D-Darkness: Whoop Whoop, I have risen from the depths of the hell known as writer's block, with a (hopefully good) new story idea. Sorry for flaking on my other stories, it's a hard to manage 4 stories at once, so I have decided to continue with Jinchuriki Academy and this new story (which I hopefully have a name by the end of this chapter). I am going to need an OC as I am going to stop creating OC's for my own stories as they all end up main characters and overpowered. Send in OC ideas through PM or Review.

D-Ring/D-Gauntlet is my idea.

All characters are 16 unless told otherwise.

I don't own SAO or Digimon.

Chapter 1 : Brave New World

Takato's POV

September 17th, 2027

13:50:30

This was the point in time that the world was turned on it's head.

It was the day Digital World Online was released to the general public, and now he was waiting for the game to launch by watching the clock. He decided watching T.V. might past the time faster. He walked through his cluttered room and over to his flat screen to turn it on and changed it to the news.

"This is Nagisa Toramizu here, and today is the World-Wide launch of Digital World Online. It's one of the few games for the NerveGear but as it is the only VRMMORPG, it's a very hot commodity. In this game the goal is to reach the highest layer of the digital world and "escape" back into the real world. When beginning the you customize your character and are given a digital monster at the start of their journey." As the news reporter continued to explain more and more features of the game that newcomers would love to know. It didn't matter to him though, because he already knew this information from his time as a beta tester. He was one of the worst beta testers though, by the end of the month long beta, he had only reached level 5 while his Agumon had only learned one skill. He turned the TV off and looked at his clock.

14:02:35

14:02:36

14:02:37

"Crap, It's started!" He exclaimed as he rushed over to the helmet looking device he strapped it on over his chestnut colored hair and laid down in his bed."Link Start!" he shouted hurriedly, and as soon as the words left his mouth his consciousness floated into the data stream. His mind showed him images of floating numbers and and a single white platform which his ethereal form had landed on. A screen popped in front of the boy it asked him a series of questions. After he finished answering the obvious questions, it asked him some more game-changing questions.

What Is Your Digital Attribute?

Data [ ] Vaccine [ ] Virus [X]

Which Group Does Your Digimon Belong To?

Dark Area [ ] Dragon's Roar [X] Jungle Troopers [ ] Metal Empire [ ] Nature Spirits [ ]Nightmare Soldiers [ ] Unknown [ ] Virus Busters [ ] Wind Guardians [ ]

Is Your Digimon Male Or Female?

Male [X] Female [ ]

Customization Sequence Finished

Loading The Digital World

As soon he read those words the platform he was standing on shattered and as his body floated through the air he saw the First Layer of the digital world it was a desolate wasteland. This layer was named The Dust as there was nothing but desert, mountains, scattered towns, wasteland, and endless...well, dust. There was a giant blue globe shaped thing in the sky, that was shooting out pink beams of energy. He continued falling and landed in one of the softer places, really soft. Takato stood up and looked at his new form. He was wearing a plain blue hoodie shirt thing with a chestplate on it, he also had a short sword and a white and red D-Gaunt attached to his right arm. He looked at his new digivice and heard an annoying beeping noise emanating from the device. He mashed some of the buttons hoping to silence it, but it only caused a holographic image to pop out of the back of his hand, the arrow pointed towards a group of base level digimon. As he approached they all turned, and the anticipation could be seen could be seen in their eyes, as they awaited their new master and friend.

He felt a rush of wind pass him and noticed a flash of black hair and a guy in the same starting gear. He was silent as he ran grabbed his new partner and continued out of the safe zone and towards the nearest pack of wild digimon. Takato continued to stare where the boy had been in awe. That boy was Kirito, he was one of the greatest beta testers. Kirito had cleared the 3rd dungeon by himself without the help of his digimon partner.

'Wait...if I can get Kirito's help I might be able to win this game someday.' Takato thought to himself. He had a pretty good idea for once. A tiny little red dragon digimon walked up to him curiously.

"Are yu my master or are you my fwiend?" The baby asked in a childish voice.

Takato noticed the arrow was pointing directly at the tiny digimon. "I'm Takato, and I'm your friend! So what's your name?"he asked as he picked up his new friend

"I am Gigimon, I like bread and and and chasing fauxes, wat about you Takatomon?"Gigimon asked with curiosity when one of the other digimon blushed, it looked like a really small yellow fox, it looked at the baby dragon and ran away to find it's master.

" I like to draw. I'll show you later, but for now we're gonna go fight bad guys!" he said excitedly, running in the direction, Kirito had disappeared. As he continued chasing the memory of where he had gone, he knocked a boy with dark blue hair over and shouted a quick apology back to him as he kept running.

Elsewhere

This boy stood up and brushed himself off as a green looking puppet thing floated/bounced it's way over.

"Are yu Henwy?" The boy saw an arrow pop out of his white & green D-Gauntlet.

"Yes, my name is Henry, and what's yours, little guy?"The puppet bounced in place excitedly at this.

"My name is Gummymon and this is my friend Viximon." A tiny yellow fox digimon hopped over on hearing her name, a girl following the hyperactive baby fox. The girl picked up the fox and then held out her hand and introduced herself, "I'm Rika and this is Viximon. Who're you?"

Henry shook it and answered, "Henry and Gummymon at your service" he bowed towards the girl.

"How charming. So, judging by that book hanging from your side, you must be a scholar class. Well I'm a priestess class and I want to show people that just because I'm a girl doesn't mean that I can't kick ass or that I need help! But...I have no idea what I'm doing so would you be willing to help a poor noob out?" she finished finally taking a breath, and then holding it again as she looked at him pleadingly.

"Sure, why not? I've got nothing better to do and I'm all for helping out a cute girl like you."he said looking her in the eyes. She simultaneously blushed and sighed in relief.

Then her eyes hardened and her gaze became cold and distant, "Whatever Casanova, just help me grind some levels, beat a few dungeons and we'll be done here. But, if you ever say anything like that again, I'll kick you in the balls so hard your grandchildren will feel it." After her long winded threat she opened her menu and sent him a friend and party request. He sent her back reluctant yesses to both.

"Alright well I hope you're ready, cuz we're not leaving until Viximon here digivolves into a rookie."

She walked behind him and kicked him forwards,"Oi! Get your butt in gear, Brainiac!"

He started on his way out of the village and sighed, "Gummymon, what've we gotten ourselves into?" The baby simply gave him a confused look.

Wherever the hell Takato is

Gigimon stopped running as he noticed Takato wasn't with him anymore. Seeing a few paces back, he quickly ran back to Takato.

"Takatomon, are you OK?" the curious child asked his friend.

Takato was bent over with his hands on his knees breathing in exhaustion. "I'm fine, I just need a second to catch my breath." 'Why the hell do I need to breathe? This is a freaking video game!'

He then proceeded to entirely disregard that train of thought as he looked up and saw a Biyomon walking towards them, looking none too friendly. Takato stood up ready to strike at it when a slash mark appeared and it shattered like glass into little fragments of data. Standing behind it was Kirito, the boy Takato had been searching for."Yo, you alright man?"

"I'm fine, thanks. I actually was looking for you, Kirito." he answer the older looking boy.

"Are you sure you're fine? Your health is pretty low"

He then registered the rest of his statement, and quickly shifted into a defensive stance, glaring at Takato. "And what are doing looking for me, exactly?" he asked, still defensive.

Takato completely missed the hostile air around Kirito. "I remembered that you were one of the best beta testers, and I was wondering if you could help train me? Or at least, teach me some of the basics?" he asked innocently.

A look of realization came over his face at this, sheathing his sword once he realized Takato had no ill intent.

"Yeah, sure why not, we-" before he could finish his response, they were both teleported back to Primary Village, the lamely named starting city. It looked as if almost everyone that was online was there. People started murmuring as several players started glowing and muttering under their breaths. They then suddenly shot off into the sky. When they congregated over the exact center of the village, they joined hands and started spinning. A figure started to appear from the inside of that circle, when suddenly, they all converged and the figure in the middle got larger.

The figure was wearing a less than luxurious beige robe and where it's face should have been there was a purple mask with golden eyes. The figure had purple tattered paper mache wings. It opened it's mouth and holographic screens flew out, showing news networks. The biggest of them could actually be heard.

"Nagisa Toramizu here, and I have distressing news for people all around the world. The game DWO or Digimon World Online has been infected with a virus of sorts. It seems the virus has trapped all of the players inside the game as hostages. About an hour ago, one player had a family member forcibly unplug their Nerve-Gear and it emitted a small sound, before Nerve-Gear fried the boys' brain with an intense pulse of microwaves." The reporter continued speaking in this vein for some time, before finally, the report ended. "The government is doing everything in their power to free them as quickly as possible, but for now, all we can do is hope they stay safe. This is Nagisa Toramizu signing off." the silence was deafening, and most of the crowd was having trouble believing what they just saw. The hooded creature opened it's mouth again taking the screens back into itself, and let out an inhumane screech. People were covering their ears from the horrendous noise. When the digital devil had stopped its ear-shattering screech, letters, kanji, and other forms of writing flew out, all forming the same sentence. "You May Leave When You Reach The Real World." everyone understood exactly what it was trying to say: "Clear the game, and you can leave." The sentence rearranged itself to say "But First, A Gift, From Your World." The monster disappeared into the globe shaped thing in the sky. The gift appeared in everyone's hand. It was a mirror. The crowd stared at their mirrors, suddenly everyone was engulfed in a blinding light. Coming to everyone saw that there avatars had been changed to look exactly like their real bodies.

But...when was the last time you heard of someone beating an MMO?

The hysteria started after that realization hit were screaming and crying their eyes out, Takato was freaking out but to a smaller extent. Takato looked to his left expecting to see Kirito as a burly, thirty year old man, but was greeted with a boy about his age with jet black hair. Takato's chestnut colored hair was just as surprising to the other young man, but neither of them said anything of it. "Come on, we better get started on your training if you plan on surviving."

Takato looked at him dumbly, "You'll still train me?" he asked incredulously.

"I'd feel bad if I didn't help you out, especially after saying that I would." Takato started to tear up a bit and wiped his face a bit and smiled.

"Yeah, I-I...jus-...thanks. I don't know if I would be able to survive without your help, Kirito."

Takato was trying not to cry in front of his new trainer but he couldn't help the few sobs in his words.

"By the way, do you have a name or am I gonna have to stick to pronouns?" Kirito scratched the back of his head while asking looking a bit sheepish for not asking earlier.

"My name is Takato Matsuki" Takato introduced himself, still wiping the tears from his face

"Well, Takato, was it? My name is Kirigaya Kazuto, and I'll be your new teacher. But I still want you to call me Kirito." Finished with what he had to say, Kirito signaled Takato follow him out of the city.

"Your training starts now, so no more crying. According to that monster we just become men. If you have to go and fight for your right to live, you are considered a man." As Kirito finished his monologue, Takato's face visibly hardened. He knew within his heart that his sensei was right. This was his reality now, and he would have to learn how to live in it. Gigimon popped out of his owner's hood and looked at him weird, noticing he was acting a little different. The baby dragon was scared. But this fear wasn't fear for Takato's death. More out of fear for anything that would try and stop him.

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fiarill2: Hey There! I'm Beta'ing His Stories Now, So If You Notice A Marked Improvement In Quality And Fluidity, That Was, In Fact, Me. He Did Not Suddenly Learn The Proper Way To Type Out A Conversation Overnight, Nor Did His Vocabulary Inexplicably Triple While He Was Away; It's Just Me Doing My Job. Hope You All Liked The Story, And Please Review If You Did. Although, I Probably Won't See Them Because He Never Actually Told Me What The Name Of This Story Is. Oh Well. Anyways, I've Rambled Enough. Hope You're Looking Forward To His Next Chapter, Cause I Know I Am!