A Player To Remember

A Third Wheel?

"Kirito, I want Yui back! We have rasied her, and we just forget about her like that!" Shouted Asuna as she had a little temper with Kirtio about the whole Yui situation.

"Asuna, look. I can understand what you mean. It's just that I want to leave this death pit of a game... Would you rather die trying to get out of this game or trying to help out "daughter"?" He said in air quotations as he crossed his arms while looking at her.

Asuna's eyes widened and looked like they were filled with anger. Bad anger.

"What.... Did you... Do the... Quotations for...?" She asked as she made a fist and then pointed it at Kirito with rage in her voice. "She was your daughter too! You took care of her! You were there when we found her! You-" A knock interrupted Asuna's shouting as she angrily walked towards it and opened it, and Craig was at the door but then saw her mad expression on her face.

"Asuna? Are you okay? Is there something wrong that I can help with?" He asked as she pushed past him and started to breathe in and trying to get normal and calm. Craig looked at her as he looked back inside of the house and looked at Kirito with his arms crossed. "And what did you do?"

"Look. I... Yui I care about. But I want to get out of the game. And Asuna thinks of this the other way around. She cares about Yui more then getting out the game." Kirito said as he then sat down and looked down at the hardwood floor. "Who are you anyway?"

Craig sighed and smiled a bit, crossing his arms and smiling at him, not trying to be looking like the bad guy. "I'm Craig. Me and Asuna actaully met by accident. I was almost killed and she helped me. But if I had to take a guess, you're Kirito? I've heard word about you throughout my days in this game."

Kirito sighed as he looked at him and crossed his arms. "I see what you're trying to do. You're trying to steal her, huh?" He started to feel some kind of way against Craig. Was it... jealously? Or was it something else?

Craig shook his head as he gave a smile and tried to convince him differently about him and Asuna. "H-Hey! We're just friends! She's helping me, and I'm helping her. In a way. A good way, I mean." He clarified and tried to get things straight with him.

Kirito crossed his arms as he growled a bit and walked towards him. "Well, then I advise you to maybe stay away from her now and maybe for sometime. I'm trying to deal some things with her. You're just in the way."

Craig then furrowed his eyebrows at him as he poked his chest and backed up a bit. "Look. I don't want to be hostile with you. But if I have to, I will. If you really want to be with Asuna, you would help her with Yui."

"Well, I have someone else to care about back home. I don't think you experienced all the deaths I have. If you did, then I think you'll want the same and get out of this game."

"Kirito. Listen. I get what you mean. I have someone back at home too. I even got someone looking out for me. And I can't let the both if them down. Not right now. I don't want no one else to die. So if you're threatening me to kill me, just know that you'll be seen as a killer for the rest of the time. But we can't get out this game with everyone being mad and sad at each other. So let's try to make everyone happy, and leave this hellhole. But that's just my opinion."

Craig said seriously as then Asuna came into the house and sighed a little bit. "Hey... Can you both.... Maybe leave for a while? I'll talk to you both later. I will." She gave a soft smile to the both of them as they nodded and went to door, both of them splitting their ways.

Asuna sat on the couch as she started to cry a bit and put her head into her hands. "Who...." She asked herself as she cried more and more.

Craig was walking as he then got a message from Rubi and read it.

Rubi: Craig, I need you to come to me and Kiku. He told me that something bad is going on, and he sounds serious about it.

Craig: Okay. I'll come over there. Did he tell anything yet?

Rubi: No. Well, not yet. Just get over here as fast as you can. I think it might concern the both of us.

Craig: Well now you say that, it certainty does now. I'll come there.

Rubi: Thanks. Never had someone like you. Thanks for this help.

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