Disclaimer: I don't own Neon Genesis Evangelion, or the characters.
"Shinji!! You are messing up try to get back in sync with Asuka!!"
Unit 02's foot landed on the other half of the angel a few seconds earlier than Unit 01, who kicked the other half of the angel.
"Oh shit!! You failed!!"
A study stream of insults from Asuka was coming from his com link, as the now regenerated halves of the Angel began to run towards them, Shinji made Unit 01 draw its progressive knife.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion as Unit 01 without taking orders from anyone rushed forward and drove the prog knife into the green half's core, once in deep enough, Shinji forced Unit 01 to twist the handle of the knife, thus causing a gasping hole in the center of the core. The green half started to shake and jumped on top of Unit 01, who threw it back to the ground and stepped on the healing core, making it explode.
"…."
Not one word was spoken in the command center, everyone was staring at the screen in utter disbelief, even the orange half of the Angel looked at the blood stained prog knife in Unit 01's hands.
The silence was put to a end by an order from Misato, "…Asuka, attack the other half!!"
Asuka shook her head and focused on the orange part of the Angel, she followed Shinji's example and drew her prog knife.
The Angel took noticed of this and started to dash forward, she also rushed towards the Angel with prog knife aiming for the core. She forced the prog knife in Angel but it wasn't deep enough, as the core was beginning to heal, he went forward all of a sudden and impaled itself on the knife, causing it to crack then explode.
When the bright light cleared Asuka could see Unit 01 standing in front of her. If Unit 01 was in front of her before the explosion, that meant…
"I could have did it alone stupid Shinji, I didn't ask for your help."
The pilot of Unit 01 remained silent, as both pilots prepared their Eva's to go to their cages.
"Shinji, you made a vital mistake, but if it wasn't for you quick thinking we might have been defeated, good job."
Shinji quietly gave a quick thank you, as he headed to the locker rooms to take a shower, change clothes, and then go back to Misato's apartment.
"Hey stupid!! Wait up!"
Shinji sighed as he slowed down so Asuka could catch up, other than the sound of their footsteps and soft breathing, it was complete silence, Asuka twirled her hair with one hand, while Shinji was just tired.
"Shinji, how in the hell did you mess up."
"…What?"
"We practiced the same thing over and over again, but you messed up and get patted on the damn back."
Shinji walked into the locker room and straight to the shower.
"I'm not finished with you third!!"
~*~*~*~
Shinji waited on Misato to get finished with whatever the hell she was doing, glad he had some time to himself because Asuka was still in the locker room, Shinji mind started to replay the battle over in his head.
They was on the last move, the kick while in mid-air, his hands started to shake and he all of a sudden wanted to draw his prog knife, and since he wasn't focus he misjudged the kick and its timing was off.
Shinji felt scared half to death, but also, felt kind of…. pleased.
No, glad was a better word to describe it; he was glad that he missed that kick, he was glad he could now draw his prog knife. He wanted to feel blood on his hands; he wanted to have the power of the Eva under his total control.
To put it simply he wanted to kill.
He liked the way the Angel seemed to be in disbelief when he shattered its core, he just wished he could have sliced an arm or leg off, but he knew it would heal to fast.
He remembered laughing as the Angel tried to self-destruct while holding Unit 01, he was over enjoyed as Unit 01 placed its hand on the green half's arm and threw it into the ground making a huge crater.
Shinji made Unit 01 raise its foot like it was going to step on a bug, but in this case it was an Angel's core.
This thought brought a small smile to his face, but quickly disappeared, "What the hell was I thinking."
He watched Misato walk pass and signal him to follow her, he looked over his shoulder to see a running Asuka in her school uniform.
"You were planning on leaving me!!"
"Yes, I was planning to leave you here to help clean up Unit 01.", Misato replied as she got the keys out of her pocket.
Asuka slowed her pace to be in step with Misato and Shinji, "Sarcasm gets you no where Misato."
Shinji liked before remained quiet as they all entered the car.
"So Shinji about that…mistake."
"What did you want to know Misato?"
Although driving at insane speeds, Misato looked back at Shinji while still driving, "…Why didn't you do that in the first place."
"I would have had one half down if stupid Shinji didn't get caught!!"
"Asuka, I was speaking to Sh~~
"I wasn't thinking, sorry."
"Misato look out for that damn truck!!"
Misato just happened to turn at the right moment, she turned back to watching the street while she drove, but something bothered her.
'Shinji isn't a good liar, and he does thinks things out…but that just sounded like an excuse.'
Asuka finger was beside her face again pointing at the road, "Watch out for the car!! What the hell is wrong with you Misato, I don't wont to die in a damn rusty car."
Shinji laid back, as Asuka and Misato argued, sometimes Asuka would point out a random vehicle Misato was about to hit, and the car would hit a few bumps, but beside that it was all right.
'If you can call 96 kilometers a hour all right…'
Soon enough they got to the apartment, Misato went right to the kitchen for a beer, while Asuka and Shinji went into their respected rooms.
Misato sat down at the table and started thinking rather she should put Shinji on closer inspection or not.
'Why should I, if he did a good job.' one side of Misato's brain thought.
'…But if he failed then we could of all been dead, and he is starting to act odd', the other side reasoned.
Misato sat the empty can of beer on the table, and started to walk to her room, the digital clock on the night table read, 7:34 pm., that means Shinji would be out to cook in about twenty minutes more of less.
She laid down on her bed, and decided that it would be unnecessary to put him under closer inspection, "Who would do that to somebody because they did a good job?"
'Cough the commander cough cough', thought Misato as she closed her eyes and prepared to get a quick nap before dinner.
~*~*~*~
"Why does he get all the damn credit!? Not once did some one congratulate me!!
Asuka punched the wall for the third time today; she hit it again because she didn't want to even think of nothing that had to do with the third.
"I helped defeat that damn Angel!! All they give a fuck about is their damn invincible Shinji!!
Asuka wasn't an attention freak or anything like that, she just always strived to be the best at what she do, be it school, swimming, or Eva. She always tried to be the best. No matter when, what or who was in her way, she tried to be the best.
Of course she wasn't the best in everything, but that didn't bother her that much, however this case shook her to the core. (Of her inner being of course…-_-')
All that training, all that damn time, wasted because some boy who never happens to enter an Eva before the Angel attacked Tokyo-3.
"Damn him to hell!!"
To Asuka, the only thing Shinji was useful for was cleaning and cooking just like a…
"Fucking housebroken boy."
She wasn't intent on harming anyone but just wanted to vent her anger, before she snapped on something, or a certain pilot to be exact.
"He should be making something to eat right now anyway!!"
And with that she left her room to retrieve the third child.
~*~*~*~
Shinji was on his bed, with SDAT in hand; Bach's classical music was gently flowing though the headphones he had on.
"Hmmm…If I'm hungry then they might be so too."
As he prepared to get off the bed his door flew open to reveal Asuka who looked pretty angry.
"What the hell do you think you are doing!? Get in there and make me something to eat!!"
"…I'm not your slave."
Asuka was now boiling mad, if he happened to say the wrong thing then of course something not to his liking was going to happen.
"What the hell did you just say Shinji!!" Asuka marched forward until her face was just a few inches away from Shinji's.
"…You can't tell me what to do, Asuka."
To say she was mad was an understatement, and pissed off just wasn't right, what ever you could call it, she was about ready to kill Shinji with her bare hands.
Her hand lashed across Shinji's cheek, when he didn't respond she hit him again.
"Now go make my damn dinner." Satisfied Asuka began to stroll out the room until Shinji gripped her wrist.
The hand spun her around and she was now staring at Shinji who hair covered his eyes, but the thing that was most out of place was the loop sided grin on his face.
"I'm not hungry anymore Asuka…" Asuka threw a quick punch with her free hand that Shinji dodged with ease.
"I don't give a fuck what you is let go of me!!"
With a swift pull, Asuka was now right next to Shinji, who whispered, "How strong are you…?"
When she didn't answer Shinji twisted her wrist, "How strong are you!!"
Shinji caught her other hand this time around, when she tried to punch him, "Don't play with me Asuka…"
With his eyes full of lust and desire, he put his leg behind Asuka and pushed her back making her trip, with his hands still around her wrist, he landed on his knees and looked down on Asuka.
When his face started to closer and closer to hers, she bought her knee to meet with his lucky spot. Shinji intensely let go of her hands and fell face first on the ground holding his sensitive area.
Asuka quickly opened the door and crawled out, behind her she heard his giggles turn to grinning then his grinning turn to full blown laughter.
Forgetting hunger, Asuka ran to her room and quickly shut the door, trying to get the images of what would have happened if she never had hit him there.
'I must have just been really hungry, Shinji can't over power me.'
Asuka was surprised that the laughing didn't wake Misato up; she could still here it even though her door was close. She put two boxes in front of her door, so if Shinji tried to come in he would alert her to his presence.
She changed her clothes, and wrapped herself up tight in the covers of her bed.
'I wont tell anybody that happened…nobody at all.'
She closed her eyes trying to ignore Shinji's laughter, she put a pillow over her head and got the peace she needed to drift to sleep.
~*~*~*~
Shinji was cooking breakfast as usual and Misato downed her first beer this morning and gave her traditional "YAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" (Or whatever the hell she say … = p)
Shinji sat down three plates with scrambled eggs with bacon, on the table, and put two glasses of orange juice on the table also.
"Thanks to you kicking the ass of that Angel, I have to do paperwork." Misato stated with fake anger.
"Sorry." Shinji quickly said.
They both laughed out loud not taking any notice of Asuka who just entered, when she moved her chair they both turn their attention to Asuka, who looked like she didn't get much sleep.
Misato swallowed the bacon than set her eyes on Asuka, "You don't look to good this morning."
Shinji carefully eyed Asuka with a smile, "Is something wrong Asuka?"
Misato watched as the two children stared at each other, she decide to ease the tension, "Did you two have a lover's quarrel?"
Instead of having the usual affect of both of them blushing, Shinji would say something like 'N..No it isn't like that.'…then Asuka would say something alone the lines of 'Not with stupid' or something like that…
But that wasn't the case, Asuka continued to stare at Shinji, who simply started to laugh and walked out the door.
Misato took the direct approach and asked, "What happened between you two?"
Asuka started to eat faster, she ignored Misato's question and headed towards the bathroom.
"I asked you a question Asuka!!"
"Nothing happened!! Leave me alone!!"
She closed the door to the bathroom, and began to take her bath, she always felt at peace in the water, but her mind was in chaos.
'I'll just avoid stupid Shinji, no!! I wont be weak in front of him, I wont be weak in front of anybody!!'
She grabbed the shampoo and started to use it on her hair, 'That idiot thinks he can mock me!! I'll show him who he is messing with. I'm not scared of anything!! Especially him!!'
Asuka quickly dried her self off and changed, he grabbed her briefcase and walked out of the door.
"…I was waiting on you…"
Asuka gasped and turned around only to find Shinji behind her, who was leaning on the wall beside the door.
"Leave me alone!!"
Asuka started to walk, with Shinji not far behind, she felt like his eyes were undressing her as she walked; she began to feel naked around him. This was truly the first time she felt this…violated.
Asuka bent over and untied her shoes and waited for Shinji to pass by, when he did, she tied her shoestrings back up, and started to walk behind him.
"So I guess you don't like being watched…do you?" Shinji asked, almost passing off as sounding innocent.
Asuka stopped walking on the sidewalk, "Shut the hell up Shinji!!"
Shinji laughed and turned around, "What are you going to do about it, and why did you leave out the stupid?"
"I would smash you damn face into the road and watch your goofy ass get hit by a car!! And you already know you are stupid!!"
"I like the way you look when you sleep Asuka…"
'The boxes…'
Indeed she forgot to see if they was missing or not, but if she opened the door without stepping on them then…
Asuka waited for Shinji to go around the corner before she started walking again, something wasn't right about him, she was sure.
It was like he was hiding insanity.
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Thanks for the reviews on the other stories; I'll try to improve.
About this story, It seemed lots of people have used the idea of Shinji having a different personality or growing a backbone, in some cases insanity is to blame, and in others its an Angel, but since I don't know how common people react to losing their minds, I'll just have to make it up as I go along.
This is one of the few stories I planned out before I started writing, the others being The Albino Shadow and To Be Without Me.
I can't spell or do I have good grammar so I depend on Microsoft word for that kind of stuff, but I am to blame for weak endings and bad plot twist and stuff of that nature.
The main thing about this is keeping everyone in character, except Shinji of course.
And many sorries if I got the half's of the Angel colors wrong.
Like always many thanks for reading and many many thanks for reviewing, even if they are flames please be a bit helpful.
Chibi Fenrir…LX…. o.O
PS. LX is there for no reason at all…= p