DISSCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR SAO! THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTFUL OWNERS!
LINK START!"One month has passed since the game began," a black haired boy, leaning on a wall said. "Two thousand players have died. No one yet has been able to clear the first floor and barely today, we're holding a meeting on how to defeat the first boss." Kirito stepped off the wall and started walking towards the meeting place. "…and where are you, Naruto?" Kirito noticed how a green haired dude on the bottom clapping his hands.
"Alright, let's get started!" He said. Kirito sits down.
"Naruto, were are you?" Kirito said in his head. "This is important, you idiot."
"Thank you for coming today." The person in the bottom said, then he introduces himself. "My name is Diabel. I like to consider my 'job' as a knight." Everyone laughs and starts saying that there is no 'job' system in the game. Diabel then gets serious. "Today, one player found the level one boss room at the top of the tower." Everyone is surprised and starts to say. 'Seriously?' and 'What?' "We need to defeat the boss, reach the second floor, and tell everyone waiting in the Town of Beginnings that it is possible to beat this game. Everyone present here shares this duty! Do you all agree?" Everyone looks at each other and agrees on the plan. Kirito looks at Diabel with a smile as he agreed.
"All right," Diabel says. "Then let us begin our planning. First divide into parties of six." Kirito panicked upon hearing that. "It's better to be in a parties, since we will form a raid using multiple parties."
Kirito looks around, panicked, as players are forming parties and he doesn't know anyone.
"Naruto, Were the hell are ya!?" Kirito screamed in his mind. He then spots a person wearing a brownish cloak and a sword. He decides to talk to him. He slides towards the person.
"You got left out too?" Kirito says.
"I wasn't left out," the person responds. "I just stayed out of it because everyone seemed to know each other already." Kirito looks at him.
"A solo player?" Kirito says. "Then, want to form a party with me?" The person turns his head towards Kirito. "He just said we can't beat the boss on our own. So just for this fight?" The person thinks about it and then he finally nods. Kirito then opens his menu and sends a party invite. The person receives the message and he presses accept. Kirito then noticed the player's name. It says 'Asuna'
"Okay," Diabel says getting everyone's attention. "Have you formed your parties? Then-" Diabel gets cut off.
"Just a second!" a person yells. Everyone turns their heads and sees a person with brown hair. He jumps from step, to step until he lands next to Diabel. "My name's Kibaou." He says. "I wanna say something before we take on the boss." The players attending the meeting get confused. "Some of you need to apologize to the two thousand who have died so far." Kibaou points at the players. Kirito gets mad.
"Kibaou-san." Diabel says getting his attention. "are you referring to the beta testers?" Kibaou stomps the floor mad.
"Of course I am!" Kibaou says. "On the day this stupid game started, the beta guys left us beginners, and they took all the good hunting spots, and easy quests for themselves, so only they could get stronger. And then, they just left us. I'm sure that someone here is a beta! They should apologize, and give up all the items and money they've hoarded. Otherwise, we can't trust them to protect us as party members and they shouldn't trust us!" Kirito hesitated and is about to lose it, when a voice was heard.
"So, you're saying that they should pay?" Everyone tried to find the person who said that.
"There!" A player points at the top of the castle behind Diabel. They all see a guy with yellow spiky hair, blue eyes, three birthmarks on each cheek and a headband with a symbol on it. Everyone was shocked on how he got up there. The stranger jumped down and landed on his feet, taking no damage at all. Some of the players were shocked on how he survived and on how he managed to climb the castle. He walked towards Kibaou and Kibaou got scared.
"W-who are you?!" Diabel asked. The stranger put his thumb on his forehead where his headband is located.
"My name is Uzumaki, Naruto." Everyone then remembered him.
"It's that guy who yelled at the Creator of the game." Naruto then turned to Kibaou.
"I repeat." Naruto said. "You said that the beta players should pay for the two thousand players who already died, am I right?" Kibaou nodded. Naruto takes out a book. "Do you all have this book?" Naruto asked the players. They all nod. Then a big muscular person stands up.
"He's right," He says. "Sorry for interrupting. My name is Egil and I agree with Naruto-san. This book was provided free for anyone. It has information, which the beta players filled out, on how to defeat the boss." Everyone was surprised. "I thought we were attending this meeting on how to defeat the boss, not on beta testers." Kibaou looked at Egil and then he looked at Naruto. Kibaou just got mad and he sat down. Egil sat down and Naruto looked for a place to sit down. Naruto noticed his friend Kirito and he walked towards him. When Naruto reached Kirito, he offered a fist and Kirito bumped it. Naruto then looked at the player next to Kirito. Asuna noticed his beautiful crystal blue eyes, his spiky yellow hair, his three whisker like birth marks on each cheek, and his headband. Naruto then offered a fist and Asuna stared at it, and then she slowly bumped it.
"Hey, I'm Naruto." Naruto said introducing himself. "Nice to meet ya." Asuna just nodded.
"Anyways," Kirito said. "Naruto, join our party. The more the merrier, right?" Naruto thought for a minute and then he nodded. Kirito opened his menu and sent Naruto a party invite. Naruto received the message and he pressed accept. Naruto noticed the player's name. He saw his name, then Kirito's name, and finally he saw the other player's name.
"Asuna." Naruto said in his mind. "Must be a girl." Naruto then looked at Asuna and noticed a few things. "She has a skirt, so it is a girl and she has brown hair."
"Hey, Naruto!" Kirito said. Naruto snapped out of his mind.
"A-Oh hey," Naruto stuttered. Kirito looked at Naruto.
"Hey, you ok?" Kirito asked.
"Yea." Naruto answered. "Just thinking."
"Anyways," Kirito said." How did you get up there? And how did you land without receiving any damage? " Naruto smiled at Kirito.
"Oh that," Naruto said. "I got this new skill, it's called Wall climbing and Chakra landing. I also got Water walking , but I haven't mastered it yet." Kirito's eyes got wide.
"Y-you got new skills?" Kirito asked. Naruto grinned.
"Yup!"
"Lucky" Kirito said. "Anyways, why were you late?"
"It's because-" Naruto got cut off.
"Okay," Diabel said getting everyone's attention. "Then, can we resume? The latest edition of the guide book was just issued, and it contains information on the boss." Everyone gets serious and gets quiet. Diabel continues. "According to it, the boss's name is Illfang the Kobold Lord. He is guarded by assistants known as Ruin Kobold Sentinels. He is armed with an axe and a Backler. He has four health bars, and when the last one enters the red zone, he switches to a curved sword-type weapon called a Talawar. His attack patterns changes, as well." Everyone is surprised and "wow's" and "amazing" are heard all around.
"Lastly," Diabel says. "items will be automatically distributed. EXP goes to the party that defeats the monster. And whoever receives an item, keeps it. Any objections?" No one had a problem with the plan, so Diabel continued.
"Okay," he said. "We leave tomorrow at ten in the morning. See you there!" Diabel then swings his arm, telling the players that the meeting has ended. Some of the players get up and leave, while some of them get together to talk. Asuna gets up and leaves. Naruto and Kirito notice her leave.
"Anyways," Naruto said. "How have you been, Kirito?" Kirito sighs.
"I've been better. How about you?" Kirito asks.
"I just arrived from a mission." Naruto said.
"Mission?" Kirito asks confused.
"Oh, sorry." Naruto apologizes. "I like to call my quests, missions instead of quests. And I also give them a rank, like C-rank missions or D-rank missions. D-rank being the easiest, and S-rank being the hardest." Kirito looks at Naruto.
"You're so weird," Kirito said to Naruto. "you're so strange that you saved that one village of NPCs. I mean, who would do that? They're just computers, so why did you put your life on the line?" Naruto turned to face Kirito.
"They may be NPCs, but that doesn't change the fact that this is their world." Naruto said. Kirito looked at Naruto confused. "That village is valuable to them, so I had to protect it. Even if they are just computers, this world is their home. I can't just stand around and watch their village get destroyed. I will protect those who can't protect themselves. I don't quit, I don't run, I never go back on my word, that's my ninja way. I will never give up and we will beat this game." Kirito was still confused.
"And that's why you're weird." Kirito Said. Naruto got up.
"One day you will understand," Naruto said. "One day you will understand what I meant." Naruto started to walk away. "See ya later Kirito." Kirito just stood there, thinking of what Naruto meant.
-hours later.
The village was dark now and lights were turned on. The sun had left and the moon came into view. Some of the players are drinking and talking together. Kirito, on the other hand, walked in an alleyway and found his party member, Asuna, sitting. She is eating alone so Kirito walked towards her, to try to give her some company.
"It's pretty tasty, isn't it?" Kirito said, surprising Asuna. Asuna turns her head and sees Kirito. "May I sit down?" Kirito asks. Asuna looks down and doesn't say a word. Kirito sits down next to her, but Asuna slides away to give them some space. Kirito takes out a ball of bread and starts eating it. Asuna turns to Kirito.
"Do you really think it's good" she asks.
"Of course," Kirito responds as he swallows his piece of bread. "I've been eating at least one daily, ever since I arrived at this town. I do change it up a little though." Kirito reaches for something in his pocket.
"Change it up?" Asuna repeats as she is confused. Kirito takes out a bottle and puts it on the middle, between them. He offers it to Asuna.
"Try putting some on the bread." Kirito tells Asuna. Asuna taps on the bottle and she is surprised when her fingers start to glow. She then proceeds to add it to her bread. When she touches her bread, a yellow substance appears on it.
"Cream?" She says. Then she turns to Kirito, who is also putting cream on his bread and the bottle disappears into blue crystals. Kirito takes a bite. Asuna then turns her head to her bread and takes a bite. Kirito looks at her as she takes her bite. Then Asuna starts to eat her bread and she finishes it in seconds.
"It's a reward for a quest," Kirito says. Asuna turns her head to look at him. "Called 'The Heifer Strikes Back' one village behind us. If you want to do it, I'll show you the trick." Asuna nods 'no'
"I didn't come to this town to eat good food," Asuna said.
"Then, why did you?" Kirito asks.
"So, I can still be me," she replies. "I'd rather stay myself until the very end, than sit and rot away at an Inn, back in the first town." Kirito looks at Asuna."Even if I get killed by a monster. I don't want to lose to this game...To this world. No matter what." Then a voice was heard.
"Then you don't have to." Kirito and Asuna are surprised when they see Naruto on the roof top. Naruto jumps down and lands in front of the two players. "You don't have to die in this world, as long as I'm around. Let me fight your pain for you."
"But what if I get kille-" Asuna got cut off.
"You won't die. I promise you that. If you don't have anyone to believe in, then believe in me. I won't let my friends die, that's my ninja way. So don't worry, I will be there to protect you both. Let's just forget about the boss for today. Mind if I sit?" Asuna and Kirito didin't mind so Naruto sat down between them. Naruto then opened his menu and pulled out an item. Suddenly, ramen appeared in a bowl with chop sticks.
"I'm digging in!" Naruto said as he started to eat his food. Naruto then offered his friends some ramen.
"You guys want some?" He said. Kirito and Asuna nodded 'no' "alright then, I'll see ya guys later." Naruto got up as he finished his food. "I won't let you guys die, believe it!"
-Next day.
The party members are walking in the forest towards the boss room.
"Damn you Naruto," Kirito said walking besides Asuna. "Where are you?"
"Hey! Team seven!" A voice was heard. Kirito and Asuna recognized the voice. "Wait up!" Kirito and Asuna noticed Naruto on a tree branch. He then jumped down.
"Good morning!" Naruto said with a smile. Kirito was mad.
"You're late, Naruto." He said. "And I thought you took this seriously."
"Hehe, sorry I'm late." Naruto said scratching the back of his head. "Anyways I made it just in time." Kirito sighed.
"Let's continue then." Kirito said. "So, let's go over it again, we leftovers are supposed to target the boss's helpers, the Ruin Kobold Sentinels."
"I know." Asuna said.
"I'll use a sword skill to knock their poles axes up. The second I do, switch in." Asuna gets confused.
"Switch?" She says. Kirito turns to face Asuna.
"Is this the first time you've ever been in a party?" Kirito asks. Asuna nods.
"Yes." Kirito is shocked and he slows down.
"What's wrong?" Naruto asks as he sees his friend has stopped walking. Kirito throws his hands down as he couldn't believe it.
-time skip.
"Listen up, everyone." Diabel says. "I have only one thing to say. Let's win!" Everyone gets ready to fight the boss. "Let's go!" Diabel then pushes the door and it opens slowly. The players walk in and they see that the place is pitch black. Diabel then walks in, even further and the place lights up. The moment when the players walk in, the Kabold Lord makes his appearance. He jumps out of his seat and lands on the floor. He then let's out a roar and takes out his weapons. The Kabold, armed with a sword and shield, summons his minions. Then the enemy charges at the players. Diabel draws out his sword and orders everyone to attack. The players follow his command and charge at the boss. Diabel commands some party members to block the attack. Egil blocks the Kibold's attack and Kibaou hits the boss. Diabel then commands the last squads to keep the minions off of them.
"Roger!" Kirito replies, then he blocks the Sentinel's attack. "Switch!" Kirito says and Asuna charges at the defensles Sentinel.
"Number three!" Asuna said as she activates a skill. Kirito then thinks about Asuna.
"I thought she was a beginner," Kirito said in his head."but she's incredible, she's so fast that she matches Naruto's speed. I can barely follow her blade." Asuna strikes the Sentinell and it disappears into millions of blue polygons.
"Good Job!" Naruto yells as he takes down a sentinel."keep it up guys!" Naruto then dodges a sentinel's attack and continues to fight. The player's continued to fight for their lives. When the players got the boss's health down to red, the boss lets out a roar. The Kabold Lord throws away his sword and shield. The weapons hit the floor behind the boss.
"Looks like the information was right." Kibaou said.
"Stand back!" Diabel yells to the players. "I'll go!" Diabel then runs up to the boss. Kirito and Naruto get confused.
"I thought we were supposed to surround it with the entire group." Naruto asked.
"Me too." Kirito agreed. Diabel looks at Kirito and he grins, then he prepares his sword skill. Diabel's sword start to glow. The Kabold Lord takes out a sword from his back. Kirito immediately recognized the weapon.
"That isn't a Talwar!" Kirito said in his head. "It's a No-Dachi! It's not the same as the beta test! STOP!" Kirito tries to warn Diabel, but he's too late. The boss jumps up. "Jump back as fast as you can!"
"DIABEL!" Naruto yells at Diabel. The boss then jumps from pillar to pillar and he strikes Diabel. Diabel is hit by the boss's blade and he is launched back. The boss catches up to Diabel and he kicks him back, towards the players.
"Diabel!" Kibaou yells as he saw his friend get hurt. The boss then jumps towards the players and lets out a roar. Kirito immediately rushes to Diabel's side. He slides right next to him and lifts his head up. Kirito saw how Diabel's HP was going down.
"Why did you try to do it alone?" Kirito asked Diabel as he takes out a health potion. Kirito hands it to Diabel, but Diabel pushes it away. Diabel turns to face Kirito.
"You were," Diabel said."a beta tester, weren't you? You know what I was doing." Kirito was shocked.
"You were after the last attack bonus rare item." Kirito said."you were a beta tester too?" Diabel smiles.
"Please..." Diabel said. "Defeat..defeat the boss." Diabel gulps and he continues. "For everyone..." Diabel then shatters into a million of blue crystals. Kirito watches as his friend is killed right in front of his eyes. Kirito got up and thanked about how Diabel was the same as him, but he lead the players. Diabel was able to do what Kirito couldn't. The Kabold Lord lets out a roar and the players get scared. Kirito took his sword and Asuna slides beside him.
"I'll go, too." She said. Kirito thanked her and they charge at the boss.
"We'll do it just like the sentinels." Kirito said.
"Got it." Asuna replied. The Kabold Lord prepares a sword skill and so does Kirito. The boss attacks, but Kirito's skill counters it and the boss is wide open. Asuna rushes in.
"Switch!" Kirito yelled and Asuna attacked. The boss attacks, but Asuna manages to duck. The boss's swing manages to slash Asuna's coat, revealing her beautiful brown hair. Asuna proceeds to attack and she hits the boss. Kirito is surprised at her beauty, but then he notices the boss.
"He's coming back!" Kirito said. Then the duo keep going as planned on switching and attacking. Kirito blocks the boss's attack, but the boss manages to slash Kirito in The stomach, which made Kirito get thrown back.
"Crap!" Kirito said as he flies back and he also hits Asuna. They fall to the floor. Asuna tries to lean up and she notices Kirito's HP went down to the yellow zone. Kirito tries to get up. Naruto notices how his friends are being hurt. Naruto gets mad and he rushes in to defend his friends. Naruto takes on the boss. The boss swings and Naruto dodges. Naruto punches the boss in the stomach and then he kicks him. The boss recovers from the hit and slashes Naruto. Naruto is thrown back and he slides on the floor. The boss forgets about Naruto and proceeds to take down the duo. Asuna looks up and notices how the boss was ready to swing at them. She puts her blade up to try to block the attack and she closed her eyes. Naruto watches as the boss was ready to kill his friends and he closed his eyes.
"You want more power." Naruto heard in his head. Naruto opened his eyes to find a huge cage in front of him. He looked around and saw how there was water on the floor. Naruto got up and looked at the cage, where in the middle it had a seal.
"What is this place?" Naruto said, then a huge claw tried to reach Naruto. Naruto jumped back and fell on the floor. Naruto heard a laugh.
"So you're my carrier." Naruto heard. Then he saw red eyes and a huge evil smile. "I am the Nine Tailed Fox. The most powerful Bijuu ever. This is your head, but I can speak with you."
"How did you get in my body?" Naruto asked.
"I can see your memories and I can see what you are looking at. Right now your friends are in trouble and I can help…. if you hand over your body." The Nine Tails said.
"I don't plan on handing my body to no one," Naruto said. "so you can go and try to use someone else." The Nine Tails laughed.
"Alright," The fox said. "But when your anger takes over you, I will try to take over you, and if you don't believe me, take a glimpse of my power." Naruto noticed how a red line was heading towards him. When the line reached Naruto, it started to take over his body.
Naruto opened his eyes to see that he returned to the game. The boss swung at Asuna and Kirito. Naruto felt a new power and saw how his stats increased. Naruto rushed in and stopped the swing with his hand, then the boss tried to punch him, but it was also stopped by Naruto.
"Asuna, Kirito." Naruto said. "Are you guys ok?" Asuna opened her eyes, to find Naruto standing right in front of her. Naruto turned his head and Asuna noticed that Naruto had red demon like eyes, blacker lines on his cheek, and his teeth where pointy. Naruto turned to the boss and let out a scream. A red aurora appeared around Naruto, and a new power was seen. A red chakra based demon like Fox appeared on top of Naruto(Fight versus Haku when Naruto saw Sasuke get'killed') and all the players were scared more of Naruto than the boss. Naruto took the Kobald's sword and picked it up with the boss. Naruto started to spin around and around, until he let go of the blade. The boss was thrown back, but Naruto wasn't finished yet. The boss hit the floor and Naruto was already waiting for him. Naruto kicked the boss up and the boss screamed in pain. The boss flew in the air and Naruto jumped up. Naruto reached the boss and kneed the boss in the stomach. The boss hit the ground at top speed and his HP was really low. Kirito noticed how Naruto's stats increased tremendously. Kirito stepped next to Naruto and so did Asuna. Kirito also noticed how Naruto's eyes were demon like and red.
"Let's go," Naruto said as he ran towards the boss and his friends followed."Asuna, Kirito, lets end this!" The trio started to follow the plan of switching and attacking. The boss swung, but Naruto blocked. Kirito switched in and sliced the boss from his left shoulder to his stomach. The boss swung at Asuna and she closed her eyes.
"Asuna!" Kirito yelled as he knew he wasn't going to make it. The boss slashed.
"Aahhh!" Naruto yelled as jumped in and he took the hit. Naruto was thrown back and his HP was really low. Naruto tried to get up and saw how his friends took that opportunity to finish the boss."go guys."
"Asuna!" Kirito said. "One last hit! We'll do it together!"
"Roger!" She said. Then the duo starts to follow the plan again. Asuna counters and Kirito takes this opportunity to finish the boss. Kirito slashes the boss from his stomach to his face. Kirito screams as he takes down the boss. Kirito throws the boss into the air and the boss explodes into a white light and then into crystals. Everyone is silent until the "Congratulations!" Screen pops out. The players start to clap and scream in their success on beating the boss. While everyone is celebrating, Kirito is on his knee trying to catch his breath. He opens his eyes to find out that he received the bonus rare item. Kirito then remembers about Naruto. He looks back to find Naruto still on the floor and Asuna trying to help him. Kirito rushes towards his friend's side. Naruto had his eyes closed, but his HP was going up very fast, as if someone was healing him. Asuna was shaking Naruto so he would wake up.
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