~K2-Black-panther~
Hmm… I'll probably release a story of Asuna and Kirito's time in the Extended Edition eventually, then we'll see if they did or not… Warriors is awesome! It's an entire series centered around cats! Yeah she did, so I have to do more work for chapters involving dialogue from the anime -_-
Silica is totally his little sister, personally I think she idolizes him rather than has a romantic crush on him. But I'm odd and I have a whole set up for all of the female characters regarding their feelings about Kirito. Sinon may have a crush on him but she acts more like a sister, teasing him and doing it for amusement and to see the look on Asuna's face. One problem is in the normal series outside of the games Sinon and Asuna aren't actually that close, I mean Sinon wasn't in SAO or ALO in the beginning and they don't really have a reason to be close other than they both know Kirito. That does change in my version, with Asuna making a few appearances in GGO and other stuff.
I have both of those planned and started, I just have to figure out how exactly I'm going to lead up to it and give background to the characters' actions in the chapters... (Sugu's easy for Guilded Hero, she's furious at herself and Sugo when she find out what Sugo's been doing to her brother's significant other)
I'm definitely a fan, maybe not super hardcore, but I have read all of the books (main series, side stories, progressive, and manga) and seen the Anime S1 & 2, Ordinal Scale, Extra Edition, and SAO Offline. So I am well versed in the world. I wouldn't write fanfiction in it if I hadn't had a lot of exposure to the world of SAO :D Although I'm worried that I'm making Argo seem too OOC…
Ooh, okay, I'll take a look! I actually have a deviantart too (tigercryrocks) and I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter! I intend to have a few long ones (probably about 11k or more words) but they take days to write and I like free writing these.
I couldn't help but include Argo in this one, I have a plan with her character and while she may seem rather OOC, I don't really have a lot to go off of… But anyway, enjoy! :D
Back In The Real World… Wheelchair Race!
(Part 1 of 2: Back In The Real World)
"Take your time silly," Liz snorted as Asuna winced when her movements pinched her still stiff shoulders. Asuna had been pulling on a half sleeve jacket over her mid-thigh length deep red dress of ensemble. She was finally meeting everyone from SAO, after spending six months in Sugo's clutches she was excited to finally get out of the hospital and see her friends. Friends she had developed in the life of SAO, and somewhere in deep in her mind, SAO was still her home. "You've been asleep for three and a half years Asuna. It took us all almost a month just to get up and for our arms to support our weight properly, and you've had what two or three weeks of therapy and you're already doing that?" Liz moved around the hospital bed and gently slid Asuna's right arm through the white half sleeve jacket. "Even being able to actively move your arms and legs like you can right now is a miracle." Once she finished with the sleeve she moved around the bed to Asuna's front to straighten it the jacket out for her.
Asuna adopted a rather impatient expression, "I want to finally meet everyone Liz!" her eyes widened at the slip of using Liz's SAO name instead of her real name, "I mean Rika."
Liz's lips turned up into a slight smile, "you really have a problem using our avatar names don't ya Lighting Flash." She teased her lightly with Asuna's SAO nickname. Once she deemed the jacket straight she tugged the ribbon under Asuna's shirt collar straight and examined her friend with a half critical eye. Asuna was still pretty thin, having lost even more of her weight than the others had of theirs because of her prolonged experience, but for being in a coma for three years she looked amazing. It would take time for her to regain her strength and recover from all of the other ill effects from the NerveGear induced coma, but Liz knew Asuna would be fine. Especially after how hard she was working already just weeks after waking up. Even then, Asuna was as radiant as she had been in game in SAO, something even Liz had to agree with.
"I'm sorry, L-Rika!" Asuna hastily apologized, she was leaning back on her arms her arms softly trembling as she fought to stay upright by herself without letting Liz help her. She was stubbornly refusing to let her friends help her do the small tasks she could actively do by herself with only a few exceptions of the people, Kirito being one of them.
Liz laughed, "Liz is fine Asuna," she rested her hand on her friend's shoulder. "I met you as Liz, and you've known me as Liz for a few years now." She knelt down and grasped one of Asuna's ankles with the intention of helping her put on the white boots that were lying on the floor. "Habits like that don't change for a long time. Plus," she grinned and started to help Asuna with the boots, "we all slip up and call each other by our SAO names half the time. It'll take a long time us all to stop calling each other by those."
"That's who we are at heart." Another voice spoke from the doorway and both girls looked over to see a brunette a few years older than Asuna with shoulder-length curly brown hair and hazel-green eyes (her eye color and hair color is so freaking debated on! Is it blonde or brown, and green or hazel?! In Progressive, she's a brunette, but in the anime and manga half the time she's blonde, and her eye color isn't really stated -_-) that even in the real world shone with a slight smirk and had an expression that hinted at her sharp mind. Like she had all the information in the world. "Argo, Liz, and Asuna," the person approached in a light-footed stride that hinted at her SAO days as a highly agile player. "The information broker, blacksmith, and swordswoman," Argo said with a light smile
Asuna's eyes lit up at the sight of her other best friend. Argo had practically been her sister during SAO and had supported her while she had joined the Kob and Kirito avoided her. (Reference to another upcoming chapter piece) "I thought you were at work and weren't going to come Argo!"
Argo's smirk was rather priceless, "well… I'm supposed to be there, but I decided to go anyway." The freckles on Argo's cheeks reminded Asuna and Liz of the painted whiskers of SAO and while it did soften the confident and mischievous expression she seemed to always have, it also made her even more of a goofy prankster half her age. Who's hazel doe eyes and freckles allowed her to pull off a very good puppy eye expression. Which she had done on Asuna in SAO a few times as a joke.
Asuna rolled her eyes and lightly shook her head before she looked down at her other friend who was grinning goofily at Argo while finishing pulling up the zipper of Asuna's left boot.
"Are you ever gonna tell us your real name, Argo?" Liz inquired in a cheeky tone and giggled at Argo's response.
Argo smirked, "that'll cost you five-hundred thousand Cor, Lizbeth."
Liz helped push Asuna's right foot into the other white boot and laughed, "yeah right, like I have that kind of money here in the real world."
Argo shrugged, "I'm still Argo to you guys, and I always will be," she added cheekily.
Liz snorted and zipped up Asuna's other boot before letting her now booted foot go, "oh whatever, let's get going already! Where's your prince Asuna?" She teased her friend, unable to help herself, Asuna was just so teasable, even more so here in the real world.
Sure enough, a pink blush spread over Asuna's cheeks at Liz's teasing. "He's not my prince Liz," she insisted and sat up completely before her arms gave out beneath the weight of her upper body. "And he's waiting outside remember?" She had asked him to leave while she had gotten changed out of the hospital provided clothes and into what she was wearing now.
"Okay fine, he's not your prince. Kirito!" Liz yelled his name, "your princess is calling for you!"
Asuna blushed harder, "L-Liz!"
Argo chuckled, her hands tucked neatly into the front pockets of her hooded vest. "You were called 'Aincrad's Princess' A-chan," the ex. Information broker pointed out with a smirk, "you may say he's not your knight, but you're Kii-boi's princess."
Asuna gave both girls the stink eye even as Kirito reentered the room.
Kirito was wearing a black t-shirt, under a black jacket that vaguely resembled his SAO jacket, black pants, and black tennis shoes. The group had asked each other to wear clothes of their SAO colors to help everyone recognize each other, so Kirito was wearing black, Asuna was now wearing white and red, Liz was wearing pink and white, and Argo was well Argo. Kirito's onyx colored eyes were drawn immediately to Asuna and his lips twitched into a smile at seeing his significant other seemingly back to her normal self.
Liz stood up and lightly slapped Kirito on the back, "close your mouth Kirito and help her into the wheelchair so we can get going!" Liz was wearing a dark pink nearly red partially unbuttoned long sleeve with a light pink inside, a dark red belt cinched at her waist, white colored denim capris, brown knee-high boots, and she had the sleeves of her shirt rolled up to just below her elbows.
Kirito rolled his eyes at Liz's antics and moved deeper into the room and toward Asuna. "I'm going, I'm going." He stopped, standing to Asuna's left before he carefully picked her up, being careful to make sure the end of her skirt was pinned between his arm and her legs with his other arm wrapped around her back.
Asuna anxiously put her arms around Kirito's neck to make sure she wasn't going to fall, still a little nervous about a guy as thin as Kirito was, dropping her. Asuna was wearing a mid-thigh length thin strapped burgundy red colored dress, with a white collared shirt beneath it, a thin red ribbon tied at the front beneath her white collar, a white half sleeve jacket with grey edging, white almost knee-high boots with a red top and small black ties in the shape of a bow in the red top of the boots.
Liz laughed, "Asuna you look terrified!" She giggled at her friend's obvious fear, highly amused at Asuna's rather nervous expression despite the fact that Kirito of all people was the one carrying her. Liz would've given up her blacksmith shop in SAO and all her skills to have Kirito carry her like he how was carrying Asuna. Kirito had Asuna practically cradled to his body, holding the girl close and gently, with her head near where his heart was, and his arms curled gently around her body. His hold was affectionate and by the way, he was holding her, everyone in the room, including Liz, could see exactly how much he loved Asuna.
"Sh-Shut up L-Liz!" Asuna stumbled over her words, her face flaring even pinker than before and she actually hid her red face temporarily in Kirito's jacket. Hiding the bright blush on her face as Kirito carried her toward the wheelchair sitting tucked in one corner of the hospital room.
Argo said nothing but innocently stuck her foot out to make Kirito stumble and Asuna to squeak and huddle closer to him while looking away and over at the opposite wall. Argo was wearing a medium brown sleeveless jacket with a zipper going down the far left side and a hood currently off and clasped at the front with a clasp like the clasp that had held her cloak together in SAO; a light green long sleeve shirt that went to a light gray at the elbows, slim khaki colored capris with a thin black belt, and dark brown flat heeled ankle boots. It was similar to her SAO outfit but didn't hide her face or her curly brown hair. The only thing that was missing was her whiskers, but she hadn't done the whiskers since SAO, even though sometimes she also did from pure habit.
"Argo-san!" Asuna complained when her friend nearly sent her and Kirito to the floor and she tightened her embrace around Kirito's neck mainly out of fear or falling.
Liz and Argo meanwhile just high-fived, grinned at each other, and laughed or chuckled, respectively.
Kirito rolled his eyes and carefully set Asuna down in the wheelchair once he had recovered from Argo's purposeful tripping. "What if I had fallen over Argo? Then what?"
Argo adopted a familiar cheeky smirk, "I calculated that dummy. You would've fallen if I had moved my foot a few inches forward yes, but otherwise, you have enough of a reaction time to not fall."
Kirito blinked for a moment and get a resigned sigh, "even in the real world you know more than I do."
"You better believe if Kii-boi," Argo smirked and then looked at Asuna, "better ask Blackie (progressive reference nickname :P) here to maneuver you before Lisbeth seizes you."
Asuna adopted a panicked expression as right after Argo finished her sentence as Liz ran over, grabbed the handles of her wheelchair, and started sprinting with Asuna. "Kiiiriitoo!" Asuna shrieked at the top of her lungs and she pressed as close to the back of her wheelchair as she could. "Aargoo!"
Argo broke into a rare fit of giggles and chased after Liz and Asuna while Kirito stood blinking in confusion for a moment.
"Liz!" Asuna's next yelp shook him from his confusion though, "wall! There's a wall!"
"Come on Kirito," Argo popped back into the hospital room and grasped Kirito by the wrist before she continued her chase with Kirito now being dragged behind her. "Or you're going to be left behind."
"KIRITO!" Asuna shrieked when Liz went dangerously fast around the corner ahead of them, "Liz' going to kill me!"
Kirito moved to start running properly but stumbled when he was pushed and fell back into a different wheelchair. Only to make a rather unmanly yelp when Argo started pushing it. Oh dear… "Argo!" He yelped as he felt Argo steadily gain speed and flailed his arms as it looked like they were going to hit a wall. "Stop!"
Argo cackled madly and quickly turned down the hall with a sharp turn and went even faster. Sure Liz was fast, but Argo had run track for her high school before SAO and she was built for running. SAO had taught her a few pointers and tricks and she used them here in particular as she chased after Liz and Asuna, the latter of which was still screaming and clutching at her wheelchair with a death grip. ( Argo can run on water in SAO without special gear... o_O )
Kirito just gripped the armrests of the wheelchair he was in and stared wide-eyed as the world flew by. Who are these people and what did they do with our friends?!
Asuna was still twitchy even in the car minutes later, to the point where it seemed that her amber eyes were permanently round with shock and her face was close to being as white as a sheet.
After the craziness that had occurred at the hospital minutes earlier Kirito's Aunt Midori, his driver for today had agreed to take her and Kirito while Argo brought Liz on her fancy little motorcycle.
No doubt Midori had been shocked to see Liz practically shoot out the hospital doors with Asuna still yelling and Argo shoot out after her with Kirito in a wheelchair and going almost twice as fast. Only to witness Argo come to a complete and sudden stop and Kirito to be launched out of the wheelchair and to tumble out onto the grass Argo had thoughtfully stopped next to.
Right now Kirito and Asuna were sitting in the back with their shoulders brushing, Kirito looking at Asuna with worry in his onyx colored eyes. He was still a little pale himself from the wheelchair race but seemed to be faring much better when compared to his still in shock girlfriend. "You okay?" He asked Asuna cautiously and gently grasped one of her thin hands in his own.
Asuna licked her lips and managed to reply, "Um… I think so?" She blinked and her amber eyes returned to their normal size, "I think I'm best friends with the two most insane people alive."
Kirito couldn't help but laugh at that, causing Asuna to join in and Midori to lightly chuckle as well.
