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A Neon genesis Evangelion fanfiction
By Patricio Quinteros
-A ray of hope-
Chapter two
-The mask of a shadow -
The schools bell rang liberating the pupils from further classes for the day; the children
gathered their belongings and went out scattering everywhere but there. Rei met with Keiko at
the schools gate.
-"Oh there you are Rei, I was just wondering where you went to? Well anyhow are you ready
to learn about Valentines Day?"
-"Oh! Hello Keiko, well you see I had some things to finish up at the classroom"
-"Yeah having 'cleaning-duty' really sucks! Now are you ready to go?"
-"Sure, but where are we going?"
-"I thought that we should head to your place and talk, is it ok with you?"
-"I can not see why not"
As the girls' leaves, another group is meeting at the gates. Hikari waves at her friend while
approaching.
-"Here you are Asuka!"
-"Well, where else do you think I´ll be right now?"
-"Well, Who knows?"
-"Come on let's go shopping!"
-"So where did you go off to during lunch? I didn't see you anywhere"
-"I went and had a little chat with wondergirl, if you now must know"
-"Did you talk about Shinji?"
-"Well, Kind of..."
-"Want to talk about it?"
-"Not right now, but maybe another time, now let us buy some new things to wear, my
NERV-creditcard haven't seen daylight for quite some time you know!"
-"Cool! But I want you to talk to me later on, ok?"
-"Alright, now your main problem is: What are you going to buy for new underwear to
impress Touji with?"
-"ASUKA!?"
-" Well I assumed that you wanted to buy something, being Valentines Day and all"
-"Well now, what is wrong with some old-fashioned chocolate to impress the man you love?"
-"After all this time and I still don't get what you see in that moronic boy, but I guess that
there is got to be something. At least he has good taste in women, I'll give him that, but he is
still a pervert, all boys are perverts"
-"Well to your information Touji-Kun happens to be a perfect gentleman that cares for me as I
care for him, and besides he is such a sweetie when he is with his little sister" Hikari giggled
emphasising her meaning.
-"Yeaaaarggghhh! I think I am going to throw up!"
-"Come on! At least I have someone!!!"
-"Oh my god! You are a pervert as well"
-"I am most certainly NOT!!"
-"Well it is true isn't that right, I bet that he is your sex-slave as well!"
-"Asuka Langley Soryu. PREPARE TO DIE!!! Here comes the tickle of your lifetime"
-"Hey! That is just not fair, wait! Hahahaha!.Stop! HeeHAHa!!!"
-"Now Missy, who is the master with most power here?"
-"Hehehe! Hahahahaha! Please Hihihi...! stop..HAHAHA!!!"
-"Not until you surrender I won't!"
-"I will never... Hahahah!... Jield..WahahahA!!"
-"Judges?! EERRGGHHHNN!! Wrong answer!!"
-"Haha! Come on! Haha...Ok you win!"
-"But of course that I win! After all I am the mighty Hikari Horaki, I am bound to win every
battle!" She takes a heroic pose as saying that.
-"Hehe... Whatever, by the way here we are!"
-"Yeah so we are, let's start getting down to business!"
And the duo entered the Tokyo-3 mall and blended in with the hordes of people that were out
shopping as well.
A couple of hours later the two girls where standing outside of Asuka's apartment carrying
their impressive amount of shopping-bags, Hikari gives her friend a worried look and decided
to talk.
-"Asuka, are you really sure that it is ok for us to shop so much and then charge it on NERV:
s credit account?"
Asuka gave her friend a bemused and little mean look before answering her friend's question.
-"Yeah they will probably have a fit when the bill gets to them, but hey! I am a pilot of an
Evangelion, it's not like they are going to fire me or anything after this, after all they need me
since I am the only one that can get synched Unit-02, so I say that they have to spoil me a
little, don't you agree?"
Asuka makes a triumphant spin to empathise her meaning, and started to search for her key-
card to the apartment.
-"Verdamnt!! Where is that stupid card? Oh here it is!"
Asuka picks up the card from one of her pockets and slid it through the ' Key-hole' Hikari
was the first of the duo that entered the apartment, and as soon as she let her bags down she
was shocked by the sight that she was now looking at.
The apartment was in such a condition that calling it a mess would be an understatement, it
looked more like two tornadoes decided to have a wrestling match in the living room and then
hell broke loose and the fight spread to the rest of the apartment. A giant sweat-drop formed
on the top of Hikari's head while slowly turning towards the door where Asuka was just
entering the apartment. She started to say something but couldn't quite find the words, Asuka
on the other hand looked at her with an innocent look. Then Hikari was able to find the proper
words to her friend, she took a deep breath and started to talk:
-"Say Asuka? But was it not like two days ago I helped you cleaning this place?
Asuka had the good grace to look somewhat embarrassed by it all, and tried to find a fitting
answer:
-"Eeeerrrghh, I guess so, but so much happened since then and well..."
-"Asuka! It was only two days ago! How in heavens name did you manage to make such a
mess?
-"Well Hikari. It was like... Well I really had to find something very important, and well one
thing led to the other..."
Hikari shook her head slowly while looking at her friend.
-"Asuka, you sure are one in a kind!"
-"Yeah! Love you too Hikari!"
The girls deposited the merchandise in the kitchen and Hikari instantly started to look in the
shelves for the cooking-gear. Asuka started to help her, but Hikari expulsed her from the
kitchen.
-"Hikari why do you kick me out of my own kitchen?"
Hikari turned to her friend and waved to her while having a cute little smile on her lips.
-"Well silly, now you go and clean that mess while I cook dinner!"
-"What are you going to cook Hikari?"
The pig-tailed girl looked at Asuka with a mysterious smile while responding:
-"That my dear friend is a surprise, a surprise that would be yours to discover when the
dinner is served. Now go and clean"
-"Yes mother! Tyrant"
-"I HEARD THAT!!"
Asuka looked a little annoyed, after all she didn't like to being kept out from things, but since
this was her best friend she would not argue but started to do as she was told, muttering all the
way to the living-room there she started to pick up things.
Hikari giggled at the sight of her friend cleaning. Unfortunately it did bring her back some
memories of Shinji, she remembered those times that he had to stay after class and clean,
when he had come and during the times of the Angel war he looked so absent while doing it.
Like he had the world weighing him down, she took pity on him then and always wondered
about why he was the way he was. He didn't really talked about it; he kept changing the
subject every time someone asked him about it.
But after the last Angel something did happen with Shinji he started to open up and became
more talkative, he often volunteered on doing things, like cleaning and other chores. But the
thing that shocked the most was the day that he joined the schools sports-club. Shinji not
being the strongest, and with a self-esteem that was to say the least low, Hikari had to admit
that he was happy and proud of Shinji; he was behaving like a normal teen-aged boy. Then it
happened that dreadful accident he had when he was testing his EVA no one wanted to tell
her what had happened, well hopefully he would be back soon. Now she had a dinner to think
about.
Asuka while cleaning started to think about the way Shinji always ended up doing all the
houses chores like washing, cleaning and cooking, and they way she actually grew
accustomed to it. She used to sneak up to see him cleaning, he looked very mechanic like a
robot when doing it, but there where times when she would find that he had a contempt smile,
those were rare but she did saw them, it was almost like he liked doing it. Asuka stopped
cleaning for a moment to wipe away a small tear *Verdamnt! I don't need these memories
now! I can't be weak in front of Hikari, I have to be strong I have only myself; I don't need
their pity! *
An hour later the apartment looked better than it originality did, the redhead sat on the floor to
the living-room gathering together a bunch of magazines when she heard the voice of Hikari
from the kitchen.
-"Dinner is ready!!"
Asukas stomach loudly suggested that eating now was a terrific idea, the girl finished what
she was doing and headed to the kitchen there Hikari waited with dinner.
-"It smells wonderful! What is it?"
-"Beef-curry!"
Asuka froze at an instant upon hearing the name of the dish that lay before her; she started to
look angry and sad while she whispered to herself:
-"Shinji's favourite..."
Hikari noted her friend's reaction, but said nothing as she passed Asuka a plate of the dish.
Asuka and Hikari continued to eat in silence. After the meal was done and the dishes done
Asuka started to act like herself again, bragging on everything about her and being generally
on top of the world, Hikari just pretended listening to her.
The both sat down in the now cleaned living room and watched TV, after a while doing that
Hikari drew strength and started nonchalantly talk to Asuka eyes still fixed on the TV in front
of them.
-"You miss him don't you?"
-"Who do I miss?"
-"Don't play dumb with me! Shinji of course"
-"WHAT!?"
-"Please Asuka don't go and try to deny that"
-"Are you saying that I would have been missing that stupid idiot?"
-"Yeah that's right! Look how come that every time someone even says something about
Shinji you beat the living crap out of them?"
-"You know that it is bad behaviour back-biting someone when they are not around to defend
themselves"
-"Well I see you doing that all the time!"
Asuka started to get angrier by the minute, she was not comfortable with the direction that this
conversation was taking, but she continued to answer Hikari's question.
-"It is different with me, it is more like a privilege I have!"
-"Then how come that you are all depressed about it all?"
-"Look here after that baka left it meant that I am once more the number one EVA-pilot, and
you have the guts to say that I am depressed?"
-"I believe in that as much as you do Asuka"
-"Oh Puuuulleeezzz!!!"
-"But then how come that you every single morning you look that you will drop on your
knees crying when you pass Shinjis empty desk and give it a quick look while going for your
own seat!?"
That was like a cold shower for Asuka, all this time she was thought that no one noticed that,
tying so hard to hide that thing she did every morning she was so sure that no one knew, but
now Hikari proved her wrong. With a scared look she asked her friend:
-"You saw that? Does anyone else know?"
-"Yes I did, in a matter of fact I have for quite some time now but never had the courage to
tell you, But I don't really think that there is someone else that know, except for maybe Rei.
At first I wasn't sure about this, but the dinner proved my theory"
-"You mean the curry?"
-"Yes, I remembered the way you smiled when you opened up your bento-box at lunch and
found that Shinji had made Curry, so one day sometime before the accident I asked him about
the recipe with the intent on trying that on Touji. He asked about how you liked it, you see he
said to me that he enjoyed making you lunch, but he never knew how you liked them since
you never told him and I said that you were always happy when you opened that lunch-box.
When he heard that he literally lighted up, that was the first time that I have really seen him so
happy and contempt he looked that he was going to start singing on that very spot. He told me
to keep that little secret because he was afraid about what you might do to him, he is very
fond of you Asuka"
-"He really did all of that?"
Asuka started to think about what her friend had just said, she thought about the times that she
would sneak up to him and just watched him when he cooked, he was so sweet that way. But
it had never really sunk in to her that he would actually like her, after all the abuse he had
going through because of her. Asuka started to look very depressed now, and Hikari felt
almost guilty for doing this to her friend, but she knew at the same time that this has to be
done otherwise Asuka will be soon become beyond help.
-"Yes Asuka he did, look you weren't the only one that was torn apart when the accident
happen we were all worried and sad."
-"NO HIKARI! You weren't there when it all happened"
-"I saw some footage when his EVA went berserk that Kenzuke found "
-"No Hikari you don't know a thing! You weren't there seeing how his body broke, you
didn't had to listen to his screams of pain, and pleading for help he knew wouldn't get
because the bastard to commander wouldn't let me take out my EVA trying to stop it. He said
that my EVA and me would only get damaged! No one deserves such an animal for a father
he didn't even cared that it was his own son inside of that beast. My god Hikari I had to watch
Shinji getting almost killed inside of his plug and I couldn't do shit to help him, you know
how that feels?"
The unshed tears were now freely flowing down from her eyes and her hands and body shook
almost uncontrollably due to her pain and anger.
Hikari looked at the frail-looking Asuka and was now afraid, she had never seen her like this
and now she wasn't so sure about what to say anymore, but closed to her friend and putted a
hand on her shoulder.
-"I don't know what to say Asuka, I am really sorry"
Asuka was still crying and looking to the ground, almost choking while grasping for air to
speak.
-"And then... When I went to visit him in the hospital he... he was..."
-"He was what Asuka?"
Asuka struggled hard to get out the words, but started to talk anyway.
-"When... when I entered his room that morning, I found him... He was hanging from the
ceiling, he was just hanging there."
-"My god Asuka! Do you mean that he was trying to kill himself?"
Asuka was now unable to answer; she just nodded as she broke down crying her heart out.
Hikari still in shock from the revelations about Shinjis tragedies, she felt her own ayes
watering and didn't know what to do next, when suddenly Asuka threw her self into Hikari's
arms and hugged her shedding her tears and searching from the warmth and security that
came from Hikari. Hikari herself couldn't stop her tears by this point she had never seen
Asuka in such a state, she was vulnerable, no she told herself she was exposed. With that last
thought Hikari couldn't bear it anymore and started crying on top of Asuka. The both girls sat
mauling each other there on the floor to Asukas apartment. What seemed to be an eternity
later, but only just a couple of minutes in reality, the both girls released the grip that they had
on each other even thought they didn't really got away from each other. Asuka was the first of
the girls to speak, still with her eyes watery she looked at Hikari.
-"Hikari?"
-"What is it Asuka?"
-"I would really appreciate it if you could keep this to yourself"
-"Asuka, you can be assured that I won't tell anyone about this. Asuka tomorrow we will all
go and visit Shinji at the hospital, what do you say?"
-"To tell you the truth, I am not sure if I am just yet ready for that"
-"Come on Asuka! Tomorrow it's Valentine's day for crying out loud!"
Asuka blushed fiercely at that last comment, but tried to keep the little composure she did
after all have.
-"Hikari, last time I visited him he was hanging from the ceiling, I know that I can't take it if
something similar happens again"
-"Asuka, look at me! We are all going to be there for you and Shinji, I won't let anything go
wrong, trust me it will all be alright"
-"But why Valentines Day, Hikari?"
-"I just thought that tomorrow is a good day for a visit that's all"
Asuka gave Hikari a suspicious look.
-"Yeah, sure you thought..."
-"But Hikari, I thought that you and 'moronic-boy' had plans for tomorrow?"
-"Well, me and Touji had planned to go and eat at that new French restaurant, but it is not
until the night, besides Touji is one of Shinji´s best friends and I am sure that he will follow
us."
-"I still don't know if I am up to it"
-"Come on! I tell Kensuke to come with us, that is if he doesn't hook up with a certain
someone that is..."
-"You are telling me that freak is going to date someone, I thought that hell would freeze
before that ever happened!"
-"Actually, he does have quite a following, I'll have you know!"
-"Come on you are pulling my leg!"
Asuka had a more amused feature on her face now; apparently this kind of conversation was
doing her some good. Hikari looked at her with a bemused expression before answering her
question.
-"I'll have you know that Kensuke, specially after he took off his glasses, has had quite a
following some of them are from our own class and some from other classes."
-"You are pulling my leg, you just have to be. Say to me who they are!"
-"Well there is this girl Akemi from the other senior class, she is always trying to get me to
fix a date between her and Kesuke, and of course there is this bunch of junior-students. And
the biggest surprise of them all... Hold on to your panties girl!"
-"Who is that poor lost soul?"
-"Well you ought to know that Asuka..."
-"Just tell me already, will you!!??"
-"Are you really sure that you are ready for this?"
-"YES! Tell me already!"
-"Well... It is... Rei!"
Asuka sits back up from her semi-sitting position, and suddenly hits the floor with a blank
expression, Hikari started to get a little worried, when suddenly Asuka burst out laughing like
a madman, her body started to convulse as her tears flowed down from her eyes. Hikari
followed suit, and the both girls laughed together, both with tears in their eyes, the laughter
lasted for some time before it faded out and Asuka brushed off the tears and looked at her
friend with a quizzical look.
-"Thanks Hikari, you don't have any idea of how much I needed that. I still can't believe it,
wonder girl and war-freak? I never dreamt of the day that I would actually see her fall in love
with somebody, but I thought all this time that she had this thing for baka-Shinji, I wonder
what happened?"
-"I thought that myself, I wonder what really happened, I really have to ask her about this
later."
-"I still can't believe it!"
-"Well you better do it girl, and by the way rumours says that we are going to receive a new
student transferred to our class"
-"Really and who might that be?"
-"I don't really know actually, I just heard it from Kensuke he said that he hacked into the
schools records and saw that there was going to be a transfer soon to our class"
-"Is that so? I still wonder who it might be?"
-"We ought to find out more about this soon enough, he said that the transfer was due
sometime during next week."
Asuka looked at her friend with a mystical look on her eyes, she was fascinated, no she was
confused by the fact that so many events passed her by unnoticed, she admitted to herself that
her schoolwork also had been affected in a more negative way, she looked down to the floor ,
but looked up to her friend with a bleak smile on her lips.
-"Could you call the others about tomorrow? I just can't"
-"Ok, I'll be right back!"
And at that Hikari got up and went to the phone, she dialled Toujis number, but after some
time, she realized that there is no one at his house so she decides to try and see if he was at
Kensuke's, if she was lucky she would be able to kill two flies in one hit.
Meanwhile at the Aida residence...
Inside of the apartment, two boys where sitting in front of the TV watching what seemed to be
an old movie about World War Two.
-"Kensuke could you please remind me why we are watching this old movie again?"
-"Come on Touji! This is a classic war-movie. This movie was significant to modern film-
making"
-"I still think that this is a stupid movie, why would they this group of perfectly good solider
out in a mission like this on, risking their lives just to find this one man?"
-"The sense-moral of this movie is, I think that during that awful war the only thing people
knew was the awful things that the say and did every day on the battlefield, going on a
mission like this meant for many of the soldiers in the group this was the only thing that they
could do that could be seen as a good deed. And the way the US went to get some good PR."
-"I still think that it is boring, there are no babes in this movie"
-"Aaaaaarrrggghhh! Lord take me now!"
Just then the telephone started ringing and Kensuke went up answering it.
-"Moshi moshi! Kesuke speaking! Oh it is you Hikari?...Visit Shinji tomorrow... Sure I'll
come I'll even bring my camera... Touji?... Yes he is here as well, wait and you can talk to him
directly"
Kesuke took the phone to Touji that still was sitting on the floor. Touji took the phone and
started to talk.
-"Touji here! ...Hi there sweet cake... Tomorrow? Yeah sure... Is there anything I need to
take with me?... No? Who are coming?... I see... Well, I'll make sure to meet you
tomorrow... Anyway hot stuff, you bought any hot stuff to wear?"
As soon as those last words escaped his lips, the room was filled with a loud shout coming
from the telephone, Touji had to hold the receiver at a safe distance, otherwise he would
attract some serious hearing damages.
-"TOUJI YOU PERVERT!"
-"That might be so, but this pervert is all yours baby!"
Touji then hung up and went back to the living room, there Kensuke was waiting. Kensuke
looked at his friend with a wondering look and Touji looked back at him, with a smirk on his
face. Kensuke just couldn't take it anymore.
-"What was all that about Touji?"
-"About what?"
-"That whole show with Hikari? I could hear her here!"
-"Nothing really, but there is something that you might like to know about tomorrow
though..."
-"And what might that be?"
-"There is a special someone that Hikari is going to ask to coming with us tomorrow..."
-"Oh yeah? And who is it?"
-"Well you might appreciate it, it is Rei."
At the very mention of Reis name Kesukes cheeks took another shade of red than it would
usually wear. Touji Looked at his friend with a bemused expression.
-"Come on Kensuke, spill it!"
-"Spill out what?"
-"Come on you ought to know, don't you go playing dumb with me now!"
-"Well then you might like to enlighten me Touji"
-"Well does Rei ring a bell?"
Kensuke blushed furiously now; he looked away from Touji trying to avoid his friends
piercing look. Touji in the other hand looked like the cat that ate the canary, and he continued
his ambush.
-"Haha, I knew it. In fact I knew it for a long time"
-"But why didn't you tell me before?"
-"But how did you know?"
-"Look here, it was pretty easy, every time that you see her or hear her name you kind of go
bananas, besides the whole class knows except for Asuka of course. I mean we all knew, but I
wanted you to come to me with it rather than shovel it down your throat, but since I see that it
is impossible, I decided to speed up things."
-"Is that so?"
-"Yeah pretty much, but how come that you fall for her of all the people?"
-"I don't know really, I think that it was her way of being mysterious at first, and that she was
a EVA-pilot. Then later her way of open up trying to savour all things around her, I admire
that, she is growing up now."
-"So basically you are trying to tell me to hook you up with her?"
-"What? NO!... Well you don't have to do that..."
-"Hey! What are friends for?"
-"Yeah, but you don't really have to do it you know"
-"Man! You are just like Shinji sometimes Kensuke!"
Kensuke chose not to re t urn that comment, he just nodded and started to look at the TV.
Meanwhile at the Katsugari residence two girls enters the tiny apartment, taking off their
shoes.
-"I am home!"
Said an enthusiastic Rei as she entered, the only response that she received was Pen^2 who
waggled to the entrance in acknowledgement to their presence in the apartment, Rei picked
him up and patted him on the head gently.
-"Pen Pen, is Misato home yet?"
The warm water-penguin jus shook his head and pointed to the kitchen, the group went inside
and well inside the kitchen, Rei and Keiko found a note on top of the kitchen table, Rei picked
it up and started to read it.
'Hi there Rei!
Sorry I couldn't be there right now, but duty calls I'll tell you all about it later. I left some instant food inside of the refrigerator.
Have fun!
XXX Misato ^_^
P.S If Aida-kun is with you, then remember that in the top drawer in the
bathroom-shelf you will find some 'Protection' I don't want any surprises later
on, ok? Take CARE!!'
A gigantic sweat drop formed on top of Reis head, together with a red face Keiko couldn't
dismiss.
-"What did that letter say Rei?"
-"Uhm, nothing important Keiko, nothing important at all"
-"Well then how come that you are all flushed Rei?"
-"..."
-"Ok, don't sweat it, you don't have to tell me if you don't want too"
Rei went to the refrigerator and started to heat up the food that Misato left her, thank god that
she didn't try to cook for herself, if the food still was in their package that meant only that
Misato hasn't tampered with it. After the dinner was done the both girls started to eat indulged
involving some chitchat, the later being provided mostly from Keiko's part. Rei had still a lot
to do regarding her ability to lead a conversation.
After a while they cleaned up and did the dishes before going to the living-room where they
started to discuss the concept of valentines day, after quite some time Keiko gave a smile
towards Rei.
-"...And that is why girls gives chocolate to the boys they like"
-"And the boys doesn't need to give us girls anything?"
-"Well actually they often give something to the girl as well, the Japanese way is that the girl
is the one that gives away a present, but it has become more common that the boy as well
gives the girl something as well."
-"Then let me get this straight, I'll give him a card and a box of chocolates then he will go
out with me?"
-"Hehe... Well... Something like that, but you don't ask him out, it is his job darling!"
-"Oh, I see..."
-"So tomorrow you will go and hit him with everything that you got girl!"
-"Shall I hit him? Why he has not done anything to me that makes me want to injure him."
-"Aaaarrrgghh!! Not like that silly! It is just a figure of speaking"
-"Oh, I see!"
Keiko started to giggle at this, Rei was soon to follow. Suddenly the telephone
started to ring and Rei went up and got it, she spoke for a couple of minutes before hanging
up, when she came back to the living room Keiko looked at her with a wondering look.
-"Who was it Rei?"
-"It was Hikari, she asked me if I wanted to join them visiting Shinji-kun tomorrow"
-"What did you say?"
-"Well yes of course, they said that Kensuke is comming too!"
-"Well, well... That makes things easier then!"
-"What do you mean Keiko?"
-"That means that you don't have to look up him tomorrow"
-"I supposed that you are right..."
-"But of course that I am right! Now do you want me to come along?"
-"Sure if you want to that is..."
-"Perfect then it is settled, now we have to go and fix those cards..."
The both girls went to Reis room to start writing on the valentine's cards that
they earlier bought.
Night fell upon the skies of Tokyo-3 and people started their routines for the night, this was
also the case for the employees of NERV: s hospital, among its corridor people did what they
could to make sure that their patients where comfortable for a nights sleep, this also included
room 321, labelled 'Shinji Ikari' Inside of the room a nurse tucked in the young man, who had
been putted to sleep earlier with sedatives, the nurse looked at his troubled face swiftly.
She found herself taking pity on the young boy, she finished her task and exited the room.
Outside of the room, she meets up with a person, this man had tinted glasses even though it
was dark outside, she recognised him as the prime commander of NERV, and the father of
Shinji. The nurse quickly went by her business, as she knew that an angered commander
meant risking her job. The commander went into the room and stood there watching his son
sleep, he let no emotions escape him even when he approached him and caressed his check, as
he left the room, he turned around facing Shinji with a small smile on his face.
-"Soon my son, very soon..."
To be continued...
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Authors note:
Phew! This really took some time to write, but you know what they say: good things come to
those who wait.
Well in this chapter I wanted to give a little more about the characters, what they are thinking
and what their problems are, hopefully as the story goes on, the plot will be un-fold, and for
those who awaits for action and cool meccha-fights, well they will have to sit and wait, but
there might be some coming up, who knows? ^_^
And what is Gendo Planning? And will Asuka cope with her feelings about Shinji? And the
most important of all... Will Misato be able to stay sober for a month?... Stay tuned and find
out in the next chapter of -A ray of hope-.
I would also thanks my pre-readers, without them... well I would be without them ^_^ (Keep
up the good work boys!) And to those who have supported me, one of them Biohazard (Man
you sure made me finish this chapter ^_^)
And as always if any of you MI-team member would be captured or killed the bureau will...
Ooops! Sorry wrong message...
Well as always please send me your C&C:s I will read them all, and heck I´ll even answer to
flames!
Well to the next time, this is Patricio Quinteros, Sweden Earth!.
Mail me to:
Patricio.Quinteros@swipnet.se
Or at:
Quinteros@hotmail.com
See ya around!