Disclaimer: I do not in any way shape or form own .hack or its characters.

Notes: Ages-Tsukasa, Mimiru, Kite, Black Rose, Mistral, Mireille, Subaru, Elk-around 16 or 17.

Sora, Crim, Silver Knight, Ouka, Gardenia, Kamui, Balmung- late 20's

BT, Sanjuro, Helba, Moonstone, Nuke, Rachel, Bear- Late 30's

Hotaru, Reki, A-20, Ryoko Terajima- around 7 or 8

Macha? Unknown

This is my first fan fic ever written, so review with constructive criticism. FYI, constructive criticism is when you tell the person what they are doing wrong and how to fix it; not just telling a person that they suck and have make a bunch of mistakes.

Summary: An alternate universe where the game characters from dothack are not game characters, but real people. It is not part of a game, but reality itself. Tsukasa is a parentless child living in the city of Dun Loireag. After having an unusual field adventure will his classmates, his boring life starts to change, but will it be for better or worse?

Reviews: Please review me if you like this story, reviews will give me incentive to create new chapters and or stories

" 'What are you planning to do now?' 'You're the one who determins that,am I right? Besides, I can't exactly get out of here anyways.' 'If you are not so reckless with your behavior, thenwe have no reason to detain you any further.' "
-Hacksign qutoe: Subaru and Tsukasa (episode 6)-

DotHack: Reality ch. 12

By: TsukasaTheFominian

The jail cells of the Crimson Knight HQ were full for the first time in a long time. Their plane brick walls and cold steel bars only hit home the reality that everyone their was sure to die a painful death, and for some of them, just after being let off of a death sentence. The first cell in the row held the mutants Balmung and Ouka. The second cell held the Outlaw Sora. Third contained Wave Master, Tsukasa and his friend Mimiru. Last in the line were the Illegals Kite and Black Rose. The only others currently in the Jail Room were two Crimson Knight guards, placed at the entrance to the room.

Mimiru was sitting on her bed at the verge of tears for the great shame she had befallen her. She tried to continually keep thinking of ways to escape the prison, but her thoughts were continually disturbed by the snoring of her cell mate. Tsukasa had said he was going to try to get some sleep, but Mimiru hadn't actually believed that it would really happen. Mimiru's anger kept building up until she finally slammed her fists on the ground and shouted, "How can anyone sleep at a time like this?"

The question was meant to be rhetorical, but Sora took it upon himself to answer her, "Now's as good a time as any. We can't escape from their cells, and we don't have any weapons with us either. All we can do is wait."

"Tsukasa could think of some magic he could use to get us out of here!" Replied the brown haired girl.

"Except these cells have powerful anti magic spells on them," Countered Ouka. "And there is a barrier set up. Nobody could warp out or use magic here. Not even my fists could break through these bars, so just try to relax and rest up."

Kite was the next to speak, "It's your own fault anyways for trying to stop the Cerulean Knights. You could have just held your tongue, but you talked back and said very insulting things to the Knight Leader. What did you expect after such a display?"

The brown haired Heavy Blade clearly remembered what happened; after Kamui had arrested Kite and Tsukasa, both Mimiru and Black Rose spoke up about their friends not having done anything wrong and how they saved the entire town. Kamui had ignored them until both girls had started throwing insults at her, she then promptly ordered both girl's arrest.

"It just isn't fair that they should throw in jail the two people who saved the entire town form being destroyed by strange monsters." Stated Black Rose.

"Kamui and her group have never been lenient in any way to anybody," stated Balmung. "She's been that way since she was in school and isn't going to change any time soon."

The doors to the dungeon opened and both Subaru and Crim entered, both looking grave. They excused the two guards and both faced the prisoners who had risen to great her. All had gotten up except for Tsukasa who was still asleep. After seeing this, Mimiru took it upon herself to wake her cell mate by shaking him and shouting his name in his ear. When not even those actions succeeded in waking the Wave Master all of the teens in the prison began to worry.

Subaru only said, "Let him sleep. He used too much magic today and has probably over taxed his strength. He fought a strange slime monster, used a completely new type of magic, and summoned that rainbow dragon, he needs his rest.

"I'm sorry to say this, but there doesn't appear to be anything I can do for any of you this time."

"What do you mean Subaru?" her brother asked. "Aren't you going to stage a fake death or just 'forget' to lock our cells?"

Crim could only look down at the floor instead of at his old friends, "Its not like the other times. Not only do we have two of the most wanted criminals in the world here, we also have two teenagers with unknown powers and abilities; one who hypnotized an entire town and summoned an unknown dragon, and one who has the same bracelet that monster used to put two Knights into a coma. When you add the fact that Kamui herself reported all of this directly to the Administrators, it puts us in a major bind."

"What kind of bind?" Kite asked.

The female Knight Leader replied, "The Admin. had ordered you to stand trial before them and if need be, be executed before their eyes."

"If we have to stand trial, doesn't that mean we could be let off?" said the hopeful Mimiru.

"No little girl." Sora answered. "If the Admin. had it their way, we would have been killed the moment we were captured. It's only because the law says everyone gets a trial that the Admin. holds mock trials. Our only hope is that Helba finds some way to get us out of this mess and back home."

Trying to postpone the discussion about their trial, Mimiru asked something that had been on her mind, "Subaru, how is everyone else, like Bear, Gardenia, and those orphans?"

"Everyone else is fine, I've talked to Bear and he says that Gardenia has already taken over as the children's care taker and have set about making repairs to the orphanage. Bear is helping them, as well as spending most of his time worrying about what is happening to her daughter. Mireille is also doing fine and if I'm correct, has already returned to the Slums in order to prepare to help you. The only one who was missing was Reki."

"And he is in the Slums with my daughter hopefully helping her with whatever he can." Sora then became slightly gloomy and added. "If anything happens to Hotaru it'll be on that brat's head."

Crim could only laugh at that last remark since it was exactly like the Sora he remembered and had liked to be around during his school days. After his laughter died away, the Knight realized just how much he had missed his old friends, especially his former best friend, Sora. Then he remembered just how he had left their last conversation and why he had joined the knights in the first place.

While the Red Thunder was thinking of his memories, Ouka was defending Reki, whom she had grown to like over the short amount of time she had spent with him. "Don't worry Sora, those kids have Helba behind them, nothing will hurt them, and the boys powers are strong, even if they are not special like Tsukasa's."

"Subaru," Kite interrupted. "Do you know what my bracelet is, or anything about Tsukasa's powers?"

"No, nothing like it has ever been seen before, nobody within the either Knights organizations and, if what I'm lead to believe is true, not even the Administrators have ever seen it."

"Hence the fact that those Admin. guys want both of us killed."

"And why Helba is so interested in meeting you." Sora added.

"Why would Helba want to meet with Kite and Tsukasa?" Black Rose asked.

"According to her," Balmung explained, "A darkness is about to descend upon our world, and your bracelet is one of the keys to stopping that darkness."

"If Helba needs the bracelet, then why did I receive it?"

Sora only glances at the ceiling, "Because that's how it was meant to be."

Ouka could only laugh and correct him. "Liar. You're just lazy." Even though Sora gave her a death glare, she only smiled and continued, "Sora was sent on a mission to receive the item himself, but decided to trick you into doing it for him. We didn't know what the item was that he was ordered to get, all she said was 'Go to the area and retrieve the item for me.' "

"How was I suppose to know that I had to retrieve the item myself?"

"If you had done you job properly, then none of this would have happened."

Subaru was quite amused to listen to the two outlaws argue, but she knew her time was short. "We must be going now, please know that we will do anything we can in order to free all of you."

After both Knight leaders left the room, the two guards both entered into the room again and resumed their watch. Everyone stays quiet until Balmung finally announces, "I'm going to take Tsukasa's lead and have some restful sleep. Please don't wake me."

The others all realized that they are just as tired as Balmung, all decided to rest as well. Everyone was thinking the same thing, 'Tsukasa's got the right idea, peaceful rest will do me some good.' Unfortunately, Tsukasa was having anything but peaceful rest.

His dreams were filled with things that he had never even heard of, wars between monsters and humans, four monsters which lead the lesser, one of those monsters being Skeith. A dark queen and a light king leading the humans, and a single Wave Master using powers that he had never heard of. As suddenly as the multiple images had attacked him, they stopped and he found himself floating within a room of light facing the powerful Wave Master he had had a vision of. The man was looking up at nothing and talking to air.

"Morgana, please, your time as watcher has come to an end at last. The others grew to hate the position you have, why won't you relinquish your power?"

Tsukasa thought the man was insane but then a female's voice came out of no where, "This is the power and position I have sought after my entire life, what makes you think I'd give up it up you old fool?"

"It will destroy you if you don't."

"FOOL." The force behind that one word sent power through out the room and slightly distorted the air in some places. "I control this power, it can not destroy me."

"You are the foolish one Morgana. It is impossible for any human to be the Watcher without being affected in some way. It is only a matter of time before your soul is crushed or you loose your mind to the power. You have already been a Demi-God for far longer then you should have."

"I AM THE GOD OF THIS WORLD WAVE MASTER. I choose the seasons, I control the earth, I decide who's fields are fertile, I command life and death. If that isn't godly, then what is?"

"You can die Morgana, that is the ultimate test of a God, you can die and you know I can make that happen."

"Not without my consent Herald, and that is something that I will not allow."

"It may take all my power and my life, but if you will not let another take your place then you will be forced to die. It may not happen within my lifetime, but you will fall. You will be sealed away, I will create my child, and she will be awakened."

Tsukasa had been treated indifferently until the strange man turned around and spoke directly to the teen. "Please, awaken my child and put an end to Her nightmare."

The man faded away taking the light with him, leaving Tsukasa stranded in an endless expanse of darkness, with only the female voice to taunt him. "Herald's wish will die with you and the twin blade." A loud note rang out all around Tsukasa, pushing on his mind and body, forcing him to fall to the ground while covering his ears to try and lessen the sound. "Your foolish Administrators will kill you and nothing will be left to threaten me." The sound only continued to get louder until the pain became too great and Tsukasa awoke from his sleep.

Despite the pain, he did not awake with a jerk nor did he move at all. He was about to get up when he herd Sora's voice, "You never did answer my question I asked so long ago. You act like the bravest hero ever yet you ran from my question and avoided answering it ever since." Tsukasa assumed the thief was taking to Ouka or Balmung about something trivial, but was proven wrong on both assumptions as well as being completely blown away by what he herd next. "So Crim, you never did say whether you loved me or not, even after I confessed first."

The Wave Master's mind froze on that last sentence, first wondering if he was dreaming. Tsukasa couldn't believe that someone like Sora could ever love a person like Crim, so he simply believed that he was having a bad dream (why he would have a dream like that he didn't know, but the thought accrued to him), but that notion dissolved when he pinched himself and didn't wake up.

The second notion, that he had heard wrong or that Sora was simply toying with him again, vanished when Crim spoke up to answer him, "I... I didn't really know what to answer. I was a little confused about how to answer..."

"You didn't seem confused when we spent the night to gather." Tsukasa was glad he was not facing the two speakers, since eyes were wide with shock. He knew he was hearing things that both adults didn't want anyone to know quite yet. "You also seem to really enjoy the kissing lessons you gave me."

"You had said those were to help you with the girl you liked."

"Correction, I said it was for my crush I never said anything about a girl. Even if I had been intending to be with some girl, you still seemed to enjoy them a little too much. The last session we had you didn't do any coaching, we just had one kiss for half an hour."

Tsukasa could feel the heat on Crim's face and knew the man was blushing like crazy. "Well... even if that is true, I didn't want to..."

"Don't make me laugh. You never did one thing to halt my advances and was getting into everything before we even had any cloths off. Please tell me that means you didn't want to do anything. Admit it, you don't want to be truthful about how you feel, that's why you ran off to join the Knights."

"And did you run off to join Helba when you didn't hear the reply you wanted?"

"I may have been hurt, but getting hurt like that wasn't enough to drive me into being a thief."

"The what did?"

Sora paused for a small amount of time and answered, "You answer my question and I'll answer yours." Crim began to walk away until Sora called out with another question. "If you won't answer that one, how 'bout this. Why did you come here so late at night?"

"I wanted to tell everyone that their trial would at noon tomorrow."

"At a time of night when everyone would be asleep? When most people wouldn't be able to hear your announcement? When you could watch people as they slept with peacefully?"

Tsukasa knew Sora had meant Crim had come to watch the thief sleep, and found that it was hard to deny the facts. Eventually, Tsukasa heard the Knight Leader leave and hoped that noon's trial would be less painful then his day and night was being.

-(TBC)-

A/N: musically Shonen-ai, shonen-ai, hur-ray for shonen-ai. /musically I've been planning on this for a while, and am stoked that I finally added in the whole shonen-ai (boy/boy love) part. I am a dedicated reader of boy/boy mangas and posses all current volumes of Gravitation and Eerie Queerie. Please inform me of other shonen-ai mangas you are aware of, even if they are doubly graphic novels (graphic novels containing graphic content) like Selfish Love and Kizuna: Bonds of Love.

Now, for the reviewers,

Sargent Snarky: Steal away as much as you desire. I have no problem with letting others creating their own reality fics, so steal/copy/use anything you'd like. I have none of this stuff copyrighted.

Kitedragon: Not the pictures... NOT THE PICTURES... NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I didn't say you could use that as a weapon of choice.

BH Syaoran: You're reviews are always welcome and please continue reading.

Steeple333: I've never thought you're criticism too harsh. I know everything won't be perfect, and I know that my spelling won't be perfect. I'm too lazy to go over everything multiple times to try and get everything completely perfect. Review away.

Wind Kaze: Don't try and threaten me with lines like, "That is how you make enimies." Talk about childish. And yes, it is a threat because it implies that I will make an enemy (please note that it is spelt enemy and not enimy guess you really have learned to "find your own mistakes") of you if I continue, or if not you then some other nameless, powerless bully. Let us not forget that an enemy by definition is, "a person who hates, opposes or fosters harmful designs against another; hostile opponent." So if I continue, you will begin to foster harmful designs against me because you are my enemy. Please explain to me how that isn't a threat. And so much harm you could do to me as well, like giving me a review of spam, or you could stop reading my fan fic sarcasm and that would be awful, ya know, it would be a damn shame. Really. /sarcasm

I also like the part where you say I'm rude for singling someone out like I did to you, meaning you think I was mean to you, and say it shows that I can't handle criticism. In the same sentence, you say that your review wasn't criticism, so does that mean that what you wrote can be labeled as "other" and that I didn't have a hard time accepting criticism but I had a hard time with your "other"? I'm just curious.

And lastly the whole, my fan fic doesn't involve "reality"... lets see, it is lables as a Fantasy story, its a fan fic based on story which doesn't really touch on reality (the whole mind gettin trapped in a computer is far fetched) and the online game is not reality either, I wonder if this fan fic is going to be about Tsukasa and Mimiru sitting at a Starbucks drinking coffee and talking about how the stocks were the day before? Would you like me to write a story like that? Would that be a good "reality" story for you? If you wanted to read a story like that, why did you read a Fantasy/Alternate Universe story (note that the first words on the summaryare Alternate Universe)? I'm confused.