I do not own any of the characters (cursed GAINAX and their ownership) and
do not plan to make any money off of them, arigato.
Takes place at the End of Evangelion, after giant Rei/Lilith decides to die. You all know the part.
Shinji awakens on the shore to a newly formed LCL lake. He lies silently for several minutes before turning to his side. A red headed girl lies next to him with bandages running the length of her arm and a patch over one eye.
'Baka! I hate you! Can't you ever do anything right?! So, the invincible Shinji is back again?' and a multitude of different insults assault his mind for a brief moment. In another, he is on top of the girl, strangling her. She makes no motion as her breath is kept from passing other than a simple raise of her arm, not to attack, but for a soft touch of the boy's face. The simple movement startles Shinji, causing him to start back, tears flowing as he comes to the realization of the act he almost carried out. For what could have been an eternity, or what seemed like it to Shinji, he sat at Asuka's feet, crying. For many minutes later the beach remained silent until a distinct sound of splashing could be heard, ringing through the barren land for miles. Shinji instinctively turns to the sound, though an instant later he was sure he was no longer on Earth, but in Hell.
The drenched form of Gendo Ikari slowly makes its way up the shore, his hand holding the stump where his other arm had once presided. Shinji stares at him in mute terror. The one person whom he had thought least likely to come back stands in front of him, the anger and hatred evident in his eyes.
"Shinji" Gendo sneered, his voice reverberating as did the splashing. Gone was the pain from the removal of his arm, only to be replaced with unbridled rage. "F-father?"
"You would forsake your own mother and father?! You are lower than this dirt." Gendo slowly walks to Shinji's crouching form.
"For what? A pitiful rock!" Gendo screams as he sends a kick directed at Shinji's face. The boy's chin takes the front of the blow, the rest of his body following as he is flung once more next to Asuka.
"Shinji!" Asuka screams as she sees the blood on Shinji's face beginning to stain the sand.
Gendo ignores the girl's scream as he continues his rampage, walking to Shinji and kicking him again. Still the boy makes no move for self- defense. "Shinji, don't just lie there! Get up! Fight him, Shinji!" Asuka yells, tears threatening to form as she watches Shinji's pain unfold. Gendo spins on his heel to face the prone form of Asuka.
"A pitiful, insane girl to go with this pitiful child." Gendo mutters before kicking Asuka's bandaged arm. She releases a horrifying scream as wounds are re-opened. Shinji turns his bloody face to Asuka as watches the events unfold, all up until Asuka's bandaged becomes red with her blood. Something deep within Shinji bends, then snaps as Asuka lets loose another scream. With inhuman speed Shinji is on his feet before grasping Gendo's neck between his hands. As Shinji holds Gendo above the ground with strength his arms would betray as never having, his innocence and indecisiveness begins to die along with Gendo.
'Father, let me help her!' 'No'
'What the hell are you doing, Father?!'
With every memory Shinji tightens his grip on Gendo's neck. Had Asuka not been overcome with pain she would have witnessed the death of two people, Gendo Ikari and the poor, whining, scared child Shinji Ikari had been. Just before his death, Gendo looks to the sky, as if hearing some revelation. Then a sense of understanding washes over the elder Ikari as he looks back into his son's eyes, almost for the first time. With the last bit of strength left in his body, Gendo mouths the words 'I'm proud, son', then dies.
The strength Shinji had once had leaves his body as the now dead body of Gendo Ikari slips to the ground. Asuka begins to asses her surroundings once more as watches Shinji slump to the ground, shedding tears over his dead father.
"Baka..."
Several hours pass by until Shinji finally moves. Asuka watches on, confused, as Shinji begins to dig a hole next to his father.
"What're you doing?"
Asuka's only response is silence as Shinji continues his task. Finally Shinji completes his burial site and he slowly rolls his father's body into the grave. Again, with the same monotony and silence as before, Shinji starts moving sand to cover the grave.
"Shinji?"
Still he does not respond. Upon completing his task, Shinji lies on the beach and softly cries himself to sleep, the darkness of night beginning to enclose them.
The next day Asuka awoke to find Shinji still lying in the same position. Feeling anger well up within her, Asuka struggles across the sand to Shinji's prone form.
"Baka! What are you doing?! You can't just lie there and die!"
"I'm worthless to everyone, Asuka..."
"We're the only ones left!"
"I'm nothing...I couldn't bring back anyone...I even killed my father... I can't do anything right... I'm a failure..."
Asuka, enraged, grabs Shinji by the collar of his shirt and yells in his face
"You're damn right you're a failure!" She then pulls back her good arm and punches Shinji square on the cheek, the force causing him to slide back from her.
"You are pathetic! You can't do anything right! You didn't bring back Misato! You did kill your father!" Shinji looks away to the ground, unable to maintain eye contact with Asuka.
Asuka's voice lightens suddenly, "But you brought me back.and I'm not going to let you just die here on this beach! I can barely move, Shinji! Yes you did all that, but get over yourself! So what if you can't do anything right! So what if you killed your father! Everyone hated him anyway! So what if you didn't bring Misato back! You can't just give up like this!"
"Why should I go on? You hate me...everyone else is dead...there's nothing here for anyone..."
Asuka lands another punch on Shinji's face, "You Baka! Can't you see past yourself for just one second?!"
"You're one to talk!" Shinji's anger had finally gotten the better of him, "Ever since I met you on that ship you've been a bitch! Kensuke and Touji were right! I thought maybe you'd change, that I could be your friend, but you won't let me! You never give a damn about anyone but yourself! As long as Asuka's always the best then nothing else matters! Well guess what Asuka! You really can be the best now! You always were better than me, right?! Now that we're the only ones I guess you're just the best in the entire world!" Shinji finally collapses in fits of sobbing.
'Does...does he really think of me like that?' "Shinji.I."
"Why should you talk to me? You are the best in the world! Why would you want to talk to a pathetic loser like me?!"
Once more Asuka lands a punch on his face, "Shut up, Shinji!"
"Yes, your majesty!"
"God damn it, why are you acting like this?!" Tears are beginning to make their way down Asuka cheeks "Can't you see what you're doing?"
"You hate me! Just say it! You never want to see my pathetic, spineless face again! You're so much better than I am that I should just die!"
Asuka lunges at him, wrapping her arms around his back, as she cries uncontrollably, "Stop! Shinji, I've lost everything! Please stop! You...are all I have left..."
"Must make you disgusted"
"Shinji, please stop! I don't want to lose you! I've lost someone I loved before; please don't make me do it again!" The rest of Asuka's words are incoherent as she cries on Shinji's shoulder, his shirt becoming damp.
"Why? How could you love me?"
"I don't know...I just don't know..." Asuka rubs her face into Shinji's chest, tears still flowing.
Shinji hesitantly puts his arms around Asuka and she slowly begins to stop crying. And so, the two children fall asleep.
Hours later, both are rudely awoken by a strange man with short black hair, black clothes, and a gun. After kicking the two teens awake, he stands with his gun drawn at the two.
"How cute, two of the pilots finally got together..."
Asuka, scared out of her mind, unconsciously grips Shinji, seeking protection. The man's radio blared to life with someone on the other end.
"Have you taken care of them yet?"
"Consider them dead right now"
"Excellent work"
"Thank you, sir"
As the man turns back to Asuka and Shinji, he is surprised when Asuka jumps up and pushes him backwards. Trying to keep himself from falling, the man stumbles backwards only to trip on a rock outcropping behind him. Falling backwards, his head is caught by a small opening on the rock face. Through the inertia of his falling body, and his now captive head, the man's neck breaks with a sickening sound. Moments later he lies lifelessly strewn across the rocks.
"Asuka..."
"He's...dead, Shinji..."
"What are we going to do?"
"Well...someone's obviously come back...and they want to kill us...I think we'd better find shelter first..."
"And we need to fix up your arm"
"We'd better get going...they'll know something happened in a while, and I don't want to be around when they send someone else."
"Okay..."
Asuka, with Shinji's aid, and Shinji thus walk towards the decimated Tokyo- 3 in hopes of finding some refuge, and to keep away from whoever wants them dead.
Okay, okay, I know, a mediocre story, but it'll get better, I promise! See ya next chapter!
Takes place at the End of Evangelion, after giant Rei/Lilith decides to die. You all know the part.
Shinji awakens on the shore to a newly formed LCL lake. He lies silently for several minutes before turning to his side. A red headed girl lies next to him with bandages running the length of her arm and a patch over one eye.
'Baka! I hate you! Can't you ever do anything right?! So, the invincible Shinji is back again?' and a multitude of different insults assault his mind for a brief moment. In another, he is on top of the girl, strangling her. She makes no motion as her breath is kept from passing other than a simple raise of her arm, not to attack, but for a soft touch of the boy's face. The simple movement startles Shinji, causing him to start back, tears flowing as he comes to the realization of the act he almost carried out. For what could have been an eternity, or what seemed like it to Shinji, he sat at Asuka's feet, crying. For many minutes later the beach remained silent until a distinct sound of splashing could be heard, ringing through the barren land for miles. Shinji instinctively turns to the sound, though an instant later he was sure he was no longer on Earth, but in Hell.
The drenched form of Gendo Ikari slowly makes its way up the shore, his hand holding the stump where his other arm had once presided. Shinji stares at him in mute terror. The one person whom he had thought least likely to come back stands in front of him, the anger and hatred evident in his eyes.
"Shinji" Gendo sneered, his voice reverberating as did the splashing. Gone was the pain from the removal of his arm, only to be replaced with unbridled rage. "F-father?"
"You would forsake your own mother and father?! You are lower than this dirt." Gendo slowly walks to Shinji's crouching form.
"For what? A pitiful rock!" Gendo screams as he sends a kick directed at Shinji's face. The boy's chin takes the front of the blow, the rest of his body following as he is flung once more next to Asuka.
"Shinji!" Asuka screams as she sees the blood on Shinji's face beginning to stain the sand.
Gendo ignores the girl's scream as he continues his rampage, walking to Shinji and kicking him again. Still the boy makes no move for self- defense. "Shinji, don't just lie there! Get up! Fight him, Shinji!" Asuka yells, tears threatening to form as she watches Shinji's pain unfold. Gendo spins on his heel to face the prone form of Asuka.
"A pitiful, insane girl to go with this pitiful child." Gendo mutters before kicking Asuka's bandaged arm. She releases a horrifying scream as wounds are re-opened. Shinji turns his bloody face to Asuka as watches the events unfold, all up until Asuka's bandaged becomes red with her blood. Something deep within Shinji bends, then snaps as Asuka lets loose another scream. With inhuman speed Shinji is on his feet before grasping Gendo's neck between his hands. As Shinji holds Gendo above the ground with strength his arms would betray as never having, his innocence and indecisiveness begins to die along with Gendo.
'Father, let me help her!' 'No'
'What the hell are you doing, Father?!'
With every memory Shinji tightens his grip on Gendo's neck. Had Asuka not been overcome with pain she would have witnessed the death of two people, Gendo Ikari and the poor, whining, scared child Shinji Ikari had been. Just before his death, Gendo looks to the sky, as if hearing some revelation. Then a sense of understanding washes over the elder Ikari as he looks back into his son's eyes, almost for the first time. With the last bit of strength left in his body, Gendo mouths the words 'I'm proud, son', then dies.
The strength Shinji had once had leaves his body as the now dead body of Gendo Ikari slips to the ground. Asuka begins to asses her surroundings once more as watches Shinji slump to the ground, shedding tears over his dead father.
"Baka..."
Several hours pass by until Shinji finally moves. Asuka watches on, confused, as Shinji begins to dig a hole next to his father.
"What're you doing?"
Asuka's only response is silence as Shinji continues his task. Finally Shinji completes his burial site and he slowly rolls his father's body into the grave. Again, with the same monotony and silence as before, Shinji starts moving sand to cover the grave.
"Shinji?"
Still he does not respond. Upon completing his task, Shinji lies on the beach and softly cries himself to sleep, the darkness of night beginning to enclose them.
The next day Asuka awoke to find Shinji still lying in the same position. Feeling anger well up within her, Asuka struggles across the sand to Shinji's prone form.
"Baka! What are you doing?! You can't just lie there and die!"
"I'm worthless to everyone, Asuka..."
"We're the only ones left!"
"I'm nothing...I couldn't bring back anyone...I even killed my father... I can't do anything right... I'm a failure..."
Asuka, enraged, grabs Shinji by the collar of his shirt and yells in his face
"You're damn right you're a failure!" She then pulls back her good arm and punches Shinji square on the cheek, the force causing him to slide back from her.
"You are pathetic! You can't do anything right! You didn't bring back Misato! You did kill your father!" Shinji looks away to the ground, unable to maintain eye contact with Asuka.
Asuka's voice lightens suddenly, "But you brought me back.and I'm not going to let you just die here on this beach! I can barely move, Shinji! Yes you did all that, but get over yourself! So what if you can't do anything right! So what if you killed your father! Everyone hated him anyway! So what if you didn't bring Misato back! You can't just give up like this!"
"Why should I go on? You hate me...everyone else is dead...there's nothing here for anyone..."
Asuka lands another punch on Shinji's face, "You Baka! Can't you see past yourself for just one second?!"
"You're one to talk!" Shinji's anger had finally gotten the better of him, "Ever since I met you on that ship you've been a bitch! Kensuke and Touji were right! I thought maybe you'd change, that I could be your friend, but you won't let me! You never give a damn about anyone but yourself! As long as Asuka's always the best then nothing else matters! Well guess what Asuka! You really can be the best now! You always were better than me, right?! Now that we're the only ones I guess you're just the best in the entire world!" Shinji finally collapses in fits of sobbing.
'Does...does he really think of me like that?' "Shinji.I."
"Why should you talk to me? You are the best in the world! Why would you want to talk to a pathetic loser like me?!"
Once more Asuka lands a punch on his face, "Shut up, Shinji!"
"Yes, your majesty!"
"God damn it, why are you acting like this?!" Tears are beginning to make their way down Asuka cheeks "Can't you see what you're doing?"
"You hate me! Just say it! You never want to see my pathetic, spineless face again! You're so much better than I am that I should just die!"
Asuka lunges at him, wrapping her arms around his back, as she cries uncontrollably, "Stop! Shinji, I've lost everything! Please stop! You...are all I have left..."
"Must make you disgusted"
"Shinji, please stop! I don't want to lose you! I've lost someone I loved before; please don't make me do it again!" The rest of Asuka's words are incoherent as she cries on Shinji's shoulder, his shirt becoming damp.
"Why? How could you love me?"
"I don't know...I just don't know..." Asuka rubs her face into Shinji's chest, tears still flowing.
Shinji hesitantly puts his arms around Asuka and she slowly begins to stop crying. And so, the two children fall asleep.
Hours later, both are rudely awoken by a strange man with short black hair, black clothes, and a gun. After kicking the two teens awake, he stands with his gun drawn at the two.
"How cute, two of the pilots finally got together..."
Asuka, scared out of her mind, unconsciously grips Shinji, seeking protection. The man's radio blared to life with someone on the other end.
"Have you taken care of them yet?"
"Consider them dead right now"
"Excellent work"
"Thank you, sir"
As the man turns back to Asuka and Shinji, he is surprised when Asuka jumps up and pushes him backwards. Trying to keep himself from falling, the man stumbles backwards only to trip on a rock outcropping behind him. Falling backwards, his head is caught by a small opening on the rock face. Through the inertia of his falling body, and his now captive head, the man's neck breaks with a sickening sound. Moments later he lies lifelessly strewn across the rocks.
"Asuka..."
"He's...dead, Shinji..."
"What are we going to do?"
"Well...someone's obviously come back...and they want to kill us...I think we'd better find shelter first..."
"And we need to fix up your arm"
"We'd better get going...they'll know something happened in a while, and I don't want to be around when they send someone else."
"Okay..."
Asuka, with Shinji's aid, and Shinji thus walk towards the decimated Tokyo- 3 in hopes of finding some refuge, and to keep away from whoever wants them dead.
Okay, okay, I know, a mediocre story, but it'll get better, I promise! See ya next chapter!