ITP: Two great Men, shared life

[fatestayhome]

Who: fatestayhome, his Shadow and thevelvetkey!
What: Denying one's truth.
When: Dark Hour, duh
Where: The Streets of Prospero.

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Pre-combat

[fatestayhome]

[At this stage, both of them are just staring warily at each other while the Shadow does most of the talking.

...Might want to intervene before it gets worse.]

Re: Pre-combat

[stripping]

"Emiya!"

Right, that would be Issei rushing up to Shirou's side. He rests a hand on Shirou's shoulder, gripping it tightly. "You idiot, what are you doing out alone?"

[fatestayhome]

"Oh, look, its Issei! The person you failed to save from those zombies!"

Shattered out of his attentive state of staring at the Shadow lest it does something, Shirou quickly turned to Issei.

...Damn it, he's not supposed to be involved!

"Issei, I'm trying to find Saber."

[stripping]

"That doesn't excuse you going alone. You should have asked me to come with you," Issei chided. "It's safer that way."

[fatestayhome]

"I was about to ask someone for help, if that counts."

Actually, no, Shirou's not going to ask but eh, he's that kind of an idiot.

[stripping]

"That's at least a little better. Now then. What's he been bothering you with?"

Glaring at the Shadow, Issei stepped a little closer to Shirou, protective as usual.

[fatestayhome]

"A lot of things that I had admitted to doing."

The Shadow twitched when Shirou said that with a serious look on his face, as if all the accusations the Shadow leveled at him were accepted without any problems whatsoever due to Shirou's empty nature.

[stripping]

"Then what exactly is the problem involved?" Couldn't they just go back to the hotel?

[fatestayhome]

"He's just a stubborn one."

Going back to the hotel would defeat the purpose of this post, wouldn't it?

In any case, the shadow had enough of being ignored, and just charged at Issei, fist raised.

"Issei, watch out-!"

[stripping]

Funny thing about fists, is that swords are usually made of stronger stuff than them and can be used to block.

"Excuse me. What quarrel do you have with me, Shadow?"

[fatestayhome]

"That you're someone getting in my way!"

And with that said, the Shadow is summoning its own sword with his free hand, the Caliburn, and performed an upward slash at Issei!

[stripping]

Ow ow ow, that really hurt a lot. Issei stumbled backwards.

"Is that really what you think-?!"

[fatestayhome]

"Of course, you were always worried about anything I did! And sometimes you even stopped me from rushing into other people's problems!"

The shadow was about to bring the sword down, and luckily Shirou managed to block it in time.

[stripping]

"Because I care about you, moron! Is that worth punishment?!"

Recovering, recovering was an important thing to do now. Issei steadied himself, sword raised defensively.