SAO drabbles ~

The extent of Asuna's love ~ Chapter 9

"I want to talk," Kikuoka explains, looking smug.

 "I have nothing to say to you."

There I was. confronting Kikuoka for all of his misdeeds and mistakes.

I watch in anger as he presses his glasses against his nose, smirking. 

"Wouldn't you want me to tell you how things were while you were in Alicization?"

"I already know enough, how you mislead me, used your power against me, put Asuna in danger and even let Eugeo die for your own selfish gain!"

I stand up from my seat as  I yell, I then sit down as I look around seeing sick patients staring at me and bow apologetically to them. Kikuoka continues. 

"Kazuto, if I recall, RATH saved your life."

I grit my teeth and mutter under my own breath.

It's true that without RATH keeping me alive in a soul translator, I would have died otherwise the night when I was attacked and injected with succinylcholine. Even though Kikuoka saved me, I feel no gratitude for everything that happened afterward, especially what Asuna had to deal with. 

"I saved your life." 

"Listen- you put me into a soul translator, yes, but what you did to me was bad enough, you put Asuna in danger while I couldn't protect her, which I can't forgive!"

"..."

"If I remember, don't you WORK for the government?"

"Also...you had no right to be Asuna's personal nurse!"

Kikuoka looks at me, his smug smirk, once painted upon his face, slowly disappears, as he looks at me in a serious expression. 

"We did not have many nurses stationed during that time period- therefore,- 

"Bullshit! You know that's not true, you're lying from your teeth! You had an ex-army soldier nurse looking after me, yet when it came to Asuna, what did you do? You couldn't spare any more of your precious time to find her a nurse like my one?!" 

"Hm..."

"Answer me!"

"Since Asuna logged in as Goddess Stacia, I will admit I wanted to monitor her closely to see how she would break the rule of the index in Underworld, how she would save you, fight in battles in that world and how in reality her physical body would react to her comatose movements. I took it upon myself to administer her medications and blood tests for those months, the drugs that she had, being new and non-tested before."

My eyes continue widening in fear as I let out a gasp. 

"Y-you bastard! You experimented on Asuna?!"

I stand up from my seat, not caring about others around me and ignored the fact that I was yelling again. 

"Through her injections and medications, each type of medicine was a different drug to see how her comatose body would react to it, yes."

I walk up to Kikuoka and look him in the eyes, anger seething through my own eyes. 

Before he could stupidly touch his glasses onto his nose again, I grab his wrist mid-way across his face. 

He pulls his arm from my wrist. 

"Asuna giving me her own nutrients and body fluids are one thing...you respected her wishes, yet finding a way for Asuna to reunite with me, playing out that you support her and will look after her after she 'dives in' to meet me and promising that as Goddess Stacia, she could save me, yet experimenting on her with un-tested drugs to see how she reacts, that's not only unforgivable, not only twisted, it's sick."

Kikuoka stood in front of me in silence.

I take another step forward, standing closer to his face.

"You could have killed her."

 "How were you to know one of your non-tested drug experiments might backfire? oh wait, you didn't think of that, did you?" 

Kikuoka clears his throat. I then whisper near his ear, anger can be heard in my voice. 

"Stay the hell away from Asuna, otherwise, I'm calling the cops...and telling them EVERYTHING that you did."

"Are you threatening me, Kazuto?"

"Think of it more like...a friendly reminder."

"Kazuto, I highly doubt it, Who do you think the media and police would believe? A government detective, or a teenager who escaped a coma?"

"You bastard!" 

I reach out to grab his collar by the neck, yet restrain myself from doing so. 

I wanted to punch him, badly.

I want him to feel the pain Asuna felt. 

The pain she still feels... 

"I'm just weighing up the facts here. Before you do anything that you might regret doing or saying, at the end of the day, I'm the one with the power, not you, so I'd be very careful with what you mention either to me or about me."

My eyebrows narrow at Kikuoka, I smirk in sarcasm and look him in the eyes with anger.

"Mr Kikuoka, are you threatening me?" 

"You wanna talk to me sometimes about everything, whatever, I can handle that, but Asuna, she doesn't need to be reminded of everything." 

I start walking away from him, to the direction of Asuna's room and before I do, I make sure Kikuoka gets the message by saying as I'm leaving,

"Stay away from Asuna, if you don't, I'll make your life hell."

As I walk away, from the corner of my eyes, I can see him waving to me, knowing it pisses me off. 

I make my way to Asuna's room. 

On the way, I start thinking about everything that happened.

How Asuna fought for me, how Asuna saved me in that world and how she gave up important nutrients and fluids...all for me.

I tear up as I walk in her room. 

There she was, looking at me with her beautiful hazel eyes, sitting on the bed, seeing tears roll down my cheeks, her eyes widen in concern. 

"K-Kirito, w-what's wrong?"

I say nothing as she calls my name.

"Kirito?" she whispers

I remain silent, my teeth clenching and tears falling.