A/N: Here it is! Chapter one seeing as prologues don't count as chapters! Thanks to all the followers and favouriters and reviewers so far I was surprised to get any with only my prologue to go on! Okay so here's ow the format will be at least for the first few chapters. It's going to cut from Kirito 3rd person POV to those mysterious men and woman from the prologue and then when They are actually in SAO 2.0 it will also cut to Sugu/Leafa, Yui and Sinon's 3rd Person POV out in the real world or in Alfheim. Enjoy the chapter and be sure to review!

Friday 4:00 PM

Kikuoka Seijirou handed Kazuto a bland looking disc case "My superiors were wondering if you and your SAO buddies could beta test this new game for them. They said SAO survivors only though so you can't invite your sister, Sinon or your other MMO friends?"

"Yeah sure I'm sure they'd love to beta it with me."

"Okay can you sin this?" He handed Kirito a form

"What is it?"

"Oh it's the same as the contract you signed for SAO when you betaed it."

"Oh okay," He picked up a pencil from the desk and signed everywhere he needed to then Kazuto looked at the blank case and asked "How comes my Alfheim and Gun Gale friends can't beta as well?"

"To be honest I'm not sure, I did ask my boss but apparently she doesn't know either. The order came from really high up like my boss' boss' boss!"

"Well at least tell me what it's called!" Kazuto fiddle with the pencil twirling it in his hands under the table

"It doesn't have a title yet, although people around the office have taken to calling it… Sword Art Online 2.0 or just 2.0 for short. It is quite similar to SAO and the System mimics the Cardinal system in many ways although hopefully there won't be a dead guys consciousness hanging about giving people advice and whatnot!" Kikuoka laughed and took a bite of some Victoria sponge cake that Kirito hadn't noticed before.

"mmm?" Kazuto narrowed his eyes in an expression that basically scream 'are you being serious' and pointed at the slice "When did that cake get there? And why didn't you offer any to me?" He bit on the end of his pencil without realising he was doing so.

Kikuoka froze with the fork he was using still in his mouth "Oh Imsorwry." He apologised in a muffled voice spraying crumbs onto his desk, he swallowed quickly and then continued "This was the last slice! Although it looks like you're enjoying that pencil just fine."

Kazuto blushed and snatched the pencil away from his mouth then sighed and grumbled "It's okay, it's not like I risked my life to investigate Gun Gale Online for you or anything."

"And we are very grateful for that, I will pay you back with any cake you want! And you can have the whole thing if you want not just a slice!"

Kazuto resumed his 'are you serious' stare "You know what? Forget it. Just give me the game and give me the basics."

"It's a virtual MMO which btw I double checked Yui isn't compatible so I suggest you don't try and bring her as well. Okay it's basically SAO, there are 100 levels, main differences are the floors are going downwards instead of up and it's not a floating castle in the sky so much just the exact same castle on land. I think they're trying to design it so that if you walk far enough you can walk into another game! If they figure it out all Online MMO's would be even more connected!"

"That does sound like a cool idea." He thought about it for a second wondering if maybe he and Agil and some guys from school should have a go at it but then remembered why he was there in the first place "Is it skill based or Level Based?"

"uuum, he glanced at a file on his desk scanning for information "Level based and Skill based. Certain moves require a certain Level or skill it just depends. By the way the servers don't go up until tomorrow at 6:30 PM so you can't go in until then."

"Oh okay," He glanced at the clock behind Kikuoka and saw that it said 4:45 PM, his eyes widened "Oh no!"

"What?"

"I was supposed to meet Asuna and the others in Alfheim 15 minutes ago! They're gonna be so mad I'm late, we're supposed to be questing!"

"Well go! I don't want to get you in trouble with your girlfriend."He handed him the MMO and shooed Kirito out of his office. Just as the door was about to close Kikuoka shouted "Oh one more thing!" Kazuto popped his head around the door again "Don't tell the other kids at your school."

"Okay I won't, Bye!" and then he continued out the door.

Now some of the employees had heard an SAO player was coming, they didn't know who or why but one of them decided to play a practical joke on them or at least he thought it was a joke it really wasn't funny. He dressed up as a member of the laughing coffin with a black cloak and the white logo on the breast, he also had a kendo sword he had wrapped in tin foil to look shiny like a real sword. A lot of the others had told him not to do it but he wouldn't listen to them and so he continued with his plan much to the others distain. When he heard Kazuto say bye he grinned, this was his moment. He stepped silently out from where he was hiding and laughed as crazily as he could thinking the SAO player would jump maybe yell and then it would be over unfortunately for him he got the yelling part right, what he didn't take into account was that Kazuto would jab a pencil with all his might into his shoulder and actually get at least 4 inches in. They both screamed at each other Kirito out of fear and shock and he out of pain. The man pulled back his hood and yelled and Kazuto "Duuuuuude!?" he gestured to his arm "Why?!"

"What the hell man! Why would you do that! Laughing Coffin was a murder guild filled with red playing killers and you expect me react in any other way then attacking you?!" He took a deep breath and turned to a large crowd next to him "Someone take this man to the hospital." The he walked to the elevator and took it down to the ground floor before striding across the lounge and stepping out into the sunny street. The real life sun on the real life street. Sometimes Kazuto found it hard to believe those two years he had spent in SAO had been virtual, the sun that he and Asuna had slept under that day hadn't been real, Lisbeth's heat from her hand that day in the Dragons nest hadn't been real, Sachi's tears as she cried under the bridge hadn't been real, the warmth of holding Yui in his arms wasn't real, heck Yui herself wasn't real. Sometimes that one simple fact killed him, I mean if- no when he and Asuna got married and had real kids what would they do with Yui? They couldn't just leave her, they definitely couldn't delete her but it's not like they could raise her alongside their real child, could they? He sighed for the umpteenth time that day; he was only 16 why did he have to deal with this crap.

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