The End, Or the Beginning?
Chapter: 9: School's back in!
Disclaimer: Ok if u haven't got the picture by now you never will so I'll put you out of your misery. (Bucky enters Unit-01 entry plug, activates) HAHAHAHAHA I'll kill u all HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..UH OH…..NO bad Unit-01……AHHH stop choking me!!!! (This Disclaimer was dedicated to the Seldon Planner, thanks for ya review^_^)
Once again in that deep dark office two lonely figures sit on either side of the black desk which was lit only by the glowing inscriptions on the ceiling. Gendo moved his hands up to his chin to form the well know Gendo Position™. He smirked slightly to his opponent, "I believe that you are in check once again."
Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki looked over the board and sighed, he had been moving his king back and forth for almost ten minutes. "So the residential areas are nearly completely restored?" he asked trying to distract his CO from seeing his moves.
"Yes the city is being quickly repaired," Gendo smiled once again, it was not a happy smile but a scary one, one that only Gendo Ikari could pull off. "Good move."
Fuyutsuki groaned audibly at the mistake he had made causing him to loose his white bishop. "And the Sixth child has moved out of the Katsuragi residence?" he pushed his queen up a few squares to block an attack from Gendos' queen.
"Yes the Sixth is now living in apartment block C, alone" Gendo thought quickly and made a decisive move taking yet another piece off of his former Sensei. But he lost one of his in the process, "Your move."
"Hmmmm…." The Sub-Commander of NERV thought longer and harder then his old friend Gendo. He reluctantly picked up his rook and moved it halfway across the board bringing Gendo into check. "How is your son? He is currently involved with the Second is he not?"
As Gendo opened his mouth to respond the door to the office opened and a young man rushed in, "sorry for the intrusion sirs." The soldier stood at attention and saluted with a shaky hand, he didn't want to be there of course. Unfortunately he had lost a game of paper scissors rock to one blue haired Major Katsuragi. He handed Fuyutsuki a piece of paper, "Urgent message sir."
"Dismissed!" the old man said sternly, the young soldier all too gladly turned around and exited the room, relieved to have his head still. Fuyutsuki read the document and gasped audibly which brought Gendos attention to the message. "SEELE…have been…Assassinated."
"Hmmmm…" Gendo resumed his Gendo position™, "we will have to accelerate our plans. Commence retrieval of the Lance."
Fuyutsuki gasped again, "Ikari, that project will cost billions and take months. We can't retrieve the Lance in time."
"We shall see…" Gendo stood up and walked to the door of his office, "begin the project." With his orders given he left without another word followed by two section2 goons.
Fuyutsuki looked once more at the paper in his hand then to the chess board. His pieces were manoeuvred into his corner of the board, "if you back him into the corner Ikari, he will have no choice but to go through you." He pushed his queen into position and smiled to himself, "checkmate."
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Once again Asuka Langley Soryu pilot to Evangelion Unit-02, found herself in that dark void. She looked around and as many times before only saw an endless darkness, "not here again." She sighed loudly then started to float in a direction, any direction it all looked the same. She stopped at an image that appeared before her, it was the young Asuka, clutching her bear tightly.
"You again" Asuka groaned
"Yes I have returned"
"But why…I'm happy I don't need to see you anymore"
"Yes that is why I am here"
"WHY?"
"Someone wishes to speak with you, and this is the only place possible"
"Well who is it?"
An image of an older woman appeared, her image was hazy but Asuka could still figure out who it was. "Mamma!" Asuka ran forward but found herself bumping into an invisible wall. "Mamma what's going on?"
"I am here to visit your dreams for the last time," Kyoko smiled her image flickered for a second before turning solid once again. "I do not have long, so listen well" Asuka nodded, "I am proud of you, you are a strong young girl. I have seen you grow from a child into a young woman and a fine one at that. I am glad you have finally found happiness and I beg you do not let him go, for true love only come once around."
"Mamma! T-thank you, please don't leave" Asuka pleaded her eyes filling once again with tears. "Please Mamma come and visit me again."
"I will remain with you always my child, not just when you pilot but always." Kyokos' image disappeared and her words lingered in the air. Leaving the redheaded German alone with her past self.
Asuka opened her eyes and was greeted by a familiar sight, the sleeping face of Shinji Ikari. The room was still dark as the morning had not come yet. She smiled thinking of the past few weeks; it had been a somewhat hard month following that fateful night in the kitchen. Only hard in the way that Misato had tried to keep the two teens apart for 'Safety' reasons.
It had taken them just up till yesterday to get Misato to allow them to share a room, it was a tough battle. 'As usual I conquered all' she thought idly back to her most triumphant victory. The look on Misatos' face when she caught them sleeping in the same bed for the first time flashed in Asukas' memory.
It was just after she had gotten back from the NERV brig; after Shinji had tried to go to bed in his own she dragged him down to hers. When they had entered the room he had been reluctant at first to get in but after a few soft kisses she soon coaxed him in. It was nice having someone sleep next to her, the warm feel of their skin against her when she woke. The tickling sensation of another person's breath on her face.
She smiled when she thought of the best part of being together when they woke, the long silent stares. Asuka let out a contempt sigh and then she pulled her companion in closer to her, feeling him stir a little before resuming his peaceful sleep. "You are mine, Shinji Ikari. I'll never be far away from you, as long as I live." She closed her eyes and fell victim to the soft rhythmic sound of Shinjis beating heart.
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The streets of the newly rebuilt Residential area of Tokyo-3 were beginning to feel like home for its residents. Hikari Haroki walked calmly down the sidewalk daydreaming of her first day back at school. She smiled at the thought of seeing Toji Suzuhara up and walking again since his prosthetic limbs were attached. NERV had been very forthcoming with the medical bills for the Fourth Child, considering they were the reason for his condition.
Hikari was brought out of her quiet musings as the silence was broken by two old friends of hers. "Hurry up Shinji, we'll be late!" the voice she recognised straight away. Her friend Asuka was kind of hard to mistake especially when she spent most of her day yelling at everyone, Hikari was glad she was never on the receiving end of Asukas torments.
The next person she recognised was Shinji Ikari, Tojis' best friend. The boy was being dragged by the redheaded German down the road. They were steadily catching up to Hikari when Asuka spotted her, "HEY Hikari!" Asuka ran up to her friend and pulled her into a tight one armed hug, Hikari noted the other hand still gripping Shinjis wrist.
"Hey Asuka, how are you?" Hikari returned the hug gratefully happy to see her friends, "hi Shinji."
Shinji just nodded to Hikari then when Asuka released her they all began walking to school together. "So how are you Asuka?" Hikari broke the long steady silence.
Asuka smiled from ear to ear, her hand slipped down to Shinjis fingers and once again entangled with them. "Never been better" she said happily Shinji just smiled at her and kept walking.
Hikari smiled too happy to see Asuka so happy for once, her eyes slowly drifted down her friends arm. She was shocked to see that Asuka was no longer pulling on Shinjis wrist but they were holding hands. "A-Asuka…S-Shinji?" she stammered her mind was swirling at the thought, she always knew that Shinji had a thing for Asuka.
Shinji looked at Hikari a little worried "Ahhh…are you ok Hikari?" he soon found the stammering girls hand pointing to where his and Asukas intersected. "Oh Ahhh…that's…um" Shinji flushed pulling his hand away from the redheads.
Asuka didn't like his defensiveness one bit she aggressively grabbed his hand and forced him to hold hers. "It doesn't matter Shinji" she said glaring at him, she then turned to her friend "Shinji…and…Shinji and I are dating."
"You WHAT???" two simultaneous cries echoed through the streets as two figures approached from behind. Shinji, Asuka and Hikari all turned around to see two panting teenage males, "you…betrayed us…with…HER!"
"Toji…it's not what you think" Shinji started.
"Oh yes it is!" Asuka yelled at all three males, "don't you dare get spineless now Baka." She gave Shinji a playful hit over the back of the head, "you were quite alright about it when we woke up this morning."
"WHAT?" all three of their friends yelled at the same time, Shinji and Asuka blushed furiously. "It's…It's not what you think" Shinji stammered as Asuka realised the major scale of her slip up.
Toji and Kensuke both smiled devilishly, "good work man" they yelled and slapped Shinji on the back. The brown haired pilot was now being hero worshiped by his friends. Once Toji stopped mucking around he whispered "great work bud, but you could have done much better then the demon. OUUUCHHH"
Toji felt a lager amount of pain well up in his face as he was knocked to the pavement. Everyone stared in absolute shock, Toji just smiled "guess we're even now." Shinji retracted his fist and nodded shyly, Toji of course was referring to the day that the jock punched him twice.
"Shinji you stupid Baka," Asuka yelled angrily, Shinji turned to face her and he started to cringe. Asukas face softened and she grabbed him by the collar and pulled him into a long kiss. Toji and Kensuke gagged and made sounds as if they were trying to keep their breakfasts down. Hikari on the other hand smiled and turned away to give her friend some privacy, also to hide her blush as she was thinking of doing that with Toji.
After finally emerging Shinji gasped for air and Asuka just smiled at him again "I wanted to kick him in the groin" she finished her statement from before. "Oh well next time, now we are all late for school" she grabbed Shinjis hand and ran ahead leaving their friends trying to catch up.
And so school started with a new class, a new teacher and a new couple.
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The afternoon sun was beating down on the earth below the streets of the newly built Tokyo-3 were deserted. In the park an old man sat his beared was grey like his hair and he was dressed in a suit. He was sitting in the park watching the world go by, but that's not all he saw.
In the distance a faint glint of light reflected off of a metal surface, it was big and approaching fast. The old man sighed knowing that he would soon have to seek shelter. Mans next challenge was on its' way and it would wait for no one.
A moment later the sirens rang along with three cellular phones it was coming and there was only one chance to stop it, Evangelion…
To be continued…..
A/N: I know, I know shorter than most of my chapters but hey it's late and I wanted to get this out before I went to bed. I also wanted to end it somewhere that would keep you guessing. Ok a bit of plot, a bit of dream sequence, a bit of WAFF, bit of Romance and next time a lot of KILLING ^_^
HAHAHAHAHA DEATH TO YOU ALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH damn where did I put the keys to Unit-01, doh! I locked them inside the entry-plug AHHHHHH!
Hehehehe I'm just crazy again ^_^ oh well lets see, will Gendo do something to hurt Asuka and Shinji? Will Rei ever be seen in this fic again? What is the shiny light thingy? BLAH BLAH BLAH!
Seya on da other side………..