Beta by Seerking
Time past, since the now named Shirou Emiya had from a contract with the two goddesses of Light and Darkness, and began training in their from of magic. He can honestly say for the Goddess of Light Namine…is sadistic as hell.
She had first started with training his eyes to see fast moving object along with his speed and agility, not to mention the defense and body enhancing magic that they were teaching Shirou, by her throwing balls and him dodging balls… that were magically enhanced making them travel faster then a bullet.
She had thrown a ranch once saying "If you can dodge a ranch, than you can dodge sharp and pointy things!" Th
Thankfully, Xion smack her over the head and told her to stop it.
He had try to get his father to teach him magic but he said "no" when he had asked him, he could have been stubborn and annoy him till he said yes, but Namine had offer that both Xion and herself will help him with it.
His father Kiritsugu Emiya was he was pretty cool guy, sucked at cooking, a little depressing to be around sometime, and he was a mage, funny story on that when Shirou had heard that he could use magic he had ask…
[Flash Back]
"So, you can use magic?" ask the small Shirou, he had woken up from his exhausted state from making a contract with the two powerful Goddesses, awakening his circuits, and absorbing 22 mega (F.U.M) circuits, to find a weird guy in black staring at him…creepy, but he didn't voice it instead he did the only thing he could think of.
"S'up" he greeted him.
So after that they talk Shirou agreed to be adopted to the now name Kiritsugu Emiya had stopped the door turned to him and bluntly said "I'm a mage" and this is where we are now. "Yes" he said as he raised a brow to the intense stare Shirou was giving him as he got up to moved to him looking up to and him straight in the eye, "I see, if you truly are a mage then…PULL A RABBIT OUT OF THIS HAT!"
Kiritsugu Emiya had been to many places, seen many thing, said and done many thing but this is a first for him, then he realized the person he was talking to was a 7 year old and…wait…'WHERE HE GET THAT HAT?!'
So after an HOUR of telling Shirou mages magic isn't the same as magician magic trick he gave up not wanting a even bigger headache he has now, he had forgot to question him about where he got that hat.
[Flash Back End]
Shirou sat beside the man that he called father Kiritsugu Emiya as they gaze up at the moon in silence enjoy their last few minutes together, why was it their last few minutes together you ask, (you already know if you know fate stay night), the answer was simple Kiritsugu Emiya was dying.
He had been cursed by the (un)holy grail when he had order his servant Saber into destroying it with her noble phantom, it did not go the way he had wanted it to go ,no, it went way wrong and ended with him being cursed with "all the world evil" it had destroyed his circuit and had weakened his body to the point he can't take more then a few steps without feel some amount of pain.
He had not told Shirou but he had a feeling that the boy, already knew. He had often wondered about the boy he had no memory of his past life, so he didn't know if he came from a family of mage or if he was just a kid born with circuit. He knew Shirou was working on magic after he had ask him if he could teach him, he couldn't prove it, save for the fact that Shirou knew how to use reinforcement.
Shirou was not anormal child when they had a spar back when he wasn't weak from the curse, Shirou would give him a run for his money in a fight and that when he wasn't using reinforce to increase his already monstrous (for a child) physical ability. Shirou normal physical strength was already so great the frce of his strikes made it were him had to use reinforcement on his body to take the blows Shirou would land, Shirou was fast for a child his age that if he kept it up he be the ace of all his school track and field clubs.
Shirou was showing skills when it came to weaponry everytime they spar or when he watch him trained he saw that he was improving faster then anything he had thought, it was like he was spending every day and night training in different weapons, though it was both swords and archery was were he shined.
When his body began the weaken do the curse and his monthly attempts to break through the Einzbern bounded field to try to get his daughter back, a young girl name Taiga, the granddaughter of a local Yakuza boss, would come to (mooch) watch Shirou while he was away, now she comes to help (and mooch) out with taking care of the older Emiya, Shirou liked her she was always a lively one and kept Shirou from dieing from boredom.
They sat in silence enjoying the peace, Shirou sighed he will be the one to have to break it.
"So, there anything you want to say to me with your last few moment of life, old man?", said not taking his eyes from the starry night sky.
Kiritsugu let out a tiered/annoyed sigh of his own he really wish Shirou would stop calling him "old man", he wasn't that old! well atleast it's better then when he called him "creepy old guy that watches little boys as they sleep" that was a VERY stressful month.
It was such a nice night, sadly even with the beauty of the full moon it wasn't enough to lighten the depressing atmosphere. Kiritsugu decided to speak even though the curse made it were speaking even a word made his lungs feel like they were being burned his final moment would have a normal conversation with his son like a normal father and son, "Tell me, Shirou, who is it that is teaching you magic?"
"Xion the High Goddess of Darkness and Namine the High Goddess of Light" (yeah, a normal conversation) Shirou answered, Kiritsugu briefly widen his eyes in shock and surprise then he, chuckled, it was all he could do but on the inside he was laughing...he honestly believe Shirou.
He know that Shirou was an honest boy and could tell when he lying even without his years of experiences, the boy sucked at lying. So they talked about when, how, and better yet why two extremely omnipotent being would come into contact with Shirou. He had nearly had a heart attack when Shirou had inform him that he had formed a contract with BOTH of them. He knew of them being one of the few mage that didn't possessed one of the five true magic and of the other three, he didn't know much about them nor did he knew of anyone who had ever met one of them.
There have been rumours within those that had information of those two, as small as it is that all holy and demonic aka light and dark object are said to possesse small bits of their essence in them and that it is them that chooses whether or not said object are worthy of possessing their elements, from the evilest to the holiest were solely up to them to decide.
After stopping the painful chuckling he gazed at the beauty of the white moon,"When I was little, I wanted to be a hero of justice." said out of nowhere, "I had want to save people, to save this world, to save everybody " he said with sadness in his voice.
"A noble dream, but with a sad ending to it." Shirou heard Namine voice within his mind but didn't comment on it.
Shirou didn't take his eyes off the moon as he spoke,"I want to be a hero too, I want to protect those that I consider my preciouses people, but that doesn't mean I would just stand around if someone needed help. I mean, being a "hero" is the last thing that would comes to someone mind when you help someone, and even though I know that it's impossible for one person to save everyone there are limits that there is just so much one single person can do alone but, I think that even a hero can ask for help."
Kiritsugu sighed at Shirou answer, Shirou was saying he would protect his preciouses people above all else, but would still help other but, unlike he did Shirou knows that he couldn't save everyone and accepted it, knew that he had limits and wasn't ashamed of accepting help from other to help ease the burden, unlike him who tried to bare the burden that was to great from the very beginning, but was to blinded to see it until it was to late.
"I see." the man that had been known as the infamous Magus Killer said softly, "I think you'll make a better hero then I could have. I never made it, after all."
"I'll make it." Shirou said with a serious nod, "It's the least I can do for you"
Kiritsugu looked at Shirou once more before returning his gaze to the full moon. It really was a beautiful sight. If it was going to be the last thing he was going to see, he felt quite fortunate to be so blessed. Dying in peace was a rare opportunity for those of his chosen profession.
"I had a daughter." he remarked, "She was lefted behind in her grandfather's castle Europe when her mother and I came to this town."
"Why haven't you gone to get her then?" Shirou asked innocently
"Ah..." Kiritsugu sighed painfully. He could feel his life drain away as the seconds ticked by. He had to make what little time he had left count, "Because I had failed at a task he had set to me and my wife died, my father-in-law put up a powerful Bounded Field around his castle to prevent me from getting to her. If you see a girl with pale white skin, white hair and ruby-colored eyes that my daughter, Illyasveil. Save her if you can."
"OK" Shirou said simply, accepting the last request of his adopted father with a nod.
"Thanks" The dying man said with a small smile,"You know...it's really is...a beautiful moon...tonight ."
With one last sigh, Emiya Kiritsugu passed away. Free of the pain of the curse, free of the guilt that had haunted him most of his life and happy of the knowledge that should his son finds his daughter, he will save her.
Man, this is really hard doing it on mobile. I hope you all enjoy the chapter. Also this is important the story is basic in the ROOT of all Shirou Emiya, so should I put Archer Emiya, Yes or No. no guest, vote.