#lulurensu

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My present for fuckboy-niconii! I drew a KotoEli for you haha happy holidays!!

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Gem Summary: Kariya plans to give something special to Sakura that came from a special someone. Fandom: Fate/Zero Characters: Kariya Matou, Sakura Matou, Lancelot, mentions of Rin Tohsaka Relationships: Kariya-Sakura family bonding (feat. Lancelot) Notes: For Lark! I saw you italicized Kariya in your list so I thought of writing something about him with Sakura. It’s in a everyone is a normal human AU where Tokiomi gives away Sakura and the Tohsakas disappear. Kariya takes Sakura in and tries to bring her back to her own family. Happy holidays and I hope you enjoy!

It was the night of Christmas Eve in Fuyuki City. Families were pacing for last minute Christmas shopping, choirs on the streets sang the different holiday songs, and stores were filled with signs that all items were for sale. Snow was falling down that night..

A certain man was slowly walking (or limping?) down the streets, holding on to a wrapped up gift in his hands. He was hugging it tightly, like it was the most precious item in the world for him. Some people noticed him and asked if needed help as he was limping, but he declined them with a sincere yet weak smile.

You see, this man had a condition, which limits his physical capabilities. His physical appearance made him look like a 60 year old man rather than his true age. He was blind in one eye; his hair was as white as the snow in Fuyuki, and his skin as pale as the color of the moon.

Despite his condition, Kariya Matou decided to venture around the city himself. 

An hour later, he reached the front door of his humble home. He fidgeted and fumbled around the key before he was able to open the door. Lancelot was right there at the entrance when Kariya entered, and he quickly came to his Master’s need upon seeing his current weakened condition. 

“M-Master, you really should not have gone outside. Are you faring well?” He asked worriedly and Kariya just smiled. 

“I…am fine, Lancelot. Please do hide…this gift for me though.” He said, handing the wrapped gift to Lancelot. The servant nodded and ran off to do what he was asked, leaving Kariya at the entrance. 

He took slow steps to the sofa in the living room and sat down. The Matou residence was decorated in Christmas decorations, with small wreaths and Christmas lights hanging about. A Christmas tree stood at the very corner of the living room, decorated with beautiful hanging ornaments and lights. A star was placed on the very top of the tree. 

The furniture was decorated with a beige color, and the pillows that were part of it were replaced from its original white color to the Christmas-related patterns instead. The coffee table in front of him had a small snow globe on top, and a tray of milk and gingerbread cookies. 

It was then Lancelot walked into the living room, followed by Sakura Matou. The purple-haired girl was looking around the room, as if she had no idea where she was. Kariya stood up from the sofa and lifted up his arms, a smile appearing from his frail face.

“Merry Christmas…Sakura!” He greeted her happily. 

The girl tilted her head and just looked at him, “Merry…Christmas…”

He smiled and motioned her to sit down beside him. Lancelot sat on the couch across them. Beside the sofa Kariya and Sakura sat on, there was a small pile of unopened gifts. Kariya picked up one of them, and he handed it to the small girl.

“For you, Sakura.” He spoke with a smile.

Sakura took the present and looked at it before opening it. On a tag, it was written that it came from Kiritsugu, Irisviel, and Saber. Well, according to Kariya, it was more of Irisviel and Saber only who bought the gift for her, but Kiritsugu gave some of his share for the Christmas gift shopping. 

When she opened, there was a teddy bear stuff toy. She stared at the stuff toy’s eyes and it stared back at her.

Kariya handed more presents to her and she opened each and every one of them slowly. There was the gift from the Kayneth and Sola-Ui, which was a small book collection of fairy tale stories. Diarmuid gave her stuff toy; only it was a dog stuff toy. Iskander and Waver’s present was a notebook and it wrote on their message that it could be used as a journal to write down her adventures of the day. Kirei even gave her a gift, which was a bible. He did write down that it came from him and Gilgamesh, but Kariya knew that Kirei just did it all by himself.

It was then Kariya handed her the biggest gift from the pile, and she saw it came from both Kariya and Lancelot. She opened it and saw that it was cat stuff toy, and it was so big that she could even sleep on it.

She twitched a little but her expression remained stoic however, and she just nodded upon making eye contact with Kariya.

“Thank…you…Uncle Kariya.” She spoke and Kariya smiled.

“Ah, Sakura! There is one more gift that I have for you.” Kariya said.

He walked over to Lancelot and he whispered something in his ear and Lancelot whispered back at him. Kariya took slow steps away from the living room and Sakura and Lancelot were left in silence. Minutes later, Kariya came walking back with the small gift he was holding earlier. Sakura’s eyes were focused on it, curious on what it contained.

Kariya handed the small gift to Sakura with a smile, “From someone special.” He spoke. 

Sakura took it and saw on the tag the one name she hasn’t heard since she was adopted.

“From…Tohsaka Rin…” She read it out loud.

She opened it carefully and inside, there was a small black box. She opened the small black box and inside, was a necklace. An amethyst was hanging from the necklace, and it shimmered brightly. Inside the necklace, was a small note from Rin. She took it and read the contents. 

Dear sister, I’m sorry I haven’t come in contact with you for so long. You see, Father has told me to no longer speak with you ever since you left us, even by phone call. I really do wonder why he…did that. But please, do keep hold of this gem until you grow up. It’s a reminder that I’m always there for you. I hope you’re doing well.

I love you so much Sakura.

Love, Rin. 

When she finished, tears were falling down her cheeks and she was smiling.

“S…Sister…still loves me…” She spoke.

She quickly hugged Kariya and she started crying on his shoulder. The tears soaked his coat, but he didn’t care about that.

“You know, Rin and I were the ones who thought of giving the gift to you. I had to run last minute to her house and receive the gift from one of their servants. It was hassling.” He spoke.

“T-Thank you, Uncle Kariya! Thank you…Rin…” She let herself go from Kariya’s embrace and she was now smiling brightly. Kariya really missed her smile, as she hasn’t done so for months now.

“You know, I may…not be like Rin in anyway or know when I will do whatever it takes to bring you back to your family. But…I promise you, I will do my best to take care of you and love you.”

“Uncle…Kariya,” She smiled and hugged him again, “I will…work hard. I promise to reunite with my sister. Thank you, Uncle. I love you…”

Lancelot remained silent the entire time, smiling as he watched the uncle and child open more of the presents. 

That night, they all celebrated Christmas with smiles on their faces. Sakura felt the happiest she ever was since her adoption, and Kariya made sure that she would continue being happy.

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Hello Cai! I was your Secret Santa for this event. I decided to draw Astolfo for you. Hope you like it and happy holidays!

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For LULURENSU

Alright!  Here’s my story for lulurensu!  It’s centered on Shirou and Saber. I’m afraid it’s unpolished, but polishing it would take more time then there is until Christmas, eh heh heh.

I hope you like it, Lulu!

As Shirou woke up, the first thing he noticed was that his nose was cold. Yawning, he sat up and looked out the window. It was snowing. “Oh yeah,” he murmured to himself, “Christmas is this week.”

Shirou got dressed and headed to the kitchen, hoping that Sakura hadn’t beaten him to making breakfast. Again. But no, he was the first one up this morning. Starting in on some eggs, Shirou reflected on the past few months.

After the madness with the repeating four days and Bazett died down, Illya, Rin, Sakura, and Caren devised a way for the servants to stay in this world for as long as they chose. Shirou didn’t understand any of the terms they batted around, and from time to time Sakura seemed lost too. In the end, it was decided that Illya would provide most of the necessary mana, while measures would be taken to keep her frail body functioning properly. It made Shirou really angry when he found out how long Illya would live without some drastic measures. And that Stella and Liz would be even shorter lived… It had really pissed him off.

They used Rin’s basement to carefully re-summon the servants of the fifth Holy Grail war. Shirou and Saber were overjoyed to be reunited. Lancer flirted hard with Bazett, who just blushed and stammered. Archer was quite proud of Rin, who preened under his dry praise. Caster was impressed that they’d pulled this stunt off and immediately headed to the temple to be reunited with Kuzuki-sensei and summon Assassin again. Rider was the most surprised, but quickly acclimated and stuck close to Sakura. Beserker was surprisingly gentle as he picked up Illya and put her on his shoulder.

In any case, things went back to a crazy shade of normal after that. Shirou saw Lancer and Bazett around town, working odd jobs. Rider read books and took up motorcycle racing, and was of course amazing at it given her class. Berserker guarded Illya’s castle out in the woods. Caster settled back in at the temple and was sometimes seen shopping and buying cookbooks. Archer took to patrolling the city at night, most of the time with Rin. Assassin resumed guarding the temple gate, and sometimes nettling Caster. And Saber…

Shirou could tell that Saber was bored. With no war to fight or disaster that needed stopping, she had nothing to do. The two of them still trained in the dojo, and that was likely the high point of Saber’s day.

Just as Shirou was thinking about her, Saber entered the main room. “Good morning, Shirou.”

“Ah, good morning Saber,” Shirou replied. “Breakfast is almost done. Can you help me set the table?”

“I will,” Saber said. “But I must say Shirou, you must have gotten up very early to be nearly done making breakfast at half past 5 in the morning.”

Shirou looked at the clock on the stove. The glowing numbers read 5:29. “Whoa, you’re right! I guess the cold woke me up.”

“It is quite cold today. The snow is starting to fall quite hard, in fact,” Saber said, looking towards the courtyard.

“I guess we’re having a white Christmas this year, then,” Shirou mused.

“Shirou, what does that mean?” Saber asked, puzzled.

“Oh, well…” Shirou started to try to explain the concept of a white Christmas to Saber.

About halfway through the explanation, Taiga Fujimura burst in shouting, “And I’ve already reserved everyone some fried chicken, so don’t you worry!”

“Fried chicken?” Saber asked slowly, perking up a bit at the topic of food.

“Yeah! I’m not sure why, but everyone in Japan eats Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner on Christmas!” Taiga said enthusiastically. “And they sell out really fast, so I reserved some for me, and for Shirou, and for you Saber, and for Rider, and for Sakura, and an extra in case of guests!”

“That is indeed good planning,” Saber said.

“I’m glad you think so,” Taiga preened in response.

The hallway door slid open and in came Sakura and Rider. Morning greetings were exchanged and the group sat down for breakfast.

As it was a Sunday, after breakfast Taiga proceeded to lie around the living room watching TV. Rider went back to her room to read and Sakura went out for some errands.

Shirou and Saber went out to the dojo to train. After working up a good sweat, they sat down to rest. It was then that Shirou had somewhat of an epiphany. “Saber,” he said, “why don’t you open up a school?”

“A school?” she said, looking doubtful.

“Yeah, for teaching sword play! You couldn’t be as hard on general students as you are on me, but I think it would be a great thing to do with your time,” Shirou said.

“Yes, everyone else does have their hobbies,” Saber murmured. “But Shirou, do you have any idea how to go about opening up a public dojo?”

“Well,” Shirou faltered for a moment. “Fuji-nee used to compete in kendo so she’d have some connections, and I’m sure old man Raiga would help us set something up.”

“Very well, Shirou. It sounds like a plan. Now, shall we get back to training?”

“Sure.”

After at time of Saber hitting Shirou and Shirou trying to hit Saber with their bamboo swords, they retired for lunch. That afternoon was the same routine.

A few days later, Sakura and Shirou were making dinner when Sakura remarked, “Rider and I are going to see a movie on Christmas day. Are you and Saber doing anything special?”

“I haven’t planned anything,” Shirou said.

“Today is the 23rd after all. You have to decide soon!” Sakura said, smiling cheerfully.

After that, dinner was nice. Rin was visiting, and she was clearly excited for Christmas.

“Archer is planning something nice for us,” she boasted. “He’s going to cook me dinner and then he said that there’s a view he wants to show me.”

“Sakura and I are going to see a new adventure movie,” Rider said. “I’ve read the book it’s based on, so I’m quite interested.”

“I’ll be doing some family business for most of the day,” Taiga said. “But I’ll be back for fried chicken at dinner time!”

“Shirou? I’d like to stay home for Christmas this year,” Saber said.

“That’s fine with me,” Shirou said. “I’ll definitely stay with you, then.”

“There is always next year,” said Sakura.

“Yes, we have the time,” Rider said happily.

After that, the next day was uneventful. Early Christmas day, Lancer stopped by with a gift of some fish. So, that was made into lunch. In the mid afternoon, Kuzuki-sensei delivered some dresses for Saber, complements of Caster. Stella also dropped by with some (incredibly fancy) gifts from Illya.

Other than the visitors, Shirou and Saber spent a peaceful day at home. Just before dinner time, it started to snow.

Shirou looked out into the courtyard and spotted Saber standing in the snow, arms outstretched. He went out to join her.

Noticing him, Saber said, “It didn’t snow even once during the war, did it?”

“Yeah, this weather is a little strange,” Shirou replied.

“It is still a wonderful sight,” Saber said, turning toward the sky.

Shirou came up next to her. She put her arm around his waist and smiled at him. They looked up at the falling snow together for a time, until the chaos of Taiga returning home with the fried chicken drew them back into the house.

All in all, it turned out to be a peaceful Christmas.

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Gift for lulurensu! Happy holidays, and I hope you have a good new year!

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Lulurensu Wishlist 2015

Name: Lulu URL: lulurensu.tumblr.com Type of SS participation: Both Favourite Characters: Gilgamesh Saber/Arturia Pendragon Archer/EMIYA Sakura Matou Kotomine Kirei Favourite Ships: Gilgamesh/Female Hakuno Kishinami (bonus if you can also add Nero, Archer (Emiya), and Tamamo into the mix to make FemHakuno harem :’D if you want anyway) Emiya Shirou/Arturia Pendragon Sakura Matou/Rider (Medusa) Gilgamesh/Kirei Kotomine (bonus if you can add Cu Chulainn and Caren! Don’t draw Ko-Gil though, if you might be drawing them. Well, if you want anyway) Diarmuid Ua Duibhne/ Arturia Pendragon Other: Umm, no NSFW or gore please! Also, please don’t make it scary or probably creepy. Example: Art and Writing Do you want your Secret Servant to be holiday themed: Either Character/NOTP preferences: Shinji or Zouken Matou, Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi, Kayneth/Diarmuid, Rin/Sakura (family is fine, but not romantic), Tokiomi/Kariya, Berserker (Heracles), Sakata Kintoki Anything Else: Nope!