A/N: OKAY, so… first things first, I'd like to answer some of the very few reviews that I have gotten since I published the first chapter,

Mzr90: The main reason I said unique was really since I didn't know what else to call it, something that two people only in the game have it, but I never meant to insinuate something that might turn people away from the story

Ken lim: yea… sorry about that, from now on it will be third person, unless I state it, I completely forgot to state it in the first chapter, and im too lazy to go fix it.

Hakkyou4 and Grytr: Those are some very good ideas that I will most definitely input into the story, making them have similar base skills but different skill trees.

Have a Little Feith: I meant bear, since I didn't want to mention boar again as in Canon and other Fanfics they all mention them, but if I said wolf like what kirito encountered then it would assume they are on the same path, which I wouldn't want since I have decided for kirito to play a minor role in this, sure he'll still make some appearances which you'll see later on, but yes, different path.

SIAUFNGYIN: Well I'm not really sure what to label the skill mainly due to it being complicated that two people have it, but I still will refer to it as unique. Next, the range would not be too far as 100 meters, as that is outlandish in real life, however the 10 meters seems a safe area as I have done some research and someone shot a bow up to 50 yards, which is translated to 45.72 meters, so that will probably be the max they can shoot at the beginning, but will be able to go further as they progress due to getting stronger. Finally, yes, they will learn close combat, which is the main reason they both have short swords as well, but there will be some cases where they WILL dodge and fire point blank, but only because it will be in desperation.

So, now that that's over with, I'd like to state a few things. As I've stated in some of the answers, kirito will be a very minor role in this story, with short mentions of him through asuna and some scenes where he is required to be in them, also, I'll try not to follow the extreme month/day time skips that the anime features, as I still wonder sometimes what the hell happened between those times.

Now enough of that, let the story commence!

Disclaimer – I'm not sure if I have to do this but.. I do not own Sword Art Online, or Naruto, if I did, I would be filthy stinkin rich and wouldn't be scraping by as a poor college student.

November 7, 2022 – First Floor

It has been one day since the shocking discovery that no one could log out of the game, that the only way to get out, was the beat it, otherwise it was death. In that one day, already 400 people have died, including the 213 from the first day. Many decided it was best to stay within the town of beginnings, however, there were the select few who pushed themselves to live their lives in this game, and pushed themselves to start to clear it. Naruto and Sinon were no exceptions.

"Ne, Naruto, remind me why we're in this forest again?" Sinon asked with a slight tilt of her head in confusion.

"We're looking for redweed moss, which is only known to grow in this part of the first floor."

The quest they were doing was a simple one, yet rewarding. For a simple gathering task, the reward was a new skill or piece of equipment, both which would help out greatly for the fight to get back to the real world.

The two continued on for a few more minutes into the forest, until Naruto raised his hand to stop Sinon from going any further. Curious, Sinon peeked her head over Naruto's shoulder, wondering what the cause for the stop was. Lo and behold, a few feet in front of them there was a reddish colored moss growing off of the side of a rock. Growing excited that they would be finishing the quest earlier than anticipated, Sinon made a move to go forward and grab the moss, only to be stopped once again by Naruto.

"Wait, do you hear that?" he asked in a hushed whisper, while looking off to the right. Sinon, noticing where he was looking turned to face the area as well, noticing a small black outline within the trees.

"What is that?" Sinon asked

"It's a shadowlurker, it's a relatively low level monster, its around level 3, however I am quite curious to why one is over here, they are usually found within the deep caves on the northern side of the first floor."

The shadowlurker, having heard them, dashed off further into the forest, away from the two bow users.

"Anyway, now that it's gone, let's grab the moss and get out of here, before it gets too dark." Naruto stated while walking towards the red patch.

Sinon nodded and walked up to him before bending down and grasping a few patches of the redweed moss, feeling its slimy texture, Sinon almost dropped it.

"Careful with that now, if you drop it once it's gone forever" Naruto said with a smirk, causing Sinon to get a tick mark on her forehead.

'Why that blonde…'

"Thank you for getting the moss for me, here is your reward!" the shopkeeper said its pre-programmed line before handing Naruto a crystal that had the name 'Ricochet shot unlock'

He turned to see what Sinon had gotten as her reward, and was a bit miffed to see that she had been able to somehow get both rewards, where she now held a black longbow in her hand, and a crystal in her other hand.

"Seems like luck is on your side eh? Sinon" Naruto said causing sinon to jump in surprise, not knowing he was right behind her.

"S-shut up, besides, I wouldn't have this stuff if it wasn't for you anyway" She replied blushing slightly

Naruto smirked and started to walk out of the shop where the quest giver was situated. He took a look at the sky to see that it was starting to get dark, and quite fast at that rate.

"Hey Sinon, let's go to an inn to get some rest, it's getting pretty dark." He motioned for her to follow, which she did without hesitation.

The two came up to a decent looking in and walked in. the inside was well designed, with some nice wood tables and chairs next to a fireplace, a bar/restaurant off to the side, with the front desk placed right next to the stairs which probably led to the rooms upstairs. The two walked up to the front desk.

"Hello, how may I help you two?" The innkeeper asked with a smile on his face

"Yes, I was wondering if there were any rooms available that had two beds in them?" Naruto asked. The innkeeper had a thoughtful face before he looked through his books on who had a room and what rooms were open.

"I'm sorry, but all the double bed rooms are taken, however we do have single bed rooms if you would like to rent two"

Naruto sighed and opened his inventory, checking his col amount, which at the moment, was not too much to be proud of. He looked over to Sinon to see her checking her amount as well, which was even less than his own. Looking back to the innkeeper, he released another sigh.

"We'll take one one bed room please" this caused Sinon to blush up a storm, while Naruto seemed to have a slight tinged to his cheek as well.

"Very well then, that will be 2,000 col please" the innkeeper stated as Naruto handed over the money, "Thank you for your business, your room number is room 9, have a nice night"

The two archers proceeded up to the rooms where it didn't take much longer to find their room, while Naruto was casually walking along, Sinon was having some rather… interesting thoughts.

'I'm going to be sharing a room with Naruto… oh god oh god, this isn't good, if he sees me like this there will be no end to it, I hope he doesn't try anything…'

As they opened the door, the room was decently sized, having a full sized bed inside along with a desk off to the side.

"Okay so, I'll take the floor and you can take the bed" Naruto stated simply as he unequipped his armor, leaving him in his base clothes to sleep in.

"But… you paid for the room so you should take the bed" Sinon tried to argue, but was silently glad that he offered, hoping that he wouldn't take it back.

"It's fine, I'm used to sleeping on floors anyway, had to do it a lot when… never mind, I'll just take the floor, I'll leave while you get changed" before Sinon could even reply at all, Naruto headed out the door giving her privacy.

'That was close, I almost told her about that time… god Naruto, man the hell up, if you're going to be able to trust anyone in this world, you have to tell at least someone about your past…'

Realizing that he'd been outside for a while, he decided that that was enough time for Sinon to get changed and be situated in bed. As he walked back into the room, he noticed there was a figure under the sheets, which he immediately knew was Sinon. He smiled as he watched the figures frame move up and down ever so slightly, signifying her soft breathing. As he was just about to lay down off to the side near the table, a voice caught his attention.

"Hey naruto… do you think you could tell me about yourself…? If you don't mind that is…" a soft voice asked from the direction of the bed.

"Uh… sure, I guess I could, you have to promise to do the same though, where would you like me to start?"

"Start with your real name, of course."

"Well my real name is Naruto Namikaze, I turned 15 last month on October 10th. I live in Ochinomizu in Chiyoda, where I live by myself, now your turn"

"My name is Shino Asada, I turned 14 in July. It turns out that I actually live really close to you, the address is Tokyo District, Bunkyo, Yushima, Yonchome… I also live alone, and if you don't mind, could you tell me the reason why you live alone?"

Naruto stared at the ceiling for a bit, not replying immediately, thinking on if he should tell her or if he shouldn't. before he could reply at all though sinon, no, shino's voice spoke up.

"You don't have to answer that, I'm sorry for digging too mu-" she had started up before being cut off by naruto.

"No. it's fine, ill tell you…" he spoke softly as he sat up, and noticed that shino was also sitting up on the bed, leaning against the back frame. "It was 8 years ago, on my birthday in fact…"

Flashback start

"Daddy, where are we going?" asked a 7 year old Naruto while holding onto his father for dear life as he was being carried.

"You'll see my son, you'll see, we're almost there too!" Minato Namikaze smiled as he turned his head to look at his son.

The two walked on the sidewalk for a bit more, eventually coming up to a building that Naruto had never seen before, it had the shape of a house if he could say that. The two walked up to the door, where Minato had taken one hand off of Naruto's leg in order to get a key and unlock the door. As they walked in, a heavenly aroma kicked in that caused them both to run straight for the kitchen.

In the kitchen there was one Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze, at the stove cooking up dinner that the family would enjoy. As she was cooking, she heard a sound coming from the entrance to the kitchen, causing her to turn her head to see what was going on.

"My my my, if it isn't the little birthday boy himself, how do you feel to be one year older, Naruto kun?" Kushina asked with a smile as the blonde headed bundle of joy ran into her arms.

"It feels awesome mommy! Whats for din-" was what the little Naruto could say before a bang cut off what he was about to say.

The noise caught the attention of both parents, causing them to take on serious faces, which scared little Naruto greatly.

"Mommy, Daddy, what was that?" he asked in a quiet trembling voice

"Hold on son, I'll go check it out" Minato stated as he walked out of the room, towards the area where the noise sounded like it came from.

Son and mother waited for what seemed like hours, until Minato came back a few minutes later, with a confused look on his face.

"There's no one here, all the doors and windows were fi-" was what he was able to say before his eyes went wide and he shouted in pain instead falling to the ground, showing a knife sticking out of his back, with blood flowing around him.

"Minato!" Kushina gasped in surprise. While still holding Naruto, she ran over to her husband. Minato was barely holding on to life as his wife arrived next to him

"Kushina…" he started to mutter, "Take Naruto and get out of the house, theres someone in here"

"No! I wont leave you minato! I'll protect you and Naruto..."

"Get… out of here…" were the last words of Minato namikaze.

"No… no… NO!" kushina shouted, scaring little Naruto even more than he already was

"Mommy, why is daddy just laying there?" Naruto asked with tears at his eyes

"Daddy… went to sleep, Naruto, he went to a very long sleep, he'll wake up soon okay?" Kushina stood up, pulling Naruto with her, "come on Naruto, we're going somewhere" she said a bit shakily, quickly picking Naruto up and headed for the door.

A shadowy figure appeared right in front of her, causing her to stop in her place. The figure was holding a gun up to her face. Kushina started crying, knowing she was going to die, and knew that her son would have the same fate as her.

"Please, if you kill me, let my son live… hes just a little boy…"

A loud bang echoed throughout the house, as kushina fell to the ground, dead, still holding Naruto in her arms. The figure stared at the child before he dropped his gun, and walked out of the house slowly. Naruto not knowing what to do, crawled to the gun before he picked up the metal object, and thought 'if this can put mommy to sleep, I'll shoot him with it too' he leveled the gun to his eyes, aimed at the back of the figure walking away, and pulled the trigger. The man fell on the streets dead.

Flashback End

"… after that, the cops came to our house, and declared both my mother, my father, and the robber deceased at the site, we still don't know what he wanted in our house, as he had nothing on him, but one thing sticks with me… I killed a man, without knowing the consequences…" he finished softly, looking away in fear of being rejected due to the fact he killed a person.

He heard movement, and something dropping, making him think she ran away while dropping her bow. He was only right about one thing. Her bow was scattered on the ground, not too far from where they were, and her arms were wrapped around him, hoping to comfort him in any way possible.

"You're not scared of me…?" he asked with wide eyes.

"No… I could never be scared of you, you may have killed someone, but you didn't know it would happen, and you were doing it in self-defense…"

He smiled. She accepted him for him, even though he had committed such a horrendous act. If it were any other circumstance, he would have loved this moment, a girl holding onto him, where he could almost feel her budding… well never mind, let's not get to that for now.

"How about you? Why do you live alone?" he asked her, trying to change the subject off of him

"Well… my parents are also dead, they died in a car crash 2 years ago." She said, her voice a bit muffled due to her face being buried into his shirt. (A/N: If you want to really know why, just go read the GGO arc of the light novel)

Naruto immediately felt bad for asking her. He knew that even though he told her his past, he didn't have the right to ask her for hers. Regretting asking her, he wrapped an arm around her to comfort her in any way he could.

"I'm sorry for asking… I was just curious" he admitted solemnly.

"It's fine, you told me your story, so I tried to tell you mine" she spoke as she lifted her head to smile at him a little, causing him to smile back.

Naruto looked at the clock built in to the game, checking to see that it was around 10 PM, pretty late considering most players were asleep already, save for the few who were trying to level up so they could beat the game as fast as they could. He shook her small frame slightly.

"Hey, we should get some sleep, we have a big day ahead of us tomorrow, more training." Naruto grinned while looking at her, causing to sinon to grumble in annoyance.

"Fine… but there's something I want you to do." Sinon started while turning her face away, to hide the blush that was starting to rise to her face.

"Oh? And what would that be?" Naruto asked, genuinely curious.

"I want you to keep me company tonight, sleep next to me" she muttered softly, but not soft enough to the point where Naruto couldn't hear her. This statement alone caused him to freeze up and blush furiously.

"B-but…" he started, but before he could finish, he found himself on the receiving end of the ever so dangerous puppy eyes skill, causing him to cave in immediate, wondering where in the hell she had the time to learn that skill, "Fine… just for tonight."

This caused Sinon to smile in delight, before she turned over to make room for Naruto on the bed, with Sinon under the sheets and Naruto over the sheets, just for extra safety precautions.

"Goodnight, Naruto"

"Goodnight, Si.. Shino" 'I'll protect you, so you don't have to experience pain like that again'

'Shit!' was the only thought that was running through Naruto's head at this time, as he and Sinon were running for their lives.

While training, the two of them stumbled upon a secret dungeon, that appeared no one had found. This was true, however there was a reason for this. In this dungeon, there were hundreds of thousands of shadowlurkers, being led by the dungeon boss, the shadowranger. This boss was level 10, way out of their level range, with him only being at level 7, while Sinon was at level 4. The shadowranger wasn't a hard boss per say, it was just the massive amounts of shadowlurkers around them that caused them to be so outclassed.

As they were making their escape from the dungeon, Sinon tripped, causing some shadowlurkers, and the shadowranger himself, to go after her instead of him. This caused Naruto to immediately turn around, pull out his bow, and charge up his piercing shot, which only took out a few of the shadowlurkers, but it was enough to draw their attention off of Sinon

"Sinon! Get out of here, I'll distract them while you get out!" Naruto shouted to her as she got up.

"But what about you? You'll die if you don't run too!" Sinon yelled back at him, tears forming at her eyes.

"Just do it! I promise you I'll meet you outside, and I intend to keep that promise." He smiled at her "now go!"

Sinon just nodded, and ran as fast as she could to the exit to the dungeon, looking back at Naruto many times, seeing him take out about 100 of the shadowlurkers so far with just his piercing shot alone. As she got out of the dungeon, the door closed right behind her.

"No… no!" Sinon screamed at the door entrance and tried to open the door, only to get a message saying 'I'm sorry, this dungeon is currently occupied, please wait for the current party inside to exit before entering'. She sunk to her knees, scared that Naruto was going to die, and regretting that she didn't stay.

With Naruto

"Heh… she's gone, looks like I don't have to hold back on you assholes anymore." Naruto smirked as he pulled his bow back once more. However what was charging was not a double shot, nor was it a piercing shot. It was the newly acquired skill from the quest they just completed, ricochet shot.

As he released it, a golden arrow ripped through the mass of shadowlurkers, taking them all out in one shot, as once it killed one, it moved on to the next. All that was left was the shadowranger, which caught his arrow in one hand, before using it to fire back at Naruto. Naruto dodged to the left of the arrow, as it barely missed his head, cutting off a few strands of his hair, before he rolled forward and brought his bow out again.

'I've only got one shot at this, and I hope it works' Naruto thought.

Having encountered a shadowranger only once before, he knew its weak spot, which confusing enough, was similar to that of every human male. As he ran towards the shadowranger, he pulled his bow, preparing one last piercing shot, before he dropped down into a slide, approaching the feet of the shadowranger fast. Just as he was passing between the boss' legs, he smirked and let the piercing shot go, causing it to pierce right through the boss, which resulted it breaking into many different pieces of data.

Naruto lay there, still, not believing that he had just done what he did, before a smile came to his face, before it turned into a full blown grin

"WOOHOO, I just killed a mother truckin boss!" he yelled in excitement as he jumped up to his feet, arriving at the chest that appeared where the boss was slain. As he opened the chest, what he found inside was something that he found would fit his style perfectly. Inside was what is known as a legendary short bow, ' The Dreamer '

Outside with Sinon

Sinon sat there next to the dungeon entrance, crying, hoping that Naruto would somehow make it out; he did make a promise to her after all.

The entrance opened up, causing her to jump up in surprise, not expecting it, before she looked to the door. There, stood a smiling Naruto, holding a bow that looked like it had a purple feather for a top, leading down to a black bottom.

Sinon immediately tackled him to the ground.

"You dummy!" she cried as she hit his chest lightly, "you could have gotten yourself killed…"

Naruto smiled at her, before he sat up with Sinon still on him.

"I know… but I did it to protect you, I will defend you with all of my being, even if it costs my life." Naruto said to her as she calmed down.

"Well then…"Sinon started, before her face lit up in a smile too, "I guess I'll protect you too!"

Both smiled at each other, and started to laugh, completely forgetting about the near death experience they both shared not too long ago. Laughter filled the air and drifted through to the nearest town, causing many people to stop what they were doing, and listen to the laughter, which made many smile.

After all, laughter is the best medicine for any problem.

A/N: I'm soooooo sorry for not updating as soon as i could, I have all the chapters up to ch 5 planned out, but i never had the time to write any of them until now, due to finals and stuff... but anyway, i'll try to update as soon as i can.

Now if you didn't guess it, the bow "The Dreamer" is from GW2, its a freaking awesome bow.

Anyway, yea sorry the fight scene wasn't much either and i am really bad at writing them, but i tried my best .

Without further adieu, thanks for reading, Reviewing is nice too!