Chapter 3: Meetings
When Sakura arrived at her school, she saw that Rin and Shinji had arrived at the same time as her.
"Tohsaka-san, good morning." Rin said.
"Good morning, Rin-san and Shinji-kun." Sakura said.
"Good morning, Sakura-san." Shinji said.
Soon, the three of them entered the Archery Dojo and Sakura and Shinji started practicing while Rin watched from afar.
When they were done practicing, Sakura and Shinji changed back to their uniforms. But, when Sakura finished changing and began to go to her classroom, Sakura and Rin stumbled into each other.
"I'm sorry, Tohsaka-san." Rin said while she was picking up some papers that she was carrying.
"No, Rin, don't apologize it's my fault because I didn't see where I was going." Sakura said while she was helping Rin picking up the papers.
When Rin has all of the papers, she realizes that there is a pendant in the floor and says, "Tohsaka-san, your pendant fell."
When Sakura realized that, she said, "Thank you for telling me, Rin."
When Rin took a good look at the pendant, a feeling of familiarity and nostalgia suddenly overtook her and she saw an image of a family: A father, a mother, and a little girl. But, slowly that family began to fade from Rin's mind.
"Rin, is something wrong?" Sakura asked her which brought Rin back to reality.
"No, it's just that your pendant is really pretty, Tohsaka-san." Rin said.
"Thank you, Rin. But, it used to belong to someone else." Sakura said.
"Really?" Rin said.
"Yes, it used to belong to my si- mother. It was my mother's." Sakura lied.
"Your mother had good taste in jewerely, Tohsaka-san." Rin said.
"Thank you, Rin." Sakura said.
Deep inside, Sakura wanted to cry because that pendant used to belong to Rin, who gave it to her when she (Rin) was adopted into the Matou family. And, when Sakura saw Rin recognizing the pendant, there was hope inside of Sakura, but the hope quickly died when Sakura saw Rin's expression changing to one of sadness and anger.
"Anyways, I need to give this papers to Kuzuki-senpai. Goodbye." Rin said.
"Goodbye, Rin." Sakura said.
Sakura and Rin parted ways after exchanging those words.
But, before heading to her classroom, Sakura headed to the shed where she finds Shirou fixing a heater.
"Good morning, Shirou." Sakura said which surprised Shirou.
"Good morning, Sakura." Shirou said.
"You better hurry up because the classes are going to start." Sakura reminded him.
"Yes, I'll hurry up." Shirou told her.
Sakura left the shed so that he could finish repairing the heater. Yet, unbeknownst to Sakura or Shirou, they were being observed by Rider until Shinji called her back to report to him.
"Have you sense or spotted any Servants nearby?" Shinji asked.
"No, despite the fact that the two of those students, Sakura and Shirou, are mages, they appear to not have any Servants." Rider informed him.
"That's fine. Keep monitoring the perimeter." Shinji said.
"Alright, but, Shinji, what happens if I managed to sense a Servant?" Rider asked him.
"First, try to inform me as fast as possible if you do. Then, fight it but try to keep the fight at a distance so that no one in the school gets hurt." Shinji said.
"Yes." Rider said then returned to monitoring the perimeter while Shinji entered his classroom.
Author's Note
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