Yuuki Asuna/Relationships

Kirigaya Kazuto (Kirito)
Kirigaya Kazuto (Kirito) is Asuna's partner and main love interest in the series. Among all the people Asuna has met, he is the closest and dearest to her. Their relationship began when they encountered each other in the Labyrinth on the 1st Floor and later formed a party for the boss battle. As the series progresses, the two of them fall in love with each other. By then, Asuna felt that Kirito was the reason she was alive and looked forward to tomorrow.



This led to the two of them getting married in-game and moving to a house on the 22nd Floor for two weeks as their honeymoon, until being called back to the front lines. Kirito had become such a vital part of her existence by then that she threatened to commit suicide if Kirito were to die.

Even when she was separated from Kirito by Sugou Nobuyuki (Oberon) in the aftermath of the Sword Art Online incident and trapped in ALfheim Online (ALO), she maintained her faith in the boy, believing that he would come to rescue her. This faith was so strong that when Oberon attempted to break her spirit by mentioning that he had met Kazuto in the real world and how helpless he was to save her, Asuna instead only took this as a confirmation that the love of her life was still alive, which further energised her efforts to make her escape. After Kirito rescued Asuna in ALO, the two of them finally met face to face and they officially became a couple in the real world.

The two maintain a happy relationship even a year and a half after the SAO incident. Even though Kazuto had decided to go to school in America for the summer to pursue his mechatronics career, Asuna readily agreed to come with him.

Shinozaki Rika (Lisbeth)
Rika is one of Asuna's closest friends. Asuna met Lisbeth in SAO, and they became very close after a short period of time. Asuna has called Lisbeth her best friend on many occasions.

Ayano Keiko (Silica)
Keiko is one of Asuna's close friends, who she met after the events of Sword Art Online. Keiko, like many other girls, tends to be jealous of Asuna and Kirito, but is actually happy for the two and lets them have their space.

Tsuboi Ryoutarou (Klein)
Ryoutarou is one of Asuna's friends. The two met through Kirito and have been on good term since. Upon returning to the real world, Asuna and Ryoutarou still maintain a friendly relationship.

Andrew Gilbert Mills (Agil)
Agil (Andrew) and Asuna are on good terms. They first met during the first floor boss battle.

Yui
Yui is Asuna and Kirito's adopted in-game daughter. She often displays a protective nature when it comes to Yui's well-being, such as trying to force her to teleport away with Yulier when facing against The Fatal Scythe. Even after discovering Yui's nature as an AI, Asuna continued to love her as if she were her real daughter.

Kayaba Akihiko (Heathcliff)
When Asuna was in Sword Art Online, she was the sub-leader of the Knights of the Blood. Heathcliff, the leader of the guild, was the one who selected her and left her with most of the decisions for the guild. Asuna respected him and believed that he was strong, which is shown when she was worried about Heathcliff's duel with Kirito. However, Asuna revealed in a conversation with Rinko that she hates Kayaba Akihiko for the deaths the Sword Art Online incident caused.

Kirigaya Suguha (Leafa)
Suguha is one of Asuna's close friends.

Sugou Nobuyuki (Oberon)
Nobuyuki is Asuna's ex-fiancé, who had been selected by her father; however, Asuna herself hated him.

Asada Shino (Sinon)
Shino is one of Asuna's close friends. The two girls met at the Dicey Cafe in the aftermath of the Death Gun incident and quickly befriended each other. Asuna became so close to Shino as a friend that she began using Sinonon as a diminutive nickname for her, as well as inviting Shino for sleepovers at her house.

Koujiro Rinko
When Kazuto went missing, Asuna contacted Rinko and asked for her assistance. Rinko agreed to help, and together, they were able to get to Kazuto's location on Ocean Turtle. Asuna showed no hatred towards Rinko for her involvement in the Sword Art Online incident, even after the latter revealed she had lied about being forced to help Akihiko and could have killed him at any time but chose not to.

Konno Yuuki
Yuuki was one of Asuna's closest friends. Asuna met Yuuki when Asuna accepted Yuuki's challenge to duel with her. After their duel, she and her guild asked for Asuna's help to defeat the Boss on the 27th Floor of New Aincrad. Asuna reminded Yuuki of her sister so much that Yuuki accidentally referred to Asuna as her elder sister on several occasions. Asuna and Yuuki care deeply about each other.

Yuuki is one of those people who has made a huge impact on Asuna's life. According to Asuna, Yuuki taught her how to live her life and fight for her happiness. Watching Yuuki fight even in hopeless situations gave Asuna courage. Asuna remembers Yuuki as a dear friend, even after Yuuki's death, and continued to fight for her happiness the way Yuuki did.

Before Yuuki's death, she entrusted Asuna with her strongest Original Sword Skill, Mother's Rosario, which Asuna promised would live on forever, even if she had to leave that world.

The Sleeping Knights
After Asuna had a duel with Yuuki, Yuuki introduced Asuna introduced to her guild, the Sleeping Knights. After a short while, Asuna had grown very close to all of their members, including Siune, Jun, Tecchi, Nori, and Talken. Asuna expressed a desire to get to know all of them better and join their guild.

Yuuki Kyouko
Kyouko is Asuna's mother. Kyouko, unlike her husband, is very cold towards her daughter; however, she wanted the best for Asuna according to her ideals and had everything laid out for her daughter, including her marriage. Asuna assumed that her mother was like this because she was born in a family of farmers. Asuna was disappointed with her mother's attitude, and noted that it had been a while since she heard her mother's real voice. After Asuna decided to show her mother the virtual world, Kyouko finally understood that her definition of happiness clearly differed from her daughter's, and allowed Asuna to do whatever she wanted as long as she could get good grades in school.

Yuuki Shouzou
Shouzou is Asuna's father. Asuna and her father seem to have a close relationship, as Shouzou was very kind towards Asuna.

Yuuki Kouichirou
Kouichirou is Asuna's brother. Kouichirou is the one who originally had the game copy of SAO, which Asuna borrowed as Kouichirou was not able to play on the first day, which lead to her being trapped in the death game.

Asuna's Grandparents
Asuna was very close to her mother's parents. While she was younger, Asuna would go to her grandparents house rather than go on family vacations. Asuna loved them, and remembered them dearly after their death.