Sword Art Online: Integral Factor

A/N Hello everyone and welcome back to another chapter of Sword Art Online: Integral Factor! I hope you all haven't been waiting for too long on this chapter to come out! I was trying to finish a chapter that was supposed to be done yesterday but just got it finished. I hope you all have a great weekend, and let's begin the chapter!

Izuku and his mother stayed in the other's arms. They were too afraid that what they were seeing at this point in time was just a big dream and one of them was dead. Although his mother squeezed him tighter in her grasp, Izuku took notice that his mother's frame had definitely gotten slimmer. He hugged her that much harder when realizing that she became like this all because of what happened to him in SAO.

"I-I'm sorry mom. I-I didn't want t-to leave you l-like this." Izuku mumbled into her shoulder crying. 

"Don't c-cry Izuku, when... when you cry... I cry." Inko said, as she hugged her son as tightly as possible without hurting him.

"It-It's not your f-fault that t-this happened mom. C-Can we g-get back in my r-room?" Izuku asked, as he pulled away from his mother.

"I'm sure that we can. L-Let's go meet the doctor inside your room." Inko said, as she led the boy back to his hospital room.

When they were back in the room Inko called the hospital staff and informed them that her son had woken up from his game induced coma. The staff rushed into the room and immediately were checking everything they could about his body and health. Once each and every bit of their tests were done and over with, they left the mother and son alone so that they could spend some much-needed time together. 

Izuku had leaned into his mother's side as she hugged him on the bed. He felt tears continuously fall from his eyes as he began to tell her everything that happened in the game. From Floor 1 all the way to Floor 75, he told her everything that happened in the game... especially the moments he'd shared with Kirito and the others. The friends he'd made along the way, he even spoke about Koharu... the first girl he'd fallen in love with.

Inko was so happy to hear that her son had found someone who had actually shown him the love he needed. Especially so in the time that he couldn't receive it from her, what with her job and how busy she'd been for the last couple years before her son was trapped in SAO. But to hear that Koharu had sacrificed herself before he could even make their marriage official in the game was heartbreaking. Especially so when her son informed her that the man who trapped them hacked into her emotional intellect and forced that upon them both. And only to have her not inform him of anything to the point of which she wouldn't tell him about the apparent sigil that was on her.

He spoke even more about the fight against Heathcliff as Kirito and him took on the man who would be their captor. How it took their combined might in order to put an end to the madman known as Kayaba Akihiko, the man who trapped 10,000 players inside of SAO. Izuku had also told her about the battle against the villain who had gotten the game in order to kill other players. She had been sitting on the edge of her seat when Izuku had informed her about his near-death experiences.

By the time he'd finished his story Inko had pulled her son into another hug as she promised him that she'd make sure that he's properly cared for this time around. Not to mention the fact that she'd make sure that he isn't trapped in another game ever again, even going as far as to tell him that she will openly support his dreams for Heroism.

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A few weeks would pass for the Midoriya family as they helped one another cope with everything that happened to them. Izuku was leaning on his mother more now than he was before he was trapped in SAO. But he had also been helping her with her open fear of losing him due to something happening to him. It got to the point that he decided to learn something else aside from gaming as well as Heroes... as he'd come across a musical store.