Chapter 2
Author's Note: This is word emphasis.
This is book, movie, and song titles
Emiya Home:
Shirou's eyes blink open blearily even as a crick in his neck makes itself known. He easily identified the weight on him as Hisa, a little Structural Analysis told him they were on the couch. He groans quietly, after eating, training, and getting their homework done they had curled up on the couch to watch a movie. They must have fallen asleep at some point. " Hello there, Shirou, I heard through the grapevine that you would let me make you a magical boy. "
" Zelretch, damn good thing it's not a school day, thank you in service days. First, nothing perverted, I'd prefer a sword, and that my hair color change as well. "
" I see, you want to make it so you can't be identified by anyone while you help your girlfriend deal with the mess her mother created for her to clean up. "
" Teleportation would be nice or some other means of travelling between Juuban and Fuyuki as well. " Shirou admits.
The Wizard Marshall nods at this, Shirou had always be a very practical person, this would be no different, " I'll see what I can come up with. For now, try and get her to actually stand up for herself amongst the girls. "
" I've been trying to do that. " Shirou states even as Zelretch disappears. He was well used to Zelretch coming and going as he pleased. He lowers the bounded fields, slips out from under Hisa, and starts making breakfast. He opens the door before Taiga can barge in, holding a finger up to his lips, " Hisa-chan doesn't need to get up early today. "
Taiga nods as she watches Shirou continue to make breakfast, her adoptive cousin, sister, whatever concerned her. Still, her paternal biological grandmother had given her permission to have intimate relations due to how miserable she had been. " You two fall asleep watching a movie again? "
Shirou grimaces as he rolls his neck, " We did, Fuji-nee. "
Once they've eaten Shirou goes to check on Hisa. He finds her curled up on the couch still, wrapped up in the afghan one of them must have grabbed at some point the night before. He brushes her bangs out of her face even as he places a light kiss on her forehead before heading upstairs to change into some training clothes. Then he grabs his bokken before meditating for twenty five minutes. After that he stretches out and enters the dojo to find Taiga already waiting for him. As the pair spar Hisa starts to stir, she winces as she realizes she had forgotten to take her color changing contacts out. She heads upstairs to do so, puts some eye drops in her eyes, and goes through her closet before settling on a sports bra, and sweatpants while also putting on a belt that would hold her bokken. She stretches out before grabbing her specially made dagger length bokken.
She heads into the dojo and with excellent timing gets the drop on both Shirou and Taiga. A three way spar erupts after that with Hisa holding her own. Sure, she had a shorter reach than the other two with her bokken, but she was faster and far more flexible. Especially when you take into consideration her Lerdrit and Pencak Silat fighting styles as well. Soon enough she has Taiga down and out before she focuses fully on Shirou. That wasn't to say neither one of them failed to keep track of Taiga. As they clash Hisa was quick to disarm her boyfriend, shove her bokken into her belt, before going after him in unarmed combat. Shirou blocks and redirects as best he can, all the while trying to get back to his discarded bokken. Instead before his brain can make the connection his girlfriend has him flat on his back while straddling him, one bokken at his throat while the other is immediately aimed at a kill point on Taiga whom had gotten her second wind.
" We surrender. " Taiga and Shirou say in unison.
" Good, now, Shi-kun, I didn't see any breakfast left for me. "
" I was going to make it fresh for you, Hisa-chan. " Shirou says, " If you let me up I'll make you breakfast now. "
She leans in close enough that Taiga can't hear what she says next, " I do believe you're already up, Shi-kun. "
Shirou couldn't lie to himself and say he didn't like this side of his girlfriend. He really, really liked the fact that she wasn't afraid to talk like this to him, " Be with you shortly, Fuji-nee. " Shirou says, already pulling her down to kiss her.
Taiga rolls her eyes as she goes to get cleaned up, teenagers were going to be teenagers, though she did like the fact that Hisa was finally being somewhat of an aggressor in the relationship. Shirou found out that his girlfriend would now actually make him work for being the dominant one. Shirou has one hand nimbly trailing up and down her spine while the other is tangled in her hair even as his tongue duels with hers. Hisa finally breaks the kiss, reluctantly, as they did need to breathe, and she was hungry dammit, " I suppose I need to make you breakfast now, don't I? "
" You do, then we're actually going to go on an actual date for once. " Hisa says.
" Where do you want to go, other than to update your manga supply. " Shirou says, he knew damn well his girlfriend happened to be a manga addict.
" The park. "
Shirou smiles, " Go get ready while I make your breakfast, Hisa-chan. I'll let Fuji-nee know that we'll be going out today. "
" Picnic lunch too, Shi-kun. "
" Naturally. " Shirou says. He watches her race off and heads into the shower of the dojo, he needed a cold one, immediately.
Once he's cleaned off and dressed in one of his casual outfits he kept in the dojo he sets to work on making his girlfriend breakfast and their lunch as well, " Shirou, what…? "
" Hisa-chan and I are going out today, Fuji-nee. She wants an actual date after she raids the nearest manga store for her addiction. " Shirou states.
Taiga sighs, " That means I don't get to lunch today. "
" Cook your own damn meal, Fuji-nee. I happen to have an attractive girlfriend that I'm going to be spending the day with. Get yourself a boyfriend, or girlfriend if you're so inclined. "
Once he has Hisa's meal and coffee ready he fully focuses on their lunch, making damned sure to have dark chocolate on hand. Once he has the picnic basket loaded Hisa appears in the kitchen. Shirou's jaw drops as he takes in her appearance, she had just a faint dusting of silver eyeshadow on, black mary janes, white leggings, and a silver halter dress on. On her left wrist was the bracelet he had given her for her birthday, he had reinforced it himself, along with engraving the runes on it. It was given to her to show his affection and as a means of protection. In her ears were a pair of alexandrite stud earrings, while on her shoulder was a bag from a demon hunting supply store that held far more than should be conceivable, black in color. Shirou already knew he'd be paying for her manga fix since he did actually set aside money for this every week out of his paycheck along with money for college and presents.
" Hisa-chan, you look fantastic. Of course, I'm probably going to end up killing a few idiots for looking at you wrong. " Shirou states even as she sits down to eat.
Taiga chuckles at this, " Poor otouto. "
Shirou flips her off casually as he places the picnic basket in Hisa's bag. Sure, she did happen to be a demon huntress, but the years of verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse had left their mark. She wasn't confident in her abilities anymore, daggers was something else, apparently she had a thing for short, sharp, and pointy things. Taiga locks up after they leave, smiling at the way Shirou had his arm wrapped around her shoulders, casually claiming possession of the younger teen. She'd seen how far he'd go to protect her. Having a girlfriend that wouldn't stand up for herself had given Shirou the wake up call he had needed.
Upon reaching the manga store Hisa immediately dives into the shelves and pouts when her Gundam Manga is on the top shelf, " Shi-kun? "
Shirou chuckles and grabs the right volume for her, " I hate being short. "
" You're just the right size, Hisa-chan. " Shirou tells her firmly.
The cashier was well used to the interaction of the couple in the store shopping for the girl's manga fix. Though the boy did happen to like sword fighting manga which meant he got the manga like InuYasha, Bleach, Sword Art Online, Sengoku Basara, Blood +, and Claymore. Once they've gotten everything and paid, the cashier sighs softly to herself when she sees the redhead pull his girlfriend into his side, subtly warning away those that would try to mess with her. Why couldn't her boyfriend be like that?
Hisa just leans into Shirou as they make their way to a certain park, this one happened to have a flower walk, which was what Hisa loved. She was the one that tended to their garden while he handled the household chores. He'd discovered very quickly that Hisa could make things like pre-packaged ramen, but actual cooking escaped her. However, she could handle gardening easily enough. Shirou would mow the lawn while she did the rest of the landscaping. She would drag him out to help with raking the leaves though. The seventeen year old was also subtly warning off any fool that seemed to think they could approach his girlfriend with him present.
Most of the local guys knew by now that Shirou had claimed the petite blonde next to him as his girl. They could also see that he happened to have a pair of bokken with him as well. What they didn't know is that he had reinforced these particular bokken so they would deliver quite a bit more damage. Being a sixth dan kendo practitioner did keep most idiots away from him. He just hoped Zelretch made his transformation item more than tolerable. He's not surprised when Hisa breaks away from him when they reach their destination, he follows after her at a leisurely pace. If need be he could easily catch up to her. She was only really this carefree around flowers when in public. The rest of the time she stayed close to him, too unsure of herself in any other situation. Her past life waking up had helped, yet she still had no confidence in herself.
Juuban:
Hino Rei rolls her shoulders as she groans, being a magical girl wasn't as fun as the manga made it out to be. She was very grateful she happened to have the day off of school as this gave her time to rest, and train her ass off. Only being able to use anti-evil sutras and one attack was a pain in the ass. She would need to train to get herself in better fighting form. Working that in with her school work and her duties at the shrine was not going to be easy, but nothing worth doing was ever easy to begin with.
Luna is currently relaxing in a patch of sunlight at the Hikawa Shrine. Since she had no interest in attacking birds she was allowed to stay since she did take care of the mice problem they had been having. Rei also made sure to keep cat vitamins and one of the better cat foods available stocked for her as well to supplement her diet when she wasn't hunting mice or leads down about youma. The female feline knew that at some point soon she would have to set to work again, no two ways about that.
Time Gates:
Sailor Pluto, with long viridian hair up in a half bun, garnet colored eyes, and a staff that looks like a giant key blinks when Crystal Tokyo fades out of existence. Instead something new appears, a red-headed man with golden brown eyes could be seen with his arms wrapped around a black haired younger woman with a pair of golden brown eyes peeking out from behind the man's leg. Behind them was a purple haired girl and then the rest of the senshi. After that the Gates cut her off. Apparently the future was in a giant toss up though why she hardly had any idea. She had no idea whom the redhead was that was with the Hime apparently, even with a different hair color Pluto still recognized her princess. What was happening with her princess anyhow?
Fuyuki:
After Hisa has her fill of looking at the flowers the young couple finds a place to set up their picnic. The pair are content to just eat and be with each other. Until Zelretch came up with something for him to use there was no way in hell Shirou was letting her fight without him. After their chat he had done a little bit of research online and found out about Sailor Mars being active in Juuban. This meant that Shirou was going to make damned sure he could kick ass with and without swords, even if he did happen to have an honest to Root Reality Marble in his soul, worthy of a sealing designation from the Clock Tower. He was not going to join the Clock Tower since his girlfriend just happened to overrule them or so he hoped.
Zelretch had taught him how to use his reality marble, and since he'd been taught how to properly access his circuits he could power it. He'd also been taught how to make a contract with someone else to get the power necessary to keep his Reality Marble going. Though that might not be an issue since he had read up on the Silver Millennium, true historical books that Zelretch had given him over the years. Now he understood why he had been given them. His and Hisa's meeting most likely was orchestrated by the true apostle ancestor, multi dimensional traveling, master of the second true magic troll.
He mentally shrugs these thoughts away before laying back, taking Hisa with him. It was quite a peaceful day, why not enjoy it. Until Zelretch got back to him with a means to make him a magical boy he was not going to allow his girlfriend anywhere near Juuban. Not to mention the fact that her birth family was still there, living their lives as though they hadn't tried to murder a member of their family. His bokkens were at his side, within his left hand. No one that knew him would be stupid enough to even attempt to go after him or Hisa. He was about due to take his next ranking test in Kendo soon as well. Finding a sensei that could teach a student the two sword style he specialized in had been fortuitous.
He's not even surprised when he feels Hisa's breathing even out, the only time she really got any decent sleep was when she was curled up with him anyhow. They maintained separate rooms more for Taiga than anything else. " Hello, senpai. "
Shirou looks to his right to see the purple haired and violet eyed Matou Sakura, " Hey, Sakura, how are you? "
" Better than I've been in a very long time. Grandfather had an unfortunate accident which meant I could reconnect with my biological older sister. Naturally I had to kick her ass for being such a piss poor older sister once I ascertained that she would allow me to move back in. I'll still stop by your place to help you cook for Fujimura-sensei. " Sakura says.
Shirou smiles, " Good, I could use the help with the housework since Hisa-chan is better with landscaping type chores anyhow. Whom is your sister, Sakura-san? "
" Tohsaka Rin. " Is the immediate answer. Needless to say after being raped by Shinji for years, thrown away like trash by her own father since he thought Rin was the better magus, and Rin not doing jack shit to help her Sakura had severe anger issues. Thanks to the healing properties of the wave of power from Hisa's forced awakening the day before Sakura and Dark Sakura had merged, making Sakura's overall mental health a lot better than it would be in several other dimensions. Since she had been suffering with certain worms in her for years the changes to her hair and eyes remained.
It was only when she sat down to join the couple that she felt the power that had liberated her yesterday, " Shirou-senpai, what happened yesterday shortly after school? " Sakura asks him.
Golden brown eyes look at her in confusion, how could she possibly even begin to know that something had happened yesterday unless…" Sakura, are you a magus? "
" Hai, I am, why? " Sakura asks him, honestly curious as to why that would matter in the slightest. It was when his hold on Hisa tightens slightly and his eyes narrow that she understands. She owed her current freedom to Hisa and apparently her senpai's life as well. He didn't want to say anything out in the open where he couldn't control the flow of information. She could respect that, " I'll walk home with you and help you make dinner, how about that, Shirou-senpai? "
" That works, Sakura-san, now, am I allowed to finally deal with the ass that is known as Matou Shinji? " Shirou asks her. He had been wanting to kick Shinji's ass for years now. Shinji was the kind of person that just grated on your personality as a whole. The fact that Hisa would hide behind him the entire time she was near Shinji spoke volumes about his character. Shirou knew his girlfriend happened to be an empath, which is what had really hurt her while she had been living with her parents. For an empath emotional abuse was worse than physical because they felt the emotions of those around them. To know how they really felt about her and then to have them shove her out of a moving car that was going well above the speed limit as well...if Shirou ever met Ikuko, Kenji, or Shingo he would take great delight in brutally maiming them.
Having a severely abused girl fall into his life had given him a purpose other than saving people. He would do whatever the hell it took to protect her, if that included murdering someone in cold blood to get it done then he would. Hisa came first and everything else came second. He'd protect all of his precious people the same way just not to the same extent as he would with Hisa.
Juuban:
Sailor Mars curses as she ducks under another attack from the current youma she was dealing with, somersaulting to her left as yet another attack comes her way, throwing one of her talismans while she does so, this causes the youma to move aside even as Mars has to somersault away from yet another attack. The lone senshi curses once again, now would be a really good time for Luna to awaken another senshi. This one happened to be fast, which meant she would need some help to fucking pin it down. Before she can react properly the youma reaches her and sucker punches her in the stomach hard enough to force her to cough up blood.
Mars goes into a forwards somersault and fires off her attack as she does so, hitting the youma for once. Still, she doesn't get any time to regroup, at all. Instead she's brutally kicked in her right side and goes skidding across the ground before slamming into a tree. Mars moans and remains prone, she was done for if she received no help. " Kaleidogirl Morganite, ready and willing to kick some serious ass. "
In the girl's hands is a purple staff with a circle at the top and a seven pointed star in the center with what looked like angel wings attached to it. " Knight Carnelian, time to kick some youma ass. " In the guy's hands was what looked like a double bladed naginata at first until he pulled it apart, revealing his weapon to be two swords that looked like a cross between a saber and a cutlass. The hilts were red in color, finally there was a girl beside him, her fuku looked much more advanced than the one Mars was wearing, the bows were black and much longer, the gem in the front bow and on the tiara were blue in color and heart shaped. It looked like there was a ruffly blue underskirt and a black edged blue skirt on top of that. Her white gloves went up to her elbows where there was black edging like Mars own gloves were edged in red. She had on knee height black boots with white laces as well. She was slightly behind the guy whom looked like a knight, he wore a red over coat, blue undershirt, and black boots. His hair was a deep sapphire blue as well.
Kaleidogirl Morganite was wearing a deep purple breast band over a black leotard, deep purple shorts, happened to have lavender colored hair, and what looked like cheetah ears on her head, along with a long prehensile tail as well. Her eyes looked like they were crimson from wear Mars was laying down trying to recover from the brutal beating she had just received. As for how Shirou, Hisa, and Sakura ended up in Juuban, well, Zelretch might have had something to do with that, he drawn them into the Kaleidoscope, had Shirou wake his girlfriend up, fill Sakura in on everything, before allowing them all to henshin, then dropping them in Juuban just in time to save Sailor Mars' inexperienced ass.
Zelretch did give Carnelian and Morganite the ability to teleport their users from Juuban to Shirou's home in Fuyuki, well Carnelian could teleport Shirou and Hisa since Hisa hadn't regained that ability on her own just yet since she had only just awakened her powers the day before. Morganite and Knight Carnelian go after the youma while Moon calls upon her blue handled crescent moon wand, the crescent moon part was silver, and it still had a red indicator gem when it came time to track down the rainbow crystals, " Who are you, anyhow. Your companions introduced themselves after all. " Mars asks.
" What, the shape of my weapon doesn't give you any ideas? " Moon asks her.
" Ah, you're Sailor Moon, which moon do you represent anyhow? "
" The one whose princess you're sworn to defend. I defended the people, not the royal family. " Moon states, " Moon Healing Escalation! "
Mars sighs in relief when she can feel her pain fade away, " Thank you, so you're more of a healer? "
" At the moment, due to how I was raised it's hard for me to defend myself let alone fight even though I've mastered two martial arts and Knight Carnelian is training me in Kendo. Might I recommend Kyudo for you? " Moon says and the two senshi leap into the air to avoid the youma that was kicked towards them.
" Mars Fire Ignite! "
Knight Carnelian and Kaleidogirl Morganite add their own energy attacks which Zelretch had not named as well, destroying the youma. Moon lands by Knight Carnelian whom immediately wraps an arm around her telling Mars all she needed to know. Kaleidogirl Morganite sighs, " Moon does have a communicator though all of us getting cell phones would probably work better. Call her if you need help and we'll arrive as soon as we can, Sailor Mars. "
Mars nods, that would explain the Moon symbol on her communicator, " I will, thank you for helping me. Up until now I could handle the youma on my own. "
They all nod and vanish while Sailor Mars leaps away from the battle site as well. She had a lot of things to think over after this battle though she would start taking Kyudo lesson and maybe try to make some sacred arrows as well. Many priestess' in the past had used archery as a means of dealing with troublesome demons after all.
Emiya Home:
Hisa lets her transformation fade immediately, thankful she hadn't really needed to fight. The princess part of her had no problems with fighting, but she just couldn't bring herself to defend herself, others yes, herself no. A year of therapy was not going to work miracles for such an abused girl after all. " Go clean up, Hisa-chan. Sakura-san and I, will start making dinner, okay. I'll also up the strength of the bounded fields as well. "
With that said Hisa heads upstairs to shower and get into more comfortable clothes. Sakura looks at Shirou, " If not for her awakening like she had I'd be like her. You're good for her, Shirou-senpai. "
" She literally collapsed on my porch about a year ago after her family shoved her out of a vehicle going well above the speed limit. If not for her insane healing factor that alone probably would have killed her. " Shirou says, sighing as he starts the prep work for dinner, " Even after a year of therapy I refuse to leave her alone with your older sister because Hisa just won't defend herself, she'll take everything that anyone dishes out because her so called family managed to reinforce the idea that she isn't worth it. "
Sakura looks at him, " You're really worried about her, aren't you, Shirou-senpai? "
" Damn straight I am. Her nightmares aren't as frequent as they were. At first they came hourly almost, now, well she generally only has one a night. Being back in Juuban will be a setback for her though. She grew up in that district of the Minato Ward. It's why I resigned myself to being a magical boy. I'll suffer through enabling Zelretch if it means I can be there to help Hisa through the pain of being back in her hometown so to speak. " Shirou says, " That being said at least my item isn't a pervert. "
Sakura sighs, Magical Morganite wasn't too bad out of her brethren. " I can handle Morganite's perversion since everyone has an inner pervert. "
" I have a live in girlfriend whom has no sense of modesty. " Shirou deadpans.
Sakura blinks at this statement, " In other words when it's just you two she'd be more likely to walk around in next to nothing. "
" That's about right, even Fuji-nee has given up on curtailing Hisa's behavior on days we don't have school since this is also Hisa's home, her biological paternal grandmother gave her permission at the age of thirteen to have an adult relationship, and the fact that I refuse to take things that far until Hisa's sixteen. Hot and heavy make out sessions, hell yes, I'm seventeen so of course I'm going to get hot and heavy with my girlfriend, age gap or not. "
Upstairs Hisa leans against the shower wall as she tries to reign in her emotions of having been back in Juuban. She refused to break down and yet she could feel the tears coming on, then falling down her cheeks. She had long since learned how to cry quietly lest she get berated even more by her parents for being worthless. She had tried to ignore it when she was younger, when her grandmother was training her as her heiress she'd been able to easier because her grandmother had always told her what a good job she was doing. After completing her training at eight she didn't have that to bolster her anymore. Oh, Naru-chan had always praised her ability to draw, to be nice to everyone, however praise from a friend could only do so much when one was constantly compared to their younger brother and found lacking.
Once dinner was underway Shirou heads upstairs to check on Hisa, she should have been down already. He curses under his breath when he finds her, he could tell she had gotten cleaned up, but now she was just leaning back against the wall, letting the by now cold water hit her. Even though he couldn't see her tears he knew they were there from how miserable she looked. He reaches in to shut the water off before grabbing one of the larger towels and wrapping it around her body. The fact that she just pliantly went with it was worrying. That generally meant she was lost in her own thoughts. He dries her off before swinging her up into his arms, carrying her to her room to get a charmeuse on her, along with a pair of underwear. Then he pulls a pair of sweatpants on her as well. With that done he pulls a brush through her hair and whips it up into a braid.
" Hisa-chan, come back to me. " Shirou murmurs, he hated it when this happened. She basically just existed when she was like this, her therapist had told him that episodes like this would be common if something happened that reminded her too strongly of what she had left behind. With a sigh he picks her up again and carries her downstairs so he could at least feed her. He hated not being able to kick the asses of the individuals that did this to her. Sakura's eyes widen when she sees the dead look in Hisa's eyes, though there was one sign of life in her, the death grip she had on Shirou's shirt, almost as if she was afraid he'd disappear on her.
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