; wow I wonder who's the first one of you guys who's going to kill me! It's been so long because of school :first year of high school: that I haven't updated any of my fanfics! Well the first one I'm updating is this one::nods: yup I like this one and figured I'd update it first then head to the new ones! It's new years eve so consider this a late Christmas gift and a new years gift to! YAY! Also thank Kuiya who without her, this story still wouldn't be updated! Plus…I've decided to also add a bigger story into the love story thing. You'll see. It's my own idea and I hope I don't get sued lol j/k. lol enjoy everyone! Oh the song is Aura from you guessed it .hack/sign!

Ch,4: Data Drain

Bear looked up at BT and sighed.

"The monster is attacking random players again. If this keeps up I don't know what will happen." BT turned away from the flower she had been looking at in the field and looked to Bear.

"Well. I doubt the administrators will shut "The World" down. They've never done it before so why now?" Bear let out another sigh.

"I'm worried because in all of the cases, but one have all the players that have been attacked. They have all seemed to go into a coma. The only player that hasn't seemed to be effected is Silver knight." Bt smiled a bit.

"Hmm…" Bear also smiled seeing the look on her face.

"You have an idea?" Bt nodded.

"Yes. Some what. What if this monster character is actually something the administrators made for the game? A monster so challenging that not even the crimson knights could beat it?" Bear stayed quiet a few moments thinking and a bit stunned at the answer, then said.

"Yes, but I'd like to think that the administrators would of told the crimson knights or at least Lady Subaru about the it." Bt's smile widened.

"Not if they want everyone to turn against the knights." Bear blinked.

"Why would the administrators want to turn the players against the Crimson Knights?" Bt leaned up against one of the trees still smiling.

"Think about it. Most players fear the Crimson Knights more then they fear even the creators of the game. They're more afraid of the Crimson Knights coming after they characters, then the administrators coming to there front door and arresting them. What if the Administrators wanted some of that fear back?"

Bear took in the information and thought about it for a minute.

"Well. That is a good thought. But even if that is the truth. It still wouldn't make sense. Why go through all that trouble and how could they possibly put people into coma's by simply using magic in a game? Besides. Even if that was the case. And they did manage to put people into coma's why? They'll lose a lot of players if they keep it up. Sooner or later someone will link "The World" and the coma's together." BT nodded.

"Yes. I've thought of that already. What if this was all for money?" Bear raised an eyebrow.

"Explain, please." BT nodded.

"Certainly. Lets say about 39 players were put into coma's." Bear nodded.

"Alright." BT continued.

"Soon, like you said, people would start to link the coma's to the game. It would be very hard to hide the fact 39 people were put into coma's well playing the game. Now the administrators could say there was a virus effecting "The World" and recall all of the games." Bear nodded slowly.

"Yes. But they'd only be losing money then." BT laughed quietly.

"You didn't let me finish. You see. They could then make a new game and even rename it if they want. Then they could sell it saying the virus can't reach people in this version and of course everyone who had "The World" before will come flocking to the stores to buy the new one."

Bear nodded.

"Yes. But that seems like a lot of things for them to go through just for some money." BT shrugged.

"Yes, but humans tend to be very greedy. No matter at what cost. Human lives or not." Bear sighed.

"You're right. Most people do think that way. But I'd like to think there would be some people in the company that wouldn't stand for it." BT stretched out and looked at Bear smiling gently. She laughed.

"Check the Tsuhika news paper. (A.N. if this is a real newspaper GOMEN! I DIDN'T KNOW I SWEAR!) You will get your answer there." With that BT logged out of the area. Bear smiled.

"Guess I should go get my paper off the front porch then huh?"

Tsukasa laughed jumping back onto shadow.

"You won't win that easily." Shadow let out a small yelp in surprise as Tsukasa landed back on him.

"You're lucky we don't weigh that much." Shadow said laughed and wrestling Tsukasa trying to get the upper hand. Tsukasa grabbed his staff and held it firmly down on shadow's arms and part of his chest. Shadow smiled and laughed. "Okay, okay! I give up! You win! I'll stay on all night tonight!" Tsukasa smiled and crawled off of shadow.

"That's better." Shadow laughed.

"It's not like I have anything better to do right?" Tsukasa punched him playfully.

"Are you saying I'm the last person you want to be with?" Shadow shook his head quickly.

"No, no, no! I didn't mean it like that! Seesh you have a knack for turning people's words against them, don't you?" Tsukasa nodded.

"Yeah, it comes in handy." Both boys looked behind them quickly hearing a loud laugh. They both smiled nervously at black rose and Mimiru.

"Um…Hi!" Shadow laughed nervously. Mimiru shook her head laughing.

"It's just great to watch you two. You never know what you're going to do next." Blackrose nodded.

"Yeah."

Tsukasa shrugged.

"So. What do you want?" :I can't help it. I'm sorry Mimiru, but I want to be alone with shadow…: Mimiru frowned.

"Seesh. Glad to see you to Tsukasa. Blackrose and I were just wondering if you guys wanted to go to a dungeon . Blackrose and I found this really neat dungeon and wanted to go check it out." Tsukasa snorted.

"So we're just supposed to stop are fun and go play with you?" Mimiru glared at Tsukasa.

"What's your deal anyway? We haven't talked for awhile y'know. I just want to spend some time you with Tsukasa! Is that really so bad?" She said the last sentence so quietly that Tsukasa wasn't even sure if he really heard her say it. Tsukasa frowned.

"I'm….sorry. I just….let's go to the dungeon. Alright?" Mimiru smiled slightly at Tsukasa's answer.

"You mean it?" Tsukasa nodded.

"Yeah. You'll go to, right Shadow?" Shadow nodded.

"Of course! You'd of died last time without me! I have to make sure you don't kill yourself again in this dungeon!" Tsukasa smiled.

"Alright. Let's go then." Blackrose and Mimiru nodded.

"Okay the keywords are Hidden, Closed, Sanctuary." Everyone nodded and warped to the dungeon.

"So. That's how you play hmm?" Sora asking smiling at BT. BT nodded.

"He wanted information. Besides. That is a rumor going around. It was easy to add to it." Sora smirked and walked past BT.

"So. You gave Bear fake information just so he would leave you alone? Interesting." BT.

"Actually no. The information I gave him was only half fake. The other half was true." Sora nodded.

"Ahh I see. They do say the best lie is the truth, but only half of it." Sora took a step foreword and smiled back at BT. "Well I have to say. That is very smart. I have to go now though. I'll be in contact with you." With that Sora logged off. BT smirked.

"Some people will believe anything if it's said by the right person." Golden rings surrounded her and she logged off as well.

"So what's so great about this dungeon anyway?" Tsukasa asked as they all stepped into the dungeon. It looked pretty normal to Tsukasa. Nothing weird, no purple smoke like last time. Just a everyday normal looking place. Mimiru smiled and pointed to one of the doors.

"That leads downstairs. I heard in a rumor there's a rare treasure in this place." Blackrose nodded.

"Yeah, me to. So we're going to check it out okay?" Shadow nodded and grabbed Blackrose's arm. He then started jumping up and down while holding onto it.

"Yay! Rare treasure hunting just like old times!" Tsukasa remained silent and looked to Mimiru.

"So. Are we going?" Mimiru nodded.

"Yeah. Come on guys. Let's go make that treasure ours!" Mimiru ran into the next room. Blackrose raised her sword into the air.

"YEAH!" She then ran after Mimiru. Shadow laughed and raising his staff followed the two girls. Tsukasa smiled sadly and slowly followed. :I knew I shouldn't of got close. They just want to be friends and Mimiru just doesn't want me to be left out. She doesn't care. And shadow and mine's friendship was just an act. He doesn't care either. Fine I guess I won't care then to. …so why does it hurt so much: Tsukasa walked into the next room.

Tsukasa looked around at the already dead enemies laying on the floor. Mimiru laughed and turned to Tsukasa as he walked towards the group.

"Aw man you missed it Tsukasa! I learned this new attack and used it on the monster. It was so cool!" Blackrose nodded in agreement. Shadow did to.

"Yeah! You'll have to do it for him in the next battle Mimiru!" Mimiru nodded.

"Yeah. Come on lets head on downstairs." All of a sudden the screen seemed to jump. Mimiru blinked a few times and looked to shadow and Blackrose. "Hey that just wasn't my screen…right?" They both nodded and Blackrose said .

"Yeah mine did that to. What about yours Shadow?" Shadow nodded.

"Yeah." Blackrose turned to Tsukasa.

"Did yours?" Tsukasa frowned.

"Did mine what?" Blackrose laughed.

"Your screen. Did it skip?" Tsukasa shrugged.

"How should I know?" With that he went to the edge of the room near the door. "This dungeon is small. The statue is in this room." He turned to face them. "Lets go get it so we can get out of her." They nodded and went into the room. Mimiru did the honors of opening the chest and they received 1 golden grunty, two high level weapons for heavy blades and a high level wave master staff.

"You sure you don't want this Tsukasa?" Shadow asked. Tsukasa shook his head.

"Go ahead and keep it. I've no use for it." :Why does he keep talking to me? Why do they keep talking to me? If they hate me why can't they just leave me alone.: Tsukasa held back the tears the same way he'd done so many times and waited. After ten minutes of switching, trading, and giving each other things they had finally figured who got what. Mimiru looked around the room before heading towards the door.

"You know. It seems weird that such high level weapons would be in such an easy dungeon. And now that I think of it. The person who gave me this information said the dungeon was really hard. But this was real easy." Blackrose shrugged.

"Who cares? We got these great new weapons and a golden grunty to sell!" She smiled happily and gave thumbs up to Shadow. "Now you can get that new Armour you wanted." Shadow nodded.

"Yeah." They seemed to have forgotten all about Tsukasa and walked out of the room without him. He followed silently glad they had finally given up on trying to be his friend.

As they walked across the room Tsukasa heard something behind him. He turned around slowly and his eyes widen in shock. The rest of his group didn't seem to notice nor care that he wasn't following. He was silent as the tall white monster (A.N. it's Skeith people ) raised him into the air.

It's arm started glowing and looked like the bracelet/weapon was targeted right at Tsukasa. Right before the monster could do anything though Tsukasa's "guardian" flew through the wall and attacked him. Tsukasa hit the ground and let out a small groan. His head felt light and the back of his head a bit wet. He realized he must of cracked his head open when he hit the stone floor.

Blackrose heard the noise and turned around to see Skeith standing in front of Tsukasa trying to fight off Tsukasa's guardian, Tsukasa on the floor bleeding to death.

"OMG!" Mimiru turned around at this and looked at it all in complete shock. "This…what is that!" She asked scared. Shadow was frozen in place with fear.

"That…that can't be what I think it is. Can it Blackrose?" Blackrose nodded slowly.

"Shadow…I think that is Skeith. Who else could it be?" Mimiru blinked.

"Skeith? You mean from the Epitaph of Twilight?" Blackrose nodded.

"Yeah. That's exactly who I mean." Just then Tsukasa's guardian exploded. Shadow let out a small scream.

"He's going to data drain Tsukasa!" Blackrose freaked out and started talking quickly.

"I know I know. Kite isn't on though!" Shadow frowned.

"What're we going to do then?" Mimiru looked at them.

"What the hell is going on! We have to beat that thing and save Tsukasa! He can't log out! If he gets killed in the game…." her voice trailed off and she let out a loud growl. She pulled her weapon out and charged at Skeith. "YOU WON'T KILL HIM!" Both Shadow and Blackrose ran after her.

"WAIT!"

If you are near to the dark I will tell you 'bout the sun

They both screamed in union. Maha appeared I front of Tsukasa and shook in silent laughter. Tsukasa glowed and then stood up.

You are here, no escape from my visions of the world

Mimiru stopped seeing Tsukasa stand up. Blackrose and Shadow do to. Maha points to Skeith and then Tsukasa. She then points to Tsukasa's guardian and does a small flip in the air. Skeith disappears. Tsukasa takes a step towards Maha.

You will cry all alone but it does not mean a thing to me

:I'm sick of being alone…they don't care: "What are you doing here Maha?"

Knowing the song I will sing till the darkness comes to sleep

Mimiru looks to Tsukasa. "You know this player?" Blackrose and Shadow remain silent. Tsukasa repeats his question.

"I asked you what are you doing here Maha?"

Come to me, I will tell you 'bout the secret of the sun

Maha points Tsukasa's guardian. The guardian raises into the air and faces Mimiru, Blackrose, and Shadow. :No…she can't….:

"NO!"

It's in you, not in me but it does not mean a thing to you

"Don't touch them!" Tsukasa runs in front of them. "I don't care what they think! Leave them alone!"

The sun is in your eyes, the sun is in your ears, I hope you see the sun someday in the darkness

Mimiru takes a step foreword and stops hearing Tsukasa.

"Stay put mimiru." Mimiru frowns.

"But, Tsukasa--" Tsukasa cuts her off.

"I said stay put!"

The sun is in your eyes, the sun is in your ears but you can't see the sun ever in the darkness it does not much matter to me

"I know how you guys feel anyway. Run!" Mimiru walks until she's right behind Tsukasa.

"Tsukasa…I'm staying right here." Tsukasa turns around to face her and Maha disappears. Tsukasa's guardian flies down and knocks Mimiru to the ground.

"Leave them alone! I don't want you if you're going to hurt my friends! " Tsukasa takes his staff and hit's the guardian with it. The guardian moans and disappears. Blackrose runs over to Mimiru and helps her up.

"Are you okay Mimiru?" Shadow is also next to Blackrose making sure she's okay. Tsukasa looks at his staff and then to the group.

"I'm sorry…" Mimiru assures them she's okay and gets to her feet. She looks at Tsukasa.

"Sorry about what?" Tsukasa shook his head fiercely.

"I'm sorry. It was after me. If I wouldn't of been with you guys it'd of never attacked you."

Shadow was shaking his head before Tsukasa even finished.

"That's not true. Skeith has been after Blackrose and I for over a year now…it was are fault." Blackrose nodded.

"Yeah. I'm sorry." Tsukasa was shaking his head again.

"No. I have to go. I'm sorry. I won't bother any of you ever again." Tsukasa pulled a sprite ocarina out of his pack but Shadow grabbed it before he could use it.

"No. If that thing or Skeith goes after you again you'll have no one to protect you." Tsukasa started to glare at shadow.

"I know what you think of me Shadow." Shadow blinked a few times.

"What?" Tsukasa sighed and pulled out another sprite ocarina.

"To you. I'm just one more thing to watch. Something different in the game because I can't log out. Well you know what. You can keep on watching Skeith. I'm leaving." Tsukasa turned to Mimiru and looked at her sadly.

"I'm sorry…" With that he used the ocarina and vanished.

YAY! FINALLY DONE! That took long enough eh it's 1.a.m. either! Enjoy I said it'd be longer and look! 8 whole pages! YAY! I can't believe that took so long::mostly watching fire works: ; umm anyway……..enjoy lol please review and hopefully I'll update soon!