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The next day, Shirou awoke to find himself covered with a blanket of black hair.

He felt the blanket to see how soft it was for his skin.

"Emiya Shirou, wake up this instant!" Rin snapped as he bucked out of bed, realising what the blanket was.

Rin looked at him like a teacher looking at a dirty child.

"Cuirassier, maybe you should help get your master out of bed before I do something nasty to him," she growled as she glanced at the clock. At this rate, they would be running late for school.

They did get late when Shirou's uncle forbid them from leaving without having a nutritious breakfast.

"Crap, and I was supposed to talk to him before class started," Rin growled as she saw a piece of paper sticking out from under her desk.

Archer was invisible to everyone but even through that he chuckled at how angry Rin was.

She took it out and she felt her stomach roll as she stared at it. Anyone who didn't pay much attention would think it was a love letter, since there was even a heart on it but as she looked closely, she saw a sign that only a mage would know.

"I know you would have figured out my position in the war by now so I propose a little meeting with you along with that red-head I saw you fighting with yesterday at the roof of the school during lunch. No servants are to be present."

The bottom was signed off by Tendo Mikoto.

Rin took a deep breath. In a stresssful stituation the best way to not do anything hasty was focus on breathing in, taking a little time to swallow the air, and then breath out.

So much so she didn't notice the red-head standing behind her, peering into the note.

When she did notice her reaction was anger towards Shirou, but she didn't yell like the tsundere she usually behaved.

Her classmates were wondering what he wanted with the smartest and prettiest girl in the class.

They were also a little jealous of him getting to hang out with a girl like her.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Rin demanded as Shirou leapt back and slammed into the girl at the back. She shrieked as his butt nearly connected with her face.

Now the boys were going to beat the crap out of him.

Rin wondered how Shirou seemed to bring trouble to her life all the time as she snatched him by the collar and dragged him out, Shirou stammering apologies the whole time to the girl whom he nearly slammed into.

Rin dragged him to the roof, the place she used to go to for thinking but now became a hideout for her and Shirou.

"Have you never heard of texting?" she demanded as he rubbed his neck.

"I don't have a phone," Shirou said.

"Are you kidding me?! Even mages have phones now!" Rin groaned, wondering why on earth he didn't invest in one... As she recalled, even old man Kiritsugu had one.

"Okay, I really do have a phone except I mostly use it to ask Kiritsugu what he wants for dinner."

He showed her a very early version of a phone.

Rin rolled her eyes as she fought back the urge to snatch up the phone and throw it to the field. Just then, a cough came as Tendo Mikoto came from behind, a smirk on his face as he pushed up his glasses.

"Hello Shirou. And an extra hello to you the most popular girl in school, Rin." Tendo said to them.

"So the geek of the class is a mage and a master to boot. Have you considered your current position in the War?" Rin asked.

"I have. My position is brains using brawn's and keeping one step ahead of my opponents. For me to win I'm willing to sacrifice hundreds of people."

"Well I didn't take you to be such an ass," Rin said as she put a hand in her pocket, ready in case the other boy tried anything funny. She knew how Mikoto could be a charming person who would stab you in the back the moment you turn your back against him. Maybe trying to form an alliance with him is a really bad idea after all.

"We know the name of your Servant. If you try to fight us we will you it against you." She was bluffing unless his Servant was Rider.

"Well well, as expected of the Tohsaka heir. But if you think I didn't see the major battle going on yesterday, you're mistaken," he grinned.

Rin prepared to use her energy to fire at whatever Servant was hiding around them.

Shirou just stood back, wishing that his servant was there to give him reassurance.

Rin was cut in the cheek by a strong force that could only be a Servant.

"Hey you broke the deal!" Shirou said as Assassin materialised next to her Master, grinning as she brandished her blades at them.

"Maybe I did or maybe there's another Servant after you. I'm scared to think it could come after me next."

It was obviously a lie he was using.

"Well I'm glad I broke the rules for once. You're going to pay for making me miss the main chapter of the story we were supposed to learn in class now!" Rin snarled as she shouted, "Now, Archer!"

Her Servant appeared out of his invisiblity in the air with his two giant knives. He tried slashing them at the Servant.

"Come on. Let's get out of here!" Rin shouted as she snatched Shirou and hauled him out of there. She nodded at Archer, who returned it with a flurry of words from his mouth.

"My master may be gone but it's me you have to deal with!"

Rin shouted something in German, which made Mikoto's eyes go wide as he tried to stop the spell but it was too late.

Her spell blinded him from Archer's sight.

"Do it now!" Rin screamed as Archer's bow appeared and he notched an arrow into it. "Sayonara," he smirked as it let it fly at Assassin.

Assassin stood still cross-armed until someone appeared and took the arrow for him. He was an assassin who could copy himself, using his doppelganger to take the damage for him.

"Tch. You're annoying," Archer snorted as he produced his blades and aimed for Assasin's neck.

Assassin unsheathed its Blade to battle Archer.

"Darn, just what are you?" Archer hissed as two Assassins flew at his direction. The Master on the other hand was grinning like a madman, his eyes shining as he watched his servant battle.

Assassin kicked Archer's shins before jumping over him and kicking Archer in the back.

"Darn it," he growled as one of the Assassins raced into the open door leading to the classrooms.

Archer had to stop him before he hurt his Master. And if anyone else saw a Servant fighting they had to be killed.

"Damn that didn't work?!" Rin shrieked as she saw the servant barreling towards them. She had cast a spell over the school so that it would render them invisible but as for the noise, that might not be the case.

The Servant sent his doppelgänger to attack Rin. She barely managed to duck her head from the serrated blade of Assassin.

Shirou yelled 'trace on!'and slammed a blade into Assassin's leg. The servant howled before exploding into a cloud of black smoke.

Shirou was neither proud or afraid. He had a chance to stop this Servant from hurting him or Rin.

"So the clone disappears if they are injured,' Rin muttered. At least they weren't unstoppable.

She would need to try doing it when more clones came after her, which was starting now.

She held her fingers in front of her and started blasting at them while Shirou tried to hack them down.

Rin liked being the power of the team.

Shirou was just happy that Rin was by his side fighting like Xena the warrior princess.

It was a little sad none of the other kids could see her fight, she diverted her fighting prowess in favour of honouring the rules.

"Come on Archer. Tell me you made a dent on the real one,' Rin muttered as the hall started to get thick with smoke from all exploding clones.

Archer was fighting easily against the Servant because of all the energy he used creating clones against Rin and Shirou.

"Bingo,' Archer smirked as she faltered just a little, giving him an opening to aim for her neck.

The Master pulled his hair from the stress of seeing Archer's blades cutting into her neck.

"Game over,' Rin grinned as all the clones vanished,leaving them to cough from the remaining smoke.

A Servant just died from the cut on her throat. This didn't bode well for the Master either.

"Damn and I thought I hit the jackpot too,' Mikoto sighed as the Servant disappeared. He didn't look as depressed as Archer thought he would be.

"Your Servant was just killed and all you care about is you didn't hit the jackpot?" He said finding the whole thing sickening.

"As if I will tolerate this loss," Mikoto growled as he lifted his face, a dark look on it as he yelled, "Now!" Archer near got hacked in half as a servant slammed into him.

Whatever Servant attacked Archer was a more powerful opponent than the Servant Archer was fighting before. His head was rushing after dodging the weapon.

"Ah, so you have come out of your hole, Lancer!' Archer grinned as he slammed his blades into the wicked spear the Servant had in his hands.

Lancer jumped off the ground to attack Archer from the air. The lance he had was blocked by Archer crossing his blades into an X.

"Man you're just as strong as that girl told me you would be," Lancer grinned as he sailed through the air to land onto the railing nicely, balancing his spear on his shoulder as he yawned.

Archer swung his blades at Lancer who effortlessly dodged the strike of the blades.

Rin and Shirou ran up to see Archer battling yet another Servant, who looked way worse than Assassin had been. Mikoto just stood there, looking both thrilled and spooked at the same time.

Rin was tired of just watching and used her magic to fire a painful blast at the Servant Lancer.

"Ouch," he muttered as he swung his arm back and let the spear fly.

Mikoto's eyes widened in horror when the spear went for him. He ducked before it could hurt him.

"Oi, we had a deal!" he yelled as he gaped at the Servant. "Eh? I don't recall my Master forming a pact to keep your miserable life intact," he said as he aimed for Mikoto once more.

Archer had to do something chivalrous and unlikely of him, he saved the man's life disarming the new spear before head butting him.

"I was surprised your Servant was wiped out faster than you. I did pick her out for you after all," a voice said as a woman appeared.

Rin didn't have a clue who she was, but maybe the same could be said about her not knowing Rin.

"You... you promised you will help me win the Grail!" Minot stammered, his glasses skewed on his nose as the woman looked at him as though he was a pile of shit.

"A cup that can grant any worldly desire is not a trinket. It belongs to an intelligent female woman who will one day change the lives of vegetarians and menial store workers."

"Enough with the idioms and crap. Just who on earth are you?!" Rin demanded.

"My name is Kiowa Fuu. I said my full name instead of saying my first name and then repeating it with my last name unlike what an anime character does."

"Eh?" Shirou muttered, wondering what she was trying to get at.

"The point is you don't stand a chance because I worked hard to be a good Mage and have a very good Servant with loads of expertise."

"But I paid you for it! I promised the Tendo family fortune!" Mikoto howled as the woman glared at him. "Fortune does not matter to a mage. Only skills. That shows what kind of a mage family you come from," she snarled as he gulped.

"She's right you know," Rin said. "I would never give up a battle just for a fortune."

"You don't understand, don't you? You hail from one of the oldest mage lineages in Japan and you will definitely get chosen for the War! Just to get chosen when I hail from a lost lineage is an honour and a dream! You don't know how it is like to be such a useless mage when you have been talented from the start!" Mikoto yelled.

Shirou felt he also was along those lines. He might only be in this war because he wandered into that place at that time.

"You don't just sit around and wait for your skills to improve! You have to practice! What do you think I have been doing my whole life?!" Rin shrieked.

Archer and Lancer were back to fighting against the other because of both their Masters rage.

"Trust me. I know how it is like to be so hopeless in this war," Shirou said as his schoolmate glared at him.

Archer crossed his blades trying to attack Lancer's weapon and then go for his throat.

"I tried so hard but without any formal training its hard for me to conduct even the simplest of spells so I try to memorise all the information I can get!" Mikoto yelled.

Archer was able to scratch what he thought was Lancer's neck, but turned out to be a metallic headband.

"You think memorising information when you can't even apply them is useful? You need to practice!" Rin snapped.

Archer just couldn't execute this Servant because his help was being distracted by conflict.

"I tried so hard and it doesn't work! If I win this War, I might be able to regain the honour I lost!" Mikoto shouted, his voice nearly drowned by the clashing of blades.

Mikoto wished he had a Servant who never gave up like Archer; Rin's Servant could even be better than Lancer.

Mikoto reeled back as a hand connected with his face. Rin glared at him as he stumbled back before grabbing his shirt front and bringing her face close to his, her eyes feral.

"Don't hurt me! I can't use my skills to hurt anyone because their not strong like yours."

"Still, you're a mage. Meaning you're capable of things a normal person wouldn't be able to do," she hissed, wishing she could just knock his head off his shoulders. He squealed like a pig as she pointed her fingers at him.

Archer was taking joy at the sounds they made while he was still fighting.

Shirou stood there feeling like a lost boy.

Where was his Servant that helped him before but wasn't here yet?

He thought of using his command seal but the thought of having to lose such a precious asset made him think twice about it.

He decided to just push Rin out of the way if the Servant went after her.

"You are a sorry excuse of a mage,' the woman hissed as a bolt left her hand.

Shirou watched the bolt of lightning wondering if he could deflect it.

Mikoto just stood there, staring at it as it tore towards him. A red bolt collided with it and Rin yelled, 'Don't just stand there! Fight!'

Mikoto knew whose side he was one now, the side that killed his Servant but saved his life now.

"Take this!" he yelled as he threw a fireball at the woman, who hissed as she leapt into the air. Shirou wondered how he could claim he didn't know one bit of magic.

She was fierce and strong able to shot a laser beam at the boy who threw a fireball at her.

Shirou felt like he was a dud watching the Servants and Masters battle together. But it wasn't like he didn't have a power of his own. "Trace on!" he yelled as a bow and arrow appeared in his hand and he notched it, aiming for Lancer's head.

He now had a plan on how to help Archer take down the Servant Lancer.

Lancer wasn't protected his head so if he were to hit his head... and there was also the issue of his neck and back. Those weren't protected either. Shirou prayed for all the practice he had in archery before this and took his aim, letting the arrow fly.

His arrow hit Lancer right where he wanted his arrow to be.

Lancer gaped as he toppled back, the arrow sticking out from the back of his head as he fell back, his Master screaming as he did so.

"What have you done to my Servant you fools!" She screamed.

"We killed him. Duh. Now there are only five servants remaining," Rin said as she trained her hand at her, gem at ready as the older woman snarled. "That's what you get for backstabbing me," Mikoto snarled as he got ready another fireball. Shirou trained another arrow at her.

She prepared to use a spell the same way Mikoto was using a spell. She had confidence in her spell.

"As if I will be defeated by a bunch of high school kids!" Kiowa shrieked as she prepared to attack. Her servant had started to dematerialise and she was in a panic since she had just been kicked out of the running for the grail.

It seemed like Rin and Shirou's high school life could return to normal since both the Masters and Servants of the school were all defeated leaving them with no challenge.

"Now we just have to deal with three more and we are done,' Rin said as Mikoto fell to his knees. "Forgive me!' He shouted as they gaped at him.

Shirou easily forgave him simply because making amends for being enemies helped solve a lot of problems over holding a vendetta over the troubles they have.

Rin on the other hand had to be escorted away from the premises before she blasted him to smitterins. The Master of Lancer had vanished after firing a lot of remarks on them.

Cuirassier was there now not liking the remarks he was making about her Master.

"Teach me to be a mage, Rin!' Mikoto begged. "I didnt recall being on a first name basis!' Rin snapped.

Shirou had to step in to try calming Rin down and telling Mikoto why he shouldn't be a mage.

"Come on man. The war is over for you. Maybe you should just concentrate on your studies for the time being," Shirou said as Mikoto looked utterly devastated. "Not to mention the chance of you getting killed are high if you ever crossed paths with another Master Servant pair. Its not like they would listen to you if you tell them you have lost your servant," Rin at sent Mikoto into a tunnel of darkness.

Mikoto trembled being inside the tunnel Rin sent him through. He wasn't sure he would see light again from her.