A/N: I love this Anime, and I can't wait to read the Manga. Review if you wish.

Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or any of this author's creations.

New Beginning

Chapter 1

Adam and Eve

Shinji Ikari awoke. He looked around at a far out emptiness. Dead trees, darkened waters the color of blood, a destroyed city, and most of all, the half of Rei's had still remaining. Her red eyes still looking at him.

Shinji remembered the events that had unfolded before him earlier. All the manipulation, the death, the sin, and at last his new world, created by him. His God like powers overwhelmed him. When he possessed the Tree of Knowledge, and The Fruit of Life, he had a choice, to destroy the world, or to allow it to continue on. He chose both. His life before brought him nothing but pain. He wanted a world where he could create his own rules, his own desires, languages, Ethnics, or whatever. He only brought one thing back. Or one person, the young woman he had grown to love. The woman who had helped him continue on. Asuka Langely Soyu.

Her injured body lie near Shinji. She, wearing her suit to pilot her Eva, her right hand bandaged her left eye cover in a bandage as well. Several other bandages covered her body elsewhere. The one thing you take notice of, is the similarity of her wounds to Rei's in the beginning. But her wounds also are similar to her wound sustained during her fight against the Eva series.

Shinji hovered over her body, looking at her features. Her injuries and all the sadness in him welled up at were released. The one he loved was alive, and she lay right in front of him. While crying, Shinji took hold of Asuka by the waist. Embracing her body, smelling her scent, remembering her, while trying not to forget her. It was the real Asuka.

Asuka awoke without even the slightest twitch. She stared off into space, then down at the figure embracing her. She recognized him immediately. She did nothing to stop him, she only looked at him.

After a while, she spoke, "How disgusting." Asuka said with bitter contempt.

Shinji looked up, confused by her words; he got up off her and backed away. He kneeled beside her. He waited for another insult.

When none came, he said, "I'm sorry."

Asuka snapped, she looked at him caringly, thought she was angry, she spoke in a kind whisper, "Don't say sorry. There's nothing to forgive."

"Are you alright?"

"Yep, just been brought back to life, body feels like shit, I'm tired as Hell, and some idiot wakes me up while crying." Asuka continued in her whisper of a voice.

"Sarcasm, good, you seem to be able to think properly. Now lie down and rest. I'm sorry to have waked you. I was just… just relieved." Shinji spoke with his usual nervous tone.

"Relieved?"

"Asuka, you're the person I brought back. You're the person who helped me continue with life. When you died, I lost everything."

"What are you trying to say?"

"Asuka, I love you." Shinji blurted out.

Asuka's eyes were unseen. She had falling asleep. Shinji looked down in depression, until, he heard the words of her sleep, "I love you too, Shinji."

Shinji didn't need to here anymore. He left her there to sleep.

Shinji walked down the shore of the blood sea. He walked past a tree with a cross nailed to it. Misato's necklace. He continued on, he didn't know why. Maybe to find a sign of life somewhere. He just walked.

"Shinji Ikari. Should you really leave Asuka lying asleep unsupervised?" said a hooded figure from behind the dead tree.

"Who are you?"

"I am one of the last of the Lilith. I am here to help you, but not to stay with you. Go, now. Go back to Asuka. Her mind is still weak, if you allow her to awake while she is alone; I fear her mind will not be able to hold up against her sense of loneliness."

Shinji took one last glance at the figure before it disappeared. He turned and ran back to Asuka.

Asuka still lied asleep. He knelt down by her, and look fell on his back, next to her. He took hold of her hand, and let the sense of her overwhelm him into a deep sleep.

To Be Continued

A/N: I love Evangelion. One of the best Anime ever! I am surprised I didn't think to create a fan fiction for it till now. Review if you wish.