Takamine Momiji

Kureha (クレハ) is the Protagonist's childhood friend in Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet. She is a well known Gun Gale Online (GGO) player, said to be reliable and to possess good battle analysis skills, even recognized by the top players in the game, such as Itsuki.

Appearance
Kureha has a pink haired avatar with a single ponytail to her right and blue eyes. Her black tanktop and white skirt is accompanied by her prominantly pink jacket, along with her white gloves and boots. Her canon choice of weaponry is an Uzi as primary and an optical rocket launcher Deneb Kaitos as a secondary.

Personality
Kureha is a cheerful personality with a lot of energy and confidence in herself. She likes to take the lead when given the chance and is more of a Solo type player, which is the reason why she is known to jump from Squadron to Squadron. Zeliska refers to her as a "happy-go-lucky" type as well.

In the real world, she has a much more reserved personality, living under the shadow of her genius sister, trying her best not to disappoint anyone. While she claims she has the same personality in both the virtual and the real world, later she opens up to the Protagonist about the weight she carries on her shoulder in real life.

Background
Kureha is a long time childhood of the Protagonist. When her family had to move away due to her parents' and her sisters schooling, she got devastated. While her sisters education was the main reason of their move, Kureha never blamed her for it. She did her best trying to live up to the expectations and tried to not disappoint her sister.

Chronology
Kureha invites the Protagonist to play GGO, because she is in need of a partner for an upcoming tournament. After teaching him the basics of Gun Gale Online, they enter the competition. After messing with a control panel, she accidentally sends the Protagonist through a warp gate.

Going through the gate seconds later, she finds Kirito attacking the Protagonist. As she tries to save him by attacking Kirito, she is promptly stopped by Asuna. After the situation settles, Kureha realizes she just missed her chance at getting a special reward in the form of an ArFA-Sys.