I read this chapter five and my favorite part is the beginning. Thank you angel for writing and editing this chapter.

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Rin didn't know what his deal was with her.

Rin herself wondered what a guy swinging a golden sword would want with her.

Maybe he was just a lunatic in the Holy Grail War.

"I'll deal with you all later," he said as he swung his golden sword over his shoulder, disappearing in a shower of light along with his master, leaving them to stand in the battleground that was the entrance of the school.

Cuirassier was attending to her master who suffered severe damage at the hands of Rider.

"Let me," Rin said as she held a gem over Shirou, muttering a spell under her breath. Shirou winced as the wound slowly closed up.

In no time at all he was able to stand back on his feet thanks to Rin.

"Don't thank me. What are we going to do about this?" she groaned as smoke was still emitting from holes in the ground. It was a wonder no one had come running to see what happened.

Shirou was still looking at where he was healed by Rin.

"Hey hey, what are we going to do about this mess?" Rin demanded as Archer wondered if it was even the servants fault since the masters had chosen to come to school.

"I don't think we will be going to school on the third day of school." Shirou said.

"The hell we're coming to school after this!" Rin snapped as she grabbed Shirou by the wrist and dragged him out of school.

" I admit my mistake to you but do you really have to drag me around like this?" Shirou asked.

"If I don't your little legs won't do it for you," she said.

Rin just wanted to get away from the school.

She had her wish granted when she ran too far away from school.

Archer just walked behind her with his hands in his pockets while Curaisser looked amused at what Rin was doing with Shirou.

The Servants walked together to reach their masters finding their relationship amusing.

"Shit. Does your old man know anything that could help us survive this war?" Rin demanded as Shirou tried not to cry in pain. Despite the wound having been closed up, it still hurts to move.

"I think the best thing he can give us is protection for when we are at home."

Shirou's voice came out weak and cracked and for a moment Rin felt bad for yelling at him.

At Shirou's house his guardian was waiting for him with a cup of tea in his hand.

"How can you look so calm when your ward nearly had his guts spilled?" Rin demanded as she set Shirou down, bending to take off his shoes.

"I'm not calm. I keep a routine of what to do to keep my life wholesome. Life is unoredictable to even the makers of the human spirit."

It sounded like a lot of nonsense to her.

The Servants wondered why two young people even bothered to argue with an old wise man in a yukata and an unshaven beard.

Shirou couldn't argue the same way Rin could. He could only return to his duty of preparing dinner for everyone. Unless of course Rin wanted to go back to her real home.

"Oh no you don't. I'm making dinner," Rin snapped as she sat Shirou down on the cushions and stomped to the kitchen to wrap his apron around her waist.

Shirou was amazed Rin took the initiative at making dinner.

Archer wondered if her cooking is even edible.

Cuirassier found it empowering to see a woman cooking for mostly men. Or maybe she was mistaking empowering for coerced work for a Master.

Archer on the other hand just stayed far away in case something she cooked exploded.

Shirou stayed close to make sure mistakes weren't made that could ruin the food.

"Hey, don't you trust a girl's cooking?" Rin snapped as she flung some soy sauce and some veggies into the pan, although she herself doubt her cooking skills.

"Okay. If you really want me too I'll step back and let you cook."

The others left the fate of their meal to Rin and sat down, hoping they wouldn't get poisoned by her in the process. However, should Archer be poisoned by his master by accident, it meant trouble for Rin in the future of the war.

Shirou was the first to take a bite of Rin's cooking.

Surprisingly he survived to take another bite.

Archer gained courage watching the boy eat to have some of his own.

Cuirassier demanded her bowl of rice to be refilled three times.

Even though most girls would get a stomachache that way he obliged her request.

"Guess having a battle between Masters and Servants often resulted in young people getting really hungry," Kiritsugu thought to himself.

He remembered the time he had to pick fight or food.

Rin finished her food and thanked for the meal.

It was her who cooked it really so she had no one to thank but herself.

Thankfully the others were still alive to continue fighting the Grail War, although they were wondering if the aftereffects will come along nicely in the next few hours. Shirou shuddered at the thought.

Shirou was lucky though whether or not he was brave or afraid.

"Well then, shall we get to business. For starters who on earth was that servant? I never came across his name ever..." Rin said, thinking of how he had winked at her. Dammit Rider.

Archer felt his Master's mind was thinking of ways to hurt Rider for his attitude.

Shirou on the other hand wondered if it wasn't so obvious to Archer that his master was a hottie.

She was standing with her hand on her cheek just thinking to herself. Shirou got to look at her legs on her chair.

Rin had a feeling someone was looking somewhere they shouldn't be looking at.

Shirou was lucky he feigned looking at his servant Cuirassier instead of her. He giggled though because her name rhymed with Brassiere like what was under Rin's shirt.

"Emiya-kun," she growled, a fiery red aura appearing around her as she thought of what a closeted pervert Shirou actually was. Appearances are truly deceiving in his case.

Shirou looked nervous but knew not trying to speak to her would make her suspicious of him.

"Putting aside the idea of closeted red haired perverts, what should we do about that servant?' Rin demanded.

"We stay away from school for one thing, two times in a row. Maybe it's best to ask Shirou for help again if he can use a spell that will empower you."

"Pf! As if I need help from him," Rin grunted as Shirou scowled. Hey, he wasn't that bad you know but the little lady could take care of herself just fine.

Cuirassier was listening to them feeling angry with the girl for how she mocked Shirou.

Archer was itching to just shoot the other Servant down. Kiritsugu on the other hand was at a lost and he sighed as the teenagers around him squabbled.

It didn't take a sophisticated mind to know where the Rider lived. They may not know the Master, but Kiritsugu did.

"And there is the matter of Assassin too..." Rin muttered as she thought.

To her though Assassin wasn't as tough of a fighter as Rider.

"I suggest we try to lure them out to a place where we might be able to pin them down. If we can't beat them, maybe we can analyse their abilities. And since Rider has revealed his true name, maybe you can search but what you can about him," Kiritsugu said.

Shirou liked the sound of his uncle's idea. He was lucky to have him.

Rin on the other hand thought it was too obvious of a plan to follow through but it was worth a try.

"Do you have internet connection? Internet has files of all famous figures in a database."

"One minute," Shirou said as he told her the wifi password, which was 'iloveacertaingirlatschool'. Rin eyed him as she typed it into her phone.

Shirou was saved from the embarrassment of watching her think he was weird by a search of who Rider was.

His profile practically had 'Obnoxious knucklehead' written all over it.

Rin needed more than that if she were to defeat this opponent so she scrolled down.

Archer and Cuirassier were just sitting there wondering what were their masters doing with the weird devices in their hands.

Archer sniggered when Shirou almost touched Rin's hand. She was using a mouse and he noticed something on the profile.

"So this is the guy?" Rin muttered as she saw a sketch of Riders face, depicting him as a warrior from a bygone Japanese age. Although she wondered where he had gotten that golden sword of his from.

"What are we waiting for?" Archer asked. "Study his armour so we can hunt him down and finish him."

Shirou managed to pick out a few words Rin muttered under her breath but other than that it was all gibberish to him.

"Rhido Haru was born in a small village where he was pushed around by the other kids because of his weight." Shirou read.

"He didn't look fat." Archer said.

"In his times of loneliness he would write a book on how he could have changed what happened to him. His time to show people who he was happened at age fifteen when his father gave him a horse and made him ride to attack a man who had a ransom on Rhido's mother. By the time they found her she was bleeding from her stomach and died of fatal wounds later that day. His father remarried a woman who shipped Rhido off to sea. He had a week before going so he rode his horse everyday until the running exhausted it. On his way to the ship he moved away to help a person calling for help, only for it to he marauders and bandits who used his big size as a show of strength in a cage. On one evening he found an old horse he trained and used to ride around town, he stayed in the cage only until he was no longer on the marauders watch list."

"That's stupid," Archer lamented. "He should have left the first time."

"To make a long story short he became a person who worked out, lost a lot of weight, joined an army, never trusted anyone, and eventually died from dehydration when his army was forced to move away from his home into the wilderness."

"Well it was a miracle he managed to become a servant," Rin muttered, wondering how on earth he had become one.

"Maybe part of this history is told in a different way to hide his role as a Servant?" Shirou said.

"Possible. He was born several centuries ago so maybe they couldn't find all the right info about him," Rin said.

Cuirassier agreed with Rin as hard as it was for her to agree to a different Master.

So what do we do about him? He sounds really weak but he did managed to inflict quite a bit of damage on us," Shirou said, eying the spot where he nearly had his guts torn out of him.

Cuirassier was aghast to see the wound on her masters body.

One more wound in that spot and her master would have perished.

"Anyway, he seems more powerful than the almighty internet describes him to be so we should just keep an eye on that golden sword on his. Maybe that's why he's so powerful. He could have just stolen it or something," Rin said, thinking it was the most logical choice.

"We won't know until we ask but Rider doesn't seem like a thief?" Shirou said.

"Maybe it was just something his master got for him when he summoned him," Rin said.

Shirou was believing what Rin said to him. He needed more information about that.

"So we track down that guy and in the process maybe we can try to lure out other Servants. So far we have only faced Rider and Assassin right? Which means the others are still out there somewhere. Do you remember who was present at that voodoo meeting?" Shirou asked as Rin thought hard.

"I remember no one summoning Rider. I did see a middle aged man though who could he Rider's Master."

"Wasn't it a young dude who was with him earlier?" Shirou asked. The guy they spotted couldn't be more than thirty.

Rin was either right or Shirou was right. He was thinking with her in his best interests.

"Wait. There was a guy there in our school uniform. Did you recognise who he was?" Shirou asked.

Rin tried to think of a person's name who could be the Master.

Shirou sat there, wondering if the guy was even in his class.

Maybe he was from another classroom than him.

Rin wished she didn't know the guy but unfortunately she did.

"Shirou we need to talk about his Master."

Rin snatched Shirou by the arm and dragged him out, although that was a bit unnecessary.

Archer enjoyed the way Rin took away Shirou from the room.

Cuirassier on the other hand felt her master was being manhandled or whatever too much.

She was ready to kick open the door to drag him out of the room.

She kicked it open anyway despite knowing the others were watching, Archer grinning madly in particular as she slammed the door behind them and sat him down on the veranda looking over the rock garden.

To his surprise the three of them walked out of the door without any arguing between the three of them. They were calm, they wanted to talk to Archer about a plan.

"I think I know who the kid is. His name is Tendo Mikoto, one of the elite students in the class. I didn't even think he would be able to summon a Servant since he never seemed to be emitting any strong mana," Rin said.

Shirou thought he didn't have any strong mana of his own.

"Well you for certain don't," Rin said, voicing Shirou's thoughts aloud, making him deflate like a balloon.

Cuirassier was under the impression her demeaning was a way of voicing out some love for him.

"The Tendo family was a talented family of mages but recently they have fallen into decline. It wouldn't have been surprising for him to have been chosen as a Master. Although I am pretty sure he is not Rider's master..." Rin said, bringing them back to square one.

"I for one am glad a much stronger Master is at work here," Archer said.

"I know you like the challenge but can you please focus here?" Rin snapped. There weren't that many mages in town so it was hard to rake up information on Rider's master. It wasn't like she could just waltz to the Mages Association and ask for details regarding him.

Shirou would try that because he didn't know good plans like the one she could make.

"Okay. So we know one of the masters present is in our school. Maybe we can try to make an alliance with him?" Shirou asked.

"Except every time we go to school his Servant Assassin shows up and attempts to kill us," Rin told Shirou bluntly.

"So school is still out of the question?" Shirou asked as Rin nodded. Darn, he will be falling behind so badly at this rate...

"What kind of Master tries to hide from a fight?" Archer asked Rin and Shirou. "We are like fish in a bowl in this house so we need to get out."

"Agreed. It might be good practice for me if I can get to fight this guy," Rin said as she cracked her knuckles. All that sparring from a few days ago made her want to kick some Master butt.

She would soon have her wish. Neither Shirou nor Cuirassier talked to her when they prepared for sleep.