Kuroko Tetsuya is a 1st year at Seirin High; he is the phantom sixth man of the Legendary Teiko middle school's basketball team and the group of prodiges called the Generation of Miracles. After middle school all the Generation of Miracles split up and went to prestigious schools focused on sports so they could compete against each other. They had been monsters that crushed every team that they played against and along with it their will to play. Kuroko had had enough of their attitudes and Teikos police of "Winning is everything" so he resigned from the team and disappeared. He vowed to beat each of them one by one with his style of basketball so he could prove that winning isn't everything. He along with his new friends and teammates at Seirin did just that and that brings us to the present where it is now 6 months after Seirin beat Akashi at the Winter cup.

Seirin is all gathered at Maji burger for a much needed break from practice,

"Hey guys did you hear about this new game called Sword Art Online?!" Koganei asked excitedly while bouncing up and down in his seat.

"Um... I think so. It's that new VRMMO right?" Hyuuga asked.

" Yeah and it's been in the Beta test for a while now and only 1 thousand players were allowed to participate. I have heard that they all absolutely love it and have been raving about it on the internet." Koganei explained while everyone was lowly leaning in out of interest.

"I can't wait for the official release date next week so I can maybe get a copy. Anyone want to join me?" Only Mitobe raised his hand and Koganei slouched down in his seat sadly.

"I thought more of you might be interested so we could all play together." He said kind of depressed.

Mitobe pat him on the shoulder and instantly Koganei was happy again and said,

"Your right Mitobe, I will still have you to play with and yes let's join a guild that sounds so fun" everyone else sweat dropped at how only Koganei could understand Mitobe.

Throughout all this Kuroko had been sitting by the window drinking his vanilla shake and everyone else jumped when he spoke because they forgot he was there.

"I'll see you there Koganei-kun," Kuroko said and everyone just looked at him with confused faces so he decided that he should explain, "I am one of the Beta testers so I look forward to seeing you at the launch of the game on Sunday."

Kuroko had his usual deadpan expression while everyone else stared at him in shock. Before anyone could say anything though Kuroko had already gotten up and left for home. "Ehh!" was Seirin's shocked reply as they stared in the direction Kuroko had just gone.

When Kuroko to his home he unlocked the door and opened it only to find the usual silence waiting for him. His parents had died years ago and since then he had lived alone. He headed upstairs to his bedroom and pulled out his phone. Ever since the winter cup had ended Kuroko had made friends with the members of the other miracles basketball teams. They had all gone together and gotten copies of the Beta test version of SAO, they had bonded over the game and would log in together every night to play for a few hours. These people were Takao from Shutoku, Kasamatsu from Kaijo, Sakurai from Too, Himuro from Yosen and Mayuzumi from Rakuzen. Or they are all well known in the SAO world by their player names, Kuroko is Fantamu, Mayuzumi is Kieru, Himuro is Ahi, Sakurai is Saku, Takao is Washi, and Kasamatsu is Kisho. I texted them through the group chat we had set up when we first got the game that I am ready to go in. After I sent the text it was only a few moments before I got the texts that they were ready too so I laid down on my bed and put on my nerve gear and said "link start" then I was waking up in the hotel we had rented together on floor 9 of Aincrad. I smiled as I saw everyone else appearing in beds beside mine and as soon as everyone was here I said "Hi guys ready to go?" and we all set off to the 14th floor where we are going to raid the boss with some of our other friends we met who were participating in the Beta test.

~Time Skip to 2 days later (Sunday the day of the official launch)~

"Man we were so close to getting copies Mitobe!" Koganei said sadly as they walked back from the game store where they had been 7 people behind the person who got the last of the 10000 copies of the game SAO. "Well we are just going to have to ask Kuroko to tell us what it's like won't we," was Koganei's last thought.

~Kuroko's house~

He had just texted the others that he was ready and so he laid down and put on the nerve gear before smiling and saying,

"LINK START!" as he was sent to the world of Aincrad for what will be a long, tough, heartbreaking, and death filled journey of survival.