A/N: Hello readers, and a happy new year to all of you. This chapter is a little on the short side unfortunately. I tried making it longer, but when I looked over it, the chapter didn't look good that way. So the final product is this. I hope you all like it.

Kouichirou's car sped through the city streets as he made his way to the hospital. There wasn't much time left until Asuna would be married to that bastard Sugou. He had to hurry if they were going to stop his plan.

The Yuuki son drove up to the hospital parking lot. His car pulled to a stop with a screech as he got out and ran towards the front entrance.

"There he is! Stop him!"

He picked up the pace as he heard Sugou's men behind him. Clearly Klein hadn't been able to hold them at bay for long. He noticed there were fewer of them than before, so perhaps Klein had managed to do something. Kouichirou just hoped that he was alright.

As he ran, Koichirou tripped over and fell. He quickly got to his feet and started running again after making sure the drive containing Yui was still in his pocket. Unfortunately, his stumble, Sugou's men were gaining on him and closing in fast.

From the entrance of the hospital, Liz came out and waved her arms in the air to get Asuna's brother's attention. "Here! Over here!"

Koichirou knew what she was planning. He grabbed the drive from his pocket and threw it towards Liz. The brunette girl caught it in her hands and quickly ran inside the hospital. Kouichirou soon followed, going in a different direction than Liz.

"Split up! Don't let either of them get away!" one of Sugou's men called out. As they ran through the front doors, a leg stretched out tripping one of them over. The other two ignored their fallen friend, all of the focus on catching Koichirou and Liz. They split up going after the two.

The one that had tripped over slammed his fist into the ground. "Damnit." He soon saw the identity of the person that had tripped him as Suguha stood above him with a grin.

"You know you really shouldn't run in a hospital. It's not very safe."

Liz could see one of Sugou's men chasing after her as she ran down the hall. She turned a corner and quickly ran up the stairs towards the floor Asuna was on. She barely made it to the second floor before she could hear Sugou's lackey coming up the stairs as well.

'Gotta hurry! Come Liz, pick up the pace! Asuna's fate depends on this!' she told herself as she ran up another flight of stairs.

Finally Liz made it to the floor Asuna's hospital room was on. As she came out of the stairwell, she saw Kazuto down the hall.

"Kirito, catch!" Liz called out as she threw the drive at her friend. After she did, she saw Sugou's lackey come out from the stairwell.

"Give me that drive, you brat!"

"Sorry, I don't have it on me." Liz smirked as she delivered a kick that made him stumble back. One last shove from Liz was all it took to send him tumbling down the stairs. A proud grin was shown on Liz's face as she called out into the hall. "Oh nurse! There's a man here with a concussion."

Kazuto ran. He ran and ran as fast as his legs would carry him. The wedding had almost definitely started. He just prayed that he would make it before the I do's.

'Come on! Faster damnit, faster!'

It seemed like forever had passed when Kazuto finally caught sight of Asuna's room number. He burst in through the door and into the room.

Everyone there seemed thrown into shock when Kazuto suddenly came into the room. Asuna's parents had no idea how to react. Asuna had never looked happier as she saw the face of the raven haired swordsman that she loved. Sugou however was giving Kazuto a fierce glare.

"Kirigaya, may I ask what it is you're doing here?" Mr. Yuuki asked.

"I would like an answer to this as well." Asuna's mother asked with a stiff upper lip. "You have some nerve interrupting my daughter's wedding."

Kazuto quickly caught his breath as he looked at Asuna. He gave her a silent nod before turning back to her parents. "Mr. and Mrs. Yuuki, there's something you should know." He said as he pointed an accusing finger at Sugou. "Sugou Noboyuki over there is the one keeping the three hundred SAO players trapped in a coma! He has them all in Alfheim! You're daughter was in there too, until just recently!"

Asuna's father widened his eyes in shock. "Kazuto, I hope you realize those are some very serious accusations. You better not be doing this simply because you can't stand to see Asuna marry someone else."

"It's true father!" Asuna told him.

Both of Asuna's parents turned to their daughter in shock. "What?!"

"It's true. Sugou kept me trapped in there for two months, treating me like some kind of trophy." She glared at Sugou with all of the hatred she could muster. "He kept me caged up and played around with me, even going so far as trying to… to…" It hurt her to remember back to the horrible things Sugou had done to her. But she wasn't going to stop now. "To molest me! HE STRIPPED ME NAKED AND TOYED WITH MY BODY!"

Asuna's parents gasped in shock. After recovering from what he had heard, Shouzou turned to Sugou with a glare. "Noboyuki… Is this true?"

Sugou glared over at Kazuto. He had been so close to making his plans a success. But once again, Kazuto had thwarted his attempts. "Kirigaya…."

"It's over, Sugou. You don't have any power over me or Asuna any longer." Kazuto said, taking out the portable drive and showing it. "Your sick games end here."

"What is that?" Kyouko asked.

"This is the blackmail Sugou was using to keep me and Asuna quiet about his plans." Kazuto explained. "I was able to rescue Asuna from Alfheim. But when I came here, Sugou used this to keep us from stopping him by telling anyone what he was up to."

Shouzou turned back to face Sugou, only to find the man rush past him and lunge at Kazuto. He slammed Kazuto against the wall, making the drive fall out of his hands. "You'll pay for this Kirigaya! No one does this to me and gets away with it!"

Kazuto and Asuna gasped as Sugou grabbed the drive and placed it on the floor. He raised his foot up over it. "If you're taking away my future, then I'm taking away the thing most precious to you!"

"No! Stop!" Asuna exclaimed.

Everyone gasped as Sugou slammed his foot down, smashing the drive into pieces. Kazuto and Asuna were the only ones that could understand the gravity of what Sugou had just done though.

"YUI!" Asuna cried out. She attempted to get out of her bed, but her body was still to weak and she collapsed onto the floor. Her father came to help her up, but Asuna swatted the hand away, too caught up in her rage at Sugou. "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU SUGOU!"

Shouzou walked up and pinned Sugou to the wall of the room. "What did you just do?"

Sugou smirked as he looked at his former boss. "That was my revenge against your daughter and her wannabe hero boyfriend. This is what they get for getting in my way."

"Not exactly, Sugou." Kazuto said with a smirk as he got to his feet. "You shouldn't get too excited."

Sugou eyed Kazuto. "What are you talking about."

As if to answer him, a new appearance walked through the door. Silica looked at Kazuto with a smile and nodded. The young girl walked up to Asuna. "Don't cry, Asuna. Here."

Through her tears, Asuna saw Silica pull out a flashdrive from her pocket and hand it to her. Asuna stared at the drive, only hoping that it was what she thought it was.

"What is going on?! How are there two drives?!" Sugou yelled. "I only had that program on one!"

"Which is exactly what we figured." Kazuto explained. "That's why we had a second one. A friend of mine tricked your lackeys into thinking this was the real one when she gave it to me. But what they didn't know was that she had passed along the real one to Silica here on her way to reach me." Kazuto smirked at Sugou. "You didn't really think I'd put Yui within arms reach of you, did you?"

Asuna looked at the drive with tears dripping from her eyes. "Then… this is…"

"You don't have to worry, Asuna. Yui is safe and sound on this drive." Silica told her with a smile.

"DAMNIT!" Sugou yelled. "You'll pay for this, Kirigaya! I swear I will make you pay!"

"That's if you get out of jail first, Sugou." a new arrival said, entering the room. Kouichirou eyed Sugou with a fierce glare. "And with the crimes you've committed, I don't think that's happening."

Sugou glared hell at Kouichirou. "So you're the reason they were able to get that program. You damn worthless piece of-" Sugou was cut off as Kouichirou swung his fist and delivered a right hook directly at Sugou's face.

"That was for what you did to my sister. But I've wanted to do that ever since I first met you, you bastard." Kouichirou said as he spat at Sugou before walking over to his sister. "Are you alright, Asuna?"

Asuna threw herself at her brother, hugging him while crying. "Thank you. Thank you so much brother."

Kouichirou smiled as he held Asuna with a warm embrace. "I'm just glad you're safe."

It wasn't long before hospital security came into the room, wondering what all of the commotion was about. Kouichirou gave them the short version of the explanation, and Sugou was detained, until the police arrived to drag him and the scientists working with him away.

After Sugou was taken away, Kouichirou explained the full truth to Shouzou and Kyouko. Both of them were appalled to hear of the things Sugou had been doing behind the scenes.

Shouzou came up to Asuna and hugged his daughter. "I'm so sorry Asuna. It's all my fault you had to go through this. If only I had realized Sugou's intentions sooner, I could have-"

"It's alright dad. Really." Asuna told him. "I'm safe now. Thanks to Kirito."

Shouzou looked at Kazuto with an appreciative smile. "Asuna's right. Thank you Kirigaya. For everything."

"Well I can't take all of the credit." Kazuto said as he rubbed the back of his head. "I had help from my friends. It's because of all of them that we were able to pull this off."

Soon Liz and Suguha both came into the room, both of them happy to see that everything had worked out. Asuna smiled as she hugged Liz, her best friend from SAO. Suguha also introduced herself to Asuna, who thanked her for all of her help. Shouzou and Kyouko both thanked all of them for their assistance in stopping what would have most certainly ruined Asuna's future, as well as RECT's.

Needless to say, there was a lot of explaining that had to be done, both to Mr. and Mrs. Yuuki and the police. But despite all of the hassle that came with it, Kazuto had never been happier in his life than at this moment. Sugou had been stopped Asuna was safe. They had won.

And that was all that he needed.

A/N: Hope you all liked the chapter, and sorry again for it being on the shorter side. I would have gotten this out earlier, but I was WAY too addicted to Hollow Realization (such a great game). Next chapter will be the finale of this short fic, so I hope to see you all when it is posted, hopefully within a month or so as long as I don't get drowned in college work.