Well folks here is chapter 2 this one deals with a few things like introducing Kazuto and Suguha's father and the beta test and launch I do hope you enjoy.
A/N 07/08/2021 Here is revised chapter 2
Legend. Regular text is for setting and dialog.
Bold text are for thoughts and A/N's
Bold in italics are for the giant GM avatars speaking.
"Italics are for dialog.
AS always, I do not own Sword Art Online Reki Kawahara does.
: Saturday May 28th, 2022, Kirigaya house 11:00 A.M.:
Kazuto was starting to wake up when he felt a weight on him, he looked over and saw Shino with her head resting on his chest and his arm around her.
He started to turn a little red at the sight when suddenly, he heard a voice.
"Well, what do we have here Kazuto I go to South Korea for a couple of months, and you get a girlfriend." The voice says.
Kazuto spins his head around and turns even brighter red. "Oto-San when did you return home?" he asked as he tried to slip out of bed without waking Shino but had no such luck.
She looked around and was still groggy and saw Kazuto and then the man standing in the doorway and then she realized that she slept in Kazuto's bed.
"Ohayō Shino." Kazuto said with a weak wave.
Shino started going back and forth looking at the man and then at Kazuto she then turned a bright read.
They suddenly heard a giggle coming from behind the man. "That was priceless Oni-Chan." He heard Sugu say.
Kazuto sighed. "Shino this is my father Kirigaya, Minetaka and Suguha I guess finds this amusing." Kazuto says.
Shino at this point had stood up and bowed to the man.
"It is very nice to meet you Kirigaya-San." She says to him.
He just laughs. "It is nice to see you again Shino, but you may call me Minetaka." He says placing a hand on her shoulder.
"And to answer your question Kazuto I got in early this morning I will be in Tokyo for the next month before I head back to Seoul to finish the undersea tunnel project." Minetaka said.
"Welcome home Oto-San it is good to see you again." Kazuto says as he smiles at his father.
"It is good to see you again Kazuto now why don't you and Shino get dressed we are going out for breakfast or lunch seeing as you slept most of the morning away." Their father stated as they bowed, and Shino headed for her now new bedroom.
The rest of the weekend was uneventful other than Sunday as they helped Shino move out of her apartment and into her new home with the Kirigaya's.
Sunday evening the teens were sitting eating as their parents were out for the night when Kazuto turned to Shino.
"Shino, I saw a couple of games on your computer when I was helping you set it up Ka-San says this new nerve gear coming out is top of the line and they are taking applications for the upcoming Beta test of the launch game Sword Art Online, I'm signing up want to join me or how about you Sugu." Kazuto asked.
Sugu just sighed. "Sorry Oni-Chan I got to keep up with Ken-do practice I don't have time for games." Sugu says.
He looks over at Shino awaiting her answer. "I guess I could try it out with you Kazuto-Kun." She speaks.
He smiles. "Ok I will sign us both up for the beta and hope we get picked." He says as she smiles at him and nods.
The next day is uneventful they all go to school at the end of the day Kazuto lets Shino know that he cannot walk home with her and Sugu as he is stuck tutoring another student again.
"That is fine Kazuto-Kun me and Sugu are going to a café after school to celebrate my first full week living with you guys, too bad you're going to miss out." Shino said with a small smile on her face.
Kazuto just shrugged and told them to be careful heading home.
About an hour later Sugu and Shino were sitting in the café enjoying ice cream treats and talking.
"So, Shino do you have a crush on Oni-Chan?" Sugu asked with a devious smile on her face.
Shino turned about 3 different shades of red. "Of course, not Sugu why would you think that?" Shino slightly stutters out.
Sugu starts to giggle. "You should see your face right now." Sugu said in between giggles.
"Don't worry Shino your secret is safe with me." Sugu says as Shino sighs a little.
The girls continue with their chatting rather enjoying themselves.
Shino calms down from her laughing fit and places her hands on Sugu's.
Arigatō Sugu for everything you and your family has done for me, for the last 4 years I have been so lonely thinking I had to get stronger alone, and now I see that I can get strong again with friends." Shino says.
Sugu blushes a little. "Not Friends Shino." Sugu starts to say which starts to cause Shino's heart to sink a little.
"Family we see you as part of our family I'm sure Oni-Chan told you about what our grandfather told him about family right." Sugu says this causes Shino's head to shoot up with a huge smile on her face.
"Yes, he did Arigatō Sugu." She says as Sugu returns her smile.
"Wow Asada-San you leave our old school and replace me so quickly." A male voice says.
This cause Shino to jerk her head around to the voice. "Shinkawa-San what, what are you doing here." She asked him.
"Me and my father are in town while Shouichi takes his high school entrance exams, he told me to go get him some coffee so here I am I was surprised to find you in here, who is your friend?" The small boy asks.
"Oh yes this is Kirigaya, Suguha, Sugu this is Shinkawa, Kyouji we used to go to school together he was one of the few that did treat me ok." Shino stated.
Shinkawa was a little taken aback. "Just ok Asada-San you wound me." He says with a small smile on his face.
Shino and Sugu giggle a little.
"Anyway, my father's coffee is ready I got to get going give me a call sometime Shino would love to catch up with ya." Shinkawa states.
She nods and he heads out.
After that the girls decide to head home.
"Shino you seemed a little bothered by the boy that came by earlier is everything ok?" Sugu asked.
"Yes, he just used to give me the creeps I swore he used to follow me home, but I could have been imagining it as well, can we not tell Kazuto about him or my worries." Shino says then asks.
Sugu nods.
: Wednesday June 22nd, 2022, 4:00 P.M.:
The three had returned home from school, with Kazuto and Shino being the most excited today was the day Argus sent out the emails on who got into the beta test and who did not.
So, as they got in Kazuto and Shino ran for their computers to check their emails.
Shino got to hers first she saw the Email and read it the best part of it was the message at the bottom.
It had said she was in, and the beta copy would arrive at the house on June 30, 2022, with the beta servers going live on July 01, 2022, at 1:00 P.M...
"Yes, perfect it will be during summer break." She said to herself as she was pumping her fist in the air.
She ran towards Kazuto's bedroom. "Kazuto-Kun I'm in I'm in!" She yells as she goes into his room and nearly faints.
Kazuto was sitting at his computer with no shirt on and he had turned around when she busted in. "That is great Shino so did I." He said as he got up, but Shino was standing there like she was frozen.
"Shino you, ok?" he asks.
Suddenly, he hears his sister yell at him. "Kami-Sama Oni-Chan you broke her go put a shirt on now!" Sugu yells at him.
Kazuto nods and tosses a shirt on as Sugu was talking with Shino.
The girls had gone down to the kitchen to start dinner and were talking as Kazuto came down the stairs.
"Shino, I have a question you told me your very uncomfortable around most men and some boys why were you not around Oni-Chan and my father?" Sugu asked.
Shino turned her head from the sink towards Sugu and noticed Kazuto out of the corner of her eye.
"Perfect now I can get revenge for him not having a shirt on." Shino thinks to herself with a devious smile on her face.
"To be honest when I first saw him when you guys rescued me in the alley, I thought he was a girl till you called him Oni-Chan." Shino said with a smile.
Sugu started laughing as they heard what sounded like someone tripping over something.
"What the hell I do not look like a girl!" Kazuto yelled as he was getting up off the floor.
By this time both girls were laughing so hard that they almost fell themselves.
"As for your father I already trusted everyone here that was easy." She said between laughs.
Kazuto just turned to leave the kitchen. "Whatever I hate you both." He says as he goes to walk away.
"No, you don't you love us both Kazuto-Kun." Shino said back turning a bit red.
Kazuto froze up for a second his face was so bright red you swear it was an apple.
He grunted at them and went and locked himself in his room for the night.
: June 30th, 2022, 4:30 P.M.:
Both Kazuto and Shino where excited their nerve gears had arrived and were waiting for them when they got home from school.
They both went to their rooms and followed the calibration instructions for the helmets and then did the rest of the hook ups so that everything would be ready at 1:00 P.M. tomorrow afternoon for them to try out the beta.
Later that night they were all eating dinner with Midori who was excited that she has the two of them in the beta, will give her an edge in reporting on the game.
"So, you two are going to tell me all about the game right so I can get it in my magazine?" Midori asked them.
"We will tell what we are allowed to say Ka-San it is a closed Beta." Kazuto said.
"You know Kazuto when I was a gamer the companies loved it when the beta testers told people about the game." Midori said.
Shino looked up at her. "Midori-San you used to be a gamer?" Shino asked.
"Yes Shino-Chan I played MMORPG's back in the mid to early 2000's I enjoyed them, and I still play one of them now from time to time it does not have the dominance it once had but it is still going strong." Midori said.
Shino just giggled.
They all finished dinner and went off to bed.
The next day both Shino and Kazuto were anxiously awaiting 1:00 for the beta servers to go live they were in their rooms with the nerve gear.
"A new world a place no one but Kazuto-Kun knows me in I can finally be strong and not the weak girl I am out here, Sugu thinks this might help me with my PTSD so one can hope right." Shino thought to herself as she placed the nerve gear on her head and laid back on her bed.
At exactly 1:00 Shino closed her eyes. "Link Start!" She yelled at the top of her lungs.
After a wash of different colors and the screen to make sure all the sense were calibrated correctly, she inputted her login info and came up to the character selection screen.
"Hmm I can have it randomly generate me an avatar of make one myself, well this is my chance to be someone else might as well customize myself." Shino thought to herself as she went through the options.
After about 5 minutes she had made herself an avatar she liked it was about 10 Cm taller, with her eyes and hair now blue but keeping her hairstyle slightly like her real one, she made her face a bit more rounded.
"Hmm now for a username well Kazuto told me his before we came in his is Kirito a play on his Surname and given name, I guess I will try Sinon." She thought to herself as she typed it out.
Once that was complete, she finished the log in and appeared in a small field in the center of the town of beginnings.
She looked around seeing if she could find Kirito.
A hand touched her shoulder which surprised her she spun around with an angry scowl on her face.
"Whoa Sinon calm down its me and by the way you don't need to scream link start just say it I think half of Tokyo heard you log in." Kirito stated with a smile on his face.
Sinon looked at him for a moment before she realized it was Kazuto and then she started laughing nonstop.
He looked at her with one eyebrow arched up. "What is so funny?" He asked her.
"I'm Sorry Kirito but your avatar please tell me you had it randomly pick it for you." She said between laughs.
He glared at her. "No, I made this myself what so bad about it." He said then asked
She looked at him still laughing.
"I mean you kind of look like a girl IRL but now you look like a swimsuit model." She said still laughing.
After a few minutes she realized that Kirito was still glaring at her, and she apologized to him for the comment.
"Anyway, Kirito how did you know where I would pop up at, I thought the spawns in the town for the first time were random?" She asked him.
He shook his head. "First you insult me then you act like my friend, did you not read the whole manual that came with the game, logins on the same IP will spawn right next to each other." He spoke.
She looked at him and stuck her tongue out at him. "No, I'm not your friend I am you best friend get it right." She stated happily.
"Jury is still out on that one Sinon." He spoke.
"Anyway, lets head to the merchants and get some weapons these start ones have next to no stats." Kirito says as she nods and follows behind him having no clue what she is doing.
After about a half hour they pick out their choice weapons Kirito a heavy one-handed sword and Sinon 2 daggers and some throwing picks.
"You know Kirito it stinks that there is no bows or anything at the beginning." She said as she was walking to a spawn point of boars to do some grinding.
"I don't even know you would want one, or too mainly use throwing picks they do not do much damage." He says.
"When I was younger, I was into archery, and I happen to want to play at a distance to be honest that would be a great asset to someone like you using a one hander with no shield to keep the enemies focus off of you." She said.
He looked at her. "For some one that has no experience with mmorpgs you seem to know a lot about the mechanics." He stated.
"Midori-San and I have been talking about older mmo's that she used to play, and she showed me the one she play's sometimes on that private server, it showed that people with ranged abilities were good at kiting mobs as she said and since this game has no magic that leaves archers." Sinon explains.
"Wait Ka-San still plays that game?" He asked.
She looked at him surprised. "Kirito, she told you that last night at dinner have you never seen her play it?" She asked him.
He shook his head.
"Well, I suggest you check it out later it looks fun, and its mechanics and graphics were at one point top of the line when it was out." Sinon explained.
"Wow you really dove into the history of rpgs and mmo's before coming here didn't you." He said to her.
She nodded. "Sometimes when I can't get to sleep at night, I like to read a lot of books so yeah I studied up on them." She said as they got to field with boars everywhere.
About 5 hours later they both logged out having gained 3 levels in that time.
For the next 2 months they played in the beta every day during summer break on the last day of the beta both Sinon and Kirito were walking back to the town of beginnings where the GMs were hosting a thank you party for the beta testers before the servers went down.
Kirito and Sinon had both made level 45 and got to the 8th floor, they were walking with a short girl that had whiskers on her face and mousy hair.
"So, Argo you going to be here on launch day?" Kirito asked her.
"Of course, Ki-Bo how else and I going to start making Cor if I'm not, by the way Sin-Chan that idea of making a beginners guide for the newbies on launch day is a great idea." Argo said using her nick names for the two.
"Sounds good Argo, it is going to be a long two months with us heading back to school while waiting for the launch." Sinon said.
"Hey at least we don't have to wait in line to get a copy being a beta-tester guarantee's us a copy for launch." Kirito said as they all smiled and nodded.
Sinon was the happiest though she found a quest to get a bow early in the game on floor 3 by doing a series of quests for dark elves.
They got to the main square in the town of beginnings and after about 5 minutes there are blue hexagons in the sky that stated a GM announcement.
A large figure in a blue cloak appeared in the sky.
"Thank you, testers, for all your hard work this last two months in 5 minutes the servers will shut down and we will spend the last two months before the launch to work out all glitch's and bug's we here at ARGUS look forward to seeing you all here on the launch date November 6th, 2022, at 1:00 P.M." The giant GM stated as the crowd below cheered.
: November 6th, 2022, 12:30 P.M. Kirigaya house:
"Oni-Chan, Shino I'm off to practice don't get lost in your new world." Sugu called out.
Shino giggled at the comment and waved bye to her, but Kazuto was upstairs watching stream vids of the launch and the release day of the hard copy on Halloween.
About a half hour later the two of them decided to dive in Kazuto's room for the first time and as the time hit 1:00 P.M. they both called out link start and were launched into the world of Aincrad.
They both popped up in the main square having reused there beta avatars.
"Ah to be back here again eh Sinon." Kirito said to her she just nodded.
After a little bit they both got there starting weapons and started to head out to the field but were stopped by a man with long red hair.
"Hey, were you two in the beta?" he asked them.
"Yeah, we were." Kirito answered for them both as Sinon still a little shy around men was under her cloak and standing behind Kirito.
"Yeah, this might sound silly but I'm new to this game, and I was wondering if you guys could help me out and teach me the basics?" he said.
They looked at each other and Sinon nodded yeah to Kirito.
"Sure, I'm Kirito and this is Sinon." Kirito said as Sinon walked out from behind Kirito and removed her hood.
The man now noticing it is a girl just freezes up.
"Hey, you ok are you lagging?" Kirito asked as he waved his hand in front of the man.
Suddenly, he bowed and stuck his hand out to Sinon. "Hi, I'm Klein I'm 22 single and looking for a girlfriend!" He shouted out which caused them both to jump back a bit.
Kirito started giggling at what just happened as Sinon turned bright red. "Um yeah I'm 13." She says.
Klein stumbles back and bows again. "Oh my god I am so sorry I really got to filter that and stop flirting with every girl I see, I take it you don't want to help me out now, I mean I kind of did act like a creep." Klein said looking a little dejected.
Sinon was the first one to respond wanting to be a stronger person in here to help her in the real world just smiled.
"It is ok the fact that you immediately apologized shows me you're a decent guy and it is partially my fault I did make my avatar to look older no harm down how about we go kill some mobs." Sinon says.
She smiles feeling a lot better had that been the real world even with Kazuto with her she would have had a mild panic attack, the fact she found humor in what had just happened gave her some happiness, that and she honestly felt that this Klein guy was a good person.
After about 3 hours of them teaching Klein how to use the sword skills and such they were sitting down on the grass.
"This world is unreal I can't believe this is virtual reality it feels so real." Klein says.
"Yeah, that is what we thought when we first got here it's a place where you can be someone other than yourself and not have any worries." Kirito says as Klein smiles and nods.
He looks at the time and see's that it is 5:20 he jumps up. "Hey Kirito Sinon thanks a lot for all the help I owe you guys big time for this I will pay you back for all your help, but I got to get going I got a pizza coming at 5:30." Klein says.
"Wow someone is prepared for today." Sinon says.
"Yeah, hey can I add you guys to my friend list just in case we want to party up sometime?" Klein asks.
Kirito and Sinon look at each other and nod as they add him, he then goes and turns around to log out and then is just standing there.
Kirito seeing him not moving for a few seconds makes a joke. "Hey Klein, you ok, or you see another cute girl?" Kirito asks him.
"Um ok one more noob question where is the logout button?" he asked.
Both Kirito and Sinon just deadpan at this. "I thought you said you were a gamer?" Sinon asked.
"No, he is right Sinon there is no log out button at all." Kirito says with his menu open as well.
"Well, it is launch day there was bound to be some bugs to work out try calling a gm Klein." Kirito said.
"I did there was no answer." Klein stated.
As they were looking at here menus and then at each other there was a flash of blue light as they suddenly found themselves back in the main square of the town of beginnings.
They all looked around not understanding what was going on as suddenly there were red hexagons forming in the sky that said warning system announcement.
As they covered the whole sky what looked like blood was oozing out of the spaces in between, the sight of this started to cause Sinon to go into a panic attack, Kirito picked up on this right away and placed his arms around her to comfort her.
"Shino it's ok it's not real I am here I will not let anything happen to you." He whispered into her ear which caused her to calm down a bit, Klein did notice this but said nothing about it.
After a couple of minutes, the blood turned into a giant red robed GM avatar.
"Greetings players of SAO and welcome to my world I am Kayaba, Akihiko the creator of the Nerve Gear and Sword Art Online." The voice boomed out.
"You may have noticed that the logout button is not in the menu, this is not a defect I repeat this is not a defect this is one of the main features of SAO, there is now no way for you to log out of the game and if anyone tries to remove your Nerve gear outside the microwave transmitter will emit a pulse that will heat your brain to a temperature exceeding 42.5 degrees Celsius, in laymen's terms it will cook your brain." The voice boomed out as the crowd below started to tense up at his.
"Also, I should let you know as of this moment there is no way to respawn if your hit points hit zero and you cannot be revived if you die in here the cardinal system will send a signal to your Nerve gear to activate the kill command and cook your brain killing you. " Kayaba explained.
"Now while player who up till this moment that dies in game due to player killing or dying to spawns have respawned, they cannot anymore, and while I did give ample warning to all of Japan that removing the Nerve gear would kill their loved ones, they decided to call my bluff, so as of now there are 271 less players both here and in the real world." He boomed as he flashed several browser windows showing the dead and that all of Japan knew what was going on.
However, one screen caught both Kirito and Sinon by surprise it was Midori comforting Suguha outside their house while EMT's were there for Kazuto and Shino.
"Now I have informed the authorities that the Nerve Gear will still function on its battery for 5 hours and that the kill order will not activate as long as the nerve gear stays on your heads and you are connected to at least a cellular internet signal while they transport you to hospitals, I did that so you will not have to worry about your real bodies while you focus on clearing the game." Kayaba explained.
"What do you mean clear the game you just said you trapped us in here to basically die for your amusement!" One guy shouted out.
"That is actually not true there is a way to log out of the game all you have to do is clear all 100 floors as of right now you are on floor 1 clear the main dungeon on the floor you move to the next one and so on and so forth, now some of you might be wondering why I did this." He said.
"I wanted to be a god of my own world and here we are and as a parting gift before I leave you all to begin clearing the game, I left you something in your inventories." He said as everyone opened there inventories to see what it was.
"A mirror?" Kirito whispered.
As he did, he was enveloped by the same blue light as when they were teleported there, when the light cleared Kirito saw he had shrunk a little and looked like his real self he looked over and saw Shino who was now pale as a ghost.
"Kirito, Sinon is that you guys?" Klein asked them.
They looked over to where the man who was speaking was standing. "Klein?" Kirito asked.
He looked scruffy his hair while still spiky was shorter and a reddish brown.
"Yeah man what the hell happened?" he asked.
Kirito did not know how to answer that question.
"Now payers this is your new world you might as well be your real selves, I now bid you farewell and wish you luck in your fight against Aincrad." Kayaba said before vanishing.
People were panicking, and Kazuto noticed Shino was having trouble breathing he grabbed her and Klein and pulled them away.
They got to an alleyway. "Listen as with most MMO's the starter zone is going to get hunted out quickly we need to get to the next town quickly." Kirito explained as Sinon nodded still trying to absorb being stuck in the game now.
"Hey Kirito listen thank you for all your help, but I got friends still in the sq we had been planning to play with each other and forming a guild I can't leave them, and I doubt you want to be weighed down by 6 more people I will take what you taught me and teach them." Klein said.
Kirito just nodded and started to head out when Klein stopped him for a moment.
"Hey by the way you two you both look ten times better as yourselves thought I would let you know." Klein says Sinon blushes a little and Kirito gives him a thumbs up sign.
"Hey Klein that scruffy look suits you far better too." Kirito says as he and Sinon start running to the next town.
"Come on Shino lets go." He says as she runs with him, she sees him draw his sword.
"I will succeed I will not this world claim me of Shino I will get her out." He thought to himself as he activated a sword skill and killed the wolf that had spawned in front of them.
Shino was right behind him trying to hold herself together.
: 4 hours later a room in an inn in the next village.:
Shino and Kazuto rented a room with the Cor they earned grinding on their way there, though they did not have much, so the room only had one bed.
"Shino take the bed I will take the floor and tomorrow we will head out so I can do the quest for the Anneal blade." Kazuto said.
Shino who was still pale from everything that happened today looked over towards Kazuto.
"Kazuto-Kun could you please sleep in the bed with me I am so frightened right now." She asked him with tears in her eyes.
He saw this and went to comfort his friend like he did when she would have a panic attack or a nightmare.
He wrapped her in his arms.
She buried her face in his chest. "I am so scared Kazuto what if something happens to one of us, are we going to make it out of here?" She said.
He rubbed her back. "Shh it is alright Shino we will make it out of here I will protect you and you are a strong girl so I know you will protect me too." He said as she kept crying into his chest.
He helped her into the bed never letting her go till they both fell asleep.
: December 4th, 2022, a cave dungeon outside of the third village floor 1:
Kirito and Sinon were grinding in the dungeon the last month had been hard they got the quest Kirito needed for his sword but were almost killed by a kid named Coper who tried to monster PK them, though they survived he did not.
"Ok that is the last one in this area how are you doing over there Shino?" He asked they had taken to using their real names when it was just the two of them.
Shino had just finished off a mob with her dagger. "I am doing ok but I will have to resupply with throwing picks when we get back to town." She said wiped her arm across her forehead.
They were about to leave when they heard a girl cry out and they ran towards the voice.
When they got there, they saw a girl still in mostly starter armor who was surrounded by mobs and her hit points were low.
Kirito not even thinking ran in to assist her as Sinon started throwing picks at the mobs.
"I don't need your help." The girl said as she was uneasy on her feet.
Both Kirito and Sinon ignored her when she said that after they defeated all the mobs they turned to the girl.
She was just slightly taller than Sinon but had chestnut colored hair she swayed a bit but then fell to the floor.
They helped her up and Sinon carried her out of the dungeon and laid her down on the grass outside and they both took turns watching over her as she rested.
When she awoke, she sat up startled she then glared at the other 2.
"Why did you not just leave me there?" She growled at them.
"Hey, you might want to die but two things you have map data of that dungeon we could use seeing as you have been in there for a while, also I'm not going to stand by and watch someone just kill themselves because they are afraid of this place." Kirito explained.
"I was not trying to kill myself but if I die while fighting at least it is better than sitting back in the starter town wasting away while waiting for the game to be cleared, and I doubt that can happen we have been on this floor a month and a lot of people are dead already." She stated still angry.
"So, I don't think we can clear this game." She said again.
Sinon jumped up and glared at her. "There are a lot of people who disagree with that assessment, and you seem like your good with a sword we could use someone like you, you are no use to anyone dead." Sinon said.
The girl just grunted when a new voice entered.
Argo had jumped down on the branch she was sitting on. "You know fencer-San Ki-Bo and Sin-Chan are right, by the way Ki-Bo the number is almost 2000 dead since launch." Argo said.
Kirito shook his head. "2000 dead we can't keep losing that many like this." Kirito said.
"I agree though there is a small group trying to blame the beta tester." Argo said which caused all three of them to shake their heads.
"Anyway rapier-San we are heading back to the village there will be a group meeting tomorrow to figure out how to clear this floor at least you should attend it will be at 12:00 P.M." Kirito said.
She nodded and then said she would be there, she then asked how to get back to town.
"Hey Ki-Bo Sin-Chan, I will take her with me since I am heading back to get an updated manual out." Argo said as she lead the girl away.
Kirito looked over at Sinon and they headed back to the inn to eat then rest up for the next day.
After they ate, they were in there room like most nights when Shino felt scared Kazuto shared the bed with her to comfort her.
While they laid down Shino looked Kazuto in the eyes.
"Kazuto-Kun you think that girl will survive?" She asked him.
"I hope so Shino she is a strong fighter from the looks of it I would hate to lose someone like here I guess we will find out at the meeting tomorrow." He said as Shino just nodded.
"Arigatō Kazuto-Kun." Shino said to him.
He looked confused. "For what?" He asked.
"For being my friend and for being there for me through my problems." She said as she nestled into what she has called her security blanket, Kazuto's warmth seemed to always calm her.
As she fell asleep Kazuto stroked the side of her face. "For you Shino I would do anything for you, I think I am falling for you, and I would change nothing." He thought to himself as he kissed her forehead thinking she was fully asleep till he drifted off himself.
Shino smiled having felt the kiss. "Arigatō Kazuto-Kun I do love you I know that now." She thought to herself as she drifted back off to sleep nuzzled closer to him.
Well, here we are at the end of two chapters next chapter will have the meeting and the first-floor boss fight, as always please read and review I love reviews.
Until next chapter catch ya on the flip side.