Fate: Bonds Beyond Humanity

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"I am just dandy!" She rolls in place. "Since you healed any wounds all that I had to recieve was a purificator of blood just in case the rats had any poison. But outside that I am good as new."

"Ahem." A small cleaning of the throat to the side turns their attention to the other girl at his door.

"Right! This is Himejima Akeno," Rias gestured to the new girl who made the traditional japanese bow, Shirou scrambled to answer in kind, "she is my queen and second in command. And this is Shirou-kun."

"It is a pleasure to meet you." Akeno said with formality and a gentle smile. "It is nice to know the one that helped Rias here to deal with the rat problem. She didn't stop talking about you the whole day yesterday."

"Don't exaggerate Akeno." Rias chastised her friend before turning back to Shirou. "I would like to talk to you and extend an offer. Are you free?"

"I-" He didn't have time to answer.

"SHIROU! INVITE YOU FRIENDS INSIDE!" Came Iri's voice from the kitchen.

"I guess I am?" Shirou opened the door for the newcomers to enter.

"My, my, what a cozy home you have." Akeno commented, he couldn't disagree. The simple but big couch, the chairs around the TV, pictures of the family all around. Rias approaches and looks at one.

"That is your mother?" In the picture was the whole family, even his father. "Then this must be your father?" It was obvious she had a question but was being polite not to ask.

"Yes, I am adopted." Shirou just says. "Let's just get that out of the way. Follow me please."

The boy felt he was about to enter a lion's den, his mother had some quirks and this was not the first time their home had visitors, Illya used to call some of her friends once in a while, but now it was his turn… Shirou knew that there would be teasing, his mother had been waiting for this.

Entering the kitchen he already knew that all had been planned, Shirou would like to say it was because they were receiving devils but that wasn't it. The table had now an extra chair with two of them on one side, at the laterals there was one chair for Liz… and on the other side was his.

And he knew it was his for on the small space on the other side of the two isolated chairs were his smiling mother, grumpy sister and a not amused maid. After years of not bringing friends his family, at least his mother, was planning to milk this for all it was worth.

"Please, come in, sit down." Irisviel offered. Rias and Akeno look at each other then the king of the peerage looks at her fellow red hair with a raised eyebrow.

"They knew you were coming… boundary field around the house." Akeno gave an amused smile.

"Ara, ara~ I didn't detect anything and that speaks highly of the skill of the maker."

"Thank you!" Iri also smiled and for some reason Shirou felt a sensation of dread. "It is good to be recognized for something one does. My name is Emiya Irisviel and I am the mother of this house. Who may you two be?"

"It is an honor to meet you Emiya-sama. My name is Rias Gremory… or Gremory Rias if you prefer the japanese tradition." Rias gives a polite bow and Akeno follows suit.

"Himejima Akeno and I have to say that you have a nice house ma'am." The smile in Akeno's face didn't change but Rias got a bad feeling. "I suppose it was expected of such a lady that raised the knight in shining armor that rescued my foolish king."

"Oh my, Shirou didn't explain how he pulled off such a daring rescue! Please do tell!" Irisviel's smile didn't change but both red heads could tell, the white and black haired woman were starting to hit it off.

"Mom!" "Akeno!"

The reactions of both teens only made the Emiya matriarch and her accomplice smile more but there was someone that was not amused.

"Can I ask why a devil came to our house?" Illya demanded to know glaring at Rias. The green eyed girl then fixes her posture.

"Illya." But before anything else happens, Irisviel takes the stage. "Lower your tone young lady, they are visitors." Her eyes bored on her daughter, it was not a suggestion, it was an order and the young woman turned her head and relaxed on her seat. "Good, now apologize to them."

"I will not." Illya grumbled. "These devils placed my brother's life in danger. I want to know why there is a devil in the house and then I want them gone!"

"If I may." Rias offers. "While the danger to your sibling did come from devils and I should have stopped him from following me I must admit that Shirou-kun did save my life." Then the devil lowers her head. "That situation got out of control because I underestimated the lack of intel and overestimated the last Second Owner before me and my peers care in taking care of Fuyuki, for all that I apologize."

"Don't." Everyone turns to look at Shirou.

"Shirou-kun?" Rias was confused.

"Don't apologize Rias, I followed you on my own volition after knowing the risks, if you want to blame anyone, blame the magus who was irresponsible in calling you." Shirou looked at her and Iri gave a small clap with a huge smile.

"I am so proud of my boy!" And she meant it. "Please, sit down. Sella, could you please serve us some tea. Do you two have any preferences."

"Any tea is fine." Rias said.

"Green if you can." Was Akeno's preference.

"I shall work on them Irisviel-sama." Sella prepared pots and cups, Shirou was getting ready to help but his mother stopped that.

"You are still grounded Shirou." Her smile didn't change. "It's not because I'm proud of you that you should risk your life like that." He lowers his head and sits on the chair he knew was his.

"Grounded?" Rias asked. "Emiya-sama, please if he is being punish-"

"Ah ah ah~ He should be more careful… besides it's the first time he is being legitimately grounded. I have to say it was a true experience." There was teasing in her voice.

"Ara, ara~ The first time? He must truly be a good boy." Akeno praised Shirou, making him go red.

"Thank you Himejima-san! But the credit doesn't go just to myself, Sella here taught him politeness and how to move around the kitchen while Liz helped him develop a sense of responsibility."

If 'politeness' is to reach perfection in the kitchen and 'responsibility' is doing anything the younger maid didn't want to do then it was actually true, not that Shirou minded.

There was a bit more of small talk, nothing much, Iri managed to put Rias in a situation that Akeno had to tell the story from her perspective.

Rias was about to die, surrounded by a huge horde of rats when Shirou summoned her, the last attack of the heiress of the Gremory house was literally her last ditch effort. In many ways, both of them got lucky, if Shirou had taken too long Rias would be too tired to help or dead while Rias was literally against the wall with no escape.

Shirou was sure that if she hadn't shown up he was going to die, maybe taking the stray out with him but he had nothing to cause the damage he needed at that point.

"Thank you Sella." The maid started to distribute the tea, ending with hers and sitting down. "Now that we are all settled down," Irisviel stares at Rias,"what is the heiress of Gremory doing in my house?"

This attitude was completely different than before, from loving mother and housekeeper now there was someone else sitting on the table. someone that knew blood and death in some way, shape or form.

For Shirou the transformation was jarring, for Illya it was unexpected, the maids were not surprised, Akeno was still smiling but now it was rigid while Rias…

The pureblood devil was smiling, this was expected. "It is an honor to meet the wife of the Magus Killer, Emiya Kiritsurugu."

"'Magus Killer'?" Shirou never heard the title before, Illya and the maids were looking at him with pale faces but Irisviel was still the same. "Why- Why did you call dad that?" The title was ominous in many ways.

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