A/N: So heres another chapter for you all, thank you to everyone who has favorited, followed and reviewed

Troubled.Loner: I hope I wont dissapoint you.

CantPickAName: maybe I will do something on Ordinal Scale but this is an AU and I want to focus on ALO first.

"Excuse me, you what?" Kikuo said in shock, keeping his voice down as not to attract attention.

Kirito thought carefully on his words for Kayaba's image sake, he may have despised him during SAO but he still admired him for creating it and after hearing 'something that's not on any website' he has grown to respect the man.

"Yes, right before I woke up, I died killing his avatar, when I opened my eyes, I was on some invisible platform, after being reunited with Asuna, the girl I was just on the phone with, we looked around and saw Aincrad crumbling down, and out of nowhere, he showed up and gave a speech that forever changed my view on things."

"But what?" Kikuo asked, bewildered and lost "What could that monster have said to you?"

'I made SAO to warn the people so that they can open their eyes yet in doing so, everyone will label me as 'killer' or 'psychopath' or some other form of that description'

'He really thought this all out, didn't he?' Kazuto thought.

"After hearing his side, I don't know what to call him anymore. To sum it all up, he created Sword Art Online to warn us all about the dangers of this world, regardless of our technology, and that technology would be the very thing that would be the cause of our destruction. He said that we are all ignorant, and from that ignorance, we learn to hate, despise, and fear, he said that it was the human condition and that it will never change. He created SAO to open our eyes and delay our imminent doom, I don't know what to think about him but one thing I am certain about, was that he thought about all of it way more longer than I know."

There he said it, he decided to leave Kayabas other reason thinking it was too personal for him.

"That's-" Kikuo paused, also stunned at what he just heard. After some time...

"Thank you for your time" and with those words Kikuo stood up and exited the room.

Back at his workplace, Kikuo was bewildered in seeing troubled looks on the faces of his co-workers.

"What's wrong everyone?" he asked

"Kikuo-san, there's still something wrong" one of his co-workers answered "We've received reports of some of the victims still not waking up"

Now Kikuo was even more confused "But I just came from an interview with the kid who just killed Kayaba in-game"

"Yeah, all our interviewees also said that the game has been cleared"

"So why are there others still not waking up?"

"We're looking in to it, also the government has kept this top secret."

"And what about Kayaba Akihiko, have we found him, or his body?"

"No, not yet, but let's focus first on finding the cause of these players not waking up, the SAO incident is still not over."

Back at the hospital, Kazuto was still on his bed just thinking about a certain someone, when he heard the door open. He saw two people he hadnt seen in 2 years.

"Onii-chan" one of them ran beside him and was about to tackle him but refrained from doing so after seeing his current state.

"Sugu" Kirito was now smiling and hugged his sister.

At the door was their mother, Midori, carrying a tray with food on it.

"Kazuto, thank god you're safe."

"Okaa-san"

"You must be hungry" Midori asked with tears in her eyes, smiling. Only then did Kauto noticed how empty his tomach felt.

"Yeah, I'd like that" he replied, tears also falling.

Midori set the tray on his lap and began to spoonfeed him.

"We've missed you so much" Suguha said giving him water to help with the food.

"I've missed you too Sugu, you too okaa-san."

"We're just glad you're alive, Kazuto" Midori said giving him another spoonful of food.

"What happened in there?" Sugu asked "was it scary?"

Now that he thought about it, Kayaba could have made the environment and monster skins much more scary than they were, as he was chewing he remembered that ragout rabbit and that it looked cute.

"Not really." he replied "In fact, I think I actually value my time there."

And by 'value' he meant treasure and by 'there' he meant with her.

"What!!!?" Sugu exclaimed "How!?"

"Listen Sugu, okaa-san, I don't regret logging in that day. I really don't. I thought about many things in my time there and I met many people and... I.."

"You what?" Midori asked

"I met her, I realized it just a few hours ago that I don't even know her real name but we meant so much to each other."

"You met a girl?" Midori questioned even further.

"Yes, her name in SAO was Asuna. She was amazing, the vice commander of the Knights of the Blood Oath, the top raiding guild and the Lightning Flash"

"That sounds like a cool title" Midori complimented

"Yeah, it is, and she earned it. And that makes me all the more determined to get back on my feet so I can see her and hold her again, here, in this world."

"Hold her!?" Sugu exclaimed "You fell in love!? In there!?" Midori just opened her eyes in shock that he fell in love in a death game.

"Calm down Sugu. Yes, I also made many friends, one of them was named Klein, I met him on the first day. After showing him the basics, he promised to repay me in that world, and before we got out, he said that he wouldnt forgive me for all the things I did until I treated him in this world. Now that I think about it, we came so far, developed friendships that extended beyond the world of SAO" Kazuto smiled at this but immedietly started crying " But what did I do to deserve them" he was now sobbing "I mean, I left him, abandoned him so I could get an early power spike. I left him to fend for himself AND his guild just so I could get a few hours of grind." Kazuto was now crying so much and the heart monitor was showing his fast heart rate.

"Listen, Kazuto" Midori tried to think of anything to console him "You said that he would never forgive you until you treated him to a meal here right?" She started "Then the answer here is simple. When you meet him here, treat him to a fancy restaurant, and befriend him again here, in this world, start over and get to know about each other."

After calming himself down and thinking about what Midori just said, Kazuto replied "Yeah, that sounds like a good thing to do"

He formed a small smile remembering meeting Klein in the Starting Town, teaching him the ropes. Klein defending him on the First Floor Raid boss. Klein telling him to just survive after getting the revival item, trying to make a move on Asuna on Floor 74 and on Floor 75, him lying on the floor "Damn it Kirito, why are you apologizing right now, I won't forgive you. I won't forgive you until you treat me to a meal in the real world."

"Yeah, In the real world"

"Neh, Onii-chan, are you okay?" Sugu asked, seeing him in a daze

Noticing Suguha waving her hand on his face, Kazuto replied "I'm okay, Sugu, just thinking about everything"

After everything that has happened, he has decided on something. "Okaa-san?"

"Hmm?"

"Have you told Sugu the truth? about me?"

"Yes, I have, but I'd like you tell her yourself."

"So you already know Sugu, that we're not really brother and sister?"

"Yes" Sugu started "But that doesn't change anything I see about you. You're still the same person who I went to school with, the same person who practiced kendo with me, the same person who grew up with me, and even though we're only cousins and not siblings, I still love you as family" Sugu said through conviction and tears.

"Arigato Sugu."

"You're still my Onii-chan"

"And you're still my son" Midori said as well. Kazuto only smiled, thankful that he has a great family.

Suddenly a nurse came in to assess Kazuto because of his previous heart rate but was soon explained that he was just emotional. Nurse Aki understood, and left promptly.

After that, Kazuto, Suguha, and Midori spent the rest of the day catching up with each other and Kazuto telling them about his time in SAO, most of which was about Asuna.

"I met her on Floor 1 and we partied after seeing everyone else partying. She was cold and untrusting to me at first but soon came to trust me, but after 'something' I dissolved our party and left her, but unlike Klein, it was for her own good"

"One day I was lying on the grass and she approached me, gave me a speech about being lazy and that I should fight to get back to the real world blah blah"

Sugu and Midori cracked a smile

"Her diligence seems to balance your lazinnes" Midori commented

"Well, when she was about to knock some sense into me, I told her that the weather was at its best and that a day like it would be wasted trying to clear a dungeon. I told her to lie down to see for herself then I slept. When I woke up, she was lying there asleep peacefully, I didn't expect her to follow my instructions so I stayed and watched over her, one thing led to another, we had dinner together, fought beside each other once more and when she saved my life literally, we had fallen in love. We married, hanged out in a log cabin and went fishing and had fun. When it was time to go back to the frontlines, I learned from Asuna that we weren't wasting our days in the real world, we were just spending them there, and that although it was virtual, the world of SAO was still real and so were our experiences and feelings"

Kazuto breathed "We don't even know each others real names, yet we married and lived as a couple"

-I got rid of all those things that only hindered humanity and the result was this. Pure human emotion, and at such a young age-

"Wow, do you have any more stories from SAO?" Sugu asked

"Most of my time was spent grinding monsters so the stories I'll tell you might have some giant timeskips but if you insist then who am I to say no"

A/N: so I am sorry to say this but I am an Asian high school student and next week is our exams. So this fic will be delayed for a week or two so I decided to try and compensate with this slightly longer chapter. Please have patience and thank you for reading. As always, read and review, they just make my day. Until next chapter.