Eragon was back at the temple in a secluded corner of the grounds watching the stars as he contemplated his thoughts, the one most on his mind was why this place felt like it was smothered in a massive amount of mana. It felt similar to an experience he had a while back where all the mana was concentrated in one area to power the defences to a stronghold, he smirked as he remembered the fun he had tearing the place apart. With the concentration of mana so high he was able to recharge his energy, and the gem in his belt, in a matter of hours, much quicker than it would have otherwise taken.

He put those thoughts out of his mind for the moment as he recalled that he had met all the other servants except one, Rider. The only servant he had yet to come into contact with was the one that was the most unpredictable. From what he gathered last night he would be able to defeat all of them if he went all out, he could have defeated them all last night but he didn't want this to be over so quickly. He wanted to fight all of the servants at least once before he actually tried to kill them, battling against fellow warriors was something he enjoyed.

Dawn hadn't even broken before Eragon was summoned by his master, no doubt she wanted him to give a report about his first day. If she hadn't exhausted herself summoning him she might have kept an eye on the city herself. He knew he would have to tell her that he'd met other servants but there were things he was going to keep to himself so he wasn't going to give her all the details. She didn't need to know how they fought or who Berserker was, she could find out about his noble phantasm herself and hopefully get squashed in the process.

He also wasn't going to inform her of his little trip around the city to pick a few things up. He wasn't going to tell her that he'd stolen almost all the jewels in the city along with a lot of precious metals such as gold and silver, as well as a large supply of base metals, she didn't need to know something like that. He also wasn't going to tell her that he'd created an enchanted necklace like the one he had when he was alive to prevent him being spied upon by magical means like scrying. It resembled a silver hammer much like his old one but this one had an enchanted jewel in the centre which would draw on the ambient mana in the air to power it rather than drawing upon Eragon's mana, he'd charged the gem with enough prana to last a few days anyway just to be on the safe side.

Eragon was easily able to carry and hide all his stolen loot due to what he learned from Umaroth and the other eldunari from the vault of souls, they taught him how to bend space to create a miniature pocket dimension. It wasn't infinite but it was incredibly large and certainly big enough to easily hold everything he'd stolen last night.

He entered the room at the temple that she had apparently commandeered as her own and waited for her to address him since she didn't seem the type to want him to speak without permission. He inwardly scoffed, like she could get him to do anything without those command seals, the only reason he went along with her was to buy time to remove her hold over him, something he was confident he could do with enough time.

He'd already scoped out a house last night that he could as a base of sorts to sever his connection to his master. He already had way to break the connection which might work but he didn't have the amount of mana necessary to pull it off, which is why he spent the night using his knowledge in jewel craft to syphon off some of the mana at the temple to increase his supply.

"What did you do last night," asked Caster, addressing him after a few minutes of silence.

"Nothing that important," Eragon replied calmly, "I familiarised myself with the city, saw Archer fighting Lancer at the school, blasted them and fought Lancer, I fought Saber a short while after that and then I went a few rounds with Berserker who is one tough son of a bitch. After all that I came back here."

"You mean to tell me that you fought four servants and you don't think it's important to tell me immediately," she nearly screeched.

"Actually I only fought three since Archer was unconscious at the time," he corrected.

"Please tell me that we don't have to worry about them now since their gone," she said pinching the bridge of her nose.

"I'm happy to inform you that they are still around since I let all of them live instead of killing them, it would be boring if they all died too soon," he could tell is joyful tone was pissing her off.

"You mean to tell me that you could have destroyed four of the enemy servants last night and you let them go so you wouldn't be bored. Are you deliberately trying to piss me off?" Caster said calmly, too calmly.

"Actually yes,"

She rounded on him, her hood falling off in the process giving him a clear look at her face.

A delicate, beautiful face enhanced by vibrant blue hair, he assumed it was natural considering the colour of her eyelashes, which matched her eyes. Her hair was woven into a simple braid behind her ear, a very slender pointy ear.

Eragon blinked, taken aback at the unexpected sight. She could be an elf or more likely descended from them. He let his gaze fall to her breasts, even though they were still covered by her dress. Despite this, her chest was quite prominent and he was gentlemanly enough to not take advantage, at least until she was out of that robe then all bets were off.

"Have I ever told you that I find pointed ears sexy?" Eragon said before he could stop himself.

Caster's eyes widened in surprise before narrowing in anger, "You…"

Seeing her furious expression made him somewhat amused.

With narrowed eyes she advanced towards her irritating servant and when she was near enough to land an attack, she kicked him right in his crotch. Eragon ended up lying on the floor clutching his injured testicles.

"What the hell was that for you damn woman?" Eragon hissed despite the pain.

"You will not think things like that about your master," Caster uttered out in pure frustration.

"Yeah, yeah I hear you. You might want to make that item to stop other servants detecting you today," he groaned as he got to his feet.

"I can make such an item in a few hours with ease," her ears pointed up with determination, it was cute.

Eragon stared at her transfixed for a moment before the edge in her voice broke him out of it.

"You were just having dirty thoughts about me again judging by the way you looked at me, weren't you," she growled, her ears moving up and down with her motions.

"I can't help it when your ears move like that and anyway, there's something I want to know. Why is this place stockpiled full of mana," he said hoping to change the topic and avoid another crotch shot.

"Oh, you can feel that?" she was surprised.

"It's not the first time I've been in a place where there is a high concentration of untamed mana. What I want to know is why this placed is like this when it didn't feel this heavy when I was summoned,"

"I'm gathering mana to help with my victory in this war,"

"That doesn't tell me where you're gathering all this power from," he argued.

"What does it matter? I used much of the stored mana to summon you and the stores have been refilling themselves since you left," she explained, "that's all you need to know,"

"Fine then, don't tell me. I'll be outside doing my own thing,"

He left the room, leaving the temple and going back to his little corner of the grounds to continue his work to build up his supply of mana and his other projects.

As he left he noticed a group of monks who paid him no mind, they didn't even bat an eye at his passing. He could tell just by looking at them that they were heavily fatigued, with their half closed eyes and feet dragging slightly. He would have passed it off as nothing more than a bad night's rest but then he realised that this could be the result of Caster draining mana, if she was drawing it from the whole city then all the inhabitants could start showing signs of tiredness. If he wasn't preoccupied with breaking Casters hold on him he might have tried to stop her, as it was now all he was able to draw some of the mana away from her, maybe that would lessen the effect.

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Shirou woke up feeling refreshed after a very strange and exhausting night. Not yet fully awake he snuggled into his body pillow, enjoying the warm feeling it gave… wait he doesn't have a body pillow. Opening his eyes he nearly panicked at what he saw, he's holding Saber closely to his body with his arms around her waist and her head under his chin while their legs were entwined together. Even though she was still sleeping she had a rather content expression on her face.

Shirou was enjoying the warmth that she creates but he had to get up for school, so he ever so slowly wiggled out of her grasp. A small frown appeared on her face once he was out of her grasp, like she knows something is missing. This caused him to smirk as he quietly walked out of the bedroom to start breakfast, with how much food his servant consumed he was going to have to cook enough food to feed a whole army.

A few minutes after he left a pair of green eyes opened, and Saber was refreshed by her peaceful slumber. The first thing she noticed was the lack of Shirou's warm body she was snuggling against and the comforting feeling it gave. Lifting herself up and rubbing the sleep from her eyes she noticed that Shirou was not in the same room as her, and that would have worried her if she could not for the smell coming from the kitchen. The pleasant aroma made her think about the meal she had last night, she drooled slightly as she remembered the taste. She was feeling rather famished and would have liked to go straight to the dining room to feast of the delicacies prepared by her master, she wiped the saliva trailing down from her lips as she remembered the taste of the simple meal he prepared for them last night.

She shook her head to clear it to get her priorities straight, food wouldn't be ready yet so she had time to think about last night, specifically the way that Shirou managed to make her sleep so blissfully. That was not something that she expected but she reluctantly admitted to herself that she liked the feeling of being held close by him, her cheeks flushed as she remembering how wonderful it felt.

She huffed out a frustrated breath as she chided herself that she shouldn't act like that, she was a knight not some damsel. She was not a girl that needed to be protected, but still it felt so nice. Her face reddened, hot by the heat that crept up to her cheeks. What was happening to her?

Shaking her head again she stood up and decided to take a bath to ease her stress and kill time until breakfast, she unconsciously smiled when she saw clothes just like the ones she was wearing by the door, Shirou must have left them there.

She let out a sigh of relief after she got to the bath room, it took a few doors to find. Thanks to the grail granting an understanding of the modern world to servants she knew how to use the bath and ran a hot one. The servant of the sword sighed as she lowered herself into the sizable bath, the hot water soothing her muscles and easing the tension she felt from last night. Then the memory of her naked body on Shirou came to her and she felt herself heat up in a way that had nothing to do with the temperature of the water. After a few minutes she managed to calm herself as she soaked in comforting warm water, but thinking about that incident caused two thoughts to run through her head. The first was that she was going to kill Caster very slowly and the second was what Shirou thought when he saw her.

She berated herself, this was not how she was supposed to behave, she was a knight not some love struck girl.

Getting out of the bath after ten minutes she dried herself off and donned the new set of clothing Shirou left for her. Just like the other set they fit quite well and with a nod of approval she made her way to the dining area and sits down to wait for the food her master would bring. She didn't have to wait much longer.

Shirou had spent his time in the kitchen cooking up a breakfast feast, it couldn't be called a simple meal with the amount of food prepared. Considering how much Saber ate he made what he thought was enough to feed a whole house. After cleaning up he brought the large breakfast out and placed it on the table, it took a couple of trips but soon enough there was a large breakfast on the table with bowls of steamed rice, miso soup, grilled fish, rolled omelette, dried seaweed, hot stew and more. There was enough food to easily feed more than a dozen people, or at least a few people and one Saber.

"Listen Saber," he said as he sat beside her, "I'm having people over for breakfast, I guess you could say they are my family, anyway they are my guardian and my friend. They always visit me in the mornings before going to school, since my father died, and they don't know that I'm a magus so I want to keep them out of this war."

She blinked before she nodded, "Very well Shirou, but how are we going to explain my presence,"

"Um, oh I know. We can say you were a friend of my father and we'll go from there," he knew it was a lame excuse but his father had travelled overseas so it might work. "Don't eat more than one helping of breakfast before they get here, Taiga and Sakura usually come and eat breakfast with me so some of the extra servings are reserved for them,"

"As you wish Shirou," she was a bit miffed that she couldn't take any extra servings yet she knew how to be patient. But if she was kept waiting too long she was going to eat all the food and deal with the consequences later.

Turns out she didn't have to wait long for company to show up as there was a shout from the door almost as soon as she'd finished her first bowl.

"SHIROU!"

He sighed as heard the tiger's roar

"SHIROU! WE'RE HERE!"

'We' meant that Sakura was with her, not surprising since she's here even on the mornings when Taiga isn't. He got up and walked towards the door to let the hungry tiger in and hoped things didn't go too bad when they saw Saber.

Opening the door he sees his friend, the beautiful Sakura, and his guardian/big sister Taiga Fujimura, or as he called her Fuji-nee.

"Good morning, Senpai," Sakura smiled seeing the boy she had a crush on.

"Morning Shirou," Taiga said, but before she could say anything further, the smell of the delicacy that Shirou had made struck her nose, and she swiftly marched past Shirou to get herself some breakfast. "FOOD!" she screamed as ran into the house.

Taiga yelled over her shoulder as she went into the dining room, "Shirou, I'm hungry, I need food," and she stopped when she saw Saber. "Shirou, what's a female doing in your house?! Have you been doing indecent things while I was gone?!"

Saber was caught by surprise when the brown haired woman entered the dining room suddenly and glared at her with burning eyes.

The only male in the house rubs the back of his head awkwardly, "Fuji-nee this is Saber she's… an associate of my father and she's here on business so I let her stay,"

He prayed they would buy it.

"Well then, hello Saber," Sakura says quietly.

"SHIROU!, Fuji-nee roars, he swore he saw a tiger behind her, "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS SOONER?!"

"She only got here last night," that was the wrong thing to say.

"YOU MEAN YOU HAD A GIRL HERE OVER NIGHT!" She pulled a shinai from who knows where, and swings it down, "DIE!"

However all she hits is air, actually she doesn't even have her shinai to hit with anymore. She grabs the air a couple of times and as she looks around her eyes widen in surprise as she sees Saber holding her shinai.

"You!" she growled, surprised that her weapon had been taken from her so easily.

"I would appreciate it if you didn't attempt to strike Shirou when he has done nothing inappropriate to me while I was here,"

Taiga glares between Shirou and Saber for a moment then sighs heavily, "Fine, you can stay. It's lucky Shirou is such a gentleman or I wouldn't allow this, not one bit," she still glares at Saber and Shirou while she prepares to eat, "I'm still keeping an eye on you though,"

They started plating up their meals and began to eat, even Sakura contributed to the meal as she'd brought over sushi.

"Wow Sakura," Shirou said as he took a bite of the sushi, "this is delicious, the flavour is just perfect,"

"I agree Shirou," Taiga was eating more of the sushi than anything else, "Sakura will be a good wife with cooking like this"

Sakura blushed, "what! I d-don't think…"

"Yes you will," Shirou smiles, "and they're going to love you for your cooking or they don't deserve you,"

Sakura's entire face glowed bright red, if you looked hard enough you could practically see steam coming out of her ears.

"And now the news," said the announcer as Shirou turned on the TV, "early this morning in the residential district surrounding the school the bodies of the entire household were discovered having been brutally murdered. According to official reports the murders were committed with a large edged weapon but as of yet the authorities have no leads on the perpetrator."

"It's been getting dangerous lately," Taiga said, "I don't want any of you out after dark got it, after school you better get straight home,"

"In other news," the announcer moved on, "there have been a series of robberies against jewellery stores and households across the city. From reports, what was stolen was any form of jewellery or jewels, precious metals such as gold or silver and money, this all seems to have happened during the night. Authorities have asked anyone with knowledge of this crime to come forward. On what is possibly a related note, various metals have been stolen from around the city, mainly from construction areas. It is unknown if these two crimes are connected but the investigation is on-going."

"What is going on in this city," muttered Taiga as she turns the TV off, "first murders and now mass theft, it's not going to be safe for anyone soon,"

"How about we forget unpleasant topics for now and continue with breakfast," Shirou says, but then noticed how that's not possible, "well I guess all the foods gone,"

Taiga's head snapped to look at the table and confirmed that nearly all the food was gone, "What? Where did all the food go,"

Then she looked up and saw Saber finishing off her last helping, then sit back with a satisfied expression as she silently wipes her face and drinks her tea.

Saber let out a content sigh, "It was a good meal,"

Taiga was silent for about two seconds before falling to the ground and crying anime tears, "NOOOOOOOOO!"

Everyone sweat drops.

"Uh, don't worry Fuji-nee," Shirou says, "I'll cook an even bigger breakfast tomorrow, how does that sound,"

His honorary big sister sniffs, "you really mean it,"

"Yep,"

"Hooray!" her personality instantly shifts from depressed to ecstatic.

It's not long before they all have to leave for school and after Sakura and Taiga leave Shirou was cornered by his servant.

"Shirou we need to discuss something," said a neutral faced Saber, "considering there's a war on it would be best if you skipped school,"

"I can't do that Saber,"

"I cannot just let you be alone, the school might not be a safe place,"

Shirou sighed, "I don't think Tohsaka will try anything,"

"It's better to be safe than sorry so it would be preferable if I came along as well if you still plan on attending school,"

"You would stick out like a sore thumb and attract stares following me to school. I don't think any master or servant would attack in public anyway so I should be fine and if I get into trouble I'll use a command seal to summon you, ok"

"Unacceptable Shirou," man she's stubborn, "How about I simply follow you, but wait outside the school," she suggested, "I'll follow you home as well just to make sure you're safe,"

Shirou sighed again, "Fine, just leave a bit after me so no one sees us together,"

"Very well Shirou. At least if I'm there you'll be safe if anything happens," she smiled kindly at him causing his face to flush.

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Rin halted as she was walking through the school gate when she noticed Shirou heading towards her and not far behind him was Saber, she was a far enough distance away to make it seem like she was not following but still close enough to keep him in her sights. At least he wasn't foolish enough to be out without his servant.

Rin honestly didn't know if she wanted to kill the boy or not, she couldn't do anything with his servant around anyway, but she at least wanted to punish him for seeing her panties last night. He'd better not mention that incident with Caster to anyone or else she'd break him, she'd corner him and make sure he doesn't talk just to be sure.

"Morning Tohsaka," Shirou greeted as he came up to her.

"Shirou, you will meet me on the roof during lunch, no excuses," with that she walked away.

Shirou stood there for a while contemplating why she would want to see him when the bell tolled letting him know he was going to be late for class if he didn't move.

As he ran through the gate Saber sat on a bench across the street from the school, it allows her to have an unobstructed view of the building so if there was trouble she could get to Shirou quickly. She sat there unmoving until noon when she saw a blond young man walking towards her, she was going to ignore him but then he sat down beside her.

"Planning on seeing what school is like in this modern world Saber?" he asked, "you're probable trying to take in everything that's changed since your time, something I believe many servants no doubt do,"

She instantly went on guard, "how do you know my name and that I'm a servant?"

No one should know her name other than those she met last night, which was a short list of Shirou, Rin, Lancer, Caster, Illya and Berserker. She didn't doubt it was possible to figure out her servant class with magic or by the aura which identified her as a servant, but only another servant would sense it. Therefore it was safe to assume he was either a magus or a servant, she was guessing a magus as he didn't have the same presence as a servant.

"You don't recognise me," he put on a fake pout, "I thought we shared something special when I removed your clothes,"

Her eyes narrowed and if they weren't in public she would more than likely have attacked him.

"Caster,"