AN: I finally figured out a type of fic I have been dying to write! I am going to make an SAO fic. Of course it will probably hit AU territory really fast. I know I will also be flamed for changing things the way I am planning but it will be harem for a reason! There will only be four girls and I am writing my own version of Kirito so expect OOCness. Multiple sets of pairings as well.

Summary: This is based on how different Kirito would be if he was taken in by someone else when his parents died. He was assumed dead by his remaining family and thus was raised by someone else.

It will become obvious who raised him later on in the story.

SAO Player Age's: Start of SAO-End of SAO

Kirito-15-17

Alice-15-17

Asuna-15-17

Silica-14-16

Lizbeth-16-18

Klein-18-20

Agil-24-26(I know he is de-aged it will be relevant later on)

Diabel-16-18

Coper-14-16

Argo-16-18

Philia-15-17

(These players are relevant to the story thus their ages)

Disclaimer: I do not own SAO

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"Special Lieutenant Kirigaya, your mission is to use the fulldive system to investigate whether or not Kayaba Akihiko has created a death game understood?" The question was asked by a black haired man in a military uniform. The one he questioned was a young teenage boy with a lithe form built for speed, he had black shoulder length hair and coal black eyes. He had an androgynous face and could be mistaken for a girl if he had long hair and a smaller body. He was dressed in a black military officers uniform complete with the silk white gloves. Kirigaya had an indifferent face as he saluted. "Understood sir." He replied. The commanding officer nodded as he hooked Kirito up to a machine connected to the fulldive system.

Once hooked up the officer said one last thing. "Also Kazuto remember to use the information from your beta character, and come back alive." The commander had a softer face as he said the last part. Kazuto nodded before he said. "Link Start!". And just like that he was out of the world. He found himself in a sea of white with a box in front of him asking if he wanted to use his beta testers informationg to which he clicked yes to, which was his beta character Kirito. After that he was transported again and found himself in the town of beginnings.

Looking around he noticed other players just getting there to. Knowing what needed to be done early on and not wanting some newbie to distract he took off in direction of the outside of the city to begin grinding. What he did not notice was someone saw him leave and followed him.

1 hour later Kirito was grinding the boars when he decided to confront his follower. "You know its rude to follow someone correct?" Kirito said out loud. He heard a squeak of surprise and turned to face his follower. He found that it was a girl. She had long golden blonde hair with two long bangs framing her face and it flowed into a long braid in the back with a white ribbon tying it off. She had blue eyes and was wearing the starter gear for a girl in the game. All in all she was beautiful. He knew some players though could pretend to be girls when they are actually guys so he wasn't holding his breath. He himself thanks to the military's technology made his avatar look exactly like himself.

The 'girl' bowed and said. "Sorry I followed its just I am new to this kind of stuff and you looked like you knew what you were doing and I hoped you could help me out?" She said while staying bowed. Kirito pondered this and guessed he could since the other beta testers probably were not after the quest he wanted yet. "Alright I will help you. I'm Kirito." Kirito said holding his hand out to her. The girl smiled and held out her hand. "I'm Alice." She answered shaking his hand.(If you read the light novel you know who she is then).

Kirito helped Alice learn the basics of the game as well as sword skills. She used a two handed long sword type of character. She picked up everything pretty easily and started grinding along with Kirito. Once they were done she said. "Thank you for helping me out Kirito. I have got to go though because I ordered a pizza and I need to pay the delivery guy." Alice said as she swiped her hand for the menu to open up.

"Ehh the logout button is not their?" Alice said.

Kirito narrowed his eyes at that. "Are you sure it's supposed to be at the bottom left." Kirito said as he opened his menu and noticed it as well. He confirmed that it was not actually there. "Have you tried contacting the GM?" Kirito asked.

"Yea but they are not answering do you think its a bug?" She asked.

"Could be-" In the middle of saying that he was forcefully transported back to the town of beginning.

"A glitch I guess they will let us know" Kirito finished saying before noticing him and Alice were back at the town.

"I guess they are about to tell us now." Alice chuckled next to him. Kirito smiled at 'her'.

They then noticed that all of the other players were their as well. The sky darkened to a dark red and a giant GM showed up with their face covered.

"Is this an event?"

"Their probably going to fix the bug"

Murmurs among the crowd began. Until the GM spoke. "Greetings players. Welcome to my world." It began. Kirito narrowed his eyes when he said 'My world'. "I am Kayaba Akihiko, and I am the god of this world. As some of you have noticed there is no logout button. I assure you this was on purpose. As of now you are part of the world SAO. Their is no way to logout and should you try the microwaves in the nervegear will fry your brain." He announced opening up screens to show them the news reports.

"The only way to logout is to clear the game by defeating the boss of the 100th floor. Also there is no way to revive a character anymore. So if you die in game you die in the real world as well." He continued. At this announcement their was mass chaos as the players began panicking. Kirito had his eyes watching Kayaba the whole time. His suspicions confirmed for the military his new job began. To clear the games and save the players lives.

"Before you begin I have one last present for all of you. In your inventory their should be an item called mirror. Please use it now" Kayaba spoke. Kirito opened his and noticed it was their. He saw out of the corner of his eye the other players doing the same. He looked at the plain mirror and was then bathed in a blue light. When it died he noticed his avatar more closely resembled his real body to a complete match now. He now knew the purpose of the mirror. He looked around and noticed everyone looked different probably to match their real world appearance.

He looked over and noticed Alice looked the same just about with her features becoming more regal. She looked even more beautiful now. His inner pervert was happy with this mirror since it meant he didn't have to be afraid some guy was posing as a girl.

"Alice you look even more cute" Kirito smiled as she blushed and looked at him.

"You look cute to Kirito" She mumbled back causing him to chuckle at her. He knew she was probably terrified but was trying to be strong in front of him to forgot about it.

"Good luck players" he heard Kayaba announce before he disappeared. Kirito decided now was the time to start and be ahead of the other beta players.

"Alice you want to come with me and strive in this world? I was a beta tester and know the best spots and quest's?" he asked her. She looked at him and nodded grabbing his hand as they ran out of their.

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1 month later

'Over 2,000 players have lost their lives to the death game. Players who gave up have taken to staying in the town of beginning's while other non-fighters have began using other skills to open shops. The fighters have yet to find the boss floor for the first floor in even a month of playing. Their was a meeting today that was supposed to be about the first boss. Alice and I have been grinding to maximize our skills as much as we can to be ready for the first boss. We even encountered two more people to add to our growing group. Their names were Coper an ex-beta like me and his real-life girlfriend Silica who was a beast tamer type character.' Kirito rambled in his head as he walked with Alice and the other two to the meeting place. Kirito and Alice have grown closer while they were fighting together for the first month, and now took every opportunity to tease each other. They arrived at a small cathedral like place with stands for players to sit and a small stage for players to announce things.

They noticed that there were about 30 players there. A lot of them were in groups while a couple were by themselves including a small person in a cloak and a guy with red hair and a bandanna. The small group of four took their seats in between the two solo characters. They looked up to the stage when they heard someone call the meeting to begin.

A young man with blue hair that framed his face walked up to the stage. He was dressed in leather armor reminiscent of a knight.

"Welcome players my name is Diavel, and I like to classify myself as a knight!" Diavel started off earning chuckles from a few people.

"Their is no job system!" One person shouted.

Diavel just smiled but then turned serious. "Today my party discovered the boss room of this floor." Diavel started off earning gasp of surprise.

"This meeting is a strategy meeting to make a plan to beat the boss and prove to the players back at the town of beginning's that we can win this thing!" He continued shouting at the end earning voices of approval from some characters.

"Hold up!" everybody heard somebody shout. Before a guy with orange cactus like hair jumped down to the stage.

"I am Kibaou, and before we continue some of you people need to apologize!" the new guy yelled.

Kirito tightened his fist knowing what this guy was leading to. Coper tensed as well. Alice put her hand on Kirito's shoulder to calm him down and he nodded his head in thanks. Silica grabbed Coper's hand.

"Kibaou are you perhaps speaking of the beta testers?" Diavel asked.

"Yea they abandoned us at the beginning and hogged all of the good grinding areas, while leaving us to the wolves!" Kibaou ranted.

"Excuse me" A deep voice interrupted his rant. It belonged to a massive dark skinned man. He walked up to the stage.

"I am Agil. Kibaou you say the beta testers are to fault?" Agil asked the intimidated Kibaou.

"y-yea" he stuttered a little.

In response Agil took out a book. "Have you perhaps read this?" Agil asked.

"Of course I have. You can get one of those for free from any shop!" Kibaou answered.

"I see then. These books are guidelines written and created by the beta testers and yet 2000 people still died. It is not the fault of the beta testers but this world." Agil said. Kibaou tch'ed an sat down knowing he lost the argument.

"Alright now that we are back on track. The bosses name according to the bood is Illfang the kobalt lord. He uses a one-handed axe and buckler combo, switching to a talwar when his health enters the red. I want full party's of six people. The ones who land the final kill blow will receive the items but the exp will be shared. He has a group of followers called sentinels who help out as well." Diavel announced to the group.

"Tommorow we will raid the boss so be prepared." He finished. Once he was done the players who were in groups already formed their party's. Kirito and Alice were the first of their group to form a party following along was Coper and Silica joining in giving them four players.

"I am going to ask that person if they want to join us" Kirito said pointing to the cloaked person. The others nodded and Coper said "Ill ask the guy with the bandanna then.".

Walking to the cloaked person Kirito sat down. "Excuse me I was wondering if you would like to join our party?" Kirito asked.

The person just nodded and Kirito sent a request. He they hit accept and a name was added to the list on his party. 'Asuna huh'. "Thank you. If you would like we can all hangout tonight and strategize?" he asked.

"I guess" Asuna said. Her voice was femimine Kirito noticed. Kirito nodded and lead her to the group.

Once they got over their they noticed the bandanna guy had joined. Kirito could tell he was depressed about something though. "Hey guys this is Asuna." Kirito announced. Asuna tensed.

"How do you know my name!?" She asked with a harsh tone. Kirito looked at her confused.

"Is there a set of names below your health bar?" Kirito asked. Asuna looked up and noticed their were a set of names. She read them off "Kirito, Klein, Coper, Silica, and Alice" She said and each member waved as she said their name. She blushed and apologized to Kirito. He just waved it off and said it was okay. "Well guys I am hungry. Who wants to go get some food?" Kirito asked.

"Yea I could use some food too." Alice said agreeing to join him. The only ones who didn't join was Coper and Silica saying they were going to grind some more before tomorrow. The group went into town and found a place to sit down and eat. They chatted about small things while they ate and Asuna was amazed at how much better the bread tasted with cream. She even bonded a bit with Alice since she hadn't met to many girls in the game. They all went to sleep pondering over how tomorrow was going to go.

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The next day

The group of six were walking towards the dungeon explaining the basics of switch with their new party members. They even set up how they were going to work together as well. Kirito had noticed how Diavel was giving him weird looks throughout their trip to the boss room. He thought it was just because Kirito was a solo player in the beta and he had known Diavel from it and it probably surprised him Kirito was partying up now.

When they reached the door Diavel stopped them to finalize the plan. "Alright teams A,B,C are main assault squad. Teams D and E will support by clearing the sentinels." He said and the raid party nodded. Kirito's party was Team E.

"Alright lets do this." Diavel said opening the door and everybody followed in tense and prepared. Once they were all in blue flames lit up the room and a huge red fat jackal like thing dropped down from the ceiling with four bars of health.

"Charge!" Diavel shouted. The main assault squad charged the boss while D and E started attacking the spawning sentines.

Throughout the battle Diavel was shouting commands while everyone was attacking. When the bosses health dropped into the red he roared and threw his axe and shield.

"Everyone back I will handle this!" Diavel shouted as he charged forwards. He looked back and sent a smirk in Kirito's direction who eyes widened knowing what he was after. 'He wants the last attack bonus!' he said in his head. Diavel activated a sword skill with a long wait time. 'That doesn't even have the power needed for a death hit!' Kirito thought. He noticed illfang take out soemthing that made him widen his eyes before he activated 'sonic leap' speeding towards them.

"Diavel thats a nodachi not a talwar!" Kirito shouted charging forward as a fast pace. Diavel widened his eyes realizing his mistake and couldn't move thanks to his sword skill. He thought he was about to die as the boss brought his sword down but just then a flash of orange came in front of him hitting the bosses sword up.

"Switch!" Kirito shouted as the shockwave blasted him and Diavel back from the blast. Asuna being the fastest in their party sped forward and rained linear on Illfang.

On the ground Kirito looked at Diavel. "You idiot you almost died just for a last attack? Did you think everything was going to be the same from the beta?" Kirito scolded Diavel. Diavel looked down. "Sorry about that I just thought myself your rival so I wanted to beat you just this once." Diavel said.

"You can still be my rival, you just have to be a live smart rival" Kirito said standing up and shocking Diavel. Kirito seen that Asuna was open and widened his eyes.

"Asuna behind you!" He shouted. She looked at behind her and got away just in time even though her cloak was ripped off showing a beautiful chestnut haired girl. Kirito thought she was beautiful when he seen her. Banishing those thoughts for later though he rushed in and attacked the boss with her.

After a few strikes they were thrown back and had low health. Just as the boss was bringing the blade down a mace stopped it. Looking up Kirito noticed it was Egil. "We will hold him off while you two recover." Egil said and Kirito nodded. "Thanks." He replied.

When their health was back up Kirito and Asuna charged again since they were the fastest of their group thus they could finish the boss, and continued to combo him. Kirito parried the huge sword once more and was knocked back as Asuna rained more fast blows on his way back he looked behind him and shouted. "Egil, Klein bring up your hands!" The two did so and Kirito's feet connected and he activated 'sonic leap' again and sped off at an insane speed and slashed his sword completely through the bosses midsection. Everything was frozen before the boss shattered in polygons and their was a sign of congratulations above it.

Everybody cheered and Kirito noticed he got the last attack bonus which was the coat of midnight.

"Wait!" Everybody heard Kibaou shout again.

"You your a beta tester aren't you!? You knew the weapon the boss was about to use!" He declared pointing at Kirito. Kirito glared at him.

"Kibaou shut up." Surprisingly this came from Diavel and not Kirito.

"He saved my life. I was a beta tester as well and I was trying to get the last attack bonus. In my want to be his rival I forgot that not everything from the beta was going to be the same." Diavel said shocking everyone.

"In the beta Kirito was known as the black swordsman and was the one who got the furthest and I wanted to be his equal." he continued shocking people even more.

"For saving my life and accepting my rivalry I am joining him and his group." He finished.

"Then your cheaters!" Kibaou shouted.

"A beta tester and a Cheater your Beaters!" He finished.

A hollow chuckle came from Kirito's mouth sending chills up everyone's spines. "A Beater eh? I like it. Yea remember me I am a beater not like those other beta testers. I am going to be the one to beat this game." Kirito said throwing on his coat of midnight in a dramatic flourish. He turned around and walked up to the doors his entire group following him.

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2nd floor

Once they reached the second floor and the wide open plains he addressed the group. "You guys know it will be social suicide following me correct?" Kirito said.

To his surprise they laughed at him. A little put out he looked at them. "that guy Kibaou was an idiot. He didn't look at the bigger picture. Also more people are probably going to look up to you than be mad at you for just now promising to get them out of this game." Alice said with a chuckle. Kirito in response groaned. "that's not what I was going for but whatever. Seeing as how we have a big group gathering here I suggest we form a guild once we reach the third floor." Kirito proposed. Everyone agreed and they set out.

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2 days later

Kirito looked up to see he received a pm. 'Ki-bou I have something you might be interested in. Meet me at these coordinates-Argo' It read. Surprised that she was giving him info for free he informed everyone he was setting out to meet up with Argo. She was already famous for being an information broker so they didn't question him further although Klein and Diavel asked to accompany him and he shrugged.

An hour later the three guys finally made it up a huge mountain. They saw a small hut and Argo standing outside. Argo was dressed in a green travelers cloak and green themed equipment. What was different though was that she had three red whiskermarks. Kirito had to hold in a chuckle.

"I didn't think you would bring people but whatever. In this hut is a quest to gain the skill martial arts. All you have to do is break a rock using whatever you can." She said to the guys.

The three were really interested to have a useful skill like that since it meant they were not unarmed without swords anymore. "Whats the catch though? Does it have something to do with your whisker marks?" Kirito asked knowing Argo.

She pouted a little. "If you exit out of the quest you get failure marks and they are permanent." She answered. "Also the rock has really high durability and heals if you stop hitting it." She added. The three now knew why she was like that.

"Thanks for the info Argo" Kirito said. She smirked and looked at the blue haired Diavel. "Pm me anytime you want Di-kun" Argo said as she whispered it into his ear flustering him hugely. She sashayed her hips as she walked away keeping Diavel in a trance. When he looked back at his friends they were smirking at him. He sighed knowing he was going to get teased now.

"heh maybe we can get free info if we use Diavel." Kirito said elbowing Coper who laughed. Diavel just sheepishly rubbed his head laughing awkwardly.

With that the three went into the hut accepting the quest and set to work.

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2 and a half months into the game 3rd floor

The group plus Argo who said she would be in and out a lot since it was her job to be all over the place just accepted the quest that unlocks the ability to form a guild. They were supposed to defeat the field boss mini-minotaur. It was basically a 6 foot minotaur instead of a 20 foot one that was supposed to be the floor boss.

It took them around three hours to clear the mini-dungeon even with their numbers and levels. The group was ok with it as they were getting good experience. The finally reached the door to the boss room. The inside had carvings on the walls that shined with a red glow. Their target eyes glowed red when it spotted them and rose from a throne of bones. It had three bars of health signifying it as a field boss. It roared and raised a battleaxe.

Kirito nodded to Diavel signaling him to be the strategist. "Alright Klein and Agil draw it's aggro. Kirito and Asuna use your speed to chain attacks. Alice parry it's strikes to allow Coper and Argo to hit it's weak points. Silica provide support with Pina and target the back of it's legs. I will help Alice!" Diavel set out telling everybody what to do. They all went to action falling into their roles easily.

The battle lasted twenty minutes but with their perfectly executed roles and high levels they put it down with Alice scoring the last strike bonus rewarding her with a paladin set of armor that leveled with her.

When they returned to the quest giver and turned it in the building they were in transformed into the guild community building allowing players to make their own guilds now.

"Ok to make your guild official I need 1500 col, and the name of the guild leader who will then assign the positions available in-guild." The NPC announced. They payed the col and said Kirito was the guild leader since he could make the decisions and their was a perfect position for Diavel.

"Ok the guild Lunar Wolves is now official congratulations." The NPC said. Their emblem was a black wolf head and yellow eyes with a crescent moon behind it.

"Ok Diavel your the Strategist, Argo your obviously our Informant and Spy, Klein and Silica your charismatic and our Recruiter's, Agil now would be a perfect time to begin preparing for that shop you want so your our Merchant, Coper I know you said you were good with money so your Treasurer, Alice and Asuna I know we will eventually become bigger so I want you two to train any new recruits and you two are the ones who can pick the guild outfits." Kirito rattled off. With each thing he said each player received a notification letting them know their position. They all nodded and smiled at each other ready to begin performing their jobs. The Lunar Wolves were ready to face the rest of the game.

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End Leave a Review please! Also I bought a notepad just to write the numerous notes I have for this story. It had a lot of stuff in it and the whole story plot up to the end of SAO I will write the story plot for ALO when I finish SAO on here. Let me know what you think.