Before I begin this chapter I want to give thanks to all the people who support my ideas and aren't too critical on the little errors I make in character description or story time line. It helps to see good reviews, it made me want to start the new chapter as soon as I read them. To Ice Trax oh my God, if that wasn't a professional sounding review, you must have error checked it like a thousand times. Like I told a friend of mine a while back "Im the writer, no ones gonna tell me what I can and can't write about, if I want a giant meteor made of cotton candy and peanuts to land in the crack of Shinji's ass, that's what's gonna happen. If I want Asuka to get beat up, run over, and thrown out of a plane, that's what's gonna happen." end quote. With that I start the new chapter.





Chapter 6. Get the Girl



When Shinji entered Rei's room, what he saw hurt him deeply. She was sitting very close to the

door as if she couldn't make it any further before she broke down and began to cry. She was

kneeling on the ground with her face in her hands sobbing quietly. Shinji opening the door

startled her because she shrieked and stared up at him with her adorable face and gorgeous

crimson eyes that had sparkling tears in them. Her face was growing red and her cheeks had

little streams of tears running down them. When Rei saw Shinji she tried to regain her

emotionless face and monotone voice, but with little success. "Ikari, please leave." she managed

between sobs. This was an extremely large blow to his courage. However, he decided he wasn't

going to leave her apartment until she knew exactly how he felt.



Seeing that the young man wasn't leaving she lost her composer and began to sob loudly. Shinji

couldn't stand this. He ran to the young girl and tried to console her. He tried putting his arms

around her but she wouldn't let him, she weakly pushed him away. Shinji grabbed her by the

shoulders and made him face her. When she looked away her gently pushed her chin so she now

faced him. Rei was extremely close to his face, he almost couldn't resist the urge to kiss her, he

also feared her reaction if the kiss wasn't welcome. He wrapped his arms around her tightly,

again she tried pushing him away but he held on this time. Shinji could see that it took a lot of

courage on Rei's part to even ask him a question like that, he could also see she was deeply hurt

by the way he answered her. He tried soothing her by rocking with her back and forth but it

didn't seem to work. "Rei, I'm sorry for the way I acted back there, I really am." Shinji gently

said. He then took his index finger and wiped the streams of tears off her shining face. "Rei,

with all my heart, I love you. You are the one person I could always trust, the one person who

always understood me, the only person that could see the real me."



What Shinji said stopped Rei's sobbing a great deal. She then looked up at him and gave him

one of those once in two lifetime smiles that only Rei could give. She then began to weep again.

Shinji, thinking he had done something horribly wrong begged Rei "What's wrong? What did I

do? Why are you still sad?" "I...I do not know why I cry" Rei managed. "I do know that I am no

longer unhappy." "You mean you're crying because you're happy?" Shinji offered. Rei, eyes

sparkling smiled at Shinji and said "I believe so." She then put her arms around him and

embraced him. This was the moment they had both waited so long for, they had gone through so

much pain, but now, nothing could go wrong, they were both in a perfect world. Shinji then did

something Rei would never forget, he pulled her close to him so that their faces were only

inches apart, Rei, sensing what was about to happen immediately began blushing, he then kissed

her. Rei felt a rush of heat go through her chest, at that moment one thought entered her mind *I

wish to be one with Ikari*. She then placed her arms around his neck and put all her weight on

him. Shinji was kneeling beside Rei in an unbalanced position so when Rei put her weight on

him it toppled him over. He landed on his back and Rei gently laid herself on top of him. She

laid her head on his chest and they both just laid there for the longest time just happy to be in

each other's arms.



Shinji remembering what happened between him and Asuka earlier that day said "I think I better

be heading home now." He desperately wanted to stay, but he felt the longer he stayed the more

trouble he'd be in when he got home. Rei didn't want Shinji to leave her either, she lovingly

pulled him closer so he couldn't get up. This made him smile, he gently moved Rei from on top

of him. He then got up and walked slowly toward the door. He turned around and Rei was still

sitting in the floor with her head down. There was nothing wrong with her, she was just trying to

get Shinji to stay longer by playing sad. At first he thought something was wrong, but he say the

little smile on Rei face. "Rei, I really think I should be leaving now." Shinji unhappily said. She

got up off the ground and walked slowly over to him and put her arms around his waist. She

then kissed him one last time. With that Shinji began to walk out of her room, he was almost

out the door when he turned around and looked around her dreary and what he considered

lonely room. "Rei, I really don't like you staying her all alone." Shinji thoughtfully said. "I will

be fine." Rei happily said with a small smile on her face. "Yeah, but still, I don't like you being

alone so much." Shinji said. Rei just smiled as Shinji turned around and walked down the steps.



That's how it began, with a simple kiss, two lives are forever changed.





Chapter 7. Dating Ayanami



Rei had never been anyone's girlfriend before and she was a little unsure of how she should act

around Ikari now that he was her boyfriend. *What should I do differently now?* *Will Ikari act

differently around me?* Rei happily thought as she was getting dressed for school. She couldn't

wait to get to school and experience this new state of being with Shinji. When Rei opened the

door to head to school she was a little startled to see someone waiting for her. She then smiled

when she saw who it was.

Shinji was standing in front of Rei's door with a goofy expression on his face holding a fairly

large bouquet of flowers. "What are these?" Rei curiously asked. "They're flowers." Shinji

happily said with a large smile on his face. "Yes, I can see that, but why are they here?" Rei

innocently said, who honestly didn't understand why Shinji had brought these to her. Shinji,

who was still half asleep from waking up two hours early to catch Rei before she went to school

said "Rei, these flowers are for you, just consider them a gift okay?" Rei smiled happily as she

began to understand what the flowers meant. "Put them in some water, okay?" Rei then nodded

and turned around and headed into her apartment to look for something to put the gift in. Shinji

thought it was kind of humorous to see Rei rummaging through her cupboards. She pulled out

ten blue plastic cups, three plates, and five coffee mugs all with the Nerv insignia on them. She

then found a large jug, filled it with water and placed the flowers in it. She then walked to

Shinji who was standing in the doorway and said with a small smile "Thank you Shinji. Are you

ready to go to school now?" "Aren't you going to put all things back?" Shinji exclaimed. Rei

glanced at her watch and said "Shinji, I do not wish to arrive late at school." He sighed and

walked into her apartment and started to put all the cups away. Rei stood in the doorway

watching him. "Shinji, we need to be leaving soon." Shinji, who knew they had at least an hour

before they were due at school just smiled and shook his head.



As they were walking to school Shinji told Rei about how his parents weren't as angry as he

thought they would be. However they did ground him from going anywhere for a while. "That's

why I had to sneak out this morning." Shinji explained. Rei frowned and said "I am sorry you

had to get in trouble because of me." He laughed and happily said "It was defiantly worth it."

Rei smiled. Shinji said "I do hate that I'm banned from school for two days though."



He waited with her at school until everyone started to show up, he then gave her a hug and

started walking home. The two days Shinji had to spend at home went bye rather quickly. Every

morning he would sneak out of the house and walk Rei to school and every afternoon he would

make up an excuse to leave to meet Rei at school and walk her home.



Shinji's parent's knew exactly what was going on, however they didn't say a word. They were

secretly proud that Shinji stood up to Asuka and protected Rei. They still felt they needed to let

him know it wasn't right to push Asuka down, so they had to at least make him feel like he was

being punished.



Everyone at school was floored to see Rei walking into school holding someone's hand, and

even more surprised to see that she was holding Shinji's hand. No one, except those that

witnessed what happened a few days ago knew Shinji had it in him to ask a girl out. Rei blushed

as everyone watched them enter their home room. Shinji sat a few seats behind Rei and opened

up his books to get ready for class.



They were the first ones in class but many soon entered, a Toji and Kensuke who were wide

eyed with amazement promptly went over to Shinji's desk and asked her how she was in bed.

"We're not like that yet!" Shinji exclaimed. "Sure, I bet yah's been bangin fer weeks!" Even a

few courageous souls went over to Rei's desk to see what was up with her and Shinji. The class

rep, Hikari bashfully asked Rei "So, Ayanami, a..are you and Shinji g..going out?" It's not hard

to imagine why the class rep was so nervous, Rei didn't even look at her while she was asked the

question. Rei then turned her head and said, "Going out?" Rei was very unfamiliar with all the

terms teens have for being boyfriend and girlfriend. "You know, a couple, boyfriend and

girlfriend." Hikari explained. "Yes" Rei dully said.



"Wow, well you say it with such enthusiasm, he must be great in bed." A tall red remarked. Rei

looked behind her and saw Asuka standing right behind her desk. Rei didn't like the remark at

all she thought about what Shinji had said *You shouldn't let Asuka pick on you.*. Rei was

about to say something back to Asuka but just then Shinji walked up and happily asked with a

smile on his face "Everything okay Rei?" Rei smiled and said "Everything's fine Shinji. All the

people who were watching jumped back a foot when they saw the most sullen girl in all of

Tokyo 3 smile at Shinji. "Great" Shinji happily said, he then turned his head to face Asuka, his

smile quickly changed into a scowl. Asuka gave him the finger and walked away. The teacher

then entered the classroom and began a long boring lecture on the publicized version of the

Second Impact.



When the lunch bell rang everyone breathed a sigh of relief except the old teacher who thought it

was a fire drill. After explaining to the aging teacher that it was the lunch bell the class left the

room and headed for the cafeteria. Rei and Shinji walked out and got their food they then went

outside to sit under the tree Rei always sat under. She enjoyed having someone to sit next to her

at lunch. She would get more than she bargained for though, as Kensuke and Toji walked up

and sat beside Shinji. Hikari soon followed and even Asuka, seeing the small group formed

around the couple came over and sat beside Hikari. Rei wasn't used to this at all but Shinji was

having a good time. Shinji whispered to Rei "You should really try and not look so serious all

the time, you have a really nice smile, you should try showing it to more people than just me.

Rei smiled at Shinji and started to blush. Asuka, seeing Shinji and Rei whispering to each other

decided to butt in "So, Rei how's it hanging?" Shinji turned his attention away from Rei and

glared at Asuka. Seeing that Shinji was about to get upset she put her arm around him and

smiled. He stopped glaring and started talking to Rei again. Asuka saw that Rei's lightest touch

made all of Shinji's angry feelings wash right away. "Hmph, Rei's got her own personal guard

dog. The only time Ikari gets a backbone is when someone's picking on poor little Rei" Asuka

said under her breath. She couldn't help but get a little jealous thought. *I wish someone would

do that for me.* she thought.



I hope you liked this chapter, the one regret I have about the entire story is maybe I made Rei and Shinji getting together a little too easy. I am running out of ideas to continue this story with. I might start on a new Rei/Shinji fic. But if you have any ideas to continue this story, let me know.