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Backed into a corner without enough room to maneuver her rapier, the light-brown haired girl grimaces. I shouldn’t have let my HP get so slow she thinks as the dire wolf circles closer, growling and showing her its impressively sharp fangs. Her back is now against the cliff face.
In a blur of stars, the dire wolf dies in front of her.
Gasping, Asuna looks beyond where the dire wolf had been to see a girl dressed in purple smiling at her with sword still raised.
“I know you could have gotten it but I wanted to get back to the cabin for the party with our friends, Asuna,” Yuuki explains with a sheepish grin.
Asuna smiles back at her friend. Yuuki and Asuna have a mutual respect for each other’s strength and expert sword skills.
“That’s alright Yuuki. I was in a bit of a dire situation.”
Yuuki laughs at her pun which makes Asuna smile. I want Yuuki to always be laughing and smiling, she thinks. She deserves to be happy after all the pain she’s suffered in her life already.
The two close friends hold hands as they jog back to Kirito and Asuna’s cabin where all their friends are waiting for them to celebrate Silica’s birthday with in game cake and ice cream.
That night, Asuna’s sleep is filled with a vibrant dream.
In her dream, she is lying in her bed which is a little trippy to be dreaming about. Except that she’s totally naked, her long hair draping her body. Which, while an unusual dream, doesn’t really bother Asuna all that much.
Then, long purple hair brushes against her breasts and a face lowers to meet hers as a body towers over Asuna’s lying prone in bed.
Asuna stares into red eyes that gleam like gems. Eyes she recognizes all too well.
As her friend Yuuki straddles her, Asuna ever so slowly reaches one hand up to touch one of Yuuki’s strands of purple hair on the side of her head. “Yu-Yuuki,” she faintly murmurs.
“Asuna,” says her friend’s voice right before she leans over and her soft lips brush her own.
It’s at that moment that Asuna jerks upright in bed, awaken from the emotional and physical feelings of her dream. She clutches the sheets all the way up to her collarbone in embarrassment.
She gasps for air and her heart races as she considers her dream. Asuna loves Kirito very, very much so why did she just have a dream LIKE THAT. AND ABOUT HER FRIEND.
“Don’t be silly,” she murmurs to herself as she lays back down again on her side, curled up in bed. “It was just a dream. I bet I won’t even remember it tomorrow.”
The next day, after school, Asuna meets her friends to work on homework in the cabin.
The girls all take one couch and Asuna and Kirito sit across from them on the other one. Klein sits at the table with his paperwork haphazardly spread across the surface.
Asuna’s feet cross Kirito’s lap and he occasionally gives her calf a reassuring pat while engrossed with reading a history book in his other hand.
Asuna looks up from her workbook and meets Yuuki’s eyes across the room. She blushes with her memory of the dream from the night before and quickly looks away.
“Why Asuna, you’re blushing!” says Lizbeth teasingly.
“I am not!” denies Asuna with a high-pitched squeal.
“You and Kirito are so embarrassingly cute,” Lizbeth continues to tease.
Asuna blushes further and removes her feet from Kirito's lap, knocking the book out of his hands to the floor of the cabin.
“Hey!” he chuckles, leaning over to pick the book off the floor.
“Sorry!”
“I think that’s enough homework for me to do today,” groans Yuuki who throws her workbook onto the coffee table and slouches down petulantly. “I’m not used to doing all this school work.”
“I thought you missed school,” Asuna gently teases, feeling more comfortable with teasing Yuuki than herself being the center of the group’s attention.
“I did. And I love it. What I love even more is procrastination!” Yuuki jumps to her feet. “Let’s go slay some monsters in a dungeon!”
“Alright!” says Kirito, also standing. He turns to Asuna and offers his hand to her. She smiles and takes it as he helps her to his feet.
They lead the group out of the cabin so they can journey to a jumping off point.
Asuna looks down at her and Kirito’s hands as they walk down the path in front of the group. She can’t be any happier than she is now can she? She already has her dream fulfilled of having a family. She has the love of her life Kirito. Their daughter Yui. And all their friends they hold dear.
With her other hand, Asuna pats Yui riding on her shoulder. Yui takes turns riding in her father’s hair and on her mother’s shoulder so as not to spoil her carefully brushed hair.
“What’s that for Mommy?” asks Yui.
“I”m just thinking about you is all.”
“Ok Mommy. I think about you all of the time!” Yui jumps off her mother and flies around her parents' heads.