A/N: Hey hey guys and welcome to Chapter 3. A thank you to those who Faved/Followed/Reviewed. Also a reminder that I still suck at grammar, so please overlook some of the more hideous things you may find that I overlooked or left out.

With that said, I would like to give you warning. Guns/Firearms will be incorporated into this fanfic, so yea, have fun with that. Anyway, I will be trying to add in a few characters that were not in the Fate anime series but were present in the games, with that being said please don't get uppity if i get ones personality wrong. God forbid i do that in a fan fic of all things right?

Anyway, as usual guys, enjoy! Remember no flames though, ain't nobody got time for dat!

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Chapter 3: Rainy Day

Rin was sitting on the porch overlooking the courtyard now. The sun had set and the moon was rising in the night sky. Hanna was beside her with her pack against a post, looking up at the moon. They hadn't spoken a word to each other ever since they walked out of the house and sat down.

Hanna's story proved to work up Sabers emotions, even Shirou was having a hard time trying to calm her down. It took all she had to convince her not to travel to London and bring The Clock Tower down on their heads. The end of her story only infuriated Saber beyond what words could describe. Rin had never seen her that angry before and truthfully it was something she never wanted to see again.

FLASHBACK

"Then…one night, it happened…the palace was attacked, with the help of The Clock Tower no less." Hanna seethed. I managed to slip away with the Princess but one of her maids confessed to knowing where we went. Our trail was picked up quickly and we were ambushed just outside the Palace gates."

Hanna hesitates, "Yet we still managed to escape, thanks to Excalibur. Though our luck ran out, it was like we smacked a brick wall. Before we could even find help, the entire Organization had appeared before me ready to cut me down just to get to her. They even tried bargaining with me that I would live on if I handed her over, to which I told them all to rot in hell…"

"I defended her with my life…I took on every single person the Organization had and I came out on top…but in the end it was for nothing." A tear flowed down her face. "I was cut, I was stabbed, I had broken bones….and I was dying, one of the blades used in combat against me was laced in poison. Though I was to die, I thought I was victorious. The one I loved was to live on…but I was wrong.."

Shock befell the others faces.

"A single blade pierced her through her chest as she kneeled above me. It seems with his last dying breath…the former Number 2 in that Organization got his revenge from me beating him. Though, she wasn't dead yet, I knew what I had to do…You see I had been taught a Black Arts Spell, one that was meant only for worst case scenarios…and I couldn't think of a more perfect time to use it."

"My mana was dangerously low, and I could feel deaths grip around me, yet I pressed on. In my left hand I held just above her puncture wound a silver gem….I poured everything I had left inside of me into her soul. The wound healed almost instantly and her eyes shot open….just in time for me to tell her I loved her before I fell over dead…" She said as she buries her face in her folded arms on the table.

The room felt heavy now. Shirou was now rather pissed off at The Clock Tower, Rin had been told all of this before, but hearing it again only cemented her new profound dislike for them as well. Mika still looked clueless, but it was Saber that took everything hard.

She stood up from the table and was making her way to the door, her battle gear and Excalibur materializing out of thin air around her. The look of death on her face as she reached for the door but was stopped by Rin's outstretched hand grabbing her shoulder.

"Let me go Rin…" Saber seethes.

Rin keeps her hold, "Just where do you think you're going?"

"I'm going to end their lives before they can end my daughters!" she snaps

Rin redoubles her strength by pushing a bit of mana through her circuits, enough for her to forcefully turn Saber around and back her against the wall by the door.

"Let me get something straight, Saber…." Her eyes had narrowed. She was serious about this and Saber knew it, everyone did. "Simply traveling to London to take down the Clock Tower is out of the question! You're forgetting you no longer have the powers you did when you were a servant, so you'd basically be running blind into your own death! Think of the young girl that's in that back room sleeping! You have a chance to change the fate that lies before you but you're choosing to keep it on the same track it is now!"

Saber stares at Rin, seemingly taking what she was saying to heart. Soon she hangs her head as Excalibur vanishes along with her battle gear, leaving her in her white shirt and blue dress.

"Okay Rin…" she lifts her head to look at her, a tear in her eye. "What do you propose we do then?"

Rin sighs and softens her grip, she doesn't let go Saber completely though. "Remember what I said earlier about taking a walk?" she asks, and receives a slight nod from Saber. "There's someone I want to converse with here in Fuyuki…someone associated with the church. They should have more than enough answers to any questions that we may have."

Rin releases her grip, but continues to look at Saber. "Besides, your place is here, with those two creeps still probably running around trying to get their hands on Hanna I'd rather you be with her. A mother's instinct is a strong yet unknown power."

Saber looks at Rin, she knew that just by the expression on RIns face that she was dead serious about everything she just said. Rather than argue further on something she knew Rin was right about, she nodded. "Okay Rin, we will do things your way."

A slight smile appears on Rins face. "Good."

Flashback End

Rin sighed and looked down at the ground, Hanna picked up on her uneasy feeling instantly.

"You okay?" Hanna wonders.

"I'm fine, Hanna. I just have a lot on my mind right now…you wouldn't understand." Rin says in a low tone.

Silence falls between them, only to be interrupted by the sound of the door behind them opening and slamming. When they turn and look they see Mika leaning against it, one leg lifted with the foot pressed against it and her arms folded in front of her.

She didn't look at either Rin or Hanna, only out to the night sky before her. "I can't deal with those two in there right now…" she said with a bit of emotion behind her words.

Rin was confused, "What the hell are you talking about Mika?"

Mika doesn't look away from where her eyes were fixated on. "They are both just hovering over their kids crib watching her sleep….not only that but it feels like the pressure in the room is enough to squash me flat."

Rin turns and looks back at the night sky, "I don't blame them after hearing Hanna's story…I'd have probably done the same thing."

"Well it creeps me out!" Mika snapped, only to catch Hanna's eyes cut at her. "Don't you start either!"

Hanna only glares at her, This bitch is starting to get on my nerves… she ground out mentally.

Things calmed down a bit, then Rin started to stand. "I need to talk with you two for a moment. This is serious…"

"Can't it wait till morning?" Hanna pleads, she doesn't want to deal with anything else tonight, all she wants to do is sit calmly and stare at the stars.

"The blonde's right, can't this wait?" Mika agreed.

Rin shakes her head, "No, it really can't." Now standing straight up she looks between Hanna who is still leaning against the post, and Mika, who is against the door. She starts to blush as she thinks of what to say, she knew things were different now, but how different?

"Do either of you know of the past between me and Shirou?" Rin finally asks, setting her embarrassment aside.

Both of the girls shake their heads, she never mentioned anything to Hanna about it, and she knew Mika was left out in the cold about a lot of stuff still. Was she really ready to tell the two servants before her that she just up and left Shirou…using some shitty excuse that it was to protect him and Saber? Would they buy her story, or would it all blow up in her face?

"Well…" Rin starts but pauses. Her heart was beating rather hard now, "Shirou and I were both Masters in the previous Grail War. We had fallen in love with each other during, only to have our love increase ten-fold in the coming years afterward…that is…until I basically ripped his heart right from his chest…"

Hanna tensed up, cutting her eyes at Rin and staring at her in disbelief.

"Though I thought I was justified in what I did, ever since I've been back it's done nothing but tear at my heart when I think of what I did to him….what we could have had together…the family I could have started with him…" a single tear starts to flow down her cheek.

Hanna was starting to get mad, though she wasn't showing it on the outside. What this woman was saying was she would have rather Saber and Shirou not gotten married, not had a child together. What she was inferring to was if she had never left then maybe none of this would even be happening right now.

"Oh don't give me that bullshit!" Hanna spat.

This caught Rin off guard, way off guard. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me! If you really loved him then you would have stayed with him no matter what was happening, you would have done everything in your power to make sure he and my mother were safe WITHOUT BREAKING HIS HEART!" She was mad now. How dare this woman basically infer that Hanna never existed, just to make her own self happy.

"Look, I know what this looks li…"

"Shut up!" Hanna almost screamed, "Just shut up! You basically ran away from your troubles, only to have them bring you right back to where you started from. You never loved my father.."

Rin closed the distance between her and Hanna in the blink of an eye. Connecting her right hand with the Hanna's face with a mana charged slap. The hit was so hard Hanna had to grab onto the railing to stop herself from falling from the porch.

Mika simply stood there with eyes wide as saucers and her mouth hung. She never knew Rin could move so fast, nor hit so hard.

"How dare you….how fucking dare you…" Rin ground out through clenched teeth. Her head was hung and her eyes were squeezed shut. "I gave our love everything I had, I gave him my heart, I poured everything into our love…not just for him, but for Saber too! I gave him my mind, my soul…and my body," her head shoots up and she glares at Hanna with a look that she rarely gave anyone. "And I will be damned if I'm going to let you tell me I didn't love him!"

Mika steps up behind Rin and tries to pull her back from Hanna, who still hasn't moved, albeit placing her hand where Rin smacked. The expression on her face was blank, but she looked rather shocked at what happened.

Rin shakes off Mika's hold, clenching her fists tighter. Hanna had taken what she said a bit too far, no one was going to tell her who she loved and who she didn't, ever.

"You don't even know the half of why I left, broken hearted or not I would have rather seen your father alive and the family man he is today then see him and your mother both buried because I was too stupid not to acknowledge the signs there were!"

Mika tries again to pull Rin away from Hanna, but this time Rin swings her arm back. Mika barely has time to dodge the swing before Rin shoves her away.

Mika regains her footing as her left hand reaches up over her shoulder and rests on the hilt of the blade on her back. She could have taken that as an aggressive move by another master and have ended Rin's life quickly and swiftly, but she exercised restraint, rather she put herself into the defensive.

"…what are you doing…" Rin says, anger in her words.

"I was just going to ask you the same thing, I tried to diffuse the situation and you chose to take it to the next level…"

"So what, you going to attack me? You going to kill me, make things twice as harder than they need to be right now? You know what Shirou and Saber will do to you if you do right?" Rin was prodding Mika now, she wanted Mika to make a move that she would regret.

"Actually," Mika relaxes and lets her arm fall back to her side as she stands straight again. "I'd rather not be around you for the rest of the night…" she says as she turns towards the door. Opening it she enters the house only to slam it shut, leaving Hanna and Rin alone on the porch.

Hanna still hasn't moved, only glaring at one spot. Rin turns towards her and immediately feels regret, did she really take things too far? She reaches out to put a hand on Hanna's shoulder only to have it batted away, hard.

"Don't fucking touch me…" Hanna spat as she started to dematerialize. "If you need me call…" her voice echoed just as she disappeared, leaving Rin alone on the porch now.

She was posted up by the door, no one told her to be there, she just decided it was a good idea. You never really knew what might happen. Shirou and Saber had already left the room and went into their own, they both looked like hell, yet Mika couldn't blame them.

She knew she was only a servant, but she kind of had a soft spot for the blonde headed kid sleeping in the room behind her. Even if it was going to grow up into a ditzy blonde, she still adored it, though she didn't show it on the outside as much as she would like.

She stood there silently for what seemed like hours. The only noises she heard was the A/C turning on and off, and the refrigerator in the kitchen cycling. She hadn't even heard the door open signifying Rin coming back in, really, Mika didn't care if she came back in or not. What she did was way out of line, even if Hanna was her servant, she had no call.

Mika sighed, "Life just sucks…"

Then, something caught her ears, a soft noise coming from Shirou's and Sabers room. It sounded like a yawn, but you don't repeat a yawn over and over again, and they don't usually get louder. She decided she had better investigate.

She slowly made her way to the door down the hall and pressed her ears to it. Though after a few seconds her face went red.

"Shirou…" Sabers moan echoed in the hall.

Mika backed away quickly, extremely embarrassed at what she had heard. Silently cussing herself for her stubborn curiosity, but damn, they weren't even trying to hide the fact that they were having sex!

To her dismay, they were getting louder. She needed something to block out the noise and fast. She hurried into the living room and found exactly what she was looking for, something with ear buds that played music. In her time they were very rare to find, but in this current time you could find them everywhere.

She grabbed it off the table and placed the earbuds in her ears and pressed the play button. IT took it a minute to turn on, but when it did a smile spread across her face as her favorite type of music started playing.

Though at its current low volume, she could now hear the headboard in Shirous room begin the hit the wall rather violently, which she answered by turning the volume all the way up.

"Geez Shirou, any harder and you might both go through the wall…" she mumbled as she returned to her spot by the door, letting the lyrics and the beat of the song wash over her.

Half an hour went buy, half an hour that Mika was in her own little world not paying any attention to anything. That is until she feels a breeze and feels someone pass her. She looks up to see the shapely yet bare backside of a blonde haired female walking into the kitchen. Mika blinks a few times, wondering if she had just witnessed what she thought she witnessed.

Though her eyes weren't playing tricks on her at all, Saber was walking back towards her holding a glass filled with water. The only thing she wore was the look of satisfaction written on her face, and the beads of sweet that had yet to fall from her face.

Once she nears Mika, she stops and turns to her, giving her a wink and a smile. Mika can see the flushed look on Sabers face, not to mention her heightened breathing. She can't help but admire how fit and toned her body is, even for a woman that had less than a year ago given birth she looked amazing.

Oh my god, she's hot….and I don't even like girls that way….Mika thought as she gulped.

Saber only giggled, then started to casually walk back to the door. Though she stops and turns around again just as she places her hands on the door knob.

Mika takes a earbud out of her ear, sensing that Saber is about to say something.

"Please excuse us if we become too….into it." she mused with a wink before entering the room and shutting the door.

Mika stood there, her filled with images associated with what she just said. Her face was as red as a tomato, and she was sure blood was starting to run down her nose.

"Shirou….you got lucky…" she finally said as she shook her head, trying to get the images to leave her mindscape

Another day had come, yet there was no sun today. Today it was raining, and it was cold, he definitely wasn't going to work today since the majority of his work would be outside. So rather than get out of bed and be in a rush, he was going to take the day easy.

Though he wasn't alone, the blonde haird green eyed beauty that is his wife Saber was still sleeping soundly, curled up next to him. Her hair was a mess and he was sure her clothes were still thrown on the floor with his from last night activities.

He had only hoped they didn't disturb anyone last night. He Saber countless times that she needed to quiet down, awe who was he kidding, last night was amazing.

He decided that he would get up and make breakfast for everyone, so carefully he rose from the bed. A few moments later he exited the room fully dressed. He was going to check on little Hanna first before he started breakfast. He stopped at her door and opened it to peek inside, but what he saw caught him off guard.

There sitting in the rocker next to his daughters bed was Mika, in her arms was the little blonde haired and green eyed child, both were fast asleep. For someone who acted like she didn't care, she sure did seem to have a soft spot for the child. It even surprised him that his daughter didn't start crying her eyes out, she didn't like just anyone holding her.

Rather than wake the both of them, he decided to let them sleep. Closing the door he walks form the hallway to the living room, only to find it empty. He wondered if Rin and Hanna were already up, if they were then they were probably outside in the dojo out back.

A moment later he was shutting the door. He had slipped his shoes and a jacket on, now standing in the cold rain he hurried down the sidewalk to the dojo, sliding the door open and stepping inside.

His ears picked up on something slicing through the air the moment he was inside. As his eye's focused, he saw the mirror copy of his wife standing in the middle of the dojo, Excalibur in her hands and at the ready, facing him as if he had startled her. Her white dress still clean and pressed looking, though on thing caught his attention, Rin wasn't present.

"Hanna, where's Rin?" he asked.

She paused for just a moment before she turned back facing the wall, continuing with her practice. Sensing something was up, but not wanting to push further for an answer, he simply sat down with his legs folded and watched Hanna.

In a way, her technique was much like Sabers. Yet she flowed more, he noted she was more aware of openings and how to block them then Saber was. She seemed as if she was putting everything she had into her movements, but he knew if she was anything like Saber then one wrong move and the dojo would have been reduced to a pile of rubble.

He was so focused on Hanna that he didn't notice Saber kneeling beside him. It was only when took a deep breath that Shirou nearly had a heart attack when he noticed her.

"She is very skilled…" Saber said, her eye's not leaving Hanna.

"Yea," he agreed. "Almost as good as you."

"No…" Saber stopped him, "She has surpassed me."

Shirou was dumbfounded, "What are you talking about?" he asks as he turns to look at her, then back to Hanna.

"Just look at her, she leaves no openings. She even incorporates hand combat when she knows she won't be able to return the sword to the ready. She just isn't replying on her skill with the sword alone, she is moving to kill. She sees the move before she makes it and follows through like no other."

As Saber finished her sentence, Hanna looked as if she was ending her routine. She was putting all she had behind her last few moves. Then with her sword held high above her head, she let out a roar before bringing it down.

Stopping a few inches above the wooden floor, air rushed in every direction. Shirou could even see a trace of mana wisp away from the blade. IT took Hanna a few seconds before she stood straight, allowing Excalibur to vanish.

She noticed Saber sitting next to Shirou, which proved to soften her expression just a bit. She joined them on the floor, sitting in the same manner Saber was, a slight smile across her face.

"Morning momma, morning papa." She said.

"Good morning Hanna." Saber said with a smile. "I really enjoyed your practice routine."

Hanna's face brightened, "Really?"

Saber nods, "Yes, you are very skilled Hanna."

Hanna smile widens, she lurches forward and throws her hands around Saber in an embrace. "Thank you momma!"

Saber was surprised by the hug, but none the less returned it. "You are certainly welcome dear."

After a moment Hanna releases the hug, but not before Saber spots a red mark on Hanna's cheek.

Hanna quickly turns her face to hide the mark, but not before suspicion floods over Saber. "Hanna…who hit you?"

Hanna turns away from the two, she clearly doesn't want to talk about it.

"Hanna…" Saber presses.

"I just had an accident is all, please just don't worry about it."

"That's a mark from someone slapping you Hanna." Saber continues. "…but if you say not to worry about it then we will leave it be…for now."

Shirou felt as if he knew who had done it, since the person was nowhere to be found in the house. Though since Hanna didn't want to discuss it, he would leave it alone just as Saber said….for now.

Silence falls between them, Hanna was still making an attempt at hiding the mark on her cheek. "So…" she starts, but pauses, gauging the uneasy feeling now. "What are you two doing up so early?"

"Well, normally I go to work on Mondays, but since the weather is so nasty today there isn't really much I can do. So I decided to take a day off. I was going to cook breakfast but not seeing Rin nor you in the house kind of got me worried." Shirou said.

"I didn't feel Shirou next to me in bed and got worried. So I came looking for him." Saber added. "What about you, Hanna? You have all day to practice, why so early?"

Shirou snorted, Saber was one to talk. Sometimes she would be out of bed and in the dojo before the son even rose.

"I always wake up early to practice…I was told that's what you use to do…" her voice trailed away towards the end of her sentence.

Saber was now reminded of Hanna's story, and she herself died protecting her daughter. In a way, she would most definitely give her life to see her daughter live on, but she hoped for Hanna's and Shirou's sake that things would turn out differently.

"Well, that's the way I was always brought up. Up before the sun to train, then you had the rest of the day to do what you needed or what you wanted."

"Well why didn't you join me this morning?" Hanna asked, oblivious to the previous nights activities between Saber and Shirou.

Both of Saber and Shirou blushed, then looked at each other, only to immediately turn their heads away in embarrassment.

"Well…you see…" Shirou starts but Hanna stops him.

"It's okay, I know what you two were doing…." She leans forward with a blank look on her face. "Really, you two should take into consideration the embarrassment anyone else felt that heard you….because I'm sure the whole neighborhood heard…"

Both Sabers and Shirou's blush darkened. They didn't think they had gotten that carried away, then again.

Hanna grabs her stomach now, just as an audible growl fills the air, "Aww man, I'm hungry." She said with sort of a pain look on her face.

Shirou immediately jumps to his feet and starts walking to the door quickly, "I'll go make breakfast!" he said before exiting the dojo, leaving Hanna and Saber there sweat dropping.

"The hell was that?" Hanna droned.

"That was your father running away from his embarrassment" Saber giggled. A second later she starts to stand, taking Hanna's hand when she does. "Come, let's go give him a hand." She says with a smile.

Hanna hesitates, but then takes Sabers hand, "Yea."

It was mid-day, yet nothing was happening worth noting. They all sat in the living room keeping themselves occupied in various ways. Hanna had found a book and immersed herself in it, Mika still hadn't given up the little blonde haird green eyed kid, in fact she was secretly on a mission to spoil her to drive her parents crazy. Shirou and Saber sat together on the couch looking at a magazine together.

Things were quiet, too quiet really, but all good things come to an end eventually. The front door opens and Rin steps in, dressed in her red sweater with the cross across the breast, she also had on her black shirt with black leggings. She stood there before them, judging by their looks, they were surprised. Well all but Hanna, she really didn't care.

"What?" Rin questioned, a bit worried about the questionable looks she was getting.

"Were you playing defenseless school girl or something before coming here?" Mika asked trying to stifle a laugh.

"No! I needed some clothes, since mine were pretty much useless after I was attacked, these are the only ones I had left at my family's home!"

"Did you…umm...think that's appropriate to be wearing? I mean we aren't in school anymore Rin" Shirou adds.

"Who said you had to be in school to wear these?" she shouted, waving her arms at her side and stomping her foot at the same time. "I needed something to wear anyway, I'm actually planning on taking you all on a bit of a shopping trip since it's such a crappy day out…and by all I mean girls….who are old enough to go."

That left out Shirou and little Hanna out. Yet the others didn't perk up at the idea as Rin would have thought.

"Is that safe Rin?" Saber didn't like the idea herself, especially since a new Grail War was upon them. "A Grail War is about to begin, taking two servants, one without her master into a crowded mall would be a bit careless, would it not?"

"I agree." Mika added in.

"Actually, a crowded area is just where we need not worry. If any self-respecting master was around they wouldn't dare send a servant after us with so many people around. You'd have every law enforcement agency in the country after you then, not to mention all the unwanted attention from other masters when they find out your identity." Rin added with a self-assured smile.

"Well, I guess she's right…" Mika finally says.

Saber on the other hand is still rather skeptical.

"Look, nothing will happen. Besides, it'll be good stress relief." She looks over at Hanna. "She needs clothes that won't attract too much attention anyway." She said referring to Hanna's white dress.

"What's so bad about my dress?" Hanna spat, she still didn't want anything to do with Rin, master or not.

"In this day in age, that will get you attention like no other, which is what we don't want." Rin answers.

Hanna turns her nose up at Rin, "No thank you, I like how I dress…"

"Oh come on Hanna, stop being such a brat." Mika said, knowing this would set Hanna off.

Hanna's gaze snaps to Mika, but Saber raises a hand to stop her before she can move.

"Rin is correct on that part Hanna. You will indeed bring attention to yourself if you continue to wear that outfit." She says.

"But mooooom…" Hanna groans.

"Alright!" Rin smiles wide. "Shall we get going then?"

Mika looks out the window at the falling rain, "I hope you have a better idea then walking there."

Saber looks out the window, then to Shirou. She gives him a pleading look, somehow he knew what she was pleading for. He sighs and reaches in his pocket.

"Fine…" he says as he pulls out a set of car keys and tosses them to Rin. "Any scratches and I'll make sure Hanna gets to torture you for a week Tohsaka…"

Rin catches the keys and celebrates silently. "Okay guys, lets get ready then!"

Mika instantly jumps to her feet with little Hanna in her arms. Walking over to Shirou she hands her to him, then joins Rin by the door.

"Don't have to tell me twice."

Soon Saber follows, joining Mika and Rin by the door, all three look at Hanna who still hasn't moved.

"Well, Hanna?" says Mika

"Come on Hanna, you know you want to." Rin was encouraging.

"Please Hanna, join us." Saber added in.

Hanna sighed, and stood up with a growl, "Fine, but only because mother wants me too!"

Once she joins them Rin throws the door open, "Alright, let's go! See you later Shirou!"

Rin walks out, followed by Mika who is pushing Hanna, but Saber stops and looks back at Shirou sitting on the couch now holding Hanna. Shirou can see the worry on her face, and he knows just what she's worried about.

"Saber, we'll be fine. Go, have fun." He said with a reassuring smile.

She lets his words echo for a moment, before Rin reaches back inside grabbing her arm and pulling her out of the house, almost forcefully.

"See you later!" Rin shouts as she slams the door. Leave Shirou alone with little Hanna, who is now starting to get fussy.

She'd been waiting for a few hours, and now was her chance. He was finally alone in the house, she had been getting tired of the cold damp feeling of being outside. Even though she was still dry from standing under a secluded car port down the street, it still sucked.

She sighed, reaching in her pocket, and pulling out a cell phone. She quickly dialed it and held it up to her ear, waiting a few seconds until she hears the other end pick up.

"He's alone, I'm moving to make contact….Right, understood."

Hanging up the phone just as a car passes buy, she walks from the carport and makes her way to the house. Rain drops staining her suit and wetting her magenta hair, it was all part of business, so she cared not in the least.

As she nears the house, she can only hope that he doesn't take her as a threat, she was in no way here on any threatening matters. It would only cause unnecessary trouble and complicate things further if he were to become hostile, so she had to keep things professional, yet toned down a bit.

She reached the steps, noting the doorbell. She raised her hand and depressed the button. She could hear someone moving around inside, hopefully he wasn't readying himself for an attack. Though just in case, she readied herself as she could without making it noticeable.

The door unlatched and open. Before her stood a red haired man, in his arms a very puzzled looking blonde haired child.

Shirou himself is quite puzzled at who this woman is, at first he thought it was one of the girls coming back to get something, but he was mistaken.

"Uhh…can I help you?"

She clears her throat after a few seconds, "Ahh, yes. You are Emiya Shirou…correct?"

He hesitantly nods, "Yes, but who are you?"

"May I come in first? It's rather cold out right now…"

Shirou pauses for a moment trying to judge the situation. Sensing that she is no threat he finally steps to the side allowing her to enter the home. She takes a look around and then back at Shirou who is still holding the little Hanna in his arms. Even Hanna is looking at the woman questionably.

"Nice home you have here." She says as she turns her attention to Hanna. "And a beautifu daughter to boot!" she added, smile spreading across her face.

"Thanks, but your name…" Shirou said dryly.

The woman sighs, then face Shirou and bows respectively. "Bazett McRemitz, at your service."

Shirou thought he heard that name somewhere before, but he wasn't going to dwell on it. HE wanted to know why she was here, and what she wanted.

"Okay, Bazett, may I ask why you are here?"

Bazett raises from the bow, she now had a smirk on her face, one that worried Shirou further.

"Ah yes, business. I was sent here to inform you of a major incident within the Magus Association that involves both the church…and the Clock Tower."

"Well what does it have to do with me?" Shirou questioned. He wasn't associated enough with either to be worried about anything that happened with them, nor be brought up when talking about either.

"It has everything to do with you, Shirou…" then she motions to the living room. "Please lets take a seat, we have much to discuss."

Shirou weighs the option for a moment, then he agrees. They both walk into the living room, Shirou sits on the couch as Bazett pulls a chair infront of it. Hanna on the other hand chooses to fall onto the other side of Shirou and crawls to the arm rest of the couch before she hides her face, obviously she wasn't sure about Bazett.

"Okay, where do I start off…" she starts. "You know of the Clock Tower and Magus Association, right?"

Shirou nods, "Yes."

"And it is to my understanding that you have summoned a servant for the upcoming Grail War…correct?"

Shirou hesitates, how did she know? His command seal wasn't visible at the moment, "How di…"

"I'm here from the Church, Shirou. If anyone knows about your participation in the war's, it's us…" she said rather bluntly.

Shirou flinched at that, "Well…that still doesn't explain why you're here."

"Let me finish." She spat. "It would appear that there are a few members of the Magus Association who think you owe them. You see, it is not uncommon in the Magus Association for Mage to place bets on any Master or Servant, it is to the understanding of the current leadership of the church that of New Fuyuki that these bets were against you and Tohsaka Rin..needless to say the bets were against your lives…"

Shirou tensed up, that would explain a few things.

"They even tried to manipulate Rin to bring you and your wife to them, for what reasons I don't know myself…but then your daughter found her way into the equation."

Shirou turned his head to look at Hanna, who was still hiding.

"She is the key to the grail, Shirou." Bazett speaks slowly. "There was a prophecy, in it was spoken of a girl with a sword shaped birthmark, though it was no birthmark. It was a seal from the gods, a seal that holds the power to bind the grail to one person's possession eternally. Not only that, but she is also the heir of the Fifth Grail Wars strongest Servant, and strongest Master. They feel that if the seal does not kill her when unleashed, they can train her to do their bidding once she recovers."

Shirou was speechless, what this woman was saying was his own daughter was a centerpiece of this coming war basically. That her life hung in the balance continuously all because these stupid wars.

"But…" Bazett starts as she leans back in the chair. "That's also the reason I'm here. You see the church does not agree with those plans. The grail can be achieved without bringing your daughter into such madness, and it is our mission to make sure she is not involved."

Shirou lets this settle in for a moment before he speaks. "So how can it be achieved if she is the key to it then?"

Bazett smiles, "That's the fun of it, you see, someone with a significant amount of mana would have no problem summoning the grail from its current location…" she turns her head to look at a picture on the wall. Once of Saber, Shirou, and Rin. They had taken that picture a few months after the war, and they looked very happy and content. Shirou wanted to throw it away because it reminded him of Rin, but Saber insisted they keep it.

"…yet only a few people I am aware of hold enough mana to summon it without your daughter being involved." She turns to Shirou with a serious look, "Your wife is one of them."

"What? Saber?" Shirou surprisingly asks.

Bazett nods, "Yes, she was once a servant…then a familiar" she narrowed her gaze at Shirou. "Though through a Black Arts Class Spell she was made human again, but she retained her mana. To summon the grail from its current location you need an attack packed with mana on levels unfathomable. Your wife possesses such attacks."

Shirou shakes his head, "No, she lost her ability to use those attacks when Rin cast the spell. I don't even think she can remember how to do them…"

Bazett sighs and lowers her head, "Which is what I feared." Silence falls between them. "Tell me Shirou, what would you say if I told you the churches plan is to unite all the masters of this grail war against the Magus Association? Would you be willing to help us, to give your daughter the chance to be kept far from what they plan?"

Shirou thinks it over for a few minutes. It would be extremely hard to get all the masters to agree to what she speaks, but it isn't impossible. With the right one negotiating, anything was possible.

"Just how do you plan on getting them to cooperate? I mean I don't even know you, nor anyone at the church for that matter, not since Kotomine Kirei died in the last war…"

He noticed that Bazett flinched when she hears Kirei's name.

"…you knew him, didn't you?"

"Knew who?"

"Kirei…you knew him?"

Bazett hesitates, but nods, "Yes, I used to look up to him…" she grabs her left arm. "That is until the bastard betrayed me…"

Shirou noticed she was clenching hard to her left arm, "How exactly did he betray you?"

Bazett sighs, "I was supposed to be a master in the last war, well, actually I was a master."

Shirou was confused now, he had never seen her in the last war, yet her name was still ringing a bell but he couldn't remember where he had heard it from.

"Tell me, do you remember the Lancer Class Servant from the last war?"

Oh he remembered alright, infact he probably still has the scar from their first encounter. "Yes, actually I do."

A slight grin spreads across her face, "What if I told you I was his original master in the Fifth Grail War?"

That was impossible, he knew Lacers Master was Kirei, but Lancer Killed Kirei before burning his body. "There's no way, Kirei was Lancers master!"

Bazett shakes her head, "Wrong, I was Lancers Master! Kirei betrayed me and severed my left arm for the command seals! He left me for dead, only by a miracle am I here today!"

Then just to prove her point, she starts to roll up the sleeve of her left arm. What Shirou see's turns his stomach. The arm was covered in what looked like tattoo's, the skin tone no where near matched her's, and the scar where the two arms had been joined as one still looked like it pained her.

"This is the reminder of the failures in my lifetime. I was found by a servant who kept me alive, though I still only had one arm and I was no where near any condition to be considered recovering. Then a priestess found me, and nursed me back to health. The servant wanted nothing to do with the real world anymore, choosing to live in an alternate reality inside his own mindscape. So before he parted with us….he severed his own arm and had the priestess attach it to me." She grimaced from a twinge of pain that shot up her arm. She starts to roll the sleeve down now.

"I thought I could help that servant, atleast I tried to help, wanting to make up for my mistake in the Fifth Grail War of trusting Kirei." She sighs, "Anyway, that's enough of this foolish talk, back to what we spoke of before."

Shirou wanted to know more of this girl, yet he could agree they needed to talk more about what was previously spoken of.

"To answer your previous question on how I plan on getting the other masters to cooperate, it's simple really. Explain to them the current situation, who they would be helping and for what reason, and offer them the protection of the church."

Shirou sweat dropped, did she really thing it would be that easy? There was no way the masters would agree to that.

"Do you really think that's going to work?" Shirou asked

"Well if simple explanations won't work…" she holds her right hand up as static electricity starts arching from it. "There's always the hard way" she said now smiling.

Shirou's face dropped. Yes, she was being serious.

'Okay, well….is there anything else I need to know?" Shirou asked, wondering if he even wanted to know more.

"Actually there is," Bazett smiled. "Shirou, did you know you have an adopted sister that misses you terribly?"

They had bags upon bags, they had stopped by countless stores and shops in the mall, and each of them had made a purchase, well Rin had paid for most of it really. Saber had even paid for some of the things Hanna had bought.

They were now sitting at a table in the food court, resting their legs before they continued shopping. As Rin had previously said, Hanna was drawing attention at every turn. Mostly from the little children that thought she was a princess.

Mika on the other hand got a huge laugh out of it whenever some little girl would practically beg their parents for a dress like Hanna's. Though she herself wasn't left out of the attention fest. She had been stopped twice now for the pistol on her hip, mostly because the security guards that saw her thought it odd a girl carrying a pistol, but after a few little white lies, she convinced them to let her go on her way.

"You think Shirou would mind us stopping by a few more stores?" Rin asked Saber.

Saber shrugged, "I'm sure he has his hands full with the little one right now."

"Hell, he probably wants a break…" Mika added.

Hanna shot her a glare, which earned her Mika sticking her tongue out at her.

Rin giggled a bit at the exchange, but noted there felt like there was a pit in her stomach. "I'm hungry, anyone else?"

Mika's hand shot straight up, "Hey hey, I'll take some food!"

Saber shook her head, "I'm fine thank you."

Hanna didn't answer, she wasn't hungry, more so she didn't want to answer Rin at all.

Rin stands up, and waits for Mika. "I guess it's just me and you Mika."

"Fine by me!" Mika said with a wide smile.

Together they both head off into the food court leaving Saber and Hanna alone at the table.

Saber can still pick up on the uneasy feeling from Hanna, "You know you won't be able to ignore her forever Hanna."

"Forever is too soon…" Hanna countered.

"That may be. Look, I don't know what happened between the both of you, and if you don't want to tell me then that's okay. I want to help you Hanna, but ignoring her constantly will only complicate things in the coming days…"

Suddenly two men wearing black clothing stand at either side of Hanna. She looks up between the two, noting the thug like appearance.

"Can I help you two rough looking individuals?" she says dryly.

"Oh, we were just wondering if the pretty little ladies would like to join us." One of them sneered.

"No thanks, I'd rather not bother." Hanna said as she lowered her gaze.

"Oh come on, it'll be fun." The other said, inching closer.

"She said no…" Saber spat.

"Who asked you what she wanted?" one of the men snapped.

"And who asked you to talk that way to her?" Hanna snapped back.

Rin had told Hanna and Saber not to do anything that would give them up, so using their swords was out of the question.

One of the men grabbed the back of Hanna's neck hard, disorienting her a bit. Saber had jumped to her feet but was quickly grabbed up by two more thugs. She was furious, but she didn't want to do anything that would cause Hanna more pain.

"You too look so much alike, which one of you is the older sibling….or maybe you're twins" the man holding Hanna's neck said slyly. "We happen to like twi…"

He feels something poke against the back of his head, then he hears an audible click.

"That's a forty five caliber nineteen eleven pistol pressed to the back of your head, maggot. I suggest you unhand her and call off your buddies before I put a fist sized hole in your head…" Mika seethed.

She had seen the guys approach Hanna and Saber, so she quietly slipped away from Rin. When she saw the man grab Hanna's neck and the others subdue Saber, she knew she had to act. Bringing unwanted attention to herself be damned, she wasn't up to watching Hanna get hurt.

The man instantly releases Hanna and raises his hands.

"Good….now call off your dogs…" she spat.

"G-go on….let her go…..this chick isn't bluffing…" the guy squeaks.

They do as they are told, they unhands Saber. Yet she want's revenge, she was so furious now she could call fourth Excalibur and reduce them to dust and not feel any remorse. As soon as they unhand her, she elbows the one on the left before she turns and catches the other just under the chin with a mana charged punch.

Hanna herself turns and knee's the other thug in the groin. As he doubles over she catches him in the chest with her foot and shoves him off.

The last remaining one looks like he had seen his own death. Hanna walks up to him and grabs him by the throat and brings his face closer to hers.

"Next time we won't go so easy on you." She said as she spit in his face. "You disgust me…"

Mika removes the pistol from the mans head, but then with her free hand she delivers a swift punch to the back of his head, which sends him to the floor with the rest of his friends unconscious.

Mika places the pistol back in its holster as a crowd begins to form around them. Some cheering, others in awe at what they just witnessed.

Though there was one person who wasn't in the least bit pleased. Rin stood just before the crowd with her arms crossed, and a rather pissed off look in her eyes.

"I said not to bring attention to ourselves, and what do you do? Give the whole mall a show…"

What was she going to do with these three…