The Shadowed Slayer

Twilight: I'M FINALLY BACK!

Cloud: took ya long enough you slack ass!

Twilight: HEY!

Rei: now that Twilight's finally writing again we can address some things that one particular person who was worried about.

Cloud: In regards to the long as author notes well Twilight will try to tone it down a bit, also nobody even tried to answer the question as to what my relation in this story is to Kayaba so I'm going to tell you the spoiler anyway... *A-hem* the spoiler is... Klein gets a Harem... yeah you didn't actually expect me to give that away so early :P.

Twilight: ... That is totally not what I had in mind but now that I think about it... nope, still can't see Klein with a Harem, so that's totally not the spoiler I was talking about. Also I got like 2 follows and a fav which I'm pretty sure is more than my other story... eh I'll try and end this before I get like 2000 words in author notes again :P.

Twilight: almost forgot, I'm currently open to Beta's so if you want to help the story along then PM me pls.

(Note: I'm finally moving out of home yay!)

(Note2: All went well with me moving and I'm sorry that I haven't been working on this as much as I should but in case you didn't re-read chapter one I've only altered minor details in such as Cloud to Kuraudo, and I've taken out a few details that give away later stuff and because I was rambling in the later part of that chapter.)

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my two oc's and the idea behind this story... buttttt if a certain someone would be kind enough to donate the rights to me then I wouldn't have to do this stupid disclaimer when it's pretty obvious I don't own what I'm basing my work off of...

Normal talk - "Fight me IRL!"

Thoughts – 'Ow I regret everything!'

GM Talk/Menu text – "Get wreaked!"

Scene Change/ Time Skip: Twilight is the Serial Killer, town we should lynch him!

{Name of Accessory}

Chapter 2: The beginning of the end

The Town Square of the Town of Beginnings

Kuraudo frowned as he came out of being Teleported into the town square, this smelt like a trap and they hadn't even found the first dungeon yet.

Suddenly there was a flash in the sky, he snapped his head up looking at it but as soon as it appeared it disappeared with everyone but him being none the wiser to it.

He made fists in his frustration, he was too late to stop whatever He was planning and He hadn't even put his plan into full motion yet.

Kuraudo closed his eyes as he tried to push down his growing rage and calm himself, after what seemed to be an hour but was actually a minute he had cleared enough of his anger in order to think rationally.

Kirito eyed his friend as he calmed himself; he had never liked how his friend was so close to anger in his earlier years and that anger used to get them into a lot of trouble. Then again ever since the accident, no he thought as he shook his head, best not to tread upon those thoughts.

Klein was no scientist, but he was no idiot either, he knew his knew friend was obviously struggling with something but he also didn't know him enough to intervene, he shrugged his shoulders, he had pizza turning up soon, he drooled as he thought of eating a entire box of meat lover's pizza.

*Scene break* With Kayaba.

Kayaba frowned as he saw Kuraudo close his eyes in anger and shake his head, what did the matter of one person nearly losing control of their emotions matter to him the Kami of this world.

The man smiled as he summoned a command window and pressed a button, all the preparations were complete, it was now time for his game to begin.

*Scene break* With Kuraudo and co.

As soon as Kuraudo cleared his head and opened his eyes, the sky was suddenly filled with warning signs, a few seconds later Kayaba appeared.

Kayaba gazed down at the crowd, but to Kuraudo it was as if he was looking straight at him.

"Attention players. Welcome to my world. My name is Kayaba Akihiko. As of this moment, I am the sole person who can control this world. I'm sure you've already noticed that the logout button is missing from the main menu. But this is not a defect in the game. I repeat... This is not a defect in the game. This is a feature of Sword Art Online. You cannot logout of SAO yourselves. And no one on the outside can shut down or remove the NerveGear. Should this be attempted, the transmitter inside the NerveGear will emit a powerful microwave destroying your brain, and thus ending your life."

Naturally at this news many gasps were heard, a couple at the back tried to leave via the exit in the Town Square but were shocked to find out that their way out was blocked by a force field around the Square.

Klein shocked at what he was hearing asked Kirito "What's he talking about, he's gotta be nuts, right Kirito?"

Surprising Klein it wasn't Kirito that answered his question but Kuraudo with a heavy scowl across his face, "He's right that the transmitter signals work just like microwaves. If the safety were disabled it could fry a brain."

Klein looked at the two boys with a disbelieving look "But what if we cut the power?"

Kirito answered this time "No, it has an internal battery." Klein was even more shocked at this news "So your saying our lives are in the hands of that nut job!?" upon hearing this Kirito's face dropped as Klein finished speaking.

Kuraudo's face darkened and he glared at Klein "Watch what you say about him! He may be a nut job but he's still the man who raised me." Snapped Kuraudo at Klein.

The red headed man looked confused at first but then gained a look of understanding "You're HIS son? Did you know about this!?" Klein half yelled half growled as he grabbed the front of Kuraudo's shirt and started to lift him up.

"Enough Klein! Put him down now!" ordered Kirito, the man begrudgingly did as he was told and put Kuraudo back on the ground and turned his attention back to Kayaba but not without one final glare at Kuraudo.

Kayaba seemed to glare down at Klein from his position in the sky "As I was saying, unfortunately, several players' friends and families have ignored this warning, and attempted to remove the NerveGear. As a result, two hundred and thirteen players are gone forever, both from Aincrad and the real word."

Kuraudo stared at Kayaba in horror "t-two hundred and thirteen?"

"No, No this can't be happening!?" uttered Klein in horror and disbelief.

Kayaba resumed talking like he never stopped as several screens around him flashed and started displaying the news across the world of people dying "As you can see, news organizations across the world, are reporting all of this, including the deaths." One screen flashed then displayed the words "Multiple victims in online incident"

"Thus, you can assume that the danger of a NerveGear being removed is now minimal. I hope you will relax and attempt to clear the game."

One person in the crowd took offense to what Kayaba said and started to shout "How are we supposed to relax when you've trapped us in here with you a mass murderer?"

At this point Kuraudo knew that the father he knew was now gone, left instead was what he was seeing.

Kayaba continued on as if he hadn't been interrupted as the screens shifted from TV station to TV station, but one in particular caught both Kirito and Kuraudo's attention, on it was a live feed of Kirito's mother crying into her hands, as they watched the paramedics wheel Kirito's limp body with the NerveGear on into the back of an ambulance. "...Defeat the final boss on floor 100, and you will clear the game, thus you waking you back in the real world."

It appeared that of the three of them only Klein was listening to what Kayaba was saying and thus the other two were confused when he started shouting in terror "clear all hundred floors? That's impossible. The beta testers never made it anywhere near that high!"

Finally nearly finished with his speech Kayaba chuckled and said "finally, I've added a little present from me to your item storage. Please see for yourselves."

Many players did just that, all around the trio other players began to light up and glow blindingly, the trio looked around in confusion and then realization that it was the mirror they had each found in their inventory. All three fearfully looked down at their mirrors to throw them away only to find that it was too late and they had already joined the many glowing and then fading to reveal different looking avatars.

Klein was the first of the three to stop glowing and the there wasn't that much change apart from his hair sticking up and his face looking slightly different than it did just moments ago.

He looked around for the other two that were with him only to find two fourteen year old teens instead of the two near eighteen year olds he was looking for, he looked around for a few seconds only to hear one of the teens call his name, he looked closer at the teens and approached them.

As he got closer to the two, as he had wondered off in his attempt to find his two friends? He saw that the both of them somewhat resembled his friends, for one thing they both had the same hair colour as his friends, at the moment the black haired one was waving his hands at him while shouting his name over all the chatter of the crowd.

Kuraudo looked at Kirito who was waving his hands at Klein who was a few metres to the left of their position in the town square "Are you sure that's him?" he asked as Kirito put his hands down as Klein started to approach them and answered "Who else would wear that bandana with that hair?" Kuraudo took a glance at the approaching man and replied back "Good point."

Klein put his arm around Kirito's shoulders and pulled him into a head-lock and asked teasingly "What was that about a bandana?" Kirito startled by his sudden placement started struggling against Klein hoping to get free but to no avail.

After having Kirito in a head-lock for a good thirty seconds Klein let go and asked "Seriously though, why do we look different?" Kuraudo took a glance at Kayaba still floating in the sky content to let things stir for a couple more minutes.

"That would be the body check we had to do when we signed in for the first time. It must of used our measurements in order to create our real life body into the game, as for the face well I do remember their being a face scan inside the helmet." The boy explained "You should look in your inventory to see if HE lift you anything else."

Kayaba as if hearing his son's conversation suddenly spoke using his deep and heavy voice that echoed throughout the square "Now before you begin and I release you from the square I have one last thing to inform you of. As of the latest update to Sword Art Online from the Beta to Full, I have neglected to include one thing within the patch notes. Accessories are as of this update a game mechanic, they can be made to include stat boosts or even and very rarely immunity to poison among other things, beware as you may only have four accessory slots at one time, one for a necklace, two for rings, and the last one being of your choice so long as it is not one of the two things I just mentioned. As I am feeling generous today since it is your birth into this world so to speak I shall gift you all a necklace containing a +50 stat boost to your Health Points."

It was at this Kayaba seemed to pause in his speech in order to gather his thoughts, well either that or he was pausing for dramatic effect, none the less during his pause many of those that were now trapped inside the game opened their menu and found a window that had popped up after they opened their menu asking if they wanted to accept a gift from Kayaba, although many of them wanted to press Deny, the risk of losing something that would help them stay alive made most press Accept, those that pressed Deny were either those that were foolhardy thought they could take on anything Aincrad had to offer and survive, or they were those that had already lost hope of ever leaving.

Kuraudo opened his menu suspicious of what he might get gifted as he had seen those around him and his two friends trapped with him open their menu and get their {Necklace of Minor Health} from the gift that Kayaba sent them.

What Kuraudo got in exchange of the {Necklace of Minor Health} was not something he expected nor prepared for, Kuraudo stared in shock at the text in front of him {A Mother's Heart} as he got over his shock he pressed accept and what appeared in his hand was enough to make his eye's water.

Clenched in his outstretched hand was a gold heart shaped pendant with an amethyst encrusted into the heart of the heart, attached to the pendant was a golden chain, his heart clenched in his chest as he recognised the necklace, how could he not, it was his mother's favourite necklace after all before it was damaged.

Recognising that he was headed into dangerous thoughts he shook his head as to clear it and with trembling hands he put it around his neck, griping it after he put it on, he reopened the menu and pressed Equipment, which opened the menu up and made it bigger to show his current HP and what he had equipped to his character at the moment, when he pressed on {A Mother's Heart} to see the stats on it the text of the name of the item glowed purple to show that it was a ultra rare item, the reason ultra rare items were even classified as ultra rare in the first place was seeing as a ultra rare item massively boosted your stats, that and there was only one of each in the entire game.

Seeing this now that he wasn't in shock over the fact that it looked exactly like his mother's necklace he wasn't all that surprised that it was ultra rare, seeing as favouritism existed.

He then looked at the stats on it and was amazed by them, +150 ENDURANCE +50STRENGTH +50 DEFENSE +40 DEXERITY +20 PERCEPTION +10 LUCK.

As he then closed the window showing his Character Equipment he took a glance around at the other people, some where standing around and chatting to others, a few looked to be in the midst of a panic attack, a couple had what looked to be their friend comforting them but most of them were largely alone, he frowned wanting to go comfort each and every one of them.

A flash of light orange hair appeared in the corner of his vision before he lost it, he turned around to Kirito who was calling his name "Are you alright man?" he was asked, but before he could respond the Game Master that had been floating in the sky silently taking everything in spoke up again "Now as you are all now aware of the recent changes I shall now let you go with one piece of advice. Try not to die." And with those words that Kuraudo felt had been aimed at him, Akihito Kayaba teleported away and the warning signs that had covered the sky faded leaving the sky visible once again.

But what really drew the player's attention was the simmering of the barrier around the square before it fell and the weight of Kayaba's final words crashed down upon the people gathered there and they began an uncontrollable rush out of the square uncaring if anyone got underfoot and trampled.

As the crowd got thinner as nearly everyone left Kuraudo felt his legs give out from under him and he fell onto his knees and hands as he started to breath heavily.

There was movement to his left as Kirito got down on one knee to rub his back and think about the revelations that had been revealed.

"Man this is... this is fucked up." Klein was the first to speak after what they had been told finally sunk in "Yeah... yeah it is." Stated Kuraudo after he got back on his feet.

"Why? Why would he do this?" Kuraudo looked around at the other stragglers that just like them were in disbelief "I don't know." Klein took offense to his answer and took a threatening step towards Kuraudo "What do you mean you don't know? You're HIS son how could you not know this was coming?!" he snapped towards Kuraudo as Kirito got in between them to stop Klein from making any more moves towards Kuraudo.

"What? You think that because I'm his son I'd know what he was up to?!" he spat angrily "Well I got tough news for you because he never told me anything about this, in fact the only warning I got was when he started to lock himself in his workroom for days on end!" after he finished saying this he straightened up from his sloughed posture and started to walk away trembling in restrained anger.

As Kirito watched Kuraudo walk away he felt an immense sadness at the position his best friend's father had put them in, and anger at the man for causing all this havoc and taking so many lives, he turned back to Klein only to find that the man was already walking away, most likely to go find his friends.

The boy frowned at his new friend's behaviour, but shook his head and ran off in the direction Kuraudo had gone.

*Scene break* 10 minutes later

How dare he imply that he knew what was going to happen. If given any other choice he would choose anything other than his current opinion.

Kuraudo walked through the town uncaring and ignoring the other players scrambling for supplies from the NPC shopkeepers, as he walked lost deep in his thoughts he didn't stop until he noticed the grass under foot that signalled he was outside the town.

The boy looked up at the field taking in the amount of players now grinding for exp in order to level up as fast as they could

He opened his menu to check his status, still level 1. He frowned, time to do something about all that anger he had couped up.

Kuraudo unsheathed his sword and rushed over to the nearest boar in order to work out some anger.

So wrapped up in his anger he didn't notice himself subconsciously activating his Sword Skill, so when he suddenly sped up and his sword took on a red hue he thought nothing of it and ended up performing a 3-hit combo Sword Skill on the boar that ended up taking it's HP down to a low 76 HP which means his combo had done a whole 414 Points of damage from those 3 hits.

'Wow' he thought to himself, 'that was easy.' Surprised that he nearly killed a level 2 boar from a 3-hit combo.

So caught up in his surprise he barely noticed that the boar had gotten up and started charging at him intent on running him though and killing him, the boar had gotten to two metres away before he had noticed it and by that time it was jumping though the air about to ram him and potentially run him though with its sharp tusks.

Kuraudo noticing the boar only had time to twist his upper body to the left while tripping over his own feet as they tried to move with him.

Contact!

With a sickening squelch the boar's right tusk speared though his right side just below the rib cage, with the added force to his already fast decent Kuraudo hit the ground hard, but in charging at the boy the boar had inadvertently sliced itself on the edge of his sword clutched in his right hand, as the damage registered on the boar it had just enough time to deal a critical hit to the brown haired boy.

Kuraudo watched his health bar up in the top left corner of his vision drop down to 391HP out of his max HP of 1150HP.

The boar that had dealt so much damage to the boy shattered into white sparkles as its HP depleted to 0, "...Fuck that hurts." Grunted Kuraudo as he struggled to sit up, a very visible red mark was shown on his right side going all the way though and even outwards.

The boy struggled to sit up for another few seconds before muttering "Fuck it." And collapsing backwards onto his back, he watched as his HP after a few seconds of not taking damage began to regenerate slowly.

Suddenly a feminine giggle sounded from behind him, he angled his head so he could look up and found himself looking at a very familiar face.

"Oh Kuraudo, what am I going to do with you?"

*Scene break* with Kirito 5 minutes earlier

Kirito walked down the street looking around, he was trying to spot Kuraudo in among the crowded shops.

"Hey, Kirito! Is that you?" came a deep voice from one of the shops to his left.

Looking around in confusion Kirito tried to locate the voice among all the shoppers, after a few seconds of looking around he dismissed it as a fluke and walked straight into what felt like a wall with shirt on and fell back onto the ground.

Luck was on the boy's side however as the person he'd accidently walked into had grabbed his wrist just before he hit the ground.

With a small grunt Kirito used the momentum of that person pulling him up to pull himself up; as the boy got back on his feet he looked at the person who helped him to say thanks, "Well well well, fancy meeting you here eh Kirito?" wait a second he recognized that voice and finished turning to face a tall dark skinned bald man with a small goatee under his bottom lip.

Needless to say his jaw dropped "Agil? What are you doing here?" the man just smirked at the question "Well I thought that you boys might need a helping hand, what with Kuraudo's father going nuts." Kirito winced and looked around "That reminds me where is Kuraudo? Usually you two are conjoined at the hip or something." Agil chuckled to himself.

Kirito looked back at Agil "So you haven't seen him around here?" Agil frowned; Kuraudo must have taken his father's betrayal hard if he wasn't with his brother in all but blood "Give me the details while we walk out to the fields." Agil said as he started walking in the direction of said fields.

Kirito took off into a jog in order to not get left behind with Agil's sudden take off "What makes you think he's out there?" he questioned, Agil just looked at Kirito with a raised eyebrow and answered "I thought you knew him better than me," Kirito was about to retort before Agil cut him off by speaking again "By your reactions to my questions, plus with his father going psycho on him, he'd either have chosen one of two opinions, one he breaks down somewhere and cries," Kirito stunned at Agil's reasoning had to catch up once again with Agil's quick pace.

"And two he goes somewhere to let off some anger, now I don't see him doing opinion one do you?" at Kirito's head shake he continued "And just where is there in this game to let off anger?" Agil paused for a second to gather his thoughts, and then looked at Kirito as if expecting him to answer the question.

Kirito thought to himself, a place where you could work off anger.

As if a light bulb went off above his head he snapped his fingers in realisation "The Monster Zones! That's where he'd go. Man I'm an idiot!" Kirito faceplamed.

Agil smiled "Now there's the Kirito I know." Said person looked at Agil with a questioning expression "Wait, if you're here then who's running the bar?"

At this Agil grew slightly embarrassed "I ah, I didn't quite think about that one... I guess Akiko will have to look after bar for now." Kirito raised an eyebrow and smirk as he teasingly said "You do know Akiko will kick your ass after we get out right?" Agil shivered in response, fearful of his fiancée's righteous female fury and smacked the back of Kirito's head nearly sending him to the ground, "Don't say that she might get ideas!" Agil half yell half whispered even though they both knew there was no way for her to possibly hear their discussion...

Or was there a way for her to hear everything that they had just said...

Nah, no way they decided... still, it wouldn't hurt for a quick prayer to Kami...

After their quick prayers and light-hearted grumbles about Kuraudo, they took off towards the closest exit from the town, praying that Kuraudo hadn't gotten himself killed going off against the monsters without waiting to heal in between.

Who is the mysterious Orange haired person that Kuraudo has met? How is Kuraudo's dad Kayaba? Where is Suguha? Who is Agil's mysterious Fiancée? Find out on the next episode of Dragon. Ball. Z!

I have always wanted to do that XD, sorry for the wait folks my best friend had me quite distracted the past few days and no I am not just saying that as an excuse, how dare you accuse me of such atrocities...

Rei: *sigh* I've told you a million times that's not where it goes dammit!

Kuraudo/Cloud: but it won't fit in there!

Rei: then Push harder!

Everyone: Oh my!

Rei: Err, hey now I didn't mean it like that!

Twilight: then what way did you mean it in hmmm?

Everyone: *Leans forward to ear the answer*

Rei: *Now highly embarrassed* I err, ah fuck you! *takes off*

Darkie: you do know she is going to kick your ass later right?

Twilight: I know, her reaction is worth it though haha.

Alright peeps you know the deal Read, review *if you want to* leave me a smiley face or something and then follow and favourite!

Darkie: Really Twilight?

Twilight: Oh shut up, like you could do any better!

Darkie: Watch me! *A-hem*

And I'm afraid that's all the time we have left folks laters, and remember to leave a smiley face!

Darkie: Hey you can't just end it like that!

Twilight: *Smirks a very evil smirk* Watch me!