Unbreakable Bond
Chapter X Boundaries of Emotions
Well I'm glad that my newest chapter has had a positive effect on the readers. There are a few things I want to quickly address before we get underway.
First of all whenever I have Shinji and Rei synchronise their speech, I don't specify who's speaking for the fun of it. Besides what's the harm of a little imagination eh?
As for Gendo don't worry he'll still be the bastard king he's famous for. I mean he did try to kill Shinji twice earlier. Don't worry he'll be trying something soon. I promise you that much.
Also some people are asking about the 14th and 16th Angels, you will just have to find out in the coming chapters won't you? But it'll be good, that much I promise you.
Without further ado let's rock!
Ritsuko sighed leaning into her chair. The experiment had been a taxing 3 hours. The time had also included the set up of Unit 00. But now that the experiments were over, she could relax peacefully for a short while before resuming her work. At least it was something to look forward to as it concerned the data. All the information collected would prove essential to her research as she continued to learn more of the bond, Shinji and Rei shared. Considering said two were due to arrive any moment to talk to her, she planned to speak with them about their bond and hopefully get a few questions answered; furthering her research.
A buzzing from her door drew her attention as she called them to enter. The door opened revealing Shinji and Rei, dressed in civilian clothing much to her surprised.
"Shinji-kun, Rei, come on in, have a seat," Ritsuko said happily looking up from her desk. Complying, the two stepped into her office and sat down in the seats she had provided.
"Now," she began wanting to get started, "what was it that you wanted to talk about?" Shinji and Rei looked at one another momentarily forming up their questions. Having decided they turned to her who had just grabbed her clipboard.
"I wish to understand why I feel uncomfortable when I am away from Shinji-kun," said Rei. "Why is it that my chest feels heavy without his presence? Why is it that I feel unable to control my emotions when he is not nearby?" Ritsuko remained silent as she absorbed the question. She was astounded by the profound question, especially since it was from Rei. She had long determined that Rei was capable of emotions after the bond, but the question had caught her off guard. Despite the surprise question it was relevant to what she had wanted to talk about.
"Well, this is a surprise," said Ritsuko placing on her glasses. "But could you possibly better explain your question?"
"I think she feels, a certain despair, or maybe some sort of anxiety when I'm not nearby," said Shinji, trying to explain Rei's situation. Shinji held on to Rei's hand as she spoke. Ritsuko looked at Shinji profoundly surprised by the sudden change in his vocabulary, but more so by his maturity and the way he spoke with a certain confidence. Gone was the shy introvert boy she had met; sitting in front of her was a completely different person. The way he looked at her, the way he sat up, even his clothes spoke of confidence. It was a bit of a sight to see Shinji in a different light.
"I see," Ritsuko commented making further notes. "Although I think it's just due to emotional immaturity." Shinji and Rei quirked their eyebrows repeating what she had diagnosed them with.
"Yes," she replied, "because in your case the pills you had been failing to receive were depressants meant to inhibit your emotional responses. And with the presence of your bond the affects of your emotions are somewhat doubled because of Shinji-kun. You simply don't know how to handle your emotions that well, because you rarely use them." Shinji and Rei nodded in understanding at the doctors words.
"Shinji-kun on the other hand although deprived of any real love, has more than likely witnessed it in its basic forms between interactions between other children and their parents, and from interactions from others. Plus he is more familiar with emotions as he had experienced. Although immature as you, he can carry himself a bit differently because he has seen other people express themselves.
"But now in your case because you still lack emotional knowledge you'll find yourself emotionally stressed at times because you don't know how to deal with it. It is possible that you may have an emotional breakdown at times. I recommend that you ask other women such as Misato or Maya to help you better understand your emotions, or better yet refer to classmates." Rei nodded in understanding.
"Now is there anything else that you wished to talk about?" Both pilots shook their heads as they moved to get up.
"Just a moment," she called out surprising both pilots. "I also have a few things I'd like to discuss with you first." Both simply nodded in acknowledgement.
"First of all during the experiments, I had noted some things in your brainwave patterns that I'd like to talk about. First of all, when you had first developed this bond, the two of you had a limited range of separation before negative affects started to affect you. But just now I had recently discovered that your bond had evolved."
"Evolved?" the two of them asked surprised by such a statement.
"Yes," Ritsuko stated turning to her computer. "I did some comparisons to other forms of evolution and such when I came across something interesting. Here's something that you can help you understand.
"As you know between siblings they have their own sets of DNA which makes them who they are and such. However usually there are a few alleles that will match, indicating their sibling relationship. Now in terms of your brains, or your brainwaves to be precise, you two are starting to diverge from the similar brain patterns you had when the accident occurred. And before you panic," she added noting the fear in their eyes, "there is more I need to tell you.
"Now despite the differences in brain patterns, there are several things that are still linked. Such components are your cognitive functions in terms of your heart, your ability to execute synchronized movements and speech, and a few others. However, when outside of the Eva your limited range actually evolved into a mental bridge of sorts."
"Bridge?" Rei asked confused by her statement.
"Yes. Tell me, have you two been able to start sensing each other's thoughts, maybe have some sort of mental communication?"
"We have been-"
"Experiencing intermittent bursts of-"
"Thoughts-"
"Feelings-"
"Emotions-"
"And on occasion-"
"Mutual arousal," they said finishing their burst of synchronized speech.
"M-m-mutual a-a-arousal?!" Ritsuko stuttered to which they nodded in confirmation. A vein formed on her temple as she silently swore to kill Misato for allowing them to get that far.
"Have-have you two had sex yet?" To her relief both parties shook their heads allaying her worst fear, but still made a point to kill her 'friend' first chance she had. But for the moment she had other issues to deal with. Clearing her mind she pulled up her notes.
"Well moving on basically that bond the two of you share has grown by leaps and bounds. That dependency for one has grown most as it has apparently evolved into this bridge allowing the two of you two be more aware of each other on an intimate level. You can sense what the other is feeling emotionally and physically, you can hear each others thoughts, and can possibly exchange tactical information when needed. Also, from my research the distance limitation is nonexistent, meaning you two can be in two places at one time.
"In exchange the bridge keeps you two in contact with one another allowing communication once you're able to master it. But in terms of your Evangelions the distance limit returns unfortunately. Therefore the Fourth Children shall be selected soon, and we may or may not bring in the Fifth Children in if the need arises." Shinji and Rei remained silent contemplating the information they had been given. The fact they no longer needed to be near each other was a blessing. They still had their shared bond feeling each others thoughts and emotions and such, but lately they had been able to feel more, sense more such as if one was saddened or if one was hurt somehow. They felt they were starting to know each other on a more intimate level as Ritsuko stated being able to respond to the other's needs without being asked.
"Arigatou Akagi-san" they thanked in unison getting up to leave. Ritsuko simply nodded before she turned around engrossed in her work once more. Taking it as her silent request to leave, Shinji and Rei quietly left the room. The rest of the day was spent in quiet solitude, enjoying the quiet peacefulness of the day.
The following day all three pilots assembled as they underwent another harmonics tests. Although Shinji and Rei had requested to test in a single pod, Ritsuko adamantly desired and forcefully ordered them to test in separate plugs much to their ire. As they sat in their test plugs Shinji and Rei silently reached out to one another trying to sense the other possibly actively connect with one another. In the control room Ritsuko, Misato, Maya, and Makoto watched on with interest as the test continued.
"So how are the Children doing?" Misato asked Maya curious of their performance.
"See for your self," she responded, showing Misato the graphs.
"Wow…" Misato commented before connecting with the plugs. "Can you hear me Shinji-kun?"
"Hai," he responded, opening his eyes to see Misato's happy visage.
"I have good news," she happily replied giving him a thumb up. "You're number one!" Shinji for his part smiled lightly at his performance. Rei overhearing the comment closed her eyes and tried to let him feel her congratulating him, which he statically returned a thank you. The connection was weak, but already they had begun to learn to speak without words. Asuka on the other hand felt her anger boil.
Soon after Asuka who had long finished showering, stood in the female change room as she began to angrily vent.
"He's done it! He surpassed me easily!" she vehemently shouted. "He did it that easily, that to be honest, I'm irritated! He's so great, so wonderful, so strong; Oh so wonderful Shinji-sama'll make our job easier! Right? We must work harder so we won't be left behind."
"Soryu," Rei called out.
"What do you want?" Asuka muttered as she turned around only to feel the full force of Rei's wrath as she suddenly found herself lying on the ground. Slowly bring her hand to her cheek she delicately rubbed it as the pain settled. Looking up Asuka felt herself shrink, for staring back at her was not Rei Ayanami. Before her stood someone different, someone she didn't recognize.
Her visage maintained its emotionless state, but her eyes showed her true feelings. Anger emanated from her eyes; cold dark, vengeful anger. Rei glared at her with a fire and intensity she had never seen in the pale girl. Such rage could be seen, possibly borderline killer intent. As the moments passed by, Rei's face seemed to darken, as her eyes narrowed focusing the dark relentless anger towards her.
Asuka felt the air become thick constricting her of oxygen. Her heart felt heavy, feeling fear as she continued to gaze into Rei's dark cardinal eyes. Remained rooted to the spot she desperately tried to formulate an escape only to have each idea swathed away by the intensity; idea after idea was shattered by the dark visage she could not break away from. Her eyes remained glued upon the relentless anger; attacking her, hurting her, demoralising her, smashing away the walls around her. She could do nothing under her gaze. For a fleeting moment Asuka prayed something would save her.
"Sayonara." Blinking her eyes she suddenly realised that Rei had turned to leave. In a quick recovery Asuka quickly got up and reached for Rei's shoulder.
"Just a minute Honour Student no does that to me!" Grabbing her shoulder Asuka was prepared to let out her assault only to feel the floor slam against her back. Looking up she realized Rei had pushed her when she had grabbed her shoulder. Fear festered as staring back at her were the cold, hate-filled, murderous eyes that threatened to hurt her.
"Speak ill of Shinji-kun and it shall be your last words," Rei quietly hissed before turning around and left, leaving Asuka bewildered and frightened of what she had just saw.
Outside Rei leaned against the wall across from her, clutching her chest. Only closing the door she realized what she had done. Not only she had vented her anger at Asuka, she had almost punched her neck before quickly shoving her instead. Her breathing heavy, she struggled to control the storm within. As quickly as the anger rose she felt another feeling rise from the pit of her stomach. Suddenly bringing a hand to her mouth she realized she was about to throw up. Knowing the female change room was out of the question she had but one alternative.
Shinji in the change room had just finished putting on a polo t-shirt when Rei suddenly bolted through the room and ran past him. Realizing something was wrong based on their proximity; he quickly followed to see her enter one of the washroom stalls. Instinctively, he ran in and tucked her hair behind her ears as she vomited. Although having seen her vomit before something felt wrong to him. Her voice seemed distressed as if she had just committed something wrong. Carefully reaching out he slowly searched through her memories, providing comfort as he did. Seeing what she had committed Shinji understood what had happened and why she felt this way. The feeling having passed, Rei warily got up with Shinji's support and washed her mouth with Shinji's help. After cleaning her mouth Shinji slowly guided Rei to one of the benches and sat down with her, gently wrapping an arm around her.
"Rei-chan what happened?" he quietly asked rubbing her back with his free hand.
"I…I am unsure Shinji-kun," she weakly replied, the feeling from what happened still fresh within her mind. "Soryu was displeased with your performance. She had spoken negatively of you. I believe I 'snapped' for I stood before her and slapped her. I had turned to leave when she had touched my shoulder. For an instant I-I-I…" she took a deep breath, "I desired to kill her." Shinji felt his heart turn cold. He had felt the momentary intent while he was changing. To hear that it had been directed at Asuka his world seemingly stopped. He knew Rei had trouble understanding her emotions but the fact such an emotion occurred within Rei he felt worried for both girls.
He worried for Asuka for if she went too far she would get herself hurt by Rei for her pride would most likely cause friction. He worried for Rei because she still lacked proper control of her emotions, having been going on pills which kept her emotions in control. If she were to be set off the results could be lethal, to either girl.
"Shinji-kun…I am…afraid," Rei whimpered resting her head against Shinji's chest. "I am unsure of how to deal with this. I fear I may commit regrettable actions."
"Its okay, it's okay," Shinji assured holding her close. "We'll speak with Misato-san about this." Feeling her nod into his shoulder he pulled out his cell phone from his bag and dialled Misato's number.
"Moshi, moshi Katsuragi speaking," said Misato on the phone.
"Misato-san, please come down to the male change room. There was a conflict between Asuka and Rei-chan," said Shinji as he tried to comfort Rei.
"If it's about what happened just now, I'm dealing with a really pissed of Asuka at the moment," Misato replied on the other end. "Ritsuko should be coming down there in a few minutes to help you out. I'll be down there as soon as I can deal with Asuka."
"Hai, arigatou Misato-san," Shinji replied hanging up the phone. He suddenly heard the door hiss open, looking up to see Kaji walk in.
"Yo," he greeted with a wave of his hand. "I heard there was some trouble from Rit-chan so I decided to drop in since she was preoccupied with other matters."
"Hai," Shinji replied before turning back to Rei.
"Care to explain what happened?" he seriously asked sitting down across the two.
"Soryu had been displeased of the test results," Rei weakly stated as she tried to control her breathing. "I was angry at her and slapped her. I had intended to leave when she had grabbed my shoulder. In that instant I had felt a desire to strike a death blow before pushing her instead. During following each attack, I channelled my anger towards her, before leaving following the push."
"Then she ran in and threw up," Shinji added, concluding Rei's story.
"I see," Kaji muttered crossing his arms. "I can see why Asuka talked like she did, but Rei I'm surprised, considering your control."
"That was due to inhibitors," she explained, regaining some control.
"By the way Ritsuko said you lacked emotional maturity," Kaji noted. "Consider this a learning experience."
"A learning experience?" Rei asked confused how she could learn from such an episode.
"Yes," he replied. "Take what you've experienced from your outburst and figure out the following: figure what methods you had used to calm yourself down, and what exactly got to you. The reason you do this is so that you can revise your methods, for they had failed in this case. As for how to deal with what facilitated your outburst, you think of a way to either ignore it, or put it aside until you can safely vent your anger. It's just a suggestion, but you don't have to follow it. With that aside, you feel alright?" Rei simply nodded in response to his question.
"I see," said Kaji. "Well there isn't much I can really do at this point, except provide you support. Misato-san would be more suited to this." Sighing he got up to leave.
"Oh and Shinji-kun, take good care of her," Kaji added before finally walking out.
Shinji momentarily stared at the door before turning back to Rei who was silently whimpering in his arms. Gently reaching out he knew she was disturbed about what had happened. He could only hope that she would be able to get over it before the next angel. Praying for Asuka to be nowhere near them for the next little while, Shinji shouldered his bag, and helped Rei up as he led out her of the room, headed home.
That night had been a quiet night for the Katsuragi residence. To their great luck Shinji and Rei never encountered Asuka. They did see Misato a few times during the night who asked for Rei's side of the story, to find it correlate with Asuka's story. Following that she gave her own advices on how to deal with it, all leaving Shinji and Rei red faced by the time they went to bed.
The following morning had violently erupted into a major scramble as NERV detected an unknown being to have appeared in the city skies. All three pilots had been immediately deployed and had taken up positions observing unknown being. From scans and visual sightings it was spherical, with zebra stripes around its entire form. Inside NERV the staff worked frantically as they worked to ascertain whether or not the target was an angel or not.
"Pattern Orange," Lt. Hyuga reported. "No AT-Field detected!"
"What does that mean," Misato muttered.
"Is that a new kind of Angel?" Ritsuko asked.
"The Magi's withholding their conclusion," Lt. Ibuki responded.
"Geez, why's Commander Ikari absent at a time like this?" Misato whined as they watch the spherical object float through the city.
Outside Unit 01 and 00 while maintaining formation quietly advanced upon the target. Having already determined Unit 01 would take point after a minor squabble between Shinji and Asuka, Unit 00 slowly fell back with its sniper rifle levelled at the target ready to fire upon command.
"Soryu are you ready?" Shinji asked.
"I can't move that fast," Asuka hotly retorted. Minutes passed by and Asuka had yet to report in. Tensions mounted at Unit 01 gripped its pistol. Unit 00 in the background wedged itself between two buildings providing stability should it fire.
"Ayanami let's fall back," said Shinji as he prepared to move away from the sphere.
"SHINJI-KUN BELOW YOU!" Rei suddenly screamed.
"What?" Shinji responded to look back towards the angel to see it had disappeared. Looking down he realized he was standing in a black pit: sinking. Reacting instinctively he aimed his pistol downwards and opened fire to only find his efforts in vain as he continued to sink. Looking up he saw the sphere had returned. Rei quickly trained her weapon and fired three volleys towards the creature to only see the sphere disappear as the shots impacted a building.
"Asuka, Rei, get Unit 01 out of there!!" Misato bellowed. Complying Unit 00 immediately leaped on top of the nearest building and held its rifle out towards Unit 01 who had discarded its pistol and grabbed on with both hands. Unit 02 had started to rapidly advance towards Unit 01 which was now submerged up to its waist.
"Status," Misato ordered.
"The target is attempting to draw Unit 01 into the shadow," Lt. Hyuga reported. "However due to Unit 00's efforts Unit 01 is presently only waist deep."
"Eject the plug," Misato ordered turning to Maya.
"It's no good. There's something interfering with ejection commands," she responded.
"Energy spike detected within the target!" Lt. Aoba reported. Misato could only watch in shock as the rifle barrel snapped as Unit 01 plunged into the dark abyss.
"Shinji-kun!" Rei screamed as she reached down and grabbed the umbilical cable and pulled. Unit 02 suddenly appeared behind, grabbed the cable and continued to pull as well. The rescue attempt continued for another minute before realizing Unit 01 had been forcibly cut off.
In Central Dogma, Misato quickly assessed the situation before giving out her hardest command, "Rei, Asuka, withdraw."
"We can't leave Shinji-kun in there," said Rei as she prepared to jump in.
"Are you crazy?" Asuka bellowed as Unit 02 grabbed onto Unit 00 and restrained it.
"But Shinji-kun…Shinji-kun is," Rei stuttered.
"That was an order," Misato harshly bit out, trying to contain her own frustrations.
"But…but…" Rei muttered trying to find a valid reason. She felt herself being stretched thin as Shinji fell deeper into the pit. As he fell she felt a part of herself leaving her. She felt pain; indescribable, awful, destructive pain and responded the only way she could.
"SHINJI-KUN!!!!" she cried out, burying her face into her hands. Pain and sadness enveloped her as she cried. She felt helpless, unable to do anything to help Shinji. Lost in her emotions she had failed to notice her plug had been ejected and had been carried out.
"Rei," Misato whispered as she sat the girl down.
"Shinji-kun…he can't be…he just can't be…" Rei whimpered, holding herself as she began to feel the long forgotten effects of their separation. "I…I can't feel him…I can't sense him…Misato-san…Misato-san…what's, what's happening to me?"
"I don't know," she replied, looking off towards the city in the distance where the creature floated. "But I promise you we'll bring him back." Looking down at her, Misato felt sadness wash over her. Rei was lost, alone, caught in the darkness of her emotion unable to deal with it. She had lost her light and now wandered aimlessly in hopes for a new source of light; one that could possibly save her.
"I…I feel something I have never felt before," Rei whimpered into her knees. "I feel my chest constricting itself, as if the air is compressing my chest. What is this?"
"It's called fear, Rei-chan," Misato quietly replied, pulling Rei in holding her close to her heart. "You're afraid that you may never see Shinji-kun again. But more than that, you miss him because he was always with you. Despite the fact you gave him confidence, he gave you something greater: he gave you life. He gave you the chance to be free." Rei looked up at Misato profoundly. The words held such truth and wisdom she had never seen within the Major. She saw the care, and the motherly look in her eyes she did what only came natural.
"Arigatou Misato-san," Rei sobbed as she hugged her guardian tightly.
"Shhh, it's okay, it's okay," Misato silently cooed gently stroking the back of Rei's head. "Just let it out, let it all out."
From afar Ritsuko watched on helplessly between Misato and Rei, and the city where Shinji laid helpless somewhere in the depths of that pit. Despite her misgivings towards Rei the bond had completely changed Rei into someone she found respect in. Rei just had a certain appeal that Ritsuko found irresistible since the accident. Ritsuko was unsure of what it was, but she respected it.
"Oh my, oh my," Asuka suddenly stated, "getting himself into such a predicament. Yeah that was his fault alright. Just because he got the highest score on yesterday's test how could he say, 'I'll show you how it's done'?"
"Asuka," Misato stated in a warning tone getting up.
"He was so elated," Asuka proudly stated as she turned around to suddenly find Rei in her face. "W-what? You don't want to hear bad things about Shinji huh?!"
"Shut up," Rei quietly hissed.
"Or what, you'll kill me?" Asuka drawled. "Ha! Like that'll ever ha-"
"REI STOP IT!" Misato yelled as she struggled to pull Rei off, who straddled Asuka's waist as her hands pressed down on Asuka's throat.
"SHUT UP, SHUT UP, JUST SHUT UP!" Rei cried out. "YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LOSE SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU! YOU PILOT JUST FOR YOUSELF! HE PILOTS SO HE COULD PROTECT THOSE CLOSE TO HIM! HE CARES FOR MISATO! HE CARES FOR AKAGI! HE EVEN CARED FOR YOU, AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY HIM?!"
"Rei," Misato groaned as pulled Rei off, trying to keep her restrained.
"He cared for you and this is how you repay him? By insulting him for something he didn't do? He does nothing but kind things but you just push it back in his face! What kind of person are you?" Asuka merely starred at Rei as she lightly rubbed her neck trying to let the pain pass.
"I can never forgive you…DO YOU HEAR ME? YOU'RE UNFORGIVEABLE!" Rei bellowed with an intensity leaving Asuka shocked down to her core as she suddenly stumbled back in surprise. Asuka could only look on in absolute confusion as tears poured from Rei's eyes as she turned around and wailed into Misato's shoulder. Misato simply held on to her whispering words of comfort trying to calm the distraught girl. Misato felt her heart break as she listened to Rei cry. She knew that she was emotionally immature, but to have her suffer through this at such a stage was wrong.
Asuka frowned as she watched Misato comfort Rei. For all she cared Rei was still the Honour Student and nothing more. Huffing she walked past the two. However to her disgust as she walked passed staff members, they gave her glares of contempt while others looked on at Rei in pity, while others silently hoped Shinji could be saved. It infuriated her that they gave her their attention when it should be her as she was technically the only pilot ready to go should a rescue operation should be mounted.
"Come on," said Misato. "Let's sit down." Rei weakly nodded as she allowed Misato to slowly lead her into one of the barrack trailers that had recently arrived. Entering one, Misato sat her down gently on one of the beds before sitting down next to her.
"Misato-san," Rei croaked.
"Nani?" Misato replied as she wrapped her arms around Rei in a motherly fashion.
"Why do I feel so different when Shinji-kun is gone?" she asked in between sniffles.
"Well…why don't you tell me," said Misato. Rei shuffled closer to Misato and laid her head against Misato's shoulder.
"I feel…happy," she stated as she tried to formulate what she felt. "I feel safe, content, relaxed, as if I am capable of anything so long as he is near. I feel the pains of my past ebb away; obscured by the feelings of serenity, of peace, of joy, and content. I feel much more…but…the feelings are unidentifiable. Those are the only words I can find, yet they seem insufficient…"
"So what do you feel now?" Misato asked, trying to be sure of what Rei felt.
"I feel darkness, despair, the absolute opposite of what I feel around Shinji-kun," Rei replied. "I am unable to find words to describe my pains."
"Rei…" Misato quietly began as she held Rei by both shoulders and looked at her in the eye, giving her a warm smile, "I think you're in love with Shinji-kun." Rei looked at Misato's face as shocked at the sudden revelation. Although she had never felt the feeling, the impact of Misato's words seemed to sum her feelings to a whole. She always felt warm around him, connected to him in ways she had never thought possible. She knew his past, his feelings, his deepest desires, just as he knew hers. They shared many things, some were forced upon, but nonetheless it was through that sharing they became more than they were before.
Through their time together she had learned to care for Shinji, but as she thought about it saying she cared for Shinji felt wrong, it felt weak. At the time she had not been able to find the word, but she knew what she felt for him was beyond caring. Never able to find a strong enough word she had always said to herself what she felt was deeper than care, deeper than friendship. Today she found her answer.
"I love Shinji-kun," Rei quietly repeated trying to grasp the feeling she felt.
"Hai, Rei-chan," Misato replied, as she gently cupped one of Rei's cheeks and wiper a tear away with her thumb. "Although forged differently, it's still love." Rei smiled widely as she tightly hugged Misato. "You love him so much that it hurts when you can't help him. It hurts, but if you conquer your pain, it is your strongest weapon."
"Strongest weapon…strong enough to bring back Shinji-kun?" Rei asked as she held Misato's hand in hers.
"Hai Rei-chan," said Misato as drew Rei into another embrace. "And I promise you, we'll get him back. I promise you. He'll come back alive."
And that's a rap! That concludes chapter 9 of Unbreakable Bond, and half of the 12th Angel's attack. Next chapter see how NERV bails Shinji and reunites our favourite pair. Leave your comments and reviews please. I look forward to reading them.
As for that scene was Kaji I just felt he needed to make an appearance. I don't know if that we in-character but hey I don't usually involve Kaji in my stories.
Cheers Ja ne