<span style="color: #00FF00">Naoki was running home, bag in hand, games in bag. “Pleasedon’tletmebelate Pleasedon’tletmebelate Pleasedon’tletmebelate Pleasedon’tletmebelate...” he kept chanting as he ran into the door. Sneaking his gift onto the table, he went to wake his sister.<br/><br/>“Happy birthday Sayaka!” he said, shaking her awake and smiling down at her. “Remember what day it is?”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Sayaka blinked awake, drool hanging precariously from her mouth directly over now dead handheld. As she rubbed her eyes the drool falls from her mouth. To her life seemed to move in slow motion as she quickly flung herself out of bed to save her handheld from being slightly dirty. In doing so she completely forgot both about her brother and about her present wardrobe situation. Her rather large rack nearly flew out of her loose fitting tank top and Naoki may have gotten a flash of stripes before Sayaka made it to the corner of her room essentially in a ball, holding her bare legs. Once she finally looked at Naoki her face froze “Out… please… just one second.” her normal cute high pitched voice trembled raspily as if trying her hardest to remain calm. </span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">Naoki smiled calmly. On the outside he nodded and walked out calmly. Inside his heart was racing and he was trying not to freak out at just seeing her panties, and was quite flustered. He waited outside her room and hoped she wasn’t mad, though knowing his sister she would be oblivious to the reasons he was now red faced. He decided to go prepare the breakfast, and waited on her to come find her present on the table. “At least this new game will help me forget about tha- WHOA since when were you standing there!” he jumped at his sister’s entrance.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">She tilted her head and twirled towards the digital clock on the wall. Her overly large red sweater that more resembles a dress hiked up slightly to show she had hastily thrown on some cute rainbow colored shorts. Then she turned back to him “A few seconds maybe, doesn’t matter, especially…” Her eyes lit up like she was a cat about to pounce on a tasty mouse, “When there’s something on the table.” She said obviously staring at it.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">“Itedakimasu.” Naoki said as he dug into the food. “So… remember what today is?” he asked her once again when they had cleared the table.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Sayaka plopped down in her seat opposite to Naoki, her eyes still fixated on the present like a predator and her prey. Though just as she hear the question her eyes flickered to her brother’s “Is today special?” She asked in a genuinely innocent voice.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">“It’s your birthday silly!” Naoki laughed as he messed with her hair on the top of her head. “I hope you like your present!” He picked up the carefully wrapped Nerve Gear game, Sword Art Online. “Happy Birthday, sis!” he smiled warmly.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">She blinked as if stunned “What am I like eighteen today?” She scratched her head lost in thought. Then she bobbed her head playfully and stuck her tongue out “Doesn’t matter, present time!” Her body basically  launches on to the table as she snatched the present. The sounds of paper ripping are loud enough to be heard by the neighbors. Once she could see the present her whole face turned into a smile, and a slight blush crept onto her face. “Really! I thought these were impossible to get!” Sayaka put the nervegear and the game box just in front of her food, and she started to fidget. Her face became meek as she pried her eyes off the present and set them upon her brother.”T-thanks Bro… do you maybe think we could play it after breakfast together?”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">“Sure! I got a copy for me too!” he smiled. “And it’s Saturday! Race you to the Nerve Gears!” he laughed as he got up and put on his headset. “What are you gonna name your character? I’ll search you and send a friend request! Look for a message from “Koritomo”!” he smiled.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">“I’m losing that race.” She said yawning and finishing up her food, “I’m gonna name myself… Let’s see, NekoSaya, that's cute, so i’ll go with that.” She smiled through her small laugh “See you there.” She gave him a thumbs up before standing stretching and walking to her bedroom with her present “Better connection in my room.” She mumbled. </span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">“Link START!” he said. Landing in a field, he looked at his in-game menu. “Send request to NekoSaya… there we go...” He took one of the teleporters he had acquired during the Beta to appear next to NekoSaya and smirked at her, “Hey Neko! It’s Koritomo… Can you believe the graphics here?”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">He found her messing around frantically in the menu. Her eyes slowly got more and more suspicious and squinty “Bro… Something seems wrong. I can’t find it, I forgot to feed the cat, mom’s going to be mad.” She seemed to panic as her hands glided across the same menu again.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">“Can’t find what?” he asked, “I didn’t see anything wrong when I got here.” He sighed as someone ran up yelling “Yo, Koritomo! We’ve got a problem!”<br/><br/>“Oh? Hey Krusader… what is it?” He asked his in game friend from the Beta.<br/><br/>“I can’t log out!” Krusader said worriedly. “Uhhh… who’s the cutie?”<br/><br/>Koritomo frowned. “My sister.” He said, feeling a bit protective of her. He also checked his menu and found no logout button. “What’s the hell’s going on here? It was right there in the Beta!”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Saya totally ignored Krusader’s entrance and began to bite her nails. “Maybe, its a glitch, but why would it glitch like this? It doesn’t make sense. Then again no one would do this intentionally. Maybe one of the programmers is a prankster? Wait we could contact a GM right?” She asked pulling herself from her nails and looking towards Kori still ignoring Krusader entirely.</span><br/><span style="color: #00FF00"><br/>“We can definitely try… they were there during the Beta when we were bug testing....” Koritomo answered her.<br/><br/>Long story short, they couldn’t get anyone to respond… it was like the servers were under maintenance, but they were stuck there. “Neko, please don’t worry. We’ll figure something out!” Koritomo said while Krusader made it worse by freaking out.<br/><br/>“Why didn’t I listen to my family? One of these days a game will kill you. That’s what mom kept saying and now were all gonna d-”<br/><br/>“KRUSADER! Stop worrying like a baby! They’ll fix it! Let’s just go to the town of beginnings and find out what we can! Neko, it’s gonna be okay… I was a beta tester and they usually fix these bugs within a few minutes. We’ll be fine!”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Saya nodded in affirmation “We should be fine This is a huge release after all, and uh… the company behind it seems competent.”  She finally realized Krusader is there and smiled at him “Sorry who are you aga…?” Suddenly the sky goes red with hexagonal system error messages  and everyone was teleported away.</span>