Chapter 4: A god for odd jobs

"There we go, all done." Shirou said as he finished fiddling with the washing machine that had a broken motor. Usually this would have taken a much longer time to do, as well as finding the problem on the first place. Thankfully Shirou can use structural grasping, an ability that allows him to scan anything, allowing him to understand the structure, material and the history of the washing machine. Which was how he find the problem and how to fix it.

"Ah, thanks Shirou." His client, a man in his late 40s, said in gratitude before he continues, "What was the problem anyway?"

"The motor was loose from the rust. Expected since you had it for a good while, but I only fixed it temperarily. So you should probably replace the thing after a couple of weeks."

"I see, well thanks again Shirou. We really needed the help, after everything got so stressful, from when..." He stopped and looked at the picture on the table and Shirou followed. It was a picture frame with the family of four, showing his client, wife and children. The mood became sombre and quiet.

"What happened?"

"My little girl...she died. On the 23rd, last month...I'm sorry, you didn't need to know that did you. How much do I owe you anyway?"

Seeing that he wanted to change the subject, I obliged, "Only 5000 yen." Giving Shirou the money the money, he left after a farewell and went to wait until his next job. This his live went now. He would usually get a phone call, from the phone Kofuku gave him, with the client telling him the situation and then he would literally be there flash. Literally teleporting there. He didn't even know how to do it. It just happens.

Then he heard the ringing of the subject at hand. "Huh, that was quick, usually it takes longer than this." Flipping open the phone he instantly teleported in a bright blue light.

In the back of a restaurant Shirou appeared in bright blue light. "Hello, I am Emiya Shirou. What can I do for you today?"

An aged, presumably his client looked at him and then back at the card in the hands. Oh, did he mention that Kofuku made a bunch of business cards and on it is the phone number for the phone she gave him. Charged him 100 million yen for her services (that is a complete rip off). Though he got out of that debt with his cooking-offering a 3 feasts a day, with desserts, for a whole month.

"Are you really the one this card was talking about? Shouldn't you be in school at this hour?" The elderly woman asked, looking at Shirou with a face that says 'your in trouble young man'. Not that he could blame her. He is only seventeen years old, but she doesn't know that, nor any gods for that matter.

"Yes I am the odd-jobbed god, that card is talking about. I can cook, clean and fix appliances." I droned with a less than enthusiastic tone. Mainly because of the name. It just sounds so ridiculous, when you say it out loud.

"Well, I'll take your word for it. We're short on hands anyway. You'll be getting 1500 yen an hour, cleaning the plates." She told him pointing to the sink, that had a mountain of plates that would deter anyone. Luckily he had fed a black hole that went through more plates than that. Keeping a smile on, Shirou, diligently went to work.

These situation aren't really that new to Shirou. He used to work part-time and that job got flooded with customers-due to him working as chef. Talking of which should he make the food here? He doesn't want to cause any problems for the manager, since he can't always be here to make the food. He carried on working as he contemplated.

When he finally worked through the rush hours, judging from the income of plates, he noticed the smell of a god. Closing his eyes, he focused on the scent. It seems to have the ocean...no it smelled more like fish. Only one god comes to mind, that have a distinct relation to fish. 'But Kofuku-san doesn't smell anything like fish. Now that I think about it, Ebisu is a god fortune and Kofuku-san smells like...poverty.' The realisation sinking into his head, he felt like hitting himself for not noticing. 'Of course Kofuku-san isn't actually the god of fortune' But before he could reprimand himself, he heard a male voice from the counter.

Sitting in one of the seats, in front of the counter, is a man with slick black hair and dark green eyes. He was wearing a very business-man like suit. Make sense, since he is also the god of commerce. The man is quite expressionless as well.

"Ah hello again. Would like the usual?" Asked the manager.

"Yes, thank you." The man politely replied. After the manager left to get the order. He looked over to Shirou, noticing another god in the vicinity. There was no exchange between them, neither of them knowing what to do and Shirou being Shirou; he waved and smiled, before going back to his work.

Finishing his shift and getting his pay he quickly left to go meet with an other god. It's surprisingly rare to find another god here. Like extremely rare. 'I wonder why? I'll ask Kofuku later.' Stopping a moment to focus on the scent, specifically the scent of divinity and fish.

He stood there for moment, completely still. If people were able to see him, they would look at him with confused stares. Luckily nobody can see him. Finally catching onto the scent, he followed it. It only took a few minute to catch up to him and the first was...

"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" He shouted, whilst reinforcing his leg and ran towards the god. The god that happens to be walking in front of a truck without care. Running like a bullet, Shirou pushed the god away, as well as narrowly avoiding the speeding truck. "Ebisu-sama why were you on the road when a truck was clearly moving your way?" He panted in between breaths of air.

"Ah thank you for saving me, but it was unneeded. I have faith that my luck would save me." Ebisu nonchalantly said.

"What do you mean. If I wasn't here, the tuck would have hit you."

"Maybe, but I was lucky in that you were here."

"But-"

"Anyway you should get of the ground and I believe we haven't been properly introduced yet. I am Ebisu and you are?" The green eyed god said cutting Shirou off.

"Oh, uhhh, I'm Emiya Shirou. It's nice to meet you, Ebisu-sama." The redhead replied, noticing that he was indeed still sitting on the floor. As he stood up he heard the god of fortune ask.

"So what did you want?"

"Well, I just wanted to talk to you really," The golden eyed adolescent answered before adding, "It's surprisingly hard to find other gods to talk to."

"That's because most of them are in takamagahara (heaven)."

"Where?" Shirou questioned. Which got him a look from Ebisu.

"You are a god right, Emiya-san? You should know what that is."

"Uh well you see I'm not exactly..." Shirou stopped before wondering what he should say. After all everyone seems to believe he actually is god and this could bring up a lot of problems, if he doesn't say the right thing. Luckily he was saved by Ebisu himself.

"Takamagahara is basically heaven, where a god can ascend to after getting a shrine." The god of fortune explained, after guessing Shirou was a green as grass god. "Anyway, I would like to ask a question: why did you save me?" He was curious. Most people, god or otherwise, wouldn't have jumped in like that.

"Because you were in trouble." Shirou replied like it was the simplest thing in the world. And to him; it is. To him saving isn't a bad thing to do. He believes that if you can save someone you should. Because it's his dream. To be a hero of justice. Something that Ebisu can agree with.

"I see." He smiled. "So you wish to save people." It wasn't a question. Because he already know the answer. After all it takes one to know one.

"Yea. I want to be a hero of justice. A hero that can save everyone."

"That's an admirable dream." Shirou seems slightly surprised at this, but before he could say anything, Ebisu spoke again, "Well Emiya-san, this is where we part ways. Goodbye"

Watching him walk off, Shirou finally noticed that they weren't in the street anymore, but it instead he was standing in a park. Looking back to the god he noticed that he was already gone. He stared for a few moments before he finally started walking towards the exit. It was probably around 4 in the afternoon, so he should be able to walk home to Kofuku's to make dinner as well as get some groceries while he's at it.

Shirou was walkng through the busy street after getting the groceries for today. It was still bright out and some of the street lights, that still uses timed system was already on. From what Kofuku told him, phantoms are generally more active in the night, especially on storm nights. Then there's twilight, when day and night meets, when it is believed monsters starts to come out. The monster hour.

Looking to the sky he noticed a black miasma, usually signifying a storm is brewing. 'Maybe I should go out on patrol tonight.' It's not like he doesn't go out on any other night, anyway. Though sometimes Kofuku does try to convince to the red head to not go out, he will sneak out in the night and hunt down any phantoms he can. As he walked on, he heard someone crying, a little girl.

"Mommy...please hurry, I'm scared."

"I wanna go home."

His gaze fell upon an alleyway, there he found a girl, probably no more older than 8. She had brown hair, that was put into a ponytail. Bright blue eyes, that was slightly red from crying. She wore a pink hoodie, white shorts and bright pink sneakers. She stood up, finally noticing Shirou staring at her. "You can see me?" He didn't say anything not sure what to say at the moment. Then he felt a small body smash into him. Looking down he saw the little girl, holding onto him like a lifeline, shivering like a leaf. "Please stay with me. Everyone is ignoring for some reason and these eyes are the only ones talking to me, but they're scary. Please stay with me, at least until mommy comes pick me up at 6'oclock?" She was practically begging at this point, you can feel the desperation in her voice. Poor girl. Dying so young, she's probably scared out of his mind.

In the corner of his eye he noticed a sign, with flowers next to it. 'On the 23rd, last month, a young girl was killed here in a hit-and run' was written. Shirou focused on the first part and instantly thought back to a few hours ago.

'The picture'

'She died on the 23rd last month.'

"Yea, sure." And they waited.

Shirou and the girl was sitting on a bench they found. They've probably been there for about 2 hours now and it was already dark. The girl was swinging her legs as she sat, happy that she finally had some to talk to. Shirou on the other hand was thinking on what to do. He knows for a fact that telling her 'she died' is bad idea, nevermind the fact that her parents may never come for her at all.

"Sorry, mommy's a bit late." She unintentionally snapped him out of his thoughts. "Your family must be worried as well, you were getting groceries weren't?"

That made Shirou think of Rin and everyone else that's probably worried sick. Too bad he could never reach them. "I think they would be very right now. But the groceries were for my landlady."

"I'm sorry, onii-chan, I shouldn't-" She stopped as the light aboved them, flickered. 'She's scared of the dark.' Shirou thought.

"No, no it's fine. I couldn't leave a cute little girl like you alone now can?"

"Thank you, onii-chan."

"Your mommy is taking a long time though and it's getting really late." This is probably the only thing he can do, without destroying the kid's state of mind. "Do you want to come with me and wait for your parents tommorrow?" He could tell that she wasn't sure about this. She was fidgeting around as she thought about my offer.

She knows that talking with strangers was bad, and going with a stranger to a place she doesn't know about is probably worse. 'But,' She thought 'onii-chan doesn't seem like a bad person, and it really is getting dark out and those eye thingies might come back.' However before she can answer the light gave out and fear gripped her. She saw, what she thought to be monsters calling her to come closer. She screamed, closing her eyes and covering her ears, hoping that it will stop the voices.

"It's okay, it's okay. Your safe now. Onii-chans here, so open your eyes." Shirou comforted the small child whilst hugging her and stroking her back trying to calm her down. The girl opened her eyes to see the monsters gone and in there place are swords, that disappeared in a blue light. Finally feeling the fear leave her, she felt like crying. She tried to hold it back , but it was futile. The tears streamed down her face anyway, whilst Shirou comforted her as he hugged her.

They stayed like that until she finally calmed down, eyes red and hiccupping a few times here and there. Shirou wiped away her tear lines asking, "Are you okay?"

She nodded.

"Come on, onii-chan's going to take you somewhere safer okay?"

She nodded again, as Shirou turned around and started to carry her on his back. He grabbed the groceries, asking her to hold them for him.

"So what's your name? I'm Shirou."

"A-aiko."

"I see, that's a pretty name. Okay then Aiko-chan, hold on tightly." He instructed as he lowered ground. Not a second later he blasted off to the nearest rooftop. If it wasn't for the fact that no one could actually hear spirits, they would have noticed a girl screaming, on the back of a red headed boy. The police would have wanted posters, with a red head on it, all over the place. Soon enough Aiko calmed down and starting admiring the view.

"Sugoooi!" Aiko beamed at Shirou. "Onii-chan this is so cool. How can you do this?"

Shirou smiled at the happy child on his back. "That's because Onii-chan is a hero."

"A hero?"

"Yea. A hero of justice that comes to the rescue." She told the girl who stared at him in awe. "If you wished really hard, I'll be there to help."

"Really!"

He smiled at her and nodded.

"So cool!"

As he arrived at Kofuku's house, with Aiko in tow. He noticed the damage that were on the door, that weren't there before, but he couldn't ponder what happened, as pink blur crashed into him. "SHI-TAN!" Shouted the pinkette goddess. "Where were you? You were supposed to be back by half past four!"

"There you are kid, where did you go so late." Daikoku asked and then he noticed someone hiding behind Shirou's like. "And why is there a brat behind you? Don't tell me you-"

"NO! I mean no, I'm just giving her place to stay until we can find Aiko-chan's mother. For some reason everyone seems to ignore her and she sees these eye thingies."

Explaining that, both Kofuku and Daikoku got a serious look on their face. "I see. Well come on in then Shirou and Aiko, we don't want you catching a cold now do we." Daikoku invited.

As they all went inside, Aiko stayed as close to Shirou as possible, still somewhat recovering from the encounter with phantoms as well as being timid from meeting new people. They sat down on opposite sides of the table as Daikoku poured them some tea. As he got closer to Aiko, she hid behind Shirou.

"It's okay Aiko-chan. They're both very nice people. So say hi." Shirou encouraged the girl, that was hiding behind his back. She seems to be very nervous around new people, but it is kind of expected from a child.

"Um hello. My name is Aiko, please take care of me." She stuttered slightly as she bowed. However once she rose, Kofuku was already smothering her.

"Ohhhh. Your just so cute." The goddess cooed at the blushing child between her arms, rubbing her face against Aiko. She carried on praising the cuteness of Aiko.

Daikoku tried to calm her down whilst Shirou went off to the kitchen to make dinner, after putting away the groceries. Whilest cooking, Shirou thought on what to do with Aiko. He promised her to go wait for her mother again, but it's doubtful she would ever come to get her. It's also a bad idea to ever let them meet. Just imagine finding your mother after so long, but she doesn't even notice you. Aiko wouldn't only despair, she'll turn into a phantom. "I'll figure out later." With that he carried on cooking dinner, which he served an hour later.

"Itadakimasu!" Came the collective voices in a goddess' residence. They were all gathered around the table as they said this, with many different kinds dishes. Most of them were japanese dishes, but there are a few european dishes here and there. The first ones to grab a bite was either Kokufu or Daikoku. They were stuffing themselves with food as Aiko stared in awe at how fast they are eating.

"You better start eating or there will be none left." Shirou told Aiko as he ate normally and smiled when the indigo eyed girl ate her first bite, before she started eating flurry.

"This is amazing onii-chan!" Aiko stated with a stuff mouth. Before she was scolded by Shirou for eating with her mouth full. "I'm sorry onii-chan, it's just so good."

"It's alright, just don't eat with your mouth full okay."

"Yes onii-chan." Aiko said before going back to her food with a great big smile on her face.

It was already time for bed after they finished dinner and Aiko was sleeping with Kofuku, since the goddess refues to leave the brown haired girl. Daikoku was cleaning the dishes, as was Shirou. However it was surprisingly tense as the both of them weren't conversing. It was completely quiet except the sound of washing dishes. This carried on for while until Daikoku broke the silence.

"You do know what she is right?" He asked.

Shirou stayed silent for a second before replying, "She's a scared little girl that needs help."

"She's a spirit. A spirit in danger of becoming a phantom and can become one very easily."

"I won't let that happen."

"So why she isn't a regalia yet?"

Shirou expected that question. After all , he wasn't actually a god. There is also the fact that a god has an obligation to give a spirit a second chance at live, by becoming a regalia. This was the main reason for having spirits lingering around in the plane of the living. Spirits that didn't want to die. 'But I'm not god. I can't give Aiko a second chance in live.' That thought irked him.

"How am I suppose to tell a little girl that she's dead." That's all he can say. It probably means nothing at all, but it will buy him some time to figure out what to do.

"You don't have to tell her. She forget everything, up until the point she was named."

I stopped dead after that.

"I know it doesn't make it any better, but at least she can start a new."

"How much would she forget? Would she keep her personality?" Daikoku looked at me with a look when I said that. It might have been a odd question to him, but, 'I need to know'. This is important. Aiko doesn't need to be like him. To have forgotten everything, even your own personality. Emiya Shirou doesn't want Aiko to take up his dream, or at least have a sense of self-preservation.

The black haired man carried on staring at the boy until he finally spoke, "She would forget everything until the moment she is named and don't worry she should still have her personality."

"That's good."

They both fell into a small silence again with the hands working on finishing the cleaning. "Hey, Daikoku-san."

"Hmm?"

"You're a good person." Shirou smile. It was true. Daikoku was a caring type, despite the rough exterior. He's especially towards children. Almost like he was a father once. Maybe Shirou didn't need to ask, after all Daikoku probably was a father back when he was still alive.

"Oi oi oi, Shirou, don't start getting all sappy with me, will ya."

The red head laughed, "Hai, hai, hai, Daikoku-san."

"Bye bye Shi-tan, Ai-chan!"

"Make sure Aiko's safe and sound okay, Shirou!"

Shouted Kofuku and Daikoku respectively, waving at Shirou and Aiko, who waved back. "Bye bye Kofuku-san, Daikoku-san, thank you for having me." Shouted the young girl, before turning around and pulling Shirou along. "Let's go onii-chan! We need to go find mommy, come on!" Aiko carried on dragging Shirou, as he went along with it.

Earlier today Shirou suggested to Aiko that instead of waiting for her mom, they should look for her. Of course Aiko wasn't really sure of the idea, saying her mom might look for her where she waited. So Shirou told her that they would go and check a few times after looking.

So now they were in the vicinity of where he founded Aiko. However, as Shirou and Aiko checked in the shopping area, he felt quite guilty for decieving the girl, 'Even worse with me not being able to give her a second chance.' They were currently looking for Aiko's mother in a shop, where Shirou noticed a boy, with blonde hair, looking at a skateboard. His aura seems familiar like a-

"Onii-chan mommy's not here let's go check somewhere else."

"Hai Aiko-chan."

They carried on looking for Aiko's mother. But they never found her. Everytime Aiko would get a hopeful look on her face, which decayed into a downcasted frown, but she carried on. It really struck at Shirou's heart everytime this happened. He felt guilty. For decieving the girl, even when he knew where mother really was. Despite this he knew, what woul happen if he had taken Aiko to her. Which led to the thought of seeing the happy girl turn into a phantom. Shaking his, Shirou pushed the thought out of his head.

As they looked the day quickly became sundown, seeing that the day is almost over they sat on a bench to rest. Shirou looked to his right noticing the sad expression on Aiko's face. They've sent the entire day looking for her mother, but she never even got a glimpse of her and it made Shirou all the more guilty.

"Sorry"

"It's okay onii-chan. You tried your best to help me." She tried to smile, but it ended up looking sad. "We can always try tommorrow."

"Yea." That was all he said, but he carried on looking at Aiko. At her blue eyes that betrayed the smile she was trying to keep.

"How about getting some ice cream, Aiko-chan. I bet you would like something to eat, right?"

"Yeah, sure!" She smiled. It still looked sad.

"Okay then. I'll go get some, you stay here okay?"

She nodded and Shirou went off to get ice cream. Aiko carried sitting there and once Shirou got out of view, she dropped her smile. "Where are you mommy." She cried. "Where are you, don't you love me anymore?"

'I'm sure she's worried about you too, Aiko-chan." Those was the words that went through her head, when she said that; Shirou's words.

She quickly shook her head. 'Shirou onii-chan is with me, so I can't think like this. It wouldn't be fair, not when he's so nice to me.' Then as she looked around, to see if Shirou came back yet, then she saw-

"Okaa-san!" But she already left and Aiko ran after her. As fast as her legs could carry her. Then she saw her mother walk into a crowd and followed immediately. It was her mother. She can finally go home and see her father as well. But she lost sight of her after a while and she finally noticed that she's no longer where she was. She couldn't recognize anything around her. She became terriefied and she cried out, for Shirou, for her mother, before she backed herself into a wall and started crying rivers.

'If you wished really hard, I'll be there to help." Remembering those words she immediately closed her eyes and started to pray. Aiko prayed that Shirou would came help. That he would do what he promised. As she carried on praying, she felt a gaze fall upon her. She opened her eyes and saw a blonde, amber eyed boy staring at her. "You...can see me?" The boy didn't respond and instead, turned around about to run. "Wait don't go. I'm looking for onii-chan, he should be looking for me right now. I don't want to stay in the dark alone, so...can you stay until he comes?" She pleaded as she grabbed hold of his sleeve. Again he boy didn't respond. He just stood there and Aiko started to worry that she would be alone again.

"Okay." The boy agreed.

Then one thing led to another and they were both on a bench, with a light under it. It was already night and they both sat there in a silence until Aiko spoke up. "Sorry, but onii-chan is a little late. He went to get some ice cream before I got lost."

The amber eyed boy only nodded and didn't say anything. He knew that neither of the little girls mother, nor brother, would come for her. He knew because she was dead, like him.

"What about you. Are you waiting for someone too?" The little girl asked.

"I don't think anyone's going to come for me."

"That's not right, you should have someone to help you." Then she thought of something. "Hey once onii-chan gets here, you can go with him. I'm sure he would help you. Or if mommy gets here you can come in the car as well!"

"I...I don't think either one of them will come." The lights flickered and something in the little girl broke when he said that.

"I'm sorry, but...I doubt someone's going to pick you up."

The lights went out.

"Her mother's not gonna come. How sad." In the darkness phantoms were looking at them. All of them was telling them to come over with there hands. Specifically Aiko.

"Your mother's not gonna be here. So come with us." The last line was repeated, by many phantoms at once as they started to come closer.

"Phantoms!" The boy shouted as he made a slashing motion in the air with his fingers. "Borderline." It created a barrier between them. However it didn't stop as some of the phantoms got past the line before he made it. 'Shit, I was too slow.' The phantom jumped at him. He didn't have time to move and even if he did, it was unlikely he would survive anyway.

"Yukine." A female voice shouted pushing the boy-Yukine- out of the way. She was wearing a red checkered coat with a black skirt. "Yukine, what's going on here?"

"The girl, the phantoms are after the girl!" Yukine shouted. The new comer turned her head towards the little girl that's still sat on the bench, her back against it and the phantom walking towards her.

"Come with us and you won't be sad anymore."

"You won't be sa-"

"NO!" Aiko screamed, closing her eyes and covering her ears. Hoping that what she did would make them disappear. "ONII-CHAN PROMISED ME, THAT HE WOULD COME SAVE ME. SO STAY AWAY." She clenched her eyes even tighter. 'You will right? You promised. You promised that you will come and save me..."

"Onii-chan I'm scared."

"TRACE ON!" Hearing Shirou's voice, Aiko opened her eyes to see the back of the one he prayered for. Holding two black and white swords, time slowed down as he sliced the phantom to peices with an overhead swing with both swords. The spectators was completely mezmerised by Shirou, even without seeing his face and by his swords that were so very beautiful.

It was amazing.

Where is she! Where is she! WHERE IS SHE! These thoughts ran through Shirou's mind as he ran across the rooftops. He was searching Aiko after he found her gone, when he came back with the ice cream. He was immediately worried, reinforcing his legs he went to find her. Forgetting the ice cream he left behind.

Why. Why did he want protect her. Why did he want protect her so desperately. It wasn't just his hero complex, he knew it wasn't. He knows for a fact it wasn't just that. No...there was something else. Something that he saw in Aiko's bright blue eyes. When he saw those eyes...something just clicked.

'Ah. That's right. Those eyes reminded me...of me' He thought as he remembered something that was barely in his mind. 'Those eyes was like mine when that fire surrounded me so long ago.'

When he looked at those eyes, he saw the fear and despair that once grabbed him. He also saw the small bit of hope that was melted away from him. That's why he wanted to protect her.

But he needed to find her first. He can't save her if he's not there. Then he thought back to what he said to Aiko. That he would come to save her if she wished really hard. Why did he even say that. He knew that it would only be true if he was a god. If he was a god, if he was able to hear her prayers, then-

'I'm scared onii-chan.'

He immediately turned to the direction of where that prayer came from. A lead to Aiko. Reinforcing his legs to the upmost maximum, with everything he got, he shot off like a bullet.

Every building, every light, was a passing image as ran. He began to feel a pain seer through his leg, but ignored it. He needs to protect her. He reinforced his legs a bit more, which increased the pain. Again he ignored it.

Finally he made it to his destination. He saw Aiko and the blonde haired boy he saw from earlier. They were surrounded by darkness and in turn, phantoms. He jumped, hands above his head, with the imaginary gun readied in his head, getting the blueprints of his most used weapons then-

"TRACE ON!"

The gun fired and in his hands appeared Kanshou and Bakuya. The married swords. Once he landed he made a overhead swing with the swords killing the first phantom. Then...it was a slaughter. He ran towards a group of phantoms and slicing them in two. Some of them jumped at him, but he easily kicked them away and he slashed at them, killing them.

Soon all the phantoms were gone and Shirou was panting slightly, from the sheer amount of phantoms. The swords in his hands disappeared as he felt arms holding him tight. She was crying. "Sorry I was late, Aiko." He apologised as he held the crying girl.

"Is...is it true? That mommy will never come for me?"

Why did she ask that? She shouldn't ask that unless. He looked towards the boy, which he figured was a regalia. He had a similar scent to Daikoku. Ignoring him for now, he went back to the crying child and said, "I'm sorry." Her eyes widened and her body started shaking, however before she could lose hope and become a phantom.

"But, if your mother really doesn't come for you. Then...then I'll take you in." She looked at me shocked at my words. "I'll adopt you, give you home to return to, a place to stay and..."

"The love you need." He told her, with determined look. He would do it. He would do everything he just said, so "Would you mind going with a complete stranger?"

The girl stared at him a bit more, then she agreed. "No I don't mind...and your not a stranger, you helped me. Thank you."

Shirou smiled as he raised his hand. Pointing his middle and index finger in the air. The tips glowed.

"You, with nowhere to go and nowhere to return...I grant you a place to belong."

'What am I doing?'

"I am Emiya Shirou. Bearing posthumous name you shall remain here."

'When did I learn this?'

"With this name I make thee my servant. With this name and it's alternate..."

'No how do I know this?'

"...I use my life to make thee a regalia. Thou art Yumi. As regalia Kyu. To me Kyuki!" Then Aiko turned into light and went to my left hand and appearing as bow. A bladed bow. As Shirou looked at her in wonder images flashed through his eyes. Images of Aiko's past and his head, he heard her say something. Something that she said, before she went to sleep in Kofuku's room.

"I gave her hope, huh." Shirou spoke as the tears streamed down his face. Is this what Kiritsugu felt when he did the same thing.

As he carried wondering a large green, red rhino phantom was walking towards him. The amber eyed boy noticed this. "Look out!" But it was already too late. The rushed at Shirou intending to crush him under it's weight. However unnoticed by them both. Shirou was in the air pulling the string on the bow. Light started hater and formed a arrow. He released it.

The arrow shot at the phantom and it barely pierced the armour. Landing on top of it, Shirou tried to cut it's back. 'The armours thick' Jumping of the rhinosaurus Shirou swung Kyuki, creating a white energy attack. The phantom took the brunt of the attack as it turned. Head lowered and is preparing to charge.

Shirou was more than prepared. He shot two arrows into the rhino as it charged, making it fall over and expose it's belly. He jumped to the side he needs to face and created a E-ranked noble phantasm, which he altered into a arrow.

He knocked it onto the bow and fired. It pierced into the flesh of the rhino, no problem. Then the weopon started to get cracks on it and it exploded. Destroying the phantom.

A broken phantasm might have been a slight overkill, but he wanted to finish it quickly. He had better things to do. Looking towards the girl and the boy, who was still watching him. Ignoring them for now, he turned his attention to the weopon in his hands. No that's not quite right. 'She's not a weopon.'

"Revert Yumi." The bow in his hand glowed before it turned into a little girl. It was Aiko. She looked mostly the same except her clothes was replaced by a white hakama. "Hello there, 'Aiko' Yumi. My names Emiya Shirou. It's nice to meet you..."

"Emiya Yumi."

Omake: Shirou reacts to Doctor Who.

On a sunny day as Shirou was handing out his business cards, that Kofuku made for him. A suspicious looking man wearing a fedora, trench coat, pants and business shoes-in a black. Bumped into him and not so subtlely dropped a box. Shirou being the good samaritan that he is, told the man that he dropped something.

However when he looked up, that man has already disappeared. Not a single sign of him was around, besides the box. The redhead tried smelling out for the man, but it wasn't even traceable.

Looking back at the box, he noticed a note that he didn't see before.

'To Emiya Shirou that is currently reading this. Keep this box. Take it home and open it. Now I know that you have no reason to even comply, but right now your curiousity is currently taking over and that will lead you to comply. Enjoy your viewing experiences of Doctor Who.'

The last two words of the note was written in english and whilst Shirou has little to no experience with the language, he at least know what does words mean. Also the note was very correct in that his curiousity is currently getting the better of him and he really wants to open the box up right now.

It won't hurt to find out what it is right?

3 Weeks Later

Daikoku who is pacing in front of the door of Shirou, is very worried. Reason being is that Shirou has trapped himself in his room for 3 weeks and hasn't come out. There is also the fact that Kofuku is on a rampage form not having Shirou's food.

"No no no no no no no! There must be more than this. Please don't make me wait!" Hearing that cry from Shirou's voice did it for Daikoku and thus he barged the door down.

Only to find a ton of merchandise from a TV series he didn't know about scattered around the room. The reason of his worries, Shirou, is currently amongst these merchandise and is wearing 3D glasses and a ridicously long scarf, as well as holding a weird stick with a green light. "Shirou, what happened." Daikoku asked in concern.

"I...I...ca...can't," Shirou breathed as he reached his arm out. "I can't...wait... for the next season of Doctor Who." His hand dropped as Shirou dropped dead.

With an uncharacteristic snore.

Daikoku on the other hand was confused, "What?"

Author's note: OM freaking G. How do other authors make chapters with 15k words. I feel exhausted form just doing a 6k. Props to those guys, seriously.

Still though...I am currently very proud of myself for making chapter with SIX thousand words. That's more than all of my other chapters combined. So proud right now.

Anyway besides patting myself on the back, what did you think of the omake. I got the idea from one of the reviews I read. You know who you are ;). Also what do you think about the chapter in general. Shirou met Ebisu, whom I think have a lot in company than they think. I'll let you make the links.

And yes. Aiko is the same girl that Yukine meets and turns into a phantom. I just saw my chance and felt like taking it. Also, oh my god Shirou somehow turned Aiko-whom I would be calling Yumi now-into a regalia. So did I surprise any of you, or did you all see this coming eventually. I'd really like to know. And will you be able to figure out what her name means, if you do good job.

Finally, I would like to say that there should be a second chapter coming out before the 19th june. But I have mock exams right now so that might be difficult. Hopefully I won't disappoint.

See you guys later, I'm off getting the other chapter out.