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SAO: Fatal Bullet – Dissonance of the Core
Chapter 2 – Even More Somehow…
AN! – Remember to vote in the poll on my profile for Kaito's "harem" members before reading this, if you're a fan of my Infinite Stratos story be on the lookout for that poll too! Thanks Again! :)
After finishing the message from his fellow superior, Kaito walked back inside and saw that a new person had arrived among the group; she had purple hair down past her shoulders. Wearing black armor-plates on her chest and arm-guards. She carried a bandolier of ammunition on her belt and on her hip were a Photon sword hilt and a HBTSG3 Asuka 3-burst pistol in a holster on her side.
"Oh, you must be the new guy Kirito and the others were telling me about! I heard a lot, you must have some mad skill! Do you know how to use a Photon sword?" The girl asked excitedly.
"Well, you must be Yuuki, Kirito to told me you were coming along with Asuna and Yui, if I remember correctly. Its great to meet you, the names' Kaito." He answered.
"Well even though you already know it I'll say it anyway, my name's Yuuki and if you can't tell I love games like this. I hope we get to party up in the future!" The energetic swordswoman said as she grabbed Kaito's hands are started shaking him rapidly up-and-down.
"Ah, Kaito it's nice to see you again, and you to Arfa-sys – chan." Asuna said as she was coming in from shopping. With her was a little girl in a small pixie dress. She was noticeable because she was the smallest of the group in the room.
"Oh my gosh, how cute I've seen small avatars, but you're just a cutie!" Kureha squealed as she saw the little girl.
"Oh, thank you." Yui said.
"This is our daughter, Yui that we told you about during the tournament." Kirito answered.
"You mean she's an AI?" Kaito answered. In the moment both Kirito and Asuna went wide-eyed that was Kaito's first guess and no ever really figured it out except for those they told about her.
"How did know?" Kirito inquired. "Considering I've heard of rather short players in GGO, she doesn't seem the type and she does seem to be a child. That and you two are married, aren't you?" Kaito both answered Kirito's question and made another deduction as the two.
"What aren't you two a bit young to have a daughter, but if what Kaito said is true than I guess it makes sense. Also, Kaito that was kind of personal wasn't it?" Kureha spoke up and chided Kaito for being blunt.
"No, it's alright Kureha. He's right she's an AI we found in another game, her data is saved onto my PC at home. Were hiding here from admins so she mostly stays here, and she helps by gathering info for us." Kirito answered.
"But what I want to know is how you knew we were married, Kaito?" Asuna spoke up this time, a slight blush still on her face from before.
"Oh, the name plate was the first clue I had." Kaito answered. "I'm sure people who share rooms have that, that and the rings on your fingers are a dead giveaway." Kaito answered the autumn-haired girls question.
Both Kirito and Asuna looked at their hands and realized they were still wearing their matching promise rings. Both, then looked at each other and blushed. Then Kirito looked and asked, "Well then with that I wanted to treat you to a tour of Glocken if that's alright with you."
"Oh, I already did that for him before the tournament, but he hasn't seen the Governor's office in depth we can go there." Kureha replied.
"I see well then, let's be off." With that Kaito, Kureha, Yuzuki and Kirito walked out of the building and up the escalator to the Governor's Square and inside.
"Well, here's where you do many of the activities in GGO, over there in the center are where Type-A units can tell you your rankings on the leaderboards. On the far side, there's a shop to buy ammo and gadgets. Besides them are quest terminals. There are normal game quests inside, but you can make your own custom request if you want to." Kirito began to explain the intricacies of the governor's lobby.
"I see so besides the console in my room if I'm here on business I can do most things I need to do up here instead." Kaito replied with his arms crossed taking in everything.
Kirito looked over and saw another group of his friends and looked at the group and said, "Hey, it looks like some of my other friends just came back from a quest so let me introduce you."
The group walked over and Kaito saw all of them; one was wearing a purple flak suit that seemed to be very tight, but what was more noticeable was her rather large 'assets' on her; another was wearing a rather formal military uniform and had a headband on her head; the third one was wearing simple light armor with a rather large chest plate on her and she had a Photon sword on her hip.
"Oh, Kirito I see you came for one of hugs. Tohh!" The girl in purple replied as she glomped the black swordsman almost to the ground. "Its nice to see you to Strea, but I can't breathe…" Kirito struggled and finally broke her grasp.
"Oi, Strea clam down your making a lot of people uncomfortable." The girl in armor replied with a slight blush on her face.
Kaito decided to tease his new friend, "My, my Kirito you seem to be quite the player, I wonder how Asuna would feel if I told her about all of this?"
"Oi, oi I'm not like that I swear. I beg you though don't tell Asuna." Kirito essentially begged the newbie not to reveal the embarrassing thing that just occurred.
Getting her breath back Kirito began to introduce the group; "I met these guys throughout my times playing other VR games, this is the guy I was telling you all about earlier." The girls then started to look at Kaito and introduced themselves one by one.
"My name is Strea, as you can see I love giving out hugs. Do you want one?" Strea asked a she made the motion to Kaito as she walked forward. Surprisingly, the group was surprised when Kaito hugged back, even Strea was surprised, but the two did enjoy for a while and let go.
"I've never seen anyone survive one of Strea's hugs, you must teach me." Kirito then got in Kaito face and begged him for help.
"Sorry, trade secret." Kaito replied and another of the group started to speak up, "My name's Philia, and I love treasure hunting. There's so many hidden spots in this game its not even funny, of you get the chance we should go hunting together, so of us do quite frequently."
"Huh, sounds interesting, I'd love to join you guys sometime in the future, But I'm still rather new so I hope you'll help me along the way." Kaito replied as he bowed before the group.
The last girl started to introduce herself, "My name is Rain, I don't have a specialty, I'm normally not on that much, so I try to enjoy my time here. I mostly travel with Strea and Philia to find treasure and hunts. Oh, and I have the cutest little sister, in the world I hope you two can meet one day."
'You and me both Ms. Nijika.' Kaito thought to himself as he knew who Rain was through his boss previous investigation into the ALO 'Ragnarock' incident.
"Well that's mostly everyone in our circle of friends. The only one I haven't introduced is Argo, but she's probably busy buying and selling info to others, she normally hangs in the base station just outside the apartment area. You'll find her there." Kirito spoke up as the rest of the group walked off.
Among the group of girls, they couldn't help but talk amongst themselves and look at the newbie talking with Kirito, "You know when I saw Kaito I couldn't help but see a bit of Kirito in him. Did you get that feeling?" Philia asked the other two.
"Yeah, its like he's got this Kirito-aura to him, but he's his own person." Rain replied to her friend.
"I think I'm gonna like hanging out with him, even though we just met, I could tell he was a little uncomfortable, but he was happy to at the same time. I wonder if something happened to him?" Strea, an NPC that was made as a MHCP to check on player's mental health could sense the repressed memory of Kaito's past weighing on him.
With Kaito and the group, they looked to the front door and saw that Sinon, Silica and Leafa from before were now at the Governor's office.
"Hey, I have to take care of some things. Why don't you introduce yourself to the others here?" Kirito pointed out the three that came inside to Kaito.
"Sure, not a problem." Kaito replied as he saw the other three from the apartment were now in the lobby as well. Walking off Kaito decided to speak to Sinon first.
"Oh, Kaito I didn't see you there, I was just turning in a bounty I claimed earlier today." Sino informed the newbie. "Bounties?" He inquired.
"Yep, certain players especially high-ranking layers have bounty marks on them, some are travel in squads and some are mostly solo players. There's actually an entire Squadron devoted to just Hunting quests as there known here." Sinon explained the bounty system.
"The highest bounty, is the number 2 ranked player, known as "Commander Noir, she's said to travel with a high-level squad and she's no slouch by herself. So, if you ever go on bounties, be careful there not like usual quests." Sinon finished explaining.
"I see, and you seem to have a specialty in doing these kinds of missions?" Kaito inquired of the sniper.
"Yeah, as a sniper I'm mot made for close-quarters and since bounties are quite high paying I take those jobs mostly, so if you ever get one I won't mind partying together. I got to go for today, so see ya" She explained as she began to log out for the day.
Kaito waved and decided to go speak with Silica and Leafa next; "Oh, Kaito you're here still, do you know about the medal system in GGO?"
"I've heard about the basics from Kureha, its essentially a way to trade them for certain items, weapons and materials is that abut right?" Kaito answered
"Yeah, you got the gist of if you ever win medals you trade them in and win certain things." Leafa relied as she said that the two could see Silica jogging back to them.
"Oh, hi Kaito I didn't see there. I was busy trading in some of the medals I had from before to buy some things I needed." The little girl explained. Suddenly a small, blue dragon came and landed on her hair.
"Oh, Pina; Kaito I'd like you to met Pina she's my in-game pet, I named after my real-life cat." Silica introduced her best friend as the little dragon chirped in happiness.
"But she almost constantly seems hungry, so I normally don't have that much cash on me, so that's why I rely on medals. The food Pina eats is expensive, so I'm normally strapped for cash." She explained as Pina then started to make low-sounding chirp signaling she was already hungry.
"What your already hungry again?" Silica aasked her dragon, it once again chirped, and Silica then responded; "What am I gonna do with you, I got to go guys see you later." Silica responded as she walked off.
"Well I have to go to I have to get dinner ready and Ka-Kirito will be logging off soon to, so I got to go to. See ya later, Kaito." Leafa waved goodbye as well as she began to log off to.
Seeing nobody else he recognized, he found Kirito and the rest of his group waiting by the door, "Been waiting long?" Kaito asked.
"Nah, there's another person I want to introduce to you she's actually just outside, let's go." Kirito replied as the group walked out hey saw a young girl with a blue and white scratch hoodie looking around the sights in front of her.
Seeing the group in front of her she walked forward towards them; "This is guys is Premiere she's also an AI from another gamer I played called SA:O. or Sword Art: Origins, a sort of prequel to SAO itself." Kirito responded.
"Its to see you again, Kirito I have another question if you do not mind?" Premiere asked. "Oh, what is it?" He asked.
"What does the title 'lovers' stand among tiles, like 'friends' and 'besties'?" She asked with seemingly no tact.
The other three traveling with Kirito couldn't help but look at the swordsman and raise an eyebrow at the situation.
"What, its not what you think?" Kirito replied in desperation. "Sorry, Charlie your previous record seems to be going against you." Kaito further teased his new friend.
"I think we can concluded that Premiere is in love with Kirito, can we?" Kureha inquired.
"Yes, that is true." Premiere answered once again in a rather monotone voice. "Regardless, she's a friend of ours too, Premiere these are the new people we met." Kirito told Premiere.
"Hello, its nice to make your acquittance, I hope we can become 'close friends' in the long run." Premiere bowed and introduced herself to the group.
"Well that's everyone like I said before, I've got to go and log out, before my sister forces me out, see you guys later." Kirito replied as he walked off possibly to the apartments.
The group of three also walked off as well to the apartments, but if someone was paying attention, then they would've noticed that Premiere was looking at Kaito with a look of curiosity.
Back at Kaito's apartment the three started to wind down as the three enjoyed some drinks that came with the room.
"Oh yeah, I just remembered I had some work to finish today, so I may have to leave earlier than usual. Sorry, Kureha I wish I could stay, but I got to go." Kaito said with a look on his face.
"Its' alright I'll be on tomorrow, so I'll message when I'm on." Kureha replied. "I'll be waiting for you here master, when you get back. Be safe." Yuzuki responded as Kaito opened his menu and logged out.
Back in the Real World
Kaito opened his eyes and took off the AmuSphere and got off his bed and walked over to his table there he opened his laptop and immediately opened his e-mails and began to write…
To: Director
From: Kaito
Subject: GGO
Thank you for your concern, so far, my first visit inside has had no problems. But I will be on the lookout, I know someone of my position is getting a bit hands-on unlike my predecessors. But I fin this to be the best way to figure things out I hope you understand.
I've also contacted the boy known as Kirito, although I already knew his identity as Kazuto Kirigaya, I didn't not to say anything. I would like to know if he is contact with anyone outside he's circle of friends. I would appreciate that information, ASAP
I also met the sister of Professor Seven as well today, she seems to be quite interested in introducing me to her, after ALO I've only read the reports, but from how Ms. Nijika talked about her I hardly think she will be a threat anymore.
I'll continue my investigation, in the meantime I would also ask for you to continuously scour the Seed Nexus, with its ever-growing connection I fear it will be used by others for their own gains, we must remain alert.
Report to C-in-C Shapiro with the General with my preliminary findings, and continue to monitor Zaskar of America, as well as Japan, with the VR word of before I fear for the future.
K. Out
With that Kaito sent the message to his fellow official, after the ALO incident, Kaito was appointed to a high investigative position in trust of the Director to investigate any disruptions in the VR world to avoid another SAO.
'I hope nothing happens, I couldn't forgive myself if anything happened to her.' Kaito couldn't help but think if anything happened to Kureha, he would be devastated.
With that Kaito headed off to bed, with his mind on hopefully making new friends after everything that's happened in the past.
AN#1 – Here's Chapter 2 of my Fatal Bullet story, this may not be my best one let me be honest, but I hope you can still enjoy this all he same. Remember to answer the poll on my profile after reading this if you haven't already.
AN#2 – It would appear that some of Kirito's many friends are curious about out hero Kaito, will these relationships blossom into something else, who knows?
AN#3 – Remember to review, follow and favorite. I wouldn't be here without you guys! :) And remember, please be honest with me, this is not my best work.
AN#4 – Also here's the Harem list so far that I've now agreed to…
· Kureha
· Zeliska
· Yuzuki – (Arfa-sys)
· Yuuki
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