"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived. But if face with courage, need not be lived again."

"Well. Let's go back to Aarun. I want to…do something important." Onii-chan said to me, clenching his fists. "O…Okay, Onii-chan."

I have a bad feeling about this. I'm not really sure what Onii-chan was up to, but I can tell he's going to do something really crazy. Yup, That's Onii-chan, alright. Yui got back to her Pixie form and went back to her papa's front pocket. "Are you ready, Sugu?" He asked me. I nodded and spread my wings. He spread his own pair of wings, and we shot up into the air. We've been playing ALO for some time now. But you can never get tired of flying. It's like you're in a completely different world.

Like Onii-chan said, we were heading off back to Aarun. It wasn't a long flight back there. But I was so deep in thoughts that it seemed like forever before we got back. What were those thoughts I was thinking? I'll leave you to your imaginations. We landed back at the base of the world tree, near the gates with the two stone guardians. "What are we doing here, O-Onii-chan..?" He didn't answer. Instead, he drew his sword from the sheath. "Onii-chan?" "Sugu. You don't have to accompany me inside. Look after Yui for me."

"Papa? What are you…" Yui peeped out of the pocket, looking up at him. "It's just something I have to do, Yui. Go to Leafa-chan now." Onii-chan looked serious, and Yui didn't risk arguing with her papa and flew over to my shoulder. "Onii-chan, please…You don't have to do this again! Onii-cha-" Before I could finish what I was saying, I felt Onii-chan's warm lips touch my forehead, and a soft smile lit up his face. My face started getting warmer. "I'm sorry, Sugu. It's something I have to relive…" He turned his back away from us, and walked inside the gates.

"O…Onii-chan…" I wanted to go after him. I wanted to be with him. Go wherever he goes. But this seemed like something he must face on his own…right? I didn't want to get in his way and upset him. He's already been through so much. "Yui?" The little Pixie girl returned to her normal form and stood in front of me. "Yes, Leafa-chan?" "Your papa is a great guy…" "Yeah. I'm glad he found me back in the woods. If he didn't, I wouldn't be here, and we wouldn't have saved mama." I sat on the ground and pulled Yui into a hug, and I felt her small hands wrap around me as well.

"Leafa-chan?" "Yes, Yui?" "You like papa, don't you?" "U-umm…" That question certainly caught me off guard. I didn't think she'd even ask something like that. "You like papa. I may not be human, but I've been learning to sense strong emotions. Like the way you speak with papa. Or the way you are around him. How you look at him…" I blushed again. Oh my gosh…Was I that obvious? "Do you like papa?" That was the exact same question I asked myself a year ago. Did I like Onii-chan?

"Yui…I love your papa. I love Kirito-san. With all my heart." Yui just smiled at me and returned to her Pixie form, and sat on my left shoulder. "Let's go, then." She said. "What? Go where?" "After papa, of course! If you want something, go get it!" Her great sense of optimism baffled me, but she's right. I have to go after Onii-chan and help him. "Let's go, Yui." "Hai!"

We went inside the gates. The sound of metal clashing echoed across the enormous room. "Papa is up there!" Yui pointed upwards. Onii-chan fought countless numbers of those Android-looking guardians, just like last time. He seemed like he was doing great. A lot off them were being destroyed by Onii-chan's sword easily. I guess it's no surprise that he's the hero of SAO and saved everyone…well, almost everyone. Onii-chan dodged swords ands arrows with ease and many of those guardians fell. But a lot more were coming back.

"Sugu watch out!" I panicked. Then I felt a surge of pain on my right chest. One of the guardians shot an arrow at me. "I-I'm okay!" "Sugu-" A blade pierced Onii-chan's shoulder. "ONII-CHAN!" Then another. And another. And another. He was being continuously stabbed by the swords. Quickly, I cast a healing spell on Onii-chan, and he was good and running again. He removed the blades from him and continued his frenzy. I sighed in relief.

"Leafa-chan! A lot of them are coming for you now!" Yui said as she pointed to a large group of those guardians headed towards me. I drew my sword and started cutting them down one by one. "There's so many…" I used a cutting wind spell to take out a lot of them at once. It worked well; but a lot of them spawned again until I was cornered. I did my best to destroy as many as I can. But several arrows pierced my body. I screamed in pain. But my screams were muffled by the large number of those guardians that Onii-chan couldn't hear nor see me.

More arrows pierced me. Then their gigantic swords sliced and thrust into me. This is where I knew that I was a goner. My vision became blurry. All I could clrearly see now is my red health bar slowly getting smaller and smaller until it reached zero. "I'm sorry…Onii-chan…I did my best."

"YOU ARE DEAD"

There I was, now invisible to the guardians. All there was of me now is my greenish, fiery soul that would soon be revived in about forty minutes. Yui was nowhere to be found. She probably hid herself again. That's good. I didn't want her hurt. "Sugu? Sugu!?" I heard Onii-chan call out. He searched frantically for me. "Sugu!" Despite being hit continuously by several arrows, he still flew straight down and grabbed my soul, and escaped that horrible place.

He brought my soul back outside and revived me. I looked up at him. Heavily wounded…because of me. "O-Onii-chan I…" He turned his back away from me and walked the opposite direction. "Onii-chan, please. I'm sorry I got in your way…" "No. It's not that." "What do you mean?" "I…I was supposed to protect you. I'm your big brother. I should be there for you. I should've been there by your side. But I let my rage get the better of me and let you die just like that…I'm the one who should apologize. I can't stand seeing someone important get hurt. I'm sorry. All that happened here is just...too much for me to take all at once." He opened up his menu and logged out of the game.


Hey guys. So this is the 4th part of my SAO Fanfic "Chance." I hope you guys liked this one. And a little heads up. I get writer's block a lot so chapters may take a while. Please Read and Review. If you liked the story, please add to your favorites. I'll put up the next chapter soon. And maybe I'll put up a little Facts page. I don't even know, Thanks for reading.

Quote from above is taken from Maya Angelou