Disclaimer: I do not own Oregairu or SAO
A/N: This is a Filler chapter I guess.
(Hachi POV)
"Where am I?" I ask no one, I look around and find myself surrounded by darkness. I hear a scream of pain and turn to its direction and what I see makes me start to shake. Kayaba has just stabbed a sword into Yukino. He laughs as she struggles and pulls the sword out just has her HP reaches red. He walks over to Yumia and does the same thing. I try to move to stop him but can't I scream his name as he continuously stabs Yukino and Yumia.
"STOP, PLEASE STOP!" I yell to deaf ears. I see Yukino and Yumia on their last lines of HP; he then turns to me with a sadistic smile and aims to sword at Yukino ready to give the final blow.
"NOOOOOOO" I scream as I wake up, I feel tears rolling down my cheek. I see its 1:30 am on my HUD and that I'm still in the Inn room. I look down and see Yukino still asleep on me
"Thank god it was just a nightmare" I mumble and wipe the tears from my eyes. I take a good look at the room now that I'm awake 'hmm bathroom, a kitchenette and a queen bed, Wait QUEEN BED? Shit the NPC must have had the wrong idea when I asked for any room and gave me one of the suites. Crap what will Yukino think when she sees this, oh god I'm going to die' I panic to myself in my mind. I calm myself down and think for a minute
'Yeah I'll do that' I think as I come to my conclusion. I then maneuver myself out of Yukino's embrace and lift her up bridal style and I notice she snuggles into my chest and blush heavily at it. I carry her to the bed and pull the blankets back and put her down on her left side making sure she is not lying on her cloak 'I'm pretty sure my cheeks are very red by this point and are about to explode if she see what I'm doing now' I think as I reach for her Katana. I unclip it from her belt and put it next to the bed. I then move to her cloak, I reach for the button keeping it on 'I'm dead if she wakes up' I think as I unbutton her cloak and take it off her, folding it and putting it at the end of the bed. I then gently take her boots off and put them on the ground and wipe the sweat off my forehead 'Few that's the hard part done' I then pull the blankets over her and walk back to the couch, unenquiping my own sword, armour, cloak and boots. I plop down onto the couch and get comfortable.I soon lose consciousness and fall asleep.
November 8th, 2022, 9:00am Tolbana
'What is that lovely smell' I think as my noise picks up the delicious sent of what smells like bacon. I yawn loudly and rub my eyes and subconsciously move my head towards what I assume is the kitchenette. I open my eyes to see a raven haired beauty moving around the kitchen with the fluency of a goddess. She turns and smiles to me as she puts food onto two plates.
"Good morning Hachi" She says with a smile "I know I'm beautiful but it's disgusting when you look at me with those eyes and drool" She says with a disgusted looking face. I reach for my mouth and wipe the drool away. I look at Yukino for a minute before I get up.
"Uhh, did you make breakfast?" I say trying to change the subject.
"Yes I saw there was a cooking skill in this game and acquired it figuring it would help us in the future, and I was using it to see how cooking was in game. So yes I did make breakfast, would you like to try some?" Yukino answers, I stare at her then the food on the counter 'Wow, looks good how much did she power level that skill since she woke up' I think as I look at the basic English breakfast consisting of bacon, eggs and toast.
I nod and walk to the table, Yukino sits down in front of me with 2 plates and hands one to me, we eat silently. Yukino still looks down 'I guess she is still distressed about the situation we are in. I don't show it but I haven't as well really, some maniac traps you in a death game and expects you to just embrace it' I then remember my nightmare 'I can't let that happen to them' I look down at my clenched fist on the table and notice I'm shaking, Yukino seems to notice this as well.
"Hachi, are you okay?" Yukino asks in a concerned tone. I look her in the eyes, she flinches when she sees my face "Hachi, why are you crying?"
"What?" I reach up to my eyes and feel tears. I wipe them away but they kept coming "I'm Uhh going out" I say quickly equipping my gear and new sword. I leave the room and head for the exit of the Inn; I notice Yukino following me but pay no mind to it. I walk out of town and towards the nearest field of mobs I can find. I pull out my Wolves blade and examine it 'Still looks the same as in the beta' I think to myself (Think of Anneal blade except grey and it has serrated teeth close to the guard on each side, the guard and pommel are simple and are bronze colour). I look at the blade and notice I still had tears in my eyes it seems. I wipe them away and charge at the mobs in the field.
I walk over to a nearby tree and sit down, panting after my killing spree. I notice it was now 11:00am and I had just spent the last 3 hours killing mobs. Yukino reveals herself and walks over and sits down next to me. I can still see she has a look of concern on her face; we sit there silently for round 20 minutes till Yukino speaks up.
"You okay now?" She asks somewhat cautiously, I turn to look at her and smile a bit.
"I guess so" I respond, she just nods. I open my menu and look at my stats seeing that I went up by 2 levels making me go from lvl 11-13. I also check to see Yukino has gone up to lvl 12 simply from all the XP she received for being partied with me. I pull out my sword and check its stats and durability 'Hmm Anneal Blade is still better but the stats definitely are different from the beta and that's without upgrades. The durability is low guess I should get it repaired' I put my sword away and get up, signalling Yukino to follow me. We walk back to Tolbana and I go to a NPC Blacksmith.
"You should get your sword repaired and upgraded as well; I'm also going to upgrade mine since I have the materials to. I'll lend you some for your own if you don't have them" I say to Yukino as the NPC repairs my blade, I then get it upgraded to +2 thanks to the current mats I have and Yukino seemed to have been able to upgrade hers to +3 after I gave her some of my materials. She smiles as she looks at the blade of her sword and sheaths it. I walk to the nearest café and sit down at a table close to the back of the shop, as I sit down the waiter comes over to us.
"What would you like Sir and Madam" I look at NPC and respond
"Just a coffee with milk, extra cream and sugar"
"Just Black tea with standard amount of sugar thank you"
We both order and the NPC walks away from us to some other people, our orders come shortly after and we eat in silence. After we finish our refreshments my thoughts from earlier come back to me. I get up suddenly shocking Yukino and walk back towards the Inn. I get back to the room and un-equip my sword, cloak, armour and boots and just stand there in the middle of the room.
"Hachi are you okay?" Yukino asks from behind me, I contemplate how to answer 'Fuck it'
"No, how can I be? We get trapped in this damn death game and we are expected to accept it. I hate putting up a façade of being strong and all-knowing since I was in the beta but I just can't keep this shit up I only did it for you and Yumia's sake, the only thing stopping me from ending my life just to escape this place is you guys and I…" 'Don't know what I would do if I lost you' I walk to the bed and fall on it, face first and cry into the pillow. I feel warm arms around me. Yukino pulled me into and embrace as I cried onto her shoulder. She didn't say anything and just let me cry like I did her. Time passes and I feel exhausted from crying. I close my eyes and fall asleep.
November 8th, 2022 12:00pm Horunka
(Yumia POV)
'I wonder what Yukinon and Hikki are doing right now' I open my friends list and hit position check, My map pops up in front of me showing Hikki's position, I then check Yukinon's and see that they were basically in the same position and that they were in what I think to be an Inn in Tolbana where they currently are.
"Yumia-san, are you alright?" Asuna asks me. I smile and respond.
"What, yeah I'm fine" Asuna doesn't look convinced with my answer but doesn't say anything else. We reach the Blacksmith Kirito recommended we go to, He told us to repair our weapons and upgrade them if we can. He also told us how to upgrade our weapons, all we need to do is give the right materials and the right amount the Blacksmith and choose upgrade and the NPC will do its thing. We both repair our weapons and Asuna upgraded hers, I didn't have the materials to upgrade mine and will probably change weapons later on when I have more money.
"Can we go back to the Inn for lunch? I want to try out the cooking skill I picked up" Asuna said smiling "We just need to go and buy ingredients from the stalls over there"
"There's a cooking skill in this game?" I ask loudly, Asuna is taken aback by my voice
"Yeah there is, Kirito-kun showed me it and I like cooking in real life so I figured I would try it in game seeing as it shouldn't be hard" She responds as we reach the next stall.
"Wow, I wonder if Yukinon will get that skill, she is an amazing cook IRL, I wonder if she has already got it as she likes to plan ahead, I wonder if she has already cooked for Hikki" I say the last part quietly, Asuna didn't seem to hear it.
"Yes! Maybe we could share recipes in the future or cook together! I can't wait" She smiled 'Looks like Yukinon and Asuna will become good friends' my thoughts were cut out when I bumped into someone.
"Sorry"
"It's okay I wasn't watching where I was going" He responded, He then kept walking and I heard him mumble but didn't hear what he said. We walked back to the Inn and towards our room. As we enter Asuna unequipped her cloak and walked towards the Kitchenette in the corner, pulling out everything she needed to cook. We spent hours cooking and trying the food Asuna made, at 5:00pm a knock was heard from our door and I went over and answered.
"Yahallo Kirito" I said letting him in, He nodded to me briefly but seemed to be in some sort of trance. I looked in the direction he was looking in and saw the sandwiches on the table Asuna just finished making.
"Hello Kirito-kun, would you like a sandwich?" Asuna asked tilting her head, All Kirito did was nod and rush towards the table. He started eating the sandwiches and didn't stop till they were all gone, Asuna and I were laughing the whole time as he ate.
"That was great Asuna, thank you! You definitely need to level that skill up" Asuna blushed at his comment and smiled.
"Glad you liked it Kirito-kun" She said with a warm smile back to him. I just watch there interaction and thought of that being Yukinon and Hikki instead, I felt pain in my chest when I thought that and shook my head.
"Anyway we should head to Tolbana whilst there is still daylight" Kirito suggested "It will take round 3 hours to get there so we should be fine" He said, Asuna and I both agreed and we set off to Tolbana, Kirito dismissing our Inn rooms as we left it.
November 8th, 2022, 8:30pm Tolbana
(Hachi POV)
'What is this warm feeling, it feels wonderful! I never want to get up, It's like I the first time I drank MAX Coffee' I feel myself waking up, I try to force myself back to sleep by nuzzling into the hair of the thing making me so warm 'Wait hair?' I have no time to react to what I was doing when the door suddenly bursts open with an excited Yumia coming into the room somehow ignoring the games own rules that only allows other party members to enter.
"Yahallo Hikki, Yukin…" She freezes and flushes; I finally figured out what was so warm and look down to see that Yukino and I were sleeping in an embrace. Suddenly Yukino's grip tightens around me and she nuzzles her head into my chest making my cheeks redder then they already were. I turn to look at Yumia and she looks sad 'Great she miss understood the situation' I think to myself as I maneuver my right hand and poke Yukino in the cheek. She stirs and opens her eyes, she looks up at me with sleepy eyes and smiles 'OMG this is so cute' then I remember the situation we are in.
"Good morning Hachi" She says in a tired voice, not seeming to care that we are hugging and a very flustered Yumia is watching us.
"Umm, Yukino could you please let go we have guests" I gesture to the door where Yumia and now Kirito and Asuna are. Yukino flushes red and pushes me off the bed, I groan as I hit the ground and stand up, Yukino gets off the bed and stands up as well. We both start trying to explain why we were like that, I tried to leave out the part where I broke down but that didn't work so we ended up telling Yumia that's what happened. She seemed to calm down after hearing the explanation.
"So you to aren't going out?" Yumia asks making us both fluster heavily at the question. Yukino of course regains her composure and responds.
"Yes we are not, I was merely comforting Hachi after his outburst, that was all as it is the duty of people like me to help people of the lower class" She pride-fully responds, I scoff at her statement and responded quietly so only she could hear.
"Says the person who was crying in my arms last night" I respond with a smirk, She just glares at me confusing Yumia.
"Well now that this issue was settled let's get some more rooms" Kirito says walking toward the door. Everyone proceeds to leave my room giving brief goodbyes. Time passes and there was a knock at my door. I yawn and walk over to the door opening it, I see a Yukino with a towel and casual clothing with her sword on her hip and carrying a towel at my door.
"Good evening Hachi, I have come to use your bath as my room does not have one" I stand there for a second looking at her.
"Sure…"I trail off, moving aside and letting her into what has been our room for 2 days.
"If you even think of peeking I will not hesitate to defend myself" she says grabbing the hilt of her Katana. She doesn't wait for me to respond and walks into the bath room. 20 minutes pass before she comes out drying her hair still.
"Thank you for letting me use your bath" She says I nod at her and follow her to the door.
"Good night Hachi, See you tomorrow" she says with a sweet smile and waves at me with the awkward wave we have given each other multiple times.
"Yeah Night, See you tomorrow" I respond waving back, She then walks back to her own room, I close the door and walk towards the bed and collapse on it covering myself with the covers, and for the second time today I fall into the depths of slumber, hoping for no more nightmares.
A/N next chapter should be coming out right after this one, also should be better then it IDK your the judge.
