Author's notes:
-When I write multiple episodes for "Time", it will include a full episode at least, but may also include the first part of the episode (with the second part coming in the next chapter).
-I hope this one doesn't feel rushed, I'm kinda trying to get to the final soon, because that's when everything starts unfolding like crazy, including in my story. Remember that cave scene, yeah? ;)
-I'll be editing here and there as I work on this story. So expect stuff to be tweaked slightly and watch as typos disappear. Don't hesitate to give me feedback on this, it will help me a ton going forward and improving the rougher edges on my writing.
Chapter 2 Time: Episode 5 & 6.
Sinon, at the moment, was not a happy gal. Kirito, who she thought as a girl, was actually a man with a feminine avatar. That wasn't what made her mad though. In fact she was almost relieved that he (not she as she knew now) was a man. She could finally stop questioning her sexuality.
What pissed her off what that he saw her in her underwear. Not only that, he froze like an idiot at the sight of her.
She slapped him hard, but not hard enough to her taste.
Kirito was rubbing his cheek in pain. He felt entirely responsible for what had just happened, because after all, he really should have told her earlier. Although he was a bit surprised, he enjoyed the sight as much as seeing Asuna in similar clothing, possibly more. He felt bad thinking about this as well.
This was only the second time he saw a girl in her underwear, but he figured that if this kept happening, he would have to get used to it. He wasn't a pervert, actively trying to have these situations happen to him, but he seemed to have a certain charisma that got a bunch of girls close to him, sometimes in awkward situations like this one.
(If only he knew how close he got to seeing Silica in her underwear)
Anyway, now he'd gone and got that girl so mad at him, he didn't know when it would mend. He hoped it would be soon, as he might need more help during the tournament. Besides, he was starting to feel like he would really like to get to know her better.
He had managed after the embarrassment to get the minimum info out of her for the tournaments fights, but then she refused to say a word more to him, besides telling to make it to the final so she could bash his head in.
Then she muttered under her breath that she would: "kill all the strong ones". This made him wonder if she was Death Gun, before a friend of hers arrived. She immediatly warned him that he was a girl, so Kirito excused himself and left, feeling another potential embarrassing moment (a different kind this time).
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When Sinon came back, she couldn't believe what she was seeing. The strong, confident Kirito of mere minutes ago was a wreck. At first she though his fight had just taken a lot out of him, but the way he looked at her when he suddenly grabbed her hand told her otherwise.
He looked like he'd just seen a ghost.
In that single instant, he looked so much like her real life self that she wanted to hug him and hold him tight. She restrained herself though, as she had not forgiven him yet, and would not until she could crush him in a fair fight.
But this moment, as well as the crazy, rage-induced way he fought all of his remaining fights made it so that she couldn't get him out of her head.
It was now time for her semifinal.
Sinon VS Kirito.
She was going to settle everything with him, once and for all.
Citations: "kill all the strong ones" (originally "This time... I will kill all the strong ones) is taken from the Crunchyroll subtitles.