Disclaimer: I do not own Fate/Stay Night.

I am dreaming. In my dream I see nothing but swords. Among the swords stands a single man. I cannot see his face. All that exists is the silhouette. This shadow is the only one who exists in this hill of swords.
If this man is all that exists. Then what am I? The shadow stares at me. I turn my head and walk away.
It's always the same dream. Every day the face seems to get clearer but the dream never changes. I see someone standing in a hill of swords and I turn away and walk away.
As if I'm on a mission. As if my life had been ripped away and this single mission is my only purpose for clinging to this world.
I feel like I understand this dream, Even if I have never experienced it, it feels so familiar..

I wake up. The familiar dream disappears from my head. I head down the hallway of the Japanese style house and arrive in the kitchen. There stands Tohsaka cooking breakfast. "Waffles, Biscuits? It's rare to see you cook something other than Chinese." "Well I figured you'd be bored of spicy stuff about now." Tohsaka murmurs. "Breakfast will be ready in about 20 minutes. Go ahead and get ready."
I nod my head in agreement and head to the empty standalone building in the back. "Here I am following in my dad's footsteps. I wonder if I'm about where he was at my age.." Several minutes pass and I'm almost finished.
"ninety-eight.. ninet.y..nine..one hundred." I head to the bath to quickly clean the sweat off my body and then I head back into the kitchen. "Uhm, here's breakfast. You like your waffles a little black right?"
I look at her in confusion. "Uhm?.." The biscuits were done perfectly but the waffles.. how could I describe it? You couldn't even call them waffles anymore. "How the hell do you screw up waffles!?"
"I didn't screw them up! I just gave them more character!" Tohsaka declares. "Besides, your dad made breakfast every morning! You haven't made it for me even once!" "Fine then! I'll make you breakfast tomorrow, but you gotta make dinner tonight!"
We're always like this, cooking is one thing me and my aunt could never agree on. Outside of our daily morning arguments we actually get along very well.

"Well I'm off to school!" "Have fun! Remember! We have to prepare for the summoning in two nights!"

I almost forgot, The Holy Grail War. A war between magus. Several weeks ago I obtained the command seals on my left hand that mark me as a master. My aunt and dad both participated in it and my dad won.
If I want to follow in my dad's footsteps I have to win it as well.. but.. when the time comes..

Can I really kill someone?..

If possible I would like the war to end without anyone getting hurt, though I know that's an impossibility I will cling onto that hope.

I walk down the same road. I look up at the western style houses. My aunt used to live in one of the western style mansions before she started taking care of me.
She could've taken me to the mansion she lived in but for some reason she seems far more attached to the old Emiya household. I continue to walk down my usual road.

I meet up with my friends Akihiro and Kazumi. Apparently their mother was a good friend of my aunt's. Mitsuzuri Kazumi was always getting bullied when she was younger. She's a fun person to be around and she needs someone to help her when her brother isn't around so I've sticked with her. I become kind of attached to her, I wouldn't forgive myself if she got hurt. Since I started hanging out with her I immediately met her brother. Her brother Mitsuzuri Akihio first thought that I was trying to hit on her and tried to drive me off, however Kazumi immediately stood up for me.
Akihio was shocked, apparently that was the first time she ever stood up for anyone including herself. Her brother naturally assumed I was a really good person. Me and his personalities were similar, though our methods were different. We became good friends very quickly.

"Good morning Izanagi." Kazumi says with a bright smile on her face.

"G-Good morning Kazumi!" I hesitate for a moment. Even though I've only noticed just now she's becoming really beautiful. She's so different now compared that little girl I made friends with.
I'm starting to think of her less as a person and more as a woman.

"Hey! Did ya forget about me!?" Akihio exclaims.

"Oh sorry, good morning Akihio."
Akihio doesn't look amused. I've noticed that he hasn't been wearing his sleeves rolled up like he usually does. I can barely see the tip of his hands now. I feel like asking but I know I shouldn't.

We talk about pointless stuff as we head our way to school.

We part ways at the gate and head to our classes. Homeroom starts. I take notes and answer questions and before I know it it's lunch time.

I join up with my friends and we continue to talk about pointless stuff. The day just continues like this.
It's Saturday so classes end early, Akihio needed to rush somewhere because he forgot something important so I had to walk Kazumi to her house. We just walk and neither of us talk. If I'm alone with her like this I can't help but notice how much she is maturing. I try to think of something to say. "Uhm-" we both say in unison.
"You first." "No you first Iza." She only calls me by that nickname when we are alone. "Well I was just thinking, if that didn't happen I wouldn't have met you and Akihio. If we weren't all such oddballs we wouldn't be together like this. My life would probably be boring without you two. But I was just trying to find something to say. What were you going to say?"
"Well, I want to know why you help and stand up for people you don't have any attachments to." She asks.
"Well, I guess it would be because I want to follow in my father's footsteps.. I want to become a great man like my father, a great person should help those in need right?" "Is there any other reason?" "I guess so, I want to show people that there is still hope no matter what situation they're in. I guess you could say I want to save the world in my own way." Kazumi's eyes light up. "That sounds amazing.. even someone like me could make a difference in the world if I were to think like that!" Her smile is as bright as ever but as she faces me there is a certain warmness to it.

Tohsaka said to me that if I fight in the war without a purpose then I have no hope of surviving. I think I found my purpose, I will win this war to protect everyone, that way I can keep on seeing that beautiful warm smile. If someone thinks of hurting that smile, then I can resolve to kill.

I arrive at her house. It's located right where the western and Japanese houses divide. She and her brother lives in a small Japanese house. We say our goodbyes and I head to my home.

I arrive at my own home, I smell fried rice and shredded chicken with bean sprouts, she could've done more but she just wants breakfast out of me.
Tohsaka serves dinner. I eat the food at a steady pace when all of a sudden.. "So Izanagi, what do you think of Kazumi?" my face suddenly goes red and I almost choke on my food. Atleast now I know she keeps in contact with her old friend.
"Well.. she's a good friend, um.. and.." I'm interrupted by Tohsaka. "Ah I see, good, she's out of your league anyways." "What's that supposed to mean!?" I respond.
"I've been talking with Ayako and apparently her daughter always bring you up at dinnertime. She's probably talking about you right now." "Yeah? So?" I'm their only friends so I would assume that would be normal. "Idiot, don't go trying to rationalize it.." Tohsaka murmurs.
I can only think that Ayako told her more, Tohsaka knows something I don't or is trying to play with me head. I don't understand her sometimes.
Our dinner continues like normal, I head to my room finish my homework and study. At 10:00 PM I head to bed. Tomorrow's Sunday and I have no schedule. I hope fate has something nice planned for me before everything goes to hell Monday night.