~quidditchChick6~

I almost died writing it actually. I never cry when I'm writing even a super sad story but I felt my throat close up with the sadness in that particular one. I can't really tell you it's going to get better right away, but I can tell you that you will be satisfied with how it eventually ends. Well technically Yui couldn't see Asuna actually die, Asuna's spell shielded her from that, but yeah it's a really sad way for Kirito to see Asuna die. It's like Heathcliff all over again. Mine does tooo! It hurts so bad that it's bleeding!

~K2-Black-Panther~

Yeah well I got inspiration from a Fanfic I read where Kuradeel has a hacker girlfriend and kills Asuna in front of Kirito, but mines waaaaay more complicated and includes an OC of mine. I can't reveal much else without spoiling the rest of the story :P

Well they don't have a good guy female character kill in an anime and or manga very often if at all to sell the "damsel in distress" or "a girl of high honor." Even if the female lead is such a strong character the anime creators would rather have the guy move in at the last second to save the girl than show a side to a girl that many people could take in different ways. I think Asuna would never kill unless Kirito's life was weighing on that one decision, or if there were hundreds of lives on the line (It's a non spoiler piece of info I know from reading the Alicization novels). That's quite frankly Asuna's character, the seemingly impossibly strong female lead who's head over heels for a guy but is too shy to tell him directly. She's the kind of character that would give up the world for her loved ones, able to make a sacrifice to save those who she can. Asuna's got a beautifully pure heart, and it's shown over and over again in the anime, manga, and the light novels.

Hmm… that makes sense, Kirito's seen enough death and doesn't need anymore blood on his already guilt ridden hands. Those he did kill haunt him for years. I probably wouldn't have. I probably would've broken some of his ribs (I've broken someone's shoulder blades before because I was attacked) and done some damage to make myself feel better but I wouldn't have killed him. Although while I certainly haven't killed, I've seen enough death myself. I do have a whole plan for Sugo though, and it involves a very special cafe owner who's like a big brother to Asuna and Kirito and is mighty furious when he sees what's happening.

I'm honestly really tempted to write a short story where a spell of Kirito's illusion magic "goes wrong" and turns Asuna into a Cat Sith temporarily…

I am a nice person, a nice person to a fault actually. My "fatal flaw" is that I'm too kind, I don't put myself first often enough. Ouch, life's certainly a roller coaster isn't it?

Yeah mine's mess too, I'm ADHD (Inattentive with a major hyper focus problem), I have complex PTSD (for multiple reasons), and multiple muscular, bone, and nerve damage problems :P Actually I'm currently healing from a car crash (in April) where I broke and ankle and messed up my other foot too. It's been a very long road that won't end because I damaged most of the cartilage in my ankle so it won't ever heal properly. Buuut that's about all of the personal info you're gonna hear out of me :P

I'm naturally seclusive because I'm an introvert with a love with the English language (got a near perfect ACT English score) and two disorders that affect my ability to, learn, be social and comfortable around people, and actually understand them.

I'm an art and writing junkie, I live on it XD I'm a digital and traditional artist and I'm publishing a book this year called "Ravaged Heart" as a pseudonym.

I've been busy with the updated video game and my life outside of writing lately, sorry :( But my family's asleep now sooo I'll try and do it now after I upload a Destiny 2 fanfic.

I apologize for missing a day with the uploads, but my favorite video game updated finally (Destiny 2) and I'm sooooo excited about it that I've actually been playing the update and working on a short battle scene for that fandom instead of finishing this till today… But I do have another one mostly finished (the sequel to the AU that nearly killed me to write) and I have a few goofy ideas I intend to use for the next ones. But hey, this one isn't too short relating with the size of the other ones and it's pretty funny and I need practice with Argo's accent so enjoy!

Group Picnic Aftermath

Kirito's eyes were closed, today was rather perfect, he decided. Today was a Saturday, with no school. Just him and others in their friend group all relaxing together after a picnic at the park. It was roughly three in the afternoon now, with the picnic having gone one for an hour as they talked about the good times they had had in SAO and the adventures they had been having so far in the real world.

It was early May, nice and warm with the hint of spring wind and summer heat. The group had decided to all get together for the weekend. The girls including Sugu had been over at Liz's last night while the boys had all gathered at Kazuto's, and now with nothing to do and not many ideas, the group had decided to lounge around. Well, the decision was made for them when Asuna had fallen asleep on the grass, Agil had started to tell a story about his shop, and Sugu had started asking questions about SAO and what she hadn't heard yet.

Not that Kirito was complaining, he was comfortable, lying on the grass with an arm under his head, Asuna's jacket tucked under his head and arm, and the sun's rays warming his face and body. Plus Asuna was asleep next to him, stretched out beside him with one arm thrown across his chest and her bangs and closed eyelashes brushed softly against the side of his shoulder. This last part, in particular, Kirito was happy with. Asuna had been in the real world for six months now and besides school rarely went out and did stuff like this with them all, finding it still exhausting to do much besides go to school and work her butt off to make up for lost time and to make her parents happy. They spent as much time together as they could fit into Asuna's schedule but more often than not Asuna's mother called her or demanded she went home so she rarely stayed for longer than an hour.

The remaining stress in Kirito's body faded and he sighed in a rather content fashion, able to hear the rest of the group talking, giggling, and laughing with one another. Normally he would've joined in too, but when Asuna was this close to him, something he hadn't experienced since SAO, and asleep he didn't want to wake her nor move away from her. He had fond memories of the occasional lazy day during their two-week break from the front lines, and moments where he actually managed to be up before Asuna was. Asuna helped soothe his fear of the future, something that had been weighing heavily on his mind since their return from SAO. He was scared about what was going to happen to him and Asuna and the others. They were behind in the real world and while in SAO they had been on the top with no doubts about their places in the world, here in the real world they were still teenagers, teenagers who had missed two years of schooling and were sometimes considered to be mentally broken from being in the game. When for Kirito it had been the happiest time of his life. He had met a beautiful fencer and beat a boss with her help; even traveled with the fencer until they had to split up for the safety of the other players; only to be reunited with her months later to see the stress of her position had changed her; made tons of new friends and met tons of people; fell in love, got married, had a daughter named Yui; lived with the one he loved in their little cabin on floor twenty-two; and got to live a life where he had been really and truly happy.

Kirito opened his eyes, turned his head to look at Asuna, and silently lifted one hand to brush her bangs from her sleeping face. She must be really tired, he mused quietly to himself and brushed two fingers over her cheek in a rather affectionate manner. To be sleeping like this in the middle of the day on grass as rough as this stuff if. He, however, jerked his hand away from her face when he heard Liz's comment directed at him and spoken loud enough for him to hear.

"Just because she's keeping you there doesn't mean you should enjoy it that much Kirito!" Liz teased rather ruthlessly, "you're supposed to do that kind of stuff without the rest of us around! You know-"

Agil covered her mouth with a hand, "I think that's far enough Rika," he called the girl by her real name to display his seriousness. "We should be grateful Asuna's healing well enough for her to even be near him, Klein, and I."

That shut Liz up, she clearly hadn't thought of it that way. And neither had Kirito.

Kirito blinked, Agil was right, they were all incredibly lucky, him most of all. After the incident with Sugo and after having settled into life again the effects of Asuna's capture had started to creep up on her. Starting with panic attacks, being jumpy, extremely self-conscious, and for a while, she wouldn't let any guy beside Kirito even shake her hand. Even then Kirito had had to be careful, any kind of wrong move would make her get overwhelmed by a panic attack. Of which were luckily over so far, proven by her trusting him to watch over her while she was asleep, just like he had done in SAO. Although… Kirito did feel a little bad for actually bringing Asuna to the picnic in the first place, she had been coughing all week, sick with something that wasn't contagious but wreaked havoc on her weakened lungs. She had said the fresh air would be good for her after being cooped up at home, but Kirito had quietly guessed she wanted to be with the rest of the group able to listen to their Aincrad stories for the memories and even tell a few of her own. But now she was asleep, out cold while a few members of the group were following suit. Him, Silica, and Argo. Argo was up in a tree, softly snoring while Silica was in the process of curling in a ball under the picnic blanket. Liz, Agil, Klein, and Sugu were all wide awake with Agil, Liz, and Klein arguing about Agil's old shop and Sugu giggling and listening intently.

Kirito felt his eyes close, being lulled to sleep by the spring-summer heat, the warmth of Asuna's body heat, her rythmic breathing and the light bickering of his friends. This is nice… He idly thought even as he started to doze off himself, like Aincrad… underneath the fighting...

"Aaaheeeeeeeeh!

A rather loud girlish shriek and thump made Kirito jolt bolt upright and instinctively reach for a sword that wasn't there. His mind was foggy, obscured by the cobwebs of sleep, and it took him a moment to look around in confusion for the source of the shriek. Only to find Argo scrambling to her feet from falling out of a nearby tree and racing toward him as fast as she could.

Kirito only had time to both wonder what Argo was yelling about and that if she woke up Asuna everyone was going to die before Argo crashed headlong into him. He barely managed to keep himself from falling sideways on top of where Asuna was asleep like she had in SAO when he convinced her to try lying down on the grass. But it looked like Argo didn't really care Asuna was asleep as she scrambled to sit behind him and accidentally kneed Asuna in the gut as she knelt behind Kirito and hid. Only visible by a few of her blonde curls. (I like Argo better blonde :P)

"Hide me!" Argo yelped, grasping handfuls of Kirito's jacket and practically shaking in her boots. Argo was wearing a rather simple loose green short sleeved shirt with a brown stripe down the shoulders and a white collar and edges, khaki shorts that had a few pockets on the sides to hold her pocket notebooks, and mid calf high rather simple brown leather boots with no heel.

Asuna started coughing after Argo kicked her, having just had the wind knocked out of her. She then opened her eyes, blurred with sleep and highly confused. Even as she sat up with one arm wrapped around her midriff and kept coughing, wheezing from the pain as she breathed, she looked rather drowsily confused. Which cleared up over the next few moments.

Kirito then heard Asuna vaguely say an SAO curse under her breath through the coughing and he paled slightly, they were all doomed. He tried to twist and see if she was really okay, only to have Argo force him to stay there in one position and be her shield. "Argo, I'm trying to see if Asuna's okay," he stated rather bluntly, "you kneed her in the stomach."

Argo refused to let him move, "she's fine," she dismissed Asuna without a second thought, "I, on the other hand, won't be if that thing keeps huntin' me!"

Kirito sighed, oh dear. There were only a few things Argo was afraid of, and only one of them was in the real world too. Dogs.

Argo was rambling now. "It's tryin' ta get a taste of ma blood so it can find me later an' then kill me! I hate these stupid thin's! Why do they even 'sist?! What's the point in an animal tha' wants people's blood?!" Her accent was leaking heavily into her words, her fear of the creature temporarily scrambling the face that Argo preferred to hide her accent in the real world. "I ain't gonna survive if it gets me this time! It's been followin' me since my house! I could've sworn it was gone durin' da picnic but it's back now an' wants to kill me!" She lightly shook Kirito from behind, "ya gotta protect me Kii-bou!"

Kirito was still trying to look back at Asuna who's coughing had stopped but she still wheezing each breath and half doubled over. "Argo seriously, I think you broke one of Asuna's ribs or something-" he started to say worriedly only to be cut off.

Woof!

"Eeeek!" Argo's shriek almost made Kirito's ears ring as she clung to his back, "ge' it away from mee!" A chocolate lab was running toward them, loping along at a happy pace with its tongue sticking out of its mouth and running toward Kirito, Asuna, and Argo.

"It's just a puppy!" Kirito complained as he tried to turn around again only to be yanked back around by Argo. "Argo seriously, Asuna was already coughing and you kneed her in the stomach!"

"An' I'm serious too!" Argo shot back, her voice a pitch higher than it was supposed to be. "It wants to kill ma!"

Kirito frowned as the dog got closer and just sat there, refusing to help Argo after she had smacked Asuna and wasn't letting him check on his girlfriend. "Hey! Ow! Argo!" He snapped when the shorter girl scrambled up and jumped onto it shoulders, gripping his black hair and watching the approaching dog like it was really going to eat her.

"Make it go away!" Argo exclaimed with her hazel eyes now squeezed shut as the dog jumped on Kirito's lap, "it's huntin' me!"

"Okay! Okay!" Kirito complained and pushed the dog off before he called to the others in their group who were all laughing or giggling. "Not funny guys!" He huffed and kept pushing the dog away from him and Argo who yelped very time the dog got close to her. "Can one of you guys come get this dog away from us?" He asked his friends nicely and got only more laughter as a response.

Kirito then heard the grass behind him move and saw Asuna stand up, still holding her stomach with one arm, and go over to the dog. He looked concernedly at Asuna, who no doubt was going to get pay back for Argo kneeing her.

Asuna carefully picked up the wriggling puppy and gave Argo a scathing look, "did you have to kick me?" She asked, her voice not much more than a croaking wheeze. "I already had a cough." Despite her weak voice, the way she was glaring at Argo reminded all of the SAO survivors around her who she had been in SAO, and what her job had been.

Argo looked a little guilty but she was now staring at the dog in Asuna's arms with wide terrified eyes. Her fear of the fluffy creature was higher than her guilt at making Asuna feel sicker. Asuna would survive without much more than a cough for a week while if that dog got her she was totally and completely, dead. "S-sorry A-chan," she half stammered while still on Kirito's shoulders, hazel eyes fixed on the fluffy creature in Asuna's arms. "I hate dogs…"

Asuna seemed to think for a moment as if she was deciding between letting the incident go and getting her revenge, and got closer to Argo and Kirito, "hold her there Kirito."

Kirito winced but did as she asked and held onto Argo's legs, preventing her from getting away and kicking him.

Argo's eyes widened further, "come on Asu! I didn't mean to! The kickin' wasn't part of the plan!"

Asuna's, still rather sleepy, amber eyes twinkled with mischief and she darted toward Argo, still holding the dog in her arms.

"Noo! Asuna! It'll eat me!" Argo tried to convince Asuna to move back, but to no avail.

Asuna shoved the puppy in Argo's face, the dog immediately started licking the blonde girl's face who was leaning backward further and further to get away from the dog.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Argo yelped and shied away from the dog looking very much terrified to have a dog that close to her, "I'm sorry for kickin' you! Just get tha' demon away from me!"

With a rather satisfied smirk, Asuna pulled the dog back and away from Argo. "It's just a puppy," she said in her still wheezy voice, "puppies are harmless-"

Achoo!

Argo sneezed hard enough that she toppled off of Kirito's shoulders and laid sprawled on the grass with a low whimper. "Allergies…" She groaned with another sneeze.

Kirito busted out laughing and released Argo while Asuna looked extremely concerned and rather guilty.

"Why didn't you tell me?!" Asuna demanded as she put the dog down and pulled Argo to her feet who sneezed again and looked miserable. "I thought you were scared of it!"

"I am!" Argo complained before she sneezed again, her voice was now a little nasally, "they wanna to eat me!" She yelped and jumped away from the puppy and now hid behind Asuna. "Dogs wanna to eat me or kill me with their dander! They hunt me everywhere!" Her accent was still clear, but it was lessening with her allergies acting up and her brain not scattered everywhere in fear.

"Wait, I'm confused, are you allergic to them then or are you just terrified of them?" Asuna asked in her wheezy voice and wrapped one arm around her midriff again like it would help the pain breathing currently brought her.

Achoo! Argo gave a massive sneeze, nearly toppled backward from the strength of the sneeze, and otherwise didn't answer.

Kirito, on the other hand, managed to stop laughing for the most part and looked at Argo and Asuna, "Asuna," he said through his laughter that was mainly displayed by the trembling of his shoulders, "Argo is allergic to dogs." Asuna's face fell into an expression of guilt. "However," Kirito continued with as much of a straight face as he could muster, "she's also convinced dogs are bloodhounds who feed on and hunt humans."

Asuna's lips twitched and Kirito could clearly see that she was fighting laughter, "hunting bloodhounds who feed on humans? Argo," she looked at the older girl who was like a sister and was much shorter than her, "dogs are called 'man's best friend,' they aren't animals that kill."

"Ya they do!" Argo shot back, "and cats 're man's best friend!" She sneezed again, "not those innocent lookin' demons!"

Asuna couldn't help it, she started laughing, leaning forward on her knees and laughing until she went hoarse.