"Kirito! Kirito!" Asuna yelled out looking for her defeated boyfriend. "Kirito!" Asuna doesn't notice that she bumps into someone. "Oh sorry." Asuna said to the one she bumped into. "It's fine." The black haired girl she bumped into said, then she walked off. "Huh?" Asuna looked back at the girl she bumped into. 'It's, the same girl.' Asuna thought, it was the same girl Kirito bumped into a little while ago. The same NPC girl, Asuna ignored her and continued looking for Kirito.

"KIRITO!"

Kirito heard that voice, he looked to the distance, his eyes seemed to react to her voice. 'I can see?' Kirito runs towards his sense, it was almost like he could see Asuna, in an odd way, but he could see it. "Asuna!" Kirito was running towards Asuna full speed.

"Kirito, are you okay?" Asuna asked still worried of him.

"I'm okay." Kirito said, but he looked downward in depression. "Although, I checked my inventory. All my money and items are gone, and the experience I just earned too...a bummer." Kirito said. "Even my sword..." Kirito said depressed.

Asuna put her hand on Kirito's shoulder. "It's okay, you'll get that guy back." Asuna said with an nod when Kirito looked back at her.

"Thanks Asuna." Kirito said confidently. "I'll beat Phoenix and then I'll stop Toshihiro Bayahiki too." He added. "But first, we have to learn how to play this game properly too."

"Right." Asuna agreed, the other all adding in a confident nod "Oh yeah, right." Sinon scrolls down her menu and sends Kirito over a friend request. Leafa does the same thing. Kirito accepts the requests nodding to them, he now had all his friends as friends on his menu.

Sinon's Profile

Sinon Hyuga

Rank: Academy Student

Clan: Hyuga

Affiliation: None

Nature Release: Yang Release

Health Points Max: 250

Chakra Max: 100

Weapons: Hyuga Sword

Leafa's Profile

Leafa Senju

Rank: Academy Student

Clan: Senju

Affiliation: None

Nature Release: Wind Release

Health Points Max: 250

Chakra Max: 100

Weapons: Forest Blade

Kirito nods now that all of them were together at last. "Okay, the first thing you should do is find yourself a new weapon Kirito." Agil mentioned, Kirito nodded to Agil's suggestion. "But where would I get another weapon?" Kirito asked, his friends didn't have clue.

"I could try making one for you." Lisbeth suggested. The others looked at her. "Yeah, I still have my blacksmithing skills. I could probably make a sword for you." She added on.

"Thanks Liz." Kirito said happily, "But we need materials for that, and we don't have much sufficient material." Agil mentioned. There were many swords in the entire game, Kirito needed the best one possible at the moment.

"You need a sword guy?" Kirito flinched a little and looked behind him. There was a boy with white hair, amber eyes, he wore a white shirt and a overcoat that was silver. He had light blue pants and brown boots. He looked only about 15-16 years old.

"And you are?" Asuna asked suspicious of him after their encounter with a stranger the last time ended in disaster.

"Riaru." The boy replied. Kirito checked his menu for Riaru, the name translated to 'real' or 'truth.' His Health points were 350, his chakra points were 250. They were also pretty high, though not nearly as high as Phoenix was, and it had been a few hours of the game, so it probably wasn't impossible, though he was probably a beta tester or something like that. His rank said Genin, so he was one rank above what the gang was currently. According to the manual the ranks of the game went from Academy Student, to Genin, to Chunin, to Pre-Jonin, to Full-Jonin, to Anbu, to Kage Guard, to Guardian Ninja, to Kage, which was the highest of the ranks. Currently all of the gang were academy students, Phoenix was a Full-Jonin, four levels ahead, so it was obvious he would win the battle with any of them easily.

"Who exactly are you?" Klein asked shrugging his eyes curious of the guy. No one couldn't tell Riaru's clan without actually friending him.

"Oh, no one special." Riaru said scratching the back of his head. "I'm just every other player." He said with his hands behind his head as if he was resting on a pillow.

Kirito shrugged, however he had his doubts on Riaru, since Phoenix wasn't so friendly, he wasn't so trusting. "So what did you mean by 'you need a sword guy?'" He asked.

"Yeah, I can give you an awesome sword!" Riaru said happily.

Asuna moving closer to get a good look at Riaru. "How?" She asked. "Easy. You're an Uchiha clan member, right?" Riaru asked Kirito.

"Yeah." Kirito responded.

"Good, you'll fit this sword perfectly!" Riaru opened up his inventory and took out his sword. "Check it out!" Riaru held up a sword, it was a longsword, probably one of the more powerful swords in the game. "I got this sword from my friend! Take a look." Riaru went to his menu and showed the description of the sword to the others.

Itachi's Katana: A powerful blade when infused with the power of the Uchiha clan. Has been used to slaughter clans.

"You can have it!" Riaru said cheerfully.

"Thanks a lot, I owe you one." Kirito said reaching to take the katana.

"NO! Not for free silly! You can have it. Only, and only...if you give me 1,000,000 ryo!"

"1,000,000 ryo?" Kirito repeated in shock and even taking a step backwards in surprise. "I have no ryo..."

"Oh well!" Riaru put the katana back in his inventory. "If you don't want it, I'm gone!" Riaru said disappearing with a single flash.

"What was that?" Asuna asked about Riaru disappearing, she turned around to see Sinon already on it.

"Umm..." Sinon looked through the manual for the list of jutsu. "It's called the teleportation jutsu, it allows the user to move long distances within seconds." She replied to Kirito.

'Note to self, learn teleportation jutsu.' Kirito mentally noted.

Later...

Kirito sighed sitting on a swing on a tree nearby what seemed to be an academy in the village. 'How am I supposed to get 1,000,000 ryo...' He thought. Kirito knew he wouldn't stand much of a chance against other players, let alone Phoenix, if he didn't even have a weapon. He was also thinking of ways to get the 1 million ryo he need to buy the sword off of Riaru, but so far things came up with nothing. All beginning players started with just 1000 ryo, and Kirito lost all his ryo after being defeated by Phoenix.

'I barely know how to play this game too...' Kirito sighed. 'How am I supposed to clear this game when I don't even know where to start.' Kirito thought depressed, it might have been the defeat from Phoenix, but he now saw how long of a journey he had in front of him.

"Ha..." Kirito sighs, 'Guess the only way to earn that much ryo. Is to do quests.' Kirito goes to his menu and scrolls down his list of quests which were a bunch of boring quests. Like cleaning a shop, finding a lost cat, painting the fence. Kirito sighs. 'This type of stuff isn't for me...' Kirito sighs again leaning his head on the swing's rope. 'But I guess I have no choice...'

Kirito accepted all the quests and then his map showed him the closest place for the missions. Kirito hated chores, he did, though he did them when he was at home, that was only one a day or so. But this was ridiculous, games were supposed to get him away from chores! Not give him more! He really wanted to just go into a plain field and kill time, but Sinon had informed him earlier that the only way to rank up was to do these quests, which were albeit more chores than actual quests.

Kirito worked all day until sunset. Though his real body probably wasn't too bad in reality, he was up all day doing the 'quests' he accepted which included. Painting a fence, a very long fence... Finding a lost cat, which took 2 hours. Babysitting a child, which got lost and he had to find, which costed him half his ryo payment from that mission. Cleaning a store, which he failed at and took another 3 hours after knocking over 50 large bottles of wine and having to clean up the mess. And finally he and to clean out a library. All in all the day got him 15,000 ryo, but he was still nowhere close from the 1,000,000 minimum needed to by Riaru for the sword he wanted.

He rested on the ledge of a hill sighing. 'I can't take another day of this...' He moaned. Asuna came up to him. "Kirito, are you okay?" She asked. "UGH!" Kirito falls right backward onto the grass behind him. "I just did an entire day of chores ... IN ... A ... VIDEO ... GAME." He said exhausted. 'When I do find the creator of this game, I will punch his face in one time extra for this...' Asuna smiled with a little giggle at Kirito. "Oh Kirito..." Asuna sighed now, Kirito rolled his eyes. "How about a little dinner? Agil and Klein gathered some food from the forest and I'll whip up some sandwiches for you?" She said. Kirito sprang up from the ground. "Sandwiches...oh yeah..." He said nodding with a smirk, which made Asuna tilt her head a little and then they both walked off.

Kirito munched down on a sandwich Asuna made. Her cooking skills followed her into the game since it was the same system as SAO so she knew how to really cook in this game. Though in real life, it was another story. "They're good as always Asuna." Kirito mumbled while he chewed. Asuna nodded kindly as the others also were eating things she made. "I'm glad." She replied.

"Man, you're good." Klein commented feeling full from his meal, he leaned back in his chair.

"Okay." Sinon takes out the manual. "Now to matters, we need to figure out some way for Kirito to earn the 1 million ryo needed for Riaru's sword." The others nodded and payed attention. "According to the manual. Bosses give a lot of ryo, but we don't know where the bosses are, so we need to try something else."

"Okay, isn't there some sort of boss we could try?" Klein asked.

"Hmm..." Sinon flipped through the pages of the manual. "Okay, here we go. There are such things as bounties."

"Bounties?" Silica questioned.

"Yes, these are rogue ninja who if captured will grant a big reward to whoever does it."

"How much?" Kirito asked.

"Ummm." Sinon looks through the list of bounties. "It seems, 10,000 for the lowest one. And up to. WOAH! 1,000,000,000 for the highest."

"WHAT?!" Asuna said surprised of an award 1000 times the amount Kirito needed.

"Who has that bounty?!" Silica asked.

"Uh-oh..." Sinon said. Then then enlarged her menu for them all to see. The profile read.

Phoenix

Bounty: 1,000,000,000

Rank X

"That guy has the highest bounty in the game?!" Asuna said surprised of this.

"There might be higher bounties that we haven't unlocked yet, but I'm not sure." Sinon replied. "Either way, he holds he highest bounty." Sinon said.

"And he was right in front of me earlier!" Kirito said enraged. "If only I beat him then! Damn it!" Kirito slams his fist into the wall.

"It's alright..." Leafa said gently stroking Kirito's back.

Kirito sighs and turns around. "Who looks easy enough for us to take down Sinon?" Kirito asked.

"Let's see, this guy seems easy enough." Sinon points out another rogue ninja.

Zabuza Momochi

Bounty: 1,000,000 ryo

Rank: A

"Okay, that's just enough, let's do this." Kirito said determined.

Ranks in this game go from D-rank, to C-rank, to B-rank, to A-rank, to AA-rank, to 3A-rank, to S-rank, to SS-rank, and finally X-rank as the hardest.

"Wait!" Leafa said quickly stopping Kirito in his tracks. "This mission is A-rank, that's recommended for higher level players. At the least the chunin level. That's two levels above ours, at least that's what I heard. I'm not sure about this."

"You're right..." Kirito mumbled. 'One year...' Kirito thought about what Obito said. "But we have no time to waste. We only have one year to win this game, or else we're all dead. We have to take that risk." Kirito said bravely staring at all of them who had mixed reactions.

Leafa wasn't even going to try to convince Kirito otherwise. She knew him well enough to know that Kirito wouldn't say no to something like this. "Okay, but we're all going with you." The others all nodded to Leafa's statement.

Kirito nodded. "Okay, let's go."

"Wait, it's night." Asuna pointed out. Kirito sighed again.

Sinon mentions. "I think it's best if we all log out now, we'll need some time to rest."

"Yeah, I guess. See you all later." Kirito waved goodbye to them. All at once they all hit the logout button on their menu.

Kazuto removes his nervegear in the world of reality. He looks out the window and wonders. 'Will the world really be destroyed?' He asked himself.

Meanwhile...

'I have to end this...I just have too. Hopefully the ones I encountered won't interfere. I have to be patient, let events play out. There's no going back.' Through a ripple in time and space, kamui erased the body signaling the transportation.

I'll explain my reasoning behind each of the player's clans.

Kirito: Isn't it obvious? He loves wearing black!

Asuna: Her behavior kinda reminds me of Kushina Uzumaki. So why not.

Klein: One of his attacks in SAO reminded me of Minato's jutsu.

Agil: He's a veteran, and the third hokage was always a veteran to me.

Sinon: I was thinking about her sharpshooting skills, now she still has that ability only even better.

Leafa: It just seems like she belongs in the forest, like a Senju does.

Silica: She was already a beast tamer in SAO, so why not now?

Lisbeth: I was thinking she could be the using medical ninjutsu since we really don't see her fight a lot. Otherwise it was on a whim.

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