A Sylph and a Imp: Love in Alfheim

Chapter 2: Connections of a Death Game! Toshi's Story

I woke up first to make breakfast for Sugu, myself, and mom before she left go to work. My thoughts were still on last night's conversation with the girls and Asuna. Even as I cook, the images of what could happen to Sugu still bothered me. I kept dropping silverware every time I hear Suguha'ss voice in a manner I don't want to be real. I kept my composure as long I could when mom came down to have something to eat before leaving for work. Seeing her go made a part of me wish I could ask her for advice. A part of my just panicked, even if everyone was sat on trusting Toshi. It's not like I don't think they are too trustworthy to this person, but they don't see him a bad person. But I don't want Suguha to be hurt, even if this person saved her. Wen finally she came down to eat, her smiling face returned to the face in my dreams.

"Kazuto, we're meeting Toshi in Swilvane right?" Suguha asked, looking at her brother from across the table as always.

"Yes, Yuuki told me in a message, So once we finished breakfast, we'll meet him in Sylph territory." Kazuto replied, seeing thinking about his dreams, his last conversation with Asuna, and Toshi..

"Okay!" Suguha exclaimed, smiling to him. Kazuto say her face changed again to a more grotaged face that made me look away. Suguha frowned, looking at her brother who seem to seem worried, "You're still unsure of Toshi, are you?"

"A little, just I'm worried about you know." he replied, staring at his cup before taking a drink.

"I'll be fine, brother. I'm not gonna be intimate or throw myself at him." Suguha repled, making Kazuto cough and almost gag on his drink.

"What?!" Kazuto exclaimed, completely thrown off guard she even say that.

"I'm only sixteen, it's not like I don't understand what sex is." she replied, only got Kazuto to look red in the face.

"I-I can't believe we're having this conversation!" he exclaimed, still trying to grasp Suguha talking about sex to him. This was something he knew he'll have to explain but never now. They slept together in the same bed before, it was nothing physical.

"Me either," she replied before getting up from her seat to walk across the table to her then lean down to Kazuto and took him into her arms, hugging him by his head, comforting the teen, "All I want to do is thank him, that's all. Don't worry, I'm not going to do anything badly, please trust me."

"Sugu..." Kazuto said, hugging her back. The two stayed like that for a moment Sugu released her and headed upstairs to her room, Kazuto clean up the mess and walked up to his room. Closing the door, he held his AmuSphere in his hands and thought about what Suguha said:

"All I want to do is thank him, that's all. Don't worry, I'm not going to do anything badly, please trust me."

'I should trust her, but why am I concerned?' he though before taking his place on his bed with his AmuSphere on his head. Waiting for it to boot up, Kazuto had to think on how to approach Toshi and trust Suguha's judgment he's a good person. Suguha really sees him as a good person. As the lights were booting up the AmuSphere, Kazuto for now will trust her, at least for now. Closing his eyes, he spoke up, activating his AmuSpere.

"Link Start!"

Kirito appeared in Sylph Territory in a pillar of blue light, waiting for Leafa to meet up with him so they could meet Toshi in Swilvane. Yui had popped on top of his head, the small navigation pixie yawning. Yui floated off his head and looked at him, smiling at him with a cheerful look.

"Morning papa!" she said excitedly.

"Good morning Yui!" he greeted, "Perfect timing, I wanted to talk to you before your mama and Leafa turn up."

"What do you need me to do?" she asked as she looked to see her father look nervous, nervous than he's ever acted.

"There's this player who Leafa meet and we aren't sure his motives. So when he talks, see if he's telling any lies for us, of course I don't want to alarm Leafa or have Asuna attack in the inn. So can you tell if his words are true?" Kirito explained, seeing seeing the voice of Leafa telling hi not the worry and the voice of Suguha he didn't want to hear.

"Okay papa, but how come?" she asked, but she had feeling just from his own words that he's worried for Leafa. His heart rate was panicking in the inside.

"I just... Don't want her hurt, that's all." he said, turning around to finally see Leafa turn up.

"There you two are, I got message from Yuuki-chan! She said Toshi is at the inn, we should go see him at once!" Leafa said excitedly and look to see Yui and smiled to her, "Morning Yui!"

"Morning!" Yui greeted to the blonde Sylph before it wasn't long that the three heard somone coming there way.

"Morning Kirito-kun, Yui, Leafa-chan!" Asuna greeted happily to the three. Asuna step closer to them and Yui flew over to hug her mom, changing back into her human form.

"Morning Asuna, umm I'm surprised you're here." Leafa said, usually expecting the Undine fairy to be waiting for Kirito somewhere else and not meet them right off the bat. She notice Asuna's Rapier was different, usually the girl has her usual one enhanced by Lizbeth, but this one looked brand new, "Asuna, your rapier looks different than normal."

"Oh this, just a precaution." she answered, confusing the Sylph.

"Precaution?" she repeated, still confused.

"You're meeting a player right, just making sure we aren't walking into a trap made by Pkers, or if this bastard touches my future Sister-in-law in such a dangerous situation." Asuna said, smiling sweetly but her voice was a hint of malice.

"Sister In-law?" Leafa asked.

"I see you as my little sister Leafa-chan and I feel terrible if anything bad happens to you and I know you won't do anything you won't regret," Asuna said before putting a firm hand to her shoulder, smiling at her as it was a dark expression, "Would you dear?"

"No ma'am!" she squealed.

"Good, because I was given awareness of what people can do in ALO. So promise me you won't be doing things you'll regret, you better promise. Got it?" she added and Leafa was panicking looking at her. Kirito looked on at his girlfriend who was scaring Leafa and being a very over protective Sister In-law.

"I think Asuna gets a little too serious when I'm not at fault at this." Kirito said looking at Yui who was back to her pixie form.

"That's mama for you!" Yui said cheerfully.

Once Asuna was done making sure Leafa has a heart attack, the four finally fell off to Swilvane, mostly with Leafa being in the watchful eyes of Asuna. Kirito led the way, but still looked back unless Asuna believed Leafa might do something. He shook his head, he might be the one paranoid, but Asuna was acting like her old self being so serious. But at least they were prepared fro what might happen. If this was a bad player, they won't outsmart them.

They made it to Swilvane in only a few minutes, their wings already giving out as they touch down. Kirito still led the way with Yui still on his shoulder and Leafa following them with Asuna. It was quiet here in the Sylph Capital and the only thing on their minds was seeing Toshi and seeing if he was good or bad. He already got a message from Lizbeth, meaning the other girls were online now. Looking at the message, it said:

Ready to strike if needed,

Liz

"Let's hope you don't need to.' he thought halfheartedly, seeing the tavern they were suppose to meet, and Yuuki was standing there waiting for them. The Imp waved at them before coming up to hug Asuna and almost tackled her. Asuna laughed, happy to see the young girl this morning.

"I guess it's good to see you too, morning Yuuki." Asuna said, smiling at her.

"Morning!" Yuuki said cheerfully and looked to the others, "Morning Kirito, Leafa, Yui!"

"Morning!" Leafa waved to her, "Um, Toshi there?"

"Yup, his sitting at open table for us. Come on!" Yuuki instructed excitedly and ended the tavern with Kirito and the girls followed after her. The tavern wasn't filled with the usual Sylph or other players, so it seems pretty quiet, a good time to talk. At one of the tables, a Imp sat by himself his back facing the group. Hearing the bell from the door close, the Imp turned around, looking at them. From his appearance, he looked quite younger than he expected him to look. It was more average of a appearance, he looked too normal to be some being strong guy who saved Leafa. In fact, he looked more like his group, just seem nothing special than a decent OSS. His clothes weren't a randomize outfit, meaning something he made choose sometime after, seeing the purple and black colors notable of the Imp race. He got up from a stool and look to them, making the girls and Kirito come forward to see him.

"Good morning." he said, bowing his head. He even was polite, that was reassuring, that at least put Kirito's worries to rest. The boy look to Leafa and his face lit up with a smile, "Leafa, great to see you again."

"Great to see you too Toshi!" Leafa said happily, "And thank you for saving me."

"No problem!" he replied happily and before the two could speak on a little more, Asuna stepped in front of them. She put a hand to her chin, eyeing him intently like a hawk scanning it's prey. Toshi felt nervous, stepping back a little, "Um, yes? Can I help you miss?"

"You don't like some greek god, I thought Leafa was falling for some boy with muscles, but you look like a kid, so tell me?" Asuna asked, getting closer to his face, making me freak out and Leafa to blush red, "What do you want with Leafa-chan?"

"Nothing, I just want to talk to her." he replied, feeling Asuna might hurt him if says the wrong word.

"Talk, sure. We can talk, but keep hands and eyes to yourself or I might cut them off." she added darkly and Toshi felt ever more nervous about the girl named Asuna. She wasn't dangerous player from his sight, not a Pker either, but she was dangerous. The boy named Kirito came and put a hand to her shoulder to stop him before this got any uglier.

"Okay, you're scaring the boy," he said and turned to him, "So you're Toshi, you're a lot different than I thought. How about we take a seat. We want to get to know you, actually the real you if you want."

"Sure." Toshi replied and everyone finally took their spot in the table, Asuna sitting with Kirito, Yui sitting on the table with her parent, Leafa and Yuuki sitting by both Kirito and Asuna. Toshi sat in front of the group and stared at them keeping himself calm to them. He took a deep breath and started to speak.

"For starters, my full name is Toshiyuki Honda, I'm sixteen years and go to Izumigawa Junior High School in the Kyoto Prefecture as a 3rd year." he said, hands on his teacup..

"Your real name is Toshiyuki?" Asuna asked, suprised that's his real name, "You used a part of your name as your avatar?"

"Is that wierd?" he asked, feeling maybe his name was strange to have in Alfheim.

"Not at all, my name is Kirito and that comes from my full name, plus," Kirito tapped his girlfriend by her cheeks grinning at her, "You aren't the only ones who uses their real name, right Asuna Yuuki?" and Asuna's cheeks turn redder than the brightest beet at this moment and Yuuki merely giggled at them. Toshi kept trying to not laugh and continued on.

"Toshi, do you have any family?" Leafa asked curiously.

"I have a older sister, she's a 3rd year of Nanyō High School. We're actually visiting our aunt and uncle during the summer, so we still in the Kyoto area." he explained calmly.

"Whoa, you're not that far from where I live!" Asuna said amazed.

"Anytihng else?" Kirito asked, now getting more interested by his story. Toshi sighed, looking to a tea cup in front of him.

"Kirito, Asuna, both of you were survivors of Sword Art Online, right?" Toshi asked, his tone a little more serious now. Both of them nodded, Yui as well nodded, being from Sword Art Online too. Toshi stared into the tea and sighed oncw more, "I knew a old friend, she was in the game."

"She?!" the girls minus Yuuki exclaimed, shocked not only he had a friend who was in Sword Art Online, but was a girl.

"Who is it?" Kirito asked curiously.

"I think her ingame name was Sachi, correct?" and Asuna gasped, and Kirito's eyes were wide in shock. Leafa wrack her brain on that name, but then gasped remembered that it was someone Kirito cared about. A member of the Moonlit Black Cats, who Kirito couldn't stop from dying from a trap and their leader Keita committing suicide after their deaths . That was someone Kirito wished he saved, and still regretted it. Toshi continued on again, explaining how he knew Sachi in the first place, "We were friends, of course was a little older than me as a High School student but she was very nice to me. Before Sword Art Online launched, we talked a lot, she was a friend of my sister, we hanged out when she was going to be a part of the Computer Club. I never got a chance to get SAO when it launched, but it was around 2023; during the summer of June 23rd, when I learned Sachi died."

"Sachi..." Kirito said softly, feeling terrible about her death again.

"I never face death so real than losing my friend. I was very depressed, for the remainder of the summer and the fall. I couldn't believe she died, then how many did that I learned died between the two years." he said, putting both hands to his tea cup again, "It was around the year ALO came out that my sister got me to play it, help get over Sachi and fear of dying."

"You know, I can relate," Leafa said, loooking to the Imp smiling at him, "When Kirito was still trapped in SAO, during that time I always hated VRMMORPGs and hated how they took my brother away from me. When ALO came, I decided to see for myself why he loves the virtual world," she smiled to her brother, "I think I understood you a lot better and when we met in SAO."

"Leafa..." Kirito said, looking at her understaidng how she felt when he was gone.

"When that site made for the family and friends of the deceased Sword Art Online players was made, my sis told me to talk and get to know more people. I was flabbergasted most of them wanted to still be into VRMMOs. It made me happy to talk to them, I owe my sister to get me to open up again." Toshi said, his tone a little joyful.

"That's the site our friend was talking about last night, Sinon told us about it. I didn't think you be in that site as well." Asuna said, feeling a little comforting about Toshi.

"Yes, it helped me cope a little more, I still miss her," he said and kept looking into the tea, "You don't fully like me do you, I can tell Asuna is going to kill me." and they gasped, Asuna waving her hands reassuring.

"No, no, I won't! I mean, I did, but you don't seem like a bad person!" she said trying to defend herself.

"It's okay, I know it seems like I might be dangerous, espeically knowing Sachi. If you don't believe me, I can stay away from you all." he said and smiled to them. It was quiet to everyone, Kirito and Asuna were unable to talk and the same for Leafa. Yuuki wanted to say something to assure her friends Toshi was a good guy. It was Yui who finally spoke up, who had listen completely to his words.

"I listened to your story, your feelings are true. No way you could fake it." she said smiling happily at him, "Mama, Papa, he's telling the truth."

"Really, it's not a glitch he's bypassing, is it?" Kirito asked, looking down to his daughter. She shook her head, feeling there's no glitch going on.

"Well I beleive you, no way someone would help someone with no motive. You helped me and was nice to me, you didn't try anything than being yourself. Plus, you told us your real name, would anyone do that?" she asked, looking the others.

"I know Toshi longer than anyone, even as long as my Sleeping Knight friends, I can assure you he's a great guy. I wouldn't lie about that." Yuuki said, smiling to Asuna and Kirito.

"I know you wouldn't hold anything back after learning about you, I believe you," Asuna said looking at him with a smile on her face, "I was worried you could be someone pervert going after Leafa after saving her, but hearing more about you... It shows you are a good person. Sorry for the dead threats, I guess I can very over protective when I need to be."

"The same goes for me, I was worried about it as well, plus you did seem suspicious on why you saved Leafa. But hearing your story, even Yui assuring your words are true, I misjudged you. You are a okay guy." Kirito added smiling at Toshi.

"Asuna... Kirito... Leafa... thank you," Toshi said before blushing, chuckling as he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Wow, feel kind of put on the spot now."

"You are a good person, so how about we start over," Kirito said and held out his hand to shake his, "I'm Kirito, nice to meet you."

"My name's Asuna, nice to meet you Toshi." Asuna said happily holding out her hand.

"I'm Leafa, nice to meet you. And thanks for saving me." Leafa said happily.

"I'm Yui, nice to mee you Toshi!" Yui said happily.

"I'm Toshi, nice to meet you, Kirito, Yui, Asuna, Leafa." he said, one by one shook everyone's hands (and shook Yui's small hands with his thumb and index finger. Yuuki watched on as any misunderstandings between them felt washed away and what looks like a new friendship was to be bloomed.

"Okay, now with that cleared up," Kirito added and brought up his menu, going to his messages and typed it something to someone, Asuna and Leafa looked on and Leafa said in shook of what the last message from their friends was.

"Liz was gonna do that, is that in even possible?" she asked in disbelief.

"Knowing Liz, it might be. But let them know he's a good guy." Asuna said her head to her boyfriend's shoulder. Toshi looked at Yuuki in confusion at what was going on, but she shrugged, best not explaining is better than opening another can of worms.

After smoothing over two issues, Toshi and the others started telling stories of their times in Virtual Reality Games. Kirito and Asuna told their stories of Sword Art Online, which felt like the billionth time they told people. Toshi was amazed about what really happened, of course something about Kirito not talking about his in between events being called a beater to his reveal of being a Dual Blades user did surprise him, was it something personal he didn't want anyone else to know, even him? When it came to how Asuna and Kirito became a couple to finding and losing Yui, he felt a little choked up, they been through a lot. The 'glitch' that happened during Kirito's fight with Kayaba did surprise him, he remembered that several players did get trapped in SAO from other servers, hard to believe it was true. Of course this let Leafa to tell her side of the story and her adventures with them. Getting through their events of Svart Alfheim adventures and their battle against the guild Shamrock was interesting to hear up close, learning more about their leader Seven and her older sister Rain, and how they stopped her. But they instead made two new friends in the end of it all. Toshi decided to talk more about himself, telling about someone of the cool drops he found, how he occasionally visited where Liz and Agil work at, and just enjoying ALO on his own. Hours upon hours passed and they have becoming closer to each other than was around 6pm when finally it was time for Toshi to get home to make dinner for his family, so he got up from the table and looked to everyone.

"Looks like I should be logging out now, I have to make dinner for my sister and our family again." he said opening his menu.

"I know the feeling, I do most of the cooking. Trying to leach Leafa before she almost put me in the hospital." Kirito said to which Leafa pouted at him angerly.

"I've gotten better, you're mean brother!" she she making Toshi laugh.

"Well, I'll be off. I want to meet the rest of your friends tomorrow, same time okay?" he asked.

"Sure, how about in the main city, that'll be best to meet up." Kirito replied, putting a note to not forget.

"Great, later guys!" he waved and logged out, vanishing in blue light. It was now just Yuuki, Kirito, Asuna, Leafa, and Yui now, Yuuki taking Toshi's spot to face them.

"What a nice guy, Toshi-kun is very different than what we imagined." Asuna said at once, already getting over the fact she was going to kill the boy.

"Told you he's a nice guy," Yuuki said happily, "You just need to know him."

"Glad we did, looks like he's been through a lot himself," Kirito agreed before his face looked solemn, "He knew Sachi. I wish I got to know her better before..."

"Kirito-kun..." Asuna said softly, putting a hand to his own hand, trying to cheer him up. He still misses her, they were close from how Asuna was told. It's understanding how it felt, especially the deaths of the Moonlit Black Cats. That's something no one can get over. Yui floated over to put a hand to her papa's cheek, wanting to make him feel better.

"In a way, I relate to Toshi a lot," Yuuki said, her tone not at all cheerful, "Mon, Dad, sis, all are gone. But I'm still here, living my life. When I thought I was going to die, I wanted to leave my mark on Alfheim Online so that everyone will remember me. That's why I started the Sleeping Knights with my sister, so in the end, we would not be forgotten. But if I never met you all, I probably wouldn't have that chance. I got to go to school, something I haven't done in ages, I owe you both, Asuna, Kirito," Yuuki put her hand to her chest plate closing her eyes with a smile, "You gave me strength to live on, I was so happy my condition was better. I could keep on living for all of you, and my family."

"You're welcome Yuuki, plus you helped me too, so we're even." Asuna replied, smiling to the Imp.

"You guys are lucky, I will ways feel like the newcomer to all the things you all been through." Leafa said feeling indifferent to everything her brother and friends have been though.

"Don't worry, you got a brother who's faced death in the face many times to save all those players and beat SAO. In the grand scheme of things, you'll always be one of us." Asuna said putting a hand to Leafa's shoulder. Leafa smiled, looking to the Undine.

"Right. Thanks Asuna."

Toshiyuki was making dinner and setting the table when he had logged out from Alfheim Online, a apron around his body as he was stir a ladle in a pot. It wasn't long that he found him cheek being poked by a fingernail. He turned around to see a girl a few years older than him. Her caramel brown hair was a lighter shade over his, wearing it longer behind her back in a long ponytail. He could tell she just got up from her bed, seeing the long blue shirt and shorts were on her body. Her eyes were the same brown as his as she continued to poke him.

"Hey Iroha." he said dryly, waiting for her to stop poking his cheek finally.

"Hey to you too. So what were you up to, you usually be questing. What kept you?" she asked, her tone quite teasing of her voice.

"I was talking with a new friend I met yesterday." he explained, still stirring.

"Who?" she asked, taking a seat at the table to face him.

"A Sylph named Leafa." he said, causing Iroha to jump up from her chair in shock.

"What?! She's a girl?!" she exclaimed.

"Yes, I have girls as friends, Yuuki-chan of my territory remember?" he asked putting a hand to his side, hoping this wasn't crazy he has girls as friends.

"What she like and what are you been up to with her?" she asked, her tone getting more concerned.

"We only just met yesterday sis." he said, turning away to her keeping smiling, "Plus I got to make some brand new friends out of it." he added and smiled cheerfully. Iroha caught that smile, it was the happiest Toshiyuki ever looked in days. It was like he had a totally different personality now. She got up to wrap up her arms around him, startling him.

"Iroha!" he gasped, completely startled by this affection.

"Why the big smile Toshi-kun, you never have such a smile on your face." she teased, poking his cheeks again.

"It's nothing sis. Just... I can't wait to go to Alfheim again to meet my new friends tomorrow." he responded, seeing the faces of Kirito, Asuna, Leafa, and Yui in his mind's eye smiling to him as he smiled back at them.

"I see. Well hurry and finish up, don't forget the chop the carrots." Iroha instructed letting him go.

Toshi chuckled, still a big smile on his face. "I won't."

"So Toshi is a good guy, well that changes everything." Shino said, the girls and Kirito in their group video chat again like before. After eating with his sister and her aunt, he decided to explain everything that happened when they talked to Toshi and got his full story, "Well, I guess from how you told us, he's a ALO player who was freinds with Sachi?"

"That surprised me too, then again, none of us knew her outside Kirito-Kun." Asuna said, remembering that most of them didn't know her well.

"Or that he was a regular on that site." Rika said remembering the other day's conversation.

"I guess we was wrong to judge him, good we check into that before we attacked him." Keiko said with a sigh of relief, her cat Pina meowing on her lap as usual.

"And we had Yui, she could tell being a former Counseling Program in Sword Art Online, she could tell his feelings were true or not." Kotone said, nodding that things turned out well.

"But you know, it's refreshing to have someone close to our age gonna be a part of our group. Don't get wrong Klein and Agil are awesome, but Agil is married and a adult. Klein is single and would flirt with any girl regardless of age. Better someone who has a little control," Rika said before adding, "Plus he's not some hot guy, just enough average to be one of us."

"Wow, is that how you treat someone who has a custom sword from you?" Kazuto asked dryly hearing Rika just diss the poor boy.

"Hey, he's cute, but not my type," she assured them with a smile.

"Still, it's going to be nice to him to meet all of us, Did you let both Nanairo and Nijika know?" Asun asked, wondering if the two girls can visit too.

"If Nanoiro can escape from Shamrock, she can visit. Actually, both will be in the same area so they can spend time with each other for the summer. She said she'll try to find time to see her old sister." Kazuto said, remembered her messages from Professor Rainbow herself.

"It's gonna be a great summer. So we're going to the school's pool. Saturday right?" Keiko asked.

"Yeah, getting permission wasn't easy. Although, we'll need a guardian to make sure we're safe. Doesn't Toshi have a older sister?" Rika asked curiously.

"Yeah, we can ask him is she can watch us., in a odd sense, she's our senpai so we should ask her if it's okay." Asuna said.

"Speaking of pools, don't you guys have summer homeroom from your school to do?" Shino asked and the Sword Art Online survivors all groan in disappointment.

"Thanks Shino, we were just trying to not think about it," Rika groaned, "Let's plan a study session to get through them. I want to enjoy summer without homework, thanks for that slap of reality. It sucks we have summer homework. We were basically heroes, but alas we have to live normal lives."

"We only saved the day not once but twice, yet not everyone knows about the whole mess with Shamrock, but everyone know what happened in SAO. If you ask me, I like the peace from being treated like a hero all the time," Kazuto said, "That's just me."

"I guess," Rika groaned, "by the way, when you told me that Toshi visit that site, he posts there mostly on weekends or as looking through the pages all the time, looks like he really was shaken up by her death." Rika stated, changing the subject from homework and heroes to Toshi.

"I wouldn't blame him. That's a dear friend he lost, I do that if it means my own self therapy." Shino said, relating a bit to him as well. She can never get over what happen when she was young, shooting a bank robber who was going to hurt her mom and seeing the sight that happen. In a sense it was his rehabilitation from the past.

"Toshi-kun really had it rough," Keiko said, "Than again, our families were happy we came back alive. What would it been if we did die?"

Everyone felt silent, none of them knew what they could say. They spent two years trying to survive the death game, but not the idea of dying. Even Asuna who at the beginning of her two years didn't care about dying, actually kept going on living and surviving after even getting know Kirito and Rika. But from how Suguha said in ALO, how she felt went he was trapped, wondering how Suguha would have felt if he had never came back of them meeting in SAO? Keiko realized the landmine she made and felt embarrassed that she said that.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to turn this chat dark." she said, her face turning red.

"No, it's okay. We all just don't really talk about it much," Rika said waving a hand in the video feed, "Then again, our conversations are about other things."

"Like What stories Shino gives us. By the way Shino, that one where that boy was a girl, explain?" Kotone asked, feeling it wasn't the oddest thing the girl has shared with them.

"Well, wasn't it interesting?" Shino asked, not really bothered by the concept and found fascinating.

"Better than the other story you sent us when Keiko wasn't in the chat," Kazuto said, "Many very racy things, we really shouldn't let anyone at school or our families know."

"It's not the worse thing. by the way, where's Suguha anyway?" Asuna asked.

"Well..." Kazuto said trailing off, taking his computer screen camera to show his bed and Suguha was sleeping there, "After we finished eating, she just wanted to talk and just fell asleep." Suguha was sleeping so soundly in Kazuto's bed, it looked wrong to disturb her.

"She acts it, but more of a little kid than Keiko is." Kotone said grinning, and Keiko huffed at being called just a kid.

"Well she's 'adult' in certain ways." Rika said with a smirk. Kazuto sighed, shaking his head.

"You find ways to make things weird Rika." he said to the pink haired girl. Rika only responded with a wink of her left eye.

"That is what what I do." she said with pride in her voice.

"Well, getting late again. we'll all be meeting at the main town in ALO." Asuna reminded them.

"Right, night Asuna-san! Kazuto-san!" Keiko waved and logged out from the video chat.

"Night everyone! And Kazuto, give Suguha a kiss goodnight!" Rika teased making kissing faces before logging out. Asuna, Kotone, Shino, and Kazuto sighed, they were used to her teasing but it was just Rika being herself than usual.

"Don't do it, not only Suguha will get the wrong idea, just giving into her ideas." Shino said.

"I won't, I'll let her sleep in my bed tonight. Night guys." Kazuto said, waving to his girlfriend and friends.

"Night!" and the girls exited out their video chat. Kazuto got up from his computer chair and to his bed, seeing his cousin sleeping so peacefully that waking her up would be wrong. So taking the covers, he tucked the girl into his bed and grabbed a pillow from his closet and a extra futon as well. He stared at his ceiling with a smile on his face, his thoughts on Toshi much more positive now. Someone who not only knew Sachi, but was affected terribly by her death. But at the end of it all, was able to keep being happy. Then of course, his skills as a ALO player. If he was around just as long as those like Yuuki and Suguha, then he be a great opponent to face. Kazuto felt like Toshi will be a excellent challenge.

But best rest up, have a new friend to introduce to everyone.

Next Time: Imp and Spriggian! Kirito vs Toshi

Michael: And that's chapter two, short but it only has one event for it and really, after already having all the cast minus Klein and Agil in the last chapter, kept it small. So Toshi is connected to Sachi's real life only minor but it shouldn't take too much from her as a character since well she only appeared in one episode of the anime but her impact has affected Kirito as a person. Now I will be honest, I never read a Leafa x OC outside a one where she, Sinon, and Lizbeth like him, but that's it. Actually none of Sachi stories to see her have friends outside the computer club/Moonlit Black Cats, and yes I brought up that site Sinon brought up that links it together. So to me it's my own thing without rewritten Sachi as a character. Playing this chapter serious wasn't easy, but show that character with everyone, and yes Asuna was going to murder the poor boy if he was bad person. Can you blame her, Kayaba, Sugou I be red alert as well. But don't worry, it's not gonna be that chestnut. I assure you, he's not going to be evil. I like Leafa, having her suffer isn't my plan. Have her find someone to kind of relate to and bond to my idea. I did my best to keep everyone in character, wish I gave Yui a little more lines, but her part of this chapter was to show Toshi was a good person, he wasn't a glitch or a NPC or someone dangerous, but it's clear she relates to sadness well with all she saw during the launch of Sword Art Online. I'll try to add her two cents another time. Chapter three will have everyone meet Toshi and his sister and yes, let's just say you won't be surprised the kind of sister she is... no she doesn't want to marry him, let's pray you aren't thinking that. Leafa and Kirito are already the target of negativity to that whole drama, let's leave it at that. And the next chapter will have the fight between Kirito and Toshi, and no it's not going to be one sided, Kirito won't be overpowered and neither as Toshi. Toshi is at the strength of Leafa and Yuuki to name a few, both who can hold their own. This will also show off that Original Sword Skill that he has. And get ready for more Lizbeth teasing, because what's never wrong about that? Everyone will appear including Rain and Seven, so the whole cast. And thanks for who like and follow this story, I don't expect a big follow or need it, it make me happy I made a good story. Still brainstorming chapters, fourteen of twenty-five to thirty chapter plan, going into Norse lore isn't easy, but I'll do my best that I did my research. And the next chapter, my plan for the Toshi vs. Kirito fight to be 3,000+ words long, not just for the action, but the character interact.

That's all, see you when I update again.