DiVA, sorry OAO. Sae's going to appear in this chapter~ I thought it I was going to make her appearance in the next chap but then I remembered Yukirin
Mariko and Erena are enemies! They're like the final boss of this game
imteedee, but she's with Mayuyu. So it's the best birthday~ Oh yea, and Acchan's totally EPIC
Shinoki, you've got to have some service here and there. At least that's what I got from reading some AtsuYuu fics with AtsuMina
qweakb, Tomochin will explain herself in this chap~ probly >w>
kenjoy, they didn't make any promise, I think. It's the... second time they met. Bah, Yukirin will explain herself! OAO
Flutist, yeah, that's what I thought as well Q.Q They're such good friends... And thanks : D
Yuki, Maa-chan is a bit... ^^''
I'm sorry for the late update for people who's actually reading this weird but Ashura-like story!
I was too busy in RL but I promise! I'll finish the third chapter next week~!! THIS I SWEAR ON THE FLAG OF BUTTSTONIA! Even though it didn't exist *sigh*
[Chapter 2 Part III : Yuki x Rider]
We all decided to skip school for the day and question Kashiwagi about things that she knows. We were in the living room. On the TV, there's news about global warming but who cares about that. I'm sitting in front of the TV with my back facing it. In a circle, clockwise starting from me is Acchan, Rider, Kashiwagi, Yuko and Jurina. "So shall we start the meeting of the Knights of the round table?" I asked jokingly. Jurina clapped her hands amused while Kashiwagi is giving me a disappointed look. Rider didn't understand what I said so she asked Kashiwagi who only told her it was something pointless. Yuko laughed at my failure and Acchan ruffled my hair. "No, seriously. Is there any questions we should ask that weird lady?" I pointed at Kashiwagi while looking at Acchan.
"Oh, I got one!" Yuko raised her hand to ask. I gave her the 'Go ahead~' gesture. "How about we introduce each other?" she asked us and all of us nodded. We each introduced ourselves. First Yuko, then Jurina followed by Acchan and me.
"My name is Kashiwagi Yuki. That's all." she ends it just like that. "PLAIN!" I got up and pointed at her. She glared at me so I just sat and looked down. Acchan patted me on the back. "There there~" she comforted me like an older sister would. "Your name from now on is Yukirin." Acchan said and smiled at the girl. Kashiwagi's eyes opened wide as she looked at Acchan in disbelief. "Eh? Why?" she asked, not wanting that kind of nickname. "Who cares. It's better since Yuki is kind of a plain name." Yuko pointed out. You could see as if an imaginary arrow struck at Kashiwagi as she heard the truth. "Fine! Whatever you want!" she sulked and goes into the corner. Acchan gave a satisfied nod and Yuko gave a thumbs up to her. "You haven't changed a bit." Rider said to Acchan as she chuckled.
"My class is Rider. My generation name is Itano Tomomi. I'm Atsuko's best friend." she sticks her chest out in pride and Acchan nods. Yuko clicked her tongue. "Some people call me Tomochin or Tomo, so whatever's fine." she ends her introduction and Acchan clapped. "Why are you clapping?" Yuko asked her, annoyed. Acchan only sticks her tongue out and ignored her. "Hahaha! You're hated!" I teased the midget which earned me a hit on the head.
After some commotion and Jurina comforting 'Yukirin', we settled down. "I would have to ask this first..." I looked at Yukirin seriously while the others kept quiet. "Do you REALLY have to take other people's souls?" I asked her. She sighed knowingly. "Do you really need to win the grail war that badly?" I continued, and she looked down. The others looked at her to get the answer. After a few moments of thinking, she confessed. "Yes."
"... Why...?" I looked down, thinking of how to express it. After a few seconds of silence, I finally looked up and asked her the question. "... Why would you go so far...?" The others nodded knowingly and waited for her answer. She closed her eyes as if she wanted to resolve herself. "Actually..." she opened her mouth to answer. "... I want to gain a certain knowledge..." We all looked at her and waited for her to continue. "I want to find out who killed her..."
"Who killed Sae..."
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[A certain person's POV]
I sat down next under the tree in the park. Surprisingly, there wasn't anyone there today. The weather's cloudy so people are probably staying inside, afraid that it's going to rain. I was trying to take a rest for a bit before continuing what I was doing. I sensed a presence above me but I was calmer than ever, knowing that she's there. "Welcome back, Sae." I greeted her, which she replied with nothing more but a smile. Her spear wasn't there so she probably made it vanish. We started our small talk while I was taking a rest. "So. did you find anything?" I asked her which she nodded without looking at me. She looked at a certain point in the distance and answered casually. "Berserker team met up with Saber, Archer and Rider team and the Rider team is probably going to join up with the Saber and Archer team's alliance."
Her face looked saddened as she probably remembered of what happened in the last holy grail war. The truth is, the holy grail war the last time was horrifying. Not only did the heroes became what they least expected, but the main event of the war isn't actually the heroes' battle. It's the Magus' battle which was crazy. The winner was a certain person whose hero was the first one to step out. That person's wish was...
"I want to participate... in the next grail..." What's more crazy is that I also got taken into this war as well. I became a master in the last war and at the end of it, right before I stepped out, I used a forbidden spell which got me into the current war. Sae didn't know since her master was someone else, but what surprised me more is that she came into the war too early.
"So did you see her?" I asked her, which after a few seconds, she gave a slight nod, signalling that she's safe. The question is, "Do you think she remembered?" she asked me as she remembered what happened before this war took place. Before the second hero was summoned. "I don't know..."
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[Mayu's POV]
Everyone was silent. I could tell that Acchan and Yuko were shocked. If I remembered correctly, Yuko called the one with the spear, probably Lancer, Sae. And I don't know if that person and the one Yukirin mentioned are the same person, but it's still shocking. "What is your relationship with this... Sae person?" Jurina asked the question most of us were going to ask. She already knew Lancer's generation name is Sae, so she asked. Yukirin blushed right red as Jurina asked her that. "W- What are you talking about~ W- We're just friends~" She covers her red face and fidgets around as she said that. "The way you answered that makes you look VERY suspicious." Acchan stated with a sadistic grin on her face which made all of us nodded. Even 'Tomochin'.
After a few seconds of being shy, she looked down, as if she remembered something. "Sae was the first friend I ever met. You could even say that she's my savior..." she says as she recalled. "Even in tough times, she's always by my side... But one day, when I went to see her at our secret hideout..." she bit her lip and paused for a bit. All of us didn't dare to say anything as if to respect whatever she's going to say. "... I saw her lifeless body... with... blood all over the wall... a knife stuck to her chest... she was killed..."
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[The person's POV]
"So how will you explain what happened at that time?" I asked Sae for confirmation, but I changed my question. "No... What will you do when you meet her?" I asked her the real question. She only gave me a bitter smile and lied down on my lap. With a smile of resolution, with her eyes closed, she gave me the answer I was hoping to hear. "I will follow your orders til the ends of hell, Master."
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[Mayu's POV]
"I think I got the gist of what happened..." Acchan said as we separated from Yukirin. She was left alone in the living room because she needed some time. "Were you there at that time, Tomochin?" Yuko asked the girl. She shook her head and made an apologetic gesture. "I was only summoned a few weeks ago. She lost Sae about a month ago." she explained. "So basically..." Acchan closed her eyes to think.
"We shouldn't tell her about Sae just yet." she says, as she found her answer. "Why? I think it's better to tell her... Or else innocent lives are going to be lost..." I looked down in sadness of what's to come. She smiled at me and patted my head. "Don't worry. Tomochin is here to stop her, and we're going to stay with her." she assured me. Jurina butted in "Is this about Berserker?" she asked and I'm confused. "Yes..." she answered.
"Berserker-class servants are the most powerful out of all the servants. And probably the most insane. I think she knows this well enough that Tomochin alone can't defeat Mariko." she mentions the Berserker-class's name. "Therefore..."
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"I want us to make a truce." I said to her and she looked at me with shock. "But!" I continued "You must not involve innocent people anymore!" I crossed my arms and looked down at her. "Deal?" I asked which she looked down to think. Moments became seconds, seconds became minutes, minutes became- Okay, it's only for 12 seconds. "I guess I'll have to accept that offer for now." her face lit up with a bright smile as she looked at me. I blushed for a bit, not knowing that she could be so beautiful... She's not as beautiful as Acchan, but... "Mayuyu?" Jurina brought me back to reality and I laughed dryly for whatever reason.
Everyone was happy that Yukirin accepted our condition. Not to mention that we just gained another ally. Acchan got closer to me and whispered in my ear "If you keep going like this, you're going to be stabbed in the back." she left after saying what she wants and made some tea. I shook hands with Yuki and Jurina put her hands over ours with a grin. "We're the 'BEAT UP BERSERKER' Alliance~!" she shouted playfully which made both Yukirin and I laughed. Acchan, Yuko and Tomochin were having their own celebration outside. We decided to just leave them be.
"Ah, because I told you what I wanted, then what do you two want to ask if you get the Holy Grail?" Yukirin blurted out a question which made me froze. Jurina as well. "Eh? Was that a taboo question?" she asked worriedly as she realized the state Jurina and I were in. "No, it's not that..." I said with a wry smile because I don't really know what I wanted to wish for. Jurina was the first to answer. "I want to stop the war."
I looked at her surprised. Her face was serious. Yukirin was curious. "Why would you do that?" she asked. Jurina answered while looking straight into her eyes. "I don't want something scary to happen if the Grail fell into the wrong hands..." she says clearly and Yukirin realized something. "You mean the 4th war?" she asked Jurina. Jurina nodded which made me curious. "Eh? When's that? And what happened?" I asked them. Yukirin explained. "The 4th war. This is the 8th. Somebody crazy used the grail to set fire to a whole town. The winner of the 5th Grail War used his wish to destroy the grail itself but... A new grail was created."
Jurina continued after Yukirin. "The grail became more powerful and it had the power to pass through dimensions. Therefore on the 7th war, new heroes from different dimensions were called out. And the war is held in a dimension different from us. Like Acchan said, the 7th war was called the idol war. They fought until the last remaining hero or master in the war remains. Because the grail has a mind of itself, it then used the 7 heroes of the past war to come back to the 8th war, our war."
"Okay, we're getting off topic, I think." I pointed the obvious which made Jurina finally realize it. "Ah, sorry. Lost in the moment there." she sticks her tongue out cutely as she winked. I thought she was really cute like that... "What's your wish, Watana- I mean, Mayuyu?" Yukirin asked me as we got back into track. I pondered for a bit but after a few seconds, I finally reached my answer.
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[Saber's POV]
We hung out outside and talked about the past where we became idols and such. After I stepped out of the war, I became an actress for a while until the grail is finished. I didn't hear anything about what happened in the war because it's such a pain. "Tomo," I called her when I remembered something. "What is it?" she looked at me with the smile that saved me a long time ago. "What did you promise Mariko?"
She pondered on how to explain it and "Well, during the last war,
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[FLASHBACK]
"Mariko, what did you want to talk about?"
"Ah, Tomochin. I just heard this from someone."
"About?"
"The heroes in this grail war this time will reappear in the next war."
"Really???"
"Yeah... I need to ask you of a favor."
"What is it? If it's not something impossible, then-"
"In the next war, I don't want you to attack Acchan first. It's okay if she attacks you, but I don't want you anywhere near her."
"... Why...?"
"Because I think SHE will win this war... And as an older sister, I'll have to protect my younger sister from her.."
"... I see..."
"So will you promise me?"
"Yeah. If it's for Atsuko..."
[FLASHBACK END]
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Yuko and I listened to what happened as she explained. "You sure are loved." Yuko blurted out in a pissed off tone. I think she's upset about something. Probably jealousy but I don't want to get too self-conscious about it. "Then why did you break your promise to her?" I asked her and she shook her head. "I was attacking Mayuyu who was defenseless at that time. I didn't know that her servant was you."
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After all that's happened, and us partying for god knows how long, it became night time. We all went to our own beds. Yukirin with Tomo, Jurina with Yuko and Mayuyu with me. I protested about Yuko staying in the same room with a girl but Tomo persuaded me otherwise saying that she knows that nothing is going to happen. Though, to be frank, my perversion is way worse than Yuko's.
"Acchan?" Mayuyu and I looked at each other in bed. It wasn't that weird lover's atmosphere that was going on. It was like siblings. "Hm? What is it?" I gave her a smile and she blushed a bit. She was so red that I could even see it in the dark. "Er.. Mind telling me the names of each servants?" she asked cutely as she hid half of her face under the blanket. I chuckled a bit and squeeled at her cuteness in my heart.
"Saber-class, Maeda Atsuko. Archer-class, Oshima Yuko. Lancer-class, Miyazawa Sae. Rider-class, Itano Tomomi. Berserker-class, Shinoda Mariko." I mentioned the five that I knew. "Err.. what about the other two? Caster and Assassin, was it?" she asked me again. I shook my head, not knowing the answer. "I don't know. Nobody knew who Assassin and Caster were in the last grail war." I explained to her. "In the last war, a lot of heroes were summoned. Probably about two hundred. Only 7 were part of the war. Each of the 7 knew they were in the war but didn't bother asking the others. I found out about the 5 of them being servants and their masters as time passed by but I don't know about the other two servants and masters."
"Ah... I see..." she seemed relieved and disappointed at the same time. "What's wrong?" I asked her. She shook her head to show there's nothing wrong. Even though she may say so, but her look says otherwise. "You should sleep, Mayuyu." I hugged her and buried her face in my chest. My chest isn't that big so she shouldn't be suffocating. She blushed madly at first but then looked calm and sleepy.
"Goodnight, Mayuyu." I kissed her forehead and her blush became redder even though I thought it was impossible at first.
"Goodnight, big sis..." she was about to sleep at first but then realized her mistake.
"'big sis'~~???" I teased her with a grin and she protested a lot.
"N- No! It was just a spur of the moment!" she blushed even redder. Okay, how red can she even go?
"Hai hai. Now just go to sleep, my little sister~" I continued teasing her even though I want her to sleep.
"M- Mou... You should forget about this..."
"Is that a proper way to talk to your older sister~"
"N- NYAA!" she snapped and hugged me tightly, more like trying to squeeze me
"Haha, my little sister is really cute~"
"S- Stop that... I'm going to sleep!" she closed her eyes to drift to dreamland.
"Yeah, Goodnight, my little sister..."
"... G- Goodnight, big sis..."
[Chapter 2 END - What came undone]
I love dem AtsuMayu moment~ Let me make a dominance poll!
Mariko > Acchan > Yuko > Jurina > Yukirin > Erena > Mayuyu > Tomochin
You're gonna get eaten alive, Tomochin! IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!
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