Author's Note: I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed the last chapter for their kind response to it. For some reason I was pretty sure that it'd get some pretty negative backlash. Anyway, I hope everyone reading enjoys this next chapter as we see Shino/Sinon "explore the final frontier."
Disclaimer: I do not own Sword Art Online.
Chapter 15: Grand Experiment
It hadn't taken very along for Shino to arrive back at her apartment with Nakuru. As they entered, the two of them shared a feeling of excitement about what they were planning to do, but also a bit of apprehension. Shino was especially unsure about what she and Nakuru were planning, and yet she wanted to go on regardless. There were just some things that Shino needed to be sure about. As soon as the two girls slipped off their shoes, and as soon as Nakuru hung up her jacket on a hook by the door, the two of them entered the small living of the apartment.
"This is a nice place you have, Shino." Nakuru remarked as she looked around with her hands in her pockets.
"Uh, thanks. This apartment is small, but it's also cheap." Shino replied as she took off her glasses and set them on the coffee table. "So, um… I'm ready for this if you are."
"You know we really don't have to do this." Nakuru reminded her. "I mean, if you're not sure about this…"
In response, Shino took a deep breath and pulled off her shirt, tossing it to a random corner of the room. The dark-haired girl then slipped off her skirt and tossed it away with a flick of her leg. Nakuru bit her lower lip as she looked at Shino standing there, wearing nothing but a white bra and panties.
"I don't think I've ever been more sure of anything right now." Shion told Nakuru as she sauntered over to her. "I want us to do this, Nakuru."
With that, Shino planted a fiery kiss on Nakuru's lips. Nakuru returned and deepened the kiss, and soon the little inhibition that the brown-haired girl still had was quickly starting to dissolve. Somewhere along the line as their tongues mingled, Shino began to pull up Nakuru's shirt. When they finally parted for air, Nakuru raised her arms and allowed Shino to pull the garment all the way off. As Shino tossed the shirt away to another random corner of the room, Nakuru undid her belt and pulled down the pair of jeans she was wearing.
Shino took a step back to take a better look at Nakuru. The brown-haired girl simply looked stunning in only the black lace bra and panties that she had on. Shino couldn't help but feel as though she were gazing at some angel of love that had come down from the heavens.
"Guess there's no going back for either of us now, huh?" Nakuru realized as she pulled Shino into another embrace.
"No… I guess not." Shino replied.
The two of them pulled together into yet another passionate kiss. As their tongues wrestled with one another, Nakuru's hands skillfully undid the clasp of Shino's bra. When they broke again for air, Nakuru tossed the white undergarment away and smirked as she looked at Shino's perky breasts. Soon after, Nakuru undid her own bra and tossed it away. As they moved in to kiss again, Shino's left hand began to massage Nakuru's breast, causing the brown-haired girl to moan into Shino's mouth.
Eventually they broke apart for air again, and Shino turned around, removed her panties, and took a pose as if she were holding a bow and arrow. "Well? Is my form okay?"
"Oh, your form is just perfect." Nakuru declared as she took hold of Shino from behind.
Nakuru began to kiss and suck on Shino's neck, landing on a particularly sensitive spot that caused mews of pleasure to escape from the dark-haired girl's throat. At the same time, both of Nakuru's hands began to massage Shino's breasts. Practically all rational thought had vanished from Shino's mind as she became lost in the sweet pleasure torture that was being inflicted on her. All the while, that special place between Shino's legs was becoming like Niagara Falls.
"Na… Nakuru! Do it to me!" Shino begged.
Within a few moments, Nakuru's right hand moved down towards Shino's crotch and began to massage her opening. Eventually, two of Nakuru's fingers finally penetrated Shino's womanhood, causing the dark-haired girl to let out a deep moan. Shino became totally lost in pleasure as Nakuru's fingers pumped in and out of her, and at the same time the brown-haired girl's other hand was still busy massaging Shino's breast. An eternity seemed to go by before Shino's inner walls tightened around Nakuru's fingers, and before long she was hit by a massive orgasm. As Shino came down from her high, she felt more sure than ever that her attract to Nakuru was real.
"So? How was I?" Nakuru asked with a cocky smirk.
Shino smirked back as she turned around in Nakuru's arms. "Let me show you."
With that, Shino got down on both knees and planted a few fiery kisses on Nakuru's toned stomach. Before long, the dark-haired girl pulled down Nakuru's panties to her ankles. After a brief moment of hesitation, Shino moved in and began to probe Nakuru's womanhood with her tongue.
Nakuru let out a soft moan and gently grabbed the back of Shino's head. "Oh… yeah! That's my girl! You have no idea how long I've wanted this."
Shino continued to probe Nakuru's opening for what almost seemed like an eternity. Eventually Nakuru began to buck her hips to try and help herself along. Then at long last, Nakuru threw her head back and let out a silent scream as she came to a blissful climax. Shino got back to her feet as Nakuru came down from her high.
"…Hey. Where's your bedroom?" Nakuru suddenly asked.
"Um, back there." Shino answered as she pointed to the door at the back corner of the living room. "Why?"
Nakuru answered the question by suddenly picking Shino up bridal style and heading for the door. Shino's face quickly turned a deep shade of red.
"Um, I could've just walked there, you know." Shino pointed out. "I mean you shouldn't strain yourself."
"Oh please. You're light as a feather." Nakuru told her as they went through the doorway.
After gently setting Shino down on the bed, Nakuru got on top of her and the two began another round of passionate kissing. They rolled around on the small bed a few times before finally breaking apart again for air. Nakuru rose back up and straddled Shino for a moment before lifting the dark-haired girl's leg. With a few adjustments, Nakuru got it so that their two openings were pressed against one another. After Shino gave her a nod, Nakuru began to buck her hips into the dark-haired girl.
The bedframe creaked and the headboard banged against the wall. Shino briefly thought that the noise might disturb the neighbors, but at that moment she really didn't give a damn. The two of them continued on like that for several minutes, their bodies becoming covered in sweat. Eventually Shino felt herself coming close to the edge and informed Nakuru, causing the brown-haired girl to quicken her pace. Then at long last, the two of them managed to hit their climax at almost the exact same moment.
Soon after catching her breath, Nakuru collapsed back onto the bed next to Shino and gave her a light kiss on the forehead. Afterwards, Nakuru glanced at the nightstand and noticed Shino's amusphere sitting on the top of it by the alarm clock.
"This might be a super weird thing to bring up right now, but are you one of those VRMMO players?" Nakuru suddenly asked.
"Oh! Um, yeah." Shino answered, realizing why Nakuru had brought up the subject. The question then caused her earlier encounter with Nytokris to mind. "But… you're one too, right?"
"What're you talking about?" Nakuru asked with a quirked brow.
"I'm talking about earlier tonight in ALO when we fought each other?" Shino reminded her. "At least I'm pretty sure that was you. I mean the person I fought had the same voice. Plus she did seem to know who I was. I don't know how, but you were able to figure out who I was in this world, right?"
"Shino, I've never played one of those online virtual games before in my life." Nakuru informed her. "My young brother, Yusuke… he was one of the people who got trapped in that Sword Art Online game a few years ago. He was one of the lucky ones who made it out alive, and he was even one of the really lucky ones who was logged out of the game right away. Not like those poor people who that one psycho in the news experimented on. My point though is that I've never really trusted these online gaming machines."
Shino could see in Nakuru's eyes that she was really telling the truth. "So… that really wasn't you earlier tonight?"
"Afraid not." Nakuru answered. "What exactly in this game anyway?"
Shino rolled onto her other side so that she was facing away from Nakuru. "I'm such an idiot. I was so sure that it was you who had come onto me in ALO… that you really had feelings for me. But in the end I fell for something that wasn't real, just like with my bastard of an ex-boyfriend."
"But Shino… I really do have feelings for you." Nakuru pointed out. "I mean I wouldn't gone to bed with you if I didn't. I don't know who this other girl you met online is or what exactly happened between you two, but your instincts about how I felt about you were right. Look, I don't know how serious things are going to get between us, but I know that what we both feel for each other isn't an illusion. So don't beat yourself up, okay?"
Shino turned back around to face Nakuru. "Okay."
After a few moments, the two of them began to kiss again, and they rolled on the bed again a few times until Shino was once again on her back. Nakuru then began to move down and leave a trail of fiery kisses down the length of Shino's body before getting down to the dark-haired girl's waist. In moments, Nakuru began to probe Shino's womanhood with her tongue, causing all the anxiety Shino had been feeling earlier to vanish. Shino eventually took hold of the back of Nakuru's head and began to buck her hips, and then after another sweet eternity of pleasure, Shino climaxed. As Shino caught her breath, Nakuru climbed back onto the bed and pulled the blanket over them both. Nakuru then pulled Shino close and gave her a light kiss on the forehead. Within moments, the two of them drifted off to sleep in each other's arms.
After the second round for the Clash of Queens tournament had ended for the Bracket B players, the remaining competitors were given a day off before the start of the quarter final rounds to give them a chance to rest and strategize ways to take down their next opponents. While Asuna and the other remaining contestants had used that day to prepare for the next round, Shino had decided to use that day to simply take a day off from ALO. She had spent a good chunk of that morning with Nakuru and told her a little bit about her online life and alter ego as Sinon the Phantom Arrow. That day off had gone by rather quickly though, and in the afternoon that followed, Shino logged back into ALO as Sinon to watch the remaining battles of the tournament. It was only less than a minute after Sinon had logged in when she found that she had gotten a PM from someone that she didn't know.
The message was from a player called Nikita, and it had asked Sinon to meet in the capital city of spriggan territory in about an hour. Deciding that the message wasn't some sort of trap by another player who wanted revenge, Sinon decided to go meet with the mysterious sender. The fairy archer traveled to the city without her mask and enchanted coat equipped, as she didn't think she was going to need them. Sinon reached the designated meeting place only five minutes before her mysterious contact was set to arrive and waited.
"Sinon, right?" a familiar voice spoke, causing the archer to look.
Standing a few feet away was a young woman with long straight black hair that grew down to her lower back, and a pair of iron-grey eyes. She had on a long black coat over a black shirt that had a piece of dark-grey armor covering her rather impressive bust, along with a short black skirt. The rest of the woman's outfit consisted of a pair of black knee-high boots and a pair of black fingerless gloves. Sinon deduced that the woman was a spriggan, but beyond that she could tell nothing more.
"You're Nikita, right?" Sinon deduced. "So why'd you call me out here?"
Nikita came close enough to Sinon to whisper in her ear. "Shino, it's me. Nakuru."
"Na… Nakuru?" a stunned Sinon exclaimed, trying hard not to speak too loudly. "What the heck are you doing here? I mean… you told me that you didn't trust VRMMOs."
"Yeah, well… when you told me about this other life you lead online, I got curious." Nikita explained. "So I went out and got one of those damn amusphere things and a copy of this game – not cheap, by the way – and afterward my brother showed me how to log in and everything. He plays this game a little bit too from time to time. Frankly I thought he was a little nuts to keep playing these VRMMOs after what happened to him, but he has kind of a passion for these virtual worlds."
"You didn't have to do any of this you know." Sinon told the spriggan woman as she put her arms around her. "But… I'm happy that you decided to give this world a try."
"Hey. I figured that this way we could become a little closer." Nikita replied. "Plus a part of me wants to meet that tart who tried to put the moves on you a couple days ago so I can beat the crap out of her."
"Sinon!" a familiar voice interrupted. Both Sinon and Nikita looked to see Silica standing a few feet away with Pina perched on her head. "I think you and I need to talk about a few things."
"This a friend of yours?" Nikita asked as she let go of the archer.
Before Sinon could answer, Pina suddenly flew from her perch atop Silica's head and hovered near Nikita.
"Aw! How cute!" Nikita declared as she reached out and petted the little blue dragon's head. "I didn't know players in this game could have pets like this."
Silica blinked in surprise. "Um, Sinon… who's this other friend of yours?"
"This is the person who you thought was Nytokris." Sinon answered. "I told you that you didn't know what you were talking about."
"That remains to be seen, Arrow." Another voice interrupted, causing Sinon and the others to look. The group saw Lurga approaching from the same direction that Silica had come from.
"Just who the heck are you, jumbo?" Nikta asked the giantess.
"There's no doubt about it. That voice is exactly the same as Nytokris's." Lurga identified. "I don't know what game you're trying to play with this different avatar of yours, but I'm not falling for it!"
"Well, well. Here I am on the way to the tournament, and what should I find? It's a gathering of losers." A familiar voice interrupted. The group looked and saw Nytokris standing nearby. "Of course I am quite happy to see you again, dear Sinon. I was just hoping that it would be alone."
"What… what the hell?" a stunned Lurga exclaimed.
Nikita stepped forward to get between Sinon and Nytokris. "So you're the slut who tried to put the moves on my girl, huh? I'm only going to tell you this once. Stay the hell away from her."
Nytokris chuckled. "And what if I refuse?"
"If you don't back, I'm gonna beat you to a pulp." Nikita warned. "I'm still pretty new to all this, but I think I can kick your ass."
"It'd be amusing to see you try." Nytokris responded. "But there's only an hour left before the tournament is set to resume, and I have a little errand to run before then. Another time, perhaps."
With that, Nytokris's wings appeared and the imp woman took off into the air. Silica and Lurga were left totally stunned by what they had just witness.
"You guys really thought that bitch was me?" Nikita asked.
"Well, your voices do sound alike." Sinon pointed out. "I'm really sorry about mistaking Nytokris for you though."
"Hey. Don't worry about it." Nikita assured the archer as she went back over to her. "I guess it's hard to tell who's who in games like these. I mean look at how different I am from how I normally look. I have to say though, I really am liking this avatar."
"Um… how do you think I look?" Sinon asked with a slight blush.
"You? Why you're just adorable!" Nikita told her as she patted her head. "I really love how your hair looks in this game."
"I… I don't get it." Lurga spoke. "There voices were exactly the same. I was so sure that the Arrow's friend was Nytokris."
"I guess we were wrong?" Silica asked. "Wait a sec. Did this new woman call Sinon 'her girl' a bit ago when she was picking a fight to Nytokris?"
"I don't know. I didn't really catch a lot of what they were saying out of pure shock." Lurga answered.
"Well, now that we've gotten this whole mistaken identity out of the way, what now?" Nikita asked.
"Well, I originally logged in to watch the rest of the Clash of Queens tournament." Sinon answered. "There's a tavern around here where we can go to watch."
"Great! I'm not exactly used to the whole flying thing yet." Nikita replied. "I've been practicing, but I ended up running into three buildings on the way here."
"Um, we were actually heading to that tavern to meet up with Kirito and the others." Silica revealed. "They should be there in a few minutes."
With that, Sinon and the others headed for the largest tavern in the city. When they arrived, the place was already packed with other players also planning to watch the rest of the tournament. As they reached the large table and booth that they were going to watch from, Nikita suddenly pulled on Sinon's tail, causing the catgirl archer to yelp in surprised.
"N-Nikita!" a blushing Sinon exclaimed as she turned and held her rear. "What the heck was that for?"
"Sorry. Sorry." Nikita responded. "I was just curious if you could actually feel things with that tail or if it was just like decoration or something."
"It feels real enough." Sinon told her. "Now let's sit down."
With that, Sinon got in behind the table in a spot on Silica's left. Nikita immediately took the spot next to Sinon and pulled her close. The spriggan woman then began to gently massage the base of one of Sinon's cat ears with her fingers, causing the archer to let out a soft moan of pleasure.
"Guess you can feel that too, huh?" Nikita deduced.
"Uh-huh." Sinon confirmed as she began to relax. "That feels great. Don't stop."
"I don't get it." Lurga spoke, not at all paying attention to what was happening at the table. "I was sure I knew who Nytokris was from her voice. There's just something fishy about that woman."
"Yeah…" Silica agreed as she glanced over at Sinon and Nikita. "That's not the only thing going on here that seems fishy."
Author's Note: I really hope everyone reading enjoyed this latest chapter. Before I sign off for now, I want to announce that the next chapter won't be up until sometime next week due to the approaching Thanksgiving holiday. I'm also planning to use an afternoon next week to get some early Christmas shopping done, so I can't say for sure just what day next week the next chapter will be up.
Until next time, please review and let me know what you think.