The main character is my OC. I do not own the rights to SAO or any of its characters or scenes.

This is my first fanfic so please bear with me. This will be a more romance story than SAO, but between my OC and Kirito.

Prologue:

"Wow! I can't believe how much harder that floor boss was!" I said as I high-fived my companion dressed in all black.

"Well the bosses aren't supposed to get easier as you get higher up, Sarasheem." Shaking his head he opened up his menu to see what the monster dropped for a reward.

"Oh! What did you get for the last hit, Kirito? Anything good?" Sarasheem asked of the swordsman.

"Just a blue sword. My 'Night Fury' is better. Do you want it?"

"Heck yeah, I do! You know blue is my favorite color!" I exclaimed as I gestured to my blue armor and 'Cerulean Sword.' Some of the other players thought we looked like a bruise, the way we ran around when fighting monsters.

We were lucky enough to get into the beta test for first VRMMORPG called Sword Art Online. Kirito and I just happened to meet up on floor two when we got stuck at a dead end trying to find the floor boss. Ever since we fought our way out of that predicament, we have paired up whenever we played. Which was often. Neither of us really had any friends outside of SAO, nor were we any good at making them.

"So are you excited for the rest of the game to release tomorrow?" I asked Kirito. He seemed to have a far off look. He was probably thinking about what the eighth floor was going to be like.

"Actually, I was just thinking about that. It's going to get very crowded with 10,000 players. It sucks that we have to start all over on floor one. But I guess us beta testers will have a huge advantage over the new players. We will already know about the initial motion skill and the layouts of the first floors. That's if they don't change everything on us," he said as he chuckled.

"Well even if everything changes, at least we will have a friend to start all over with. That's if you want to…" I said as I blushed and looked at the floor.

"Well I won't want to continue being friends if we don't keep moving! I'm hoping to find the floor eight boss before they kick us out for release day." Kirito said as he took off running for the door out of the dungeon.

"Hey! Don't leave me behind! Who's going to watch your back if I'm not there, 'Black Swordsman!'" I yelled as I chased after him.

"Hurry up, then 'Azure Knight!'" He yelled back.