Hello, friends and fans! It's Moonlight here with the very first Chapter of the Fourth installment of the 'Kirito's Legacy' series! I know a lot of you have been wondering where I've been for the past couple of years and I can answer all of you with only this one simple explanation; To Much Work! Things have been very busy at my work and also some very personal circumstances involving my family have left me with little to no time to work on my stories. So, All I can say to you all is that I'm sorry I took so long to get this started, As you know from the description, It is finally Kyouji's turn to get bitten with the love bug! I've been thinking about what other female characters from SAO to pair up with him but I think i found a good match, Anyway, Hope you enjoy it! Read and Enjoy!XXX000
"A term used for when one or more people find true happiness without actively seeking it. A lucky mistake or a happy accident, as some would call it."
- The definition of Serendipity.
Tokyo city Community Swimming pool, Japan, 12th of January, 2029 12:30pm
''Okay Yui, Remember to kick your feet up in time with your strokes! Remember, left then right! Left then Right!'' Kirito called over to his five year old adopted daughter Yui from across the side of the pool in his black swim shorts as he waved his arms back and forth in demonstration ''Okay Daddy! Here goes!'' she cried back as she slowly swam up to her father from the opposite side of the pool with a little effort, she was wearing a cute little pink one piece swimsuit with a skirt ''I did it!'' she cried happily after she got to the end of the water ''Look Daddy, I swam the whole way without stopping once!''
''Great job Yui! I'm so proud of you!'' Kirito congratulated her as he picked her up and held her in his arms above the water and started kissing her cheek, Tickling her and making her giggle with delight. Just then a female voice called over to him from his left ''Hey Kirito, Look at this'' said his loving wife, Asuna, clad in her signature white and red striped bikini holding their other child wearing a small safety lifevest and a pair of waterproof diapers by her hands as she guided her along the water to him as she excitedly kicked her little feet up with a big smile on her face.
This was Kirito and Asuna's first biological child Sachi, who was only over a year old. She had short slightly spiky black hair like Kirito's and gleaming amber eyes like Asuna's and was already starting to talk, She'd said her first word last year on the morning of her first birthday after Kirito changed her diapers;
'Mama'
But the strange thing was; When he called Asuna to show her what she'd said, Sachi called her 'Papa' and for a while after, she kept calling Kirito 'Mama' and Asuna 'Papa', She called Yui 'Sis'. After a month or so, she finally got the words for each of her parents right and had also learned more words and even started forming short sentences, though she still called Yui 'Sis' which is something both of them decided they couldn't change. After Christmas, Asuna had finally convinced her husband, who was at first reluctant to go through with it, to start teaching Sachi to swim. Kirito was a little concerned about the idea of taking their year old daughter to the pool, fearing she would drown, but Asuna had told him she's read up on how babies are natural swimmers and that teaching them at a young age can build character, inspiring them to achieve bigger things in life, So Kirito agreed on the promise that they'd bring Yui along to teach her how to swim too, which she was only too happy to accept. It may have still been the middle of winter but the building was well insulated, so it was always warm inside.
''Mama, Papa! Sis! Me swim, me swim!'' Sachi said happily kicking her feet in the water.
''Oh Sachi that's awesome! Great job!'' Kirito beamed proudly as he used his free arm to scoop her out of the water and into a one-armed embrace, holding his two daughters to him while Asuna gave a warm loving gaze at the affection he was showing them. She wrapped her arms around the three most important people in her life, joining the family hug in the middle of the pool while the other people at the pool either in the water or watching from the bleachers gushed at the sight.
''I love you Kirito'' Asuna whispered to Kirito
''I Love you too Asuna'' Kirito replied ''And you two too, my loves'' she said to his daughters, kissing them both on the cheek.
As they shared this moment, in his mind, Kirito still couldn't believe that it had been almost two years since his recruitment into the GLA along with Asuna after they'd helped the organization stop a plot by Sugou and the KKK from taking over the rest of the world like they did Texas and now Louisiana in America. Sugou, even now he's dead, the name still made both his and Asuna's blood boil. Not just theirs, But Eiji's and Kyouji's as well. Both of them were enemies of the couple the very first time they met, but throught the course of the mission, they all grew to become the best of friends! Eiji Nochizawa had finally got revenge for Yuna's death by taking out Sugou's mentor and high ranking member of the Klan; Christopher Bennett in New York and even found love again in Siberia shortly after with Anaya, who was now his wife both in ALO and the real world and they were now expecting their first child in a few months from now. In fact, today they have an appointment at Kyouji's clinic for an ultrasound!
Kyouji Shigemura was actually a member of Sugou's army; 'The Holy Empire' before he defected them by saving Kirito's life back at their base after they thought Asuna had died and vice versa while she was still pregnant with Sachi and even helped the GLA stop Sugou from activating his mind control device. He even had to kill his own brother Shouichi, to ensure the GLA succeded. And after they bailed Kyouji out and cleared his name at his trail, He was accepted into the GLA and was even adpoted by the quartermaster of the Japanese cell Dr Tetsuhiro Shigemura as his new father. Of course, being the only surviving member to the Shinkawa family, Kyouji had inherited his parents old hospital. However, he declined ownership and decided to sell it to the Japanese International Health Foundation for quite an immense price! He then used a big sum of the money to aquire the rights to an old abandoned building in the downtown area of Tokyo that used to be a hotel that went bankrupt many years before and converted it into his own inderpendent clinic!However, Unlike Eiji, Kyouji still hasn't found anyone yet.
However, little did any of them know, that this faithful day of all days would be the one to set the once-thought impossible in motion and alter the course of Kyouji's life forever. And speaking of which-
"Hey guys!" Kirito snapped back to reality to the sound of Kyouji's voice, The family of four turned to see him comming through the door from the entrance in between the bleachers. He was smiling and waving at them wearing his signature black top under his dark yellow long sleeveed jacket with matching dark jeans and shoes with a black beanie hat on top of his head.
"Hey Kyouji, buddy!" Kirito waved back after he set his children back into the water to float "Whats up?"
"Oh nothing" Kyouji shrugged casually, sitting down on a chair on the front row of the beachers "Just figured that since Eiji told me you guys were down here with the kids, I'd though I'd see you during my lunch hour" he sat forwards to speak to them "You don't mind, do you?"
"Not in a slightest" Asuna assured him, swimming a little closer to the edge of the pool "So how did Anaya's Ultrasound go?" she asked curiously. Kyouji smiled warmly and said "Oh, perfectly fine, just fine" He then smirked "It's a boy. They said they didn't wanna know, but I've looked. Don't tell them I said anything" he winked
"Awww" They both gushed "Don't worry, we won't" Kirito nodded. before he brough something else up "And how is little Tiasuke getting on? Any pogress?"
Tiasuke was the younger son of Kyouji's P.A at the clinic Hansuke, Who's been diagnosed with Stage three Pulmonary Fibrosis. Before Kyouji had been so stingy with his money that he never fixed the Clinics boiler when it broke. But after Christmas, He'd promised to change his attitude towards himself and to others around him and fix some mistakes he'd made in the past for, as Kyouji put it; 'Personal reasons' starting with giving his staff big raises, paid vacations and sick days. He'salso dedicated to helping Hansuke and his family by treating his son's condition but the current drugs and surgery could only do some much. While he's certainly better now then he was before, his condition will stay with him forever...Unless;
"Well, He's sure's hell not getting any worse" he replied honestly "The Inflammation in this lungs have gone down. He's just only now off the oxygen tank and on a small inhaler now and he's learning to walk again, but the scarring in his lungs are more persistent then I thought. He'll live but he's still gonna have that cough as well as breathing problems for the rest of his life" he added solemly.
"Aww, the poor thing" Asuna said sadly with Kirito looking sad too until Kyouji spoke again
"But" He began "Recently, I've been researching this experimental treatment from the U.K from this BIG Pharmaceutical cooperation named Inkheart! They've been doing trail runs in New London with an 90% success rate! I've been on the phone with Mr Inkheart to try and get him to send someone over here to try this treatment on Tiasuke. He said that they're very busy right now working an a major project" He told them.
"What Major Project?" Asuna asked curiously with a rasied eyebrow.
"He wouldn't say" Kyouji shrugged "But he said that he'll let me know when they can spare someone in the future, so maybe we'll get lucky and hear from him sometime soon" he explained.
"We hope so too" Kirito nodded "He sounds like a good little boy, Taisuke. I hope he does get better sooner then later" he added.
"So do I friend" Kyouji agreed with a nod "So do I"
"Uncle Kyouji!" Yui creid happily as she eagerly swam up to the edge to join her parents with Sachi close behind "Hey Girls!" Kyouji beamed as he got up to greet them "How are my two favorite nieces in the whole world?"
"Uncle Kyouji I did it! I swam all the way to the other end this time without stopping!" Yui chimmed excitedly.
"You did!?" Kyouji gasped happily "Wow Yui, that's great! Keep this up, and you might be in the Olympics someday!" he congratulated her. Yui's eyes sparkled from his praise. as he looked at her, he couldn't help but think "She looks like she could actually pass of as their own daughter!" I mean think about it; her hair is black like Kirito's and has the same style as Asuna's. Of course he knew she was adopted, as they had explianed to him that they first met her in SAO back when they thought she was an AI Kayaba had created as a mental health consoling pogram. But shortly after Defeating Sugou at Pingowey Island, the old HQ of ARGUS; the ones that created SAO that he'd used as a base of operations to unleash his mind control device on the world to enslave humanity; The JDSF found Yui as a Human inside a cryogenic pod, being kept alive and young before Shigemura broke the link between her conscieness and the AI, bringing her back to the real world to be adopted by Kirito and Asuna. But even so, she looked so much like them two that Kyouji couldn't help but forget sometimes that she was adopted.
"I wonder why that is" he thought "Coinsidence, perhaps?...I guess so" he shrugged in his head.
"Unks!" Sachi called to him as she slowly swam up to the edge. They both turned and smiled as she approched the wall, almost bumping her head on the tiled suface but Kyouji reached in and pulled her out the water before that ever happened.
"Whoops!" he said, holding her in his arms "Almost bumped your head there, didn't 'cha!" he tickled her belly while holding her in his arm, making the baby giggle. Kirito and Asuna smiled at the scene. It was then, Kyouji sniffed the air. He wrinked his nose and frowned "Oh my-"he gagged "Whoa! Uh oh! Somebody's made poopies!" he announced.
"Sorry! You don't mind changing her, do you? Since your not swimming" Asuna asked him. "Oh no no! Of course not!" Kyouji nodded as he began making his way to the bathrooms "Everything you need should be in my bag!" Kirito told him.
"Got it!" Kyouji shouted, taking Kirito's bag with him off the floor under the bleachers and Sachi to the diaper changing station out of sight.
5 minutes later
The door of the bathroom opened with Kyouji holding Sachi, now with a new clean diaper to wear. "There you go, little one. Now lets get you back to mommy and daddy shall we?" He asked her in a little soft voice that made her giggle. However, as the approached the end of the hallway back to the pool, a figure had only just came out from the corner and bumped straight into the duo, the figure's elbow accidentally bumped right into Sachi's head!
"Oof!" They both said when they collided and Sachi started crying "Hey asshole! Watch were you're going will ya!" Kyouji shouted angrily.
"Watch we're I'm going?! Excuse me, dickhead! I-" Shouted a a feminine voice that belonged to the figure which Kyouji quickley knew it belonged to a girl. She stopped herself to see the baby with a little bump on her head in his arms crying. She let out a gasp of horror, covering her mouth and dropping the clipboard that she was holding "Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to-" she tried to apologise.
"Now look what you did!" Kyouji scolded as he held Sachi in his arms, trying to console her "Hey, It's okay little one. Shh, It's okay. It's okay. Uncle will kiss it better" he softly kissed the babys head were the bump was "Calm down now. you're okay. That's it." he softly cuddled her while the girl watched him. her hand on her chest as she felt her heart melt from the sight of this man being so gentle with the baby.
Once he'd seettled Sachi down, he looked up to see the girl he'd bumped into before. She had redish violet, almost pink eyes with short lavander pink hair, like someone had put a mop of cotton candy on her head and she wore what seemed like a black high school girl uniform, complete with a white blouse, black skirt and thigh high leggings with jet black shoes. At that moment, Kyouji felt a strange yet familiar tingle in his chest, The two just stared at eachother of a moment before Kyouji noticed that he was staring at her for longer then he should and shook his head.
"Um well, I er" He coughed in his throat shyly "I'm sorry I snapped at you I-"
"What? Oh no no" The girl shook her head, eyes closed in embarrassment "I'm the one that should be sorry. I didn't mean to hurt your baby" she apologized as she looked at the now smiling Sachi.
"Oh I, Its fine, its just a little bu-" Kyouji paused at what she'd just said and blushed. He then widened his eyes. She thought he was her father! "Oh no no, wait!" he waved his free hand in front of her "She's not mine, she's my niece" He clarified with her "I only went to change her diaper while her real family is in the pool, look" he walked past her towards the pool with her watching as he handed Sachi over back to her mother "There you are, Clean as a whistle"
"Thank you, Kyouji" Kirito thanked him before they bro-fisted.
The girl widened her eyes "Wait, was that Kazuto Kirigaya?!" she asked in disbelief when Kyouji walked by her on the way back to the beachers "It sure is" he confirmed. The girl picked up her clipboard and followed him back to his seat attentively "'The' Kazuto Kirigaya?!" she asked again as she stood by Kyouji as he sat back down "You're friends with the Kirigayas?!"
"Yes" Kyouji nodded to confirm the girls suspicions "I'm very good friends with them, so their kids think of me as thier uncle"
The girl looked back to the pool, seeing Yui and Sachi swiming together "How Cute" she smiled.
"Yes they are" Kyouji agreed with a smile, he then realized what he'd just said "Sorry, I didn't mean that in a creepy pedo way! I was just saying that I find them both adorable!" he quickly explianed himself while waving his hands in front of her.
"Nobody said you were being creepy. I knew what you meant. They are cute" The girl shrugged dismissively.
Kyouji sighed in relief and slumped back in his seat. Not realising the girl was still standing by him. "Is this seat taken?" she asked pointing to the empty seat next to him on his right "It's a free country" he replied without looking at her. His gaze still fixated on Kirito's family splashing around in the pool. She took it as a "Yes" and sat down beside him with her hands on her lap and Kyouji looking forwards at the pool, trying to avoid eye contact with this girl.
"What the hell are you doing Kyouji?!" he thought to himself "First you talk to a girl, now you invite her to sit next to you?! Do you wanna end up back in Toshiba?"
"Names Strea, By the way" She introduced herself "Thanks for asking, Strea Aminakia" Kyouji looked at her and smiled nervously "N, nice to meet you M, mrs Aminaka. my name is Ky-"
"Kyouji Shinkawa" she finished for him with a stern nod "I know who you are"
His smile faded upon hearing that. Of course she knew him! Everyone in Japan and thier grandma knows who he is. You'd have to be living under a rock not to know about him. Kyouji knew not to get his hopes up. If she knew his real name, then she knew what he'd done. The kind of person he used to be before leaving it all behind. Sure, on paper he was a free man, but people still remember the crimes he'd commited, the lies he told and the lives he took and tried to take, yes, people forgave him but they never forgot what he did. And they made sure HE didn't forget either, particularly the female population always shunning him and shooting him glances of disappoval as they passed by him on the streets. It was only the girls in Kirito's guild in ALO and the nurses in his own clinic that treated him with any form of respect but that was only because he was thier boss, they HAD to like him...Not that Kyouji blamed them for avoiding and hating him. After all, he did try to rape Asada before his arrest.
A regret that he will never forgive himself for.
"Oh" Kyouji said with a small frown and a nod, turning himself back to watching the pool "Of course you do...But its 'Shigemura' now" he corrected her. They both just sat there in silence for a moment or two, with Kyouji watching as Kirito held Sachi in his arms and kissing her cheeks happily before he heard Strea speak again.
"So do you come to this pool just to watch others swim?" She asked. Kyouji didn't answer and just kept looking out to the pool. "Hey, Hey, Heeeey!" She waved a hand in front of him, that gained back his attention as he turned his head to her "You talking to me?" he asked, a little surprised that she hasn't run away screaming like all of the blind dates Klien and Lizbeth have tried to set him up with in the past.
"No, I'm talking to Bugs Bunny behind you" she rolled her eyes playfully "Yes, I'm talking to you"
"Oh sorry" he apologized "And to answer your question; not really, no" He shook his head "I'm just here because Kirito and his family are here and I am on my lunch hour" he explained himself.
"Oh, I see" Strea nodded, she then put her hand on her chin, holding it with her thumb and index finger "But, Wouldn't it be more fun if you actually got in the pool with them?" she asked with a slightly raised eyebrow.
Kyouji darted his eyes to her "Of course it would!" he exclaimed before he became quiet again, thinking about the real reason he didn't want to go in the pool "But I can't" he added, looking into the water beneath him.
"Why not? Forgot your trunks!?" Strea laughed at her own joke.
Kyouji couldn't help but chuckle a little at her playful demeaner "Well Yes!" he laughed before he looked back down again "And also...I can't swim" He whispered that last part so she couldn't hear.
Strea rasied her eyebrow again "What?"
"I can't swim"
"Excuse me?" Strea held her ear to him so she could hear him properly.
"I SAID I CAN'T SWIM OKAY!"
Kyouji yelled so loudly that everyone in and out of the pool stopped to look at him. Kyouji and Strea looked around to see them all staring back at them both. Kyouji blushed at the volume of his own voice "Sorry" he apologized both to her and the crowd before they all went back to thier normal activities. Meanwhile, Strea had a wide eyed look about her.
"Y-you can't swim?" she asked in shock. Kyouji shook his head "I never learn how to swim" he confessed sadly.
"Well, didn't your parents ever teach-" she tried to say but then she stopped when Kyouji looked back at her with hurt eyes "Oh" she put her hands down on her lap. They shared another moment of silence before Strea clicked her fingers, startling Kyouji a little "I know" She began with a bright smile on her face "How about I teach you!"
Kyouji widened his eyes in disbelief at what this girl had just proposed "W, What?! You, teach me how to swim?" he repeated, pointing to her and then to himself.
"Sure!" Strea stood up from her seat, looking down on him with a determined smile "As luck would have it, I happen to be the president of the evening swimming club at my school. We meet every evening at seven to nine from monday to friday" She explained while she held her badge in front of Kyouji for a split second so that he couldn't even read what it said while he listened "Now normally, we'd use our school's own pool but It's closed right now for refurbishment, so we'll have to use the local pool here until its all fixed up! In fact, that's the whole reason why I'm here today, to see the site supervisor for his signature of approval and the spare keys to temporarily use the pool-" she held her clipboard close to her chest.
Meanwhile, Kirito had turned his head to catch sight of Kyouji in conversation with a girl he'd never seen before, he could't hear what they were saying, but he was so in shock at the fact Kyouji was talking to a girl on his own!
"Hey honey!" he called to Asuna, who was playing with the girls "Look! Up there!" he pointed Where Kyouji was. She lifted her head to see it and gasped with a accompanying smile "Well I'll be damned" she whispered.
Back to Kyouji and Strea;
"B' but, but I don't even go to your school!" Kyouji argued, standing up from his seat "Would it even be alright with the others in the club if I joined?"
"They will be if I say you are" Strea smiled warmly " I AM the club president after all and like you said before; It's a free country!" She grinned coyly as she held out her hand for him "So what do you say? You in?"
Kyouji just stared at her hand and then back to her with a suprised look in his eyes. What should he do? Should he go? His Clinic closes at five today and he doesn't have any other plans for the night, other then maybe play some ALO with Kirito's Guild 'The Sleeping Knights' or work on his medical journal or help Shigemura with his experiments on GLA equipment for him and the others for any future missions they get assigned to.
"Well?" Her voice snapped him out of his thoughts. He looked up to her, seeing her beaming at him brightly.
"Emm..." he finally said "I don't know, I'll have think about it"
"Oh okay" Strea gave a defeated sigh as she looked down to the floor with a disappointed pout before she began to slowly walk away with her head facing the ground. Kyouji didn't know why, but the sight of this girl being upset seemed to bother him. Inside, he felt all rotten, like how he felt when he thought Asuna was still dead when she was still pregnant with Sachi before he betrayed the 'Holy Empire' for the GLA. The guilt inside was swelling up so much that he thought he was going to be sick. She was halfway down the bleachers path to the exit when he shouted "Wait!" She stopped and turned her head to look back at him with a look of suprise and a small glint of hope in her eyes. Kyouji sighed in acceptance "Alright, I'll come to this club of yours"
Strea's face turned from disappointment to excitement in an instant. She smiled brighter then she did before and ran back up to him "Really! You will?!" She asked ecstatically bouncing in place. Kyouji nodded "Hey, I said that I would think about it and now I have thought about it and well, Now I've decided that I will come" he explained in a 'Matter of fact' kind of way.
"Awesome!" Strea exclaimed before she balled her fist and moved it from Kyouji left shoulder to his right shoulder, mimicking a sword, like a queen giving a knighthood "Then I, Strea Aminakia, President of the Onoichiyo High evening swim club; hereby name you an official member! Welcome aboard, Kyouji Shink- I mean Shugemura!" she corrected herself with a slight blush.
"What a great honer, mrs Aminakia!" Kyouji found himself smiling back at her a little.
"Oh please, just 'Strea' is enough" She smiled, then she checked her phone for the time "Oh crap! Lunchtimes almost over! I'm gonna be late for class! I have to go!" she cried, picking her belongings up off the floor at her feet "Meet us back here outside the main entrance tonight at seven o'clock. Don't be late, Okay! Bye!" she instructed with a small wink before she ran down to the exits. She stopped breifly to waved at him, to which he waved back with a warm smile back as he watched her dissappear behind the wall. However, when she was out of sight behind the wall and out of Kyouji's eyesight, Strea gave a jump of joy and a silent squeal of excitement "Yes!" she whispered before she left the pool.
Back at Kyouji's side of the bleachers, he sighed and sat back down "What in the world just happened?" he asked himself before he heard splashes of water comming from where Kirito and Asuna and thier children were in the pool. He looked to see them getting out and walking towards him with Kirito holding Yui by the hand and Asuna with little Sachi in her arms "Oh, hey guys! You just finished up?" He then noticed the meaningful looks Kirito and Asuna were giving him "What?"
"So, who was she?" Kirito smirked, his arms folded.
"Who was who?" Kyouji asked. Trying to sound confused.
"That girl you were talking to earlier"
"What girl?!" Kyouji dismissed with a small blush. darting his eyes left and right "I wasn't speaking to anyone" he lied.
"Don't play coy" Asuna's smirk mirriored her husbands as she was getting Yui her spongebob themed towel to dry herself, she was a big fan of the show "We saw you talking with that lavander haired girl up here"
"Her name's Strea!" Kyouji told them with a glare. Kirito smiled, knowing that if he didn't talk to her, he wouldn't know her name, now would he? "So you were talking to her then"
Kyouji's blush deepened in embarrassment at the fact that he'd been caught dead in lie "So what were two lovebirds talking about?" Asuna asked, still grinning.
"Oh, she just offered to teach me to swim tonight and-" Kyouji trailed off until he noticed what Asuna had said "Wait-lovebirds!" he shouted in shock.
"Well, why not?" Kirito nodded "I mean, She seems to like you and she seems pretty nice...And beautiful too" Kirito smirked suggestively. Asuna frowned and slapped his shoulder with a small glare. Kirito whimpered a little " Oww! B-but not nearly as beautiful as you are honey!" he assured her. Asuna calmed down and smiled, glad she asserted her position as his wife and bearer of his child and his all of his future children, As many as possible, she hoped.
"Uncle Kyouji was talking to a girl?!" Yui asked with excitedly wide eyes, she then looked up to Kyouji "Do you like her, Uncle Kyouji? Is she your girlfriend? Is she gonna be another aunt to me?" She asked him suspiciously. Kyouji's face now was bright red "W-what?! Strea, my girlfriend?! No no no" he waved his hands in front of them "You've got this all wrong! She's not my girlfriend! She's...Just a friend. Well more an acquaintance really. We've only just met eachother today!" he explained.
"Oh riiiiight" Kirito winked at him suggestively "So you gonna go online tonight with the rest of us?" he asked him "We're gonna clear out some new dungeons thats recently been discovered on floor 38" he added.
"Sorry, I can't tonight, I'm busy" Kyouji shook his head.
"Oh, doing what?" Asuna asked before grinning again "Going on a date with your new girlfriend? Mr 'I'll never find true love!'" She teased with Yui giggling in her hand.
"Uncle Kyouji's in love! Uncle Kyouji's in love~" Yui began chanting in a sing-song voice, Sachi began laughing in Asuna's arms.
"No, I'm not! It's NOT a date and she's NOT my girlfriend" Kyouji was starting to get red again "She's just gonna teach me how to swim, Its an important life skill that I never had the chance to learn becasue my parents never taught me! Plus, there will be others there too, so It can't really be a date if its more then two people, can it? So our relationship is strictly professional!" Kyouji then looked down and put his hands in his pockets "Besides, she knows who I am and about my past. So she'd never be interested in someone like me anyway...No-one would"
"Don't talk like that" Kirito said sincerely "There's this old saying; 'Every saucepan has a lid', Kyouji. You're probably just a late bloomer. Like Klien; He was in his mid-twenties when he met Lizbeth and look at them, they're happier then ever!"
"Thats different" Kyouji said glumly "Klien doesn't have a criminal record"
"And neither do you" Asuna reminded him firmly "You've been pardoned and have a clean slate"
"But people still remember what I've done!" Kyouji said "There are still some people out there who dispise me for the crimes I commited before I was shipped off to Toshiba; the friends and families of the GGO gamers that me and my brother killed and the ones of the gaurds in Toshiba I killed during that riot of which we escaped! Nobody in their right mind would ever want to be with someone like me...But thats fine with me, I suppose its just the price I'm paying for my mistakes" he finished sadly. Kirito and Asuna looked at eachother and then back to Kyouji "But they also know about all the good things you've done" Kirito said "About how you saved my life"
"And helped save the world from Sugou's plans" Asuna added "And the lives you saved at your clinic and the money you've given to charity, everyone makes mistakes Kyouji, some bigger then others but thats not the point. The point is; everyone deserves a second chance, if they earn it. Look at Eiji! Look at the kind of man he was before he met Anaya!...And, all things considered...You of all people have earned a sccond chance, Kyouji" She smiled assuredly at him. That seemed to have cheered him up a little.
"Maybe" Kyouji nodded with a smile before he looked at his phone "Oh, I need to head back to my Clinic, still got lives to save! Catch you all later! Tell the others I wish them good luck on the raids tonight!" he informed him as he walked away from them.
"See you later Kyouji!" Kirito called to him, Kyouji just gave them a wave back as he walked "And good luck on your date with your new girlfriend tonight!"
"SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!" Kyouji turned and yelled at them with a face that resembled a tomato with the entire Kirigaya family laughing like children at his expense.
"Kyouji and Strea, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G~!" Kirito and Asuna and Yui began singing.
"Oh grow up you guys!" Kyouji yelled angrily before he stomped away, leaving them to finish the song "How fucking immature can you get" he muttered.
later that day, at another part of the city
Strea was now in her room back at her house after coming home from school. She was in her wardrobe, looking through all her clothing for something in particular. "No, No, Definitely not! No, too revealing, not revealing enough" She whispered to herself as she pushed aside the different swimsuits she owned until she saw what she was looking for.
"Aha! There you are" She smiled as she pulled out the swimsuit on a hanger that she liked and looked at it, thinking about how good she'll look in for her little trip to the pool tonight. Not only that but; How Kyouji will react when he sees her in it. She smirked suggestively at the thought of it as she walked over to the wall on the right side of her room with her swimsuit in hand. On it, just above her studying desk, were old newspaper articles and pictures of Kyouji about the Deathgun murders back in 2026 and about Kyouji's trail in 2027 and about Kyouji opening his Clinic alongside some other pictures that she'd taken without his knowledge of him since the day he walked out of the courtroom a free man, him at Agils bar drinking and talking to his friends from ALO, On the streets and even some of him entering and leaving his place of work! All of them held up by drawing pins on a board.
"Yes, yes this''ll be perfect!" Strea said to herself at the swimsuit "Once he sees me in this, He won't be able to resist me. So far, everything is turning out just as I hoped it would" she then turned to the wall walked over to one of the pictures of Kyouji "Soon, you will be alllll mine Kyouji! Hehe!" she giggled seductively.
"Strea!" Said a male voice from downstairs "Could you help set the table up please?! Dinners almost ready! And tell your sister to come down too!"
"Okay! Comming, big brother" she called back to him as she threw the swimsuit on her bed and ran out the room to help with dinner, slamming the door behind her after turning back breifly to the pictures and blowing a kiss at them, thinking about all the fun she was about to have with Kyouji tonight.
Well, Looks like Kyouji's in for quite a big suprise! How will things turn out for them back at the pool?
What could Strea possibly have in store for him? All this and more will be revealed in the New Chapter, comming soon! Until next time...Cheerio!XXXOOO