Hey. So Guest, you don't know what UBW is?! Its Unlimited Blade Works... Google it up.

To Guest-questioner, if you remember in the Chunnin Exams, Asuna, Suguha and Sinon's respective sage modes are their ALO forms.

And yes, everything before the events of this story is mostly the same. The history of the Elemental Nations are the same, except that at some point before the Third Ninja War, there was contact between the Elemental Nations and the Underworld. But I'm just gonna leave that for now.

On a side note, turns out SAO S3 is split into 4 subseasons, with 13 eps per subseason on average. Which means around 50 episodes for sao season 3... IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER, SO WHO'S HYPED FOR THAT?!

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In the forest, after Suguha stayed back to fight Jirobo, the other three continued chasing after the remaining Sound 4.

As they closed in, Sakon cursed, "Shit, so they left one behind to deal with Jirobo."

The man looked at the barrel he was carrying, "Sasuke still needs some time before the mark finishes the process."

Kidomaru nodded, "They'll catch up soon, I'll stay back and hold them off, probably just one of them though."

Tayuya huffed, "What? Can't handle a bunch of weaklings?"

Sakon shook his head, "No, he's right. Jirobo is easily the physically strongest one of us four, but three of them still caught up. It'll probably be the best for us to split them up and kill them. It'll also allow Sasuke to wake up."

Kidomaru nodded, "Then, I'll stay back this time."

Sakon and Tayuya nodded as they continued forward. Kidomaru landed on a branch before he hid in a tree, 'Now, let's see if I can pick them off one by one.'

Back in Konoha, in Tsunade's office, the woman sighed as she worked away with her paper work. Tsunade thought, 'Why do I have a bad feeling?'

Ever since the Hokage sent her goddaughter to gather a team to retrieve Sasuke, the Sannin couldn't help but feel that something will go wrong, after all it was Orochimaru they were dealing with.

The woman sighed before she summoned a messenger hawk and quickly wrote a message and sent it towards Sunagakure, completely unaware of the red and black blur in the sky that shot off from the village gates, and the small crow that followed after him.

Back with Hikari, Asuna and Sinon, the three girls were chasing after the Sound ninja. Then as they hopped past another branch, Sinon spotted an arrow heading straight for her.

The brunette drew her bow and smacked the arrow away before shooting her own arrow at the direction, revealing Kidomaru holding his bow, staring down at them as they leaped through the trees.

Sinon spoke, "Hikari-chan, Asuna-chan, you two go on ahead. I'll deal with him."

Kidomaru just stared at the brown haired girl as the two other girls left. Sinon asked, "Hey, are you sure you don't wanna stop them?"

Kidomaru smirked arrogantly, "No, Sakon and Tayuya can easily handle them. But are you sure you don't need help?"

Sinon grinned, "Not really, besides, its not everyday I can face a fellow archer."

Kidomaru laughed, "True, but tree huggers like you, CAN NEVER BEAT THIS KIDOMARU-SAMA!"

The six armed man fired three arrows as Sinon leaped up, flipping over as she shot two arrows at Kidomaru.

Kidomaru jumped away to dodge the arrows. Then as soon as the two of them landed on a branch each, they nocked an arrow and shot it at each other.

The two arrows barely brushed by each other before they sped towards their respective targets. Sinon rolled to the side to dodge the arrow, while Kidomaru tilted his body to avoid the arrow.

But unfortunately for the man, due to his six arms, the arrow pierced one of his left arm. Kidomaru just growled as he quickly pulled the arrow out and jumped up to dodge another arrow from Sinon.

The man landed and quickly shot an arrow at the girl, forcing her to leap away before she could fire another arrow.

Kidomaru thought, 'I hate to admit it, but she's good. If her teammates are as good as she is, then I think the others will probably have a hard time. Time to take it to the next stage then.'

The man dodged an arrow and hid behind a tree. Kidomaru decided in not taking any chances and went straight into stage two.

But as soon as he did, the six armed man's heightened senses went full alert, and he jumped up just to avoid an arrow piercing through the tree, where his heart was just moments ago.

He caught a glimpse of the arrow and noticed it had a green glow at the tip and thought, 'Fucking wind chakra enhanced arrows, great.'

The man landed on another branch to plan his next move.

Meanwhile, with Sinon, the girl had sensed the burst of foul chakra. That was how she knew where Kidomaru was, it was incredibly similar to Sasuke's cursed mark, so it meant the man had something similar.

The female archer thought, 'Maybe I should use sage mode.'

The girl jumped away to dodge three arrows that embedded themselves into the ground before Sinon hid behind a tree, quickly focusing as she gathered nature chakra into her body.

Her hair turned light blue as two light blue cat ears sprouted out of her head. Her eyes turned to the same shade of her hair as the girl entered her sage mode.

Sinon used her enhanced senses and easily located Kidomaru and shot a lightning chakra enhanced arrow at his direction.

Unlike the wind enhanced arrow, the lightning enhanced arrow was faster and had higher piercing power.

Kidomaru sensed it coming and leaped out into the opening, but the arrow was too fast and pierced through his hurt arm.

The man grunted in pain and leaped out into the opening, ignoring the pain of losing his middle right arm and aimed an arrow at the cat girl, who did the same.

Both of them stopped moving as they waited, watching for any openings. Kidomaru let his arrow loose and jumped up, and Sinon shot her arrow slightly upwards before she jumped away to dodge his arrow.

Kidomaru gritted his fangs as he swatted the arrow away with his bow. With Sinon's arrows, he couldn't use his normal tactics in setting up a web and snipe his enemies off.

Kidomaru thought, 'Fuck it, I'll summon Kyodaigumo.'

He landed on one of the trees and flashed through handseals before he slammed his palm onto the tree, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

Cloud surrounded the area, and Sinon was surprised to see Kidomaru standing on top, or rather, under a giant tarantula, upside down, with a huge spider web on the trees above her.

Sinon thought, 'Spiders... Come to think of it, his six arms do make him look like a man spider...'

Kidomaru smirked down at her, "What do you think? Do you think you can win now?"

Sinon smirked and bit her thumb, "You think you're the only one with summons?"

Kidomaru's eyes widened as Sinon went through a set of seals and slammed her palm onto the ground, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

In a cloud of smoke, a huge white cat the size of a rhino appeared. The cat nodded at Sinon, quickly noticing the giant spider and the demonic archer above them, "So, they are the enemy?"

Sinon nodded, "Yes, Shirone-san, please lend me your strength."

The cat grinned, "Of course."

Kidomaru tch'd before he nocked three arrows, enhancing them with his golden webbings, "DIE!"

The man spider released the arrows, the projectiles flying at Sinon at speeds that would require a doujutsu to track. Fortunately, Sinon didn't need to.

In an instant, Shirone was in front of her, the three arrows on the ground. The white cat wasn't the strongest of the cat summons, but she prided herself in being one of the faster and stronger cats among her tribe.

Kidomaru was surprised. The arrows he shot, were calibrated to have the fastest speed and aim he could manage, and the cat had stopped them easily.

But Sinon wasn't about to just let him stay surprised unharmed, unsurprisingly. The girl had already nocked five arrows on her bow, and she channeled chakra into them, activating a technique she had been practicing for quite a while.

The technique was based on the kunai homing technique, which wasn't used that much in the real world due to its flaws of needing time to lock onto its target and because it relied on the users' ability to keep track of the target's chakra. The original technique also wasn't practical, as even though it was called a homing technique, it just made the projectile sway slightly to follow the target.

But Sinon had fixed that. To do this, she had increased her chakra control and chakra sensory skills to the best she could, which, with the help of her cat summons, wasn't too hard. Then, fortunately, Kirito had also ordered custom made arrows with tips made of chakra metal from Tetsu no Kuni, Sinon could infuse precise amount of chakra for the technique, which allowed her to home in onto her targets easily.

The girl released her arrows, and Kidomaru willed the Kyodaigumo to jump away, spitting another set of webs on several trees some distance away.

But to the man's surprise, the arrows that were supposed to miss him, and hit the trees, suddenly turned towards him. Kidomaru jumped up from the Kyodaigumo, which was in midair, to dodge the incoming arrows.

But again, the arrows turned and chased after him. Kidomaru yelped and spat out a string of webbing and swung himself away, but the arrows just continued following hin.

As the man tried to, but was failing to, outrun the arrows, Sinon and Shirone acted. The girl in sage mode repeatedly shot arrows at the Kyodaigumo while the cat pounced.

The spider could barely block the arrows before Shirone landed on its back and sinked her claws into the spider's eyes. The spider roared in pain and flailed around wildly in an attempt to attack the cat.

But Shirone wasn't a cat for no reason. The cat easily jumped away and landed beside Sinon. She nodded to Sinon as the archer jumped onto the cat and nocked an arrow, charging all the chakra she could without having the arrow break.

Shirone opened her mouth and gathered chakra in it, forming a sphere of condensed chakra. Then the two fired their attacks at the now blinded spider.

The Kyodaigumo never saw the attack coming as it ripped the spider to shreds, killing it before it returned to its realm.

Kidomaru saw this, and yelled in anger. But that provided the distraction the arrows needed to pierce the man in the arms, more specifically the joints, rendering the remaining five of his arms useless.

The man screamed in pain as he dropped to the floor. He painfully flipped over and stood up before he tried to escape. Unfortunately for Kidomaru, Sinon and Shirone had already spotted him before he could even make it past a meter.

With his main weapon, summon and arms useless, Kidomaru knew he was screwed. His taijutsu was fine, but with Sinon's arrows and the huge cat, he doubt, even in his stage two form, he could take on a Sage mode Sinon and the cat.

However, Sinon and Shirone weren't giving him the chance to check if his theory was wrong. Immediately, Sinon nocked at arrow and shot through his head, killing the man instantly as Kidomaru dropped to the ground dead.

Sinon let out a breath as she stared at the lifeless face of her fellow archer, "Well, that's done."

The girl let all the nature chakra leave her body, reverting her hair to the normal shade of dark brown as her cat ears shrunk to nothing.

Shirone nodded, "So, do you still need me?"

Sinon shook her head, "No, thanks for the help, Shirone-san."

The cat nodded before she returned to her realm. The girl sighed before she thought, 'Should I wait for Suguha-chan? Or should I go on ahead and chase after Asuna-chan and Hikari-chan?'

The girl stood there for a while before she decided to wait, just in case Jirobo won, which she really doubted would happen.

Meanwhile, with the remaining Sound ninja who were carrying Sasuke's barrel, Sakon cursed, "Dammit, they'll catch up soon."

Tayuya tch'd, "Fuck this. Sakon, you can at least handle one of them, right? I'll hold back another one, you bring the Uchiha as far as you can and kill off whichever bitch you get."

Sakon nodded, "Very well, Sasuke should wake up soon though, so we just have to hold them off until then."

Tayuya nodded as she split off from their original path, preparing to face whichever of the two girls.

Back with Hikari and Asuna, the auburn haired girl spoke, "Hikari-chan, I think they'll probably split off and have one to fight us. I'll stay back, so you go on ahead to get Sasuke."

The Uzumaki sighed, "Fine."

Asuna nodded, "I'll meet up with you after I'm done."

Hikari nodded before they spotted Tayuya in a distance. Asuna landed in front of the dark pink haired girl as Hikari dashed past the Sound ninja.

Asuna asked, "You're not gonna stop her?"

Tayuya smirked, "Hmph, that shithead Sakon is more than enough for that little bitch, just as I am more than enough for you."

Asuna nodded and drew her rapier. Tayuya's smirked vanished as she went into a taijutsu stance.

Then they both charged. Asuna thrust her Lambant Light forward, aiming for Tayuya's chest. But the Oto kunoichi swiftly leaned to a side, dodging the attack as she spun and sent a kick at the auburn haired girl.

If Asuna was the girl a year ago, the momentum of her thrust would have left her vulnerable to the kick, but that wasn't the case now. Using her momentum as she fell forward, the girl pushed her left arm onto the ground and flipped over as she spun her legs, not only dodging Tayuya's kick but also kicking the dark pink haired girl away into a tree.

Tayuya growled as she quickly got up, "You fucking bitch."

Asuna didn't reply as she regained her footing before charging forward again. This time instead of just charging straight in, Asuna jumped up and spun, coming down with a thrust with her rapier.

Tayuya cursed as she tried to dodge again, but she wasn't fast enough and the blade pierced through her right shoulder. The girl growled in pain before Asuna pulled the blade out and kicked her off the tree onto the ground.

Tayuya cursed as she painfully got up and dodged a kick from Asuna. The Oto kunoichi thought, 'Fuck this, this bitch is strong. I can't hold back anymore.'

The girl reached behind to her waist and pulled out a flute as Asuna charged Tayuya, thrusting her sword forward.

Tayuya quickly leaned to a side and used her flute to block the attack, "To make me bring my flute out, you're a sick bitch, aren't you?"

Asuna didn't reply as she pulled away and spun, sending another kick at Tayuya. The Oto kunoichi ducked to dodge the attack before she used her flute to smack Asuna, sending her stumbling several steps away.

Tayuya tried to push on with her attacks, charging and swinging her flute at Asuna. However, Asuna was fast to recover and blocked the attack, kicking the flutist away.

Asuna frowned and glared at the pink haired kunoichi. Tayuya let out a breath and thought, 'At this rate, we won't get anywhere. My stamina isn't that good too, I don't think I can last longer than she can.'

Tayuya thought, 'Genjutsu is probably pointless, if what I sense about the bitch is right, then I'll just be wasting chakra. I guess I can only rely on my Doki.'

The girl flashed through handseals and slammed her palm on the ground, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

In an instant, three huge figures appeared, and Asuna stared in surprised at the humanoid creatures.

Tayuya smirked, "These are my personal summons, the Doki."

The Oto kunoichi pulled her flute to her lips, then she started to play. In an instant, Asuna, who was on the tree, found all three Doki summons surrounding her.

The rapier user cursed as Tayuya willed the three summons to charged. Asuna leaped away and barely avoided the attacks which shattered the tree she was standing on.

As soon as Asuna landed on another branch, she continued to leap away as she sheathed her sword and bit her thumb before going through a set of handseals.

Asuna then landed on a branch and slammed her palm on the branch, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

In a huge cloud of smoke, a huge jaw came out and bit one of Tayuya's three Doki and flung it away into a tree.

Tayuya gaped in shock as the cloud dispersed to reveal a huge killer whale, easily twice the size of her Doki, floating in the air.

Asuna greeted the whale, "Trident-san."

The orca nodded to his summoner, "Hikari, its been a while. So, these are our enemies?"

Asuna nodded, "Yes, please lend me your power."

Trident nodded, "Of course."

Tayuya tch'd and played another tune, commanding the three Doki to charged the floating whale. Trident immediately reacted and dodged the attacks before he opened his jaw, biting one of the Doki and began to swing it around and around, slamming into the other two demonic summons before he sent the Doki at Tayuya.

The pink haired girl cursed and leaped up, dodging her summon. But before she could land, Asuna appeared in front of her, rapier poised to strike.

Tayuya cursed as the auburn haired girl stabbed her rapier into Tayuya's shoulder again, causing the the dark pink haired girl to grit her teeth in pain.

As they fell, Tayuya painfully kicked Asuna away as she crashed onto the ground. The Oto kunoichi cursed, her supposed advantage of using her Doki was useless with Asuna's orca summon.

Tayuya thought, 'Fucking piece of shit, I have to use my cursed mark.'

The Oto kunoichi quickly got up and activated her cursed mark, forcing it to go all the way to the second stage in the shortest time she could manage.

Asuna watched in surprise as her enemy grew horns, her skin turning dark brown as Tayuya exerted a very dark chakra. The other thing Asuna noticed was that the chakra Tayuya let out felt both like Orochimaru and nature chakra.

That alone told the girl that Tayuya was using something that wasn't to be trifled with. The auburn haired girl decided not to take any chances and quickly channeled nature chakra into her body.

Her hair then turned to a light shade of blue, the same with her eyes, the aura around her also changed, letting out a feeling of serenity. Trident watched with pride as his summoner activated the sage mode he and his brethen helped her to learn.

The Doki around them also seemed to sense Asuna's power and seemed to whimper silently, obviously afraid of her strength.

Tayuya was also shocked. Moments ago, Tayuya and Asuna were almost equal. But now, Tayuya felt like she was a lake compared to the vast ocean.

Tayuya took a breath and quickly played her flute, commanding her three Doki to charge at Asuna.

The now blue haired girl nodded at her summon. Trident complied and quickly charged the three Doki, shooting a thin immensely pressurized jet of water at them.

The results were instant, as the three Doki were cut in half by the water jet. Tayuya could barely repress her shock as her prized summons were all killed instantly by the orca.

But Asuna wasn't going to let the Oto kunoichi grieve for her summons, quickly charging, Asuna thrust her rapier at Tayuya.

The cursed mark user cursed and used her flute to block the attack. Unfortunately for her, Asuna didn't just attack normally, instead, the girl had chanelled wind chakra into her blade, increasing its sharpness.

The blade easily sliced through the flute, breaking it in half as it charged straight for Tayuya's heart. Only due to Tayuya's instincts, did she manage to avoid a fatal blow, the sword piercing her other shoulder.

The only kunoichi of the Sound Four gritted in pain as she tried to stab the sharp end of her broken flute into Asuna's eyes. But the blue haired sage saw the attack coming from a mile. Asuna tilted her head, allowing the broken flute to pass by her head before she drew a kunai and stabbed it into Tayuya's chest.

The dark skinned girl's eyes widened in shock as Asuna quickly pulled back and spun, slicing her head off with the edge of her rapier.

The blue haired girl let out a breath as the Oto kunoichi fell to the ground, dead and headless. Asuna turned to Trident was watching with approval in his eyes.

The orca spoke, "Well done, Asuna. So, is there anything else?"

The girl shook her head, "No, thanks for the help, Trident."

Trident chuckled, "Of course, but given time, you would have dispatched of them anyways."

Asuna smiled softly, "Maybe, but we're kinda in a rush."

The whale nodded, "I see, then I wish you luck in your mission, Asuna."

The whale vanished in a puff of smoke and Asuna released her sage mode as she turned to chase after Hikari. But before she could, she heard Suguha's voice, "Asuna-chan!"

The girl turned to see Suguha and Sinon landing in front of her. Asuna spoke, "You girls done?"

Sinon nodded, "Yeah, you too. Where's Hikari-chan and Sasuke?"

Asuna turned to where they were headed, "Probably that direction. I can sense Hikari-chan's chakra in that direction."

Suguha nodded, "Then we need to hurry. I mean they may have reinforcements."

Asuna and Sinon both nodded before they quickly continued the chase.

Meanwhile, Kirito was flying through the forest, passing by the area where Suguha had killed Jirobo. The blacksmith thought, 'That's one the bastards who put up that barrier, the girls must have killed him. I need to hurry, I can't let Orochimaru get them!'

The flying teen didn't stop anx continued flying. In another location, Itachi sighed as he watched Kirito through the crow, 'He's letting his emotions get the better of him, I have to make sure his powers don't awaken yet, its too early for that.'

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Done. So that's it for this chapter. The next chapter will be Hikari vs Sakon/Ukon. By the way, since they are all around 16 to 17 now, I'm thinking of making the time skip for the training to be only one year. Then I'll start the Shippuden/SAO arcs.

What do you guys think? Review please.