Chapter 3: shopping spree.

After the long trip to Floor One's second town called Urbes, Asuna and Kirito just wanted to relax. First, was a trip to a small lake. Asuna was confused at first and asked a simple question." What are we doing here?"

"Taking a bath," Kirito replied. Asuna went bright red as a result.

"B-but we'll have to be be n...naked right." Asuna stuttered, still bright red.

"No we won't. Sword Art Online has a censor mode so we'll be getting clean in our underwear but will get the same effect as we normally would." Kirito said calmly.

"Oh, OK."Asuna said calming down and getting undressed.

Once they were washed and clean, they made their way to the town. Once there, they decided to turn in for the night. So they went to find an inn that was cheap but comfortable. They were going to get two rooms until Asuna objected and split the cost for the single room. Once they arrived in the room, it was Kirito's turn to blush. "Um Asuna, there's only one bed."

"So" Asuna replied casually.

"So we have to share a bed if we want to go into sleep mode." Kirito told her.

"Your point?" Asuna replied again.

"Fine. Looks like this isn't going to faze you, so night." Kirito said getting into his side of the bed.

"Night" Asuna said, getting into her side and resting her head on Kirito chest.

"Um Asuna" Kirito said.

"Yes Kirito." Asuna said in a cute voice.

"Nothing." Kirito said as sleep mode took hold of him.

/The Next Morning/

Kirito woke up the next day with hair in his face. It was chestnut colour and very long. He tried to move but then he heard a voice, "5 more minutes."

He knew it was Asuna, so he spoke "Come on Asuna, time to wake up. We're going shopping."

Asuna eyes snapped open. She was horrified Kirito was waking her up. Her plan was to share a bed with him and wake up before him to get her cloak on so he wouldn't know what she looked like. Her beauty normally made men flirt with her and just wanted Kirito as a friend... for now anyway. "Um, so we're going shopping right?"

"Yea. Now get dressed. I know what you look like but if you don't want everyone else to know, then put on your cloak. I won't tell," Kirito said like he was reading her mind.

"Oh OK." Asuna said leaping out of bed and getting dressed.

Once they were dressed and fed (by plain bread rolls), they headed out to the shopping district. Kirito had decided that Asuna should take charge of the shopping trip. Needless to say, that was a big mistake. At first it wasn't so bad, as they sold all their things to NPC traders. Once they had their money, Asuna took them to some blacksmith where they bought some new equipment. Kirito only brought a sword somewhat equal to his Anneal Blade. Asuna decided on a new chest plate. The next shop was a Tailor's. Kirito was done in 10 minutes, but Asuna was done in 2 hours. When Kirito asked why it took her so long, she simply replied "I couldn't decide on what looked good."

It was the final shop they went to that really killed the day for Kirito. The final shop was a non-combat and crystal shop. At first, Kirito thought it was to replenish their crystal supply, but that was not the case. He bought 5 healing crystals, 10 antidote crystals and 15 teleport Crystals. Asuna, however, went in the store to look at portable cooking equipment. It seemed she was interested in cooking. Kirito was not expecting that nor was he expecting her to spend the next 3 hours on looking through the equipment.

After these 3 hours, Kirito had enough and decided to look around town and see if he could find some trustworthy player traders. He told Asuna his plans but she wasn't paying attention to what he said so he left and looked around. That was until he saw a tall dark skin man yelling "I buy cheap and sell cheap! Come and look at the offers I offer! No NPC can beat my deals!"

Kirito couldn't believe his ears so he went to talk to the man. After exchanging formalities he learnt he was know as Agil and was a solo player trader. Never a good mix, but he gave the man a chance it was still floor one and no one was as good.

After looking at the offers Kirito discovered that the man was telling the truth...sort of. He sold thing cheaply and brought them but the item were mere mob drops so nothing really of value. As Kirito browsed the selection he soon discovered that the Agil fella would be good for a quests trader he sold quest item so when Kirito to do a task probably he would speak to Agil for now on.

Kirito was dragged out of his thoughts as Asuna messaged him sounding angry, 'KIRITO WHERE ARE YOU!' Kirito was both annoyed and very scared. So he told Agil that he had to leave but not before adding him as a friend.

As Kirito made his way back to the old store, he said to Asuna "I did tell you I was going to look around."

"Did you because I didn't hear you." Asuna countered.

"Yeah, because you weren't listening. Anyway, let's go but first." Kirito said as he ended the argument and located the store he wanted and brought two tents. He gave one to Asuna then he said, "You brought cooking equipment so I guess we don't have to come into town every day."

"Oh alright. Where are we heading now then?" Asuna asked.

"Back to the inn then were going boss room. Grinding this floor has started to bore me." Kirito replied and they did just that. After a few days of searching, Kirito heard of a floor boss meeting and Kirito joined in to find the the boss.

A/N thank you kage no kenshi for doing a great job on being this fictions beta reader/ editor keep it up