Read before you read the story:

Asuna and Kirito are just really good friends, not a couple. Asuna was never trapped in Alfheim online. Now you may begin.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything at all of sword art online.

The night before the final fight, tomorrow being do or die. Klein sat on his bed in the hotel room he had rented for the night, thinking over the battle tomorrow and what it would bring with it. Do or die. The same phrase echoing in his head over and over again. The words bringing thoughts of what if to his head. He thought of all the things he would never have had, never do, should he fall in the grand battle. His job, friends, his great 30th.

A family.

That was the one that bothered him the most of all. He would never have someone to love, to hold. No kids of his running crazy in his house as he made breakfast. No first day of school, no

scraped knees, or teaching them to ride a bike. No family traditions for christmas, no boys to chase away. He mulled over this a little longer until finally he couldn't take it anymore.

He pulled up a message box and started his plea.

He had to try.

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