Neon Genesis Evangelion
Collision
By BrokenChosenofEva

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Title: Hammer and Anvil
Prompt: set 1 / prompt 001 [Love]
Word Count: 2k+
Rating: T
Summary: RWBY AU. Touji, Hunter for the rebuilt Beacon Academy, remembers what brought him to this point, and looks toward what comes next.

Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion

Notes: I decided that, since I really am a die-hard Asuka/Touji shipper, I'd start a Prompt based series focusing on my favorite couple. It seems fitting, really, after all the inspiration I've often gotten from reading various prompt based series -such as "Till I'm a Hundred, You Idiot" and "A Hundred Ways to Say You're My Brother" by Griselda Banks, and Eric Blair's "Love and Hate"- that I make the effort, no matter how long I take, to actually and honestly write a prompt series. How many prompts? We'll just have to see.

I'll be uploading roughly once a week, hopefully I can stay ahead that way. I have three written, so I've given myself a grace period for when I hit a block and it takes longer than a week to write up a prompt.

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"I LOVE THIS!" the black haired young man bellowed, slamming Magnhild into the head of the Ursa that was charging at him, stopping it dead -literally- and burying its crushed skull into the ground. Triggering the grenade launcher function in the head of the hammer, he used the force of the blast to flip over the bear Grimm that had tried to hit him from behind and vaporized the head of the one he'd just killed.

Landing, activating his Semblance, Touji seemed to teleport around the Grimm he'd avoided and leaving after images, slamming the hammer into it each time he reappeared. Finally hitting it with an upswing, tossing it across the clearing where the beast crashed limp and dead to the ground, he paused a moment to eye the two remaining Ursa. Breathing deep, glad he kept the black coat over his grey t-shirt unbuttoned even in the chill of early Autumn here in Forever Fall Forest, he felt the gentle tap-tap as the breeze toyed with the ankles on his loose-fitting black pants where they rested against his grey boots.

Smirking at the two Grimm, still several yards off, he switched Magnhild from hammer to grenade launcher and fired, pounding Gravity Dust shells into the large Ursa on the left and knocking it around while the one on the right charged out and around to hit him while he was busy with its cohort.

Roaring a challenge, his previous target quite dead, Touji switched his weapon back to hammer form and used his Semblance to get above the last creäture of Grimm. Using the grenade function to start a spin, he plummeted towards the beast, slamming the head of the hammer into its spine and firing one more grenade to both insure the kill and fling him to the center of the clearing.

He wanted to keep fighting, but the explosions had most likely scared off any Boarbatusks and he was doubtful any Beowolves where in the area. Sighing, he put Magnhild on his back in launcher form and set off in search of his partner. Knowing her great ax/shotgun combo, Zweihander, was nearly as loud as his grenade launcher/hammer, he felt sure he'd find her in the thick of things not too far off. The distance-dulled blast told him he wasn't far off the mark, so he triggered his Semblance to reach the tree branches above him, and to move from tree to tree as he made his way towards her.

Partners, she'd insisted, was what they always would be, in the field and back at the Active Roster barracks at the rebuilt Beacon Academy. But once they did get back home, dorms and classrooms built atop the ruins of the old, it was husband and wife that he and she went by.

They'd married a week after graduation, much to their friends surprise considering he proposed in front of the entire school during the graduation ceremony after spending the entire four years of school in an "on again-off again" relationship with her, and spent the next week on their honeymoon out to Atlas and back. Once they returned to Beacon it was straight into full-time hunter/huntress duties in The Forest of Forever Fall and The Emerald Forest, as well as patrols around Vale during that first year.

Three years later, they continued to work as a pair, never accepting solo missions though willing to take missions that included Shinji and Hikari. The other half of Team LIHT (Light), Shinji and Hikari had only just announced their engagement a few months ago and that the wedding would be nearly half a year later. Touji chuckled as he shadow-blinked from tree to tree, knowing the sword and shield wielding Shinji and the spear/sword/rifle and shield wielding Hikari were simply moving at their own pace, much as he and his partner had.

He knew the reason his other half always turned down solo missions. Oh, she would say such logical things as "we trained to work as teams of two to eight, going solo after that is a waste of training and stupid", but what she really meant was that it was dangerous and she refused to risk losing him or leaving him behind. That wasn't to say they didn't run independently, like now, but they always remained close enough that they could be at each others side at a moment's notice.

With a final leap, Touji landed in another clearing just in time to watch his redheaded wife use her weapon to cleave an Ursa's head from its shoulders with a berserker's scream and flames flickering around her, her eyes obviously red though he was far enough away that he couldn't tell by sight but by personal experience. Her red and gold trimmed armor snug on her torso over her white, untucked blouse, the long sleeves fluttering gently in the breeze.

Asuka Suzuhara, formerly Langley, took a deep breath to center herself and draw back her aura before turning to Touji as he calmly swaggered up to her. Smirking, the two white-tipped fox ears atop her head flicking to show her inner happiness at seeing him, Asuka slung Zweihander on her back and placed her hands on the hips of her white slacks as the last of the flames flickered out and she waited for him to speak.

Touji loved her ears. He'd be the first to say he is horrible at reading people, and with Asuka's mastery of false anger his initial interaction with her was rather aggressive and, politely put, a massive failure in first impressions. But regardless of how well she could control her expressions and voice, those two furry ears atop her head always gave her away. Folding back when honestly angered or threatened, drooping when saddened or moping, one higher than the other when confused or curious, twitching when dangers lurked and flicking when happy, they were his saving grace when it came to befriending the fiery-tempered Faunus.

They were also most likely why Hikari and Asuka had become such fast friends. The redhead had been wholly unprepared for the squeal of delight that had escaped the brunette when her attention had been drawn to the fox ears when they'd shifted to uneven heights at Asuka's confusion over something Shinji had pointed out, the sound startling everyone nearby and most especially the Faunus herself. Used to ridicule and antagonism, Asuka had stood frozen as Hikari had shyly asked to touch the copper-furred, white-tipped appendages and further dumbfounded when their brunette teammate had whispered how cute and soft they were. Completely flustered, Asuka had bolted, calling out something to the effect of looking for their dorm. It was one of the few times the redhead had been so obviously outside her comfort-zone, and even the woman herself looked back at the memory with a chuckle these days.

"I finished before ya this time," Touji called, grinning, "Ya must be losin' yer touch."

"In your dreams," the fox-Faunus laughed, pulling him in for a bone crushing hug before stepping back, "We cleared everything ahead of schedule. Wanna go catch dinner with Shinji and Hikari after reporting in?"

"Oy! That's my line, woman." he teased, slipping into the pattern they'd developed.

"Please, stooge" she smirked, enjoying their game, "We both know who wears the pants in this relationship."

It should be noted -regardless of timing in this narrative- that Touji's Grenade/Hammer "Magnhild" was, in fact, the same weapon used by one Nora Valkyrie. While Asuka's Shotgun/Ax "Zweihander" was designed and built by her with the help of the Weapon Master, the legendary Ruby Rose, Touji's original Shotgun/Hammer had been a commercial version of Nora's signature weapon that his father had purchased for him when he'd attended combat school.

The reason he now carried the legendary "Magnhild" was a story unto itself, but that's for another time. Suffice it to say he had managed to destroy his old weapon while working with Asuka to protect a small nearby village during one of their third-year school-assigned missions. Nora, one of their Combat Instructors and their favorite professor, had been impressed by their report and exclaimed at the loss of his weapon.

As was the woman's habit she'd made a scene of the whole situation, ending it by giving him her hammer along with a threat to his legs to not break it for anything less than ultimate need, and then joyously announcing to Team LIHT -as well as the current headmistress Yang Xaio Long- that she was pregnant and didn't need to be jumping around swinging the old weapon anyways.

"Hey, Touji..."

He turned his head enough to glimpse Asuka's face, noting the serious expression and faint blush on her cheeks.

"Yeah, Red?"

"Cute." she snorted, suppressing a chuckle at the randomly used nickname he had for her, "I... I love you."

"Love ya too, ya crazy fox." he grinned seeing her eyes narrow at his other nickname for her, and noting the deeper blush and hesitation after his next question, "Always, like ya said yerself. Now what's botherin' ya?"

"Let's have a kid." she blurted out rapidly, her words crushed together and nervous, completely at odds with her normal persona, a deepening blush on her cheeks to match.

He blinked, momentarily unsure he heard right, then grinned as a matching blush covered his own face. Almost twenty-six and we still make each other blush, he chuckled at the thought.

"Eager for another adventure, huh Red?"

"Shut it." she glared at him, the blush on her cheeks and the flicking of her Faunus ears told him she wasn't actually angry at all, and changed topics, "Nora is retiring from Combat Course."

"Really?"

"Yeah, offered me the position with Yang's blessing." the redhead bobbed her head once, "Said she'd rather spend time and energy on the twins."

"Would be a good time tuh relax." Touji agreed, knowing Asuka would catch that he meant both for Lie Nora and Ren, and themselves.

"That's what I was thinking, glad you're catching up to my speed." she winked, teasing, before her serious expression returned, "But really..."

"I'm yer partner." he whispered to her, voice full of meaning from their history together.

And it answered her question. Any doubts, her nerves and worries, left when that simple assurance reached her, words loud and clear to her fox ears. They'd used that confirmation the last six years, since they'd begun to get serious about each other in their third year, and it had never failed to reassure them that they had each others back no matter the situation.

"Well, let's go report in and meet up with the others."

Smiling, grinning really, Touji saw the blush on Asuka's cheeks as she turned and took off for the pick-up point near the edge of the forest. Following, he couldn't keep the grin off his face, no matter how much it might make him look like the idiot she used to call him.

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A/N: Honestly, I'm not sure my writing can live up to the epics of Griselda and Eric, but I hope you all enjoy them.