A/N: Ok, so to answer a review that i forgot to answer last chapter, yes, other characters will make appearances every now and then, but they will not show up all the time.


Dead Wrong

Kirito and Sinon stood back to back, breathing heavily as they brandished their weapons at their opponents. This wasn't supposed to happen. The pair of them had just wanted to do some mild training for a change, but on their way back, they had been ambushed by another squadron. Well, they were two of the most powerful players in GGO. They had built up quite a reputation of taking out other players on multiple occasions.

And they had made plenty of enemies along the way.

Kirito glared at the players in front of him, his photon sword humming in the air between them. In his head, he was trying to come up with a strategy to get out of this mess alive, but was having trouble coming up with anything. These people had come out of nowhere, with numbers and firepower in such strength that a lone swordsman and a sniper couldn't handle in a clean fight.

The feeling of Sinon's back against his also got him thinking in overdrive. He had to come up with some way to save her. He didn't really care if this was a virtual reality, he still considered life here precious. Sinon lived her life here just the way he had been doing for the past seven years, with every fiber of her being, and there was no way he was going to let it slip by so easily.

There had to be a way.

The swordsman thought all of this within the span of a few seconds as the two opposing sides glared at each other, murderous intent clearly visible in their eyes. Just before Kirito acted upon the plan he had in mind, he felt something hit his shoe. Glancing down, his blood ran cold when he saw several grenades roll passed his boot. Suddenly, Sinon grabbed him by the shoulders and before he knew what was happening, she threw them down the hill.

The explosives went off seconds later. The uneven terrain protected them from the brunt of the explosion, but the sheer force of it still hit them, causing them to lose their already unstable footing and tumble down.

Instinctively, Kirito grabbed Sinon and hugged her body against his own, protecting her as they rolled down the steep hill. There were rocks here and there, and several times the two of them collided with them, sending them into the air before thudding down again.

It didn't take long for Kirito to notice the cliff that they were speeding towards. He felt his heart lurch when he saw the gaping chasm that was stretched before them.

But he would not die. Not now.

Taking the sword that he still clutched in his hand (and had somehow turned off after their little escapade), Kirito rammed the metal handle into the earth beneath him. The terrain had become rockier along this area, and he was hoping his weapon would catch on something other than loose sand. Luckily, it did, and his sword stopped them from rolling. Clinging on for dear life, Kirito prayed that his little trick would also prevent them from tumbling into the dark void toward their deaths.

They reached the edge with the speed of a car on the highway, and Kirito knew that they wouldn't make it.

And then, his sword got caught by a large rock, jerking them to a sudden halt.

Feeling that they were not currently falling through the air, Kirito turned his head and slowly opened his eyes. His head had just barely gone over the edge, and he could see the looming darkness below him.

Sinon lifted her head from where it lay in the crook of Kirito's neck and looked down to see their almost demise.

"That went smoother than I thought it would."

Kirito looked up at her, and his dark eyes met her indigo ones. "…You dropped those bombs."

A slight smirk pulled at Sinon's lips. "Well someone had to get us out of there."

Slowly, Kirito smirked too. That was just like Sinon.

Feeling her body shift, Kirito become overly aware of how her body was practically on top of his and the fact that he was still holding her tightly against him with his arm around her waist. Quickly, he let go, realizing that Sinon wanted to get up. She shifted to do so, and moved to get off of him. She looked down for a moment, not really realizing what she was doing, when she suddenly froze and studied him, her eyebrows furrowing in slight confusion.

The girl shifted her weight, basically straddling him with one of her legs on either side of him and soon, she put her palms flat on his chest.

What is she doing? Kirito thought, his eyes wide and his cheeks burning slightly. He was so distracted by her position that he didn't realize until too late what she was actually doing.

With her hands, Sinon patted Kirito's chest a few times, trying to feel for something. At first, it was hard to notice with the gear he was wearing, but now that she was up close, it was easy to tell. She couldn't really believe what she was feeling, though. His chest was hard and flat, with hardly any give that a girl usually had. She knew that there were flat-chested girls, she wasn't really big in that department either, but a girl could not be this…flat.

After a few seconds of patting, Sinon looked up to see Kirito's dark eyes looking into hers. She froze for a second at their intensity as they seemed to warily search her face for a reaction. Eventually, the girl leaned forward and looked directly into those dark voids. She searched them in return, trying to find something to reassure her that what she was thinking was wrong, but all she saw, was something that just screamed…

"Male."

Kirito's heart seemed to drop into his stomach. "What?"

"You're a guy." The sniper's face had a blank look, her eyes were the same. She stood up and stepped over him so that she was on one side of him, and reached her hand out to him. Hesitantly, he took it, and she pulled him to his feet.

"Um—"

"Well? Are you?"

Kirito just looked at her for a while, unnerved by her lack of emotion. Well, he had wanted a way to break the truth to her. It was now or never right? She already pretty much figured it out.

"Yeah…about that—"

"So you lied to me." A shadow seemed to fall over her face, and Kirito felt a chill in the air.

The boy blinked as he suddenly felt nothing but air around him. It was almost as if nothing happened…except for the fact that he was falling through open space.

Sinon stood up on the cliff, listening to him scream in surprise before he shattered in midair.

So she had been wrong about his gender.

He had been right, he didn't survive.

And now? He had died, and Sinon would probably try to kill him again.


A/N: Ha. That kinda made sense right? He's dead and she was wrong... yeah. She pushed him off the cliff.