(A/N: Hi guys I'm back and lazier than ever, the only thing allowing me to concentrate on writing right now is reviews, spamming mountain dew, Hollywood undead, oh and did I mention reviews? Also I find it strange that someone named SpeaksInRiddles wonders why he/she rambles on -_- thanks for the name btw ^-^ and thanks for everyone who contributed ideas they were creative even though they weren't chosen. Also I am amazed to state that out of all my reviews, 35 at this point, none and I mean none of them have been flames, pretty amazing right ^-^…. Wait shit I just jinxed myself XD )

Kirito slowly became aware of his surroundings; he was in his room in his guild's fortress. He began to stand up and get ready. "*sigh*, another day another death match." He quickly equipped his gear and walked out of his room down to the dining hall. It had been around half a week since his guild had cleared the 9th floor boss. Unfortunately this floor promised to be a rather difficult. It was covered in dense jungle with no obvious paths and a lot of poison based monsters.

He walked into the loud dining hall for a moment when he entered it quieted down. After the fourth floor they had begun to recruit in Earnest taking only the best of the best or those willing to work hard to become so. Their guild, The Black Mark (Brought to you in part *sigh* entirely by SpeaksInRiddles), had become a real force in Aincraid with around 60 members. This was a lot at this point in the game add to the fact that it was 60 of the most skilled fighters in Aincraid at that the time and you had a deadly force.

It was well known that you didn't go to The Black Mark, if they wanted you they'd come to you. Many had made the mistake of attempting to muscle the recruiters into accepting them. The result was that they found themselves losing miserably in a duel or if things escalated going to jail for assault after a thorough ass kicking.

Kirito's boots clacked on the floor as he walked to the front of the room. His sat down at what was dubbed as the commanders table. The only people who sat there was Kirito's inner circle Aka the original members of The Black Mark plus Lizbeth. A new recruit would at first be stunned by their leader's complete obliviousness of the girls fighting over him. Later they would notice how he was interacting with them in such a way that they never got angry at him and grew closer and closer to him. It was seemingly by accident which inspired a great amount respect and fear. If this was him not even trying to get a girl what would he be like if he actually tried?

Of course what shocked them even more was the sheer number of girls he managed to sustain this type of relationship with. He was somehow manipulating (whether he was aware of it or not) 12 girls, six from his inner circle and six more from their regular contingency, like this. Despite this he still somehow managed to continue to look so far above them in a way. He just seemed so unreachable, as if he was permanently place on a pedestal so high above them. Yet at the same time he was extremely likeable, maintaining a good relationship with his fellow guild-mates.

In combat he was a far cry from everyone else not just in levels though. They all saw that their leader was a born warrior, both in combat and tactics. As such everyone in the guild had a immense amount of respect for the young badass pretty boy swordsman. They were an incredibly efficient guild, over the course of their existence they had yet to have a single causality in their ranks. There were a few close calls in the past few weeks due to the recent increase in pkers in Aincraid.

It was estimated that around 200 players were orange and around 10 were still green but assisting these orange players. Progress on the frontlines had slowed to a crawl due to this as there was much risk in sending out the lightly armed scouting groups previously used for mapping. As a result the majority of the front lines were currently concentrating on apprehending the criminals. This of course included The Black Mark. Argo and her group of 4 other handpicked informants were gathering information, taking names and kicking asses, or so she said anyway.

"Ki-bou!" a voice called from behind him.

Kirito sighed "speak of the devil" he muttered before turning around and preparing to be molested in public. He was not disappointed as she grabbed his head and slammed his face into her … chest hugging him. Kirito's face of course decided to paint itself comically red to the amusement of everyone except for 11 girls currently present. 5 of which were senior members, of these five Sinon and Asuna stood up simultaneously and ripped Argo off of him glaring.

"What are you doing?" Sinon said annoyed "have you no shame?"

"Doing something like that in public that's just indecent!" Asuna agreed.

"Humph" Argo smirked "You're just jealous aren't you" she smirked and continued in a sultry whisper "you're jealous that you haven't yet felt Ki-bou's hot breath on your skin. The way it tingles and sends shivers down your spine" she licked her lips smirking

At this both girls blushed and Sinon began to attempt to deny it "n-no it's just that it's… uh …"

"It's indecent and uhhh…Will lower moral!" Asuna continued

"Yeah!" Sinon agreed "they'll lose faith in their leader if he seems to be easily swayed!" she added

"Hmm" Argo mused "I guess you're right I'll do it in private next time okay?"

"Good!" Sinon said before hearing the second part of Argo's sentence "Ah no wait next time?"

"Yeah next time Kirito comes back from work I'll give him a nice relaxing massage she smirked then we'll…" she moved her mouth right next to Sinon and Asuna's ears before whispering something. This 'something' caused both Sinon and Asuna to light up like Christmas trees.

"y-you can't d-do t-that!" Asuna argued flustered.

"Why not?" Argo smirked.

"T-that's b-because t-this is a game o-of c-course" Sinon said stuttering and blushing "you can't do that here!" she her voice growing slightly steadier.

Argo just smirked and brought up her menu fiddling with the options menu and making it visible and showing Asuna and Sinon something on her menu.

"W-WHAT!?" Sinon cried once again fluster "B-but that's!

Asuna was likewise effected glancing over at Kirito Sinon and Asuna blushed heavily at the youth who had long ago gone back to eating his breakfast oblivious to the current direction of the conversation.(A/N in case you haven't guessed this is Argo showing them the ethics code off option.)

Kirito looked up and saw their red faces "is something wrong?" looking concerned a slight frown on his face

This expression gave Sinon and Asuna nosebleeds as their blushes intensified 'so cute!' They thought. Most of the onlookers swore they could see steam coming out of the girls ears, and then started laughing at their leaders clueless antics.

Argo then grew serious "I have some more information on the Pking guild laughing coffin" everyone in the room grew serious looking intently at Argo. "There are two main leaders, one of whom is a bit of a blast from the past" at this Kirito frowned

"What do you mean?" he said

"The first leader is an unidentified man going by the alias PoH, the other…." She trailed off

"Is a man name Kibaou." she finished at this most of the room went silent.

"Bastard," Kirito said calmly recalling the man's physcopathic attitude "so his whole anti-beta crusade was just a way for him to get people unorganized and killed eh?" Kirito stood up a dark look on his face. "People like him believe that those with strength can walk over the weak without mercy." He snorted darkly "Yet there is nothing people like him hate more than someone who is stronger than them." He then looked around at the men and women sitting around in the dining hall and spoke "and yet I'm looking at a room filled with people stronger than he is by leaps and bounds." At this the assembled group cheered

Kirito spoke again "So I guess we have no choice but to go out there and kick his ass" he said whimsically almost as if talking about something simple like going shopping or mowing the lawn.

There was another cheer from the crowd and Kirito smirked before turning to Argo "any info on the location of their base?" Kirito asked her.

"I'm on it already we have several leads we are currently investigating" Argo confirmed

At this Kirito just nodded "we should try to get a few more strong recruits before we attack them. Not to mention we should coordinate with a few other front line guilds to destroy laughing coffin."

"Got it I'll get on it immediately" she affirmed.

"Good, I want that cactus in a pot by the end of the month" he said walking out of the dining hall