A/N: Hello and welcome to a new story of mine. Please note that I am by no means a stand up writer, nor is my grammar the best in the world...by far. Anyway, this will go from the Sunny Day ending of Fate Stay Night: UBW, and probably take you down a few roads that leave you wondering just how you got here...yea. Anyway, as I said I am not the best by any means at these, but I do try my best. Keep in mind this is a FANFICTION, I can carry this story any direction I so choose. With that, no flames!

DISCLIMER!: I do no own Fate Stay Night, nor anything associated with it. So for any lawyers out there trying to get a quick paycheck, think...again.

Chapter 1: Life

His eyes shot open and he sat up in the bed, any more force and he probably would have launched himself off the other end. He was covered in a cold sweat, his heart racing, and his breathing heightened. He looked down at his arms only to find them trembling, rather violently.

All the classic signs of a nightmare to rival all others, though it seemed that this nightmare kept replaying over and over again. What use to be once in a while, then once a week, now two or three times a week. Each and every time he awoke at the same sequence in the same state he is now.

He wanted the dreams to stop, but deep down he knew they had to mean something. Was it something to come, or something that has already happened? He dreaded the latter, since the dream was about Rin, it scared him to death to even think about it.

Slowly he calmed himself, allowing the cold air in the room to cool his still hot skin. He knew if he had wore a shirt to bed that it would have been a soaking wet mess. Yet, he wondered if he had awoke the woman lying next to him.

The blonde haired woman still slept peacefully, unaware of the madness that kept replaying in his head. She was covered by the blanket, her blonde hair almost covering her whole face, yet she held this contempt smile.

"At least you're having a pleasant dream" he sighed as he swung his feet out of the bed and stood up.

He needed a glass of water and some fresh air, moving silently he exited the room and made his way to the kitchen. A moment or two later he was sliding the door shut, standing in the air of a summer night.

Taking in a few deep breathes, he couldn't help but reflect on the past 3 years of his life. Though, he really didn't want to, his mind told him otherwise.

After the Holy Grail was destroyed by Saber, Rin made Saber her familiar. Shortly after that he and Rin began their studies together, though she was getting her material straight from the Clock Tower by request, she tried her best and it was showing in him, if just by a little bit.

On top of that Saber was teaching him in the physical aspects of combat when Rin wasn't grinding his face in paperwork, he progressed much faster under Saber which only proved to annoy Rin.

As for he and Rin's relationship as a couple, it flourished. Which also helped a ton with the mana transfers…if you wanted to call it that. Rin was supplying Saber with mana to keep her in this world while she worked up a spell that would allow Saber to walk this world a normal human being…albeit with a few powers that a normal human being wouldn't have.

Then came the day when Rin finished her spell, she was so worried that it wouldn't work, or at worst hurt Saber. Though it went off with a hitch, with a little coaxing form Saber that is. She had told Rin that her skills at casting spells were beyond a doubt the best she had seen. With newfound confidence, Rin went ahead with her plan.

Though her spell took a little more from Saber then Rin had hoped. Saber was indeed just a girl far away from her own time, she kept her ability to summon her battle gear and Excalibur, but along with losing her need to have a steady supply of supplied to her, she lost her special attack abilities.

Saber didn't mind at all really, infact she told them that the less she had to worry about, the happier she was. She was very eager to start a new life, live how she wanted, not how others saw that she should live. Able to do as she pleases, not what others forced her to do.

Not too long after that, Rin had started acting funny. Staying out late, not eating like she normally does, and acting more standoffish then she ever had. Not to mention that her and Saber had gotten into a few verbal altercations.

Then suddenly, Rin vanished. Both he and Saber thought she just needed a break, that she was stressed with trying to keep those at the Clock Tower pleased and handle anything Tohsaka related, she just needed time away. When a month went by and still no sign of her, they both started to worry.

A month turned into two, and two turned to four. He was certain that she had ran away for what ever reason. He had even reached out to the Clock Tower for assistance, but they could offer no information on her whereabouts. Even her sister Sakura didn't know where she had gone, though it didn't surprise him, her and Sakura rarely ever spoke to one another.

Depression hit, the girl he loved, and that he thought loved him back was gone. No note, no words left, gone from his life. It struck him hard, he wouldn't leave his house nor eat. No matter how hard Saber pushed or scorned, her words fell on death ears.

It took him nearly a month to come around and accept the fact that Rin may have just used him as a mana boost. Now the thoughts of her toying with his emotions enraged him, but then there was Saber, still there in his life.

She had promised him that her place was by his side. Rin or not, she would not deviate from the path lain before her. She even got him to eat and to talk a little more than two words a day. Even managing to get him to leave the house to go on a shopping trip with her.

He was starting to see Saber like he felt he should have all along, his ever increasing feelings for her where beginning to make him wonder why he had ever wasted his time fawning after Rin. Then finally one night, he broke down. He and Saber were sitting together in the park, they had been talking about their life together thus far and their plans for the future when he did it.

He stood from the bench, got to one knee before her, and asked her to marry him. Of course she got teary eyed, but a second later she had said yes. His heart was overjoyed, he had finally pushed Rin form his heart and accepted Saber as the girl he loved and always would.

A two months later, they walked from the church a married couple. There wasn't a lot of people that attended, but none the less those who did were overjoyed and happy for the two new love birds. That night they made love non-stop, it was kind of funny because the next morning when Sakura knocked on the door, Saber answered wearing nothing but her socks and a smile.

Needless to say Sakura had turned all different shades of red and left immediately, leaving Saber bewildered at why she left so fast. He told her that Sakura was probably thinking about all they had done last night…while he gave her a firm grasp on her buttocks, grinning at the sudden moan she let out.

All the love making aside, life as a married couple was going great. Both of them were happier than they had ever been. He had taken up a job fixing anything and everything that people would bring him, Saber had even taken a job as a waitress at a local pub.

Then came the week where Saber had been getting sick each and every morning. He had thought it was a bug and set up an appointment for Saber to see the doctor. Little did he know that Sabers little morning flu's where a tell-tale sign of a little Emiya growing inside of Saber.

When the doctor said his congratulations, it took him a few moments to finally get it. Once he did however, he passed out. When he came to a few moments later much to Sabers relief, he was overjoyed that they were going to be parents. So was Saber, so much so that she told everyone that she was pregnant on her way out.

9 months later and a lot of sleepless, painfilled nights, little Hanna was born. Hanna had been Saber's idea for a name, and he didn't see why not. Her blonde hair and green eyes matched her mothers perfectly, she also had a birthmark that resembled a sword on her upper left shoulder, Saber swore up and down that it meant the girl was born with a warriors soul.

Fast forward to the current time, and we have the nightmares of the girl from his past haunting him. Not to mention a lot of nights of being woken up by a crying child, he didn't mind one bit, though it was taking its toll on him during the day.

Speaking of the devil, a childs cries start to echo through the house.

Shirou sighs, he turns to the sliding door and opens it, stepping inside he places the water glass on a nearby table as he shuts the door behind him. He walks down a hallway but stops when he notices the door to Hanna's room is cracked open.

Moving to the doorway slowly he sees the blonde haired beauty that is his wife holding Hanna, softly swaying back and forth trying to calm her. Without a second thought, he pushes the door open and walks in. Saber sees him standing there and slowly walks over to him as Hanna starts to calm just a bit.

As she reaches Shirou she turns and backs in to him, enough to tell him she would really like to be embraced right now. Shirou wraps his arms around her careful of little Hanna in her arms and burries his face in her neck. It's as if she could feel how uneasy he was and decided that she could kill two birds with one stone by comforting him and Hanna at the same time.

After a few moments, Saber stops swaying, making Shirou lift his head. What he sees warms his heart. Hanna has now fallen back into a peaceful sleep. Saber give him a look and motions her head for the door, giving a signal to him that she would be back in their room in just a moment.

He releases his embrace, but not before giving her a kiss on the cheek, and leaves the room. Returning to his room he leaves the door open for Saber and takes a seat on the end of the bed. He buries his face in his hands as thoughts of his nightmares start to come back.

He jumps when he feels Saber wrapping her arms around him from behind and laying her chin on his shoulder.

"Care to tell me what has you so worked up?" she prodded.

It took Shirou a moment to answer, wondering what her reaction.

"It's just…..its just that I've been having this nightmare for a while and it keeps replaying over and over again." He pauses, grabbing onto Sabers hand, "It's Rin, each time she is surrounded by blackness, her face is bloodied and she's crying hysterically…"

Saber hums, clearly pondering what would cause Shirou to have these nightmares. "I think it is just your mind playing tricks on you is all." She kisses his shoulder. "I hope where ever Rin is she is happy. She clearly doesn't know what she's missing out on." She giggles as she kisses his shoulder again.

"Yea, I guess you're right." He sighs as he turns to face Saber. Those green eyes of hers always seemed to calm him down. "Besides," he starts as he raises a hand and places it on her cheek. "You're still with me, so that's all that matters, right?"

Saber smiles, "Indeed Shirou, and you are still with me. Nothing makes me happier then to continue our relat…"

She was cut off when Shirou lands a kiss on her lips, which in turn makes her blush.

"You talk too much sometimes…" he said slowly. Then he lifts his arms and embraces her, his mind was still uneasy about the nightmares, but holding his beautiful wife in his arms proved to calm him down.

He shifts his weight and they both fall back onto the pillows, he turns to that he is laying on his back, then he manages to pull Saber closer so that her head is resting on his chest, which he knows that she loves to do.

After a few moments, of staring at the ceiling trying to clear his mind, he looks down. Saber has drifted off to sleep, the same smile as before on her face as her hand lay almost at his neck.

Shirou smiles, he knew what her life was like before, and what it was like leading up till now. She had seen so much fighting, so much death, and so many hardships that he couldn't even relate. Yet right now, in this present day, in this house, and in this bed, he had the most beautiful girl in his arms. He loved her, and she loved him.

Morning came, more like morning hit him like a ton of bricks. He didn't realize he had fallen asleep, nor did he realize how late in the morning it now was.

The sun crept through the window and across the floor. Then slowly up the side of the bed, after a while it finally started to creep its way across his face. HE winced a few times before he slowly opened his eyes. Then it hit him…..he was late for work.

HE shot up in the bed and realized that Saber had been up before him, though that didn't matter…he was late.

He jumped from the bed and grabbed the clothes that were folded neatly in a chair next to his bed, then ran to the bathroom. There he dressed himself as quickly as he could, brushed his teeth and hair, then ran out and into the kitchen.

Though he almost ran into Saber, who had met him at the door with a plate filled with food. She was dressed in her usual white top, with a blue ribbon tied at the neck, and her blue dress that matched the color of the ribbon, though her hair wasn't done up like she use to keep it, now she usually kept it in a pony tail, mostly because her hair had gotten increasingly longer and she wasn't up to the idea of cutting it…just yet that is.

It startled her that he was moving so fast. She tried to think on why he would be moving as quickly as he was, or did he not know?

"Oh, good morning Shirou" she said, still holding the plate of food in her hands. "Why are you in a rush this morning?"

"Sorry Saber, no time to eat right now, I'm late for work!" he said as he rushes past her and towards the door, fighting to get his shoes on at the same time.

She was right, he was totally oblivious to the current day of the week. I knew it! she screamed mentally.

"Umm, Shirou. Today is Saturday, you do not work on Saturdays…remember?" she was trying not to laugh. Though she knew that it was probably the doing of the nightmares he was having.

Shirou froze as her words kit his ears. His hand was on the door knob, and had it already unlatched when the word Saturday hit him. It was true, he didn't work on Saturdays, and when he turned his head to the calendar on the wall next to the door, what Saber had said was confirmed.

She walks over to Shirou and once again extends the plate of food. HE turns and takes it from her, and places his freehand behind his head.

"I must have lost a day somewhere…" he tried to reason.

Saber motions for him to sit at the table. "No need to try and explain, I understand." She said with a smile, then looks at the clock on the wall. "I'll go get the little princess." She said with a smile, then turns and leaves the room.

Shirou sits at the table and gawks at the full plate of food before him. Eggs, fried potatoes, sausage links, bacon, and toast. The plate looked like it was ready to crack with all the food Saber had put on it. She really was a good cook, just sometimes he wondered just how many people she thought she was cooking for, though he knew who she got her cooking skills form, and cursed himself for teaching her how to cook so well.

A few moments later, and a mouth full of food, Saber came walking back in with a wide eyed and grinning bundle of joy. Hanna always seemed to be a giggly mess in the morning when she woke up, mostly because her mother was always tickling her or making funny faces.

Hanna was almost a year old, though she mastered the art of crawling everywhere, she was still trying to get the hang of walking. Preferring to crawl mostly when she got tired of falling when she would get the bright idea that she wanted to try walking. She was also an expert at baby talk, sometimes she would have a full blown conversation with her mother using what she thought were words, but in reality all that was really said was "Ga ga".

There was also the fact that anything the girl got her hands she used to hit things with. That was something that scared Shirou but delighted Saber, "It's the warriors soul inside of her itching for battle", she would always say. Saber had even wrote up a full plan list of training for Hanna when she was a rightful age, Shirou didn't agree at first but Saber talked him into it.

She was the King of Knights in her previous time, she knew more about this kind of thing then he did really. Hell, she was the one who trained him in what little bit he knows. He would have continued training, if a certain someone hadn't of snatched his heart from his chest and was never seen nor heard from again.

His train of thought was broken when he heard Saber calling his name.

"…irou….Shirou are you okay?" she asked with a hint of worry in her voice.

He shook his head a few times, trying to get himself back to reality. "Huh? Oh…yea, I'm fine." He finally said as he took another spoon full of food from the plate and shoved it in his mouth.

"You look like you're still worried…" she pressed.

"No…I was just thinking how much of a lucky guy I am to have you two in my life." He said as his lip quirked up on the side of his mouth.

Saber shot him a glare that said she didn't buy it, though her momentarily lack of attention to Hanna gave the young child ample opportunity to pick up a glass of milk that was sitting before Saber, and spilled it right into her lap.

The look on her face not only made Hanna laugh, but Shirou was also starting to laugh. This made Saber sweatdrop, "It would appear that our daughter has inherited your clumsiness…" she all but snapped at Shirou.

She stands up with Hanna in her arms and walks over to Shirou, setting Hanna down on the table infront of him. "Here, watch her while I go and clean up…" she said rather shortly.

IT was common knowledge to Shirou that Saber did not like anything staining her dress, which is why Saber was annoyed at Hanna's actions, and ended up blaming him for it. Still, it was funny to both him and Hanna.

As Saber walks away, Shirou notices Hanna eyeballing whats left of the potatoes on his plate.

"And don't let her have any of your food either!" he hears Saber yelling from down the hall.

Shirou has to reach up and grabs Hanna's hand which and made its way to his plate and was just about to achieve potato status. Which in turn causes her to become fussy.

Shirou sweatdrops, then picks her up in his arms and stands from the table, trying to calm her down. He succeeds as Saber enters through the door with a fresh clean dress and makes her way to them. She moves to his side and lays her head on his arm.

"You know I am only joking about the remark I made just a moment ago…right Shirou?" she said, her puppy dog eyes staring up at her.

He knew she was only joking when she said that, she had developed a habit lately of speaking her mind, it wasn't a bad habit really…though sometimes that habit embarrassed the crap out of him, especially when they were in public together.

He smiles, then kisses her forehead. "I know dear, I know."

The day went on from there like any normal Saturday would for them. After breakfast Shirou sat in their dojo holding Hanna as Saber practiced with herself. He was really captivated by her skill, she never once missed a beat. Her control of her sword was excellent, her movements were flawless and seemed to flow, it's as if she was training to fight the most fierce battle of her life.

That afternoon Saber helped Shirou with a bit of research he had started. Something had him worried about those nightmares he was having about Rin, so he began combing over some of the books she had left behind before she disappeared. He still held the Magic Crest on his left shoulder from Rin, which meant that they were still in some way connected, were her feeling being channeled through the crest and influencing his nightmares?

That night he and Saber sat alone in the courtyard. They had already ate dinner and had put Hanna to sleep, now before they themselves went to bed, they sat together holding each other's hand and looking up into the star filled sky above them. Talking about anything that came to mind or their plans for the future.

That's when they both heard a loud knock at the door, it was more a bang, but they were sure it was nothing. Infact, they both had the same thought as to who it probably was.

"Fuji-nee…" they both sighed together.

Taiga Fujimura….or Fuji-nee as Shirou and Saber refer to her as, had been living with Shirou as his guardian since Kiritsugu passed. Though when Shirou and Saber finally tied the knot, she decided that she was no longer needed and moved to an apartment across town. Though she still liked to stop by and check on them from time to time. More so to fawn over Hanna then to visit with them, but they really didn't mind, Fuji-nee was the closest thing to family both of them had.

Saber stands up and starts walking towards the door, "I'll get it Shirou."

Now alone in the courtyard, a weird feeling starts to overcome him, then the sensation of burning on his left shoulder. It's growing stronger by the second, and that begins to worry him. He pulls the collar of his shirt to the side enough to see that the Magic Crest on his shoulder is pulsing. Feelings of dread, despair, and pain start to overwhelm him.

Memories of his time with Rin and Saber during the previous Holy Grail War start to flood his mind, not only that, but the pain in his shoulder has spread through his body causing him to tense up.

He starts to manipulate his own magic circuits to try and counteract the pain, but nothing works, until suddenly….the pain stops, the memories cease.

Then his ears are overcome with a scream, "SHIROU!" he hears Saber screaming his name.

Without a second thought he is to his feet and running for the door, his magic circuits flaring again. TRACE ON! He mentally shouts as he envisions the daggers from his fight with Gilgamesh and Archer.

In a brilliant flash of light they both appear in his hands just as he bounds through the door to the courtyard and into the hallway. HE passes Hanna's room and see's the door is still closed. Rounding the corner from the hall into the living room and see's the door wide open. "SABER!" he screams for his wife.

"Shirou! Over here!" he hears her calling from the kitchen.

He turns his head and sees Saber rushing throughout the kitchen opening cabinets and grabbing what looks like medical supplies. He starts to rush in to see whats going on but pauses when he see's drops of blood on the floor.

He runs in, then his heart sinks. Laying on the kitchen table, covered in blood and visible lacerations, is Rin. What visible skin that isn't covered with blood is very pale, her eyes are closed, and her breathing is audibly ragged. Her clothing is shreaded, and her hair is matted with dried blood. What ever happened to her, she was lucky to be alive.

Shirou allows his daggers to disappear but he can't remove his eyes from the bloodied sight infront of him. Blood was starting to pool under the table, not to mention the blood that was covering Sabers white shirt and blue dress.

"Shirou, I need your help!" Saber shouted, but her shout landed on death ears. Shirou was still in shock at seeing a face from his past in such a state.

"SHIROU!" she yelled, which shook him out of it. "I need you to come and help me get her cleaned up enough that I can stitch her wounds!"

Reluctantly, he starts to move again. He walks over beside Saber and takes a wet wash rag that she hands him. He immediately starts to wipe the blood from Rin's face, then he moves down to wiping her arms as Saber works at cutting away whats left of her clothing. After a few moments, enough of the blood was wiped away to reveal the worst of the cuts.

Suddenly Rin's eyes shoot open and she fixates on Shirou, she opens her mouth to speak but struggles. Gasping for air she finally finds the strength and the words.

"You…n-need to lea..ve…..Run..run….as fa…r….as you ca…can." She struggles, visibly shaking as she speaks.

"Don't talk, baka! You need to save your energy!" Saber shouts as she starts to clean one of the largest cuts on Rins abdomen.

She hisses in pain, but after a moment she settles enough to look back at Shirou, "I'm not…joking…yo-you need to l-leave! The…their coming…."

"Who Rin, Who's coming?" Shirou finally manages to ask.

Rin slowly lifts her arm, then places it right over top of where the Magic Crest is on Shirou's shoulder.

"I'll….s-show you…" she manages out.

Her magic circuits flare up. Then, Shirou's world becomes black. Nothing, not even sound, just pitch black and quiet.

Then, the soft sounds of crying, the sobs grow louder and louder. Then the visual of two men dressed in black hooded robs before him, surrounded by trees.

"Rin…we need you to do this…it is owed to us!" one of them speaks.

"NO!" he hears Rins voice cry out through the sobs. "I will not!"

"Maybe you don't understand….we have lost so much in the previous Grail Wars thanks to him, this is the only way that we can collect what we are owed!" the other speaks, the venom in his voice all but spewing out.

"I will not rip his heart out a second time! I broke his heart when I left without a word, he's finally happy again and I will not contribute to anymore of his pain!" Rin was screaming.

"Oh but you will Tohsaka! You will bring us the girl, or you will be witness to the death and slaughter of your beloved Emiya AND the servant! Not only that but we will make sure you are present when we dispose of the wretched curse they bestowed on this land!" one seethed as he began to laugh.

The black faded back to the real world. Shirou was breathing very heavily now, his heart pounding. He was trying to process what all he had just witnessed, what he had just heard Rin say to the two. Who were they, and what did they want with his daughter.

Though whatever magic Rin used to portray her memories to Shirou through the crest had a negative effect on him, his lost consciousness a second later, slamming his head on the kitchen counter before landing on the floor in a pool of Rins blood.

His senses flooded back to him, the memories of last night and what he had seen from Rins memories were the first thing that hit him. He needed to get up and make sure Hanna was okay.

His head felt like someone was constantly hitting it, but when he opened his eyes, albeit slowly, he realized that it wasn't from his head hurting, Hanna was literally hitting his head with one of her toy swords, and was smiling as she did it.

"Okay Hanna, Daddies awake now." He heard Sabers voice, see's two hands wrap around Hanna and lift her away from him.

"Gee, I wonder where she learned how to use that…" he hears Rins voice after.

Shirou shoots up in the bed, but is overcome by the worst headache he had ever felt.

"Don't move so fast baka…You hit your head so heard you cracked your counter!"

"Shut it Tohsaka…" Shirou grounded out through gritted teeth.

"Shirou!" Saber scoulded. "Be nice to Rin, I know she isn't your most favorite person anymore after what she has done, but please…hear her out."

Shirou looks over to Saber, then his mouth drops. Saber was wearing her old battle gear. Her blue dress with gold trim looked like it was almost never worn, not to mention the highly polished armor she had around her arms and upper body, the sides also. Her hair was done up like she use to keep it, not to mention she had already manifested Excalibur which she had tied to her side.

Rin was sitting next to Saber, she wore a simple black tank top and black shorts, not to mention she was covered in bandages, a few red splotches here and there from her injuries. Her hair was let down and visibly wet, no doubt she had just recently washed the blood from it. The Magical Crest on her arm was pulsating slowly, more than likely why he could feel a slight twinge in his left shoulder.

"What is there that she could possibly say to make me feel any less angry or hurt about what she did?" Shirou finally spat as he turned his head away from her.

"The reasons why I left the way I did, and the reasons I'm here now you ungrateful prick!"

Shirou turned his head with a rather pissed off look about his face. "Because whatever it is surely warranted my broken heart! IT surely warranted how many times I pushed Saber away because I was a broken man!"

"I DID IT TO PROTECT THE BOTH OF YOU!" she shouts. After a second she calms down just enough to continue. "These people that are after you prophesized that the 'Chosen One' would be born between a Magus that doesn't understand his true power…" she said as she pointed at Shirou, "…and a Servant that hides her true identity…" she then pointed at Saber.

Shirou was confused now, very confused, "What are you talking about Rin, Hanna is not the cho…"

Saber stops Shirou when she moves Hanna's shirt just a bit to reveal her birthmark. To Shirou's surprise tiny magic circuts had formed around it, not to mention the soft glow it as giving off.

"I checked myself…" Rin starts. "That birthmark is actually a seal of some sort. Though we may not know what it seals yet, but for her age, Shirou….her mana levels are very impressive…." She turns to look at Hanna, "Which leads me to believe that whatever is sealed behind the birthmark, those two jackasses want for themselves…"

Shirou sighs, "Okay, alright, fine….but that still doesn't tell me WHY you left IN THE FIRST PLACE!"

IT took a moment for Rin to speak. "I knew that if I told you what was going on and where I was going you'd surely follow me, you and Saber both, and I didn't need the two of you following me around." She looks back a Shirou, "I knew from the start what it would do to you…it broke my heart also Shirou, but if that meant that both you and Saber were safe then I was willing to set those feelings aside until any threat on your lives was diminished….I just didn't think I would be defeated so easily…."

Shirou was furious now. Rin knew something was up all along and didn't speak a word of it to either him nor Saber. He was just about to blow his top when he felt a hand on his, he looks down and see's Saber hand, obviously she saw the anger in his eyes and decided to try and calm him a bit.

"Please Shirou, hear her out…"

"They were coming to finally take Hanna away, killing you both would have been a bonus to them, but their new goal was the take Hanna. Apparently they had placed bets against us in the Grail Wars, of course they lost, then somewhere along the way they came in contact with a prophesy about Hanna, so they planned their revenge. At first it was to kill you Shirou….but then they realized that you needed to be in the picture so they could get their hands on Hanna in the future…" Rin stood up, then slowly limped her way over to the window that was overlooking the courtyard.

"I tried my best to kill them both, but I was horribly unsuccessful." She looks at Shirou, "As it turns out….someone else knew of the plan and jumped in right before I was killed, allowing me to make my way here." She turns back towards the window, "I don't know who it was, weather they were a human, a magus…" she pauses.

Saber knew what Rin was about to say was probably going to scare Shirou, it scared her when Rin told it to her eariler, but she had come to accept what the future held, whether it be bad or good.

"Shirou…" she turns to fully face him. "The Grail Wars are starting again…all the logical evidence points to Hanna being the key to the Grail…"

Shirou's mind went blank. Another Grail War, but it was only 3 year between now and he previous one. How is that even possible, then something slammed into his mind like a ton of bricks, his heart was beginning to sink. Though before he could open his mouth to ask, Rin already had a answer.

"No…Saber is no longer a Heroic Spirit, she is a living breathing human being again. She will not be a Servant in this war, however…" she purposely stopped, then turned towards Saber.

"The chances of her being a Master in this war along with you are very high…as for me…" she stops, then takes a seat beside saber again. She slowly lifts her arm and shows Shirou a Command Seal mark on her hand.

"I was already chosen…."

Shirou looked at the Command Seal with horror. He was not being thrown back into the Grail Wars weather he liked it or now, even if he had no part in it himself, his daughter was now a key element it this war. One that he was sure was going to take a lot more then sweat and blood.

By mid-afternoon Rin had explained all the little details about where she had gone and what she was up too, she wasn't expecting any apologies from Shirou. She rightfully deserved and hate he spewed her way, but it was for a good cause she felt.

The mood had finally lightened a bit that Saber and Shirou were starting to talk and act like a married couple again. This proved to fill Rin with more feelings of dread and despair, she had loved Shirou and he loved her, but he had moved on, Saber was there for him so naturally he fell for the girl that stuck with him, that showed him love.

"Rin, are you okay?" Saber asked as she knelt down infront of Rin who was sitting on the couch, a blank stare on her face.

Rin snapped out of her train of thought and looked up at Saber. "Oh, yea…I'm fine, sorry."

Saber smiled, she knew exactly was Rin was thinking about. "He'll come back around Rin, Shirou just needs some time to process everything…I'm sure the explanation you gave him will clear up a lot of pain and suffering he has been dealing with these last few years."

"I know….it's just…."

"Your heart is still set on him, isn't it?" Saber prods.

She got her answer when Rin started to blush and avoided her gaze.

Saber can do nothing but smile, she loved it when she was right, though how couldn't she be? The answers were plastered all over Rins face.

"Rin, just know that even though he thinks he has pushed you out of his heart for good, he still regards you as a very close friend, he might not show it, but you should have seen the look of worry in his eyes when he saw who it was bleeding on our kitchen floor last night." She said with a slight laugh.

That was something she really wanted to forget, showing up after so long at their front door and in such a state. Though she really would have enjoyed seeing the look on his face, picture material maybe?

"Anyway," Saber says as she straightens back up and sits in a chair across from the couch. "You said you were already chosen as a Master in the coming Grail Wars, correct?"

Rin hesitates, but nods her head. She really didn't want to talk about the subject right now, especially since her servant revealed their identity to her, she knew without a doubt that it would cause a lot of trouble in the coming days.

"May I ask what class?" Saber continues to dig.

RIn shakes her head, "Not now, I want to keep it as much of a secret for as long as I can, at least until we know that all of the servants have been summoned."

Saber shrugs, "That sounds reasonable."

Silence falls between the two, an awkward penetrating silence.

"Where did Shirou go?" Rin finally asks.

Saber turns her head to look out the window. "He said he was going to look for something in the shed, he didn't tell me what…unless…" she turns and looks at Rin, "You don't think…"

Rin and Saber thought of the same thing at the same time, Shirou was going to attempt to summon a servant. With no second thoughts, they both jump to their feet at the same time and run for the courtyard.

As they exit the house, a bright light emits from the shed though any crack it can find to escape. Rin herself feels it, and so does Saber, Shirou has summoned a Servant for the Sixth Holy Grail Wars.

As Saber reaches the shed, she grabs the door handle and throws the door open and rushes inside. The smoke starts to rush out of the opened door, little by little what sunlight can pour in starts to illuminate the shed.

Rin hesitates at the door, she didn't want to run in blind, not in her condition anyway. Though what she see's after another moment or two of the smoke clearing leaves her eyes wide and her heart at a standstill.

Standing just above the summoning circle is Shirou, before him his a young silver haired girl, she wore a black outfit with what looked like a pistol holster at her side. She held both of her arms up, one out in front, the other to Saber.

In the hand she had held to Shirou, she held a tanto sized blade to his throat, though in the hand she had held to Saber, she held a pistol which was pointed straight at her forehead. Though Saber hadn't been that slow either, she held Excalibur to the front of the girls throat.

Then Rin felt it, her Servant was manifesting. Clearly she felt as if the Servant Shirou had summoned was a particularly dangerous threat that she had to disobey Rins order of stay hidden.

"I swear if you even so much as blink wrong I will cut you down…" came a new feminine voice, venom spewing from every word as it echoed through the shed.

Shirou was still stunned by the sight of what was before him. Saber still hadn't registered in his mind yet, though what happened next surely would.

A second Excalibur manifests behind the girls neck, followed by a pair of gauntlets similar to Sabers holding onto the sword, the sleeves behind the gauntlets were puffed, then the body started to manifest, a white dress trimmed with black, though what appeared to be a low cut top was covered with a plate of armor over her breast, not to mention the armor plating at her sides.

Then Shirou saw the newcomers face, and his eyes went wide, wider then they were before, his mind went totally blank. The girl was a spitting image of Saber. Her hair was blonde, except she had it tied with a black bow, and her eyes were the same color green as Sabers. She even had the same little tuff of hair that always seemed to stick up on Saber.

Something else catches his eye, her shoulders were exposed, upon her left shoulder appeared to be a birthmark, in the shape of a sword.

She held a look in her eye's the Shirou only ever saw in Sabers once. She was intending to kill the Servant that stood before Shirou.

"Lower….your weapons." the girl seethed.

The silver haired girl standing infront of Shirou only glanced back, but she knew she was dead if she didn't listen. She knew better, and seeing as she was just summoned, she would rather not waste the trip here and get killed so easily.

She lowered her hands, putting the pistol back in its holster on her side and the knife back in the sheeth on her back. "Ok, now drop your swords, both of you…"

Saber hesitates, more because she is looking at the seemingly double of her. After a few seconds she complies and lowers Excalibur, allowing it to vanish, yet she keeps her eyes on the girl before her.

Rin now rushes in and puts herself in front of the silver haired girl and the new blonde. Raising her hands up, she grabs onto the blondes arm and forcefully lowers it.

"I said not to show yourself until I said you could!" she yells. "Do you realize how much more this complicates things now?"

The sword in the girls hand vanishes as she turns her attention to Rin. "And let this one kill them?"

"I know what it looks like….just…keep calm.." she slaps the girl on the side of the head. "AND LISTEN TO ME NEXT TIME!"

The blonde rubs the side of her head, "Hey that hurt!"

They all stand there staring at the girl as she rubs her head. Thought Shirou and Saber look on in shear wonder as to why she looks so familiar, the Silver haired girl is snickering at the blow Rin landed on her. Rin looks rather pissed though.

Finally Saber steps forward, having noticed the mark on the blondes shoulder. "Th-this mark…." she says as she inches closer. "It….can it be?"

"Oh no…" Rin shook her head as she burries her face in her hands. "My plan's ruined now…" Saber was a very smart girl, so she knew it would only be a matter of time before she caught on…though…

"This girl has a birthmark just like Hanna…She must too possess a warriors soul!" Saber remarks then turns to Rin, taking both of her hands in hers. "I congratulate you on a fine Servant Rin…"

Both Rin and the blonde look at each other sweat dropping. Maybe Saber wasn't as smart as Rin had thought.

"Uggghh!" Rin was very upset now, she reaches up and grabs both Sabers and the blondes hands. "I'll explain it to you in the house!" she said as she stormed away, leaving Shirou alone with the silverhaired girl before him.

She herself was sweat dropping at what she had just witnessed. "What the hell was that?" she asked as she turns to face Shirou.

He sighs, "You're asking me?…". He looks up, checking over the girl in front of him. Though he quickly averts his eyes when he notices she is blushing.

"Why, stop ogling me damnit!" she says as she stomps her foot. "I'm here to win the Grail Wars, not have you eye balling me, perv!"

"I wasn't doing that!" Shirou shouts back. "Besides…..what class are you anyway?"

The girl sighs, "If you must know, I am the Archer Class." She looks upon Shirou with a disheartened look, "And I take it that you are the one who summoned me?"

Shirou nods, "Yes, I did."

She sighs again, "Then that means we will fight together in this War, may I ask your name, Master?"

"Emiya Shirou…."

The girl blinks a few times, "Emiya…Shirou…" She back up a few steps, then clenches her fists. "BAKA! There is no way you are Emiya Shirou! You're too pale, and your hair is red, not WHITE!" Now the girl starts to pace back and fourth, "Not to mention your muscle tone is nowhere near that of Emiya's…"

Shirou suddenly realized that this girl may have known the Archer from the last Grail Wars, the Emiya Shirou from the future he defeated. The future that he was sure he erased, now it seemed it wasn't so.

"I know the Emiya Shirou you speak of…for a lack of better terms knew him…HE is the future me I defeated in the previous Grail Wars. He tried to kill me to erase mistakes the future me would make, in other words he tried to erase himself from the future…."

The girl blinked a few more times, then closed the distance between the two and started slapping him on the head. "Stop lying you aren't Emiy.." The something caught her eye. Shirou's collar had slid to the side enough to reveal the crest on his shoulder.

The girl backs away quickly, even tripping over something and landing on her rear. She crawls backwards only stopping when she backs against a wall. "It is….it is you!...You're Emiya Shirou!"

Shirou sighs, then walks over to the girl and extends a hand. "Yes, I am Emiya Shirou…" he says as she takes his hand and he lifts her up. "Now, can I ask what your real name is…or do you prefer Archer?"

The girl starts to brush herself off, then looks at Shirou and smiles. Her blue eyes fixated on him, "The name's Mika, I don't know my family name…so don't bother asking." She said as the smile drops, "Anyway, believe it or not Emiya Shirou….if what you say is true, then I am your future self's partner…well…was your partner."

Shirou was just about to ask what she meant by 'was' when he heard a lough thud resonate from his house.

"SHIROU!" he heard Rin call for him.

Without thinking he blew past Mika and to the house. Rushing inside and to the living room he found Rin standing over Saber, the other blonde knelt down beside her shaking her.

"Rin, what happened?" Shirou asked as he falls to his knees beside Saber and lifts her head into his arms.

"Well…we were telling her the true identity of my servant when she well….collapsed…." Rin said, a bit worried.

"Hey…Wake up…." The blonde was shaking Saber now.

"What the hell could you have told her that would cause her to pass out like that? Saber has never passed out!" Shirou was shouting now.

"Well it couldn't have been that the Saber Class Servant I summoned is your own daughter from the future can it?!" Rin shouted, then immediately clamped her hands over her mouth.

Shirou hesitates, but then looks up at Rin, his eye's wide. It makes since, all of it. Her wielding Excalibur, her being the spitting image of Saber, even the birthmark on her shoulder was the same as Hanna's. IF Rin was correct, that that meant blonde girl in the white dress that was now trying to wake Saber was the grownup version of their baby girl Hanna.

A second later…another loud thud reverberates through the house.

Rin sits on the floor between an unconscious Saber and an unconscious Shirou, arms and legs crossed, a vein visible in her forehead. "Just great…" she fumes. She looks over at the blonde who is now trying to shake Shirou and Saber awake. "It's no use Hanna….let them be. They'll wake up eventually…"

Mika comes walking holding the baby, completely in awe at how cute it is. "Does this mean we can spoil their child until they wake up?"

Hanna's head jerks up and glares at Mika, "Hey put me down you white haired bimbo!"

"Bimbo?" Miki challenges back. "And what the hell do you mean by 'Put you down?' I'm not holding you!"

Rin sighs, deeply. Today was going to be a long day, no, this War was going to be a long one.