Chapter 9: Exiled by Myself

Kirito Pov

I don't know what happened that night. The first thing I see is Grimm about to kill me and then out of nowhere, Yang's Mother shows up and kills the Grimm, protecting me from them when I should be killed by them.

I was unconscious for god knows what, I woke up all weak still as I see a fire lit with a pot standing above it, I lift open the lid to see some sort of stew boiling with some words scratched on the ground saying, This should at least keep your strength up, when you are done, meet me on the roof.

Seriously? Why would she want to talk to me, she probably wants to talk to me about why I was giving up last night and letting myself get killed. I'm at least grateful enough to have at least to have food, I was starving, I don't know why, I was really hungry after that….nevermind, I was probably hungry after the fight.

I ate my food as I stretched a bit as I walked up to the roof, as I was on the roof, I saw her….Yang's mother. "You finished your food?" she asked me. "Yeah….why did you save me, you could have just let me die." I said to her.

But as right I was done saying that, she smacked me on the face real hard, "What the the hell was that for!" I asked being pissed, "How could you let yourself die out there, and how did you get here in the first place?" she asked me.

"None of your business, by the way, why did you save me?" I asked again, "sigh….I saw you out there, you almost looked like a White Fang member so I didn't bother, but when I saw you fall to the ground, I had to stop the Grimm from attacking you." she told me.

"Oh….thanks I guess." I said to her, "My name is Raven Branwen, you are?" Raven asked me, "It's Kirito, Kirito Kirigaya." I told her my name. "Wait, you wouldn't be the main character from the manga Sword Art Online?" Raven asked me, well damn it….even she knows who I am….jeez, what else could happen?

"Is SAO that popular?" I asked Raven, "Well….I can't really say." Raven said to me knowing that SAO is the most popular manga out there. "So what did you do, why try to kill yourself, did you get hurt." Raven asked me as she sat down.

"I….hurt….my friends." I said painfully, "How and who were they?" Raven demanded, I guess there's no holding back, "It started out as my friends and I were going figure out what the White Fang were up to." I said. "Aren't you a bit too young to do that?" Raven said.

"I'm 17, the one who came up with idea was my 1st friend here in Remnant, her name is Ruby and I'm surprised a 15 year old came up with an idea like that." I said as I noticed Raven's eyes expanded when I said Ruby's name.

"Is this Ruby, was she the one you hurt?" Raven asked me, "No." I said, "Who was it?" Raven still persisted, "I tell the story first, like I said, our plan was to find out what the White Fang was doing." I said as told Raven entire story until.

"And what happen?" Raven asked, "I….look." I said as I showed her my tail, "So you're a faunus? I thought you didn't have a tail?" Raven asked, "I never did, until I came to this world is for some odd reason the world decided to give me a wolf tail." I said.

"Well….you see, I was holding a grudge on Roman Torchwick and I was getting more angrier at him, when we finally got him hold up under a freeway and he you know he stole the mech suit." I said getting close to shuddering, "Yes, and what happen!" Raven said outloud.

"He…..when Yang went after him…..he punched her onto the ground….that scream I heard from her….It triggered something in me…...like a burst of rage poured in my head…..like an animal instinct…..I was like a wolf gone mad." I said now in fear of what I was about to say.

"...I attacked Roman's Mech suit with such strength that I easily destroyed it while taking him out of the suit…..I viciously attacked him that broke his leg…..but as I was in that rage, I couldn't hear a damn thing…..I was an animal trying to kill." I said scared.

"But…..Yang tried to stop me…..I ended up biting her arm like a wolf…..and then Asuna, my presumed ex now…...she tried to stop me…..but….I ended up slashing her face with my own hands that turned into claws." I said with the courage I mustered up.

Raven took it all in, I knew that she was shocked to her own daughter be attacked by me, "After that…..I just ran, and the rest you know." I said still shuddering in fear, and then. SMACK! Raven gave me the hardest slap to the face…..ever.

"What the hell again!?" I screamed in pain with a big red hand mark on my face now, "I can't believe I saved your life, why didn't I just let you die, you hurt my-", "I know Yang is your daughter, I know you still love her." I said stopping Raven as she looked at me surprised to know I knew who she was.

"How…..do you know?" Raven asked in shock, "I know everything…..you better be ready…...he…...he…..YOUR OWN DAUGHTER WILL LOSE HER RIGHT ARM!" I screamed like a maniac…..this wasn't me…...I was threatening Raven….what the hell is wrong with me.

"STILL WANT MORE?!" I screamed still, SMACK!, "AGAIN!" I yelled…...this time…...I was mad…"GHAAAA!" I howled as my animal rage came back, "you should had leave me to die….cause you're going to see a monster in action." I said in a deeper voice as I pulled out my swords as Raven pulled out her inter-changeable sword out as we were about to clash….this will be interesting.

Ruby Pov

It's almost been a few days since Kirito has gone missing, I'm worried for him, Ozpin is allowing us to search for him, another thing that's coming up is the dance. I'm excited for it…...but not without the exception of Kirito's disappearance. Even Yang is worried…...and what I mean is that she's crying for him.

"Ohhh, where is Kirito! He has to be here! I'M STILL MAD AT HIM FOR BITING MY ARM! But I really miss him, ohhh where is my sweet Kirito!" Yang said switching from sadness to anger and then back to sadness…..geez, is Yang really in love with him?

"I miss him too Yang, but don't you think you're taking this a little too seriously?" I asked Yang, after trying to calm down Yang for a few minutes, Leo and Weiss come inside, "We've got some at least good news." Leo said.

"REALLY?!" Yang squealed, "Through some digging into CCTV , we found out where he went." Weiss said, "Blake!" I called her as she came, "What is it?" Blake asked, "We know where Kirito is." Leo said.

"Wait, you found out where Kirito is? I thought you were out on a date?" Blake asked Weiss and Leo, "Well we were, until Leo found out about the CCTV in area where Kirito ran off." Weiss said kind of pissed off.

"He went to the abandoned city nearby." Leo said.

All of us were shocked that Kirito ran into an abandoned city filled with hundred if not, thousands of Grimm there that can easily attack anyone on sight, "Wh….why would he go there? Isn't the city closed off?" Blake asked. "When we saw the footage, it looked like he was in a massive amount of fear and stress, he looked like he didn't know where he was going." Leo said.

"Strange, still, we're not allowed to go in there without Ozpin's permission." Blake said, "Can't we ask?" Yang said, "Well I tried to ask but Ozpin isn't allowing us to go, there's been a report of massive amount of Grimm in the area, with all of them there, he's not letting us get any harm." Leo said.

"That's bulls**t! We can handle it, too many Grimm? Please, I can take them all out." Yang cursed, "Yeah we know you can but who know where Kirito is, even without Grimm it would take us a long time to find him." Weiss said angry.

"Ozpin will take care of it." Leo said, "And when will that happen?! I'm not going to sit here and wait." Yang said as she started to leave, "You can't leave! You be breaking rules Yang, think about it, you be expelled!" Weiss yelled.

"What do I care! So what if I get expelled? I'm going back for him, without your help." Yang said as she left. "I would stop her, but her power was increasing and she would probably kill us all." Leo said. I couldn't sit here as well, "Wait!" I said as ran out the door, "What you doing?" Weiss asked me, "I'm going too!" I said as ran down out the door getting to Yang as she got on her motorcycle.

"What are you doing?" Yang asked me, "I'm not letting you go without me!" I yelled as I got on, "Ruby this is too dangerous for you-", "I don't give a shit!" I cursed as I stopped Yang which her eyes widen from me cursing.

"We're a team Yang! We don't do this by ourselves, besides, I want to save him as well, and I'm not letting you go!" I said crying, there was silence for a minute until, "fine." Yang said.

"Alright let's go!" I yelled, "Not so fast!" as Leo and Adrian came outside as they both ran towards us, "Adrian where were you?" I asked, "I was in my dorm when Leo called me and if you guys are getting Kirito back then we're both going." Adrian said.

"How are you guys coming along?" Yang asked in confusion, "He." Leo chuckled as he took out his scroll as did something with it as something was flying towards us, it turned out to be some sort of flying motorcycle.

"I been working on this for about a few years, never got to get it to Atlas because it was deemed too "dangerous", but it fully functional and I did get my license so it should be fine." Leo said as he and Adrian got on, "Can you upgrade mine?" Yang asked as she was drooling over Leo's hovercycle, "Maybe, let's go!" Leo said as we drove off, hang on Kirito, we're coming for you.

Kirito Pov

We've only been fighting for about 10 minutes and we already caused a lot of damage to each other, I got a few gashes from her sword and she's got some slashes from my swords, "Well…[cough]...seems we can't hold back anymore, I might as well end it…...but I don't want to have a bad reputation with the family….how about a truce?" I asked Raven who looked tired as well.

"How can I call truce when you hurt my own daughter!" Raven said as she lunged at me, I dodge her attack as she keeps trying to gut me, seems if I end this, I got to do it fast, [Voom] as slow her down with my time semblance, "What the hell is this?" Raven asked as she was struggling to move.

"I didn't want to use my own semblance on you, but I had no choice." I said tired, "Let me out of this!" Raven demanded, "No. I have to explain to you that my own animal rage let's my own personality change drastically, I barely just regain sanity over my bloodlust, if we keep fighting, I be the one to kill you." I said confidently…..somehow?

"I don't care, let me out!" Raven still demanded, "Shut the fuck up Raven!" I cursed as she went silent, "Now listen, and listen fucken well, I wasn't me when I attacked Yang, something inside me wanted to hurt people, I let it out and it took control of myself, I'm learning to accept the monster inside of me, but more anger seems to just let it out, but now…..I seem to stop it, because this monster….it's in you Raven." I said as Raven's eyes expanded.

"What do you mean?" Raven asked, "I viciously lashed at you because of this monster or in better term, anger consumed you because of one thing, you love Yang because she daughter and you do anything to protect her….and since I attacked her, you let anger get you, for me it's different, I'm a faunus now, my animal instinct kicked in the minute you slapped me and animals can be aggressive, but I calmed down by letting it out for a bit. You, Raven….anger took you over and let you attacked me without control, I feel the same thing but now, I regret the action I took." I said.

"I regret attacking Yang, with her hurt along with Asuna, I simply exiled myself from humanity and into a desolate wasteland, and with all the emotions inside me, I decided to let them all out at once, I cried, screamed in pain, anger, and gave up all hope, but then…..something popped in me….I had that feeling that my friends would want to find me….as much as I know that….they mean much to me…they're my friends and I wouldn't want to hurt them." I said as I was about to cry.

"My friends….they're the only people I have in this world that I can't lose….I wish I said I was sorry for the pain I caused them….now you know why I wanted to die….so just end it for me because I know my friends don't to want to see me anymore." I said crying as I let her go from my time barrier.

I kept crying and just waited for my inevitable death as Raven stood up and was about to end me as she lifted her sword and was about to put me out of my misery….[SHANK]…..but nothing happened, instead I see Raven's sword on the ground as I see tears dripping from her eyes.

"What you do?" I asked as I stopped crying, "You would let yourself die for that reason! That's bullshit! Your friends would be more hurt if they find out that you're dead! You said they care about you, so live dammit!" Raven said as she was crying.

She was right….I would hurt them even more if I died….but still…..I didn't deserve a right to live…"I'll take your pity….I'll live….but only if you leave me alone….I don't want to see you ever again." I said

"What?" Raven asked in confusion, "I said I'll live if you leave." I said, "...fine." Raven said as she left as she disappeared from my sight, finally….some peace….I wanted to live in some peace for awhile before I start my new life as different person….I wish….[PUNCH] as my face was hit by someone….that someone was Yang….and she was crying.

Yang Pov (15 minutes ago)

We got to the abandoned city as we stopped as there was a gate blocking entrance into the city, "Maybe this was a bad idea." Leo said, "We can't just give up now, we have to get inside." Ruby whispered, "How do you expect us to get in?" Adrian asked.

"I don't know, we could cause a distraction or maybe blow something up?" I said some ideas. "Unless you want the military to find us." Leo said, "Yeah." I said, we tried to make up some ideas for the past 5 minutes but nothing was good…..until.

"Outpost B-3, advise that Grimm activity is high in the area, please leave and wait for extraction" a person on the radio said as the guards left the outpost, "Well that's good at least, alright, let's jump over the gate." I said as we climbed the gate (except for Adrian who used a grapple arrow) as got over and we started our search.

Ruby was following me as Leo and Adrian went west of the city as we went north, "You think he's still alive?" Ruby asked me, "Of course Ruby, why would he die that instantly? He's Kirito." I said….still, that shivered me, just thinking that is horrible.

We kept searching, we looked in a few buildings but we found nothing so far, it had been already 7 minutes and we found nothing, me and Ruby and Adrian and Leo got back together as we searched as a group.

"It's been almost 10 minutes and we haven't still found him, I'm just lucky we haven't crossed path with a Grimm." Adrian said as all of us went into another building, "Wait a sec…..I hear swords clashing." Leo said, "I don't." Ruby said confused, "I've trained myself to hear at- never mind, either way it's coming this way." Leo said as we started running.

We ran for a bit until Leo stopped as we hid inside a building as we saw Kirito with a woman, "Kirito-" Ruby said as Adrian stopped her, "Do you want to be attacked?" Adrian, "Who is that woman?" I said as I noticed she looked a lot like me, "I'll scan her….oh….Yang…...that woman…...she has your blood….that's your mother." Leo said.

My eyes widen as Leo said that woman was my mother….I thought she was gone…..but she's alive, but why she was fighting Kirito? We saw them fight a bit until we saw them stop as Kirito and Mother started talking for a bit, "...but then…..something popped in me….I had that feeling that my friends would want to find me….as much as I know that….they mean much to me…they're my friends and I wouldn't want to hurt them." Kirito said as he looked as he was about to cry.

"My friends….they're the only people I have in this world that I can't lose….I wish I said I was sorry for the pain I caused them….now you know why I wanted to die….so just end it for me because I know my friends don't to want to see me anymore." Kirito said crying.

Ruby started crying as the rest of us were just shocked of what Kiriro, "Why….Kirito." I said in shock, we saw her get up as she walk towards him as she lifts her sword as she was about to kill Kirito, "no…..don't do it!" Ruby said as I saw Adrian drawback his bow with an arrow with a sharp tip and aimed at my mother.

"No Adrian!" I said, "She kills him….her hand comes off!" Adrian said as my mother lunged the sword as Adrian almost fired the bow until Leo stopped him as the sword hit the ground, "She is in pain" Leo said as my mother was crying, he was right.

"What you do?" Kirito asked as he stopped crying, "You would let yourself die for that reason! That's bullshit! Your friends would be more hurt if they find out that you're dead! You said they care about you, so live dammit!" My mother said as she started crying.

Kirito is right, why let yourself die? It is bullshit, my own friend wants to die, I was furious and crying, "I'll take your pity….I'll live….but only if you leave me alone….I don't want to see you ever again." Kirito said, "What?" Raven asked in confusion, "I said I'll live if you leave." I said, "...fine." as my mother disappeared once again.

"I'm glad it's over, now let's-" Adrian said as I walked out of the building pissed at Kirito as I landed a punch at him, "You….bastard." I said crying, "How did you- and…..I'm guessing you heard everything." Kirito said.

"How could you fight my mother! And more importantly, why let yourself die!" I yelled, "Didn't you hear, I'll live, and please Yang, leave I don't want to go back, I'm dangerous Yang, and look, I bit your arm like a wolf." Kirito said

"Does it like I care, I want you to come back home…..please?" I asked Kirito, "No." Kirito said quickly, "I'm not taking no for an answer, you're coming home Kirito." I said angry, "Is it my home? My home was taken from me when I came here! I never wanted to be here, I was happy until someone pulled me here to this damn world, and look at me. I have powers that I never wanted." Kirito said pissed off.

I then got a call from Leo, "His anger is increasing by high levels, at this rate, his animalistic rage is close." Leo said, "Is that Leo, tell him to get out of the building along with Adrian and Ruby." Kirito said, "Take him down Yang." Leo said.

If Leo says I have to take him down, so be it as I activated my Ember Celica, "You want a fight Yang? Fine, you beat me, I'll go home, I beat you, you leave." Kirito said as he pulled his Elucidator and Dark Repulsor…..but he threw them on the ground.

"No weapons huh?" I said as Kirito ran towards me as I blocked his incoming fist, I threw a few punches but he blocked them, I then kicked him in the stomach as he was knocked back. I fired some shots at him as he dodged every single one of them.

I fired again but he dodged them again but one hit his face, "Yes!" I said until I realized he grab the bullet with his mouth and spat it out, "What the fuck?" I cursed, "I'm fast Yang" Kirito said as ran behind me and roundhouse kicked me in the face, "Faster than Ruby" Kirito said.

"Kick his ass Yang!" Ruby said as we started to hit and block each other as we landed some blows to each other, I then uppercutted him as fell on the ground but got back up as he slid and knock me over as he kicked me in the stomach as I fell over in mid air.

"Watch this!" Kirito said as he ran up a wall and lunged at me with a scissor kick, "Damn it!" I yelled as Kirito ran far away from me as he started running towards me, but he was going really fast, "Yang that's my max speed move!" Ruby yelled as I saw Kirito almost close to me as blocked myself but Kirito ran past me as a gust of wind and dust flew into my face as the wind was knocking me back.

I then felt a kick to my back as I heard my back crack as I was knock backed into a wall, I then saw Kirito about to jump and land a punch but I got out of the way as Kirito punched the wall a hole, I was getting pretty bruised up as Kirito was looking fine.

I had to amp my game as I started firing along with my punches, but Kirito blocked my attacks, I tried to jab him in the stomach but he kept blocking, I was getting really mad at him, he then grabbed my hair and pulled a big piece of it off, "Come on, get angry" Kirito said as threw my hair on the ground.

I screamed as a huge explosion happened, I was pissed at him as fired my Ember Celica to get a faster pace as I was about to deliver a serious punch to him, "THIS IS WHAT YOU GET!" I yelled as I was about to hit him, but he high kicked me in the stomach as I spat out blood as I felt tremendous amount of pain.

I fell on the ground clutching to my stomach as I was groaning in pain, "I wouldn't advise you coming at me at a fast speed when you can easily get kicked in the stomach by someone who can slow time." Kirito said.

"Still got a temper?" Kirito said, "Did you forget that my power increases the more damage I take?" I said, "Wait a sec….oh fuck." Kirito cursed as grabbed his leg pulling him down as I got up as I grabbed him and threw him in the air.

As he was falling, I high kicked him in the air, knocking him back in the air as I launched into the air as I punched him back to the ground, as I landed back on the ground, as he got back up I ran towards him and without my gauntlet, I landed a powerful punch to him in the face creating a shockwave that broke windows in the area.

His face was priceless as he looked like he didn't know what happen as he fell on the ground as he didn't move, "Oh shit, please don't be dead." I said but…...I was tired….I couldn't move as I fell down on my back as I blacked out…..Kirito….

Ruby Pov

Kirito and Yang were both unconscious as Adrian and Leo got them as we got out of the city and back to the motorcycles and got out of there. As we got back to Beacon we saw the rest of the gang was outside, "S**t! What the hell happen?" Nathan asked.

"They both fought each other and both of them KOd each other" Leo said as he was holding Kirito as Nathan got a hold of him, "I was thinking it would be a romantic when they found each other, instead they kicked each others ass." Nathan said stupidly.

We didn't take them to the nurse as it would cause some problems, It was scary to see the both of them fighting each other as I thought they would both kill each other (A/N: I know I used "each other" a lot), I hope when they wake up they side their differences.

Later that day I heard a knock on the door, "I got it" I said as I went to open the door, It was Professor Ozpin, "Professor Ozpin, what are you doing here?" I asked in confusion, "I wanted to check on Ms. Xiao Long and Mr. Kirigaya." Ozpin said, "Oh, sure come on in." I said as open the door for him.

As Ozpin came in he saw Yang and Kirito on two different beds bandaged up by Leo who is quite a doctor, "I see you already got the both of them healed." Ozpin said, "It was Leo who helped them." I said, "Well, I knew Mr. Zhang has quite the semblance when it comes to seeing what problems they have." Ozpin said.

"I'm surprised you went to the city without any harm, though you were breaking school rules, I'll let all of you go of this but please don't do this again." Ozpin said, "Sure Professor Ozpin, and what happen with Asuna? Why didn't she have a team?" I asked.

"Ms. Yuuki had a problem during the test, she apparently avoided other team members and finished before anyone else in the test, she didn't get a team member so she was a solo student but I didn't know she lied about having a team." Ozpin explained.

"Weird, but did she actually quit the school?" I asked, "Yes, she stormed into the guidance office and demanded to quit the school, she even threaten the secretary who she was talking to which ended up Ms. Yuuki leaving out the door with nothing else to say." Ozpin said.

Jeez, what's gotten into her, I talked to Ozpin for a little bit until he had to leave, I said goodbye to him as he left, "To think Asuna didn't have a team is a bit bizarre, still, she was kind of insane." Weiss said, "I don't know what to think about Asuna, she seemed nice but I'm guessing she got pissed off at Kirito because of…..you know?" I said pointing out why she was furious, what's going on her mind right now?

Asuna Pov

I was walking somewhere in Vale, I was still angry at Kirito for doing this to me, I wanted to never to see him again. I then heard someone call me, "Asuna Yuuki, I'm correct?" a woman asked me, "Yeah, what the hell do you want?" I asked the woman, "Nothing, but I want to ask you something, how much do you hate him?" the woman asked as she revealed herself to be Cinder Falls.

"Kirito? A lot, he cheated on me and viciously attack me, so yeah, I hate him." I said angry, "How about this, you help me with my plan, and I help you bring revenge? How does that sound?" Cinder asked me.

Revenge huh?

"Sure, I'll help." I said as we shook hands….. "We're going to have a good time" Cinder said. Yes we will.

END OF CHAPTER 9 (REWORKED)

NEXT TIME ON CHAPTER 10: The Dance

Thanks for reading this reworked version of Chapter 9 for A shift in Time, sorry it took awhile but if you're wondering why this was reworked? Well Chapter 9 wasn't very good and I went a little too fanfictiony with Yang and Kirito, and probably that fact that I killed the triangle with Yang, Blake, and Kirito too early. I'm sorry that I messed up Chapter 9 and I hope this reworked version is better than the old one, Please leave a review on what your opinion on Chapter 9 and Gotta go Fast!