Fate: Bonds Beyond Humanity

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"Ah, but a good business can't be closed until both parts share a meal." Nobody knew where the woman heard that but she just shrugged. "One day you will have to ask Shirou to cook you something, I can guarantee he will beat any other chef you ever met."

With that last exchange and the contract signed the two mother and son of the Emiya family escorted the devils back into the house and soon to the exit.

"Shirou-kun I will be back a little before classes start and once they do we will talk about the kind of materials that I can find for you." Rias bowed to the matriarch again with Akeno following her example.

"Emiya-sama if you need anything you can feel free to call for myself." The queen offered a pamphlet to Iri who took with a smile much to Rias' fear.

"Of course Akeno-san, feel free to drop by if you want. I believe we will enjoy our future conversations."

With that the duo was gone and the Emiya family was left with their own devices. "Congratulations Shirou!" They barely closed the door before his mother hugged him.

"For making a deal with the devil?" Even he knew that there were not many parents that would like that.

"It's because they don't know what that means for a magician, any magician parent would look with pride… or envy." All magicians, be either magus or spellcasters wanted to be the greatest one and become a sorcerer after all. "But that doesn't matter right now. Just know that technically speaking you just 'one upped' 90% of the Clocktower whole population."

"I did?" Shirou needs more information on what is common for magus. "... mom… about dad…"

"If you want to I can tell you everything, or not and just tell you that your father is a good man." Irisviel closed her eyes with a beautiful smile, it was one full of love. "When we are traveling, you should see Shirou. Your father is always doing his best to help people. He doesn't always succeed but he tries his best and he does it while building a life for us and them."

There was one person in the whole world that Shirou owed everything, his father. The man saved him from a fire, took him in and introduced him to his family. When his sister was going to learn magic he gave Shirou the choice, 'Do you want to learn it too? It will be hard and dangerous but we won't force you. Your sister has to but your life is yours.'

Yes, he was a kid when the offer was given but if his sister was in any danger he would want to understand it, fight against it.

Emiya Shirou never regretted his decision, even when he discovered his element and origin were the same and they were incompatible with most stuff he just grinded his teeth and found his own way. It was not easy and it is still a work in progress but he is doing it.

"Fine… I will believe in dad. But that old man owes me an explanation."

"Oh I agree completely." Iri was all smiles until they made it to the living room and she looked at a door in the corner. There were two boundary fields around it, the first was similar to the one on his forge, the second was like the spell on the pin and made that only those with magical abilities could see it. Iri looks at Shirou again. "You need to talk with your sister."

"I want to but…" She was still mad and Shirou couldn't do anything about it. "She doesn't want to talk with me right now."

"I know Shirou… but try anyway." Iri gave him a sad smile that almost broke his heart. "I don't want her to leave angry…" 'She may never come back' was implied to both.

There were still weeks before Illya left but that was more because of her own decision, there were no real breaks on the Clocktower, one can enter and leave their courses whenever they want.

'Come on Shirou, think. There has to be a way for her to forgive me.' Once again his mind goes through the process of calming down and trying to dissect the situation. Cooking was out, he was both grounded and he already cooked plenty for her on birthdays and other days. Just asking for it? No, his sister wasn't the kind to forgive that easily.

What he needed was a gesture, some way to show that he cared and he would be careful in the future… "Mom I'm going back to the forge!".

"Did you have an idea?"

"Yes! See you at dinner!" He raced to the forge and Iri stood there smiling.

The matriarch then sits down and turns on the tv, she was at home and she planned to live the supposed housewife life and watch some soap opera. "Are you going to forgive your brother?"

It was not out of nowhere she asked the question, all the boundary fields of the house were hers and she could feel everyone outside and inside. She knew that Illya was at the door.

"I will come back you know." The daughter felt she needed to say. "I'm just worried."

"I know you are." She pats the side of the cough and her daughter approaches. "I'm too… Shirou… he is too nice."

That was the first time Shirou had fought someone to death, stray or not. That was not in the plan, in any plan that they developed in case Shirou wished to go deeper into the moonlit world there were other ways to present him with such a situation.

Safe ways were devised, targets were a dime ,a dozen and Iri just needed to call her husband and in a few days Shirou would be walked through the basics until the moment he would have to face reality. Now that is impossible.

But the youngest Emiya was different from his family, not just by blood. "You have no idea how I wished that you two didn't need to learn magecraft… that world has too much blood."

"I am sorry." Illya says lowering her head but her mother starts to pat it.

"It's not your fault. It was never your fault… the world is just cruel like that." And they both knew that Irisviel meant it. In her more serious moments the older woman was truly wise, part of it was thanks to her birth.

As a homunculus from a family that was trying deperedaly to revive their success and she was the fruits of their labor but she was also their failure. Irisviel would never be another 'Justeaze', a woman and homunculus that had possessed true magic but she grew into her own person. A good and wise mother, something the legendary homunculus never was.

But on her 'birth' she was given many of the memories… It was in these memories, the pain they brought that made her beg and plead until she managed to convince her husband to don't allow the beginning of a ritual that promised suffering and death.

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