My apologies on the delay in getting this chapter done. Many thanks to
Synaid and Sky Firebane for reminding me to get it done. Hope you like it,
Please Review, flame, whatever. All will be taken in.
Chapter 2
The very next day
Misato was furious. Pissed off, generally ready to kill the first person that interfered with her sodden journey back to the dorm with yet again another plastic bag full of beer and snack foods. And then, the person that runs across her path is the one she feels like killing the most.
"Well, Miss Katsuragi, this is becoming quite a habit, eh?"
"Why you, I cannot believe the nerve you have to" Misato started before Kaji cut her off.
"And I see you are still brazenly sticking to your habits I see. Well you can't blame a well meaning male to try and help."
"Well-meaning male my butt!!! You are nothing more than a pervert!!!"
"Well it is a nice set of buttocks you have there so I might take that deal."
"Why you, good for nothing piece of"
"Unless you would prefer to walk in the rain for another 2 kilometres, I suggest you accept my offer and get in." The man said with a hint of exasperation and seriousness.
Misato blinked with surprise at the man's tone and got in without any more argument. After a few minutes of silence as the man drove and arrived in front of Misato's dorm, Misato spoke again.
"The last time we met, you gave a shaky promise to tell me your name. I hope you are as good as your word."
"I can't have anyone saying that I don't live up to my words. My name is Ryougi Kaji, or just Kaji to my friends."
"Finally!!! I have your name!!!" Misato crowed in triumph.
"But that's all you get. The rest you have to find out for yourself." Kaji said as he got back into the driver's seat. Misato could only stare incredulously in disbelief as he drove away. -If that's what it takes I will get the best of you Kaji! - Thought Misato, as she went into her room, looking in her contact book for the telephone number of an old family friend that owned a private investigation firm.
Kaji, who had naturally attached a listening device to the phone a month earlier, wasn't particularly worried about Misato finding anything bad about him. While his original intention had been to find information on Second Impact, he found his aims changing. He was motivated to find out as much as possible about Second Impact because his best friend had been on the Katsuragi research expedition and consequently died during second impact. He wanted to know what really killed him and he certainly didn't believe the bullshit cover up story the government had thought up. But now.Misato was also a remarkably beautiful woman and Kaji suspected strongly that the drinking and sarcastic manner hid something and Kaji strongly suspected it was her past, including what Second Impact really was. As he gathered more information on her, he became more determined to get to known her on a personal level.
Misato hurried back to her dorm room after an evening lecture on history, hoping she hadn't missed the call from her friend about his findings on Mr Kaji. A week had passed and he had promised to get something to her in a week in the phone call. Unfortunately she had missed the call and the recording machine had an Internet address on it, which she promptly found and accessed on her room's computer. A voice file began to play.
"Misato, I found the info you wanted, Mr Kaji seems a normal person. Born on 1 July 1985, in Old Tokyo, attended and graduated from a local high school, currently enrolled in Osaka College in a computer systems course. No siblings, parents died in 1999, relatively well-off inheritance. No police records, a handful of speeding tickets and he doesn't appear to be alcoholic or a smoker. I wasn't allowed to make copies of the records. I hope you do well in you studies, love, Uncle Tsubasa." Misato smiled at the voice but inwardly berated herself. - What was I expecting? That he was some criminal? - Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Misato walked over to the mini fridge hidden under her bed behind some dirty clothes and took out a beer, once again beginning the process drinking herself into a catatonic state. -Daddy, why did you have to leave me like this? Why do you torment me? -
Meanwhile Ritsuko is studying her notes, quietly resenting every reference to her mother. She hated being in her mother's shadow and tried to establish herself as a separate person, but everything she did seemed to be following her. Her interest in computers, her looks and her actions, everyone referred to her as Naoko Akagi's daughter. She had even dyed her hair blond to distance herself from her mother. Sighing as her thoughts wandered, Ritsuko tried concentrating on the notes. But her thoughts strayed to Misato and her mind was confused. Misato had been practically the only person in the college who hadn't done a double take at the name of Akagi, and naturally became her only friend. Ritsuko had found out parts her friend's past, but not enough to explain her crying in her sleep, except when she was drunk. Ritsuko didn't want to know the full extent of Misato's past; she had enough to deal with. She wondered who was getting more out of the friendship. Sighing in exasperation at her lack of concentration, Ritsuko got another cup of coffee and looked out the window at the sky, seeing a star flare and die.
At the same time, in different parts of the world four 8-year old children wake suddenly from their beds and see the same sight through their windows. They all have no idea what it means or how intricately their fates are bound together. Nor did they know how it forecast their future in such deceptively simple terms.
Well there you have it. Conjecture on who the fourth child is welcome. And no, it isn't Touji. Next chapter within a month hopefully.
Chapter 2
The very next day
Misato was furious. Pissed off, generally ready to kill the first person that interfered with her sodden journey back to the dorm with yet again another plastic bag full of beer and snack foods. And then, the person that runs across her path is the one she feels like killing the most.
"Well, Miss Katsuragi, this is becoming quite a habit, eh?"
"Why you, I cannot believe the nerve you have to" Misato started before Kaji cut her off.
"And I see you are still brazenly sticking to your habits I see. Well you can't blame a well meaning male to try and help."
"Well-meaning male my butt!!! You are nothing more than a pervert!!!"
"Well it is a nice set of buttocks you have there so I might take that deal."
"Why you, good for nothing piece of"
"Unless you would prefer to walk in the rain for another 2 kilometres, I suggest you accept my offer and get in." The man said with a hint of exasperation and seriousness.
Misato blinked with surprise at the man's tone and got in without any more argument. After a few minutes of silence as the man drove and arrived in front of Misato's dorm, Misato spoke again.
"The last time we met, you gave a shaky promise to tell me your name. I hope you are as good as your word."
"I can't have anyone saying that I don't live up to my words. My name is Ryougi Kaji, or just Kaji to my friends."
"Finally!!! I have your name!!!" Misato crowed in triumph.
"But that's all you get. The rest you have to find out for yourself." Kaji said as he got back into the driver's seat. Misato could only stare incredulously in disbelief as he drove away. -If that's what it takes I will get the best of you Kaji! - Thought Misato, as she went into her room, looking in her contact book for the telephone number of an old family friend that owned a private investigation firm.
Kaji, who had naturally attached a listening device to the phone a month earlier, wasn't particularly worried about Misato finding anything bad about him. While his original intention had been to find information on Second Impact, he found his aims changing. He was motivated to find out as much as possible about Second Impact because his best friend had been on the Katsuragi research expedition and consequently died during second impact. He wanted to know what really killed him and he certainly didn't believe the bullshit cover up story the government had thought up. But now.Misato was also a remarkably beautiful woman and Kaji suspected strongly that the drinking and sarcastic manner hid something and Kaji strongly suspected it was her past, including what Second Impact really was. As he gathered more information on her, he became more determined to get to known her on a personal level.
Misato hurried back to her dorm room after an evening lecture on history, hoping she hadn't missed the call from her friend about his findings on Mr Kaji. A week had passed and he had promised to get something to her in a week in the phone call. Unfortunately she had missed the call and the recording machine had an Internet address on it, which she promptly found and accessed on her room's computer. A voice file began to play.
"Misato, I found the info you wanted, Mr Kaji seems a normal person. Born on 1 July 1985, in Old Tokyo, attended and graduated from a local high school, currently enrolled in Osaka College in a computer systems course. No siblings, parents died in 1999, relatively well-off inheritance. No police records, a handful of speeding tickets and he doesn't appear to be alcoholic or a smoker. I wasn't allowed to make copies of the records. I hope you do well in you studies, love, Uncle Tsubasa." Misato smiled at the voice but inwardly berated herself. - What was I expecting? That he was some criminal? - Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Misato walked over to the mini fridge hidden under her bed behind some dirty clothes and took out a beer, once again beginning the process drinking herself into a catatonic state. -Daddy, why did you have to leave me like this? Why do you torment me? -
Meanwhile Ritsuko is studying her notes, quietly resenting every reference to her mother. She hated being in her mother's shadow and tried to establish herself as a separate person, but everything she did seemed to be following her. Her interest in computers, her looks and her actions, everyone referred to her as Naoko Akagi's daughter. She had even dyed her hair blond to distance herself from her mother. Sighing as her thoughts wandered, Ritsuko tried concentrating on the notes. But her thoughts strayed to Misato and her mind was confused. Misato had been practically the only person in the college who hadn't done a double take at the name of Akagi, and naturally became her only friend. Ritsuko had found out parts her friend's past, but not enough to explain her crying in her sleep, except when she was drunk. Ritsuko didn't want to know the full extent of Misato's past; she had enough to deal with. She wondered who was getting more out of the friendship. Sighing in exasperation at her lack of concentration, Ritsuko got another cup of coffee and looked out the window at the sky, seeing a star flare and die.
At the same time, in different parts of the world four 8-year old children wake suddenly from their beds and see the same sight through their windows. They all have no idea what it means or how intricately their fates are bound together. Nor did they know how it forecast their future in such deceptively simple terms.
Well there you have it. Conjecture on who the fourth child is welcome. And no, it isn't Touji. Next chapter within a month hopefully.
