Disclaimer: It is forever in chapter one…-_-'
Shinji woke in the middle of the night to find himself alone in the bed, it was odd that Mana, had the same scar Misato did and in the exact same place, now that he thought about it, she drunk the same kind of beer too.
'No, I'm just jumping to conclusions.'
Shinji got out of the bed and put on his school shirt and pants and walked into the kitchen.
'It's a candle here, so she must have need something, I might as well get a snack or something.'
Shinji looked in the box Mana always put supplies in only to find it empty, and then all of a sudden his hunger faded.
"I guess I wasn't as hungry as I thought I was. I'm already up so should find something to do."
Shinji for the first time walked around the house, looking at stuff he never seen before and opening doors he never opened, he found some interesting stuff, he also found Mana's diary, but out of respect left it where it was, he found pictures of Mana, but everyone else in the pictures must have been to tall, because their necks were cut off. He looked in box after box only to find Mana, yes it was others in the pictures but something was always over their faces or something. Shinji gave up and continued his journey. After awhile he found nothing exciting, only a few old books and a locked basement door, on his way back to the bedroom he spotted a yearbook and added to his small but growing collection of books.
He sat the candle he got from the kitchen on the floor, and pull the yearbook out of the stack of books, after flipping a few pages he seen not one picture nor any names, just blank spaces.
'She must have used white out on them or something."
He kept flipping the pages till he found one picture; he held the candle to the book so he could read the name.
"Ikari Shinji."
Above the writing was his picture staring back at him, the brown haired, blue-eyed pilot of Unit 01.
He flipped more pages and after a while found only one name and a picture to go with it. He held the candle closer to the book once more, to read the name.
"Mana."
No last name, no middle name, just Mana, he looked above the writing and the familiar face of Mana looked back at him. Just then something came to mind.
'Didn't Mana, have brown hair in school, ahhh'
Shinji almost dropped the candle, it felt like his head was about to explode, he fell on his back and blacked out.
~*~*~*~*~
"Shinji, are you okay?"
He shot up, looking around to see where he was. Mana was in front of him and he was still in the bedroom, but the stack of books and yearbook was gone.
"Yea, I'm fine", said the dazed Shinji as he started to look around for the books.
"What are you looking for."
"I left some books on the floor, and I can't find them." Shinji responded while looking under the bed.
"….It wasn't any books in here when I got back, Shinji you should get some rest."
"Forget it, ill look for them later, Mana do you remember where you sat in the classroom?"
"I sat on the left right beside you."
"Mana, that was Asuka seat…"
Shinji fell to his knees holding his head, as the pain came back, Mana appeared behind him whispering in his ear.
"Don't try to remember, stay here with me."
Shinji fell face first, and passed out.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Shinji sat up in the bed, and it was night again.
'She is hiding something…'
He threw the covers to the floor and walked to the room that Mana kept her diary, Shinji broke the lock, and started flipping pages just like he did with the yearbook. Each page was pink with black lines, that had nothing wrote on them. Shinji ran back to the bedroom, and started opening draws, most of them were empty, he walked to the night table and pulled out all three of the draws, the pain started to come back but he tried his best to ignore it until he got his answer.
In the first draw, were Misato's jacket folded up, and her necklace on top of it, the second had nothing but a yellow sundress and some white socks, and in the third and final draw was a nothing but the female uniform, for his school and some black socks.
Shinji slowly backed up, to say he was scared was a damn lie, to say he was terrified was more like it, he bumped into something and lost his balance causing him to fall hard on the dusty wooden floor.
"Shinji what are you doing…?"
The pain was causing dark spots in his vision; he had to use all his strength to keep from passing out.
Shinji slowly raised his arm to point at the night table, when he turned back to Mana she had a smirk on her face that could rival Asuka's, Mana kicked Shinji in the side causing his ribs to re-break.
"W..What the hell!?!", spat out a gasping Shinji, he used the bed post for support and pulled himself up.
"Shinji, don't think about them. Just stay here with me, ill take care of you, it will be just the two of us!!"
Shinji coughed up blood and fell on the bed, he tried to push himself back up but passed out and rolled on the floor.
"Just the two of us…"
Somebody said something about it better be a good reason for Mana surviving and believe me, it's a damn good reason, you'll see.
I used Mana because some people are familiar with her, its better than making up some girl, which would have created many a problem among readers. A bootleg SI can make the best story go to hell.
