Disclaimer: I don't own Persona 3 or Fate/Stay Night. If I did, the Heaven's Feel route wouldn't have the worms! YOU KNOW WHAT WORMS I'M TALKING ABOUT!

Author's note: real quick!

Character names will be Japanese style, so surname followed by given name (e.g. Emiya Shirou).

High School years will also be Japanese style, so Yukari and Junpei will be second year students (Juniors in the American system).

Honorifics will be in the style of the American release of Persona 3, so they won't be used unless it's a substitution for a name (e.g. Takeba calls Akihiko, Senpai, instead of his name.)

Thanks to my beta for taking time where he could be reading other fanfiction to proofread this.

Thanks to Mark of Cain for his review and for helping me flesh out some of my ideas.

Reviews are awesome! But the critiques are only really helpful if they are specific. If you don't like how I'm portraying/doing something please be specific about what I'm doing that you don't like. If you think that everything I write is terrible, also be specific, or don't review, I don't know if I can fix everything about what I write.

Sorry to say, but updates will probably stay pretty slow. I tend to write the parts I find interesting or want to write first, then connect them up later.

*Story Start*

Monday, April 6th

"Who's there?!"

A female voice called me out of my contemplations of how strange this night had become. Unfortunately, the voice only made me think that the night was going to get even stranger.

I turned towards the sound of the voice and located its source. There was a young woman standing just next to the wall that divided the dining area from the rest of the first floor. In the dim light I could make out her pink cardigan and light brown hair. I Reinforced my eyes and managed to pick out more details. She was about 5' 3", wearing knee high socks, a very short black skirt, a white blouse under a pink cardigan, and a red ribbon at tied at her neck. There was a strange band on her arm with an acronym, "S.E.E.S." written out on it. What most caught my attention about her though, was the gun holstered at mid thigh on her right leg.

I barely had time to respond before she began to breath heavily and reached for her gun. It seemed that she had already concluded that I was a threat. I put what little magic I had left in my exhausted body into reinforcing my skull. For various reasons, I was rather hard to kill, and a single bullet probably wouldn't end my life. I wasn't sure that I could survive being shot in the head though, and I wasn't in a hurry to find out.

My efforts were unnecessary though, because before she could draw the gun another female voice called out from behind her in a commanding tone.

"Takeba! Wait!"

From out of the darkness behind the brown haired girl, another girl stepped out into the tainted moonlight. She had dark red wavy hair that parted just above her right eye, blocking her left eye from view, and from there fell down her back, past her hips. Similar to the first girl, she was wearing knee high socks and a black skirt, although her skirt fell to just above her knees instead of mid thigh. She also had the armband with "S.E.E.S" written on it. The new girl was also wearing a white blouse with a larger red ribbon tied at her neck. She was also carrying a gun, holstered in front of her left hip, with the handle pointing across her body. I sluggishly noted that it was a strange way to holster a gun, since it would require her to draw it across her body like a sword in order to fire it.

She held an air of command about her as she stood just in front of the darkness she had emerged from. Her eyes hadn't left the first girl since she had stepped out of the shadows, as if to keep her from freaking out by sheer force of her will. And it seemed to be working pretty well, the first girl was already breathing a little better.

Suddenly the world exploded with light. I quickly closed my eyes and canceled the Reinforcement on them. As I blinked my eyes rapidly to clear them up after the shock they had received, my other senses chimed in to let me know that the oppressive smells that had permeated the air were now gone. As quickly as everything had shown up, it left just as quickly, leaving no trace of it having existed at all. Apparently that meant that all of the lights in the room had come back on at the same time, overwhelming his eyes, which had been Reinforced to handle the dark.

I heard a sigh and a thump and looked up through my recovering eyes to see the girl in pink leaning against a wall, her strength having left with the tension she had been holding. The red headed girl gave her a considering look before picking her way across the room to me. As she approached, she spoke in a conversational manner, as if she hadn't just walked in on me about to be shot.

"I didn't think you'd arrive so late. My name is Kirijo Mitsuru. I'm one of the students who live in this dorm."

Dots began to slowly connect in my head. Rin had connections with the Kirijo family, which is how she got them to agree to take me in. What kind of family would a Magus family have strong connections with? Furthermore, there was the strange event I had witnessed upon arriving, which seemed not to phase the newly introduced Kirijo Mitsuru at all.

Was she a Magus? That seemed like a detail that Rin wouldn't have neglected to tell me, even though we didn't exactly part on the best of terms.

There were too many unknowns in this situation. There would be time to ask questions, but first, I should be polite; she was hosting me after all.

"It seems you already know who I am," I replied, "but for the sake of introductions, my name is Emiya Shirou. Thank you for putting me up on such short notice."

She smiled. "It's no trouble. We had some spare rooms here, and you can be moved to the boys dorm once things have been settled." Her smile changed to a smirk. "It is rather difficult to turn down a… request… from Rin, after all." One of her eyebrows quirked up as she emphasized the word, and her smirk widened.

Seeing my face take on an aggrieved expression, her smile returned.

"Rin and I occasionally met when we were much younger. It's good to see that her willful nature hasn't changed despite how long it's been."

The girl in pink, the one who had almost pulled a gun on me, seemed to have recovered and was walking over to join us. Kirijo once again took on a businesslike demeanor as she got closer.

The girl in pink had a horrendously fake smile pasted to her face as she approached. Her eyes however, were wary and watched me like I was a dangerous animal that had escaped its cage. She seemed reassured to have Kirijo there and stepped up to us so that she was behind and a little to the left of the redhead, although she looked like she would jump behind Kirijo in a second if I sneezed the wrong way.

Attempting to keep the smile on her face, the obviously scared girl whispered to the girl in front of her.

"Is it alright for him to be here?"

It seems she was still too flustered to control her voice well, because it easily carried to me.

Kirijo paused and gave me an appraising glance, eventually replying simply with "We'll see."

The girl in pink didn't seem reassured by the response, and her smile turned very fragile for a moment when Kirijo stepped aside to make introductions.

Turning to me, Kirijo gestured toward the girl in pink. "Emiya, this is Takeba Yukari. She'll be a second year this Spring, so she will be a year beneath you."

Turning back to Takeba, Kirijo introduced me. "Takeba, this is Emiya Shirou. He was recently living abroad, but had to come back to Japan for various reasons. He will be a third year starting in the Spring."

Seemingly put at ease by the fact that Kirijo knew who I was, the fake grin on Takeba's face was replaced with a sheepish look. She finally stepped forward and bowed deeply.

"I'm very sorry for… how I acted…. I heard a noise… and it was so late… I thought… well…"

It seemed that she wanted to apologize for almost pulling a gun on me, but also didn't want to mention the fact out loud. I waved for her to stop bowing and made my own apologies about arriving so late. I did want to know why she was carrying a gun around, but she seemed very distressed, and I couldn't just leave a damsel in distress because of some curiosity on my part.

Having been forgiven, and forgiving me for surprising her, Takeba finally pulled out her first real smile of the night. She nodded to me and stepped back in line with Kirijo, who smiled slightly over the easy resolution.

Kirijo then instructed Takeba to show me to the room I would be using, and informed me that my luggage was already there.

Nodding, Takeba gestured for me to follow her and began to make her way up the stairs.

I bade Kirijo a good night and followed my guide towards the promise of sleep.

The second floor of the building was made up of a hallway with doors on either side capped at the far end with a wall with a single window in it. It was rather plain, and a pair of vending machines stood out starkly against the plain decor. I followed my guide as she turned from the stairs and led me down the hallway.

She slowed down to draw out the hallway as she informed me about the dorm we were in. It seemed that the first floor was the living room, dining room, kitchen, and reception. The second floor, where we were now, was reserved for the boys. The third floor was for the girls. The fourth floor was for administration. There was also a door to the roof, but it was usually locked.

As we reached the last door on the right side of the hallway, Takeba slowed to a stop and gestured to the door.

"Here we are." She said. "Second floor, last door on the right. Pretty easy to remember, right?!"

She chuckled a bit and then opened her mouth as if to say something else. Instead of speaking though, she closed her mouth and her face set into a visage of thought.

After a moment, she nodded to herself and slowly raised her eyes to meet mine and spoke hesitantly, her eyes flicking down to the staircase every few seconds.

"Senpai… did you notice anything… strange… on your way over here tonight?"

I looked at her for a moment, debating how to respond to her question. I wasn't sure how much she knew about what was going on, and how much I could reveal of what I had seen.

My hesitancy seemed to be answer enough for her as she chuckled nervously and glanced back toward the stairs again.

"Sorry Senpai, that was a silly question. You're… uh… new here… so I bet everything is a little strange… right."

With jerky movements, she brought her left wrist up to her face and spoke out in a near complete monotone.

"Oh! Look at the time! We have school tomorrow! I should get to bed."

With further jerky movements, Takeba made her way back down the hallway towards the stairs.

About halfway there, she turned around and called back to me.

"I'll be taking you to school tomorrow, so don't worry about finding your own way there."

She then turned back and, with smoother movements than before, made her way to the stairs and up to the girl's floor.

After watching her go, I turned back to glare at my door. I was going to open the door, and there had better be a bed and no further surprises. No weird kids with contracts, no standing coffins, no pink high schoolers with guns.

Preparing myself for another surprise I opened the door to the room I would be using for the foreseeable future.

Oh hey! There was a bed!