Chapter 1: Circles and cones
Asuka slowly walked down the hallway of the apartment, whistling to herself out of boredom. Shinji was in his room, probably wallowing in self-pity while listening to his SDAT.
'That stupid Baka... He could at least play that stupid cello of his, at least then I'd be a little entertained...!' This was the 25th time Asuka had paced past Shinji's room, and the 25th time she had grumbled to herself about how stupid Shinji is. As Asuka passes Shinji's room for the twenty-sixth time, however, Asuka pauses. A strange, repetitive sound issues forth from Shinji's door, just loud enough for Asuka's ears to pick up the noise, but not loud enough to discern what it was. Asuka shrugs and continues pacing back and forth. After the third time passing Shinji's door, however, Asuka stops once more and presses her ear up to the door. This time she could make out the noise a bit clearer, but she had to be hearing it wrong. Several moments pass with Asuka's ear against Shinji's door before her nostrils begin to sting from the smell of strong incense.
'What is that Baka doing in there, performing a sacrifice?' Asuka asks herself with a chuckle. The sound begins to increase, to Asuka's surprise, and she can swear it sounds like chanting. But that can't be right; her ears must be messed up. Another minute passes and the sound stops completely.
'Why'd it stop? This is so stupid; he probably just got some new stupid tape...' But, like a cat, Asuka's curiosity soon got the better of her and, very suddenly, Asuka slides Shinji's door open. Asuka's eyes enlarge to the size of saucers before she blinks several times and rubs them. Before her, standing in the middle of the room, was Shinji. Dressed in a long black robe, Shinji had incense sticks lined up, forming a large circle around the room, the edges of said circle touching the four walls. In the center, where Shinji was standing, appeared to be a small circle drawn around Shinji with chalk dust. Just in front of Shinji's feet sits a large waffle cone, the closed end facing Shinji, and a scoop of vanilla ice cream inside the cone. Hanging around Shinji's neck is a chain which ends in a circle, hanging just over Shinji's chest. Inside the circle, suspended somehow, is an ice cream cone.
"S-Shinji...?"
Shinji gulps slightly as he waves at Asuka, a cone of ice cream in his other hand, "Uh...Hi, Asuka...this...this isn't what it seems..." Asuka steps back, shock apparent on her face. Shinji steps forward and towards Asuka, his mind trying to come up with a good excuse. Unfortunatly for Shinji, his movement towards Asuka was all it took to send Asuka over the deep end.
"Y-you're not going to make me your virgin sacrifice!" Asuka, hysterical, screams as she turns and runs out of the apartment.
"I hope Misato doesn't find out about this..." Shinji says to himself nervously before taking a lick of the ice cream unconsciously.