Shirou watches Saber fumble around for a few moments and clear some space in her room. She looked like she was pretty upset, her face was downtrodden and her movements were a lot more sluggish than normal. After clearing a few things off of her futon she sat down on it and heaved a disappointed sigh while slumping her shoulders.

"Hey, I could help you find it if you want." She seems really bent out of shape about that stuffed animal. She probably won't want to talk about Shirou's wacky antics last night in this kind of mood so he figured he might as well help her out.

Saber perked up a little bit. "Would you? It seems that I have looked everywhere but with your assistance I am sure we can find it." She smiled.

"Don't mention it. Where have you looked so far?" Shirou asks. Since she's been searching all morning he figures it would be a good idea to find out exactly where she went, though he still had no idea where to start looking for the damn thing.

Saber had begun to explain that she'd looked in her room, the laundry room, Sakura's room, Rider's room, the living room, and even the kitchen. "I do not think it would be in your room, but I did not want to go through your things..."

"Let's check the guest room. The chances of it being there are pretty low but it wouldn't hurt to look anyway." Shirou jerks his thumb towards through the door and extends a hand to help Saber up.

Saber takes his hand and he helps her up. With her in tow Shirou heads through the hallway passes the living room where Sakura and Rider are on the couch together watching TV. Fuji-nee and Ilya weren't there anymore, they must have left together. The hallways on the other end of the house held Rider's room, Sakura's room, and the guest room which used to be occupied by Rin. Since Rin moved out the guest room sits empty. Shirou opens the door and ushers Saber inside before he steps in after her. It looks pretty much the same as Rin left it, minus all her stuff.

"I'll check the desk, you can go check the closet." He says as he walks over to the desk. Well it wasn't on top of the desk but he opens the drawers just in case Rin stuffed it in there as a joke or something.

"Shirou, the closet is completely empty." Saber stepped back and presented her findings like Vana White on the Wheel of Fortune. The closet was indeed as bare as Ilya's chest.

"Well I guess there's just one more place to look." Shirou kneels down on the ground and flips up the skirt on the bed. Maybe he should have asked Gilgamesh to help out, he's pretty good at flipping up skirts.

"It couldn't possibly be there could it?" Saber asks.

"Nah, it's not here." Shirou stands back up.

Then something hit him, something that he probably should have asked.

"Have you asked Sakura or Rider where it is? Maybe they know."

Saber shook her head. "I have not. I was so flustered when I realized that I had lost it I started searching immediately." She blushed a little, clearly embarassed.

"Yeah, I thought so." He stifles a laugh. The poor girl must be really losing it without that stuffed lion. Shirou grabs Saber's hand and leads her back to the living room.

"Oh, hello Senpai." Sakura turns around on the couch to face him. In front of Rider is a bag of potato chips, she takes one and EATS IT while waving at Shirou non-chalontly.

"Hey Sakura. It seems like Saber lost her lion. You or Rider wouldn't happen to know where it is would you?" He asks as Saber fidgets with her hands while standing next to him.

"Yeah, I washed it and it's in the dryer now." Sakura said like it was nothing.

"What? Really?" No way it's that easy. Saber has been looking for that stupid thing all morning and she even said she checked the laundry room. Could she really have missed that?

"Why was is it being washed? I do not think it was dirty." Saber asked.

"Well, someone painted it black. It looked kinda scary like that so I washed it." Sakura shrugged.

"Thanks Sakura." Shirou thanks her and heads towards the laundry room with Saber trotting gingerly behind him. For obvious reasons he really isn't allowed to do laundry so most of what goes on in there goes beyond Shirou's notice.

He enters the laundry room and Saber immediately trots over and opens the dryer which is not currently running. The instant she does a faint smile appears on her face. She bends down, reaches in and pulls out a perfectly clean fluffy lion doll with brown fur. After retriving it she stands back up and holds it against her chest with both of her arms while smiling brightly at Shirou.

"Thank you Shirou." She says with as much happiness as she can muster, her eyes practically shining.

"Yeah sure thing. Since I helped you out would you mind telling me what happened last night?" He asks, getting back to the reason he's here in the first place.

"I believe events like that are best forgotten Shirou..." Saber's face instantly turned as red as a lobster. It seems she wouldn't budge on the issue.

Well whatever, at this point he figures finding something out like that is more trouble than it's worth anyway. Shirou looks at Saber, happily holding the lion against her chest and looking down at it. "Why do you love that thing so much anyway?" He asks curiously.

Saber hugs the stuffed lion a bit tighter to her chest and looks up at him, her face positively brimming with happiness as she smiles and pats the lion on the head. "It's because you bought it for me Shirou."

SIDE QUEST COMPLETE!

EXP gained - 2000

Level up! Shirou Emiyeah is now Level 2!

Tiger Stamp obtained!

Saber points gained!

Rider points lost!

Ilya points lost!

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: (Yes these do matter... kinda...maybe.)

Archer - Poor

Assassin - A.k.a. Sir Not Appearing In This Fanfiction

Berserker - Normal

Caster - Poor

Gilgamesh - Mongrel

Lancer - Normal

Rider - Normal -5

Saber - Excellent +10

Sakura - Good

Ilya - Normal -5

Fuji-nee - Normal

Rin - Normal

Issei - Bro

Shinji - Normal

Caren - Normal

Bazzett - Normal

Ayako - Normal

CURRENT INVENTORY:

Street clothes - +1 style

Sunglasses - +1 headache prevention and +10 style

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"Welcome to your second Tiger-Dojo!" Fujimura-sensei smacks her sword on the floor of the dojo.

"Aww why are we here again? Did Shirou screw up again?" Ilya tilts her head, a bit confused.

"Well yes and no." Fujimura-sensei's head droops. "This is just one of a couple endings for this section. The main quest was not completed since you chose to help Saber out."

"It seems like Shirou is pretty weak against her huh sensei?" Ilya giggles.

"Indeed my young pupil. One must not underestimate Saber's appeal. There were three seperate endings to this section, only one of which ended in actually completing the main quest." Fujimura-sensei shrugs her shoulders.

"Well can we go back?"

WHACK!

"Not a chance loli-buruma. A man should stick by his desicions." Fujimura-sensei puffs out her chest.

"Ow... did you really have to hit me?"

"Absolutley."

"This section was kinda short wasn't it?" Ilya looked a little disappointed.

"Yep, Shirou completely ignored you this time. Isn't it sad?"

"I'm not going to be another Sacchin am I?" Ilya exclaimed with worry.

Fujimura-sensei pats Ilya on the head. "I'm sure your time will come. Until then, see you next time~!"

"Waaaaaait! I want more screen time!"