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Moonlit Fate
Chapter 1
Everything burned. The city burned. People burned. He kept walking. He walked past the fires and through ruins, ignoring the cries for help from all around him. He wasn't the only one there. But he kept walking. He walked past them.
He wasn't in a daze either, driven purely by primal instincts of survival. It hurt. Exposed skin reddened and cloth turned black from the heat of the flames around him. His chest hurt as smoke and soot entered his lungs. But he could think. The boy was perfectly aware of everything around him. Even so, he ignored the pleas for help and just kept on walking.
He didn't know who he was. He didn't know where he came from. He didn't know why he was even there. He couldn't find the answers. He couldn't remember them either, if he even knew.
All he knew was that he had to survive. He would survive, and live to see another day, while everyone else died. He would escape the pain and the suffering where others would not. He was a sinner, and he would know it later on.
He would never forget.
He kept on walking.
But as night gave way to the morning, the flames began to die, and rain began to fall. The flames died, and smoke and steam rose from hissing ruins. The pain was still there. But he was alive. He'd lived to see another day. But the will to live that had driven him for so long was also spent, and the boy fell to the ground.
He'd come this far. It was enough, wasn't it? He'd left so many behind to die, just for this moment. Now that he'd done that, perhaps…perhaps it was his turn?
Darkness began to fall across the boy's eyes, but as he closed his eyes he felt footsteps approach.
He wasn't alone. Someone else was there. He opened his eyes, seeing a dark-haired man weeping from desperate eyes as he looked down upon him. They weren't tears of sorrow though. The tears…the man's face…it was as though he'd found something incredibly priceless, something that he'd been searching for his entire life.
The man did something. The boy felt something warm creep across his body, and began to feel better. The man picked him up and held him close, the rain continuing to fall around them.
'Sempai…sempai…Emiya-sempai…'
Shirou Emiya opened his eyes, sitting up abruptly and causing the girl standing next to him to take a step back in surprise. 'Sakura?' he asked, and the girl in question smiled down at him.
'Good morning, senpai.' Sakura Tohsaka greeted him, and he smiled back.
'Good morning.'
'Breakfast should be ready soon but,' Sakura said before pausing and looking around them. 'You should take a shower before Fujimura-sensei arrives. If she finds out that you fell asleep in here again…'
'Yes, yes,' Shirou said, scrambling to his feet and patting himself clean. 'I get it, Tohsaka-sempai.'
Sakura blinked and flushed. 'Stop that.' she said. 'It's true that I'm the senior magus between us, but…'
Shirou laughed and taking her by the shoulders, turned her around and gently pushed her out ahead of him. 'I know, I know.' he said, closing and locking the storehouse (and technically his workshop) door behind them. 'Given I'm older by a year and one grade ahead of you it's inappropriate.'
'Then why?'
'Just teasing,' he answered, and Sakura pouted at him.
'You're mean sempai.' She said, and he laughed.
'Sorry,' he said. 'Well I'm going to take a shower. Are you sure you can handle breakfast by yourself?'
'Of course I can.'
'Well then,'
Sakura nodded, and Shirou went off to take a shower while Sakura headed back to the kitchen.
'Shirou, you're slow!' Taiga Fujimura immediately retorted as Shirou arrived.
'Now, now sensei,' Sakura said while filling Taiga's rice bowl. 'Sempai worked late last night on his schoolwork. I found him asleep at his desk this morning, so don't be too hard on him.'
'Hmm,' Taiga hummed, crossing her arms and thinking it over with her eyes closed. And while she did so, Sakura quickly gave Shirou a wink and a smile. He just as quickly nodded his thanks to her. 'Oh alright, its schoolwork so I suppose I can let it go.'
'You know you say that each and every time I fall asleep over schoolwork.' Shirou said testily. Of course, he had never actually fallen asleep over schoolwork that was just the excuse Sakura gave for him whenever he got late to breakfast after oversleeping. 'I wish you'd remember that the next time it happens.'
'I do remember.' Taiga said haughtily. 'Except without Sakura-chan vouching for you I'd assume you probably fell asleep at that 'base' of yours. You used to do that quite a few times up until a couple of years ago.'
'He still does actually.' Sakura thought. Not that she'd ever rat Shirou out for such a small matter: friends didn't do that to friends.
As for them being friends, well they'd only ever been schoolmates, until Sakura was asked by Taiga to help Shirou out with housework a year or so ago when he fell sick, and they'd befriended each other in a couple of days. Even after he recovered, she still came over to help him out regularly, though she drew the line at actually staying overnight.
It's better than spending most of my time cooped up in an empty house.
Of course the first time she caught him asleep in the morning in the storehouse, she'd have to be blind to not notice the big magic circle carved into the floor. 'I'm not a magus.' Shirou had told her when she confronted him over it afterwards. 'And even if I were, I didn't know this city had a Supervisor. That's the only excuse I'll give, Sakura.'
'But you can use magic, can't you?'
'A little yeah, but dad always said that I had little to no chance of being a magus. What little I could do…yeah, he told me to practice whenever I could and wanted to, but that I shouldn't get too caught up in it.'
'Reinforcement, Gradation Air, and Alteration,' Sakura thought in the present as she remembered part of their talk back then. 'Those are basic spells that most magi would find…mundane. Not that I could really talk about things like that.'
Blinking as she cleared her mind, she directed her attention to the snapping back and forth between Taiga and Shirou. 'Really,' she said. 'Senpai, sensei, please don't fight over the breakfast table. That's bad luck, don't you know?'
'That's just superstition Sakura-chan.'
'Don't be so dismissive of superstition sensei.' Sakura protested. 'One reason superstitions last for so long is well, because they're grounded in fact. Not all of them probably…most of them actually…but…'
'You never know which one of them might be that rare superstition that actually was tried and found true by our ancestors.' Taiga finished. 'Is that what you're trying to say?'
'Well, yes.'
Taiga sighed. 'Really Sakura-chan,' she said. 'As usual whenever you say something like that, you've always got a point.'
Sakura smiled with a faint blush, and scratched the back of her head. 'Well enough about that,' Taiga said. 'In any case it is rude to fight over a meal, so let's get back to eating shall we? It's getting cold too.'
'You were the one who started it.' Shirou murmured, and Sakura shot him a disapproving look.
'Senpai…'
'Yes, yes.'
'Hey Sakura?'
'Hmm? What is it?' Sakura asked as she and Shirou walked to school. Taiga had – as usual – gone on ahead of them, rushing off after breakfast screaming about one thing or another that she'd forgotten to do. Shirou and Sakura had cleaned up, and then had gone to school together.
'About the thing you mentioned about superstition earlier,' Shirou said. 'Is it really true? I mean given the importance of secrecy and all that…'
'Well actually,' Sakura began while thinking over the matter briefly. 'Most superstitions are well, unbelievable. There are a few that are based in reality though.'
'Such as?'
Sakura giggled before prancing over in front of Shirou with a playful smile, her red cloak billowing around her. 'They say witches always have a familiar don't they?' she said. 'And they can give you the evil eye if they want to.'
'In other words,' Shirou thought as Sakura winked and walked away ahead of him. 'Magi familiars and mystic eyes among others…'
Smiling at her response he briefly sped up to catch up with her. 'About secrecy,' Sakura said as he caught up. 'Well remember that belief plays a role with what we do. Even if most 'believers' are just ordinary people, it'll still have an effect on the World. There's a reason the Church's power is…well, global.'
'I see.'
Sakura nodded. 'That's why the powers-that-be leave superstitions alone.' She said. 'As long as no details get out, why bother? It might even help us all.'
Shirou nodded, and as the numbers of fellow students grew as they approached Homurahara Acadamy, they stayed quiet on the matter. Or any other matter at all, Shirou and Sakura walking to school in friendly silence together.
'Hey Emiya…! Tohsaka…!' a loud voice hailed them as they approached the gate, Ayako Mitsuzuri waving a hand in the air in greeting.
'Good morning Mitsuzuri.' Shirou greeted her as they arrived.
'Good morning sempai.' Sakura did likewise.
'Good morning.' Ayako said with a grin. Said grin quickly vanished however as the three of them walked together into the school. 'Anyway good timing I've something I'd like to ask you Emiya.'
'Oh, what's that?'
'It's that Shinji again!' Ayako said angrily. 'A couple of meetings ago and he forced the newbies onto the range and teased and taunted them until they finally got a hit. That so many of our club are girls who like to follow him around didn't help matters at all.'
'Shallow,' Sakura said with quiet derision. 'What do they see in him?'
'No idea.' Ayako replied from Shirou's other side. 'Come to think of it, didn't he confess to you at one point? And you slapped him for it?'
'Sempai,' Sakura admonished. 'Is it really necessary to bring that up?'
'Yes, yes,' Ayako said apologetically. 'Sorry, sorry…still as people who know how pushy he can be…'
'The nerve,' Sakura thought darkly. 'He's definitely not my type. Especially after he actually tried to grab me by the shoulders when I decided to walk away…'
'…keeps running away whenever I tried to confront him over it.' Ayako said. 'And I'm the captain for gods' sakes. I've got other things to do, and short of telling on Fujimura-sensei I've only you to ask to talk to him over this Emiya.'
'No need,' Sakura said. 'I'll talk to Uncle Kariya. I did the same after he actually tried to manhandle me so…'
'You'd actually tell on him?' Shirou said. 'Again? I heard his uncle gave him a loud talking-to, and might have cuffed him a few times on the back of the head if his attitude for a while after that was any sign.'
'Just because a woman refuses a man it doesn't give him the right to manhandle her.' Sakura pointed out. 'And just because they're new and unskilled it still doesn't give someone with skill and experience the right to bully them like so. Especially as from the sound of things he only did it to impress and amuse those shallow girls who follow him around. People who think like that need to be taught a lesson.'
'I have to agree with Sakura on this count.' Ayako said, nodding. 'On all counts actually…'
'While I agree with what Sakura says,' Shirou said dryly. 'Vindictiveness isn't really right either. And from the look of things that's your real motive for telling on Shinji to his uncle.'
'It's not vindictiveness.' Ayako said primly with her hands on her waist. Sakura looked puzzled at that.
'It isn't?' she asked to which Shirou winced.
'Of course not…!' Ayako said with a smile and a wink. 'It's discipline!'
'Oh I see! Yes, let's go with that sempai!' Sakura agreed with her before sharing a laugh afterwards. Shirou just groaned and palmed his face at their antics.
'Shinji…!'
Shinji Matou turned at the shout, and with a smirk turned and relaxed against a wall as Shirou ran up to him. 'What is it Emiya?' he asked. 'What's so important that you had to come running up to me?'
'Well it's nothing important really,' Shirou replied. 'I just wanted to ask you how things are going for you at the kyuudo club that's all.'
'Is that so?' Shinji asked, turning to walk away with Shirou walking alongside him. 'Well I don't think it's really any business of someone who left the club, but alright I'll tell you. I've been polishing my scores nicely I mean, it's me after all.'
'I see.' Shirou said. 'Well I'm glad things are going well for you then. Anyway if you need help with anything just ask, alright?'
'Sure, sure,' Shinji said and waved him off as Shirou turned back the way he came. 'I'm not sure if I'll really ever need your help with anything at all, but I'll keep that in mind.'
'Alright then.'
Shinji continued on his way to the cafeteria for lunch, but just as he was about to turn the corner into the stairwell a final shout from Shirou made him stop. 'Shinji,' Shirou said with an apologetic expression on his face. 'Just so you have time to brace yourself,'
Shirou paused uncomfortably, and Shinji raised an eyebrow. 'What is it Emiya?' he said. 'Spit it out already.'
'Sorry,' Shirou said. 'But Mitsuzuri's been talking about the newbies to Sakura and well, apparently she's going to tell your uncle.'
Shinji paled, Shirou smiled weakly. 'Sorry,' he said with a bow. 'I just thought you should know.'
Shinji nodded weakly, and Shirou walked off. The moment his back was turned Shinji's face twisted with rage. 'Damn it, damn it, damn it!' he spat angrily as he stormed down the stairs. As he reached the landing below he punched the wall and ignored the resulting pain. 'That selfish bitch, damn it, damn it, gods damn it!'
Shirou walked down the street sometime after school, the golden light of the afternoon shining down around him as he walked to his usual haunt where he idled away the time between classes ending for the day and the start of his shift at his part-time job. He accidentally bumped past a blonde woman in a white blouse and a long purple skirt, and he stopped to face her.
'Sorry,' he said with a small bow. 'That was my fault. I should have been paying attention to where I was going.'
The woman nodded at him and then continued on her way, Shirou staring after her. Was it just his imagination or just the light playing with his eyes, but were her eyes red and slit like a cat's? He thought over it briefly and decided to dismiss it as a trick of the light. He turned and continued on his way, until a few minutes later and he arrived at the park.
As usual it was deserted, the park a dusty expanse of baked earth with a few patches of stunted grass and a few small, stunted trees here and there. And as usual he wondered if the park – supposed to be a memorial to all the people who died there ten years ago – couldn't have been made more attractive.
'Or maybe it just can't?' he thought, remembering his little talk with Sakura about superstitions earlier that day. 'Don't they say that places where people died or great tragedies occurred are left scarred and haunted by what happened?'
Shirou looked around him, remembering the smoking ruins and burnt corpses around here when Kiritsugu had found and saved him. It might not have been the same spot, but it was definitely around here.
He sighed and sitting on a bench looked up into the afternoon sky. A breeze blew briefly, ruffling his hair. 'It's so quiet here too.' He said softly. 'In other parks, even this early the crickets can be heard. Here though, it's just the wind and the sound of the cars in the distance.'
He sighed again and leaned forward with his arms crossed over his lap. As the wind blew stronger, he realized that even its sound and those of cars and other vehicles nearby were curiously muted in this place, as though the very air and ground resisted the intrusion of anything that could alleviate in any way the regret and grudge of everyone who died there.
'It's probably why nothing grows here.' Shirou thought glumly. 'Or why so few people visit…usually those who had friends and family who died…or me…'
Shirou had heard that even those few others felt…put off, by this place. Strangely – or not – he never felt that way here…ever.
But then again…it might be said that he had 'died' here. The boy he had once been…everything he was and could have been had died here, leaving behind an empty husk for Kiritsugu to find.
That husk would become Shirou Emiya, but even so…
…there was no reason for him to feel unwelcome in the place where he had 'died' and been 'born'. He was one of them after all.
Slowly, the afternoon light began to fade. And still Shirou Emiya continued to sit on that bench in the desolate park, looking blankly ahead of him as his thoughts wandered back to that day ten years ago.
The doors to the church slowly swung inwards, admitting the schoolgirl inside before creaking closed behind her. Two people awaited her, a man and a woman, a priest and a priestess. The former was tall and dark-haired with stoic and resolute features marked by clouded, unreadable eyes. The latter was a dark-haired woman of average height, her pretty, bespectacled face offset by its surprisingly adolescent appearance.
And yet…Sakura found herself fighting an urge to run from the priestess. It was like ten years ago, when her sister had gone…insane, for lack of a better word. Despite her harmless appearance, Sakura knew that the priestess could kill her without breaking a sweat or even bat an eyelid afterwards.
'Welcome Sakura,' Kirei Kotomine said. 'We have been expecting you.'
'I don't see why not.' Sakura said. 'You were the one who called this meeting after all. So what needs attending to?'
Kirei's lips curled into a smile. 'Sakura Tohsaka,' he said. 'Allow me to introduce you to my associate, Ciel of the Burial Agency. Miss Ciel, or as you are sometimes known Bow, this is the Association Supervisor for Fuyuki City and our…covert affiliate, Sakura Tohsaka.'
Sakura's eyes flew wide, and Kirei's smile grew ever so slightly. Ciel gave Sakura a small nod of her head, which the magus hastily returned. 'Miss Ciel is here to deal with certain complications.' Kirei continued. 'It seems that Nrvnqsr Chaos has come to Fuyuki City in pursuit of the White Princess, who it seems is also in the general vicinity.'
'Nrvnqsr Chaos?' Sakura gaped. 'The White Princess? Are you serious?'
Blood…screams…her sister covered in and drinking blood…her mother dead and yet alive, hungrily pawing and grabbing at her…
Sakura blinked, suddenly finding herself being held up by the priestess from collapsing to the ground. 'Are you alright?' the priestess asked. 'You almost collapsed just now.'
'I…I'm alright,' Sakura said with a hand on a pew to help her regain her balance. 'I just…I just remembered something.'
'Is that so?' Ciel asked, but didn't press the issue.
'In any case,' Kirei said. 'There's no need to worry about the White Princess, at least not at this point. She is if anything incredibly efficient, appearing only to focus on her quarry before returning to slumber within the Millennium Castle. So long as one does not oppose her, then she will not be an issue. As always, she will seek to destroy her quarry with minimum cost and then depart. Also, even if she is a vampire, as a True Ancestor it is not her aim at all to consume blood.'
Sakura said nothing, and after a moment's pause Kirei continued. 'Of course the possibility still exists that she would lose control and drink blood.' he said. 'In that case Miss Ciel here is to ensure in that…improbable event, that things will be kept contained.'
Sakura glanced at Ciel and narrowed her eyes. 'Burial Agent or not,' she thought. 'I have serious doubts that even she is capable of taking on the White Princess, last and most powerful of the True Ancestors, should she lose control and become a Demon Lord…or Demon Lady considering her gender. If that happens…God help us all.'
Ciel met Sakura's gaze levelly, and after a moment she turned her eyes back to Kirei. 'However as I said that is a most improbable outcome.' He said. 'The bigger issue here is Nrvnqsr Chaos. As a Dead Apostle, and an ancestor no less, he will undoubtedly seek to consume blood as a matter of course.'
'That much is obvious.' Sakura said, fighting panic rising within. A hand moved to clutch at her right arm, and Kirei raised an eyebrow. 'The question is what are we going to do about it? Keep in mind the current circumstances of this city as well.'
'Indeed,' Kirei agreed. 'It would be better for all concerned if this matter were resolved quickly before unforeseen…complications, appear.'
'I quite agree.' Ciel said with a nod. 'Let's not dawdle any further: Miss Tohsaka, you were called here to be informed about the current situation, as a matter of both courtesy and formality. With that said, now that official…requirements are met, it is best that this matter be left to me. I am more than capable of repulsing Nrvnsqr Chaos on my own, and keeping an eye on the White Princess until she returns to the Millennium Castle. Your cooperation and discretion with regards to operational matters will be most appreciated. Well then,'
With a nod Ciel made to leave, brushing past Sakura who glanced at Kirei. The priest gave her an inscrutable look, and she turned back to Ciel. 'The situation is not nearly as simple as that.' She said as Ciel reached the doors.
The priestess froze as she was about to pull them open. 'I do not recall requesting your cooperation and discretion, Supervisor.' She said, and silencing Sakura as the magus fought to keep control.
'You did not.' Kirei said, noting Sakura struggling to fight panic at the Burial Agent's cold tone. 'But I told you, didn't I? The Fifth Holy Grail War has already begun. It's only a matter of time before open battles between Masters and Servants begin.'
'I am more than capable of taking care of myself.'
'No doubt you are,' Kirei agreed. 'But there are Masters and then there are Servants. With respect Miss Ciel, please do not underestimate the power of the latter. I am aware of your…talents, but even Servants may prove to be…'
'Your concerns are noted and appreciated.' Ciel interrupted. 'However the Holy Grail War has no real concern to me. The Tenth Dead Apostle Ancestor is, as is the White Princess. Do not misunderstand: I am not dismissing the possible threat posed by Servants interfering with my duty. However, that is even more reason why I should finish my business here and be on my way before things get even more complicated from here on out.'
Ciel looked over a shoulder at Sakura and Kirei who stayed silent. She gave a small nod. 'I take my leave.' She said, opening the door and leaving through them, the doors closing heavily behind her.
Kirei turned his attention to Sakura, who collapsed into a pew breathing heavily and wiping at her sweating brow. 'Yet another panic attack?' he asked, and she glared at him. He brushed it off, and irritation turned to resignation.
'Yes,' she said. 'It's another panic attack.'
'It's been a while since you had one of those.'
'Years,' Sakura said. 'I remember back when small cuts and raw meat would paralyze me. But I thought I'd gotten over them…'
'Do not be ashamed.' Kirei told her. 'After what happened ten years ago, it's no surprise that it would leave scars behind. Even if nothing can be seen on the surface, on the inside, in more ways than one…'
'What do you want me to do Kirei?' Sakura asked. 'Wish for the Grail to change things so the past never happened? Do you take me to be that shallow?'
'Not at all,' Kirei said with a smile. 'And what you wish for is your own business. However, this Holy Grail War is an opportunity beyond that of simple wishes.'
'What does that mean?'
'Don't ask stupid questions.' Kirei said with a wave of his hand. 'War changes people. It makes them face their fears, destroys their preconceptions and illusions, brings out the best and the worst in them, and most importantly it makes them overcome their weaknesses if they are to survive.'
Sakura stared at the priest who smiled at her. 'Take your father's catalyst.' He said. 'Bring forth the King of Heroes or indeed any worthy Heroic Spirit once more into the world, both before the classes best suited for combat are taken by others, and before an opportunistic Master takes advantage of you.'
The smile grew as the priest paused. 'Or for that matter,' he added. 'Before a vampire does.'
Sakura narrowed her eyes, and sighing lowered her head in thought. Kirei looked on in silence, watching as a hand rubbed the sleeve over her right arm, and under the cloth her command spells. After several moments she nodded. 'Maybe you're right,' she said softly. 'The war is an opportunity, both in terms of the offered prize and what comes with the war. But…'
'You are concerned with how it might change you?' Kirei asked, and he chuckled at her nod. 'The way the war affects you personally will depend entirely on you, Sakura. War is merely a crucible after all. The actions, words, and deeds of others are factors too, but ultimately it is how you choose to respond and how you choose to forge your way that will determine what comes out of the crucible in the end.'
Sakura lowered her head in thought, and Kirei briefly closed his eyes before turning to leave. 'You are free to think on my advice,' he said. 'But do not take too much time: as I said, the war has already begun. Soon, you'll have to make a choice. And no matter what choice you make, there will be no turning back.'
With a smile Kirei left, leaving Sakura alone with her thoughts in his church.
A/N
Someone mentioned saving RIN…how…? They couldn't save SHIKI in canon and Ciel…Ciel's case is a 'special snowflake' and you people need to remember that her immortality is as much a curse as it is a blessing.
Yes, that was Arc Shirou bumped into. No, she's not OOC. She had no emotions until Shiki killed her in canon, and the same holds true here. How she becomes the airhead we all know and love…you'll see.
Edited: May 28, 2017.
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