A/N: I don't own Evangelion. But I own the storyline... :)
Word Count: 625
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Chapter 1
Air
Hikari Horaki was listening intently to the music of Air in G by Bach on her radio as her hand flew on the pages of her diary. She had heard that the notorious jewel thief, Tabris, has struck again, raiding the prestigious Tokyo Municipal Museum of the Angel Diamond, a rare gem that was excavated in Rome twenty years ago.
It was a mystery on how this master of jewels would easily break in a heavily guarded building. In fact, he wasn't caught until now. However, he would leave traces of blood in the crime scene, literally.
It was this that made him be known as the Shadow Jewel Master because of his prowess in killing. And this was why everybody feared him.
Hikari paused her writing and read the entry.
October 30, 1934
I just heard in the news that the jewel thief has struck again, this time at the museum near the old church. He's so cruel! Two people were reportedly killed! He's so cold hearted!
She closed her diary and stood up to go to the window. She saw the silver moon beaming to her as the city lights from the buildings flickered simultaneously.
The music from her radio had just ended.
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He barely escaped the policemen running after him. That was a narrow escape. He had to kill the curator and that other boy who really put up a good fight with him and until the very end, he gave him a clean slash on his right eye. It was still bleeding until now.
'Rei will have my by the head!' he thought, covering his wounded eye with a piece of cloth.
When he was able to escape the clutches of the police, he safely reached his destination which was just in the rural areas of Kanto. He heaved a sigh and clutched the piece of cloth on his eye. When he slid the door open, he was greeted by an angry young girl whose hands were in an akimbo.
"Good evening, Tabris!" she said, her crimson eyes moved to the cloth on the boy's eye, "And what happened to your eye?!"
Tabris passed by the girl, his purple cape billowing behind him. He made no reply to the girl's baffled questioning.
"KAWORU!" the girl shouted, addressing Tabris by his real name. Tabris sighed as he took off the cape. He slowly turned around and faced the girl, who was shocked at what she saw.
"Kaworu…who?" she asked, her voice faltering as she saw what happened to his eye.
"Rei, its nothing." The jewel master said, holding the bloodstained cloth.
The girl named Rei made an impatient noise, something that Tabris was used to hear. He took out something from his purple cape: a shining diamond, which was the size of a small tennis ball. He handed it to Rei, who was dumbstruck.
"You were able to… get it?"
There was a nod.
"Give it to Lord Keel if you see him."
Tabris proceeded upstairs to his room where he took of the purple western clothes he used as a disguise and changed it to the traditional blue gi and white hakama. He saw his reflection on the mirror which hung beside the cabinet. He took off the purple hat he was wearing and the golden monocle on his uninjured eye.
He saw an image of a boy standing face to face with him. He was barely sixteen years old, his silver hair was shaggy and the bangs were almost on his crimson eyes. He was pale-skinned, and some say he was an albino because of his appearance. He was thin and he didn't look like some criminal or even a matured young man.
Kaworu Nagisa, in a sense, was still a child.
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notes:
Chapter title comes from Air on the G String from Suite No. 3 in D by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
The story is also inspired from the Rurouni Kenshin OVA I watched a few months ago (Rurouni Kenshin Tsuiokohen) however this story will NOT be the same with the plot of the OVA. :)