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Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or the characters

Author's Note: Since Shinji has a lawyer, I needed to make an ACC and he will be in a lot of this chapter, if you dislike Author created characters, I think it would be wise and good for both you and me, if you were to press the back button.

And also, whoever you think murdered the commander it is wrong, Pen-Pen is the one who did it, the police failed to notice the pecked out eye glasses and the strange marks on his chest….~_~, I'm joking of course, but who you think killed the commander really didn't do it.

The boy looked out of the tinted window towards the sky, he asked a while ago could the man beside him let down the window so he could see, but the agent constantly refused.

'At least I caught a glimpse before I got into the car…', Shinji thought as the car made a right turn heading for the place where the case of Japan verse Shinji Ikari would take place.

He heard on the news what was happening around the world…

People across the world were overjoyed, maybe it was cause he was part of Nerv, or maybe because he fought the Angels.

Shinji almost laughed as the ironic thought crossed his mind, the very people he saved, now wanted him dead or to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

"We're here."

The young man fixed his tie, and exited the vehicle trying his best to ignore the crowd of thousands of Anti-Nerv factions, and people who supported the third world counties which half of the population was lost due to starvation due to Nerv.

"I want you to die!"

"And thou who strike down Angels, shall burn in the deepest flames of hell!"

He couldn't ignore them, Shinji turned towards the crowd, he looked at all the signs, which with showed the Nerv symbol on fire, or him being murdered or in jail, and he was completely disgusted.

It worked so hard, so hard to make sure these people lived, as a matter of fact they all fought to save the earth…at all cost.

Of course they all had personal to, but they also had the lives of billons pushing them on, the lives of billons of people places on their shoulders, and somehow they did it. They defeated the angels, although…everything didn't go as planned, almost everybody made it out ok.

"…I hope you burn in hell motherfucker!"

Despite all his feelings, Shinji marched up the steps of the courthouse, being very careful not to knock down one of the reporters that seemed to step in front of him every time he took a step.

"Mr. Ikari, did you hate your father enough to kill him?"

"Is it true that your and the pilot of Unit 02 are lovers?"

Shinji shook his head as he finally managed to get to doors of the courthouse, before entering he heard one question that almost made him lose his cool…

"Are you Nerv's scapegoat?"

The well-dressed man turned to the reporter who slipped in between the closing doors, "…No…it isn't like that…"

Or at least he hoped it wasn't, but on second thought he would gladly be the scapegoat, he wouldn't know what he would do if it was Rei, Asuka, Misato or anybody was in his situation.

If this all he had to do to protect these people from harming the others who worked for Nerv, he would be proud to be the scapegoat, and die with at least some dignity.

As the reporter was dragged away by some people Shinji didn't know, he put his mind to the task before him, as she promised, Ritsuko did hire him a well known lawyer, although he was from the United States, although he did get some words mixed up a few times, he was doing pretty well speaking Japanese, but Shinji found it very odd the way the man stuffed the end of his tie in his shirt pocket.

Everyone pondered how he was going to prove the boy not guilty with all of the evidence presented.

"Hello Mr. Ikari," the blond man behind him patted him on the back, "Don't worry about it, I believe you are not guilty!"

Shinji, for the sixth time this evening, sighed. Without turning around Shinji addressed the man, "Hello Mr. Lake"

The taller man smile grew larger like a kid in a candy store who just found what he wanted, "No time for greetings, lets get to the courtroom so we can began opening arguments."

As the two of them walked down the hall, Shinji decided to ask him the question he had on his mind for a long time, "What is our defense?"

"We don't have one, I'm just going to counter the evidence they have against you, see if I find fault in the evidence, then so will the jury."

'Ritsuko wasn't joking when she said she would get me a good lawyer, I hope she didn't spend much on me…', Shinji thought as they entered the courtroom, and not to his shock the only people present to support him was Maya and Ritsuko.

From where he was standing it was very strange, the left side had only two people sitting there surrounded by empty seats, while the right side was over filled, and even had people standing up in the back…"Do they really hate me this much…"

The taller, blond haired man laid his hand on Shinji's shoulder, "Its stupid isn't it, worked your fucking ass off to save the damn world and I haven't seen nobody give you even one thank you!"

"…It don't really matter, I'm not the only person who defeated the Angels, and I cant really say that I saved the world, all that really matter is the world is saved…"

The judge picked up his gravel, and even before the impact of the wood meeting wood, the courtroom was silent, "Will Japan please present its opening arguments."

As the rather old man walked in front of the jury and talked about the evidence they gathered and who they would call to the witness stand, Shinji and his lawyer, Mr. Lake, quietly spoke to each other.

Not soon after he began, the man walked back to the table and took his seat. The judge looked up at the defendant and his lawyer, and announced the piece of information Mr. Lake shared with him earlier, "The Defense will not be present any opening arguments."

Shinji took a glance at the jury, the one thing that stood out was the one who wore the Anti-Nerv tee shirt that was being sold outside the courthouse, the glare the man gave Shinji was filled with such hatred, the boy had a hard time deciding wheatear the man was human or not.

"The trail will proceed as planned, will the prostitution please call its first witness."

The doors opened reveling a man dressed in what seemed to be a brand new suit, he walked towards the witness stand, was swore in, and then took his seat.

This time, instead of the old man, a rather young looking lady got up from the table and walked towards the witness stand, she removed her reading glasses and placed them in her left hand, "Kind sir, can you tell us your full name?"

"Komoda Ichiro."

"And who are you?"

"I am the detective who worked on this case, and I also discovered most of the evidence."

She nodded and took the glasses out of her hand and placed them in her blouse pocket, "Thank you, I am aware you also came into contact with Ikari often, what kind of person do you think of Ikari as?"

The detective looked around the courtroom for a few seconds before answering the question, "…Personally, I think he is just a kid who killed his old man, and now that everybody knows he tries to hide it, that's the reason he didn't confess."

"Thank you detective.", She turned to where Mr. Lake sat and said aloud, "Your witness…"

The American stood up and walked towards the witness stand, where the detective calmly sat waiting for the attorney to question him.

"So you thought the defendant did the crime all along?" Mr. Lake asked being careful not to say the wrong words. The detective gave a quick nod of the head answering his question.

"…Can you please tell the court how was Gendo Ikari killed?"

The detective loosened his tie a bit; "Mr. Ikari was killed by four shots to the chest, and one in the head."

Mr. Lake chuckled a bit, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I am very sure." He calmly replied, the detective took a glance at the defendant who was starting back at him.

"Did you bother to even look at the autopsy?" Mr. Lake asked causing a few people, who was beginning to grow bored, to pay more attention.

When the witness didn't answer Mr. Lake reminded him Detective Ichiro was under oath. The judge looked down at the detective who hadn't opened his mouth yet, "Please answer the question detective."

"…No, I didn't look at the autopsy, I assumed he was killed by the gun shots."

Mr. Lake started walking back to the table and sat next to Shinji, but not before patting him on the back, "This is going to be easy…" he whisper to his client.

The old man stood up and announced the next witness, "We want Asuka Langley Soryu to go to the stand please." The doors opened up and a single girl dressed in a black dress began to walk towards the witness stand, that the detective walked away from moments before. Although she was half their age, she caused many a male head to turn.

She was swore in, then she took her seat, the lady from the prostitution stood up, and asked Asuka questions as she walks towards the stand, "Do you know why Ikari killed his father?"

Mr. Lake shot up like a bullet and yelled objection. The judge thought about it, "Sustained, Ms. Soryu you don't have to answer the question."

The lady rephrased the question, "Ms. Soryu do you have any idea to why Mr. Ikari would have killed his father?"

The red head stopped chewing the gum and her mouth, "Shinji had more reasons to kill the guy than anybody…but now that I think about he is way to soft to do it."

"What do you mean by soft."

"I mean he is a wimp! He has as much of a chance of killing his father as of sleeping with me!" The red haired pointed in the direction of the blushing boy who was trying to hide his face.

Shinji sighed as he poured himself a glass of water, Asuka making that statement, and the laughing behind him, didn't really help the boy feel better, but it did brighten his mood.

"Order! Order in the court!"

As soon as the laughing died down, the lady sighed, Asuka was helping Shinji not making him seem bad, "…Your witness."

Mr. Lake walked over toward the witness stand flashing Asuka one of his best smiles, "Soryu, you made a statement to the police that you thought my client murdered Mr. Ikari, but now you changed it around. Why is that?"

"…I guess I was just mad…"

"Were you made because of the events that took place before the Unit 00 accident? Yes, I see you got angry because of the way my client acted when Ayanami was in danger, he left you right where you were standing, and you wanted to get revenge by saying he murdered his father, but when you came to your senses you knew that wasn't the right thing to do so now you are here telling what you really think." The lawyer swept the hair out of his eyes, he saw the look on Asuka's face and pressed on, "The question is did you try to frame Shinji because of your jealousy?"

The courtroom got quiet, no one spoke, and some even held their breath. Asuka looked straight in the direction of Shinji who was pretending to find the buttons on his dress shirt rather interesting, "I…I…I plead the fifth."

Mr. Lake walked back to the table with his thumb up in the air, and he was laughing, but Shinji looked behind the man at Asuka who was bearing a glare in her eyes that held such…hatred it would make the Devil cry, 'I hope she is looking at Mr. Lake' Shinji thought as Asuka stepped off the stand and began walking away.

The judge stood up, "We will begin tomorrow at 9 am sharp."

As the judge entered his chambers, everyone began to exit the courtroom, leaving a Mr. Lake, Shinji and Ritsuko, in the room alone, Maya left to go back to work.

Ritsuko walked up to the young man and put her hand on his shoulder, "I told you I'd get you a good lawyer."

Shinji sighed, "That reminds me Mr. Lake, how much did Dr. Akagi pay you?"

Both of the men got up and began to exit the room, Mr. Lake took his tie out of his shirt pocket and opened the door for Ritsuko, "I didn't get paid anything, I took the case on two reasons. One, because this is one of the biggest cases in history, and second Ritsuko agreed to let me take her to dinner."

"…Ok" Shinji said, surprised that Mr. Lake didn't want any money

Ritsuko stopped Shinji before he walked out of the door of the courthouse, "Remember Shinji be careful…those people out their don't…like you. Misato will be here in a while so just wait on her."

"Alright, by the way she drives it shouldn't take long." Ritsuko and Mr. Lake both walked out the door into the sea of reporters trying their best to get a statement from the two.

The boy lay back on the bench in the hallway, today was a long day, and sadly it was going to be many more like it.

"…Hey Shinji"

He looked in front of him only to see Asuka standing in front of him, He slide over allowing her to sit down beside him…but not to close, "Hello Asuka."

"I'm sorry about that framing thing…"

Shinji turned towards her smiling, "I know…I'm sorry I ran off ignoring you."

The girl touched Shinji hand, and held it, "…Its ok…um, Shinji…do you like me?"

The boy slide further down towards the end of the bench, but Asuka still held his hand in the firm grip, "Of course, I like you Asuka, …w…what kind of question was that?"

"You know I don't mean like that Shinji…"

Her face was coming closer and closer and Shinji was growing nervous. She still held his hand and her eyes were closed…but she looked so peaceful.

Shinji leaned farther and farther back, he didn't want to hurt her or did he lean her on, he had to get his mind working and fast.

"Ahhh! My back!" it was stupid and it was very likely she wouldn't fall for it but at least it saved him.

Her bright blue eyes stared at the boy as he held his back, "I guess we would just have to start when we get home…"

Shinji eyes got as wide as the trays his food was put on in prison, "...Um…I…see…"

The doors opened and Asuka was off the bench in seconds, "Lets go stupid Shinji!!"

Misato stood in front of the two with a bewildered look, "Is their something I should know/'

Shinji shook his head up and down, "I'm going to need a hotel room closer to the courthouse."

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And the case of Shinji Ikari vs. Japan begins.

Who did it?

Misato?

Shinji?

Ritsuko?

Pen-Pen? ( My choice)

Fuyitsuki?

They all could do it and have the motives…~_~

I still need more legal information, I guess I will just look in Black's Law Dictionary, but it has more than 2000 pages…_

I have to get back to writing Locked Windows…o.o

Chibi Fenrir