***omg guys, don't write down the meaning of 'ana' in the reviews please! I'm trying not to think too much about it! :""""""""""0
Hi guys! Thanks for all the reviews, favs and follows! :)
I just want to say that in the previous chapter, there was one part which was actually inspired by a review by an anonymous guest:
Oh, I can already imagine that reunion:
*points to one* "Shirou?" Nod. *points to the other* "Archer?" Nod. "Twins?" Double nod. *mad cackling ensues*
I forgot to say this in the previous chapter's A/N, sorry for that!
As you've noticed, there are some instances where I got inspired by reviews. It's actually quite difficult to write a humor that isn't too cliche or common, so suggestions are actually quite valuable to me. If you guys have any funny ideas, feel free to include them in your review :)
Though, bear in mind that not all suggestions may get translated to this fic, and some might need to be altered.
Even this chapter has one that was inspired by Suzululu4moe's review, though I won't write it down here or else it'll become a spoiler. I know the review wasn't exactly a suggestion, but as I wrote down this chapter, I just ended up getting inspired by it lol. Sorry, Suzululu4moe, you might not like it, but I couldn't help it. This will be continued in the Author Notes at the end of the chapter.
Oh, one more thing. I realised that many people think now that Rin is here, Archer won't be so smug anymore. Hell, even I thought so too. But the damn Servant thought otherwise, and he told me he won't go down without a fight. So, yes, there will be war.
Without further ado, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fate/Stay Night or Harry Potter.
Warning: Baby speech (this is quite inevitable since Rin likes to talk :') ), the beginning of war and violence, hypnosis, overprotective James and poor, poor Shirou. And some Nasuverse technicalities, since I adopt a bit from Gabriel Blessing. Though, the rest is my own interpretation.
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After laughing non-stop for close to ten minutes (she would've continued, but then the twins pointed out to her that it was their first time seeing the great Tohsaka Rin losing control like this, with all the tears and snot all over her red face), Rin finally stopped laughing. She still hiccuped a few times, coughing to stop the bubbling laughter that was about to escape yet again. In front of her, both Emiya/Weasley twins sat, unimpressed.
That was when she'd noticed that they looked identical, and before she could laugh again, she quickly asked them both, "Acha?"
The boys sighed miserably, before nodding in unison. Rin frowned at them.
"Weech wan?" ("Which one?")
Surprisingly, both pointed at each other.
One of them spluttered indignantly, before shaking his head in denial, "Ee's Acha!" ("He's Archer!")
The other one stared back at his twin, unimpressed.
Rin slapped the unimpressed one in the face.
"Ow!" he cried, rubbing his face in annoyance. "I'm Chiyou, jammit! Ee's Acha!" ("I'm Shirou, dammit! He's Archer!")
To be honest, Rin really couldn't tell which one was who. They looked remarkably alike, exactly the same even, with the same behaviour and speech pattern. She continued to watch them both as Shirou and Archer pulled each other's collar and had a staredown match, in a perfectly identical manner.
"Chiyou, Acha," she called, and how did they turned to face her at the same time?! This had never happened during the Holy Grail War! "Cwap."
The twins looked puzzled, until Rin made a gesture of 'swapping' by moving her right thumb and index finger side to side.
"I coun' to twee!" ("I'll count to three!") Rin said, before scrunching her eyes shut and covering her face with her hands, for good measure. "Wan!"
The twins didn't move.
"Two!"
Still unmoving.
"Twee!' she exclaimed, before intensely comparing both boys again. "Now lemme chee if de's any diffen'." ("Now let me see if there's any difference.")
Shirou and Archer stared at her in a deadpan, as they didn't even bother to move. Though, they thought it was endearing to see Rin so childish like this. Maybe her being a baby had something to do with this kind of rare occurrence.
Rin hummed cutely, before moving to slap the one who she'd just slapped a minute ago.
But before she'd even raised her hand, the about-to-be-slapped boy blurted out, "Mageekal gil!"
Rin froze. The other twin looked confused.
"Wat didja say?" Rin asked sweetly. ("What did you say?")
"M-mageekal gil," the boy stuttered nervously. "A-an' t-t-tweesom - "
Rin kicked him in the face.
"Y-y-yer not chupose' to c-caey 'em awd lawd, 'tupid Chiyou!" ("Y-y-you're not supposed to s-say them out loud, stupid Shirou!")
Archer blinked innocently.
"Cho, Danny an' Jo?" ("So, Danny and Jo?")
Now that she could differentiate the twins (Shirou was the one with a red face from her surprisingly painful kick), Rin was curious by their new names.
She didn't expect the twins to get so animated, though.
"I'm Jo! Joceph!" Shirou exclaimed, standing up suddenly and patting his chest like some gorilla.
Rin was startled, even more so when Archer pushed his twin down as he himself stood up.
"I'm Jo, 'tupid! Yer Danny!" Archer shouted at his twin.
Then, they began squabbling over who was Jo and who was Danny, ignoring Rin altogether.
Rin would never have thought the two former Emiyas could be this childish, especially when she recalled the determined Shirou and the cynical Archer. They clashed swords and ideals during the Fifth Holy Grail war, and in the end Archer might have accepted that Shirou was too much like a cockroach to be killed permanently, but even years after the war Archer's reasoning for his hatred towards the ideal of Ally of Justice still plagued Shirou sometimes.
Now, though, they were so carefree, for once forgetting that distorted dream and its relevant problems.
Besides, watching them awkwardly shoving each other and bickering like this was actually quite...entertaining.
"Why Jo?" Rin suddenly interjected, prompting both twins to snapped their heads to look at Rin with identical heated glares.
"Jo's olde'!"
Rin raised an eyebrow.
"Chouldn' Acha be Jo? Ee's ancien'." ("Shouldn't Archer be Jo? He's ancient.")
Archer whooped in triumph, never even realising that Rin was also mocking his true age. Shirou complained indignantly.
"Den again, Acha ish a jekk, cho Chiyou chould be Jo." ("Then again, Archer is a jerk, so Shirou should be Jo.")
"Oi!"
Shirou crawled to sit beside Rin, before sticking his tongue out at Archer.
Two vs. one, with the first point going to team Rin. Finally, some revenge on her former Servant.
But the enemy proved to be quite sly, because Archer began to smirk disturbingly at Rin.
"Anna?"
Guh. That blasted name. It was a good name, alright, with good meanings like 'favour', 'grace' and 'beautiful'. Except, before she was reincarnated Rin was a Japanese, and she knew how it sounded like and what it meant in her native language.
Archer knew this. Hell, Shirou had noticed too, judging by a snort which had inevitably escaped his mouth. Rin's eyes twitched violently as Archer grinned smugly at her.
1-1. Augh, she ought to blast Shirou with Gandr, that traitor.
"Acha, why yer 'ere?" ("Archer, why are you here?")
Rin already had a good guess as to why Shirou was here (it was her fault actually, which was one of the reasons why she hadn't Gandr-ed him yet), but she didn't know being reborn into a new world was a part of a Counter Guardian's contract with Alaya.
Archer shrugged, "Mama gabe bir'h to me." ("Mother gave birth to me.")
Rin's eyes twitched again. Shirou gave a deadpan look to his twin, though occasionally he took a glance at his (...former? Current? Hopefully future?) girlfriend, concerned by her constant eye-twitching. That couldn't be healthy.
Rin knew Archer (and honestly Shirou too) could be snarky and sarcastic sometimes, but apparently she wasn't immune enough to this shit.
Rin gave him a pointed look, and Archer must've understood what it meant (it was pain, so much pain from Gandr being shoved up his ass) because he finally capitulated.
"Alanyan tol' me to khall de 'umanichi by mya nya nya nya - "
Or that was what Rin thought she'd heard him say, considering she didn't understand a single thing his long baby speech was trying to convey. It was already hard enough to understand simple words, let alone the more complex ones. All went in one ear and out the other.
Hm...were those cat ears? Maybe Archer can be her pet now...
Apparently, Archer's baby speech had a hypnotic effect on Rin, so Shirou quickly moved to stuff a pygmy puff chew toy to his twin's mouth.
Shirou's distinct red marks from her kick on his face began to fade, and it became challenging to tell the twins apart once more.
Or at least, by normal senses. Rin almost smacked herself in the face because she forgot that she was a damn magus, and magi in her original world could detect magical traces via their own senses in a particular way. Some 'saw' magical traces, others 'heard' them. Even Shirou 'smelled' magical scent.
In Rin's case, she 'touched' it.
It was an oversight in her part for not realising this method (maybe the hilarious thought of Shirou and Archer being reborn as twins had muddled her brain), especially now that Shirou had inadvertently blurted out 'Magical Girl' and 'threesome' to help her identify him. They were two things only Rin, Shirou and Zelretch (and technically Luvia, but dear god please don't let her be in this world too) had known what they really meant. Archer didn't know, and she hoped he would never find out about it.
But then, came another dilemma. Sure, she could tell the difference between two magi by touching their skin and feeling the difference, but what if the two magi were essentially of the same individual? Jo and Danny were both 'Shirou Emiya' reincarnated, and their magical traces were almost identical.
Well, 'almost'. Fortunately, magical traces were also like birthmarks, and even identical twins may have different birthmarks that could help their parents identify which is who. There should be a faint feeling which could tell both Emiyas apart, but in order to pinpoint them, holding hands were not enough.
She had to hug them.
Thank gods they were babies now. If they were adults, it would be most embarrassing to hug Archer first before realising that she was hugging the wrong twin. Even more so that she'd had to hug tightly because of the layers of clothing that impede her sense of touch. Rin could already imagine saying, "Whoops, sorry. Wrong person," then moving on to hug the other one in the future.
And that was before considering her former Servant's stupid remarks.
Ugh, why must it be so hard for Archer to just honestly identify himself? Rin swore it was all to torture her for the sake of his own entertainment. Guy needed more vacations to curb this annoying trait.
Luckily, for her first try, the red marks on Shirou's face had yet to fade completely, so she managed to hug the correct twin.
It was awkward, but at the same time familiar. He smelled different, but the feeling was still the same -
"Awwwww, they're so cute!"
They jumped, automatically separating from each other in embarrassment. The three babies turned to see Molly cooing at Shirou and Rin, even if they were no longer hugging each other.
Apparently, the Order meeting had just ended, for there were quite a few adults coming out of the dining room to see what was going on. For some reason, the three reincarnated babies felt like they were animals in the zoo - cute ones, in particular, like some panda family.
Heavy footsteps were heard, and moments later Arthur came stumbling with his magical camera. He soon cried in despair, because he came in too late and the hugging moment was over.
"Noooo! I haven't captured it yet!"
Shirou felt bad for his father, so he took the initiative to hug her again to please him.
Sounds of rapid clicking were like the chattering of a machine gun, with the speed the Weasley patriarch captured the picture. Now Rin felt like they were pandas told to jump into a ring of fire and pose in front of the camera.
The other adults also let out sounds like "Ooohh" and "Awwww". Even Sirius was chanting, "Ship! Ship! Ship!", though he quickly went quiet after James casted a Silencing Charm on him and glared at him.
But the seed was sown, and an ugly thought began to form in James' mind.
When Molly jokingly commented that she should adopt Anna too so that she could play with her sons all the time, he exploded.
"NO! No boyfriend until she's thirty!"
Silence.
Shirou paled.
Like I said, poor, poor Shirou.
As for Anna Potter...It's up to you if you wish to find out the meaning of 'ana' in Japanese, though I suggest you don't. Honest. After Suzululu4moe told me its meaning, I couldn't stop thinking about it too. I did consider changing Rin's name, but other than the reason mentioned in the beginning of the chapter, I couldn't think of any other names. Besides, I actually like the name Anna (because of K2 lol), and there are also many names around the world that might have a different meaning in different language. Like Tai, for example, because while it's quite a common name in Japanese (Tai, Taichi, Taiki, all those Digimon protagonist name hahaha), 'tai' also means 'poo' in Indonesian. So, yeah. Sorry for all the Tais out there!