I'm currently working on my primary project, Dragon of Synthesis. But I decided to take a break and work on this instead. Honestly, the original elements in that story are making my head hurt despite me following the guidelines that I set up myself. It's difficult to not accidentally write down events and things I want to save.

So yeah, I might update this story a couple more times before going back to that. I seriously need to rest my head. Other than that, I love writing Dragon of Synthesis, as well as this story. These two stories are my most unique stories. They might not have as much success as my other stories, but I still enjoy writing them more than my more popular ones, hence why they haven't updated in quite a while. They as in "A Demon's Reality" and "A Cracked Resolve". I screwed up hard in the execution of what I wanted in "A Cracked Resolve". Same with "A Demon's Reality". I had the vision of what I wanted, but I didn't quite manage to write the story in a way that it would be able to reach it. I also messed up in the actual writing and included in elements I shouldn't have, such as Issei having the Sharigan in "A Cracked Resolve". Sure, I made it so Issei was practically nothing without them, but it's the Sharigan. You know, the thing that is fucking OP in Naruto? Yeah. That.

Also, to clarify, this is not a crossover with SAO. There has been a brief mention of it, but basically just think of it as SAO being the prequel to this story. Both are stand alone stories with their own plot.

Houvdon awoke on his bed.

He blinked the sleep out of his eyes as he looked at his alarm.

The time read 6:37 AM.

He groaned, as he pulled the covers back over him.

But after minutes of lying there doing nothing, he threw the covers off, shivering in the cold as it blew through his window. He closed it quickly, and his fingers left behind marks on the window due to the fog. His breath created a mist, and he sighed, throwing the covers back over himself.

His fingers turned cold, and he pulled out his phone.

He blinked sleep out of his eyes, as he turned on his phone, quickly typing in his password. He wiped his screen, despite it already being dry.

He squinted, his eyes adjusting to the brightness of the screen.

He saw a single text message.

You up yet?

He looked at the time the message was received.

4:53 AM.

He wiggled his fingers, trying to get some blood flow into them.

He sent back a message to Kuroka.

Why were you up so early?

The message came back instantly.

Bored.

He sighed as he tried to once again, blink the sleep out.

His eyes blinked sluggishly.

He had to reread Kuroka's response in order for his mind to comprehend.

Oh. What do you what me to do about that?

Talk to me.

He can imagine her pouting in disappointment at how he didn't know what she was trying to hint at.

Why the hell are you up so early?

He can imagine her once again, pouting at him for not making the conversation where she wanted it to go.

He sighed, as he continuously tapped his fingers, trying to stay awake. He was still half asleep.

Meanie.

He sighed, as he pulled off the covers, and reached just over the side to get his hoodie from his chair. He put it on, the clothing fitting snugly on him.

He flipped his legs over the side of the bed, and then sat down on his chair.

He powered on his computer.

How so?

She didn't respond after that.

Break

"Winter break is here soon!"

"Yeah."

Kuroka smiled down at him. "You ready for it?"

"Yeah. I might have to go on a trip with my family."

She blinked at Houvdon. "Really? A trip to where?"

"America."

She rose an eyebrow. "America...? That sure is interesting."

He sighed. "Yeah, we have some distant relatives there. So we are going to visit them. It's been a long while since I've seen them. Been about 7 years?"

"That is a long time." She exhaled.

"Yeah. I mean, you can be apart from me for 2 weeks, right?" It was a subtle jab at how she was constantly around him for the past 5 months during their months of school.

It was an amazing thing how she still hasn't pieced together that he was Kojiro, the top student that she admired ever since her first day at Kuoh Academy. She constantly told him how she was trying hard to get noticed by the mysterious top student that never seemed to appear no matter where she looked.

It also spoke lengths about how all of her food went into her chest instead of her head.

Houvdon did not mean for it to sound offensive.

She jabbed him in his side. "Shut up."

She pouted at him.

He merely smiled back at her, reached up, and poked her forehead.

She glared at him as she rubbed it.

"Why do you always poke my forehead?"

"Why not?" His response was in a carefree and lazy tone, almost as if it were not worth his time to try to answer the question.

She pouted at him once again.

"Don't worry, I'll be back the moment winter break ends, so I won't miss any of school." He said, his voice sounding as if he knew something she didn't. "So you won't have to deal with some days without me."

That is what she knew that he would say. Something that'll make her hate him.

He chuckled at her face from her lap.

He knew that he was able to annoy her once again.

"Jerk." She bit back.

Her eyes narrowed at him and he chuckled at her.

"I can't wait to come back and see you come hug me because you missed me." He said snarky.

Their moment during lunch period was broken by a few screams.

They looked over at the commotion.

"Please not there!"

"It hurts!"

"Fuck you Issei for ditching us!"

"Why are we even friends with him?"

Kuroka pointed at the two males that were currently getting beaten by the girls in the kendo club. "Who are they?"

Houvdon felt a flash of anger as the boys basketball team was cut off to make room for the girls kendo club.

Houvdon shrugged. "Hell if I know. Probably some people that refused to accept rejection." He poked her side. "Aren't you glad that nobody asked you out yet."

Her cheeks got a small tinge of pink. She muttered, "I wished one person asked me..."

"What was that?" Houvdon asked. Kuroka knew for sure that he had heard her, and was merely teasing her. "I couldn't quite hear what you said."

"Shut up! Baka!"

Break

"You!"

The next day, Houvdon's first started off by a brown haired boy and brown eyes to point at him.

Both Houvdon and Kuroka looked at him.

"How are you so lucky to score a girl like Kuroka?"

He blinked. "What?"

Kuroka's eye twitched, but a small blush appeared when the boy in front of them assumed that they were dating.

She didn't move from her close proximity with his arm.

"How did you manage to get such a hotty to go out with you?!" The boy continued to rage at him. The boy's brown eyes also zeroed in on Kuroka's rather large breasts.

Houvdon cringed at the boy's choice of words. "First of all, introduce yourself. Second, I'm not dating her."

"You aren't?" He blinked.

"Yet."

Kuroka jabbed his side.

He rubbed the side of his stomach, the pain caused by her sharp finger nails that Houvdon always referred to as claws. "So...are you going to introduce yourself?"

"Oh right! My name is Hyoudou Issei."

"Issei..." Houvdon pondered, before snapping his fingers. "Ah, you have first period with us, correct? You were the one that got that eight minute mile on the first day back at school."

He nodded. "Yeah, I was."

"I see. Well, it's good to meet you." He grabbed Kuroka's hand, making her widen her eyes. "I'll see you in class later."

"Yeah you too." Issei waved.

Only when Houvdon and Kuroka were out of sight, did Issei remember something.

"He never answered how he got such a hot girl!"

Break

"I don't like him one bit." Kuroka huffed, crossing her arms underneath her breasts.

"Eh, he seemed alright. He was pretty athletic. I wonder if he was in any sports..." Houvdon began to ponder.

"Hey! The entire time he was staring at my boobs. Are you going to do anything about that?"

"Um...no? You aren't my girlfriend. And you do have nice looking ones. So I don't really blame him for looking." Houvdon waved his hand, showing that he currently didn't care about it.

She exhaled. "Idiot...Don't you see that I want to be your girlfriend?"

"What was that?" Houvdon cocked his head at her.

"Nothing!" A blush appeared on her face as she slapped his shoulder. "Don't worry about it."

And you reached the bottom! Apologies for not having any of the gaming this chapter, but there will be next chapter! At least, I hope. Sorry if it seemed a bit rushed, but I'll someday edit it so it's less rushed. I also need to work on making sure the characters don't go OOC. I seriously need to work on that and keeping their personalities like canon. But until then, my only excuse is that this is an AU.

And a fanfiction. It's my story, so piss off.

Nah, I'm joking. I love you all. I'll be working on the next chapter as soon as possible.

Until then, see ya!

~Houvdon