Chapter 1

Okay guys, I've been wandering the depths of my fantasies and mind of creativity. Thinking it over and over again, I finally decided to do a crossover between Naruto and Sword Art Online. It's obvious the pairing will be Naruto and Asuna. Yes, Naruto will be pretty much god-like in this story. However, I will make him work for his jutsus and modes. Time takes place during fight between seventeen-year-old Naruto and (?)Sasuke/First Floor incident on Aincrad. For the dimension travel to work, I have to kill off Sasuke, or in this version he dies of blood loss, but thanks to Naruto's longevity, he lasts longer. Looking forward to what you guys think about this story. Even if it's not particularly positive! Without further rambling, let the story begin!

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Technique

Bijuu

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Sword Art Online. All characters, content, and pretty much everything I am going to be using for this story from both anime series besides original characters, belong to Masashi Kishimoto and Reki Kawahara respectively.

"I'll admit it."

Naruto turned to look at Sasuke with a surprised expression.

"I...lost…" Sasuke's eyes closed for the final time. Naruto knew what had happened, and just stared at Sasuke's unmoving corpse, with wide-eyes.

"SASUKE!" Naruto yelled.

"I am sorry Naruto, I know he meant a lot to you…" the rikudou sennin said appearing out of nowhere.

"Rikudou-jiji! Please give me my right hand back, so that I may bring him back!"

"I am sorry, but when I gave you both the power of the sun and moon, I had lost the combined power that once defined me as the rikudou sennin. Now, I am just merely filled with the natural energy around us. While I am able to restore your seal, you won't be able to use its powers for a while. I'd say years upon years. Plus, it is not able to revive those who are without a soul…"

"No way…"

"Besides, you still have the power of the sun within you, just not the seal that it comes with. Now, onto important matters, since the holder my moon power has passed, a new holder will be brought up. Now, I will trust half of what remains of the Moon spirit within you, while I split the other half to be reincarnated. Evidently, you will also need to disappear or die. The reason being, you existing with both the power of the sun and moon, will resume the cycle. So, will you accept my offer?"

Naruto gave no hesitation in answering.

Hagoromo restored his arm and Naruto saw that the seal of the sun had appeared.

"Yes, but what do you mean by disappear?"

"I still harbor the powers of the rinnegan," Hagoromo said as he drew the moon chakra from Sasuke's body and touched Naruto's left hand.

"If you touch my hands like we have before, I will be able to split what's left in half, and use that to send you with all the power I have left. This will result in my permanent disappearance in both spirit and physical matter. Meaning chakra will cease to exist in this world."

"I understand."

Naruto walked up to the sage and placed both palms on Hagoromo's palms. A glow emitted, showing the energy being split, and in that instant, Hagoromo had explained what was going to happen in the next world. Since Hagoromo knew what world he was sending him to, and what would transpire. After that, Naruto was enveloped in a shroud of light, before disappearing completely along with the sage.

Naruto came to fruition and the first things he saw were a bunch of weird looking blue circles. Then, a blue bar asking for his name and some sort of passcode. However, it dissappeared and brought him straight to the Town of Beginnings. Everything has been made possible and unknown thanks to Hagoromo. When he lifted up his palms, he noticed that he didn't have the marks just like the Sage had told him.

'In order to not alert the owner of the advanced illusional world, I'll have to make it so that you gain your abilities as you progress, that way you don't seem like too much of an anomaly.'

Naruto stepped forward and noticed more people appearing in a shine of blue one after another. He noticed that there were weird things in his vision.

"What's this green bar, and why is my name plastered right next to it?' Naruto thought as he tried to fling it away, bringing up his menu. He tried to swipe the menu away, and instead opened up another box.

'What is going on?! This is weird! Is it genjutsu?! Naruto thought as he was now looking as if he was trying to fling away a bunch of flies flying around him. Some people thought that Naruto had gone crazy. Some were laughing it off, as they assumed he was a noob, and proceeded to watch with interest. Others were beginning to walk away, fearing he might do something really insane.

"Hey, you alright there?"

Naruto turned around with his eyes bloodshot, and an insane expression on his face.

"Does it look like I am okay?! Who are you?! You must harbor the sharingan to be able to cast a genjutsu I can't release!"

"Woah, dude calm down, that's just your Hollow Fragment User Interface!"

Naruto took a moment and looked inside his mind to his fellow bijuu for help.

"Yo guys, what is a Hollow Fragment User Interface?" Naruto asked.

However, he noticed that Kurama was not in his cage, and neither were all the bijuu he had come to obtain.

'Tch, looks like I gotta earn them back too.'

"Sorry, but what is a Hollow Fragment User Interface?" Naruto asked as the black-haired boy looked at him as if he had two heads.

"You're joking, right? Please tell me you are joking…"

"No, now what is this Hollow Fragment User Interface?"

"Well, first it's just what displays the important things that you need in any VRMMORPG. Seriously, are you new at this?"

"First, what do you mean by display, what is a VRMNLS-"

"VRMMORPG and what I mean by display is that it shows information about your avatar, skills, stats, as well as touch-activated settings that allow you to equip weapons, and other things. Without the help of the menu, we might as well give up trying to clear this game. Also, a VRMMORPG stands for Virtual Reality Mass Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game…did you get any of what I just said?"

Naruto assumed a composed thinking position, with his hand rested under his chin.

"So basically, these things in my face are just menus, and we are in some kind of game?"

"Wow, you make it sound like you were a caveman where you came from?"

"Well, where I am from, we never had technology quite advanced as this. You said avatar earlier, right? So this body I am in, isn't actually my body?"

"Well, you would know, and only you since you created the character."

"Makes sense, so how do you play this...game?"

"I'll give you a few tips, come follow me!"

"Okay, so basically to activate a sword skill, it all depends on your first action. If you get your first action right and activate a sword skill...the system will correct your aim and ensure a hit."

"Action...Action…"

"How should I put it? Pause for a second, and once the skill activates, just let it rip."

"Let it rip?" Naruto mused as he positioned his kunai above his shoulder and it started to glow blue.

He burst forward faster than Kirito could see and all Kirito could see as he turned was rising blue polygons.

'He's super fast! Is this really his first time in a VRMMORPG?! If anything, he had to have those skills transferred. He must be a skilled player!'

"I have to say, you definitely didn't give off the impression of having that kind of speed."

"Oh, thanks. By the way, my name's Naruto Uzumaki, what's yours?"

"Kirito, just Kirito. It's obviously my player name. It's rare for people to have a last name in a game like this…"

"Hey, you guys over there!"

Kirito and Naruto turned to see a man with red hair and a bandana running towards them. They both exchanged a look as they watched the man catching his breath.

"You guys look like you know what you are doing. Any chance you guys could help me out with the basics?"

Naruto gestured to Kirito.

"You'll find everything you need with him. I'm a beginner myself, so we can consider ourselves sibling disciples. Please take care of us, Kirito-sensei."

"You sure are a handful Naruto."

"Yosh! Naruto, Kirito, my name is Klein, thank you for your help!" Klein said as he clapped his hands together and bowed.

"It's fine, it's just the basics…we're heading over to the next area."

"Let's go!"

"Thanks guys for the help, but as much as I'd like to continue I ordered a pizza at 5:30 from piping. I am starving!"

"Of course, eating food in this world only tricks you into thinking you are hungry."

"Well, thanks. I'll be looking forward to seeing you guys from now on."

"If you have any questions, feel free to message me whenever."

"Yeah, I'll be counting on it!"

Klein gave a wave of goodbye before proceeding to open his menu in order to log out.

"Huh?"

Kirito and Naruto turned to see that Klein was frozen staring at his menu.

"There's no logout button."

"Take another look," Kirito suggested.

"Yeah, I can't find it anywhere."

Naruto flipped through his menu, still trying to get used to this. He noticed he didn't even have a logout bar, something that didn't surprise him all that much.

'I technically don't exist in this game.'

"At the bottom of the main menu…" Kirito said as he opened his menu to find the same blank option where there was suppose to be the word 'logout'.

They discussed the possibilities of what to do and what the situation was.

All of a sudden the bell back at the town of beginnings began to ring.

They all turned in the direction of the ringing bells.

'I've got a bad feeling about this.' Naruto thought.

All of a sudden, a bright, white light blinded them as they were transported back to the town of beginnings. Everyone had teleported back to The Town of Beginnings. Naruto looked around and couldn't find Kirito or Klein. So, he just waited for the chatter to die down.

Naruto looked up and noticed the strange red light in the sky before anyone else had noticed. The red began to spread until it covered the whole virtual sky.

'System Announcement.' Naruto thought, reading the first polygon that appeared.

Red goo started to ooze out of the edges of the tessellated shapes. Coming together to form a single hooded being.

"Welcome players to my world!"

'My world.' Kirito though as his eyes widened at his realization.

"My name is Akihiko Kayaba, and I have an announcement to make. As you all may have noticed, there is no logout button. This is not a glitch in the game. I repeat, this is not a glitch. This is part of the game. Get trapped and survive the hundred floors. Otherwise, you'd die in this game and in real life. So, yeah good luck. Oh, and for all you guys playing as girls, I have a gift for you all. Look in your inventory, well, once again, good luck to you all," Kayaba said.

Naruto felt that Kayaba was somehow staring at him, even though he didn't have eyes. Naruto could tell that he found it odd, that he was standing there. As if he wasn't suppose to be there to begin with. Then, he seemingly evaporated back into the sky, disappearing, at the same time the sky returning to normal. It was silent, while everyone stared in horror at the revelation that was just revealed to them. Then, everyone started to panic yelling curses and shouting like it was going to help the situation, which, it didn't.

Naruto caught sight of Kirito, who looked different, as well as Klein, and they began to head out.

'Looks like this is where we part ways guys. You guys better survive! I've had enough of friends dying!' Naruto thought as he also started running.

Unbeknownst to Naruto or Kirito, they both encountered a wolf in their path, and both let out a roar before charging at the wolf, taking it out in one hit.

'I'm…

I'm…

'Going to survive until the end!' Naruto thought.

'Going to survive until the end!' Kirito thought.

[Naruto POV]

'One month has passed since the game started and during that time, 2,000 people died. However, not one person...has cleared the first floor. Not even Kirito was able to reach the boss room, and he told me he's what people here call a beta tester. Pretty important I guess. In that month I have reached level 17. The norm for everyone's level from what I can tell is 12, except for someone like Kirito, who's probably a level below me. At lvl 10, I unlocked the base taijutsu skill, that had no skill slots. Just pure free-for-all barrages of fists and kicks. It seems I won't be able to unlock the base chakra skill until I am lvl 20. However, I only have ten skill slots that branch off from this base skill. Then, comes Shukaku, the first bijuu I can acquire at lvl 35. Until I have all nine bijuus, I cannot unlock Six Paths mode. Seems like I have got a long way to go if I want to get my powers back. '

Naruto looked up at the people gathered in one area, surrounding a fountain.

'But today, a boss conference for the 1st floor boss will be held.'

"Listen up! I'll be starting the conference now!" A man with blue hair in the center of the ring shouted.

'Looks like everyone is here, but I am surprised to see that Kirito isn't.' Naruto thought as he took a seat.

"Thank you, everyone, for responding to my invitation. My name's Diabel, and my class is...informally a knight!"

Everyone began to laugh at Diabel.

"There's no system class, you know. "Knight", he says. Is this meeting a joke, too?"

Diabel closed his eyes, and opened them with a glint of seriousness in his eyes.

"Today, on the highest level of this floor, my party found the boss room!"

"Seriously?" Everyone exclaimed in surprise.

"By defeating the floor boss and...reaching the 2nd floor...we'll be able to show everyone in Starting Town that this death game can be cleared! It's our responsibility to do so! Don't you agree, everyone?"

Everyone looked at each other seriously, nodding at each other.

Then, they all started clapping and whistling.

Naruto just had a smile on his face.

"Okay, I'll explain our battle strategy, but first we must assemble into parties of six."

At this, Naruto paled and noted that he didn't know anyone here. They all began to group together, talking to each other.

"The Floor boss can't be defeated with simple parties."

"We'll need to assemble into multiple parties to form a raid group!"

Looking at Naruto now, he was left out completely. No one even bothered to ask him to be a part of their group.

He frantically looked around until he caught sight of a person with a hood. He disappeared and in an instant appeared right next to her sitting.

He looked at her expectedly, but found that she was not responding to him. Reason being, he moved so stealthily that she couldn't notice his presence. So, he decided to get her attention the normal way.

"Uhh, hello there," Naruto said.

The person jumped away, immediately pulling her rapier out, aiming it at Naruto.

"How'd you get there?!"

"Sorry, I was just wondering if you'd like to form a party, since everyone seemed to have left me out of it…"

"Oh, well don't worry, I'd be happy to be in a party with you, I'm kind of in the same boat, so don't worry."

"Thanks a lot!" Naruto replied which made the person turn around.

He blinked not noticing that she had turned around to hide the blush she had. She didn't bother to respond to his statement with eye contact. When she came to, she looked up at him when he was sporting a charming grin in her opinion.

'He's so hot!' Thought the person as she couldn't control her blush.

"Hey, I sent you the invite! I hope you don't mind being in a party. I could tell you probably wanted to be solo…"

"No, it's fine! I was just surprised!"

"Surprised at what?" Naruto asked oblivious to the reason behind her behavior.

"Nothing!" She replied as she accepted the invite and immediately left his presence.

"Well, good talk then... "

Naruto was walking around when he spotted his party member sitting at a bench eating a piece of bread. He decided to check up on her before heading out to pull an all-nighter grinding. He sat by her and she noticed this, however unlike what she thought she would've done, she did not scoot away. In fact, she scooted just a bit closer, even if she did not notice it.

"Sorry about storming off back there...I hope you aren't angry with me…"

"Don't worry about it! You have your reasons, it's completely understandable.

This made her blush, and start to fidget in place at the nervousness she felt being next to her crush-at-first sight.

"Anyway, I hope you have a good night, be prepared for tommor-"

"Wait!" She said as she held onto his sleeve.

Naruto had a look of surprise on his face before opting to listen to her.

"Please, don't leave me alone. I'd like to get to know my party member," she said. Trying to find an excuse to be in his presence for a while.

"Sure, why not? What'd you like to know?" Naruto said with a smile.

This made her giggle, with a tinge of pink present on her cheeks.

"Well, for starters, how about your name," she said giggling again.

'She has a cute laugh...agh, what am I thinking! There's no way she would go for a guy like me!' Naruto thought disappointedly.

'I wonder if I even have a chance with him! No boy has ever made me feel like this. Hopefully, he can save me from that arranged marriage. I'd rather much marry him!' Asuna thought dreamily.

"Uzumaki Naruto, at your service!" Naruto said as he straightened up and put a hand up to his forehead like they do in the military.

She giggled once again.

'He's actually funny! Finally, funny and handsome!'

"Yuuki Asuna! It's nice to meet you Naruto-kun…"

'Woah, she just called me Naruto-kun!

"It's nice to meet you Asuna-chan!"

'What?! He just called me Asuna-chan!

They talked on and on all night, before they agreed to part ways, much to both of their disappointment. However that was short lived, as Naruto could finally begin grinding once again.

'Okay, I must reach level 20 before we reach the boss room. Which should take me all night. Yosh, I am ready to do this!'

As he appeared at a grassy clearing, he saw a bunch of tigers spawning and lurking around.

Naruto opened his inventory and equipped his kunai. At speeds that future Asuna couldn't hope to match, Naruto slashed all tigers once, draining their health points to red. However, before the damage could even register in the animals' minds, they disappeared into hundreds of miniscule-sized blue polygons. He had about 56,700 experience points to gain in order to get to level twenty. After killing about ten tigers, he only gained only gained 1,330 experience points.

'Looks like I'll have to go...to that dungeon...' Naruto thought, as he remembered how he got his level so high.

Flashback

As Naruto was walking in the woods, trying to find the boss room, he came upon a clearing that led to a cave. He was surprised, as he hoped he had found the boss's dungeon. He went inside, and after seeing how hard it was to kill the first wave of monsters, he immediately ran out.

'What the heck, that has got to be the boss's dungeon!'

After some prep-grinding, Naruto tried once again to get past the first wave. When he got there, he was able to slay the first of the wave of Orcs. However, when he got to the Ogres, he encountered the same situation as before. So, he opted to going back to grinding the Orcs. He continued this process, noting that each time he retired from grinding in the oddly vacant dungeon, he got away with around 30,000 experience.

'I've got to make sure to come back if need be.'

Flashback End

'Today's the day that I clear that damn dungeon! It's time to reach level 20!'

Naruto was currently lying down exhausted after having gone through the whole dungeon, or so he thought.

I didn't think it'd be so tough. Nonetheless, I made it through...ha ha ha!'

"I DID IT!"

Just then he got up and dodged a swing of a sword that came from a Cave Troll.

"Man, I don't have time to deal with you! I am worn out!" Naruto said as he did a five-hit combo, effectively destroying the troll. However he knows that staying here will just cause more to come his way, so he decided it was best to move deeper into the dungeon.

Naruto turned and started running down a long pathway, when he noticed a large door.

'Masaka, this whole time, the boss door was right here! This whole time I could have cleared floor 1! Gah! I am such an idiot. I'll just take it easy, no need to worry about finding the boss today, or the next two weeks either! Stupid! Stupid!'

He ceased his mental rambling and sported a serious expression.

'At my current level, I doubt I will be able to solo this boss. Yosh! I will reach level 25 and attempt to solo this boss! Kate koi!'

The sun started to rise, and Asuna started to rise up from her slumber. She took a shower, something she didn't really need to do, and afterwards began to head out after equipping her rapier. Everyone met at the same floor, and began to head to the forest, after they all met at the discussed time.

'That's weird. Naruto-kun was suppose to be here by now. He couldn't have-NO, I refuse to believe it! Naruto-kun is strong, I am sure he has a reason for not being here.

"RASENGAN!" Naruto roared as he landed the final hit on Illfang. After that, the whole area lost its color, and the light faded away.

Naruto immediately fell on his back with a bit of health left, leaving him barely clinging on to the virtual life with his health in the red.

'Note to self...never solo a boss unless you are twenty levels above it. That sure was a close call. If I hadn't unlocked rasengan at the last second, I would've been a goner.'

Flashback

As Naruto destroyed the last Sentinel, he reached level 30, and he received a skill with all the list of his basic, base, or low-level jutsus, including the rasengan. Missing the ability to conjure up his chakra-condensed ball, he was about to fill the skill slot when Illfang swung his sword almost cleaving Naruto in half.

'Shimata!' Naruto thought as half of his full health had been drained to the red zone.

Not wanting to lose his chance at a new life, he ran away from the sprinting Illfang, and filled his skill slot with rasengan. He turned around, closing his menu, conjured up a rasengan, hitting Illfang straight in the gut. Blasting the Kobold Lord into smithereens of blue.

Flashback end

"Yosh! Minna! I have just one thing to say...let's win! Here we go!" Diabel said as he opened up the door to the first boss. When they got inside, they all noticed a man sitting in the center of the room, with a plain-white coat.

Naruto turned around and noticed everyone charge at him with a battle cry.

'They don't actually think I am the boss do they?!' Naruto thought as he got up immediately and put his hands up.

"Wait, guys, I am not the boss. I just defeated it, and to prove it, I have a coat that is not available in any clothing stores here on floor 1. Also, the boss's name is Illfang, I also know that the fact that the portal to the second floor being open means that I just defeated it!"

"Don't sport that crap! There's no way you could have soloed the boss. Now, just come quietly so we can advance to the-"

"Wait!" Asuna interjected as she sped in front of everyone with her hand held up.

"What do you want?! Why are you defending the enemy?!"

"He's part of my party, his name is Naruto, and he was here at the meeting yesterday."

"What she said, c'mon guys, you gotta listen to me," Naruto added.

"Then, how come we didn't see you at the meeting, huh?!"

"BECAUSE NO ONE BOTHERED TO INCLUDE HIM IN ANY OF THEIR PARTIES!"

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*Cough*Cough*

"Okay, well, I also vouch for this warrior. Since I was looking at everyone, I noticed his mop of blonde spiky hair. He passes as a player, though I would agree he is no normal player. How were you able to solo the boss?"

"Hey now, don't you see that I am about to die! I'm not as overpowered as everyone thinks I am," Naruto attempted to reason.

"You still defeated the boss. That would've taken all of us to do together. There's no way you are around the levels of 12 or 13!"

"He must be a beta tester! Stealing all the glory and exp! She's probably a beta tester too! There are others here too aren't there!

"Yeah! Come on out!"

Just then, Naruto began to laugh like some insane psychopath. He stood up and looked at everyone.

"Beta Tester? Please, I am not even one, and I am already better than the best beta tester out there! He even admitted at level one, I was faster than he was, admitting that I probably transferred all my skills. Which, I should say isn't exactly true, or a lie. However, I should warn you that I am now level thirty, and I could probably solo the next boss, and the boss after that. The cycle continues, don't compare me to all those other noobs!" Naruto said as he began to walk away.

'Naruto...' Asuna thought as she began to run after him.

Then, you're even worse than a beta tester! You're a cheater!"

"That's right!"

"He's a beater!"

"Call me whatever you like, I could care less!" Naruto replied.

Asuna had caught up to Naruto and pulled on his sleeve.

"Naruto, you don't have to shoulder the burden of taking the all the negativity."

"No, it's better this way. I solidified my decision as soon as you were suspected of being a beta tester. I don't want offensive comments being hurled at someone as innocent as you, besides, this is my choice."

"Well, this is my choice, and I am choosing to follow you all the way to the end of this game," Asuna replied.

"Asuna-chan…"

Asuna just looked down and had sported a huge blush.

"Yosh! Let's go to Floor two, then!"

Hope you guys like the chapter so far. Leave a review and tell me what you guys think so far.

'Til next time, XxUzumaki45xX, out.