SAO Story: Encountering Puzzling Players

Chapter 1: Virtual Breakout

In dedication to RyanTsoi, because he wanted a story about SAO. Pff... WARNING WARNING! IF YOU HAVE NOT FINISHED 1ST SEASON OF SAO DO NOT LOOK AT THIS STRANGE STORY. Yet.

They were dead, because of him. He gasped as he slashed through the final monster and the doors finally opened up again. Kirito's eyes were drenched with horror, and his mouth was dry.

I killed them. I killed Sachi. All of them, dead.

He screamed, for no particular reason. But he screamed for every regret.

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"Yui?"

The frail little girl turned around, facing a boy very similar to the boy she was just monitoring. He was floating in the monitor room for player's health, Yui's home. The atmosphere was inside a program called Cardinal, that controls basically SAO. Nothing was visible, everything was black, except for the monitors. Like being inside a dark cave with no gravity.

"Kirito? Why are you in here? This is the player's health system, you should be inside the Cardinal, monitoring your counterpart's actions." Yui pouted, "This is my area."

"Should you really be calling my Kirito? Aren't you interested in what I found out about him? And by the way Yui... I found a way to break out of Cardinal." Kirito Virtual said with a wink in his eyes.

Let me explain, every player in SAO has a virtual counterpart, but Cardinal tells the Virtuals to stay in the system, and analyze data on your counterparts behavior and send it in. To Kayaba Akihiko.

Yui, the AI who programs the health of every player, was very interested in Kirito and Asuna. She or "it" adored them, they were always so unusual and unpredictable. Due to this, Kirito Virtual had a way of things with Yui.

Her face brightened, but only that one moment. She turned around pretending to be busy checking a player.

"So what? You're still not aloud."

"Pff... What's wrong with breaking the rules when no one knows? Fine, I'll do it myself." He turned his back on her, preparing to exit out of Yui's zone.

Yui but her lip, wondering what she should do.

"Why." She muttered.

Kirito Virtual stayed there, floating. "Why am I telling you this? When I could keep it a secret? After all, I want you to feel paradise as well. I know you want to meet him, I want you to get to know him, my counterpart I mean. Before everything happens."

"Before what?" Yui asked, but she already knew the answer.

"Before he finishes the game. And kills Kayaba." Kirito Virtual smirked. He always found Yui amusing.

Why was she feeling this way? She was just a program, made by Cardinal, so why? Why did she have feelings of wanting to meet Kirito-kun and Asuna-san? They were just players she monitored, but it seemed more than just players to her. Like, Family. Although she never met them, she wanted to.