Chapter 5
Recollection
Rei was pondering on what Misato told her as she stared at the ceiling, thinking about her words, and the man they were talking about. Thoughts were swirling like mad inside her sub-conscientiousness. Her logic was being pitted against her feelings. A battle ensued as she tried to figure out just what the hell was happening to her.
"My unpleasant disposition was caused by pilot Ikari's absence." She told herself.
"Which justifies the fact that I shall feel the reverse in his presence." She added.
"If that is so, I have a certain attraction towards pilot Ikari."
"And if this takes place, I come to the point wherein I am obliged to decide on what classification of attraction do I have for him."
"What kind of attraction?" Rei finally asked herself, as she lay on her bed. She was beginning to get anxious. Anxious to know what he feels for him. She got up, changed, walked, and thought. Her excitement escalated every step she made in search for Shinji.
---------Asuka---------
"Why should I open up to him?"
(Because you like him.)
"Urgh." She groaned to herself in defeat.
"Will he fell the same freakin' way I feel?"
(No one can say.)
"You are so impossible!"
(Don't you know that already?)
"If I tried, how would he react?"
(I dunno, maybe you should give it a try, you owe it to yourself to give it a freakin' try.)
"For once, I agree with myself." She finished. As she closed her conversation with herself. Now she started to feel anxious as well. Anxious to test the hypothesis she had concocted. So she got up, got dressed and started walking. Feelings for Shinji flared up one-by-one as things started to unfold before her, she liked him, and she doesn't know if he likes her.
--------Misato-------
"That is one lucky son-of-a-bitch! Imagine having two women racing towards him!" Misato said in shock, as he sipped out of her can.
"What does this guy have?"
"I don't see anything unique about that guy."
"Sheesh..." She told herself, trying to give answers to her questions.
"Rei has a thing for him 'cause he called her beautiful."
"Asuka, on the other corner, dreamt of the guy."
"Who wins the guy?"
"Who weeps in the corner?"
...
...
...
...
"SHIT! I can't wait to see what happens next!"
"It's just like one of those romantic movies wherein two men fight over the same girl, only, everything is reversed."
"Wait a minute..."
"Then that means..."
"Rei and Asuka are...?????"
"And Shinji IS???????"
...
...
...
"Yuck..."
-----------Shinji--------
Shinji was still at the meadow, lying on the grass, staring at the sky. I t seemed as if he was thinking about someone.
"Rei." He said, breathing in the afternoon air, looking at the red stains that gave the sun company as it resided into the ground.
It had been a few hours since he was able to do this again, it felt good to repeat something that felt good. But this time it was different, he was still thinking of the same girl, but the feeling he had for her was totally different from the feeling he was experiencing now. It was stronger, deeper, and more serious...
"What is this?"
"Why is it that I feel something stronger than before?" He asked himself as he scratched his head.
"She's just so..."
"Beautiful?"
"What???!" Shinji said in surprise as he jerked himself up to see who said that.
"M-M-Misato!" Shinji said, blushing heavily.
"I see it all clearly now..." Misato said, as she started to look at the sky as well.
"How did you know?" Shinji asked the purple-haired woman who stood next to him.
"Rei told me about it..." She proudly replied.
"I see..."
"I feel, embarrassed." Shinji said, trying to hide the blushes he had on his face.
"How cute..."
"What!!!!????" Shinji asked in rage.
"Puppy love!!!!!!"
"FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!" Shinji screamed, startling a number of birds out of the nearby tree.
"Sheesh, you don't have to be so defensive about it." Misato said in defense.
"Does Ayanami know about this?"
"She doesn't, but she knows something you don't." Misato answered.
"She does?" Shinji curiously asked.
"And I bet you'll be shocked when you find out what the hell it is. Haha!"
"I will?"
"Quit acting stupid you dolt."
"What!?"
"Just try to figure it out!"
"You mean ask her what it is?"
"Binggo."
"Sounds familiar."
"Just go and find her."
"Alright! I'm goin' I'm goin'!" Shinji said, getting up to leave the meadow on search of a woman who was also in search of him at the same time.
------------The Amazing Race----------
"Pilot Ikari could be at the meadow, since he told me he would be staying there today." Rei said, starting her part as she left her apartment. Finally, the thought of competition aroused within her.
"Pilot Sorhyu stated she feels the same as I do." She said, a small amount of anger was injected to her while she looked for the man whom she wants to be with. Moreover, at the same time, struggling to keep ahead of the woman she had just considered as her rival.
"He should be at the meadow..." Asuka told herself as she got her first clue as she left the apartment. Jealousy swelled up with every step she made. Her heart paced faster every time she thought about Rei being with the man she wanted.
The race to find Shinji was on; two women in search of the one- million-dollar guy who stole their hearts. Pacing their footsteps as they thought about the goal they were after, what a lucky guy...
----------And The Winner Is....--------
"Pilot Ikari has left." Rei said as she came upon a sleeping Misato. She then left after calculating how long it would take her to wake up. A half feeling of disappointment and comfort overcame the blue-head. Shinji was not where she expected to be, but she was relieved to know that her opponent wasn't going to find him here either.
"He's not here." Asuka groaned as she came upon a snoring whore. She left after thinking about how hard it would take to wake her up. The same feeling came into Asuka.
------------Nobody!!!!!!!!!!-----------
"She's not in her apartment." Shinji said as he got back to Misato's apartment, entering his room. He felt incomplete and deprived at that time.
"What does she know?" He asked, tabulating what she could figure out that would surprise him. It seemed so difficult, but he was anxious as well. He kept at it all day, making guesses and then thinking it over. It looked like if it was a war tactician plotting out his plan to bring down his upcoming enemy. Shinji was getting anxious as well, thinking about her. By now, it would be so obvious to see who Misato voted for.
-------------After hours of useless thinking...-----------
"Ah heck! Just ask her about it when we meet." Shinji said, putting a close to this matter. He then lied down on his bed and transported himself to his world once again. However, the question still penetrated through the barricades of his closed mind. He can't wait, he must have it...
"AAAAAAHHHHH!" He suddenly screamed, jumping out of his trance. In about less than a half-second, he left the apartment. He needed to know, he wanted to know. Moreover, he was going to do what ever it takes to do it.
"Her apartment." He said, heading straight back to Rei's place. His excitement gave him a boost in his speed. His adrenalin forced him to the edge as his heart tried to hold in his feelings and paces.
--------------Sleeping Beauty-----------
Rei lay asleep on her bed, exhausted from looking for the man who was now looking for her. It all seemed as a huge goose-hunt. Her feelings were being suppressed while she closed her eyes, but it was too hard. She couldn't wait another moment, she needed to know, and she wanted to know. Anger and sadness seeped into her as he held her hand to her somewhat 'empty' chest.
"Where is he?" She asked herself, using something aside 'pilot Ikari' to address him for the second time. She was learning now. But she didn't know, she didn't care. What she was worried about was him. A different kind of hot feeling shot through her, it was a bit painful now; but she didn't care. She got up, walked out her door and started looking for him again. Her mind raced to think of places he could have gone to.
"I shall check major Katsuragi's apartment." She said with resolve, making her way to where Shinji had been. Thoughts of Shinji played themselves in her mind. She needed him, she wanted him. That was all she wanted now. She can't understand why, she just had to.
-----------Prince Phillip------------
"If she's not there..." Shinji said, starting to imagine what he would do if he couldn't find her. His curiousness had taken a dramatic transformation into a longing. A longing for her.
"I must know.." He said to himself hungrily as he shifted from walking to sprinting in impatience. His forest of thorns had suddenly materialized in his path to his destination.
"Must make it.." He weakly muttered as he savagely ran to Rei's place. Quickly and surely, he got there. He ran up those familiar steps like someone who had just seen his first set of stairs. He ran like an ape-man as he stomped his feet towards her door. By the moment he was there, he began to carefully place handpicked words in a specified order in his mind. His shaking hand turned to a fist as he grasped the knob and went in. Excitement filled him the moment he stepped his foot in the apartment. Then, despair drowned him as he found out he had missed her.
"AAARGH!" He screamed as his anger dried him. The drought of his disappointment spread out through him like a human-degrading plague. Where is she? What does she know? How will he get to her? If I did find her, would she tell him?
"MISATO YOU BITCH!!!! WHAT HVE YOU DONE?????!!!!!!!" Shinji screamed once more, now trying to pacify himself. He ran out of her apartment and ran towards the one place he wanted to be...
------------Malefecent---------
"I'd better get going now." Misato said as she got up to go home. A feeling of completion entered her. She smiled, ran her fingers through her weird- colored hair, scratched her butt, and went home. She felt like an evil witch who had just placed a curse on someone. A few moments later, the wind had ceased on peeping at the woman who had been sleeping in the meadow. However, it started again as another woman had arrived...
-----------Asuka----------
"Must be at the meadow." Asuka said as she reached the said location. Unfortunately, she was early. Moreover, think like that she did as she decided to wait for him. She sat down on the grass and thought of him as she prepared what to say to him when they meet. Her feelings rumbled with each other as she tested her patience. It was too much of a struggle to handle. Compared to having two bulls fight ferociously over nothing inside a coliseum made out of paper. Her emotions filling her every inch, while her hesitation disrupted the course of the venom in her body as it tried to place word after word of careful deliberation. It was like having a war in you. You want him, but you don't.
(Are you sure, you want this?) Asuka asked Asuka.
"What? Are you telling me this is a bad idea???" Asuka shouted.
(No)
"Then what!!!?????" She screamed.
(NOTHING!!!!) Her sub-conscious screamed back. Their argument raged on for a while, but it ceased. Both of them were exhausted from all that debating. Tired as she was, Asuka fell asleep on the grass. With her as the victor, her sub-conscious conceded and silenced herself.
----------End of chapter 5-----------
Recollection
Rei was pondering on what Misato told her as she stared at the ceiling, thinking about her words, and the man they were talking about. Thoughts were swirling like mad inside her sub-conscientiousness. Her logic was being pitted against her feelings. A battle ensued as she tried to figure out just what the hell was happening to her.
"My unpleasant disposition was caused by pilot Ikari's absence." She told herself.
"Which justifies the fact that I shall feel the reverse in his presence." She added.
"If that is so, I have a certain attraction towards pilot Ikari."
"And if this takes place, I come to the point wherein I am obliged to decide on what classification of attraction do I have for him."
"What kind of attraction?" Rei finally asked herself, as she lay on her bed. She was beginning to get anxious. Anxious to know what he feels for him. She got up, changed, walked, and thought. Her excitement escalated every step she made in search for Shinji.
---------Asuka---------
"Why should I open up to him?"
(Because you like him.)
"Urgh." She groaned to herself in defeat.
"Will he fell the same freakin' way I feel?"
(No one can say.)
"You are so impossible!"
(Don't you know that already?)
"If I tried, how would he react?"
(I dunno, maybe you should give it a try, you owe it to yourself to give it a freakin' try.)
"For once, I agree with myself." She finished. As she closed her conversation with herself. Now she started to feel anxious as well. Anxious to test the hypothesis she had concocted. So she got up, got dressed and started walking. Feelings for Shinji flared up one-by-one as things started to unfold before her, she liked him, and she doesn't know if he likes her.
--------Misato-------
"That is one lucky son-of-a-bitch! Imagine having two women racing towards him!" Misato said in shock, as he sipped out of her can.
"What does this guy have?"
"I don't see anything unique about that guy."
"Sheesh..." She told herself, trying to give answers to her questions.
"Rei has a thing for him 'cause he called her beautiful."
"Asuka, on the other corner, dreamt of the guy."
"Who wins the guy?"
"Who weeps in the corner?"
...
...
...
...
"SHIT! I can't wait to see what happens next!"
"It's just like one of those romantic movies wherein two men fight over the same girl, only, everything is reversed."
"Wait a minute..."
"Then that means..."
"Rei and Asuka are...?????"
"And Shinji IS???????"
...
...
...
"Yuck..."
-----------Shinji--------
Shinji was still at the meadow, lying on the grass, staring at the sky. I t seemed as if he was thinking about someone.
"Rei." He said, breathing in the afternoon air, looking at the red stains that gave the sun company as it resided into the ground.
It had been a few hours since he was able to do this again, it felt good to repeat something that felt good. But this time it was different, he was still thinking of the same girl, but the feeling he had for her was totally different from the feeling he was experiencing now. It was stronger, deeper, and more serious...
"What is this?"
"Why is it that I feel something stronger than before?" He asked himself as he scratched his head.
"She's just so..."
"Beautiful?"
"What???!" Shinji said in surprise as he jerked himself up to see who said that.
"M-M-Misato!" Shinji said, blushing heavily.
"I see it all clearly now..." Misato said, as she started to look at the sky as well.
"How did you know?" Shinji asked the purple-haired woman who stood next to him.
"Rei told me about it..." She proudly replied.
"I see..."
"I feel, embarrassed." Shinji said, trying to hide the blushes he had on his face.
"How cute..."
"What!!!!????" Shinji asked in rage.
"Puppy love!!!!!!"
"FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!" Shinji screamed, startling a number of birds out of the nearby tree.
"Sheesh, you don't have to be so defensive about it." Misato said in defense.
"Does Ayanami know about this?"
"She doesn't, but she knows something you don't." Misato answered.
"She does?" Shinji curiously asked.
"And I bet you'll be shocked when you find out what the hell it is. Haha!"
"I will?"
"Quit acting stupid you dolt."
"What!?"
"Just try to figure it out!"
"You mean ask her what it is?"
"Binggo."
"Sounds familiar."
"Just go and find her."
"Alright! I'm goin' I'm goin'!" Shinji said, getting up to leave the meadow on search of a woman who was also in search of him at the same time.
------------The Amazing Race----------
"Pilot Ikari could be at the meadow, since he told me he would be staying there today." Rei said, starting her part as she left her apartment. Finally, the thought of competition aroused within her.
"Pilot Sorhyu stated she feels the same as I do." She said, a small amount of anger was injected to her while she looked for the man whom she wants to be with. Moreover, at the same time, struggling to keep ahead of the woman she had just considered as her rival.
"He should be at the meadow..." Asuka told herself as she got her first clue as she left the apartment. Jealousy swelled up with every step she made. Her heart paced faster every time she thought about Rei being with the man she wanted.
The race to find Shinji was on; two women in search of the one- million-dollar guy who stole their hearts. Pacing their footsteps as they thought about the goal they were after, what a lucky guy...
----------And The Winner Is....--------
"Pilot Ikari has left." Rei said as she came upon a sleeping Misato. She then left after calculating how long it would take her to wake up. A half feeling of disappointment and comfort overcame the blue-head. Shinji was not where she expected to be, but she was relieved to know that her opponent wasn't going to find him here either.
"He's not here." Asuka groaned as she came upon a snoring whore. She left after thinking about how hard it would take to wake her up. The same feeling came into Asuka.
------------Nobody!!!!!!!!!!-----------
"She's not in her apartment." Shinji said as he got back to Misato's apartment, entering his room. He felt incomplete and deprived at that time.
"What does she know?" He asked, tabulating what she could figure out that would surprise him. It seemed so difficult, but he was anxious as well. He kept at it all day, making guesses and then thinking it over. It looked like if it was a war tactician plotting out his plan to bring down his upcoming enemy. Shinji was getting anxious as well, thinking about her. By now, it would be so obvious to see who Misato voted for.
-------------After hours of useless thinking...-----------
"Ah heck! Just ask her about it when we meet." Shinji said, putting a close to this matter. He then lied down on his bed and transported himself to his world once again. However, the question still penetrated through the barricades of his closed mind. He can't wait, he must have it...
"AAAAAAHHHHH!" He suddenly screamed, jumping out of his trance. In about less than a half-second, he left the apartment. He needed to know, he wanted to know. Moreover, he was going to do what ever it takes to do it.
"Her apartment." He said, heading straight back to Rei's place. His excitement gave him a boost in his speed. His adrenalin forced him to the edge as his heart tried to hold in his feelings and paces.
--------------Sleeping Beauty-----------
Rei lay asleep on her bed, exhausted from looking for the man who was now looking for her. It all seemed as a huge goose-hunt. Her feelings were being suppressed while she closed her eyes, but it was too hard. She couldn't wait another moment, she needed to know, and she wanted to know. Anger and sadness seeped into her as he held her hand to her somewhat 'empty' chest.
"Where is he?" She asked herself, using something aside 'pilot Ikari' to address him for the second time. She was learning now. But she didn't know, she didn't care. What she was worried about was him. A different kind of hot feeling shot through her, it was a bit painful now; but she didn't care. She got up, walked out her door and started looking for him again. Her mind raced to think of places he could have gone to.
"I shall check major Katsuragi's apartment." She said with resolve, making her way to where Shinji had been. Thoughts of Shinji played themselves in her mind. She needed him, she wanted him. That was all she wanted now. She can't understand why, she just had to.
-----------Prince Phillip------------
"If she's not there..." Shinji said, starting to imagine what he would do if he couldn't find her. His curiousness had taken a dramatic transformation into a longing. A longing for her.
"I must know.." He said to himself hungrily as he shifted from walking to sprinting in impatience. His forest of thorns had suddenly materialized in his path to his destination.
"Must make it.." He weakly muttered as he savagely ran to Rei's place. Quickly and surely, he got there. He ran up those familiar steps like someone who had just seen his first set of stairs. He ran like an ape-man as he stomped his feet towards her door. By the moment he was there, he began to carefully place handpicked words in a specified order in his mind. His shaking hand turned to a fist as he grasped the knob and went in. Excitement filled him the moment he stepped his foot in the apartment. Then, despair drowned him as he found out he had missed her.
"AAARGH!" He screamed as his anger dried him. The drought of his disappointment spread out through him like a human-degrading plague. Where is she? What does she know? How will he get to her? If I did find her, would she tell him?
"MISATO YOU BITCH!!!! WHAT HVE YOU DONE?????!!!!!!!" Shinji screamed once more, now trying to pacify himself. He ran out of her apartment and ran towards the one place he wanted to be...
------------Malefecent---------
"I'd better get going now." Misato said as she got up to go home. A feeling of completion entered her. She smiled, ran her fingers through her weird- colored hair, scratched her butt, and went home. She felt like an evil witch who had just placed a curse on someone. A few moments later, the wind had ceased on peeping at the woman who had been sleeping in the meadow. However, it started again as another woman had arrived...
-----------Asuka----------
"Must be at the meadow." Asuka said as she reached the said location. Unfortunately, she was early. Moreover, think like that she did as she decided to wait for him. She sat down on the grass and thought of him as she prepared what to say to him when they meet. Her feelings rumbled with each other as she tested her patience. It was too much of a struggle to handle. Compared to having two bulls fight ferociously over nothing inside a coliseum made out of paper. Her emotions filling her every inch, while her hesitation disrupted the course of the venom in her body as it tried to place word after word of careful deliberation. It was like having a war in you. You want him, but you don't.
(Are you sure, you want this?) Asuka asked Asuka.
"What? Are you telling me this is a bad idea???" Asuka shouted.
(No)
"Then what!!!?????" She screamed.
(NOTHING!!!!) Her sub-conscious screamed back. Their argument raged on for a while, but it ceased. Both of them were exhausted from all that debating. Tired as she was, Asuka fell asleep on the grass. With her as the victor, her sub-conscious conceded and silenced herself.
----------End of chapter 5-----------