Coffee shop AU! Shinji struggles with depression and his troubled past until he meets Kaworu, a painter with his head in the clouds. One would imagine calamity would ensue. However, there is beauty to be found between those who seek love and a sense of clarity. Rated M for language, violence, and eventually explicit scenarios. KawoShin! Chapter 16 - Tennis, Lunch, Suspicions

[Ashes to Ashes rewrite, Redorbshipping] Time had changed them both, for better and worse, but when the call came to march away they had both answered. They were still soldiers, but instead of gazing at each other across the No Man's Land they stood shoulder to shoulder in the Van. The battlefield was burning, but they were together and in the end that's all that really mattered.

Manga Kaworu and Shinji get into a fight and then hug it out. Violence, blood, angst, and smooching.

They were both outsiders in a world where people constantly bent over backwards to connect to and fit in with one another. Their friendship felt easy. Even the confusing feelings he had about the latest Child, the ones that he really couldn't even bring himself to think that much about, were sort of pleasant in an awkward, private kind of way. [*UPDATE: Chapter 5*]

The more powerful something is, the more damage it can do. Gendo's love for Yui drove him to insane and monstrous acts to get her back. Shinji is Gendo's son. Kaworu spent his last night on earth showing Shinji that someone could care for him. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea...

AU ONE-SHOT Shinji takes a photography class at school, and while staying late printing, finds there's more to do in a darkroom... KaworuxShinji lime HJ Shounen ai Flames are LAME

Shinji has a dark secret, just like everybody. Slash