So I just learned how to use that stupid line for line breaks and stuff, look at that, I'm so proud of my horizontal line. I wasn't even the person who figured it out, my friend did. Well we can only be so smart right?

Chapter 3: Mouse Trap

Lizbeth sighed in complete and utter boredom, quickly gaining the attention of everyone else in her close proximity. Besides Klein and Agil, the whole gang was there sitting on the picnic blanket quietly.

Kirito and Asuna had been talking about how nice it was to go to the park at this time of year, unfortunately for her and Silica they had bought into it. What the two should have mentioned, before Lizbeth decided to drag them all to the park right then and there, was how they meant it was nice for just the two of them romantically speaking.

Couples.

Now here they all sat around awkwardly on a blanket in the grass silently, and she was fairly certain she was going to go bonkers with boredom.

"This is boring." She grumbled in annoyance.

"You're the one who dragged us here." Kirito responded mostly under his breath.

Lizbeth just huffed in annoyance again as she looked over towards the trees, movement caught her eye.

"Oh look at the cute little mouse over there!" Silica squealed, apparently catching sight of the same thing.

Kirito who had at the moment in time been drinking water from a bottle immediately did a spit take towards the grass, "What? Where?!" he hollered as he jumped to his feet.

Everyone stared at him confusedly.

"Um…It's just a mouse Kirito." Lizbeth commented, Silica nodding her head in agreement as she spoke.

"Lizbeth I know what a mouse is, they're evil little taunting bastards that sit there with their little beady eyes and whiskers and-" He paused in his rant when he noticed everyone staring at him like he had lost his mind. A long silence seemed to fall over the group as everyone just continued to stare at him.

"Um…it was over there?" Lizbeth finally answered his original question uncertainly as she pointed to the trees.

"Oh…" he mumbled absentmindedly with a nod of his head as his eyes searched for and zeroed in on the mouse, the creature stared back. To Kirito it felt like it was laughing at him.

'Don'tchaseitdon'tchaseitdon'tchaseitdon'tchaseit' He started to repeat in his head over and over as the mouse and him continued their stare down.

Was it smirking at him? Oh it was definitely smirking at him.

"I'll kill you!" Kirito practically yelled as he immediately broke into a sprint after the creature, ignoring the alarmed cries from his friends.

"Kirito-kun what are you doing?! Come back!" He heard Asuna yell, but it was too little too late. The chase has begun.

The mouse was going down.

The mouse immediately darted through the trees towards the side walk as Kirito expertly maneuvered after it with all the feline grace in the world.

He hissed at a biker who nearly mowed him over when he suddenly darted out of the trees and onto the sidewalk.

"What the hell?" he heard the man question after he pulled the breaks to his the bike harshly nearly flipping over the handle bar in the process. Kirito was too busy to care, he was on a mission.

The mouse darted under the table of a lemon stand and immediately Kirito crawled under after it, something he will be wholly embarrassed about later on as the woman at the stand screamed.

She scrambled to get away, bumping her knee on the table in the process. The pitcher of one of the lemonades wobbled dangerously on the edge before tipping just as Kirito crawled out the other end.

He yowled like a startled cat as he was suddenly soaked to the bone, he hated getting wet. Wet and sticky, horrible combination.

Now he was really going to make that mouse pay.

"Hey wait a minute!" The woman of the stand called after him as he dashed like a mad man after the mouse, which was currently darting between the legs of a little kid roller-blading.

Kirito cursed under his breath, there was no way he could stop and avoid the kid in time, he had too much momentum going. So he jumped clear over him, gaining a lot of hollers of surprise and awe.

"Holy crap man, did you just see that?!" He heard someone yell to their buddy as he continued to run.

"Yeah man I filmed the whole thing, I was filming the moment the dude went under the table." Another guy commented.

He didn't even notice the two guys skate board after him as he continued his chase, coming up to a forked path, the mouse took the left and he was just about to follow when he heard a cry of alarm.

"Stop that man, he has my purse!" Someone screamed as Kirito felt himself shoved sideways by some burly man in a ski mask clutching a stolen purse in his hands as he ran. Of course he just had to go right.

Kirito paused at the path looking left longingly before glaring at the right path; help the woman get her purse back? Or catch the mouse?

Justice? Or catch the mouse?

But if he thought about it, catching the mouse was like his own justice right?

"Goddammit!" Kirito yelled as he ran down the right way path after the thief. "Why can't woman learn to hold on to their purses!" he yelled up to the sky dramatically as he gained on the man.

This wasn't his first time chasing down someone's stolen purse.

The man glanced behind him in alarm and began to run faster, Kirito wasn't even shaken on the matter though; he could keep up with a freaking moving car if he wanted to.

A fat guy with a purse? No problem.

Kirito leapt at the man as soon as he was close enough, tackling him down impressively before smacking the man upside the head when he tried to struggle. Yanking the purse out of his hand he grumbled something that sounded vaguely like, "You owe me revenge." before throwing a punch at the man, effectively knocking him out.

"Yeah that's going all over the internet." He heard one of the skate boarders state, as he turned to come face to face with a recording camera.

He deadpanned, "Were you chasing after me the whole time?" He asked in annoyance

Both the skaters nodded, and started ranting about how crazy that all was and asking him if they saw correctly that he was chasing a mouse and why.

Kirito tuned them out as he walked around them, he didn't know it at the time but that was his biggest mistake. He should have taken the camera out of their hands and deleted the video.

"Thank you so much!" A young woman just reaching him stooped over, resting her hands on her knees, as she panted and tried to catch her breath from all the running.

"You're welcome." Kirito said as he handed her purse back, earning a large smile from the woman.

"I'd hug you but…you seem to be a little wet…" she trailed off as she stared at him in amusement.

"That's fine; I don't really want a hug anyway." He stated slightly annoyed, as he turned to go find his friends. He didn't have to look far as they were all running down the path towards him looking absolutely panicked.

"What do you want? I owe you at least something…" The woman mumbled as she riffled through her purse.

"To catch that stupid mouse." He mumbled under his breath with his arms crossed as he waited for his friends to catch up.

"Sorry?" the woman questioned as she pulled out her wallet.

"Nothing."

"Oh well, here let me pay-"

"Don't worry about it, I don't need anything in return." Kirito quickly interrupted her before turning and walking towards his out of breath friends, "Except maybe a mouse trap." He continued once he was out of earshot. He only turned back briefly to acknowledge he heard the woman when she called out a "thank you" to his retreating back.

When the three had caught up to him they all took a moment to catch their breath before leveling a glare his way.

"Kirito what the hell was that all about?!" Lizbeth screamed as the other two girls nodded their heads to her question, they had that look in the eyes that said 'I'm going to kill you if you don't give me a good answer.' But he didn't really have one so…

"Nothing." He answered casually.

"What do you mean nothing?!" Asuna shouted before Lizbeth could even respond as she grabbed his arm and started dragging him down the path.

The yelling and the lecturing he had gotten from the three after that had made him feel like a three year old getting scolded by his mother, but he would gladly take it all over again if it meant avoiding what came next.

The entire next day over was spent with him banging his head repeatedly on the table surface of the bar in Dicey Cafe while everyone else continued to laugh hysterically as they played the newest most popular video on the internet over and over again.

"I just can't get over that face he makes when the lemonade falls on him!" He heard Klein howl with laughter.

One of these days he was going to kill that stupid mouse.

A/N: Yeah this chapter sucked. Not my best at all, but I tried. I hoped you guys liked it anyway; review to let me know what you think! Thanks for reading!