A/N: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or anything to do with it, i don't own Shadow Hearts either. They belong to their owners.
This is my first story posted on here, so be gentle. Give me feedback and i'll make any adjustments I feel that need to be done or ones that make sense. This is going to be a long series so bare with me on how long it takes to finish.
A young man in his twenties lay on a field, staring up at the stars with red eyes. His brown coat fluttered gently with the breeze as he let a small smile creep onto his Asian features, "Not a bad night. Be nice to have a little rest for a while." he said to himself as suddenly a loud hum started to fill the air and he found himself sitting upright, thinking it was some monsters he had missed from earlier that night.
"Looking for round two? Bring it on!" he said standing upright and looking around him for the source of the buzzing while taking a fighters stance, however what he failed to see was the young man appearing out of midair right above him.
The young man dropped right of the air and landed right on top of him, "Ouch…", "Your telling me kid." the young man looked down at him and suddenly got off his chest, "Alright care to tell me who the hell you are? And why you decided to land on me?" the rude man asked sitting with his arms and legs crossed, the younger man was clearly Japanese, he had shoulder length brown hair and blue eyes and was dressed in a very strange blue and white skin-tight outfit that was made of some strange material but he seemed to be the same height and build as himself.
"I…I'm sorry, I didn't know you were there. But I couldn't really help it I...I guess. But my name is S-Shinji Ikari." Shinji said while stuttering slightly showing the young man opposite him that he was clearly nervous, "Alright. The name is Yuri. Yuri Hyuga and I take it that your Japanese, right?", "Yes from Tokyo-3." Yuri looked at him confused.
"What?" Shinji asked, "You mean Tokyo, right?", "Yeah Tokyo-3." Yuri shook his head, "No just Tokyo. It's just called Tokyo." Shinji stared at the field around him, taking in the scenery. "Just where am I anyway?", "The south of Feng-Tian in China." Shinji nodded, still looking a little confused, "Do you know what day it is?", "14th of January 1912." Shinji's eyes bugged out and he fell back into the grass, "Wow. He took that badly.".
The last thing he remembered was falling through the 12th Angels shadow, the next thing he knew he was falling through the air in the middle of the night. The only thing he was aware of that was different, was that his plug-suit was a lot tighter then he remembered it was.
What he didn't really want to hear was the fact that he had travelled over a hundred years into the past, "This cant be happening!" he mumbled hugging his knee's as the man in front of him started on a fire, "Well from what you've told me about this place you came from, you might not be better off here." Yuri said with a slight chuckle as the fire roared to life. "You believe me?" Shinji said more in surprise then understanding, "Yeah. I fight monsters and demons nearly every day of my life, and can turn into one. Your turn.", "I pilot a forty foot machine against monsters called Angels." Shinji said with a weak smile.
"I'm being lead around the country by some weird voice in my head." Yuri said, a little eagerly, he wanted to see if Shinji could really beat him, "I lived with my guardian who was a drunk, a bad cook and shouldn't be allowed to drive. And her pet penguin.", "Alright I don't think I can top that. You win.". Yuri chuckled as he lay down next to the fire and stared into it, "But I'm going to go out on a limb here and ask the stupid question that you've got nowhere to go?", "Yeah. But I'm used to being alone." Shinji said softly as Yuri felt a little pang of regret hit him, he could understand what he must be feeling right now. Which made the next thing a little more easier to say.
"Tell you want. How about you tag along with me? I wouldn't mind the company, sure as hell beats talking to myself.", "I wouldn't want to impose…", "Shinji I just said it was alright, but there is one thing I'm going to have to teach you." the former Eva pilot looked up at the demon hunter, "What?", "To fight. And before you say anything, you'd last a lot longer if you do learn how to fight." Shinji looked at his hands and then back at Yuri, "Alright.".
What surprised the hell out of Yuri though was the moment they had started training he noticed something was still off about the area around him, he had begun to think that something had come through the same thing Shinji had come out of, but it wasn't until he was about to land a punch that he was proved wrong. He had fainted with his left and struck with his right, however before it even made contact with him, it hit something that looked like a transparent barrier with a orange tint, "Holy crap that hurt!" Yuri yelled clenching his hand more out of surprise then pain, "Sorry." Shinji had said moving to see if Yuri's hand was broken, thankfully for the both of them it wasn't.
It turned out that Shinji was able to project very strong shields, it had taken several volleys of powerful punches and kicks to break through the first time which left Yuri trying to catch his breath. And it turned out that he could heal himself to a degree, such was cuts, bruises and fractured bones, which left Shinji not really wanting to test to see how much damage he could take, which Yuri had jokingly offered to help him with. He hoped.
That was just under a year ago, now Yuri was walking alongside the closest person he had to a friend in years, though Shinji wasn't as good with his fists as Yuri, he could still hold his own in a fight, be it humans or demons. He had quickly ditched the skin-tight outfit for similar clothing to Yuri's but opting for a simple black shirt instead of following Yuri's advice for a red one, he had told him it would look cool on him but Shinji stuck to his choice.
Yuri had told him that the voice in his head, that was leading them around China, had said that they were meant to seek out a young girl and protect her against dark forces. Shinji was sceptical but didn't say anything, he had seen a lot of strange things since he arrived in this time so a mystery voice that seemed like it was splitting Yuri's head open every time it spoke to him was something that could be possible.
Crouching down in the long grass, Shinji looked at Yuri who was busy staring at a train track, "Are you sure this is the right one?" Shinji asked a little harsher then he had meant it to come out as, "Yes. That last one was just a training run." Yuri said smiling, "What about the three before that one?" Shinji said keeping calm around the rude idiot that he was friends with. "Shut it. Look there's the train. Now…", "Keep you head down and follow me. Sound about right?" Shinji said with a grin, "Keep it up smarty pants." Yuri said patting Shinji on the back as they both began sliding down the slope and sprinting towards the train. Because of their fitness they were able to get onto the train rather easily, however they had misjudged the distance to the track and had barely managed to jump onto the back carriage, hoping that they didn't encounter a conductor.
Thankfully there was hardly anyone in the train carriages, the only person they saw was some old lady knitting at the end of one, "Right. I'll stay in this one, you take the next one back. Come get me if you see anything. Alright?" Yuri asked sitting on one of the seats and getting himself comfortable, "Sure. Have a nice nap." Shinji said as he headed back along the train into the next carriage, picking up a newspaper someone had left on one of the seats.
What seemed like an hour passed and Shinji was still reading the paper, it was in Mandarin Chinese and he was still a little rusty at reading it, while some of it was in Japanese it wasn't enough to let him know what was going on in the world. "No matter what happens I still miss them." he said softly as his thoughts drifted back to Misato, Asuka, Rei and everyone else he was now separated from, but his thoughts always ended up back at his purple haired guardian.
He had always seen her as something else other then his guardian, but he knew that it wouldn't really go beyond being friends, which made him chuckle dryly as since coming here he had aged to a fully grown adult, he had guessed that he was about twenty two or twenty three, which had surprised the hell out of him when he actually noticed it, but with a little help from Yuri he had gotten over it. But he would always miss Misato, not a day went past that his thoughts didn't drift to the only person who had been kind to him.
Out of the corner of his eye while still reading the paper he saw a man dressed in a black suit with matching top hat walk past him and into the next carriage where Yuri was, the man himself had looked a little out of place but Shinji had dismissed it when he didn't hear Yuri swearing in the next car, knowing that he usually swears a lot when he's fighting or a least throws a few insults at whatever he's fighting.
Going back to his paper it was a couple of minutes before two shots rang out above the noise of the train, "Now what's he done!" Shinji said standing and moving into the isle, just in time to see Yuri flung through the carriage door and into him, sending them both into a twisted pile of wrecked seats, "Found something!" Yuri said with a weak laugh as he rolled off Shinji and got to his feet.
Shaking the debris off his head, Shinji felt a few small cuts he had on his face heal, "Let me guess that man in the suit?", "Yeah. Why didn't you stop him?" Yuri said, "I didn't know who he was, I don't want to smash a guys face in for no reason." Shinji said folding his arms, "Whatever come on. This guy has a few demons with him, but we've had worse." Shinji shook his head in disbelief as he followed Yuri along the wrecked carriages.
"Hey old man!" Yuri called out along the carriage as he crushed the skull of a small grey looking imp carrying a scythe, Shinji crushed another using his A.T field as a giant press leaving a twitching mass of bones and flesh, "Are you sure its smart to encourage him to fight?" Yuri ignored his remark as he arrived at the V.I.P carriage just ahead of Shinji. "Go away boy. This does not concern you." the old man said with a British accent, "Yeah so? I just don't think the girl wants to go with you!" Yuri pointed to the terrified looking girl in a blue jacket with a very short blue skirt, with white stockings and black shoes, and a ornate cross hanging from her neck.
Upon seeing her both Yuri and Shinji had the same general thought, 'What a babe' but before either of them could move to help the girl, the old man waved his hand over her face making her faint, "I believe it is time for me to depart." the old man said before exiting the train through the roof, which seemed to just tear itself apart for him.
"Damn it! Come on!" Yuri said as he and Shinji jumped through the hole in the roof only to only to find that the old man had run almost the length of the train, "Hold it right there old man!" Yuri shouted as they both ran along the train to catch up to the man and his lady hostage, "My name is Roger Bacon gentlemen, and if you don't mind I'll be on my way…" he didn't get to finish the sentence as Yuri, as usual, ran forwards and punched him straight in the face, and from where Shinji was standing he could hear bones cracking even over the sound of the train and wind.
Rushing forward he pushed Bacon to the roof of the train, seeing that half of his face had been caved in by Yuri's punch and that it had already begun to heal. Shinji reacted quickly picking up a still unconscious girl and giving his friend a shift kick in the rear and sending him tumbling off the train into the rice fields below, using his A.T field he followed, using it to slow the impact of the ground that rushed up to meet him he ended up being used as a cushion for the girl.