Trip The Light Fantastic
Shinji breathed in deeply as he turned the page of the magazine, it was almost twelve a clock and he was alone again Rei was out with Mari. While Misato was out of Tyoko three on Military business and would not be back till early in the morning while Asuka was out on a date so he was stuck in his own company. He breathed in lying back on his bed eyeing Pen Pen who was sleeping in the corner maybe it wouldn't be so bad if it hadn't been every night this week. He turned hearing the door blind suddenly shoot up as some one came crashing in he sat up slightly catching sight of Asuka who clearly didn't look happy he could tell from here as she closed and locked the door. "Hey…you're back early." He paused trying to find the right words. "How did your date go?" He heard the hard crash as she punched the wall snarling as she spoke. "It went like scheisse!" Shinji watched as she walked in to the living room throwing her bag to one side as she sat on the sofa sneering as she spoke coldly. "The guy was such a bastard…" Shinji blinked he shifted a little closer to her. "Why what did he say?"
Asuka looked down sadly as the words came out before she could stop them. "He said I was a mean bitch with two left feet." She looked up sharply. "It not my ficken fault that I don't know how to dance!" Shinji looked up. "You know maybe you should stop Hikari setting up your dates I mean the last three guys have been awful." Asuka looked at him for a long moment. "You have a point…" She looked up slightly her blue eyes darting. "Her choices ficken suck." Shinji slowly stood up adjusting his t-shirt. "Hey you know maybe I can help you…you know be a better dancer." Asuka blinked in confusion. "You want me to dance with you?" Shinji stepped closer. "Yes." Asuka watched as his hand came towards her. "This is stupid, why would I want to dance with you?!" Shinji felt a sly smile form. "Well you don't have to but it might stop guys saying that you have two left feet." Asuka took in a deep breath as she took hold of her his hand as he eased her to her feet. "Fine it's not like its going to kill me or anything."
Shinji turned on his walkman carefully placing headphone in her ear as he placed the other in his own as he got in to position lowering the sound so he could speak over it. "Okay just follow my lead." He watched as Asuka gave him a weird look. "Or you can lead...if you want." Asuka swallowed inwardly hoping he wouldn't notice. "No you lead!" Shinji felt a smile form as he started to move watching as she followed his lead. She was nervous as much as she was trying to hide it he could see it he felt the pain as she stepped on his foot. Asuka looked down. "Look this is really stupid I can't do this I feel like an idiot!" Shinji stopped as he kept hold of her hands. "No lets just do this again from the top you were doing fine." He paused smiling inwardly. "Plus you can pilot an Eva this should be child's play to you." Asuka looked up. "Are you calling me a child because I'm eighteen now?" Shinji looked up watching as she moved in time with him starting to get the hang of the slow dance. "Not at all just thought it would be easy for you that is all, I mean it's always so easy for you." Asuka looked up eyeing the handsome nineteen year old man as she looked down. "It's never that easy I just make it out to be that way."
Shinji started to move faster watching as she kept time. "Really?" Asuka turned with him. "Yes really!" Shinji stopped watching as she did the same suddenly looking uncertain. "So you're just like the rest of us then?" Asuka eyed him. "Is this going somewhere?" Shinji moved forward putting his hands gently on her shoulders. "No it's just great that you're like the rest of us, I think it's nice." Asuka shifted feeling the heat and blush before she could stop it. "Now your just flattering me…." Shinji moved a little closer. "I think your date was very stupid." Asuka eyed him for a long moment. "In what way?" He leaned in a little closer. "Well I wouldn't pass up a date with you." Asuka laughed but it came out half hearted. "Yeah right idiot Shinji like you'd ever want to put up with me." Shinji leaned in closer. "Yes I would." Asuka stepped back laughing again but now it was more nervous. "Now you're teasing and being very unfair." She stopped as his arms suddenly found her waist this was completely out of blue and she had no idea how to react. Shinji felt a warm smile form he should have done this ages ago but fear had stopped him. "Do you like me Asuka?" Asuka felt her eyes dart as she answered quietly there was no real point to lying anymore even to her self. "Yes I like you." Shinji leaned closer as he spoke quietly. "I like you to." They were kissing before they even knew what they were doing it wasn't hard kissing it was soft and slow and nothing around them existed only the soft tones of the music which were playing in their ears.
Rei raised her hand slowly as she closed the blind fully to the front room eyeing the others as they'd all just come in through the front door. "I won the bet I would like my payment." Mari gave her a smile. "Yes you did." She eyed Kensuke and Toji who just looked shocked. "You two owe her money so fucking pay up now." Toji pulled out his money handing it to Rei. "This chicken shit sucks how did she guess that they were going to kiss tonight?!" Kensuke breathed in deeply passing the money over to Rei whose face remained unreadable. "You know she was never like this before she was always so quite and polite." He turned eyeing Mari. "What did you do to her she used to be easy to reason with?" Mari folded her arms. "It's not my fault my girlfriend owned your ass so get over yourselves." She pushed up her glasses. "Plus I had nothing to do with her making the bet she did it herself." She eyed Rei who was counting her winnings quietly her red eyes checking every note methodically to make sure none were fake since they'd tried to pull that trick before. "Maybe you should just learn not to make bad bets you always loose and at this rate she'll be able to buy that news games machine she's been wanting for weeks."
Silvermoonlight
Gift for DarkBluePhoenix based on his AU fanfiction character canon
