Sword Art Online: Faithful Hymn

Chapter 45: Divided Heart, Part 2: Yuuki

"Naw silly me, I couldn't see this was a trap..." says Yuuki softly. She might be adorable, but that adorable look and behavior won't make me believe she didn't set this up. I haven't been in an ALO dungeon before, and yet I could see this was a trap at first glance. You can't convince me Yuuki didn't know about it.

"Nice try, but I can see through all kinds of acting" I tell the purple haired girl, who looks at me, amazed. She knew that I knew she faked her knowledge regarding traps in dungeons, and she wouldn't expect any less of me.

"I'm sorry for setting this up. It's just that..."

Before Yuuki could even finish her sentence, she ran towards me, probably expecting me to catch the impact of her soft body. Sadly I didn't expect it.

I fell, with Yuuki on top of me.

"I was so worried about you! When you logged off and this Eiji guy attacked me out of nowhere, mentioning you, telling me he has murderous intent, I worried sick!" Yuuki says loudly to me. She's about to burst out in tears, while I don't know where to look at. Yuuki's eyes with a guilty face, that might be the best expression I could give her at the moment.

"I tried to reach out to you after I defeated him, but you already left Asuna's home. From that moment on I was praying at the place I wanted to be buried at that you would stay unharmed!" Yuuki yells, tears dropping on my face. Thinking that she isn't done talking, I won't intervene.

"And I haven't felt this heartwarmed towards anyone ever before! Not towards Asuna, not even towards anyone from The Sleeping Knights who I know in real life! I like you so much, but I know you've got a thing with the Ordinal Scale star Yuna, and you probably won't love me back because I'm a ticking time bomb and..."

...I pressed my lips against hers.

She is right, about most of it. I don't love her as much as she loves me because I don't want to. I can't date Yuuki because I can't. I'd betray Yuna with it, and here I am... kissing Yuuki on her lips as I wrapped my arms around her soft body, unnoticed.

Is this where all of my love towards Yuna was for nothing? Life is just so unfair..

As we continue to kiss one another, creating smooching noises while we won't let go of each other's saliva, she pressures me to stay on the ground, while she presses her purple breastplate into mine. As much as I love this feeling, I also disgust it. No, I disgust myself.

In that instant, I started to cry once again, after several days where I thought that my happiness would never end. Yuuki notices this, and she breaks away from our kiss.

"I'm so sorry for pulling you through this Shoji..." Yuuki says softly, while I feel both her tears and mine flow down my cheeks. I then remove my arms from her body, wherever they may have been touching the girl by now. Without a doubt, Yuuki is disappointed in me. But she also would fully understand me.

"It's just... I can't betray Yuna like this. Even if we continued to kiss, I doubt she'd understand because her perspective of true love is a whole lot different than most.." I tell the purple-haired girl. So far, Yuuki seemed to understand everything that I told her. But that understanding gaze she keeps giving me faded away once I told her about Yuna's different view of true love.

"Different perspective of true love, what do you mean?" she asks me, curiously. I don't blame her for understanding, since most humans consider love the exact same. Yuna however, sees it differently, because she does not exactly know what her emotions were in the first place. It wouldn't surprise me if she still doesn't fully know.

"Yuna thinks that love is heavily surrounded by... well... sexual intercourse." I carefully tell Yuuki, not knowing what reaction she could possibly give me. And indeed, just like expected, she stands silently. However, she then burst into laughter, revealing even more emotion than when Kirito and Asuna were with us. She even has to wipe away her tears of enjoyment to be fully able to look at me again.