Pieces out of Line

Original Concept: RWBY/Fate/Stay Night

Chapter 9

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Created by: Rooster Teeth Productions/Type-Moon

written by: wrathie

Author's Notes: It just occurred to me that Kanshou x Bakuya is a husband x wife blade - So having Crocea Mors speak to them wouldn't end up being all adventurous and all - is it still bad that I laughed anyway?

BowP: If it was me, the fight would end with a forced victory. Nothing else to say. I'm a boring beta.

XoreandoX: Well, I know that the dinner scene took a bit of work for all of us to get done, so hopefully it does its job. Besides that enjoy the chapter.

Blake opened her mouth to speak but Ruby cut her off immediately while looking agitated and embarrassed.

'I don't know her. Do you know her, Weiss?'

The heiress had never latched on in agreement to any idea as fast as she did with this one as she nodded sagely with a calm and placid expression on her face.

'I have no idea who that individual is. Is she your friend, Blake?'

Weiss asked with the barest hint of a glare as she kept her eyes on the spar. Was it a spar? It didn't really sound like one to her. Especially not with what that dumb blonde was saying.

'…'

Blake refrained from answering as she simply cupped a hand over her mouth to hide her amusement. If they weren't going to laugh, she wasn't too as they were teammates and friends.

She desperately wanted to do so though and the raven haired girl found herself struggling to even stop giggling as she turned to look at her other friends.

Pyrrha was definitely more interested in the fight as the readhead's eyes were following the two's movements with a serious expression on her face. Pyrrha was a serious student and she worked well with Shirou as the two of them had seemingly came to an understanding with each other. There seemed to be two sides of the redhead, similar to the two sides of Shirou that Blake had started only recently to understand. Right now the serious Pyrrha was definitely in charge as she studied the two's movements. Her hands were twitching too and she reacted to every new punishing move by Yang. She was not as easily distracted as the rest, a trait she wish her friends could pick up.

Nora was still the same as ever, cheering the two of them on by waving her hands in the air. She should have expected that what Yang had said would sail over Nora's head like it was nothing. Then again, maybe she just wasn't interested.

Ren was rubbing his forehead in a sign of irritation and was that a slight blush on his face? He looked, kind of cute there for a moment. Maybe Yang's words were affecting her too...

'This might take a while.'

Blake choose wisely to comment on the fight instead to stop her thoughts from deviating into unknown territory. It was bad enough that she was already a little attracted to Shirou, she shouldn't be attracted to Ren… Still, she approved very much of Shirou's selfless act of defending and continued attempts to ensure that Velvet and the Faunus in general had an equal standing in Beacon.

Blake would even argue that it was Shirou himself who single-handedly brought up the issue of Faunus being treated as second class citizens in Beacon. It was not a one-time affair either, Shirou has even stood up for the second and third year students in Beacon and he was getting a small following of Faunus that were enrolled in Beacon Academy.

Remembering Velvet, Shirou's most ardent supporter and not so secret admirer, Blake was tickled pink and proud of her fellow Faunus that Velvet was behaving more like a territorial cat rather than a rabbit now as she was clutching the edge of her seat with a very focused expression on her face. She was glaring, the shy and timid rabbit faunus was glaring at Yang.

Territorial, much?

Blake commented inwardly with a small grin and subsequently stopped when Ruby commented instead.

'No, Yang is going to lose. She's using too much of her aura in her attacks and it's still not getting through to Shirou at all.'

Blake looked up to the screen that was displaying each individual's aura levels to see that Ruby was right, Yang was burning through aura at a steady rate while Shirou barely touched his at all.

This was an unfair match up to begin with as Yang had not even landed a single clean hit on Shirou yet. The only way that Yang would even be able to do so was perhaps when Shirou was attacking, but the knight wasn't doing that, instead he was patient and ready to turn it into a battle of attrition, which wasn't Yang's speciality.

'… So the entire match was rigged for Shirou and Nora huh?'

Blake commented but Nora didn't care, or didn't hear, either way it was Weiss who replied instead of Ren. The tired-looking boy did seem like he wanted to come to their team's defence but thought better of it.

'I am certain that neither the school nor Shirou or Nora did it on purpose. The general rules of combat in Vale is through the measurement of Aura. The initial levels of Aura by each participant is measured prior to the fight and is constantly monitored throughout the fight itself through the use of our school pins. In a way, it is extremely disadvantageous for individuals with lesser Aura as their aura levels would fall faster compared to others with more aura.'

Weiss explained while Blake nodded her head. That makes sense, however that meant that Nora had ridiculous amounts of aura for her levels to not even drop a quarter after seeing what she did with Ruby. Since using aura powered attacks tend to use up a lot of aura and Nora had used a lot of aura attacks. Which meant that she wasn't just a bundle of energy in name, she was one in practise as well.

Reading her mind, Weiss continued to speak while casually observing how Yang continued to try and breach Shirou's defenses. Yang had determined that since her punches were not strong enough to break through Shirou's guard, she'll try to find an opening instead.

'Nora must have an enormous aura reserve for her levels to depreciate insignificantly. It would be a battle of attrition against Nora but Ruby prevented that by disarming her and making it impossible for her to win. For Shirou, he is simply not using aura at all. Who knew having a non-aura based weapon would be beneficial in this manner.'

'Shirou is great with his sword and shield, and I had to unlock his aura for him, remember? Even now he doesn't want to even use it. I tried telling him to at least train with it, but he insists that he doesn't need to. I didn't even know you could suppress your aura usage.'

Weiss nodded to Pyrrha as she explained how Shirou was able to even suppress the most basic of aura usages.

'So battles with Shirou shouldn't even be done based on aura usage, as long as he doesn't get hit or doesn't surrender, he's an automatic winner. But it's a dangerous style as he does not have aura to protect him from the damage that we could deal when he can't dodge or block.'

Weiss ended her lecture with a firm nod before pointing out that it was soon time for the spar to end. Yang's aura levels was close to the mid point and that was when the match decided, at least in Beacon.

'… Not fair at all.'

Ruby whined softly as she watched Yang scowl, before she activated her semblance and started kicking up a cloud of dust that obscured everyone's view of the battle. The last anyone saw was Yang charging towards Shirou... -

'Woah she did it!'

Ruby cheered as Shirou' was knocked flying out of the cloud of dust from Yang's final attack. Yang had finally managed to knock Shirou's shield to the side for her to land a clean hit that sent him flying and crashing to the floor a moment later.

When the dust settled, revealing Yang who was patiently waiting with a full blown smirk on her face ready for another round, before it changed to surprise as Shirou held both of his hands up into the air. The agreed sign of surrender.

'Winner – Yang Xiao Long.'

As the winner was declared, everyone seemed shocked at the sudden conclusion of the match when it seemed to be in Shirou's favor. The knight was grimacing as he stood up, hands up in surrender while Yang looked shocked before she scowled and shook her head.

'…'

Yang looked as though she had some words she wanted to say, but decided against it in the end as she walked over to Shirou. Why Shirou suddenly jumped a little when Yang's hand travelled behind him was very obvious though and the satisfied smirk on Yang's face made everyone blush again.

'She's no sister of mine.'

Ruby declared as her face landed on the table with a thud. Weiss was embarrassed and shrank down her seat while Blake chuckled out loud.

'I fail to see what is so funny, Blake! Yang is embarrassing us!'

Weiss hissed but she paused when she saw Blake pointing at Velvet and she gave a dignified snicker while covering her mouth.

The Rabbit Faunus was getting ready to jump from her seat straight at Yang if that was any indication of how her current position was in. Even if Velvet would stand no chance at all, it did not mean that Velvet couldn't try and Blake did not know that the girl had it in her.

'Velvet, stop, what are you doing.'

Of course Pyrrha had to stop the antics before it got worse and the faunus girl blinked before realizing what she was doing.

'A-Ahh, what am I? Oh nooo!'

Velvet gave out a small panicked moan before dropping to hide below the table as Pyrrha tried to calm her down. It was her fault, so she'll have to handle it.

'I didn't expect Yang to win though, that was a lucky shot on her part. I guess Shirou got careless… But he still had his sword.. so why did he surrender?'

Blake commented to Weiss and the heiress nodded her head as she shrugged.

'Who knows… but I guess that banter did work in the end... Though you should never do that again.'

Weiss sternly pointed to Yang as the two of them came back to take their seats.

'Nope, that expression was priceless. Wish I could have taken it with my scroll.'

Yang chuckled while slipping into her seat and winking at Shirou. The knight simply gave an exasperated sigh before accepting the encouragement from his team about his lost. It seems like they were losing to RWBY by the thinnest of margins as both of their members had the match in their bag before they lost in the last moment.

'And he does have a great ass.'

This time even Pyrrha blushed as Shirou groaned.

'Hey, wait a minute, Shirou!'

Shirou paused outside of class together with his team at the sound of Yang's voice. He really did not wish to be anywhere near the excitable blonde, he was still being teased endlessly by the blonde and his fellow classmates about the spar.

It wasn't even about the fact that he lost, but rather the circumstances that he lost. Yang had stated quite confidently that Shirou had only dropped his guard when Yang flashed her more than sizeable assets at him, causing him to lose his concentration.

Whether that was the truth, well no one else other than himself would know the truth.

Pyrrha had of course been his first defender, stating that Shirou would never do that. And if he did, he lost because he wanted to protect Yang's modesty.

As if Yang cared about that, the blonde was clearing trolling for trouble half the time even if she hadn't acted on any of the advances made by the innocent and naïve boys who let hormones do the thinking. If Shirou didn't know that she was more than capable of handling herself in a fight he'd be more concerned.

'Mou! I said wait up!'

Shirou had not wanted to wait for Yang and despite his chivalrousness to women, all women actually, Shirou actually balked and wanted to flee on sight. He held on however and he gave a wry smile to his team mates before turning to meet his maker.

Honestly though, that girl has more than talent. She has experience and even if he wasn't affected by her taunts and attempts to catch him off-guard, she would do very well against another person.

Though not against a large Grimm though, but she had enough power and skill in her to take down most Grimms. Yang didn't have the power necessary to make herself truly unstoppable. While she was more than a match for anything, however humans without aura were still fragile beings.

All things considering, her semblance was impressive too, fire generation was a form of elemental control and that itself was a rarity in itself. If she could learn to harness and use that power and add it to her already formidable power, she'll be a monster in combat.

But until then, she was still a work in progress.

In regards his teammates though, Nora had simply ignored most of the details and just made Shirou promise to train her hard the next time to help her beat Ruby.

From what he saw of the fight, Nora had Ruby in checkmate but somehow Crescent Rose had sped up at the last minute, causing her to lose. Nora was a good kid, she was true to herself Nora was a good kid, she was true to herself even if she had not formed her ideals firmly she put her heart and soul into what she's doing. He didn't mind giving her more pointers on how to use Magnhild, it was truly a magnificent weapon.

She was a person that was likely a reincarnation from the Age of the Gods, or one that was truly blessed as the design of that weapon did not belong in this world.

Out of all the weapons that he had laid eyes on in Beacon, Magnhild was the only one who had history, had purpose that was beyond what the creator had in mind.

Nora had claimed that Magnhild's blueprints came to her from a dream and Shirou believed her. It was powerful and she deserved to know how to use it to the best of her abilities.

Ren hadn't seem too perturbed with his performance, simply saying that he'll have to do better next time with a small nod. It was well in character for Ren, besides the fact that he had been paying attention to his fight, which wasn't usual for the lazy boy.

He was a genius, Shirou could see that and he was glad that he trusted him as he hadn't outed him out for that as well. Perhaps that was his show of loyalty?

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Back to the topic at hand, he composed himself and turned around.

'Hey, Yang. Good fight, huh?'

Shirou gave the blonde a cheerful smile while she grinned back while tilting her hips to the side.

'Great! For the second half at least, I had soooo much trouble trying to get you to loosen up you know, darling~'

Yang winked while running a hand over her chest, Shirou didn't take the bait and fought the urge to roll his eyes at the other students who were gossiping around the two of them as they walked away. Yang was either loving the attention or just didn't know how to pick the place, he was sure it was the former. The girl had too much street smarts for one her age.

Then again, he wasn't acting their age as well.

'It's a valid strategy, and I would have won too.'

Shirou reminded Yang of how he had held her off rather easily for the entire duration of the match and that brought a tick on Yang's face.

'I knocked you out with one punch, Emiya Shirou, one punch, need me to spell it out for you, glass jaw?'

The punch did hurt, but he wasn't knocked out by one punch. He had his shield knocked aside with one punch, which was still only somewhat true, but that's something for another day.

'I wasn't knocked out with that punch, I was simply disarmed and unwilling to suffer more damage than I wish to. Besides...'

Shirou gave an uncharacteristic mischievous grin as he leaned back slightly to rest against a wall.

'You just admitted that you had a very hard time, and against an opponent who wasn't using aura, no less.'

Yang's mouth dropped open briefly before she clenched her fist angrily, looking like she was ready to punch him. Knowing that what he said really riled her up and he should apologize, however before Shirou could do so, she had spoken first.

'Well, you're certainly the first person I wasn't able to score a clean knockout on, Shirou. I kinda like that, it proves you got more than what you seem to show everyone. Besides that nice ass and what you're hiding below the belt.'

Yang licked her lips teasingly again while Shirou simply humored her with a shrug of his shoulders.

'I appreciate the compliments, Yang, but what's this about? You didn't call me back to hit on me, did you? You already did that repeatedly in the spar. In more ways than one.'

Shirou asked testily, wondering what Yang would possibly want from him. He had to correct himself on what he said earlier, both of them knew exactly what happened in that last hit.

'Ha ha, you're a funny man, Shirou. No, I called you back because you will take me out for dinner tonight.'

Yang tapped a finger on her hip as Shirou looked at her, wondering if she was crazy.

'You're joking.'

Shirou finally replied eloquently while Yang raised an eyebrow in response to his words.

'Nope, I'm not, and in addition to that.'

Shirou was not prepared for the sudden blur of movement that left Yang gripping his collar. She had pressed herself right up to him and he could feel Yang's body and breath on him as she smiled, showing her teeth aggressively.

'You're not saying no, got it?'

While he could shake her off by shoving, that would be quite rude, not to mention the bystanders staring at them, and so he just settled with giving her a calm and measured look.

"Well, in that case, I will be honored to.'

'Hey, Ruby...'

Ruby looked up to look at Pyrrha who had called her during dinner. It had became a habit for team SNPR and RWBY to have their dinner together together with Velvet. Only tonight the faunus girl was nowhere to be seen. Nora knew exactly why though and she sighed as she wondered what Yang was doing. Was she just messing with Shirou? She thought that Shirou was too good a person for Yang to pull that on him. Then again, Ruby had been more than tickled pink after Blake had retold the incident of how Velvet had been more than willing to fight Yang for Shirou. She found it to be adorable, but if Yang was serious about Shirou... all bets were off.

'Yes?'

'… Is Yang, really serious about Shirou?'

Well looks like it wasn't just her that was having the same thoughts and Ruby stopped eating and instead choose to lean back before replying.

'I honestly don't know... but before I say more, I think I should be honest and tell you that Yang... has a habit of stringing boys up...'

'Stringing... boys... up?'

Nora interjected with a bright smile and Blake was the one who replied. Guess this was the topic for the night and Ruby ignored how Weiss was paying attention as well. Why must her sister be so troublesome again?

'She meant that Yang likes to play with other boy's heart. That's not a good habit to do, Ruby...'

'Try telling that to Yang, Blake... But Yang never did it to someone who didn't deserve it.'

Ruby narrowed her eyes defensively before anyone could try and demonize her sister. Her sister's image wasn't the best in the school due to what she wore in her free time and how she liked to garner attention with her words and actions.

Ruby did not know why Yang did what she did, but she trusted her sister to know what to do and never questioned her.

'They deserved it? Why would they deserve it?'

Nora asked again and it was Weiss who replied with a flush on her face.

'That meant that the boys who Yang toyed with were only interested in Yang for her body, Nora. You have to be careful as well.'

Weiss liked to treat Nora as a child even though they were the same age but since Nora didn't mind, no one called her out on that.

'Oh, okay! But Ren would protect me.'

Weiss also agreed with the rest of the girls on how they thought that Nora and Ren's co-dependence was simply adorable. What was also a matter of fact was how Nora was just not ready for a relationship and Ren didn't bother with one.

Still, they would cross that bridge when they reach it.

'I'm sure he would.'

Weiss pointedly looked at Ren who didn't even react beyond slowly eating his tray of food. Honestly that boy was just too laid back, if he put in effort he could do anything!

'Answer my question, Ruby. Is Yang serious about Shirou?'

Pyrrha interrupted them by pointing a fork at Ruby aggressively while the redhead startled and nodded her head to try and placate her.

'I really don't know, Pyrrha. I mean, has she paid so much attention to Shirou before? Yang is friendly with everyone actually, and she hasn't been up to her old habits.'

'That doesn't mean she couldn't start now!'

'Why are you so excited about it anyway, Pyrrha.'

Blake interjected and the raven-haired girl had a teasing smile on her face that caused Pyrrha to turn red before saying hotly that it was for the sake of the team.

'I'm just worried for the team. What if Shirou rejects Yang? It'll be awkward between the two teams.'

Pyrrha had a good point there, but Ruby couldn't help herself to tease the other redhead as well. It was rare for them to have a chance to tease Pyrrha as she was a model student, even more so than Weiss.

There were plenty of opportunities to tease the heiress, mostly about her naivety and lack of street smarts. Pyrrha had none of those problems and that meant the quota to tease Pyrrha had never quite been met.

'I'm sure Yang would get over it. What if Shirou accepted? It's not that common for girls to confess to their crush now, is it?'

Ruby snickered as Pyrrha turned red, no doubt remembering how a faunus girl that wasn't Velvet had confessed to Shirou two weeks ago during lunch hour.

He had been a perfect gentleman about it, but it was also true that he had rejected her without even considering the matter.

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'Shirou would never... right?'

Pyrrha sounded doubtful even to herself and when looking at her friends was relieved that they were undecided as well.

'At least we know that Mr. Knight is able to break a girl's heart. I thought that he would accept the confession by sheer principal of her asking him out first.'

Weiss answered calmly while the other girls chuckled a little at the title of 'Mr. Knight'. It was a term that Weiss had used so much that it had became Shirou's pseudo nickname by the students in Beacon.

'That's true... besides, you should know who Shirou is interested in, right, Pyrrha?'

Blake directed the question back at Pyrrha and the redhead frowned before shaking her head. That was the point! If she knew, she wouldn't be so worried and panicked now, would she?

'I don't... but I hope... that Yang really isn't playing with Shirou's feelings.'

'Eh.. why's that?'

Nora asked the question that everyone neglected to ask and the redhead looked conflicted before she answered softly.

'I can't explain it... but … Shirou is only married to his ideals.'

'His... ideals?'

Ruby asked quietly as she remembered what Shirou had told him the night after they had been appointed as team leaders. That look on his face, it was something she had never seen Shirou give anyone before.

'Well if that's all... Good luck in telling Velvet that.'

Blake declared with a scowl and a pout before she started giggling along with the rest of the girls.

That's right, there biggest fangirl of Emiya Shirou was probably stalking the two of them right now.

Good luck to Yang or Shirou there!

'You certainly don't go out at all, do you, Shirou?'

Yang asked her date for tonight, Emiya Shirou, who was dressed in the same outfit that he usually does. Though Yang was in a similar state so she had no right to complain. Still, Shirou looked distinctly uncomfortable when they were being ushered to their seats in the restaurant that Yang had booked for their date. She was not letting him ruin this opportunity she had made for herself. When in doubt, or rather – if you want something done, she'd have to do it herself.

That was exactly what Yang had done, she had made Shirou accompany her, shook off the stalker Faunus girl after they left the interchange and had slipped into the restaurant unmolested.

Yang just had to hope that the final part of her plan would work, but as it involved Shirou directly, she wasn't that confident about that.

'No I don't, I prefer home cooked food myself.'

Shirou admitted with while scratching his head, he might have the etiquette right, but he was still uncomfortable. It was kind of cute actually, and it worked well. With any luck Shirou wouldn't be able to walk away when she dropped that question on him later on.

'Hmm... Why didn't you try cooking at Beacon then, Shirou?'

Shirou actually looked more awkward, even slipping his elbow from the table in his nervousness. Yang raised an eyebrow at the reaction, that was certainly over the top.

'Let's... just say it was a too much of a success when I did.'

Shirou scratched his head and was saved by the waitress before he could say any more, leaving Yang more curious as she leaned forward a little bit more. Maybe, she could like this date just a little bit more due to that?

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'Hmm…'

Yang peered intensely at him for a while, doing a good show of batting her eyelids at him but he did not even notice. It wasn't like he was avoiding her eyes, but he looked awkward - and out of his environment. So, how could she make him more comfortable before the brass tacks comes out?

'Shirouuu, I admit~~ I'm curious… Could you tell me a bit more about you, yourself? And maybe your weapon as well?'

Yang smiled sweetly at him while taking a sip of her drink, her hands playing with the top of the glass as Shirou paid attention to her.

'You're so mysterious, everyone wants to know more about you – the faunus girls especially – In fact I had to lose one of them on our way here too.'

Yang smirked when Shirou winced, he hadn't noticed – had he?

'And no matter how hard I pounded your shield, it wouldn't give. So that must be one tough shield you got there, and you didn't even use aura on it either.'

Hopefully Yang's conversation topic didn't bore Shirou as she leaned closer, her eyelids fluttering again as she tried to get Shirou to lose himself in her eyes – it wasn't working as he had a thoughtful expression on his face.

'Well, she was made of the finest metal at the time of her creation. The shield and the sword, is named Crocea Mors. I believe that I've said that before.'

Shirou didn't offer anything more about that – but he did slip up there as Yang pounced on the discrepancy.

'You call your weapon a she, are you one of those weapon freaks?'

That could definitely come out better, but that was expected of Yang and to her surprise, Shirou gave a delicate cough as he looked awkward for a moment.

'Well, it's complicated, and I'd rather not say why.

'Oh, now you have got to tell me about that now! C'mon, Shirou!'

Yang reached over the table in an attempt to hold his hands. Men were always were looking for opportunities to have some skinship with her, and here she was offering this opportunity on a silver platter for him!

'… I'd really rather not. It's just… a feeling. It's hard to describe, actually.'

Shirou paused as he kept his hands out of reach, much to Yang's annoyance.

;Speaking of which, your attacks did make an impact, polishing it would be difficult… Your weapon's are like a gun in that sense, with all the dust residue. I'm curious about how you designed your weapon as well.'

Shirou seemed interested in a topic change but Yang wasn't as she just laughed before picking up her glass of water.

'I guess you can say I got my inspiration from – a legacy of a misspent youth? Or did you hear that excuse before?'

Yang grinned as their meals arrived. Shirou waited for Yang to start, but the blonde didn't seem too interested in her meal.

'Go ahead Shirou – I'm letting my stomach settle for a bit before I start, I'm good, really!'

Yang apologized, but Shirou was certain she wasn't sincere about it. The girl wanted something from him, and even if he had three guesses to get them right, he probably only needed one to know why Yang dragged him out tonight.

But, there was no need to rush. So speaking with her in his politest tone, he had gotten to see hear some stories about Yang's time at Signal while he had told her about his life with the Tiger of Vale

It was only after the two of them had dug in and some casual conversation had been exchanged did she dropped the question innocently

'So, during the fight… Did you use your semblance or aura at all?'

'Did you use your semblance or aura at all?'

Shirou's eyebrow twitched once but he remained mostly unphased.

'I didn't... I don't like to. I rather not hurt anyone unless I have to. So my strategy was to outlast everyone, I almost got you too. I just wasn't expecting your semblance to be able to raise the dust up into the air. It got into my eye for that split second... That was a good tactical move that you made – you should refine it more.'

Yang seemed genuinely surprised and she pursed her lips when she considered it.

'Huh, I didn't even know. Time to work that to the ground...? But even with that, I didn't think I would -'

Yang stopped, as Shirou had raised a hand up to stop her.

'I think we should focus on dinner, Yang, we can talk about this later. You didn't need to pull me out here to ask those questions.'

Yang paused before she gave a toothy grin in reply – an act that made a shudder run up Shirou's shoulders.

'You're right there.'

Though Shirou had brought Yang out for dinner like she had asked for, Shirou continued to ignore and dismiss the main question Yang wanted answered. As a result of Shirou's deflections, the rest of the night was ruined for Yang. Yang had not been willing to let it end that way and she had dragged Shirou out of the restaurant to settle the issue together, hence the two of them now standing opposite each other by the pier.

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'Stop giving me excuses!'

'I'm not.'

'You are, Emiya Shirou and don't you try and deny it! Now frigging answer me already! You can't get away with just ignoring me or lying your ass off.'

Yang prodded the man's chest while fire gathered around her in a flaming cloak. Despite the rising temperature, Shirou never said a word as he stared back at Yang unflinchingly.

'You said I'm lying? I never lied at all...'

'You just left things out, right? I'm not some naïve and innocent girl like Velvet or even Weiss? I'm not! I'm Yang Xiao Long and I've been around. I can take it!'

'You are indeed more than what you seem to be, Yang. But just like how you have your secrets. I have mine.'

Shirou answered smoothly as he forced Yang to release him. Her wrists started to hurt from the pressure that Shirou applied on her and the 'Knight' of Beacon walked away, leaving Yang behind him.

'Stop ignoring me! Come back here, Shirou!'

Yang stomped her feet angrily but she stopped when Shirou replied coldly with a flare of his killing intent.

'Make me.'

Seeing Yang freeze up, Shirou simply lowered his eyes and walked away from the shivering blonde

'Stop... holding... back AND TREAT ME SERIOUSLY. DAMNITTTT!'

Yang roared out in frustration as her semblance threatened to set fire to everything around her.