The Double Sided Heart

Authors notes: I do not own Evangelion or any part of it, Gainax does. I do however own any and all original characters and any remembrance to real people or other fictional characters is strictly coincidental (If I put any in).

The background of this story will be an alternate ending to End of Evangelion, in which Asuka destroyed the mass produced Eva's, instrumentality was avoided. Shinji has recovered and is back to normal after syncing with Unit-01 during Asuka's battle where he talked with Yui learning about her and what his feelings mean and some other stuff also Asuka fought on the surface so their is no crater the geofront is still there. It will also be an Asuka Shinji paring and I might throw another in but ill see. Also this is going to be fluff. I've never written fluff before so let's see how we go.

"_" - Speaking

'_' - Thought/typed/read (Ill say if it is thought or typed or read)

Now let the chaos of my first story begin.

The warm morning air wafted into Shinji's room on the upper floor of the apartment block. He had left the window open over night hoping that he could collect some of the fresh night air to keep his room cooler during the day. Unfortunately after the events of two days ago he was still tired and did not get up early enough to close the window.

'Hmm should have closed that' he thought to himself as he stood up swaying groggily in front of the window looking out at Tokyo 3, the fortress city that was designed to intercept the angels. 'Angels' Shinji thought 'They are all gone, dead. What will happen now?' Pondering this he walked out of his room for the first time since getting home.

Misato was asleep still and so was Asuka. Pen Pen was casually waddling around the kitchen waiting for someone to come and feed him when Shinji walked from his room. The warm water flightless bird jumped at him to convey need for sustenance. Shinji removed some fish from the fridge as well as some rice and other ingredients to begin cooking breakfast for himself, Pen Pen, his guardian and the red headed pilot. The aroma of Shinjis cooking must have been contained pure caffeine, as right as the smell crept into their rooms through the thin paper doors they emerged from them to devour the meal that Shinji had prepared.

Sitting quietly Misato's hand sat on the table in a grasping position as Shinji slid the ice cold beer can into it for her, she immediately began to chug the content of the can and threw out her usual beer cry as Shinji placed the meals in front of the members of the apartment. They ate in relative silence not speaking while they shovelled the meal in. After they all finished Shinji collected the dishes and began to wash them while the others walked off to their rooms.

Moments later Asuka emerged brandishing a towel. Shinji looked around just in time to see her open the door to the bath room.

Asuka saw him turn and look and with a menacing scowl "If you dare peek Third child you will have wished instrumentality did happen. Pervert." She closed the door to the bathroom leaving Shinji a little in shock,

He shook it off remembering that this was a pretty normal occurrence during the morning, but the level of threat had begun to worry him a little.

Meanwhile in the shower stood the red headed pilot of Unit-02. After her win over the MP Eva's she was still on a high not just because she destroyed the nine units but that she didn't need help from Wonder girl or the Third child. Taking in the warmth of the water cascading over her body she felt at peace for once after learning that Mama still loved her and was watching over her the whole time.

'Hmm maybe I should get out soon, I should do something today' she thought.

Turning the taps off the red head stepped from the shower and began towelling herself off. When she had finished she wrapped it around herself and ventured out into the apartment. Shinji had finished evidently by the fact he wasn't standing at the sink and all the dishes were gone.

The fiery red head called out "Hey Shinji is Misato here?"

To which he replied from somewhere in the apartment "Nah she said she was going out with someone for the day". Asuka thought on this for only a moment and thought it would probably be Kaji;

Her feelings for him had subsided since he had rejected her and had begun spending large amounts of his time with Misato. It had not happened easily but Asuka had gotten over it in the end and she was actually happy she hadn't ended up with him after all.

Asuka stood in her room stark naked gazing out the window at what was left of the city. Although the geofront was mostly intact the rest of the city hadn't faired quite as well. A large amount of the eastern side of the city was destroyed after the previous angel attacks. The city was still somewhat brimming with life but not the way it once was. The red head was still day dreaming in front of the window when Shinji knocked on the door.

"Can I come in and talk Asuka" he said through the door.

Asuka in a daze just yelled "Yeah what do you want to talk about?"

As Shinji opened the door he saw her at the window. He blushed immediately at seeing her naked form bathed in the warm light of the window.

He stuttered as he turned to face out the door "A-Asuka y-you aren't wearing any c-clothes"

She suddenly turned to him hearing what he had said turning a shade redder than her hair as she swore in German "Scheiße, wie kannst du es wagen, mich anzusehen nackt" Just as she grabbed her towel from the ground and wrapped it around herself she began to move toward Shinji to beat him. "You pervet I told you not to peek, why would you come in here while I was dressing?"

Shinji felt a sudden fear come over him as he knew he was about to be beaten to a pulp for something he didn't mean. "Y-you c-called m-me in here, s-saying it was ok to come in"

Asuka back pedaled a little after hearing that and remembered saying it 'I must have been day dreaming pretty bad...' "I'll let you off this time third child, but next time I won't".

Shinji stopped cowering in the doorway and looked toward Asuka, who had a rather amused expression on her face, at seeing Shinji had turned straight around after seeing her exposed. Shinji turned around to the door again with Asuka giving him a look and then remembering she wasn't dressed.

'Maybe there is hope for the hentai pervert after all' she changed quickly into her yellow sun dress.

"Shinji what did you want to talk about after all" Shinji turned seeing the dress, he had always loved that dress on her. Not because he had seen what lay beneath on the 'Over the Rainbow' but because it made her look like an angel, not the monstrous, disgusting killing machines that he and her had fought, but a real messenger of god. A being who was the epitome of beauty.

He stood gorking in awe of the 'angel' in front of him before he was shaken back to realitly by that particular red head.

"Hey baka I know I'm magnificent and all but im going to beat you up if you don't stop staring" Shinji cowered a little as he heard this,

But looking up to the red head he saw that the usual scowl that would cover her face was not there and instead he saw her shimmering blue eyes just looking at him and an amused look on her face that he rarely saw.

"So what did you want to talk about?" the red head in front of him said in the most caring voice he had ever heard come from her lips.

"I- um wanted t-to talk to you. N-not really a-about anything b-but just t-talk" Trying hard to hold back the blush that was overtaking his face and hold back the stutter and uncertainty in his voice.

He looked toward the ground expecting Asuka to lash out and beat him for taking up her valuable time for no reason, but she didn't she just smiled. Looking at this smile and instantly felt more comfortable as the threat of a beating was definitely gone.

'I love that smile, should I tell her that? Nah probably not she will definitely beat me for that' he thought with a slight chuckle. Asuka didn't notice the chuckle but she did notice that Shinji was now staring directly into her eyes.

"Earth to baka-Shinji, come in baka" she said with a grin. 'Whats going on in his head? He never used to space out this often. What could he be thinking about while staring at me? It better not be anything perverted or I'm going to kill that hentai' Asuka thought as Shinji cocked his head to the side at the sudden scowl that had formed on her face.

"Baka you had better not have been thinking anything perverted or I will kill you" she said in the usual stern tone she used when about to lash out at him for something.

"N-no I w-wasnt A-asuka I s-swear" the words falling out of his mouth as his mind jumped suddenly from bliss to the very real threat of death in front of him. Knowing that he had no way of talking his way out of this one Shinji looked at Asuka and ran for the door, he was halfway out it when a pair of arms wrapped themselves around his chest and an unknown knee slammed into his back and inturn? him into the ground sliding along the kitchen floor right into Pen Pen's fridge crashing loudly.

Shinji opened his eyes to see a very pissed off penguin looking right at him and then two black flippers suddenly slapped him across the face. By this time Asuka and got up from her kneeling position on Shinji's back. With a smug look on her face she walked into the lounge room to watch television feeling she had taught that baka a lesson.

Five hours later Shinji had fixed the door to Pen pen's fridge and now begun cooking tea for the three inhabitants of the apartment knowing that Misato would be up to all sorts of unmentionable things with Kaji tonight and therefore wouldnt be home until morning.

Looking at the steamed rice and fish he had prepared for the three of them he called out "dinners ready"

Asuka shuffled in letting a loud yawn out as she sat at the table and admired Shinji's handy work. Pen Pen also sitting at the table let out a loud "Wwark" in approval of the meal before him swallowing the fish whole as well as the plate covered in rice. He waddled back into his fridge, giving the remaining occupants of the table a look; they both looked at the penguin and could of sworn they saw a grin appear on that beak of his. Shrugging it off they finished the rest of the meal in silence. Asuka stood when she was finished handing the plate to Shinji to wash up.

"Hey baka, want to watch a movie?" Asuka yelled from the lounge room making sure he heard. Shinji finishing the last dish put it in the cupboard and dried his hands.

Moving into the lounge room Shinji saw that Asuka was curled up on half the couch watching the opening credits of some movie he didn't recognize. "Are you cold?" he asked quietly seeing the goosebumps that littered her arms and legs.

"Yeah a little, could you grab me a blanket or something please" she said in the most sincere voice he had ever heard her speak to him in.

Wandering into his room he pulled the small blanket off his mat on the floor and handed it to the girl in the lounge room 'She probably would have gotten angry if I had gotten hers from her room, so hopefully she doesn't care that it smells like me'

Asuka wrapped herself in the warm blanket as Shinji sat down on the couch next to her. 'Wow I never knew he smelled this good, what is it I wonder? He's getting brave sitting right next to me. Maybe I'll give him a break, he did get me his blanket' wriggling around to get comfortable on the couch and purposefully sliding a little toward Shinji to see his reaction.

Asuka let out yawn and stretched her arms up running her fingers through Shinji's hair on the way down, to which he sat up straighter than anyone could have as his whole body became covered in goose bumps.

'That was the best reaction I've seen yet, teasing him like this is much better that just beating him for everything that he does' she thought as the movie title sequence began. Shinji sat that way for almost twenty minutes until he finally settled into the couch touching Asuka only slightly in the hope that she wouldn't beat him for it.

'I wonder why she is so different today? This is the strangest I've ever seen her acting around me. What could have gotten into her?' he thought as the movie played, but Shinji wasn't following what was going on.

Almost two hours had past since Asuka had put the movie on and it had just finished, the credits rolled and then the dvd jumped to the menu. She looked over at Shinji at the other end of the couch, he was asleep. Looking down and moving her legs Asuka noticed that their legs were tangled together.

'If that baka knew how much of my skin he was touching right now he'd have a heart attack' she thought standing up, careful not to move the boy too much in case he woke up. Pulling the blanket from around her body she draped it gracefully over the third child.

She tip toed quietly from the lounge room into the kitchen and then through the open door to her room. Stripping down to just an over sized shirt and panties Asuka crawled into bed, letting sleep take over her body and letting her mind wander. Quickly it arrived at the boy that was the third child, the pilot of Unit-01, the baka, Shinji Ikari. Her mind poured over the memories of him and her, as dreams yet unrealised ran around her mind.

Right I know it was short and probably wasnt very good but this being my first proper story I hope to improve over the course of the story. Anyway the next chapters will be much longer this was mostly just me trying to get something rolling and some kind of story going. Anyway if you could leave a review it would be greatly appreciated so that I have some idea how im going.

See you next time

Unit-777