Well this chapter is posted and that means no more chapters for awhile. Thank you angel for your hard work and now I will try to do fanfiction by myself.

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Rin had to stay in bed for the next few days and Archer was pretty cut up as well. Rin didnt make it any easier as she would throw some random alchemy tools at Shirou whenever he tried to come in, cursing herself for delaying their progress.

Shirou didn't budge from the door to Rin's room. He had a lot on his mind, including his love of Rin and her hard work.

"Shit it all," Rin cursed as she threw a had over her face. She wanted to get up and just behead Caster's Master there and then, along with Rider with she had the chance.

Archer was the one thought with the blades. He was thinking of the best ways to get back at them while watching his Master tap into her rage.

Kiritsugu spent most of his time smoking and trying to assess what had transpired with the Servants that they had fought so far. Among all of the Masters, he still didn't know much about Rider's master while for Caster's and Berserker, they were relatively not too dangerous if only they weren't surrounded by their Servants.

Kiritsugu had time to think about how that was getting into Shirou's mind and he hoped he could think of a way to overcome these enemies.

"I need to get stronger. Because of me, Tohsaka and Archer were injured. Cuirassier must be ashamed to call me her master. I'm such a useless idiot," he groaned as he put his head in his hands. He felt so defeated at the moment. It has been nearly two weeks since the war commenced and things were moving so sluggishly.

Kiritsugu left Shirou alone to cry out all the things he felt inept about, but he came back wearing a martial arts gi with a black belt around him. He was planning on training Shirou.

"Well what are you waiting for? You want to get stronger? You have to train for it," he said as Shirou smiled, getting up to go and change. One thing about him was that he never seemed to back down on a challenge.

Cuirassier watched her master take part in training with Kiritsugu. She hoped this session would make him strong enough so he would finally stop worrying so much about other people's safety.

"If you will allow, may I join in this practice?" she asked as she stepped into the room. She was dressed for the occasion as well and judging from the look in her eyes, there was no room for a no.

"I insist you join us. What made me win was the way my servant and I worked together to become the last team standing." Kiritsugu said. For this session he was using a wooden sword instead of his guns.

"Well en garde," he said as the girl moved in front of him. She smiled as she dashed towards him, sword high in the air. "It seems that you don't know the rules of this art," Kiritsugu said as he got ready.

Cuirassier had a feeling this was the same as not noticing when someone is a trained assassin.

Shirou watched as the older man whacked the crap out of the younger girl, who was already skilled in the halberd. How he wished he could fight like that. "Hey Shirou! Your turn!" Kiritsugu called as he threw the wooden sword at Shirou, who caught it with a grin.

Shirou struck with a flurry of sword strikes the old man could barely block with his skills. It was proven what talent Shirou possessed in this war.

Kiritsugu was a little glad the boy wasn't getting beaten up to a pulp by his servant. He sat there sipping Japanese green tea as they fought.

Cuirassier did a spin around to confuse Shirou before she uppercut her halbred towards him.

He managed to slide down on his knees and swipe underneath her, getting her legs knocked out from beneath her. Luckily he managed to stop himself from getting beheaded in a nick of time.

Cuirassier smiled when Shirou showed her his instincts could stop even her halbred skills.

"I acknowledge your sword skills, Master," she smiled as she knelt down on the ground, setting her halberd in front of her. Kiritsugu smiled as the Master and Servant acknowledge each other in their way of fighting.

Life was unpredictable, who would discover Shirou would be like his mentor having a Servant he was on par with in skills.

"I... I want to fight too," a slurry voice came as Rin hobbled into the room. Her wound was healing up nicely but if she were to do anything reckless, she's back to the bed for another week.

"That depends. What kind of weapon do you prefer to use?" Kiritsugu asked.

"I have my gems and my wits," she said as she wiggled her fingers, wincing slightly. Archer came in after her as well and they didn't need to ask what he preferred to use.

Shirou struck first swinging his sword down on the long haired girl. She dodged easily.

She threw a gem in the air and let it slam into him. He let out a yell as he was thrown back into the wall.

Kiritsugu was impressed with the skills the girl had and how she used them.

"Well thats enough for today. Let's go and prepare dinner," Kiritsugu said as he clapped his hands. Shirou knew he was the one doing the cooking but he didn't mind.

He was cooking for four other people. The way he cooked was like making peameal bacon for a sandwich only with more greens.

"While he is cooking, why don't we discuss our next plan of action?" Kiritsugu said as he lighted his cigarette. Rin really wished that he wouldn't smoke in the house. The scent of it made her feel like puking.

"If I were you the person I would hunt down would be Rider. He's like a Prince Charming saving the girl before you can beat her."

"Haha. I would just love to decapicitate that guy," Rin muttered. "However, we don't know much about his master and from what we have gathered about him from sources, Rider doesn't seem as formidable as he seems," Shirou said from the kitchen.

Everyone turned their attention towards Shirou wondering what the boy was thinking.

"He has been the most troublesome of them all so far so don't go saying that he is not dangerous," Rin snapped as Shirou resumed cooking. "Back to the topic, what did you gather from the attack of Caster and Rider from the other day?' Rin asked Kiritsugu.

"I would say they were familiar with themselves in the past. I noticed something similar shout them during our battle."

"Caster is a pro in wind magic and with the help of her master, she has the aid of all those stone golems. The master on the other hand is effective in hand to hand combat," Archer said.

"Yes. But a Master is easier to defeat than one of their Servants."

"Still, even if we manage to defeat him, it will take Caster around 24 hours to disappear so its best to get rid of her first," Rin said. "She's a mage so maybe we can use something related to that fact to defeat her. Any idea what mythology she came from?" Kiritsugu asked.

Shirou blinked his eyes really fast. Every blink told him of the past of a historical figure like Caster.

"Casea Turan. She was the most powerful mage of her time and even served the Pharaoh of her era. No wonder she is skilled in wind magic. She had sand all around her to her advantage," he said. He recalled her having a Arabian look around her and she even wore a veil concealing her face.

Rin wondered if that was really her true name. They would find out the next time they saw her, a name would weaken the Servant tenfold.

"Now that we may have guessed her identity, anyway you think may weaken her? Since you say she uses magic related to sand, wouldn't water be effective in defeating her?" Kiritsugu asked. "Beats me. I'm not well versed in magic related to water," Rin said.

"Maybe we can lure her to a place that has a hose and spray her with it until she is weak enough to defeat," Archer said.

"Its winter. It will be freezing to go to an area with a lot of water," Rin muttered when a thought came to her mind. "The bridge," she whispered as the others looked at her. "If we can just lure her to the bridge, that way we have a large volume of water circulating there," she said. "Problem is, she won't be lured there so easily," Archer retorted.

That was true and Rin put her head down trying to think of a way to get around her opponent being clever.

"How about Rider?' Kiritsugu asked. "Guess we just have to beat him in sword play. There are two swordsmen here so it shouldn't be a problem," Cuirassier said.

Archer and Shirou crossed their arms and nodded their heads how this wouldn't be a problem for them.

Both of them quickly put their arms down after seeing the other doing the same, glaring at each other as they did so

"Its agreed then. Shirou will be the swordsman who attacks as bait when we met with them again."

Shirou didn't appreciate being used as bait but since he just wanted to finish the war and return to normal life, he agreed with a sigh. Rin and the Servants were all pumped for the next battle while Kiritsugu wondered why he was even involved when he had retired from this.