Oh boy I seem to be feeling pretty crappy in the past month or so either way update time yay…*waves flag with a chibi Shirou on it unenthusiastically* Sorry if this chapter feels a bit lackluster I'll do my best but it probably won't be my best work just because of my mood and bodily pain…

Either way:

On with the show
-BrokenBladeWorks-

Shirou's house

After Taiga had dropped them off and warned them not to overexert themselves she'd promptly left in a screech of rubber. If you listened closely you'd be able to hear something to the effect of "I'M SO LATE!" echo off into the distance.

Shirou scratched the back of his head in wonder at how such a woman could become a teacher. He then turned his attention to Sakura "So…Lets head inside we probably have a lot to discuss." He motioned Sakura into the house.

Sakura nodded slowly and walked in "Yes, sempai we probably have a long discussion ahead of us." She said as she opened the door and walked in. Shirou followed after her.

Minutes later in the dining room

Shirou set the plate with tea down onto the table and then sat down. He looked at Sakura intently. "Sakura…Do you know what is inside of your body?" Shirou asked slowly.

Sakura froze up before her hand reached the teacup. Then pulled her hand back and clasped both hands together in front of her chest, not making eye-contact.

Shirou saw her reaction and waited a moment to see if she would respond. When she did not offer any information after a moment of silence he began. "Are they in your body by choice?"

Sakura's body jolted and she almost immediately shrieked "NO!" then her eyes widened and she pulled back into herself looking away so that her hair covered her face.

Shirou let out a breath he hadn't been holding and felt as though a small weight had been lifted from his body. "Thank god, that means I can help her. Those…THINGS aren't natural and can't be good for her to be in her body." Shirou then grimaced "I don't know if it will work but I know that I can target them and make sure my magic doesn't affect Sakura but I don't know how deeply they're connected to her…I should be able to accelerated the decay and entropy of those worm things…But if they're too deeply connected then I'd have to reinforce Sakura's body to withstand the removal of those worms." Shirou's grimace deepened at the thought. "If that was the case then I won't be able to remove all of them in one day safely. Maintaining Sakura's body via continuous reinforcement would be taxing to begin with add the destruction of those worms, I guess I'll call them, and I'd probably only be able to manage a few. The first one to go however is the one in her heart. Once it's gone I'll have to push the heart to heal fast than normal to close the gap its absence will cause and it'll give me a good idea of what it would take to get rid of he others."

Shirou's mind made up he focuses back to Sakura. "Sakura, would you like me to get rid of them?"

Sakura's head whipped around to look at the object of her affection in disbelief. "Wha…What did you say Sempai?" She asked in disbelief.

Shirou asked again "Would you like me to get rid of those Worm things that are inside of your body?" while looking at her intently.

Sakura looked again in disbelief. She'd expected a great many things from their conversation. 'You were a magus this whole time?' or 'What have you done to yourself!' she'd expected that, but an offer to remove the crest worms that plague her body and mind? Not in a million years did she even consider that her beloved Sempai would be able to help her in such a way. In her mind Emiya Shirou had just become more than her love he'd become her savior from hell. He'd become her personal angel to save her from Zouken and Shinji.

Sakura found her voice after a moment of wonderment. "You…You'd do that for me Sempai?" She asked hesitantly, hoping against hope that he wasn't lying.

Shirou responded without a pause "Of course I would Sakura, why wouldn't I help you?" Shirou declared confidently.

It was done Sakura's will had caved in and her emotional damn had overflowed and broken. Tears began to leak from her eyes and she started to sob lightly. Shirou had gotten up and moved to her side "Sakura are you alright?" he asked urgently.

Sakura turned to face him and smiled like the sun through her tear streaked face. "Sempai…I've never been so happy." She hugged Shirou and continued to cry into his shoulder.

Shirou not knowing what else to do hugged her back and didn't say another word. "Don't worry Sakura…I'll make you right again, and I'll make the bastard who did this pay." His thought finished darkly as he held the weeping young woman closer he reassured her "Don't worry Sakura I'm here and I'm not going anywhere." Sakura didn't respond other than hugging tighter to Shirou and begin to sob again.

-BrokenBladeWorks-

Spare Bedroom

Shirou asked Sakura to lay down on the futon. "Sakura, I'm not going to lie. This is probably going to hurt a lot." Shirou said honestly looking at Sakura.

Sakura smiled and shook her head. "It's alright Sempai. Please, get rid of them as soon as you can." She laid down on the futon.

Shirou kneeled down at her side and placed a hand on her forehead and a hand above her breasts causing them both to blush a little. "Alright Sakura, I'm going to reinforce your body's healing rate incase they're too deeply connected to you." His left hand over her forehead began glowing and he visualized her body till it began to fade into aspects rather than simply structure. His meditation led him to the aspect of self-preservation and he began to pour Prana into it and reinforce her regenerative factor among other things. Unknown to Shirou this action led to her body severing the connection to the crest worms, and were no longer joined to her magic circuits.

Her body had many times tried to reject the worms as unnatural to her but Zouken had suppressed her magic until the worms integrated to her body and mage circuits. Sakura suddenly felt her body grow warm and slightly ticklish but the ever present drain on her circuits was no longer there. "Was that it Sempai?" She asked curiously.

Shirou raised an eyebrow "What do you mean? All I've done so far is reinforce your body's self-preservation abilities. The worms are still there but they don't seem as connected which is a good sign." He traced the worm in her heart and saw it had started decaying into raw prana, more like a spell that was cut from its source than a living being. "That's odd…Maybe reinforcing her self-preservation caused her body to reject the worms…Makes my job much easier because now her body is starting the break down all I'll need to do is focus on the damage control." He rolled up his sleeves "Alright Sakura you're probably going to be very uncomfortable now, the worms are going to start thrashing around and probably biting as well. But it won't last long your body's natural magic is starting to break them down I'm just going to help it along."

Sakura nodded knowing what was going to happen next and prayed that she'd be able to control herself.

"Alright," Shirou said more to himself than to her "Let's kill these things." He tried tracing the worm in her heart only to find it had been broken down into raw Prana and assimilated into her own stores. "That's very odd but a lucky break that would've been the hardest to get rid of. Even good luck is her heart healed before any blood could escape. Good that's what I'd planned for. Now all I need to do is take care of the worms in her belly." His hand went down to her navel and glowed.

Sakura had felt the worm in her heart dissolve slowly and felt her connection to Zouken completely vanish. Then she felt the worms in her abdomen begin moving and biting. It wasn't the worst they'd done and they felt weaker, less vicious. It was still painful but something in her body was dulling the pain it was the same warm ticklish sensation she felt when Shirou put a hand over her forehead. "Sempai…"

Shirou traced one of the worms and bore it up almost immediately. Shocked he traced the next one and compared it mentally to when he'd first noticed them. "They were dependent on Sakura's Prana to live…now that they can't access it they're withering on top of being starved they're being attacked by Sakura's natural magic defense. That's excellent! I don't even need to rest to get rid of them all at once." He focused then traced all of the worms at once then reinforced their breakdown. They all decomposed he traced the remains and Sakura's belly between them and his hand. "Trace on. Altering molecular vibration, synchronizing pattern…There!" he 'pulled' with his magic and the remains of the crest worms passed through Sakura's belly. "Now that I can actually see them they're even more disgusting than I thought. I don't care what happens Sakura is NOT going back to her house after this I'm going to make sure she's safe." With that thought he traced the worms floating in his hand and transformed them into graphite, since they were still primarily carbon, walked to the window and crushed them to dust and let it fall onto the dirt and get picked up by the wind.

He turned back to Sakura "They're all gone now." he stated simply.

Sakura's eyes welled with tears again. "Thank you sempai" she sniffed "Thank you so much."

Shirou knelt down beside her and let her weep on his shoulder again. "It's alright Sakura they're completely gone." Absent mindedly he began stroking her hair. "Sakura?" his hand stopped stroking as he looked at her hair again.

Sakura wiped her eyes on her sleeve "Y-yes Sempai?" She asked timidly.

Shirou looked at her hair again. "Was your hair always that color?" He was looking closely at her hair now it was definitely darker than when they'd went to school this morning. He then saw her eyes with a start. "Your eye's too, are they naturally a different color?"

Sakura didn't believe her ears. "My hair? My eyes? Wh-why do you ask Sempai?"

Shirou was looking intently at her "Your hair is darker than this morning and your eye's look more blue than usual." He thought to himself "Is it my reinforcement messing with her body?"

Sakura got up on somewhat shaky legs and started walking to the door.

Shirou looked up with a start "Hey Sakura you should lay back down!" she ignored him and opened up the door. He blinked a few times before getting up after her "Sakura where are you going?"

Sakura without turning to face him said "I need to see my reflection…"

Shirou stood there a bit confused. "Your reflec- What?" he noticed she was about to turn a corner while he stood there and hurried after her. "You should walk a little more slowly your body used a lot of Prana and you should be a little dizzy for a while."

She ignored him again and opened the door to the bathroom then went in.

Shirou hesitated a bit about following a girl into the bathroom but went in after her anyway to see her staring at her reflection in wonder. "Hey Sakura are you okay?" He said placing a hand on her shoulder.

Sakura stared at the face in the mirror and saw almost before her eyes her hair and eyes returning to their original colors of black and ocean blue from their current plum and violet. She stared almost hypnotized by the transformation entirely unaware of her sempai fretting about her in the reflection. The entire color bleed out took about fifteen minutes total and when it was over Shirou looked at her a little oddly. "I look just like nee-san…"

Shirou tapped Sakura on the shoulder and she seemed to break from her hypnotism. "Wha-Oh! I'm so sorry I worried you Sempai." She bowed a bit "I had to see what you were talking about and when I saw I just…" she trailed off.

Shirou stared at her a bit still thinking. "Sakura you aren't related to Shinji by blood are you?"

Sakura nodded "Yes I was given to the Matou family to be raised as a magus because I could not inherit the Tohsaka family crest, and because the Matou family line of magus had ended with Shinji's uncle Kariya who died about 10 years ago."

Shirou now understood why Shinji treated her the way he did. In his eyes Sakura would have come into his home and stolen what should have been his. He was always proud of his family and probably knew that he came from a magus line but had no circuits himself. When Sakura was adopted he felt as though she was stealing his heritage. "It still isn't any reason. If he comes near Sakura again with any ill intention I'll make sure he regrets it." Shirou thought fire in his veins. Then another fact hit him.

"Wait…You're Tohsaka Rin's SISTER!"

-BrokenBladeWorks-

Huh…guess that turned out better than expected.

Anyway no real action and something of a slow build up. It was a pretty heavy chapter so I figured I'd end it on a lighter note.

As always Reviews are nice I'm not sure when I'll update other stories Kenichi seems to have run away from my musings and I can't really write up where I want to go with it. Whatever you probly didn't read this either way so meh.