By the time Rin woke up again, it was almost 9 and was was late to school- not that it really mattered while in a sleepy daze. What she wasn't expecting was to smell breakfast from the bedroom and quickly got up. Though when she looked down...
"SABER!" Said Heroic Spirit almost dropped the plate of grilled beef when his Master screamed and sighed. Looks like he was going to have to go up there.
"Tohsaka~...Why are you screaming at 9 in the morning?" As soon as he poked his head in, it was almost taken off with a Gandr shot by a VERY pissed Rin.
"Y-You-Saber did you change my clothes when I fell asleep?"
"Well actually you were unconscious. Besides, its not like there was a lot to see anyway with that short skirt that you should really have more variety from last nigh-" Saber was promptly silenced by a reinforced punch to the solar plexus courtesy of his Master, coughing wildly and trying to regain his breath from the attack. God, she must have broken a rib with that one if it wasn't for their regeneration.
"S-Shut up! Come on, we're going out to patrol the entire day so you can get a feel of the city!" Rin yelled, slamming the door behind her and leaving Saber on the floor.
Fifteen minutes after the incident (this included Saber trying to get Rin not to use a Command Seal to 'Never touch her under any circumstance' by saying "You could die in a battle because I didn't touch you! What if you fell off a building and told me to catch you? I'd have to obey the Command Seal and let you die!") the Master/Servant pair walked through Fuyuki- Saber in Astral Form much to his dismay and scanning each area.
'Man, this place is a lot different from Akatamashi. There's more people and less agricultural areas that's for sure.' Hearing the Servant's words, she raised an eyebrow that showed while drinking a cup of tea.
"Akatamashi? That's a little town only 45 minutes away from Fuyuki. For a hero like you I expected you to be from some place a bit more...extravagant."
'Not everyone started out like the great Knight of Fianna or was born a demi-god. I was just a normal person before becoming a hero. Well, as normal as you can describe me.' He chuckled a little at that. He was well-known somewhere else, but in the future of course. Though it was surprising to Saber in a lot of ways, since during this Grail War he was only about 7 years old; all of this happening behind the scenes.
'Ahh...Why do I have a feeling that if I wasn't the one summoned, a weird version reminiscent of a video game-oh wait that didn't come out until 2008.'
As the day grew old and night entered, Saber, fully materialized, and Rin stood on the tallest building in Fuyuki City. It was a beautiful sight for one that's lived in a place under the stars, but now wasn't the time to appreciate this.
"Good idea on scouting today, Master. I don't have the Eyes of Truth so seeing everything from the ground and above gives me a standard look of the area." His hands were in his pockets, but his eyes narrowed at the lights of the town. This was where he was going to be fighting this time...
"That's right, as the second Owner of this city, its my duty to make sure anyone not involved with the War does not get involved." Rin clenched her hands to the side and brought them to her hips in a no-nonsense fashion. "Saber. Work with me so that it doesn't end like 10 years ago. Well, 17 years ago for you."
He knew what she was talking about- the Great Fuyuki Fire that destroyed the Shinto district almost two decades ago. He was barely a year old when that incident happened, but remembered people from his town worried that it would happen there too.
With a small grin, Saber grabbed the hand that held his Master's Command Seals and nodded.
"The day you promised me that wish was the day I agreed to do whatever you asked me of. I may not be a Knight, but even Mercenaries have a code of honor." Kneeling down on one knee, he kissed the top of her hand- practically feeling the heat of the blush through her skin.
"W-W-W-What are you doing?!" At this point he was starting to snicker at Rin's reaction. Oh man that was better than he thought!
"Why I'm doing what a Servant should be doing- answering to the whims and needs of their Master." And before she could react and punt him across to the next building, the strawberry-blond Servant moved away quickly.
Though he was not expecting the wind from how fast he was moving to uplift Rin's skirt-exposing her rather...frilly panties.
"..." His eyes were wide, though mostly because of the rather cliche situation.
"Um, Master? You okay there...?" She didn't say anything for a long time and he was getting a bit worried at her silence.
"Saber...I command you..."
"Wait wait wait! Come on Master! Don't waste a Command Seal just because I flipped your skirt by accident!" He was really panicking now. How would they explain why they only had two because of a fit of anger from the Tsundere Tohsaka?!
"I order you..."
"Tohsaka please! I will literally lower myself to nothing but a dog and listen to everything you say if you DON'T use a Command Seal! Do you really want to waste one now not knowing how long this Grail War is going to be?"
There was nothing but silence from the Tohsaka afterwards, Saber's eyes still wide from staring at the glowing red light of the seals and Rin's eyes shadowed by her hair. After what seemed to be an eternity, she finally let her hand go down and the light fade away- still showing three active Command Seals. He sighed in relief at his short-tempered Master's listening to reason before he felt the force of a reinforced kick throw him across the sky and into a building. Good thing he was a Servant...ow...
"So, you'll listen to everything that I say?" Oh no. He recognised that smile. That was the same exact smile she gave him when he materialized last night.
"Y-Yes...?" Saber was still on the floor recovering from the kick, slowly getting up and then yelping when a reinforced shoe slammed right next to his head-Rin above him with her arms crossed and looking down at him.
"Good! Then let's go back. We've got a full day going for us tomorrow." And with that, Rin walked off, with a satisfied look on her face.
Saber didn't move for a few more seconds before getting up, glancing at the cracks in the floor of the roof.
"Master Hogou...I think I found someone scarier than you."
The next day was better than yesterday, with Rin walking up not screaming and Saber relatively in one-piece and started with the two of them heading to Homurahara High school. Like she expected, everyone was surprised that the "perfect student" had missed a day of school and argued about where she went yesterday. The swordsman made to joke about his Master being 'little miss perfect', but instead was forced to go and observe around the school for potential Masters.
"Ahh, how boring. I forgot how lax school could be. Its been so long since I actually attended." He mumbled to himself while traversing Homurahara in Astral Form. Drifting around the school like the spirit he was, he slid down to the First Year's classroom- quickly shooting back up to the second floor when seeing a girl that all too familiar to someone he knew a long time ago during his middle school years. And with a lot of trust, they weren't exactly GOOD memories.
Deciding to avoid the first floor for the duration of the War, Saber ends up into a classroom adjacent to Rin's and sees a redheaded boy focusing intensively on the lesson with a rather surprising aura. Definately different from Rin's own and not sleezy like the blue haired kid with the shitty haircut. What was his name again? Oh, Shinji.
"Hmmm? He's got this feeling like if you put a sword in his hand he'll go at it like he's been fighting with one all his life." He muttered to himself, an excited glint in his eyes from the inner blacksmith inside. If only they didn't have a possibility of being the 7th Master then he would definately ask Rin about testing him out!
There was the whole thing with being dead as well, but so was everyone else summoned in this war.
Sliding over to the window in order to head back to his post as Master's side, Saber didn't realized that one of his sheaths had re-materialized and smacked the redhead in the face before falling with a loud thump onto his desk. Freezing for a moment, he started to panic and shot through the wall; leaving the sheath was one thing but gettin' caught would end in the worst chances of history! Mumbling a small apology, he carefully dropped down next to his Master and pretended like nothing had ever happened, for now.
'Ok. Ok, ok, OK. I just screwed up majorly. Maybe he'll think its a prank or something! Its not like its the sheath made with rouge dragon scales, Obsidian, and mixed with a bit (read: a lot) of pyrite! Maybe it was just the regular one I was using to house Dark Divinder in' Though as much as he'd like to keep himself in denial, Saber knew that he had dropped the very sheath that nigh cost his life to make from just gathering the materials- who knows what someone who is practially a SWORD would react to having it in his possession?
'Aw crap, I'm screwed...'
Xx-Determination-xX
Ashi: It took like 9 months, but I finally finished the second chapter! Yay! (Sarcastically) I couldn't help but to notice that I had a typo from the first chapter about the timeline, as it actually takes place in 2004, not 2006.
Also I may have forgotten where I put Saberku's stats. But its somewhere in my E-mails! Now that Shriou (accidentally) obtained another sheathe, it will explain who he summons in the next chapter. Also you get to see Saber in action!
