Disclamer: I do not in any way shape or form own .hack or its characters.

Notes: Ages- Tsukasa, Mimiru, Kite, BlackRose, Mistral, Mireille, Subaru - around 16 or 17.

Sora, Crim, Silver Knight, Ouka- late 20's

BT, Sanjuro, Helba- Late 30's

Hotaru- around 7 or 8

This is my first fan fic ever written, so review with constructive criticism. FYI, constructive criticism is when you tell the person what they are doing wrong and how to fix it; not just telling a person that they suck and have make a bunch of mistakes.

Summary: An alternate universe where the game characters from dothack are not game characters, but real people. It is not part of a game, but reality itself. Tsukasa is a parentless child living in the city of Dun Loireag. After having an unusual field adventure will his classmates, his boring life starts to change, but will it be for better or worse?

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DotHack: Reality ch. 5

By: TsukasaTheFominian

Tsukasa sat in a waiting room at the Silver Knight head quarters, waiting for his impending death. Though everyone had been saved from Sora's attack, the others had seen his Guardian and knew that he was the one who summoned it. He knew that one of them would be a good little citizen and turn him in for having illegal powers, and that would be the end of his life. Nobody really knew why it was so wrong to have power's that were too strong, it was never explained , it was just assumed that the Administrators didn't want anyone to have more then they did, but that never sat well with Tsukasa. They could easily just as easily try to make the person one of the leaders, but they never did, even with the youngest child. It was very strange and completely unfair.

The door to the his room opened and Tsukasa knew that his time had come. The only bright side to his death was that he had spent a little time in one of the most amazing rooms that he had ever seen. Through out the entire complex, there were walls painted red and no chips or fading could be seen anywhere. The pillars in the hall ways were perfect and had beautiful golden designs of monsters, warriors and dragons on them. Tsukasa's own room had an extremely comfortable couch in with amazing wood work and incredibly soft feather pillows. It also had tables with priceless vases which had flowers in them, making the entire room smell incredibly nice.

The one at the door turned out to be a servant girl who worked at the HQ, named Mistral. She had been the only person Tsukasa had seen since they had been taken to Mac Anu for questioning. He hadn't even had a little bit of time to talk to others privately to see if they were going to keep quiet about his powers. Mistral was really very talkative and didn't mind that she was having a one sided conversation since Tsukasa never was voluntarily part of a conversation. She told him about her life working with the knights and her twin sister named Mireille who had a love of anything rare and was an amazing treasure hunter at the age of 17. Both were Wave Masters and both even had the same type of magic staff. Now Mistral told him to just follow him so he could have his meeting with Lady Subaru, Leader of the Knights.

Many said Subaru was too young to be in politics, only being about the same age as Mistral, but she had proven time and again that she had wisdom and responsibility far beyond her years. Some even said that the Administrators could even take a leaf out of her book. Tsukasa finally entered Subaru's room and was shocked by what he saw inside, the room was void of all the beauty that was in every other room he had seen. The walls were still painted red, but there was no decorative designs anywhere, no silk furniture, no priceless vases, no intricate wood work. Everything was plain and there was still not much even at that. There was only one table with a glass vase with was filled with flowers, a bed, a couch, a few chairs, a chest, a cabinet, and a bookshelf which was filled top to bottom with books.

Mistral had quickly left after saying hello to Subaru and introducing Tsukasa and the two of them were left alone. Subaru noticed Tsukasa observing her quarters and was quick to answer the questions that he didn't ask.

"I don't feel comfortable living with such fine things as are in the rest of the grounds. I grew up in a simple way and have never really grown accustomed to living with great luxuries. I try not to treasure material objects and to make myself rich, others need that comfort more then I. The one thing I really do treasure in this room are my books."

Tsukasa had met people who talked like Subaru, who preached about how they were so humble. Tsukasa had know for a fact that those people only said those things to make others worship them, but for some reason he didn't believe that Subaru was like that. He felt like he could trust Subaru's word, her eyes spoke in sincerity, wisdom, and kindness; and her body spoke confidence. Tsukasa couldn't really help but admit that Subaru was extremely beautiful. Her hair seemed to be a perfect blue color and was nice and tame. Her face seemed to be that of a goddess, and she just seemed to radiate self confidence and inner strength. Tsukasa's feelings were so intense for this woman that it was almost scary, mainly because he hadn't felt anything like that in a long time. Not even he realized his that the last time he had felt anything this strongly was when he was a little child with his mother, back in a time when he had once been happy and loved.

Subaru, however, could not see past icy exterior. Even though Tsukasa was having feelings for Subaru, he didn't let any of it show. He learned long ago that showing emotion right off the bat was a spell for disaster, so he did not let it show to the Lady. "What do you want from me, didn't the others tell you what happened already?"

"Yes, but every person involved with a crime as great as this is a witness, and may know something that others do not. Your and Mimiru's story is the original for what happened with Sora. Though Kite and Black Rose both important, I'd still like to hear what you remember seeing after you entered into the field."

Tsukasa was tempted to just tell Subaru to go to hell since he was doomed anyways, but he decided against it. One, because he like Subaru for some reason; and two, he figured that they may not kill him if he just cooperated. He decided to just tell her almost everything, leaving out the parts about his full powers, the Guardian, and that he had Sora's Member address. After he got done talking, Tsukasa was ready to ask a few of his own questions.

"Who alerted the Knights to what was happening?"

"We don't know, we simply got a message that the bandit Sora was terrorizing a party in a certain location. The person sent it annonomously."

Tsukasa then knew that his messages had also been blocked as well as their warping, but that was a power that not even he knew existed.

"So what happens to us now?"

"I will have Crim escort you back to Dun Loireag, so you will remain safe. He will explain everything to your parents or guardians so you will get into no trouble with them."

"So I'm not going to be detained here?"

Subaru only looked at him in wonder. "Why would you, you have each given your testimony, and all your stories line up with each other, and Sora won't be able to get to you if you stay in a town for a while, so why would you be kept here?."

"I just thought that since we were witnesses and were attacked, then something more would happen." Tsukasa was able to tell this lie quickly because of years of paractice.

Subaru was tempted to be fooled, but the word "detained" had caught her attention. Subaru could see that Tsukasa had been expecting to gain some sort of punishment or arrest for something, but nobody had said anything about him doing something illegal. The others had actually praised him for being the one to protect everyone from Sora with his shield, but now she wasn't sure. Crim had said that they had all just been standing around when the knights had arrived. No sign of even a broken shield and Sora wasn't even attacking them. She knew that they were telling her most of the story, but not all of it.

Since Crim had yet to arrive with the others, Tsukasa was free to ask something that had been on his mind since the Knights had tried to capture Sora. "Why did Crim stay behind to protect us when he could have easily taken on Sora and captured him?"

Subaru didn't feel up to answering another's personal questions, but luckily Crim had been opening the door while he spoke and saved her from answering. "I'll tell you that later, but right now we need to get everyone home, so don't keep them waiting."

Subaru greeted Crim with warmth, affection, and love in her voice. Tsukasa could tell this right away, but could not understand that Subaru only loved Crim, and was not IN love with him. She knew that Crim loved someone else, but Tsukasa didn't have this knowledge and was instantly jealous of Crim for having Subaru's affection.

Subaru then turned to Tsukasa and took his hand. "I really enjoyed spending time with you Tsukasa, even if it was just an interrogation, and I really do wish we can see each other again."

Tsukasa was now confused because of his belief that Subaru was in love with Crim, and was angry that she would play with his emotions like that, so he simply tore himself away from the sweet lady and rudely left without a word. While Subaru was confused and hurt by Tsukasa's rudeness, Crim was immediately able to see it as jealously and told his lady not to take it personally, and that he would talk to Tsukasa before he had to leave him.

Crim found all of the children in the entrance hallway and proceeded to take them to the Chaos Gate. He told them all that he would take Kite home, then Black Rose, then Mimiru, then Tsukasa. While the others didn't mind, Tsukasa knew it was so they could talk privately, he suspected that Crim wanted to yell at him for being rude and possibly even hurt him for it. He dismissed the second part immediately because he could tell that Crim wasn't that type of person, but Tsukasa usually thought of physical harm as one of the first things to happen.

While walking through the city, many of the group took the time to look around at all the buildings and some of the statues of famous warriors and treasure hunters. None of them had been to this city except for some occasional minute purpose. There was one statue that Tsukasa dreaded to walk by, but did anyways and was rewarded by having to stop and hear the many stories of the Blade Master, Tomo-yuki. Each child besides Tsukasa wanted to ask Crim, who had never met the man in person and really knew nothing, if the stories about him were true. The girls wanted to know if he really had wavy blond hair, a perfect lean body, beautiful purple eyes, and a smile that could make anyone faint. Kite wanted to know if the stories of all his adventures were true. If he really could defeat a field of monsters all by himself, if he could wield a blade better then the Descendants of Fiona, about how kind and generous he was, about...

"SHUT UP!!"

Everyone in the area looked at an enraged Tsukasa, who had grown increasingly angry at how THAT man could get praise. He stormed off towards the Chaos Gate, pissed of about how people could really be so gullible as to give a man who was unloving and cruel as his father so much praise.

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A/N: I couldn't think of a character I wanted to be Tsukasa's Father, so I just made one up. I thought about putting Balmung as the cruel father, but I like him and don't want him to be that way. I also considered that Komian III guy from .hack:Legend but...(shudders). Tsukasa loves Subaru, Crim loves someone else, and Tsukasa has a dark past with his father, I'm evil for leaving you hanging like this. And Bear will be introduced in the next chapter, possibly Orca as well but you never know.