Hello everyone!

I know this isn't the second part of my GoT AU but that one needs a lot of planning.

Anyway, here is a small series I've been working on in the meantime. Super dirty and kinda weird. But I have to explain it a little bit.

There will be two parts: Offline and Online. Offline here is the kinky cousin while Online will be the serious and high-stakes version of this AU. Yes, they are both about virtual reality games like SAO but they are completely different and separate stories. This one isn't about getting locked in game but instead about a weird online relationship in a game that is more like current VR technology but with a fun twist.

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Again, no beta yet so please let me know if anything sounds weirddd

Offline

Knights Errant® is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Kneed universe. Players assume the roles of Errant heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. Being "Massively Multiplayer," Knights Errant allows thousands of players to interact within the virtual world unlike any other. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory.

"Foolish mortal," Boomed the voice of the wraith as he brought his wispy, skeletal arms up to cast another spell into the dark cavern. "You will never see the light of day again. My presence will rule over all and you will only know the name-"

There was a sputter as Kakashi's dagger went straight through his skull and shattered it into a million pieces.

"Mah," The rogue crouched down and retrieved his weapon from the shards of broken bones on the rock floor. "That's what the last one said too."

With a brush of his cloak, he stood and look up just in time to see his new level flash above his head. Studying the new level up window that popped up to his right, he had to decide between raising his ability scores or picking a feature. He wondered what the optimal choice would be since he had to think of adventuring solo and with his partner.

Bards were such amazing partners and he adored having Iruka by his side since he made it so easy. His spells and skills were so complimentary to Kakashi's that they usually made quick work of their enemies. Their teamwork was on point, but it didn't help that he adored being around the other man.

Iruka was such a charming, funny man and Kakashi was hooked on him a hundred and ten percent. He would hurry home every night after work to put on his virtual reality headset and play even though Iruka would usually be on an hour later. Even being friends online was good enough for him. It was almost easy to ignore that they were probably halfway across the world from each other except in the moment that Kakashi wished for more than what they were.

"One day, we'll meet." Iruka would often grin at him in game and wink, even though he didn't know how Kakashi felt. They were just friends. Kakashi could live with that.

He decided to choose the Mage Slayer feature so that they could down spellcasters faster and keep Iruka far away from them. They were friends and partners in adventure together until they stopped playing this addictive game.

Tired and weak, he headed back home for some training until Iruka would get online and they would set off to continue the main quest. Once he got into town, he checked his friend list one last time in hopes of seeing that familiar name online to his own disappointment. Usually, he would for the markets to gather basic resources like food and potions, but the wraith hadn't been much of a threat. He still had snack left in his bag too.

So, instead of heading to the market, he headed to their shared spawn point with the intent of making meals to bring with them that night. He was thinking a soup would be something simple before they left. Then they could bring dried meats and have a tapas-style dinner. If he brought a blanket, they could chill under the stars in a totally-not-a-date fashion. They'd done more inadvertently romantic things before.

Once upon a side quest, they had spent many nights together hiking through the forests to get to a town across the map while sleeping in the same sleeping bag since Kakashi's had ripped early on in their journey. He didn't hate sleeping next to another warm body. He even relished being pressed up against Iruka's warm skin despite the feeling being one that the game was generating in his mind from a headset. It wasn't his fault that the game was so realistic that he could dream about that feeling.

It didn't help that it would spur other feelings too, but he would never even think of acting on them.

He wanted to cook for Iruka though. It was so satisfying to have the other man moaning from good food and good company.

Bag filled with ingredients, he stepped into the entry of their shared in-game abode that was just on the outskirts of town and surrounded by trees. It was warm, homely and a place Kakashi looked forward to coming home to. He stepped out of his boots and into the kitchen to unload.

The sound of birds and evening crickets were louder out of the town but not annoying. He was about to go out into the backyard where their well was to wash up and pick up a few logs too, but his instincts kicked in when he heard a noise upstairs.

Checking his friend's list, he saw Iruka was still offline and he readied his blade. His armour was already sitting on the table and he didn't want to alert the intruder of his presence.

With his rogue stealth, he made his way upstairs without a sound. The bedrooms and study were the only rooms upstairs, but he knew that Iruka had tons of spell books and magic items hidden away that were worth a lot of money.

His blade glinted in the setting light, but he listened to find the noise coming from the study where they kept all their valuables.

Quickly stalking up, he pushed the door open just enough to slip through. He was about to chuck his knife across the room at the stranger when his eyes focused on who they were and how they weren't so strange.

"Mmmn," Their moaning was a strange occurrence though and it took him a second to realise what was going on. The dagger clanged to the floor just as Iruka's pleasure hazy eyes focused on him and widened into fear and surprise as their eyes met.

"Kakashi!"

"Sorry." Kakashi was out of the room in a second and back around the corner, pressed against the wall for support. There was a second where he heard Iruka landing on his feet, swearing and things falling but Kakashi made a split decision and disconnected.

Gasping for air, he blinked back into the reality of his small office and the bright blue screen that asked if he wanted to reconnect or exit the game menu.

He was shocked and confused.

The image was burned into his memory though. He had accidentally stepped into some alone time that he probably shouldn't have ever seen. It was in his mind though now and he kept seeing it on repeat.

Even behind his eyes, he saw Iruka's eyes glowing bright purple from the spell he had cast but more importantly consumed with lust. Kakashi had never seen a wooden toy before but that was probably the best that could be found in a fantasy world and by the looks of it, the animate object spell was working very well even though Iruka's constitution was otherwise occupied.

What he had understood at the time was how Iruka's member moved on its own, but it clicked in that this was probably an unpopular use of the spell.

Blood rushed to his face and groin as he couldn't help but think madly about it all.

And after seeing all that, he realised he had just walked in on Iruka masturbating and practically ran away screaming.

It wasn't a good look for him especially when he would rather be helping Iruka instead, not like he would ever say that or even propose that ever.

That was the reason why he put his headset back on and reconnected. Materialising on the couch, he found the he wasn't alone and that Iruka was sitting across from their spawn point. Looking haggard but dressed, Iruka met his eyes only for the both to blush and look away.

"Kakashi," Iruka started with his eyes to the other side of the couch. "I'm… I'm so sorry, I thought that you were…"

"I finished my quest early." Kakashi continued for them as he counted the notches in the wooden floor. "I'm sorry too, I thought you were offline."

"Yeah," Iruka was flushing even deeper. "I'm sorry. I promise it won't happen again. I..."

He trailed off and they finally met eyes again and couldn't help but burst into embarrassed chuckles and scoffs. Kakashi supplied, "It's okay, really. Just… Maybe next time you could just be in away mode… Or leave a sock on the door."

Iruka rubbed his nose as Kakashi laughed awkwardly at his own suggestion, trying not to look down at Iruka's pants. "I could."

That night, they didn't eat supper together. Instead, they went their separate ways and came back the next session like nothing had happened.

But Kakashi still couldn't get it out of his head. For many nights, he dreamt of those memories and he couldn't help but play along to the idea of catching Iruka in the act.

The opportunity never came up though and Iruka seemed to grow more distant. It made him worried to be honest.

One night, they were burning a fire in the woods a day out from their town when Iruka mentioned about the main hero in the commercials for the Knights Errant game, "Guys like that aren't exactly the likeable kind."

Kakashi knew this was his chance and he blurted out, "I don't know. I think he's good boyfriend material."

He knew the comment hit its target when Iruka twitched and looked over his shoulder at Kakashi from where he was setting up their tent. "Boyfriend material?"

Without taking his eyes off the fire, Kakashi casually planted the seeds of intention, "Strong nose. Warm eyes. Y'know, boyfriend kind of smile."

He could hear the tent being set up slowly. "And… You find warm eyes attractive?"

"Yeah," He said casually, chewing on an apple and pretending to study his new dagger. "Kind of hard not to give in to big, brown eyes staring up at you. Hey, does this black or blue to you?"

After a few moments, Kakashi heard a faint and mumbled, "blue."

Even though Kakashi felt at ease to be around Iruka, he could tell that they were both high strung and anxious that weekend. Sudden laughter often turned into snapping arguments, but they always bounced back and even though Iruka was annoyed visibly annoyed that he had been pushed to waist all his spell slots.

"At least we're not dead." Kakashi supplied as they neared home. The sun was long gone but they had decided to push on so that they could have a fresh start for the next time they logged on. "Or vampires."

"True," Iruka hummed as they made their way into the back end of their property. "At least we got a ton of experience too."

"Always appreciated in quests." They lazily pushed on towards the cottage, pushing into the kitchen and dropping their gear onto the table and the counters in exhaustion.

"This isn't even my real body and I feel dead tired." Iruka chuckled and Kakashi agreed.

"Would probably be even more tired and a lot more hurt if that were the case."

"Well, that's what I'm here for." Kakashi had pulled out his skin of water and was drinking as he heard Iruka drag his things over to the stairs. "Keeping your body healed and feeling good."

That last comment made Kakashi's head perk up but Iruka was already dragging himself up the stairs out of sight for Kakashi to tell if Iruka was just making a passing comment or otherwise. The second option was flirting and Kakashi wasn't sure if that was entirely possible in their situation. If it was, it meant that maybe Kakashi's own suggestions hadn't gone unnoticed. It also meant that there were other possibilities at stake now.

Was Iruka just playing with him or was he playing with him? Those were two very different types of teasing and Kakashi was okay with both but the second one suggested that Iruka thought there was potential between them. Kakashi didn't know Iruka saw him then as extremely good friend material, something deeper but short term or something all the way. He didn't really mind either but in two of those situations his heart would suffer greatly because even though he wanted to be Iruka's friend, the prospect of being more was ideal.

As his mind ran down a rabbit hole of thoughts, he robotically gathered his things and headed to the stairs. Staring up at the second floor, he steeled himself and started up them.

He was about to pass Iruka's study when he saw the younger man looking through the books and items they had collected, placing a few on the shelves and onto the workbench on the side for later examination. Dark brows were furrowed in concentration but glanced over his shoulder with a small smile. "Not much of value this time."

"Anything we could sell?"

"Yeah, a few things."

Iruka had glanced over his shoulder and Kakashi couldn't help but say, "Let's go sell them off tomorrow night. I mean, I know you've got work in the day but if you've got time, we can go to the market together."

When Iruka looked back at him, Kakashi felt his heart squeeze. Their shared gaze wasn't anything special. Iruka didn't wink or even blush but it was him and Kakashi knew he was in over his head. He was so far gone for Iruka that he knew he couldn't play games with him. It was all or nothing.

"Sure," There was a smile for him and Kakashi knew that he had to ask Iruka out when they met again.

"See you tomorrow then," Kakashi swept out of the room before he could chicken out and dropped his things on his bed with an anxious gasp for air.

Courage renewed, he pulled out his equipment and started packing them into their appropriate chests so that they wouldn't disappear forever when he logged off like his heart into Iruka's piggy bank. Everything was finally put away though when the impossible happened and Kakashi realised he had forgot his cloak downstairs. He was about to pass the door to the study when he heard a now familiar noise.

"Ahn," The moan was soft and barely audible, but it stopped Kakashi completely in his tracks. They were just loud enough to hear from where Kakashi stood in frozen confusion along with obscene, slick sounds that Kakashi could easily identify as a man who had touched himself many times as well.

It didn't make sense though. The door was wide open. Iruka's status was still green and online. Kakashi thought they had talked about it and wondered if his ears were playing tricks when a loud groan turned into a sensual sigh.

Somehow, he found himself stepping closer until he was standing completely in the doorway. His guess had been right, that was for sure.

"Mmmm," Iruka hummed as his hand stroked his flushed member in a languidly slow pace on the edge of his desk with one leg propped up on a chair. This time Kakashi couldn't look away and felt that heady desire hit him too, his pants becoming more and more constricting by the second. It was only when brown eyes raised to him and saw him that Kakashi almost died. Cheeks flushed and breathless, Iruka flushed and sighed out purposefully, "Kakashi."