A/N: 10 weeks! Thank you to all that have supported this story till now! This chapter is a side story to what was hinted in the story so enjoy!
'Jeez, if you take so long at meeting someone, no wonder your still single.' thought an irritated Kirito when thinking of his red-haired friend.
Klein had told Kirito yesterday meet him and Agil in the edge of the 5th floor of Aincrad so that they could go explore the smaller dungeon together and clear it for a rare item.
"Kirito! We need you to come with me and Agil!" the red-head had told him as they sat on some of the crates in the back of Agil's shop.
"Why's that? Don't you have the fighting under control like you usually do?" Kirito said teasingly to the Salamander, since Klein always said that he was a master at fighting anything.
"Not funny Kirito. Agil and I want to clear a dungeon in new Aincrad for some special items for new swords but we can't do it alone, so we want you to help since you already cleared one with you girlfriend." Klein said, somewhat envious at the end when mentioning a girlfriend since Klein was known for being a 'Solo player in the game of love.' Kirito personally began to spread that title around to embarrass the man after Klein kept making fun of Asuna and his relationship.
"Okay, okay I get it. I'll help but just make sure that you guys make it on time to the meeting place." Kirito said, agreeing to help.
So far it looked like only one of them would be going in the dungeon for that item if the Salamander and Gnome didn't show up.
'First thing I told him to do and he didn't bother to do it… maybe I should have just gone with Asuna to the Puca zone to explore with her... On second thought, never mind. That's too much music in one place for my taste.' He thought as he sat down on the edge of the floor and looked down to see that new Aincrad was currently hovering over the Undine zone.
'I wonder if I could go for a quick swim in the water before they came… nah, I can just go later in the real world with everyone… when the snow is gone first.' He thought as he kept on looking down to the water and slightly leaned to the side and rested on the column leading to the next floor.
'Might be the only time I like columns.' Kirito thought as he began to get comfortable in the spot he was. The night before, in the real world, he had spent almost the entire night doing his homework for school so that he would have more time to spend with his friends and mainly Asuna. Now he was suffering the consequences as he felt his eyes begin to feel heavy and began do drop slightly from the exhaustion.
'I guess it was worth it though since now I'll have more time than usual to spend with Asuna on our dates since I know she must have finished her homework the day it was assigned.' He thought as he continued to overlook the water below.
"Klein, I'm might just throw you at this floor's boss without a weapon if you don't get here soon." He muttered to himself in regards to his friend. Kirito began to look at the water and saw how the water was crashing into land below, making a cascade of liquid to fall slowly back down to the sea. The sound of this wasn't helping the drained Spriggan. It probably didn't help that it was also night-time in Alfheim as well, making the subconscious of the raven-haired boy want to sleep even more.
'If I wait here anymore time…' the thought was never finished.
'Oh man, I'm late. No, wait. WE'RE late.' Klein thought as he and the Gnome flew as fast as they could to meeting point where they had agreed the day before.
"You know it's your fault we're late right?" Agil said to the Salamander.
"You share a part in the blame too you know! If you had messaged me earlier telling me that we could go already, we wouldn't have wasted so much time getting to the agreed place and make Kirito wait!" Klein said in his defense.
"You were supposed to message me in the first place, and secondly, Kirito is going to be mad at YOU since he probably thinks that you made us late." Agil said, making Klein frown slightly knowing that the Spriggan would blame him.
"Well, at least this is better for the guy then going to the Puca territory. I heard from Liz that Asuna wanted to take him there and trust me; Kirito isn't one to appreciate that annoying music. I only lasted about 30 minutes in the zone before I flew back to Arun at top speed." Klein said as he shuddered at the memory. Agil chuckled, remembering the look of the Salamander when he crashed into his store screaming that he had survived before collapsing onto the floor, saying that he should wear earmuffs to block out the sound next time.
"Well, at least we're not that late. Look, I can see Kirito now!" Agil said as he pointed at the black figure sitting on the edge of the 5th floor.
"You think he's mad? It looks like he's hunched over…" Klein said just as said figure slumped even lower and fell of the floor. Agil was the quickest to react and flew to the falling Spriggan.
'What just happened? Did he get paralyzed or something?' both Klein and Agil thought. The Salamander hurriedly flew after Agil, wanting answers as to what was happening. Agil quickly caught the limp figure of their friend and was as surprised as Klein when they saw Kirito.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM!?" Klein said as he went on a mini rant about the sleeping Spriggan. Agil and Klein flew to the 5th floor and set the black cladded figure on the grass before waking him up.
"Calm down Klein, the guys worn out. Don't you know that the kid did his homework from school break in one day? He's exhausted." Agil said before approaching the sleeping form of the Spriggan and shaking him slightly.
"Hey, Kirito wake up. I'll go get Liz if you want so she can get her mace out…" Agil said, making Kirito snap his eyes open and sit up.
"Wha-what happened?" the raven-haired boy asked as he felt the aura of irritation coming from Klein.
"Long story short, you fell asleep and Agil saved your butt from an accidental suicide." Klein said, making Kirito groan slightly at what he had just heard.
"You guys won't tell anyone, right?" he asked. Both of the men look at each other and for once that were in agreement on doing something humiliating to the youngest of the trio.
"TO THE PUCA ZONE!" Klein screamed as he and Agil flew off, leaving a confused Kirito on the ground until he realized who was in that zone.
'I'm never going to hear the end of this…' he thought before he flew off to follow the two.
A/N: As you can tell, the Kirito side story won the poll. Thank you again people! We shall meet next week!