~S10MC2015~

You're very welcome Xd I'm trying to upload on a slow schedule now (along with the fifteen other stories I'm regulating XD) so updates should be more regular and everything! :D

~Tawnis~

I'm taking your PM words into account and will be rewriting the first few chapters along with putting an A/N about how the chapters' lengths increase and stuff :P


It's been a year since it all ended, Kirito took a deep inhale of the fresh air, tasting the lack of bitter city pollution in the suburb air around him. His muscles expressed their relief in escaping the cramped confines of the van he had been in for the past hour and a half with his sister Sugu and other people he hadn't really bothered to have gotten the names of.

Besides Klein anyway, the redhead had been rather chatty with him in particular, saying that his attitude reminded him of someone inside the game.

Not that that was in anyway possible. Everyone that had been trapped in that horrid game for three years had no memories of the experience, it was just a massive blank space of three years of their memories with nothing more than the echoes of their lingering emotions during the experience. Although for Kirito...

There wasn't just a hole in his memories. Ever since he had woken up from SAO there was this hole of sorts in his heart. With excruciating pain for the first few months after waking up of grief, like he had lost someone that meant more to him that even his sister Sugu had.

Sugu… who had been there every day from the moment he had woken up from the three month adventure that he didn't remember anything about either after SAO.

"Come on Kazuto!" Sugu's voice pierced the humming mess that consisted of the SAO survivor's mind, gently pulling him back to reality and away from his musing thoughts and prodding of the blank space where his memories were missing. "We should get checked in and everything right big brother?"

"Yeah," Kirito spoke with a reluctant sigh, "we probably should huh Sugu?" Kirito's dark silver eyes gazed up at the campus style set of buildings. Where he knew he wouldn't be leaving for a long time if what Kikouka had told him was true. Apparently in the game he had been one of the central players to beat the game and was nicknamed the "Black Swordsman" in favor off all the black he wore along with his beater status.

There were some details he remembered, like how he had taken upon himself the title beater to protect other beta-testers and some of his own abilities like his level one fishing skill and maxed one handed sword skill. However, beyond that his memory was just blank. Even though he frequently woke up in the middle of the night with a yell he hardly recognized as his own and tears marking his face with glistening trails, and other nights where he slept all the way through the night but found himself hugging all of his blankets as if he was cuddling something or someone. No matter what he tried, though he couldn't remember what he had been dreaming about or having a nightmare about other than it involved SAO. Which he was still haunted by a year after his escape from the game and six months after his escape from another game.

Someone jogging past the entrance at an almost abnormally fast pace caught his attention and his onyx colored eyes (a dark silver or gray) focused on them in an instant, curiosity pulling his attention and something tugging at the recesses of his mind keeping it there.

The person was a girl about his age, who had long strawberry blonde hair with a faint ginger tint to it almost like caramel and fair skin. She was clothed in a mostly white runner's dry-fit shirt with the shoulders cut out with thick almost ribbon like 'x' shaped red sleeves, dark grey runners shorts with red hems and edges, and red and white runners shoes. Her long hair was tied up into a long ponytail with a slim braid disappearing into the strands of the ponytail, allowing the thin strips of sky blue in her braid and ponytail to be visible and bluetooth earbuds hung around her neck with the actual earbud tucked into her delicate ears. Her expression was calm, her femine features from her button nose to her thin eyebrows showing a calm peace. However beneath that calm peace in her expression Kirito could sense an aura of power and leadership emanating from her softly curved form.

A girl with pink hair and eyes, a feature displaying her SAO enhancements, managed to catch up to the other girl, her pink eyes darting curiously over to Kirito's curious form.

Kirito felt his cheeks burn at the other girl's obvious catching him in the act of staring at her friend, but couldn't look away from the caramel haired girl. Something was telling him to wait and keep looking at her. Not matter how red his face got.

Kirito watched as the pink haired girl managed to keep up with the other girl, running to keep up with the other girl's jogging pace and longer legs. She prodded the caramel haired girl's shoulder and he watched as the mentioned girl slowed to a stop and removed her earbuds from her ears, her mouth moving as she spoke to the other girl outside of earshot.

Kirito felt his ears burn as well as the caramel haired girl blinked and then turned toward him, one hand holding one of her earbuds with a puzzled and curious look in her eyes.

Kirito had even seen eyes as beautiful as the ones belonging to her. Her eyes were hazel, a soft brown that almost matched her hair, but as he looked at her her eyes adopted a bluish hue. A blue that seemed to give off a strange mythical sense.

Kirito's hand instinctively went to the hair at the back of his head that permanently stuck up and defied physics as if he had been touched by magic. Kikouka had told him that survivors of the second game would have abnormalities that others wouldn't, such as his cowlick that couldn't be moved or styled, so the way her eye color shifted back to a soft hazel with a thin ring of blue made him wonder. Was she one of them? Was she one of the few survivors like him and his sister that were "touched with magic?" Giving him his cowlick and causing his irises to glow in the dark and Sugu's now permanently green eyes?

The caramel haired girl kept eye contact with him for a few more moments, and Kirito knew even if she was an ALO survivor there was another reason for him being drawn to her like that. And it likely had to do with the aching in his heart, some kind of aching longing he didn't understand. What's going on? He dimly wondered, finding himself unable to break the near staring contest going on between them. I don't… I just met her… right? Then why do I feel like this and why is my brain screaming at me to go to her?

The girl looked slightly confused too, those intense eyes a whirlwind of confusion like even she wasn't sure what was going on. So they remained frozen, Kirito's mind working a million miles a minute.

Why do I feel drawn to her? Like I've been waiting forever to find her again? Wait, again? Kirito blinked and found himself taking a step toward her, I haven't met her before, have I? Or maybe I have… but where?

"Kazuto?" Sugu's light touch on his arm broke the spell.

Kirito instantly turned back to his sister and the caramel haired girl turned back toward her friend, a visibly confused and slightly scared expression on her delicate face. "What? Sorry Sugu," he hastily apologized and forced himself to focus on his sister. Taking both suitcases from her and carrying them with ease due to one of his abilities Kikouka called his STR parameter.

"Who's that anyway?" Sugu asked curiously, her green eyes darting toward the caramel haired girl who was now jogging away.

"I have no idea," Kirito said truthfully and avoided looking in the strange girl's direction. However truthful he had said the words he couldn't help but feel like somehow he was lying. He knew her, from where he didn't know, but he definitely knew that girl.

"You don't sound sure," Sugu pointed out the wavering in his voice as she followed him toward the building, noticing the caramel haired girl's friend jogging toward them but saying nothing about it to her brother.

"I've never met her IRL," Kirito explained, choosing his words with care and reflecting over the girl's appearance in his mind's eye, "but maybe I have in the death games." The question was where? Where in SAO or ALO? Where did he know her from and why did he feel so strongly for her?

Sugu looked curiously after the girl's retreating form, her stride even and almost inhumanly balanced. "Huh, I guess that could've happened, I wouldn't know if she was from SAO though, I was only trapped in ALO with you. That being said…" the other Kirigaya trailed thoughtfully, "she doesn't seem at least a little familiar."

"Hi there!"

The voice startled Kirito enough to nearly drop both suitcases. Instead he gave a very manly yelp and looked wide-eyed at the person in front of him. It was the other girl's friend, the pink haired girl with pink eyes."

The pink haired girl chuckled a offered a rather cheeky smile, "hi there, my name's Rika. That being said I'm sure you'll both end up knowing me as Liz, my SAO handle."

Ah, the two names thing. Kirito had almost forgotten that they were supposed to go by their SAO and or ALO handles while they were here, making it easier for the staff to keep track of everyone.

"Hi Liz," Sugu greeted the other girl with a smile, "I'm Sugu, or Leafa really."

"Call her Sugu," Kirito said with a cautious smile of his own, "Leafa sounds really weird."

"You're so mean big brother!" Sugu puffed out her cheeks and lightly stepped on his foot, "Leafa is not that weird of an avatar name!"

"Hate to admit it," Liz said with a smirk, "but Sugu's easier for me to remember with the whole 'crazy gamer handle names.'"

Kirito looked smugly at his sister before looking at the pink haired girl, words escaping his mouth without him consciously thinking about them. "Thanks Lizzzbeth-" he stopped speaking and walking aburptly, as did the other two.

"Wait, what did you call me?" Liz asked, confusion now lacing her tone along with it showing in her eyes. "And why did you say it like that?

"I… I don't know why I said it like that," Kirito stumbled over his words, eyebrows furrowing together in confusion. "It just came out like that."

Liz gave him a curious look, "what's your SAO name?"

Kirito wet his dry lips and spoke his gamer handle in a cautious manner. "My SAO name was Kirito, or at least that's what people tell me it was."

Liz looked oddly at him, pink eyes confused and surprised, "you don't remember your own SAO name?"

Kirito fidgeted a little awkwardly, "I do but I don't," he explained awkwardly, "I have memory loss, more than the average player. So I don't remember much of anything about SAO at all other than what this tells me." He put down one of the suitcases and flicked his wrist, summoning a holographic menu and clicking his character profile before setting it to be visible to the other players. "I don't consciously remember much of anything really SAO-wise, so I have to use this to tell me information about what my avatar and character did in the game."

Liz scanned over the information, a finger resting thoughtfully at her chin as she moved back and studied him. "You do look familiar, although for now I can't really place where. Tell you what, I'll ask around and look for some information and meet up with you again. After all your situation reminds me of my best friend's."

"Is that the girl jogging from earlier?" Sugu interjected and Kirito jumped, having forgotten his sister was standing beside him. She was currently leaning over his shoulder, peering at the menu again for the fiftieth time.

"Yup," Liz smiled at the pair of them, "that's Asuna the lightning flash, my best friend and fastest person here."

Asuna the lightning flash? Kirito's eyebrows furrowed again as he thought hard, wracking his brain for anything from just the name alone. Where have I heard that before? Dammit I know it's important! He growled out loud in frustration, mentally zoning out of the current present and delving into the black hole that was his SAO memories. Why couldn't he remember her? He could tell the name and person associated with it was essential to his life inside the first death game and why did he feel like he had been by her side before? That he had to be with her now?


Status of Current Requests

Kirito Comforts Sinon after GGO Spin-Off "I Will, No WE Will Protect You"

Up to where Kyouji pulls a gun on Asuna and Sinon's heart starts racing from panic

Leafa Aids Kirito with Sugou (Guilded Hero Alt. Ending) "Who's Going to Save Kirito?"

Almost finished, needs some special dialogue and touching up (Currently on Hold)

Asuna's Nightmares and Kirito's Rage "They Don't Stop… I'm So Sorry Asuna…"

Title modified, up to where Kirito gets frustrated at his sister and storms off to his bedroom while Asuna's asleep on the living room couch with Yui snuggled next to her. Yui's scared and frightened and the sound of Kirito's door slamming startles Asuna awake.

Leafa Babysits Yui Alone For The First Time "What if I Mess Up? You Won't Auntie!"

Beginning for the 4 parts written. Chapter spans 4 worlds, "Asuna's Killed," "ALS" "Just ALO" and "Broken Warrior," so will be longer than average.


Upcoming Named Chapters

Kirito… Just Hold On A Little Longer… ~ Part of the "Asuna's Killed in ALO" series

The Hacker, Hated or Loved? ~ Hackers Role Crossover

ALS, Asuna's Sisters ~ Asuna has two sisters, a very cute gamer of a best friend, and a whole summer to spend with her friends, what can go wrong and what can go right?

What am I going to do with you? ~Asuna's under pain meds and Kirito fumbles for what he's supposed to do. (Part of Asuna's Blinded Request)

You Idiot! ~ They weren't supposed to fight IRL, but Asuna's Kirito's, and boy is he going to prove it.

IRL Lighting Flash ~ Asuna's a track team runner, Kirito's a young boy with skill with technology. When an accident happens and Asuna's rendered unable to persue her dream, will the antisocial inventor come to her rescue?

I… I've Killed Too Remember? ~ Alt GGO moment, where Asuna shoulders Kirito's burdern for him and takes matters into her own hands. Death Gun, meet the Sword Dance of Black and White.

(NEW) Peace Brought On An Ocean Breeze ~ Sugou did more than threaten Asuna, but his tech doesn't work, leaving Asuna almost paralyzed from the hips down. She's not really all that bothered, having grown up with medical problems and spending most of her life in a wheelchair already, but on those days when she feels like she can't keep going, Kirito's now there, making her life complete.


Other SAO Stories

I'll wait for as long as it takes Kirito ~ Kirito has decided after being in a party with her for a year, that Asuna's potential is limitless. So she needs to be with a guild, the new third guild called the KoB. But to get her there he may have to push her away to get her to leave him and join the guild. However, one sentence stops him in his tracks 'Because I love you! I love you much to leave...' (Kirisuna) (COMPLETED) (Sequel Completed) |I'll Wait Forever Series|

New Memories And Resolve ~ Numbed by rejection and heartbreak, Asuna is at a loss of what to do. So she makes the hard decision to follow Kirito's wishes and join the KoB, purely for his sake. However, Kirito wants one more day with her, a last day of making new memories and and giving her the strength to go on. "I care for you more than you'll ever know Asuna…" (Sequel to 'I'll wait as long as it Takes Kirito) (Kirisuna) (Completed) |I'll Wait Forever Series|

Was it All a Joke to You? *New* Getting used to the separation is hard for both parties, but when Kirito and other players' lives are in danger, Asuna instantly comes to his aid. However, harsh words are said after an accidental kiss from Sachi and now Asuna is left wondering, "was it all a joke to him?" (Sequel to 'New Memories and Resolve) (Kirisuna) (Completed) |I'll wait Forever Series|

Stolen Kisses, Iron Resolve ~ After seeing Asuna change drastically to the point where he sometimes fears for her life, Kirito wavers in his decision. What it really a good idea to seperate when Asuna was so torn up by it? They both falter, and for a few moments it's like it's gone back to normal. Something happens and Kirito's resolve is strengthened to iron. But is it really for the best? To push her away only to be drawn back to her and have to push her away again? (Sequel to Was if All a Joke to You?) (Kirisuna) (In progress) |I'll Wait Forever Series|

Butter Knives and Togas ~ Argo needs info, Asuna and Kirito volunteer, they find out there's a reason no player escaped the dungeon, and it's a miracle Kirito can take his eyes off of Asuna at all. Plus the next boss fight is in two days, their inventories have been snatched, Kirito's wearing armor he can barely stand in, Asuna looks like an angel, and their armed with butter knives. Seriously Kyaba? (To be Uploaded) |I'll Wait Forever Series|

Please… Don't Do this ~ Asuna's had enough. The lonely and tired girl gazed below at the water from where she was sitting, was it worth it? And if so, what could change her mind? A boy from her past who's been looking for her since she beat him in a tournament two and a half years ago. 'I will NOT lose you! Never again!' Heavy AU (Completed)

The Hacker's Role ~ I unknowingly helped make the game unhackable from the outside, and now I'm going to make up for my mistakes. I wasn't originally trapped in the game, but now? Now I'm the mystery that keeps players alive. I was a Beta Tester alongside my childhood friend 'the Rat,' and now I'm nicknamed "the Hacker" or "AI." Why? Because in other players eyes, I can't be killed, so I will beat this game. (Collection centered around Caylee's involvement in SAO.) (In Progress)

What I Power My Sword With ~ ...I power it with love. Love for her, my equal and better half. I power my sword with the thought of protecting everyone in the Underworld and one day returning to the girl with amber eyes and long caramel colored hair named Asuna Yuuki. I know she's waiting for me, with open arms for when I return. Kirito will always carry Asuna in his heart, even in a world tens of years away.