The Next Day...Morning...

Obito observed the large area of his video game domain through his mask as the sun arose over the digital hills though it looked realistic to him. It was as he remembered exactly from his real world. 'It's all going to plan. Those who interfere shall be destroyed. I hope no one is too dumb to attempt, but then again... There are some...it's redundant.' Obito thought before he disappeared into a ripple originating from his right eye.

Meanwhile...

Kirito entered the world of NSO once more. He and his friends regroup in a small cabin they rented out for the night. Today was the day they were going for the one mentioned in the bounty, Zabuza Momochi, in order to get the money needed to exchange for Riaru's powerful sword to replace Kirito's old one. "Okay, let's go." Kirito said walking off, he almost left the door when he was stopped by Leafa.

"Wait." Leafa goes over to Kirito and holds out to him her Forest Blade.

"Leafa?" Kirito questioned what she was doing and he was hesitant to take the blade.

"You need a temporary weapon. I'll be fine without it." Leafa said gesturing for Kirito to take her blade. "Please, you need it more than I do." She pleaded for him to take the sword.

Kirito first looked around and saw his other friends were nodding for him to take the blade in front of him. He narrowed his eyes on the blade and put his hand on the handle. "Okay." He takes the blade and puts it into his inventory. "I promise I'll give it back." Kirito walks out the door with the others following him.

Outskirts of Konohagakure...

Somewhere in the forest, the team walked towards where the map pointed out the bounty area was, which was covered by a large red shading. It was a little far, but probably worth it in the end since it was 1,000,000 ryo. This type of mission was done by chunin, two ranks ahead so this was a big push for the team.

"Hey, you aren't heading for the land of waves are you?" Someone came into view saying those words. He was about 19-20 years old. He wore a ragged and torn battle kimono, with fingerless gloves, boots, and mesh armor over his body. He possessed silvery-grey hair with red eyes, and his skin was a pale-peach color.

"Yeah, why?" Kirito replied bluntly.

"It's a little dangerous for young people like you. Isn't it?" The man mentioned.

"Doesn't matter, we're in the middle of a bounty hunt." Klein said walking to say his words to the man.

The man tilts his head. "Forget it, you'll all just be killed. It's not the best of ideas."

"Yeah right, we need the money from this bounty." Klein mentioned. "So please get out of our way."

"I cannot allow you to pass." The man said. "Only chunin and above stand a chance of surviving." He mentions.

Asuna walked to him and asked. "Who are you anyways?" She said with her hands on her hips.

"Saizo. At your service." Saizo said. "And..." Saizo took out a sword, it looked like a bone with spikes on it and a straight part for the handle. "I'm not afraid to stop you with force." He said wielding his sword.

Sinon takes a look at Saizo's data. He was a chunin. Health points 400, Chakra 340. He was pretty powerful.

"Well look Saizo. We need to move through." Sinon said and then walked by Saizo like he wasn't there.

Saizo grabs hold of Sinon's muffler with one hand and throws her backwards. Asuna catches her to help Sinon regain balance. "As I said. I can't allow it." Saizo said sternly.

"Look." Kirito began to speak closing his eyes. "We need to pass." Kirito said glaring at Saizo with his Sharingan, though he wasn't aware that his emotions had activated it. He voice was cold and strict.

Saizo looked in curiousity. 'I haven't seen those eyes yet. That must be the kekkei genkai of the Uchiha clan. I haven't seen it in person yet though...he might actually be able to?' Saizo's skull was pierced by Kirito's glare and words. He almost flinches, but he responds. "If you insist on passing. I will come with you, just in case." Saizo said.

"Whatever." Kirito's eyes turned back to normal as he walked by Saizo. "Come if you want." He said again. Asuna followed Kirito as well as the others following close behind.

'Interesting bunch.' Saizo thought as he followed.

What none of them saw was dark glowing eyes piercing the darkness behind the bushes staring at them. 'Could he be the one? I must confirm...' The eyes disappeared into pure darkness.

Land of Waves...

After a long boat ride over the ocean, the team arrived in the land of waves. It was kind of misty here. And in the game this wasn't safe territory. "This is it." Sinon said looking at her map. They were in the red zone.

"So where's this guy?" Kirito asked looking around.

Saizo looked behind him to see a large blade swinging at them like a boomerang. "DUCK!" Everyone ducked down hitting the dirt road to see the blade swing by over their heads and ramming directly into the nearby tree. Another person jumping onto the blade he stood with staring eyes at the group.

Kirito looked over the guy. He had a red bar over him so he was an enemy. "That's him." Sinon said confirming with her map and quest target identification.

"Okay, let's do this." Kirito takes out Leafa's Forest Blade to prepare for battle. Asuna takes out her rapier. Klein takes out his Raijin Katana. All the others took out their blades to prepare for battle. 'Get ready...' Kirito thought narrowing his eyes on Zabuza. The screen that everyone saw glowed red and the message showed.

-CAUTION!-

-BOSS BATTLE!-

-Zabuza Momochi-

"Let's go!" Kirito yelled out as he charged to Zabuza.

'Seriously...those brats are challenging me?' He thought. Zabuza jumps down from the tree off the handle of his blade and kicks Kirito right back with a single shot. "To think noobs like you would try and defeat me..." Zabuza mumbled to them.

'Noobs?' Asuna thought, 'Rude...'

Saizo takes out his bone shredder sword and attacks Zabuza clashing his blade with Zabuza's Executioner's Blade. Zabuza kicks Saizo right back again.

'Of course I didn't expect this to be easy.' Asuna thought. She, Silica and Sinon all charge at Zabuza at once with their weapons armed. Zabuza is struck by the three.

"Got him!" Leafa said happily.

'Did they?' Saizo thought in question. Zabuza's body disappeared in water. It was just a water clone that was struck by the three. "Look out!" Saizo yelled out as Zabuza came from behind Asuna and almost took her head off with his blade if it weren't for Saizo grabbing Asuna away with a quick grab. Kirito comes from behind Zabuza with his blade and strikes at him. He only took a little damage. Zabuza's health bar didn't decrease much. Only from 100% to 97%. Kirito's blade was just too weak to do much damage. Zabuza roars and strikes at Kirito with his blade slashing him directly.

Kirito goes tumbling down with red marks on his body where he was slashed. Since this was a game the cut disappeared, but Kirito's health went down from 250 to 150, otherwise 60% of health remaining.

'He's strong...' Kirito thought, another few hits on himself and he'd be done for. 'Okay, let's try.' Kirito goes through the hand signs. 'Fire style, Fireball Jutsu.' Kirito breathes a fireball at Zabuza who was already clashing with Agil, sword to sword. Saizo comes in from above with his sword. 'Nowhere to run.' Kirito thought.

Zabuza doesn't look when another person jumps in. Haku kicks Saizo away from her master. "Sorry. I'm late Master Zabuza." Haku said. Saizo smashes into a tree and groans as he falls over. A clone of Zabuza goes over the imprisons Saizo in a water prison and wasn't letting him go.

"It's fine." Zabuza disappears in water avoiding the fireball that passed by and then appears behind Agil kicking him into the pond nearby. "These guys are just brats. They won't last long..." Zabuza mumbled as he wielded his blade ready to attack again. Haku took out a senbon and wielded it like a kunai.

"So then...let's go!" Zabuza charges in with his blade first slashing at Asuna who ducks the attack, but she's then kicked by him. Sinon comes in from the air with an attack however Haku throws some needles at her slowing her down. Zabuza reacts in time to completely block the attack and send Sinon flying backwards.

"Fire Style, Burning Ash!" Agil unleashes a smoke cloud at Zabuza, the others retreated backwards to not get caught in the smoke. He trips the pin and the smoke explodes. 'Got him.'

"HUH?" Agil is surprised as Zabuza got behind him so quickly. Zabuza slashes at him, if this wasn't a game Agil would have had his body taken off his legs.

Zabuza jumps again at Kirito weaving signs of his own. "Water style, Water Bullets." A stream of water heads towards Kirito. Asuna and Leafa quickly take action, "Wind style, Gale Palm!" Both of them clapped their hands together and a wind bursts from the clap both blocking the water bullets as best they could. This bought Kirito enough time to jump away from the bullets.

Kirito takes out some shuriken and throws them. His body seemed to just know how. Zabuza blocks them easily with his blade. "Water Dragon Jutsu." A massive spiral of water goes from Zabuza forming a dragon shaped attack. Klein zooms through the attack quickly with his katana weakening the structure. Sinon goes in front of Kirito and strikes the dragon with her palm, though it weakened it enough, Sinon was still sent flying. "Go get em Kirito." Klein groaned.

Silica and Lisbeth continued to try and strike Haku only to miss each time from Haku's spinning and attacks. He slashes them both down and then throws senbon at them. "Look out!" Agil comes in quickly and stops the senbon with his sword. He nods to the ones behind him and gets ready to fight.

'To think they would sacrifice themselves to save him... I should continue watching...' A figure in the distance.

"Crystal Ice Mirror technique." Haku says. Many ice mirrors are created around Agil, Silica and Lisbeth. Haku's reflection is shown on all of them. They all look around in shock. 'Damn, which one's the real one?' Agil thinks in question. Haku's images all throw needles at them. "Oh no!" Kirito seeing the three getting nailed by needles all around and even looking like a hedgehog.

Agil- 10% Health

Silica- 5% Health

Lisbeth- 5% Health

'Can't move...' Klein mumbled. 'I can't help...' Sinon groaned. 'Damn...am I finished...can't get out of this prison...' Saizo thought.

'I won't let them die!' Kirito runs towards Haku's ice mirrors, he wasn't sure what exactly to do in this moment, but he ran anyways. "Oh really?" Zabuza moved quickly and held his blade over Leafa's head in a mere moment using the hidden mist jutsu. He could take her head off at any moment. "You're dead." Zabuza mumbled. Asuna runs over to try and help Leafa, only to be kicked by Zabuza again and landing into the pond nearby.

Kirito only caught both of them through his eyes, four of his friends dead? He couldn't even stand the thought in the split second. His emotions started taking over. Kirito's Sharingan activated again, his red eyes glowing. "AHHH!" He zooms over to Haku's ice mirror as more senbon are shot at the others. It was like he was moving in slow motion, but his eyes saw the needles as if they were moving 10 time slower than normally. Kirito quickly runs over and throws shuriken aiming directly at the needles stopping a few and throwing kunai at the others, using the rebounding needles to stop more. All 100 needles were stopped with extremely careful timing and aim, Kirito wasn't even sure how did it himself.

'Too bad.' Zabuza thought, a mere second later and he would have taken Leafa's head off, but a second was too late. It was like something stopped him a quick swipe of the katana. Zabuza suddenly felt like his blade couldn't go further. It was like an invisible hand stopped his arm from going forward. 'Too bad for you...'

Kirito reacted with the time he had, which was more time than his regular could see. Kirito throws a quick needle that he grabbed from Haku's attack himself and he nails Zabuza's arm which was holding his blade. Leafa quickly ducks the attack with the second and jumps away. The prison holding Saizo also disappeared with Zabuza's injury.

"Now's my chance!" Kirito runs at Zabuza, he also catches a glimpse of Saizo. "Kirito!" Saizo throws his bone shredder sword at Kirito who catches it with ease, now dual wielding his swords he continues to charge. Zabuza despite his arm attacks Kirito too. Kirito stops Zabuza's blade with the forest blade and then nails Zabuza in the stomach with his bone shredder piercing through his body. Zabuza drops his sword on the ground as Kirito follows up with precise slashes, even more skilled now that he was using the Sharingan. Zabuza's health bar turned lower and lower. "HA!" Kirito slashes with an X-formation and Zabuza's body shatters into crystals and is destroyed. The screen glowing green showed the message.

-WINNER!-

"Ha...ha..." He panted. 'I did it.' Kirito had won the boss battle.

Agil quickly takes action while Haku was distracted by his master being defeated. "Fire Style, Burning Ash!" Smoke gathers all around Haku's ice mirrors which are then exploded by Agil tripping the pin, he run out carrying Silica and Lisbeth to just barely avoid the explosion. Haku coughing as he got out of the attack, Klein rushes in. "FLYING RAIJIN SLICE!" Moving quickly Klein puts a lot of chakra into slashing Haku making his health go lower. Saizo jumped slashing Haku with what seemed to be a blade that was made out of bones. The odd thing was it seemed to just come out of his body. Haku shattered into crystals.

As Kirito suddenly glowed an odd color. He checked his profile as his rank changed to Genin. He had ranked up with the experience he had from the battle. "I ranked up." Kirito said in excitement. "Good job Kirito." Asuna said putting her hand on his shoulder. "Eh, you're little wet..." Kirito mumbled. "Oh..." Asuna laughed a little sheepishly. She twists her hair to let some of the water out. "Good job." Klein said with a thumbs up. "Congratulations." Leafa added. Saizo walked up to him last. "Well... You're better than I imagined." Saizo said with a smile.

Saizo walks over to Zabuza's sword, which seemed to not disappear. "I think you should keep this too." Saizo said giving it to Kirito. "Woah!" Kirito drops to his knees by how heavy the sword was. "I think I'll keep it for now..." Agil said putting the sword in his inventory, he was better at wielding swords like that anyways. "Oh yeah, here." Kirito said giving Saizo back his sword. Saizo nods and puts it back in his inventory. "And." He gives the forest blade back to Leafa. "Thank you." Leafa gladly accepted it back.

Kirito checks his items. His ryo count had increased to 1,005,000 so he now had enough to trade Riaru for his new sword. "Thanks, all of you." Kirito said.

"It's fine." Asuna replied. "We're behind you all the way." Klein said with loyalty. "Every day." Sinon added. "Of course." Silica added. "All as one." Agil said.

"We'll meet again for sure, Kirito." Saizo disappeared in smoke.

"Yeah." Kirito nodded. "Let's go too." They all nodded and headed back to the leaf village.

Konohagakure...

Riaru was just minding his own business as he walked through the streets. Kirito and the others rushed up to him panting from trying to look for them. "You all look like a mess." Riaru commented.

"Nevermind that." Kirito said while panting. "I've got your money. Time to fork over your sword."

"Oh, okay!" Riaru quickly takes it out. It was indeed the same one. Kirito went to his menu and was ready to transfer the ryo to Riaru.

"Okay, 1,000,000 ryo please!" Riaru said cheerfully. Kirito accepted and transferred to ryo to Riaru's account. "Wow! You actually got it!"

"Did you seriously think we'd fail?" Asuna asked.

"YES!" Riaru said bluntly.

"Nevermind here you go." Riaru handed the sword. Kirito happily accepted it.

"Pleasure doing business!" Riaru disappeared. He still was as happy as can be.

Kirito analyzed his blade. It looked interesting. "Try it out." Klein suggested, Kirito nodded.

Fields Nearby the Outskirts of Konohagakure...

Kirito had found five rogue ninja in the wild. The others stood back as Kirito attacked them with his newly acquired sword. A single slash, that was all it took for Kirito to shatter the ninja to pieces. Kirito glared in shock of the immense power his new sword had. He nodded with more than satisfaction, that boss battle was worth it.

'Just you wait, Phoenix, Bayahiki. I'll stop you both...' He said, more confident then ever, but he knew he still had a long road ahead of himself. But now, he was one step closer.

Meanwhile...

'Impressive...even wielding a weak weapon he's impressive. He's the one, I'm almost certain...we'll have to adjust our plan. He's the one...'