what is real anymore?

chapter five: Asuna

Ohh... I'm almost a little disappointed in myself, I wanted to write about Kirito getting drunk... oh wells, maybe in a future chapter.

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As I stepped into the house, I felt a wave of uneasiness rush over me. I checked the main parts of the house, and then the bedroom, the twins were no where to be found. My heart began pounding and I started to search frantically, in places they would never be. I screamed, "Kirito! Kirito!"

He rushed inside holding Kokoro, who was now crying, Klein followed closely behind with a crying Hikaru. I sighed a breath of relief, and started cracking up laughing at the two guys holding the babies.

"What? What is it Asuna? Why'd you scream?"

"I just couldn't find the twins..."

"Oh, well here they are. They're all yours, by the way," he said handing Kokoro to me.

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, since you so kindly left to go grind by yourself, even though we promised to stay away from the action, I've decided to go out with Klein for the night."

"What? You can't leave me with both twins all night!"

"You did it to me!"

"Yeah, well, that was different."

"How?"

"Because I'm the wife, I make the rules!"

Kirito stared at me silently for a few minutes before cracking up laughing, "Good one, Asuna! But seriously, I'm going out with Klein, you can't just disappear all day and then expect me not to take some time away myself."

"Fine, whatever, I'm inviting Lis over!"

"Good for you, here's Hikaru," Kirito said, taking the boy from Klein, and then placing him in my already full arms.

I glared at the two of them as they walked out with smiles. The twins had long since quieted themselves, and were close to falling asleep in my arms when one of the idiots slammed the door shut and made both of the twins cry... this was going to be a long night, I knew that much already.

I placed the twins on the bed after I had managed to quiet them, and messaged Lis to come over immediately, she said she'd be here soon, and I began to wash the dirty clothes to pass the time... we had a lot of dirty clothes.

I was only about half way done by the time that Lis showed, she came into the room and saw that I was doing laundry, "You had me come to help you wash clothes? Seriously Asuna? I closed the shop early today!"

My eyes flew to the twins as she spoke loudly, they stirred but didn't wake.

"Shh," I said, quietly scolding her, "and no, we just have a lot of dirty clothes."

"Well I would have brought you mine if I had known you were doing them."

"Very funny, hey do you think that you could build a cradle or something we can put the twins in?"

"Uh... well my blacksmith skill would be high enough to make one out of metal, can't say that it would be comfy, but it would be sturdy... I'm not sure how to make a cradle though, I've only made weapons."

"I'm sure you can do it, but we need somewhere to put the twins at night."

"Well I can try, I'll need some more metal though... unless you just want me to use scrap metal, but that isn't very good quality."

"I'll have Kirito pick some up, he's out doing who knows what."

At the mention of Kirito's name, Lis looked away and at the twins, she had a slight blush on her cheeks. I almost felt bad for her, it was pretty obvious that she liked him, how could you not? Lis is a great friend of mine though, so she stepped down once she saw us together... I'm not sure I have the words to thank her for giving me the chance to be together.