It's been two years since I met taiga. She comes over every week day and Teaches me about school subjects. I know more about them then she does, but there are something's I have forgotten over the years.
My training with Kritsugu has slowed down. It wasn't noticeable at first but he's sick, and there is no sign of him getting better.
He teaches me some simple magecraft like [transmutation] which I didn't learn very well.
He said he know very Little of jewel craft, but went over the basics of it.
Which I thought was a shame for I quite liked the concept of it. Maybe I will try to learn more of it in the future.
And on one special occasion of Kritsugu being in a good mood he taught me bounded fields.
I can see the usefulness In it, they reminded me of Nekos Illusions in some ways.
that was the last thing he taught me himself, he would give me books about magecrafts every once in a while.
He seems to want me to get outside more, I can understand his desire. A 10 year old kid needs friends I suppose.
On a Monday afternoon I went to the nearest park. There are a few kids there, but none caught my attention immediately.
I went to the Swing and...swinged I guess.
I thought of ways to make it more fun then focusing on my mental image I set up a small bounded field, After doing that I used my wind Element along with my auras gravity to spin around super fast.
I did that until the swing broke, usually a kid would get a headache way sooner but I'm the silver king so it didn't bother me much. I fixed the swing as best as I could by heating up the metal chains and binding than back together.
I noticed a little girl by herself in the corner of the playground.She has violet colored hair. That's quite unusual for natural hair.
I walk up to her and introduce myself
Shirou: hello! I'm shirou, what's your name?
The girl looked up from her lap and up at my face, i have never seen such empty eyes before.
I knew at that moment I wanted to see those eyes full of happiness.
Sakura: eh, hello I'm Sakura Matou.
Matou? Why does that sound familiar. Despite my inner wonderings I put forth my hand for a handshake.
She reaches out and shakes it
At the moment I held her hand I felt a evil aura from the girl. It was faint at the moment but something is definitely wrong with her.
It would be best to keep and eye on her.
Shirou: would you like to play ken-ken-pa(hopscotch) with me?
Sakura was surprised by this boy's attitude, how long had it been since Someone's been nice to her. Shinji used to but he's stopped recently. Despite fearing that he's just trying to trick her into thinking he's nice when he really isn't, she decides to play the game with him.
They played four games before both went home, for it was getting dark. Once he went home shirou remembered his feeling of familiarity when he heard her last name looked through a book Kritsugu gave him titled {three founding families}.
He found what he was looking for. the makiri who helped make an artifact called the holygrail are now call matou and live In Fuyuki city.
He reads more about them but can't figure out why he felt the evil aura from Sakura. Which makes since considering the fact families like to keep there mage crafts a secret.
He went to sleep that night dreaming once more of his world filled with clear sky's and one white sword.
It was a week since he met Sakura so he went to the park. He goes at the same time every week sometimes he sees her sometimes he doesn't. But every time he does she's always in the same spot.
Sitting in the farthest bench all alone with no parents in sight. Her face stays blank but sometimes through his jokes he's able to get a smile out of her.
They meet up manny times in the following weeks. And things continue in life as they usually do, he reads that weeks book on magecraft and takes lessons with taiga.
And sometimes he'll go to the park to maybe play the Sakura, she's not always there when he goes but that's fine.
One thing of note is that Kritsugu is getting progressively worse as of late he said he probably won't make it to my 12 birthday.
It's been a year and nothings really changed with shirous life he learns new things or practices old things. He studies with taiga like always to prepare him for middle school.
One night was different however.
This night Kritsugu called him to the back porch and he sat down next to him. He looked at kritsugu face and saw that he's very tired.
Kritsugu: what is your dream shirou?
Shirou: my dream?
This is something I haven't thought of before, assuming he means what's I want to do with my life then I guess it's what I've always done.
Have fun with my friends and help people when they need it.
Kritsugu: yes, your dream. When I was young I even wanted to be a hero of justice.
He even laughed a little when he said this, like it's the best joke he's heard in a long time.
Shirou: we'll if you I had it dream it would be to have a lot of fun with my friends and protect them if need be.
Kritsugu looked shocked when I said this, like he came to a realization about life that's so simple he didn't even think of it.
Kritsugu: you just wish to protect your Friends no one else?
Shirou: we'll if I see someone in danger then I'll help them, isn't that the right thing to do.
In that moment I saw for the first time a Genuine real smile from Kritsugu.
Kritsugu: listen I have a favor to Ask.
This is the first time he's asked anything from me so formally.
Shirou: what is it?
Kritsugu: I have a daughter.
Shirou: ...
Kritsugu: she's in Germany in the Einzbern estate. You should of read of them on one of the books I gave you. I won't live much longer, a curse was put on me and it won't stop until I die. Once I do my workshop will be open to you. I set you in the bounded field so you should be able to get into it. It's right down in the basement. I'm not asking you to storm the estate, just that if you see her please help her.
That's a lot to take in, hopefully he doesn't die that soon so I can have time to digest all this. But I do wonder will I mourn for my adoptive father, we're not very close but he still takes care of me.
Shirou: of course I'll help my sister!
Kritsugu smiled once more then got up and went to his room to sleep. I went to my room but couldn't get much sleep that night.
