Then suddenly a group of thirteen people appeared out of the blue as if they had just teleported from somewhere.

In front stood an old man who looked like eighty years or older and all of them were wearing white haoris with numbers written in kanji on their back. Behind the old man was a rather short girl, her hair was short and black with two long braids bound in white cloth, each ending in a large golden ring. Third was a guy with wavy blond hair. Fourth was a woman with long and black hair that was tied in a long and big braid in front. Fifth was a guy with jaw length blond hair. Sixth was a guy with rather long and black hair which had five Kenseikan in it. Seventh was strange, he was a brown wolf. Eighth was a guy with brown and wavy hair tied in a low ponytail. He also wore a straw hat. Ninth was a guy with short and white silvery hair which stood up a bit. Tenth was a rather young and short guy with messy silverish hair. Eleventh was another strange one, it was a guy that had spiky hair and bells on them and he also wore an eyepatch over his right eye. But twelfth was the creepiest, it seemed like a guy and it looked like he had painted his entire face white and black in the middle. Last and thirteenth was a sickly looking man with silverish hair as well.

All of them walked up to the end of the hill, stopped and turned to the crowd about to give a speech. Everyone figured already, that they were the captains and vice-captains. The old man hit the ground once with his walking stick getting everyone's attention. When all eyes were fixed on him, he spoke: "Welcome, everyone, to Soul Society. Right now, all the 13'000 people are logged in and on this hill. Now, I'm going to give you quite a bit of information so you may sit down and listen."

With that said, everyone sat down immediately and then he continued: "We were chosen to be the Gotei thirteen in this game and we know a lot about this place because we played the beta test which none of you probably know of. But still, we have nothing to do at all with the founder nor do we know who that is. It is important that you believe us because everything that I'm about to say may make you think that we are involved, which we are not."

Everyone was now eager to know what he was about to say as he continued: "As you already know this game is about becoming a Shinigami; we have already become Shinigamis in the beta test. Now, it's most likely that you don't know what it is as it was not fully described. A Shinigami is a person that has a Zanpakutou; that's the name of our swords. Each Zanpakutou has it's own name, it's own attacks, special abilities, Shikai and Bankai. You will find out later on what Shikais and Bankais are. Over time, each of you will have an own Zanpakuto that you can communicate with. A shinigami also knows how to use Magic, which we call Kidou here. There are two types of Kidou. You will also learn more on that later. A Shinigami also will get Reiatsu over time and the stronger you are the more you have. More about that will also be mentioned during training." That being said, Ichigo and the others were all on the verge of falling asleep since this Shinigami stuff was nothing new to them.

"Now, this morning at eleven a.m., when all of us captains and vice-captains logged in, I got a letter from the Founder on my desk. And it said that everyone would be split in groups of 1'000 players each and each division would get one group to train into Shinigamis. Then in each division's headquarters there is a door that leads to one of thirteen towers that consists of 130 floors. Each division has to clear all the floors that consists of one dungeon filled with hollows and one boss hollow. And it also said that is how to get out of the game." He paused and Kirito's group was filled with anxiousness that the old man was going to say that there was no logout button. But they were too scared to check it out and just waited for the man to continue.

After a few seconds that seemed like an hour to them, the man continued: "By getting out, the Founder meant that we are stuck in this game unless we clear the game and if we don't do what he says there is a chance he won't let us out even after clearing the game. So he even gave us a list to determine where everyone will be placed since some of the divisions have specialities. Once we are done here, you will go to your division's barracks where there are five buildings with small apartments, in which you will stay with another person. You may of course go to other divisions when you have free time. Now, let us introduce ourselves first. I am Yamamoto Shigekuni Genryuusai, your Soutaicho and the first division's captain, this is also my vice-captain Sasakibe Choujirou." He finished talking and his vice-captain stepped in front and then back again, Kirito was only hoping that he would finally wake up from this nightmare.

But sadly he didn't.

Their Soutaicho stepped aside and the small girl and a huge guy that appeared with the others stepped in front: "I am the second division's Captain Soifon and this is my vice-captain Omaeda Marechiyo. Our squad is specialised in assassinations."

She stepped back and the guy with the wavy blond hair and another blond shoulder length haired guy stepped to the front : "I am the third division captain Outoribashi Roujuurou and this is my vice-captain Kira Izuru. Our division doesn't really have a speciality."

The woman with the big braid in front followed by a tall girl stepped to the front this time: "I am Unohana Retsu with my vice-captain Kotetsu Isane. Our division is specialised in Kidou, but mainly healing."

Now, the guy with the jaw length blonde hair followed by a girl with black hair tied up in a bun that was wrapped in cloth walked to the front: "Hirako Shinji, captain of the fifth division, and this is my vice-captain Hinamori Momo. Our division is nothing really special."

The guy with the Kenseikan and a red haired guy walked in front this time: "I am the sixth division captain and this is my vice-captain Abarai Renji. The sixth division is also nothing special."

Now came the brown wolf with a black haired guy wearing black sunglasses: "I am the seventh division captain Komamura Sajin and this is my vice-captain Iba Tetsuzaemon. Our division too, has nothing special."

Now, the person with the straw hat came with a girl with black hair and glasses: "I'm the eight division captain Kyouraku Shunsui with my vice-captain Ise Nanao. Ours also doesn't have anything special."

The guy whose hair stood up followed by a guy with black hair and three scars on his face walked in front this time: "I am Muguruma Kensei, the ninth division captain and this is my vice-captain Hisagi Shuuhei. There is also nothing really special in our division."

Next up was the short guy followed by a rather tall woman with wavy and orange hair: "I am the tenth division captain Hitsugaya Toushiro, I am also the youngest from here. This is my vice-captain Matsumoto Rangiku."

The guy with the bells came now with a pink haired girl on this back and two other strange looking people: "Zaraki Kenpachi, eleventh division captain and I love fighting strong people. This is my vice-captain Kusajishi Yachiru and these are my third seat, Madarame Ikkaku and fifth seat Ayasegawa Yumichika, they're here because they can teach you guys better than me how to fight. Our division is a battling division."

Now came the creepy one followed by a emotionless girl: "I'm the twelfth division captain, Kurotsuchi Mayuri and this is my vice-captain Kurotsuchi Nemu. We are specialised in technology."

Last came the sickly guy with a small and black haired girl: "I am the thirteenth division captain Ukitake Juushiro, I have some health problems so please bear with me. This is my vice-captain Kuchiki Rukia."

With that the Soutaicho walked in front again and started to list the people of the first division and both Ichigo and Kirito tried to remember in which divisions their friends went and of course in which one they would be going.

For Ichigo the first name he heard was Arisawa Tatsuki who was assigned to the first division. Next was Yasutora Sado who was placed the third division. Third was Ishida Uryuu who went to the seventh division. Inoue Orihime went to the eight. Ichigo was worried about that since the captain was... weird. But then to his relief he got dumped with the rest of his family in the tenth division. This way he at least wouldn't have to worry so much about his two sisters. The only thing bad about it was that he had to work under Toushiro.

For Kirito's part, Silica had to go to the 2nd division. He was worried for her since she wasn't the fastest and as far as he knew you had to be fast in assassination. Asuna's name was called next and she was assigned to the fourth squad. He hated that even more though. He knew that in ALO both he and Asuna only used magic when needed and they mainly fought with swords and now Asuna got dumped in a Kidou division. Next was Klein who went to the fifth division. At the names for the ninth division Egil's name was called. Then came his in the tenth. After his was Suguha in the eleventh. By now Kirito wished that Suguha and Asuna could change places. Because in ALO Suguha mainly used magic and was now stuck in the battling division. Last was Lisbeth and she was positioned in the twelfth.

After the captain-commander was finally done, everyone said goodbye and headed to their captains, who showed them the way to the divisions. When they reached the divisions' headquarters, the vice-captains showed them around the place and then the way to their apartments.


Now, Kirito was lying on his bed exhausted from all the information he took in today. Even though he thought he was scared of not being able to log off again, somehow deep inside he felt happy to be in this world, even though it wasn't Aincrad; it was virtual reality and he wasn't even scared of the possibility that he might not be able to go back to the real world. He had this confidence in him that he would surely get out again.