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Okay with the disclaimer done this is a short note, I personally think this chapter is one of the worst I've ever written and the ending was probably obvious from how I wrote it and if it pisses you off then I do apologize for it but it has a point to the future of this story.

Shirou's sleep was not a very peaceful one as he constantly tossed and turned in his bed, the blankets having long since been kicked off when he grew too hot but now he was too cold.

Outside his room Rin looked up when she heard the sound of something hitting the floor and shattering.

"Saber do you have any ideas on what's wrong with him?" the Tohsaka Master asked after a moment to only receive silence in response." Saber?"

A quick search of the bedroom they were sharing saw that her Servant was fast asleep and Rin merely sighed before getting up and going to find out what was wrong herself.

'Perhaps this is a delayed side effect of his fight with Berserker, but it's been a longtime since the fight so that's unlikely.'

The door wasn't even locked and Rin sighed at how trusting Shirou was even during the Grail War, he should know that alliances usually ended with one person dead or minus one Servant.

'I'm going to have to teach him how to act.'

The room she stepped into had little in the way of decorations, at least currently from the outlines she could see in the dim light in the room.

"Shirou, do you plan on making that noise all night?" Rin asked only to receive no response so she hit the light switch and stumbled out the room at the sight in front of her.

The room seemed to have turned into a desert of blackened sand with a haze filing it with swords filling her vision and she quickly closed the door with her shocked expression very quickly turning into one of heavy thinking.

'That was a Reality Marble and, from what it looked like to me, it's the source of Shirou's weapons and explains how he isn't breaking the rules of something like Alchemy and it explains how he can make so many without tiring, he's unconsciously using his Reality Marble to draw the swords and it that's so th…' Another crash from in the room snapped Rin out of her thoughts so she partly opened the door and looked inside to see Shirou scrabbling to his feet with the blades and desert gone.

'Weirdest dream ever.' Shirou thought as he glanced to the door, disregarding his dream as he noticed it was partially open.

"Rin, do you need something?" Shirou asked ad he heard a quiet curse behind the partly open door.

"No, you were just making a lot of noise so I came to check on you." Rin answered and Shirou paused for a moment before he remembered the odd dream once again.

"I wasn't having that great of a sleep." Shirou told her a moment later." Besides, this is the time I usually get up and Sakura should be coming over today, despite me giving her the month off, so I'll have to get things ready for her, she said she's going to be staying for a while."

"What?" Rin demanded as she wrenched open the door only to immediately close it." Why are you sleeping naked?"

"I have on boxers Rin, you're just overreacting." Shirou told her as he found a set of clothes in his closet and quickly threw them on." But you can come in now, I'm dressed."

"How did Berserker not kill you out of annoyance?" Rin asked and Shirou frowned at remembering the fight.

"Speaking of that giant bastard, do you have anything on whoever his Master is?" Shirou asked the Tohsaka Master who debated withholding information but decided against it.

'In the end I need his help to take down something like that so I can give him some information.' Rin assured herself before speaking.

"His Master is Illyasveil von Einzbern, representative of the Einzbern family in this war and from what I could gather her and Berserker are the biggest threat in the war." Rin answered him as she turned and walked out the door." Now come on, we have to plan an attack against her."

"Why, she can come to us and then I can kill her Servant, what is there to plan?" Shirou asked and Rin sighed.

"I did some research and it looks like you need to kill Berserker a total of twelve times and once you use something to kill it once, it won't work again." Rin answered and Shirou merely rose a brow as he went over the fight.

'You left him one life in the end.' Archer quickly spoke up for him.' Tell her that so she can send Saber out to kill it.'

"In the end I managed to get all but one of his lives, think Saber can finish the job?" Shirou asked and at Rin's questioning look he laughed a bit." I kind of used all of my best stuff in that fight and since the same thing won't work twice I'm out of luck in a fight with him."

"Really?" Rin asked and Shirou frowned before sighing.

"I'm going to have to fight him again, right?" Shirou asked and Rin merely laughed.

"Of course, I'll bring Saber along as backup just encase Berserker begins to kill you." Rin answered and turned away to leave when Shirou grabbed her shoulder and spun her around and she was surprised at the grim look on his face.

"That isn't an option, if Berserker somehow manages to do something like that to me when I send everything I have at him then you're going to have to run when I tell you." Shirou told Rin who merely laughed as she brushed his hands off her shoulders.

"You're no use to me dead so I think I'll be intervening in your fight, alright?" Rin told him and would have laughed as she walked away if she didn't see Shirou's face.

"I have a plan that will take him down, hopefully." Shirou told her before his blank face turned into a grinning one." But that's beside the point, how about I fix us some breakfast?"

Rin nodded even as she questioned Shirou's rapid shift in mood as he walked down the hall.

"Saber, did you sense that?" Rin asked as her Servant appeared next to her.

"I believe so, it was a darkness in him?" Saber asked and Rin nodded.

"Keep an eye on him when Illyasveil decides to attack again." Rin ordered after a moment before walking downstairs.

"This kid, he's far more troublesome than I originally thought." A white haired figure commented, sitting on a dune of blackened sand, idly spinning a knife in one of his hands before flinging it into a gear floating above him, his once grinning face now marred with a frown." He's a bigger hassle than I thought, but at this point it's too late to break the merging."

A glance to the horizon showed him a twilight slowly spreading and consuming what was his world, at least until the Grail War ended and he was called back.

"This is very quickly getting annoying but I suppose it's better than the alternative."

Away from wherever the figure was trapped Shirou had finished a large breakfast and frowned.

"I'm going to have to go get more food in a couple of days, making these meals is going to cost me a lot of money." Shirou muttered to himself before turning to the window and he sighed.

'I also need to figure out that dream.'

He still didn't know if he should call it a nightmare or a dream but it was still disturbing, there was so much fire around him, so much blood that it hurt remembering it, not to mention the emotions he felt the entire time he was forced to look at the scene. The overwhelming guilt and anger as he was forced to watch the fire would have drove anyone else insane.

The doorbell ringing snapped him out of his thoughts and he was lucky he reached the door before Rin.

'This should be Sakura.' Shirou thought and he was half right.

Sakura Matou was at the door, along with her so called brother Shinji Matou, the bastard Shirou hated with every fiber of his being, and someone he didn't know and probably wasn't supposed to see.

'She's a Servant and a Rider-class one.' Archer supplied for him and Shirou grinned at Sakura before turning to Shinji and dragging him inside and throwing him to the floor before turning back to Sakura.

"Sakura, could you give me a minute alone with your brother please? Breakfast is on the table if you'll like some." Shirou told Sakura who nodded and he saw the Servant hesitate as she walked in and watched the nice purple haired girl leave the room.

After a moment she stepped to the side of the room and Shirou simply ignored her odd behavior before locking the door and turning his attention back to Shinji.

"Hey Orphan." Shinji would have met a boot to his face if Rider didn't grab his raised foot and pull it backwards, sending him falling forward if he hadn't caught himself and rolled back to his feet.

"I've got a little surprise for you today." Shinji told Shirou as he picked himself up form off the floor." Rider, show yourself."

With a roll of her concealed eyes the Servant seemingly appeared to Shirou's sight.

"I'm going to kill you with her." Shinji told Shirou with an arrogant smirk on his face, a smirk that made Shirou want to punch him.

"You're still not smart Dumbass." Shirou told Shinji, using what soon became Shinji's name whenever Shirou saw him." I saw her the moment I opened the door but got anything else?"

Shinji took a step back at that and Shirou grinned as he held his hands out to his side.

"Well, if you don't have anything I'll show you something I've been dying to." Shirou told him with his grin widening as red light appeared in his hands and a pair of silver longswords appeared in his hands.

He didn't give Shinji anytime to even begin to understand what was happening as he rushed forward and moments later Shinji's legs were pinned to the floor, the blades stabbed down to the hilts.

"Rider, kill him!" Shinji ordered even as his body rocked with agony and Shirou avoided the nail like dagger attached to a chain thrown at him.

Rider seemed to be putting little effort into fighting and Shirou noticed this before in a flash of light a pair of rope darts with the rope replaced by much stronger chains and moments later the Servant found herself bound in the chains of the two weapons.

She didn't really care through, even now her attention was where Sakura had gone.

"What the hell are you doing?" Shinji demanded and Shirou moved faster than the Matou thought possible and his boot slammed into his chest, audible cracks resounding around the room.

"Shut. Up." Shirou growled the two words before ripping his two weapons free from Shinji's legs and covering his screams with a nearby pillow.

Shirou very quickly threw Shinji into a nearby closet as he heard Sakura calling him from the kitchen and a glance to Rider and the chains vanished in a flash of red light with the Servant gone nearly as fast as they were.

'Did you really just stuff him in the closet?' Archer asked after a few seconds had passed.

'What else was I supposed to do?' Shirou asked as he checked his appearance in the mirror before nodding to himself and walking into the kitchen a grin on his face.

Rin remained upstairs while Shirou did whatever he and Sakura did together while they were together and began reading over one of Shirou's journal, taken from his room a while ago when he was asleep.

It was more recent than any other so far and she came across something interesting and possibly useful later on in the Grail War.

"The Summoning turned out to be a bad idea, I ended up with a voice in my head who, from what he would tell me, a Servant I somehow managed to merge with. The details on the how are still unknown but the results are very clear. Ever since the merging I've been able to do things I couldn't do before and what I could do before has increased to incredible levels. I'm still looking through the old man's journals on anything like this happening before but so far I've got nothing and it'll probably stay that way. But that's not the thing bothering me the most, not even that messed up Summoning is the biggest thing, or even that sarcastic bastard Archer. I feel a connection to something and it's worrying me because half the time I sense it I feel like it's screaming at me to do something but I don't know want. It's probably because the merge with Archer somehow made me at least partly a Servant…"

Rin stopped reading at that point with a plan developing, a plan that would either get her a second Servant or it would backfire and either take away Shirou's powers or kill him.

Both things were worth it, if she gained another Servant than she had a better chance of winning the Grail War and if Shirou ended up dying then it was less of a problem after the war on what to do with him.

Just like the Magus justified ordering Saber to kill him in a spar she justified her plan, it was necessary to win the Grail War and she was trained nearly all her life to win it.

Once Saber had returned from her watch and with a nod towards the two Shirou finished the dishes and took his own shift, bringing Sakura up with him, Rin decided to begin the first stages of her plan.

"Saber, I need your assistance with something." Rin told her Servant after the two had eaten their fill." Do you think you could help me?"

"What is it you request?" Saber asked after a moment and Rin held back her grin, carefully keeping her face blank.

"Ever since the attack I've been thinking we need to add a barrier around the house and since you have a higher power level than me I thought you could charge the seals I use since it would not only make it all faster but make the barrier the seals create stronger." Rin received a now from her Servant who stood up and followed after her as she walked outside.

From the roof Shirou stood watch with his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes closed, using this as a training exercise instead of taking it very seriously.

'So far we've met only Berserker and Lancer, meaning there's still three more Masters with three more Servants out there. It's going to be extremely annoying to wait for them to make their moves but it'll be worth it, once they do that then we can attack them when they're unprepared.'

'So you are intelligent, who would have guessed with you actually fighting Berserker?' Archer asked from in his head and Shirou frowned.

'Well look who decided to bug me today, the voice in my head.'

'The name's Archer you brat.'

'A bastard is more like it.'

'Brat.'

'Bastard.'

'Brat!'

'Bastard!'

The watching Sakura looked on in some confusion as Shirou had an argument with himself.

'Perhaps the stress of the Grail War is getting to him.' Sakura thought as she took several steps back.' But just encase he's gone insane I think it's best to have an easy escape route.'

"Hey Sakura, would you be upset if something was to happen to your brother?" Shirou's sudden question had Sakura silent for a moment before she answered.

"I would like him to be nicer to me but I wouldn't like the thought of violence, even if he deserves it eventually he would forget about it and it would just begin again." Sakura answered and both Shirou and Archer frowned.

'This isn't good, she's lost hope.' Archer commented and Shirou simply spoke again.

"When I said something happening to him I didn't mean hurting him." Shirou told Sakura who looked confused for a moment before he continued, his face grim." I mean killing him."

"What?" Sakura asked in shock." Why?"

"Because the sick bastard deserves it for what he does to you." Shirou told her as he turned to face her, his anger visible on his face even at the unnatural calm in his voice." Why can't you see how wrong the things he does to you are?"

"In the end it's pointless for me to fight back, Zouken will simply destroy any hope I have like he's done before if I ever do." Sakura answered after a moment of silence passed between the two." And if he did that now I would have nothing to live for so to protect them I will endure."

Shirou looked at her shocked for a moment before uncrossing his arms and his bow appeared in his hands with a spiral tipped arrow appearing in his hands, not facing Sakura.

"Show me." Shirou ordered, his eyes like the steel of the blades he wound summon.

"What?" Sakura asked, completely confused at Shirou's change in demeanor and his actions.

"Show me where the bastard is." Shirou answered, turning eyes suddenly burning with rage towards her." Show me so I can kill him for doing this to you!"

"Shirou, if I did show you that then he would kill you and then I'll die." Sakura answered after a moment and Shirou's eyes only grew angrier.

"How much is he hurting you?" Shirou asked, his bow dropping as he became deathly calm, a calm where you anger has exceeded all limits.

"Shirou…" Sakura began before being interrupted.

"How much?" Shirou asked, his calm nearly terrifying Sakura before she drew up the will to answer.

"He doesn't hurt me himself, it was part of my training to endure torture in order to increase my power as part of the Matou family." Sakura answered after a moment and Shirou's eyes seemed to turn to stone before he raised and loaded his bow once again.

"Sakura, you may want to step back, this will probably throw me off the roof." Shirou told her as the arrow began spinning by itself, disrupting the air around it as it picked up speed as Shirou very quickly turned it explosive with a surge of unstable energy to it, a trick from Archer he was beginning to enjoy very much.

'You do realize this will wipe out that entire building if you decide to hit it, right?' Archer asked and Shirou mentally nodded, keeping his eyes locked on his target.' And you do realize you'll be left with very little energy for the next hour, correct?'

Shirou nodded again and the Servant inside his mind sighed as he sensed Shirou was set on blowing up the entire Matou house.

'This will come back to bite you so don't say I didn't warn you.' Archer told him before falling silent.

After finishing placing the seals around the house and having Saber charge them up Rin sensed the built up energy of Shirou's arrow and very quickly turned to her Servant.

"Saber, stop him before he does something stupid!" Rin ordered and Saber nodded before rushing out the house and after a moment she rushed up the side of it, moving at her top speed to stop Shirou from firing.

She was nearly too late but Archer had decided to intervene so against his better judgment on the matter he momentarily took over Shirou's body, just for a moment was really all Saber needed to reach him and take the arrow from the bow. The bow dismissed itself moments later as Shirou with a thought dismissed the unstable arrow, not really wanting to rebuild his entire house if he could help it.

"Are you an idiot Shirou?" Rin demanded after reaching the roof." Do you want to get us all killed?"

"I was planning on killing anyone currently in the Matou household but I guess beating Shinji will help this one." Shirou commented before noticing the active seals beginning to surround his house in a barrier." And good job on the barrier, it looks sturdy enough to keep this place standing."

With a nod to all three Shirou dropped from the rooftop but as he fell he noticed Lancer watching from nearby, a camera set up next to him.

The red spear in the Servant's hand was risen up in a greeting and Shirou found himself assaulted by another memory, awkwardly hitting the ground a second later but his mind had wandered far enough that the pain didn't do anything.

A figure Shirou guessed was Archer, the Magus guessing those were the memories he was experiencing, had a broadsword in hand as he stepped out of what was the Tohsaka mansion.

"Lancer." Archer spoke and said Servant walked to stand in front of him, his spear raised in greeting.

"Archer." Lancer spoke right before he shot forward, the red spear in his hands blocked by the flat edge of the broadsword even if it was then instantly shattered.

Archer through had leapt away before forming a pair of red hilted scimitars with gold inlaid in the blade in his hands and rushing forward, both blades sweeping in from the side to attack Lancer only to be knocked away as Lancer swung the spear in a wide arc, the force behind the move shattering the two blades on contact and so Archer threw the worthless hilts towards Lancer only for the Servant to spin his spear in front of him, tossing the hilts away.

"I am the bone of my sword." Archer whispered as another pair of weapons appeared in his hands, this time the silver longswords Shirou found himself commonly summoning to fight.

The words seemed to strengthen the weapons as when Lancer's spear shot forward the Servant managed to block the attack, barely but a block was a block.

"Nice." Lancer commented as he leapt back." I was starting to think you were weak."

Archer chuckled at that before holding the longswords out to his side.

"Steel is my body and fire is my blood." Archer whispered those words next and in a flash of red light he now held two crossbows nearly as wide as him and up to his waist.

Lancer was surprised when Archer lifted the two weapons effortlessly and fired a dozen bolts from each and seemingly with ease Lancer avoided them only for the projectiles to detonate on impact with the ground.

Lancer was lucky both of his feet were firmly on the ground as he could instantly leap out the range of the blast even if this was what Archer wanted, appearing in front of him with one hand held out to his side.

"Trace on." Archer whispered and moments later Lancer was clashing with an identical version of his own weapon.

"Well, this is interesting." Lancer commented before his face was covered in a grimace as he landed on the ground." And this damn thing decides to interfere once it gets to the good part."

With another wave of his spear, seemingly acting as a goodbye, Lancer vanished with a burst of speed that surprised Archer even as the memory faded and Shirou noticed the lack of pain from his fall.

"Shirou, are you dead?" Rin's voice called down to him from the rooftop and the Magus slowly rolled over from his stomach to his back, wincing as he pulled himself from the ground.

"No." Shirou called back up to her as he slowly made his way to his feet." Just in a lot of pain, no reason to come down and check on me after I hit the ground!"

Rin had the decency to at least look sheepish as one hand rubbed the back of her head.

"I didn't expect you to fall like that, if you couldn't do that you could have asked and Saber would have helped you down." Rin called down to him and Shirou muttered something under his breath before walking across the grass to his workshop.

"You're crazy." Shirou called back to her without turning around and Rin waited for him to reach a certain point, around the center of the backyard, before putting her plan into action.

A whispered chant later and a dozen seals that had nothing to do with the barrier sprung to life before energy raced from them and formed a circle around Shirou.

"Wh…" Shirou couldn't finish his words as an agonized scream from Archer ripped through his mind and he clutched at his head, collapsing to his knees as he heard it, the symbols of energy forming around him beginning to shrink and close in on him.

"What is going on?" Sakura asked Rin who decided against telling her and instead with a nod to Saber the girl found herself unconscious and if Rin had the time she would make sure she didn't remember a thing.

It would have gone perfectly if Rider hadn't appeared at the last second with the chain of her dagger wrapping around Saber's waist and pulling her back with little trouble.

"Master, are you alright?" Rider asked and Sakura glanced down at her hand to see Command Spells appearing.

"What happened to Shinji, why are these coming back?" Sakura asked as she turned to what was first her Servant, then Shinji's, and now once again her own.

"I will explain later, for now we must get you to safety." Rider answered before she grabbed Sakura and very quickly vanished from the rooftop but from what Rin could sense she was still in the barrier but she decided to pay it no mind as she now fully concentrated on completing her plan.

Below her Shirou was struggling to even remain conscious at the screams coming from Archer, the Servant very quickly consumed by agony.

The circle around him let out a flash of light and moments later Shirou collapsed forward and Rin glanced down at her unmarked hand, a tattoo like mark appearing on it very quickly as the circle below her collapsed in on itself moments later, leaving no trace it was even there.

"Master, shall I retrieve him?" Saber asked after a moment of silence passed on the rooftop and moments later Rin's blank face dropped into a frown.

"No, I want to try something." Rin answered before jumping off the roof and a quick use of Reinforcement had her landing safely in a crouch next to the collapsed Shirou.

The Tohsaka Magus rolled Shirou over to his back and looked him over to find no changes to him at all, there was really nothing to mark him as a Servant as she didn't even feel a new drain to her Prana.

"Did it not work?" Saber asked as she appeared next to Rin.

Moments later a hand shot up and wrapped around Rin's neck and Saber quickly moved to take it off for two fingers to be pointed at her and a mace slammed into her stomach, doubling her over in the pain before a rain of spears caged her for the moment.

Rin very quickly began prying the fingers off her neck as she saw Shirou's arm shake, whatever the circle did to him made him weak enough that lifting his arm was nearly exhausting.

"Master, what have you done?" Saber asked as the spears around her vanished in a burst of red light.

Rin couldn't answer as Shirou set up and with an obvious effort against it he lowered himself to a knee and bowed his head to Rin.

"I ask of you, are you my Master?"

AN: Well, like I said, the ending was most likely obvious to everybody so leave a review on the story so far.

Peace.