Neon Genesis Evangelion
Fifty Moments Between Threat and Rebirth
By BrokenChosenofEva
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Title: Threatening Semantics
Prompt: set 50-b / prompts 001-010
Word Count: 900+
Rating: T
Summary: Fifty memories recalled, fifty thoughts shared, fifty glimpses into their lives. Asuka and Touji fought and lived side-by-side through the Angel War and beyond. Primarily set in the "Angel" and "Not What You Bargained For" AUs, with the occasional "Immortal" AU mixed in.
Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion
Notes: Here is some more Asuka and Touji, I hope you all like these as much as my others.
Part 2 of the "One Hundred Moments" Asuka and Touji series.
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001. Threat
Asuka stood before Gendo, Section-2 guards on either side of her as if they could actually stop her should she try to hurt the Commander, and weathered his cold gaze without flinching, the older man's presence no longer intimidating, and gave him a single warning before he could speak, "You know who and what I am, Rokubungi, but seem to have overlooked what that means," here she shot scathing glances at her escorts, "if you plan to hurt my husband or friends, I will hunt you down and kill you without a second thought."
002. Empire
Touji looked out from his Chair in Central Dogma, watching the Main Screen display a map of the world and the thousands of points where NERV bases were located, wondering if Kensuke would be proud of the empire he'd built upon what his two friends had left as they wandered the stars, and knowing that thought and his wife's constant presence were what kept him from stepping over the line from leader to dictator.
003. Falter
He saw her falter, saw the misstep and the MP-EVA moving to take advantage of it, and reaching into himself to that point of light he grabbed hold and pushed, taking hold of his connection to Unit-Three as he sat in the entryplug, pouring its power through his link to Asuka and bolstering her AT-Field as it absorbed the impact of the MP-EVA's blade.
004. Compliment
Asuka fought a losing battle to contain her giggles as she watched Touji attempt to compliment her evening dress for the dinner date they were going on, stopping only when he realized she found something amusing and started to look insulted on top of being embarrassed, and thanked him for it before entwining her arm through his and following him out of the door and down the hall.
005. Glass
Her mask of arrogance and superiority had always seemed harder than iron, no matter the situation, until the day she thought she'd lost Touji, and then it shattered like glass into a million, tiny, irrecoverable shards as her world fell apart around her.
006. Honour
Even drunk after the Halloween party at Kensuke's Touji was very careful about his hands and where they wandered as Asuka helped him into the apartment and to his bed in their shared room, and Asuka was glad that Misato had agreed to baby-sit her two charges for the night; she did not want to explain Touji's inebriation to their "adopted" children, and when he woke the next morning she assured him before he could start speaking that her honour was intact.
007. Work
Asuka enjoyed what she did, the hours she kept, and being able to go home in time to start dinner while Touji helped or she waited for him to return from after-school practice with the team he coached, her position as head of Tech-Division-1 not nearly as stressful or full of all-nighters as it had been for Ritsuko during the Angel Wars.
008. Jealous
As she sat and watched Touji explain to Hikari what and who he was, and how Asuka herself fit into it all, the German redhead relaxed and wait until he called her over; having long out grown any jealousy in their relationship she didn't worry about any feelings that might be present between the two old friends.
009. Strings
Asuka fought a giggle as she watched Touji wince at the sound of their eight-year-old practicing her violin in her room, fondly recalling how horrid she had sounded starting out on the same instrument, before finally standing to go check on Mana and give her a few pointers that had helped her years ago.
010. Semantics
Not being human isn't that same as not acting human, after all Asuka, Rei, and Kaworu were all Angels and all of them acted human for the most part -Asuka the most and Rei the least, though through no fault of her own-, and was something all three, along with their friends, had struggled with as they were forced to accept just who and what they were through the end of the Angel Wars in comparison to their unique upbringings and points-of-view, Touji standing as a rock in their lives that they could lean on.
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A/N: In 006. "Honour" I mention adopted children. If you've read "Angel" or "I'm Needed: Redux" then you know they are the ten-year-old Shinji and Rei, whom Asuka is the guardian of during the Angel Wars.
Prompt 010. "Semantics" was the hardest one to write, mainly in conveying the meaning of the prompt without essentially giving a definition. I hope it turned out well.
And hey! a first glimpse of earlier in Asuka and Touji's relationship with Touji picking up Asuka for a date night during the Angel Wars.
A quick note: the Angel Wars is the year or so that the characters spent as Pilots for NERV against monstrous entities called "Angels", simply my name for the events of the series.
