-Fuyuki Japan-

I wake up covered in sweat

"What the hell happened" I put my hand to my heart, still feeling the sharp pain of my heart being impaled by the guy in the blue spandex.

And the blood leaking out and the utter cold setting in before darkness surrounded my vision before I entirely stopped feeling anything

No pain, no sensations, my surroundings devoid of anything at all.

Except for the sensation of those previous arms surrounding me again saying something but I couldn't hear what they had to say

"Maybe it was a dream?" It felt so real despite being a dream.

I woke up in the shed just like in the dream. The same broken equipment that I tried to Reinforce with magic. Just like in the dream or should I say nightmare.

A dream wouldn't end in my death. "So, is there anything after death or can the human mind even comprehend what death even feels like," I say to myself.

Well, it is not like there are eyes that can see death, that would be ridiculous. Still, I wonder something and look down to my hand

The bruise is right there, just like from the nightmare

"Was that really a nightmare? And I shouldn't be able to remember every little detail from a nightmare"

Let's recount our steps from what happened in the nightmare. First I got ready for school like I do every day, and then Sakura comes in and...

Holy crap I forgot about Sakura and Taiga, and just as I think that Sakura opens the door to the shed and looks at me in what I like to think is the look a mother gives to her child when he does something bad.

(Sakura POV)

Oh boy, it looks like senpai worked too hard in the shed again and fell asleep. Although I do wonder how messing around with appliances make you tired. Senpai maybe a magus from the boundary field that is set up around the house but that may be due to his father rather than his own ability.

Now that I take a closer look at Senpai, he looks really pale and sweat is covering his entire body. Did he have a nightmare again, before I pondered more on his state he asked me in a shaky voice "Sakura, what's the date today? Shaken out of thought I quickly told him today's date.

"Hey Sakura, do you have dreams that start off like normal but end up being actually a nightmare?

So many times I got used to the feeling of those….. crawling all over me, killing me on the inside little by little. Zouken looking over me

"Very rarely Senpai" I lied as naturally as I breathed. He doesn't need to know what my grandfather says training is for his heirs.

"I see, so it really was just a nightmare," he says in relief as the words I have spoken have calmed him down somehow, I don't know how it helped him but I'll be happy if I could bring any form of comfort to Senpai.

After all, he is my only escape from him

(Shirou POV)

I try to go through school like I do every day but as the day goes on,it looks like the nightmare is completely identical to the day I'm going through and that has been unnerving to me so I try to ignore this by helping much more people than usual.

They don't complain and even point out my unusual state but this is the only way I can ignore that weird feeling of dread. Issei notices my state and tries to tell me to take a break as he worries that I'm going to burn myself out.

I tell him that I never really been in a state where I couldn't work and even in those rare conditions, I healed up the next day like it was magic.

Still, it is really weird as I can still feel the phantom pains of having my heart impaled every once in a while. The feeling of dying not being able to fulfill my dream of being a hero of justice.

Not being able to save anybody leaves a hollow feeling of not being able to accomplish anything meaningful in life or the feeling of disappointment of not being able to reach Kiritsugu dreams don't help either.

Just as the bell rings signaling the end of the day for school, I remembered just how I died in that nightmare.

The feeling of bloodlust and sharp pain in my heart before darkness

Maybe I should ignore that sound of clashing next time.

But what if someone else gets hurt because I ignored that.

What if I die again and it doesn't turn out to be a nightmare

What if it's permanent this time and I don't wake up.

SO MUCH BLOOD SO MUCH BLOOD SO MUCH BLOOD SO MUCH BLOOD SO MUCH BLOOD SO MUCH BLOOD SO MUCH BLOOD

I try to ignore the flashback to my death. Why now is it that I'm certain it wasn't a nightmare and it was for real.

I get it now,it really might be a nightmare but in the actual case that I died and came back, is there magic that's capable of doing that? I don't want to kill myself in order to prove that theory in the case that's its possible to revive.

So,in the nightmare,I went over to where the sound of metal clashing,I checked it out and a man in blue spandex stabbed me in the heart.

Like the universe was waiting for me to think that, the sound of metal clashing sounded faint over in the distance. What I need to do this time is to prove my theory of this either dying and coming back or its permanent.

I walked over to the sounds of metal clashing,this time making sure that I don't make any noise. I look over to the two people clashing and I see the man in blue spandex and another tanned man with grey hair and a red coat of some kind.

They move too fast to be seen, I can barely catch their blues let alone their movement.

My breath stops as I see another person that I never thought to see, Rin Tohsaka

Why isn't she running away from the guy with the spear? Is the tanned man protecting Tohsaka? I see the tanned man jump away from the Lancer and bring out a bow? He then shoots the blue lancer which causes him to blow away the arrows away from him with his spear.

What I did not account for this time was the bowman looking straight at me when he jumped.

He yells to Tohsaka "A stranger is looking at us battling"

(Rin Tohsaka)

Wait,is that Emiya looking at us,how did we not notice him,especially the servants?

Just as we notice Emiya,so does Lancer. I notice his intent so I yell to Archer "Protect him Archer!

He looks like he wants to protest so I raise up my hand giving him a threat that I will use a command seal in order to follow that runs off to protect Emiya.

I reinforce myself in order to move faster to get to the school. I managed to see Emiya and by the Root!

He dodged Lancer with sheer luck.! I see Archer get in front of Emiya and block off a blow that would have killed Shirou.

I can't let Emiya get killed,Sakura would have nothing to live for if he dies.

What she failed to notice was she also would be depressed if he were to be killed.

(Archer)

How did he not die to Lancer spear yet? What did that idiot do this time that's different from what I did?

Lancer looks surprised that I protected a witness to the war. "What's your deal with the kid? The rules of this war that your magi are so fond of is that any non-magi witnesses to the war are to be killed off."

"Normally I would agree but my Master seems to be fond of this guy" I look behind us and see my past self, he looks like he dodged a bullet.

The urge to kill him right here right now is really high but Rin would really want a really good reason for why I killed him.

I look at him once more and not only is our appearance completely different,what is reflected in our eyes are different.

All I see is the naivety of my past self. Mine are filled with indifference to what will happen in front of my eyes. I stare Lancer in the eyes and he looks like what a confused dog would look like.

"Well,since you guys seem so concerned over this fella, imma just go back to my master,see ya Archer,even if you are a knight filled with no sense of honor, I look forward to fighting you again"

With that, Cu Chulainn sped off to return to his catches up and completely ignores me in favor of my past self.

(Shirou Emiya)

Well,at the very least no one was hurt, I say to myself as I try to ignore the scratches that blue lancer gave me. It seems like the Red Archer listens to what Tohsaka says to him.

Still is it just me or does it look like the guy looks like he wants to kill me….nah just my imagination.

As I ponder if I should run away from this guy too, RIn speaks to me "Emiya,I know you may have some questions on what you saw but I believe it's for your own good that your memories are erased on what happened and ….."

she trails off as she sees what's on my hand,the red bruise that looks less and less of a bruise and more of a symbole. When did that happen?That Lancer fellow didn't aim for my hands.

"Emiya,you're a Master for the war? But you aren't a did that happen"

"Hey hold on! I can totally cast magic!" She looks at me as if I told her I were an idiot.

"Emiya, Magecraft and Magic are completely different things that I don't have the time to explain right now in the open."

"Then what about if we go to my house and you explain it there,along with what is going on with the war you just talked about? She looks like it's the last thing she wants to do but changes her mind at the last second and agrees with my proposal.

We exit the school and we walk to my house and on the way, I can't get the feeling that somebody is watching us or me in particular.I look over to the direction where I felt the stare from and the stare disappeared.

Was that just my imagination or was something really staring at us?

(Illya POV)

Wow, my little brother almost found my familiar. Still how did he almost find my familiar but completely miss Berserker?

And is that the Master of Archer? The Tohsaka heiress already summoned her servant but like that will matter as my Berserker is the strongest and won't lose to anybody. Nobody is around and any bounded fields I put will make strangers ignore this area.

Very well,this is the perfect chance for me to make him suffer and kill Archer and his Master.

Killing two birds with one stone would be the perfect description for this situation. But to make him really suffer I need him to summon his servant and kill his servant in front of him in order to really break him.

Until then, he lives and I have more bigger problems to deal with at the moment. Liz and Stella better have made my preparations for the war. See you later,Shirou

Authors Note Here

Hey fellas,it's been a while since my last post and I want to let you guys know that I was really pleasantly surprised on how many followers and favorites I got from this story. I mean I expected at the very most 10 something followers but (looking over at follows and favorites)

58 followers and 37 favorites at the moment which means the world to me.

So I do plan to make more of UDW and that might take a while

I now understand why some authors take forever to post,it's hard to come up with material

So anyway,Lin Faz here,I hope to continue making this for your and my pleasure

Lin Faz Out