Ordinal Scales: Beneath the Cherry Blossom tree

"Link Start!"

I am materialized into a new game... Ordinal Scales, i look down, i am wearing a outfit similar to the rest, except its purple and pink.

"WELCOME TO ORDINAL SCALES"

"Seems about real as any game would be"

I walk along with my fellow friends.

"It's Yuna!"

I look at the AI she had white hair and red eyes, her eyes catches mines, My breath hitches. She flys over to me.

"Sakura"

"W- How do you know my name?"

"You will be my salvation"

Confusion was written all over my face.

What does she mean?

Salvation?

She touches my head as my vision blurs.

"SAKURA!"

Kirito and the rest come after me, I fall

I wake up in a unknown place.

I hear a computer clicking away, a man is typing on the computer, i look around at my surroundings. it looked like a lab, my arms had IV plugs in them.

"Ah, Your awake"

"What? what are you doing to me?"

He sits on a stool, pulling out a notebook, he scribbles on it.

"It appears, your blood type matches with my lil girl"

I furrow my eyebrows.

"Your lil girl?"

"Yuuna"

Realization dawned on me.

"Your Yuuna's father"

"Yes, i am"

"What do you want?"

"I... Want my daughter back"

He uncovers a dead girls body.

"She's dead"

"Yes, but she will come back, because you and my daughter's blood is rare,"

I shook my head.

"Your insane"

"A fathers love knows no bounds"

"Not in my experience"

"Father issues?"

My mind flashes back.

"Father, please..."

My father looks at me with eyes like mine, he turns away leaving.

"Let him leave, Zakuro, were better off"

She touches my shoulder.

I fall to the ground tears down my tan face.

"FATHER, WHYY!"

She hugs me.

"I'm so sorry, Zakuro"

My mind flashes back to the present.

"After that... it was just me and my mom, i swore to always be there for her but... I got trapped in SAO, and when there was no one there to be there for her, She spiraled down depression, When I came back, she wasn't the same, she was... Dead inside, not even i could save or help her"

"Hmm, it seems your mother is something similar to my wife, She spiraled down depression, took pills, drank, until... She drowned herself"

He plunges a injection in my arm, I groan.

"What was that?"

"A simple sedation"

"Why?"

"Because..."He grabs something of the table. "For what I'm about to do..."He comes closer. "You need to be asleep"He raises a scalpel.

"No! Please!"

"A father's love knows no bounds"

I see a needle to my left, i grab it, stabbing him. he yells.

I get up leaving.

He runs after me.

I run to the left.

I stop at a room.

I walk in.

There are pictures everywhere and i see a girl with brown hair that looked familiar.

"Yuuna"

I hear footsteps.

I hide under the bed.

The floor creaks as my heart pounds against my chest.

"Ohhh, Zakuro"

I cry, my hands covering my mouth. I an yanked from under the bed.

"No, please!"

I cry.

"It'll all be over quickly"

I struggle as he makes a incision on my chest, blood comes out, I scream, as i writhe and moan.

He is yanked off me by a unknown person.

I look around as i see ice on the mirror.

"Y-Yuuna?"

'Run'

I get up and run from hall to hall as i see the door, I open it, I run out, through trees, through every roads, until i see... My haven... A hospital, I walk in, shocked nurses cover their mouth at the blood on me, My vision blurs as i collapse on the ground.

My eyes open as i see a woman, my eyes adjust, my mom was there.

"What Happened?"

"You collapsed in the hospital, why are you so bloody?"

"I- uh, got into a fight with someone, guess it got messy"

"A fight? Why would you fight someone? You could've died!"

"Mom-"

"No, you never think about your consequences... Your actions and how the people around you suffer because of it"

"I didn't mean to worry you"

She sighs.

"If only your father was here"

"Well, he's not, he left us for some woman, who is half your age, he's a bastard, he was no father, fathers don't drink themselves every night, hit their wives, their children, lose job after job, until your family is on the street, making your daughter have a job at 14 because you were to lazy to get one yourself, he put so much pressure on me, and you did nothing, and if he were here... You know what he'd do?... Nothing"

Her mother didn't know what to say.

The nurse came in.

"You are released"

"Thank you"

I get up.

"Zakuro-"

"Don't!"

I walk away.

Kirito and the rest of my friends run to me.

"Sakura"

"Are you ok?"

"Is Asuna?"

He nods.

"Good"

"What did he do to you?"

"Nothing, that the doctors couldn't heal"

I smile.

A year later.

A man gives me a paper i have not yet opened.

I open it.

A name is on it.

.... Alicization.