Well. I got two Comments better then nothing I guess.

Disclaimer: I do not own .hack or any of the characters from the games/shows/manga or novels.

Some of the characters in this story are products of my own and my friends imagination.

This chapter came out rather short. I believe the next one is longer. ^--^ Its really just a character intro so please enjoy.

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Light blue cotton sheets rustled as the body curled up underneath them stretched out and moved. A mop of dark red hair poked out from under the covers, light blue eyes peeking out at the red florescent numbers flashing on his alarm clock. At seventeen, Isamu Nanaimo was glad it was summer break.

Scratching the back of his head, the redhead boy sat up and yawned before making his way down to the kitchen. He noticed the note his parents left him saying they were out for the day as he grabbed something quick to eat from the fridge. His orange tabby ran at his feet as he returned to his room and flopped down noisily. Loading up his computer he grabbed his M2D headset and put it on. After several seconds, he started up his new favorite past time; THE WORLD: A NEW DAWN.

Isamu was a gamer.

Old games, new games, boring games; name it and he's at least tried it out. He was a B student in school and surrounded himself with people so his parents didn't exactly mind that he spent all his spare time trying out new games.

When the original WORLD first came out, he was told that he was too young to play it and wouldn't understand how it worked. Even when R:2 came out, he was unable to play it. His parents wouldn't buy it for him and he was still a little underage to get a job so was left out when his classmates and friends would talk about their recent quests and adventures.

When A NEW DAWN was released, he attempted at getting a part time job. Finding one was simple, not getting fired from it however proved to get more and more difficult. He went without the game for nearly a year until his birthday came around. An aunt he barely knew stopped by during the party his friends threw for him and surprised him with a new copy of A NEW DAWN. It was the gamers ultimate game and he finally had one of his own.

The menu screen loaded up, his background music of choice echoing in his ears. Isamu flicked the joystick, spinning his menu around to his inbox. He had been playing for several months now and had a few friends, some of which had sent him reply emails. He scrolled through the 'how are yous?' and the 'I'll be off for a little while. On vacation!' messages until he reached the last message on his list. blue eyes stared at the screen. There was no sender, no subject, no icon picture. Nothing to tell him who had sent him this email. Curiosity got the best of him and he clicked it open, now looking at two sentences.

Isamu Nanaimo

You have been activated

He stared blankly at the email. 'what the hell does that mean? How do they know my name?' He thought, hitting delete and watching the mini loading screen pop up as the message disappeared from his inbox. Shaking his head he decided that it was nothing more then a prank by a hacker and shouldn't let it bother him. The seventeen year old scrolled over to the enter option, clicking into the game. There were messages on the board but he never bothered to read those. They had nothing to do with him.

Upon entering the main server Mac Anu, He swiveled the other joystick on his controller to look around. His headset was over flowed with the casual conversations nearby, the music in the background and the sound effects of the old Italian setting around him.

He looked down at his computer counter part; his in gaming self, Belial. He was dressed in black, baggy pants tucked into belted up boots. He wore a sleeveless turtle neck, bare arms lined with intricate tattoos. The only connection between his game character and himself was the dark red hair and light blue eyes they shared. At his sides sat his guns. When he made his character months ago, he had a difficult time choosing from the several job classes. Adept Rogue had originally interested him until he scrolled down and saw the newest class option, dual gunner,

Belial walked over to the chaos gate, picking his three keywords for the delta server and teleporting to the area of choice. It was a grassy field with clear blue skies and calming music. Monsters lurking around in different sections. He often came to plain levels like this to train by himself. Parties were only good for quests and leveling up in high leveled dungeons or entering a dungeon with a boss instead of a beast statue

Looking around, he targeted the nearest enemy and ran into a battle

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