Kitty Kasumi: I feel so lonely...that's why I dragged Neoangel over here!
Anyhoo...I just want to repeat again that WE DIBS THE FIRST EVER
TOJI/KENSUKE FANFIC ON FF.NET!!! YAY!!! CHIBI HENTAI ANGEL POWER!!!
Neoangel: I wonder if anyone ever had a teeny little notion in their heads telling them to match these two as a couple... tell us if you ever did, okies? Well, as any other fanfic, we claim no affiliation (or money concerned) with Evangelion - except for the fact that I _love_ Kaworu (more than the rest of you), and that the characters seem to be running around and being stupid at Kitty Kasumi's house. Argh, Toji pulled down his pants again...all I see is the keyboard at the moment...
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"Stupid toy parts..." muttered Toji in disgust as he glared at the artificial limbs resting on the chair beside his bed. They were state of the art, as expected from NERV, but they were still too false for Toji's liking. As a protest, he had decided to remain in bed today and miss out on rehabilitation.
"A cruel torment - to touch but not to feel...they are noting but a doll's appendages." Agreed a voice from the door. Toji lifted his head up slightly to get a better view of the stranger. A boy about the same age as Toji stood leaning against the doorframe with his hands buried deep in his pockets. The morning sun exaggerated the boy's pale features and enhanced the vivid ruby of his eyes. An empathetic smile played across his lips.
"And who are you? Are you a volunteer sent to cheer me up? Are you lost? Are you another failed Child?" Toji was in no mood to talk about philosophical comparisons with a stranger - with all their limbs intact.
"There is only one person that can cheer you up - and it is not I. I am also not lost, for I have found the one Shinji calls Toji Suzuhara. But...yes...I am a failed Child. I am Kaworu Nagisa." The stranger replied, never leaving the doorframe.
"Umm...yeah, I'm Toji Suzuhara." Shinji sure had weird tastes in friends, Toji thought as he tried to shake this guy off. The stranger's words fully sunk in. "Another failed Child, huh? What room did you escape out of?"
"I am not a patient of this institution." His smile now revealed the guy's nature as an enigma - an enigma that had captured Toji's full attention with his words.
"Oh...right. Do you want a seat? Just chuck the Barbie parts on the floor." Toji gestured with his head. The guy - Kaworu - sauntered up and sat down with a grace that was very unusual for someone with his or her hands in their pockets. "So, you said that you're not here to cheer me up - why are you here then? No...I can always find that out later. Who do you think _is_ the one that can cheer me up?"
"How can I answer if you don't know yourself? Is that what you are thinking? Look deep inside - you _do_ know whom. If you know, then I can answer." Kaworu took his hand out of his pockets and rested them on his lap, as if he had no intentions of stopping the word and mind games. Toji scowled in frustration but did what Kaworu asked anyway. He was about to close his eyes, but halfway he opened them again.
"The answer's pretty obvious, come to think about it..." He murmured as he let his eyes droop.
##FLASHBACK/DREAM##
Two little Kindergarten-chibi boys were sitting on the edge of a sandpit. One had black, spiky hair and was sniffing away the last of his tears. The other boy, who had oversized spectacles and a couple of freckles placed in a kawaii fashion, was comforting him.
"My baby sister chucked Spubble down the toilet." Sniffed Toji miserably. "Daddy said that Spubble was dead anyway." He wiped his runny nose on his sleeve.
"Dead?" Asked Kensuke, looking as lost as he sounded.
"My Daddy said that when Spubble is dead, it means that he couldn't wake up anymore."
"Oh...what happened after you sister chucked Spubble down the toilet?"
"She pushed the button."
"Maybe we can get him back!" Kensuke cried out suddenly. "My Daddy says poop goes down the toilet through pipes that are connected to each other. So maybe Spubble woke up when he got flushed and swimmed to my toilet! We can go fishing for Spubble!"
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The two boys had taken a pair of Kensuke's father's pointers and stuck chewed up and stretched out bubble gum on the ends of them. They had also taken two chibi chairs and were now sitting around the toilet, with the ends of the gum dunked in the abyss of the toilet water.
Both were laughing happily as the jerked their homemade fishing rods around, and occasionally sprinkling fish food as bait.
Toji's present thoughts as he watches flashback we never did retrieve Spubble...
##CHANGE FLASHBACK/DREAM##
The Kindergarten-chibis are now seventh-grade newbies at the newly constructed Tokyo-3 high school. The older students stare at the newcomers, analyzing their social worth. Toji scowls at the unwanted attention as Kensuke tries to figure out the map to get to their class.
"Um, where are we exactly?" Asked Kensuke as he looked up from the map. "This doesn't look like class 2-A, does it?" The door read 3-B. There was no one inside.
"Wow, we have a genius..." drawled a lazy voice from behind them. Both turned around to see a large blob, which they figured was a senior (or possibly a regular repeat). The blob was smiling unpleasantly at them. "What do we have here? Two little plebeians ready to find out what happens when they skip class."
"If you haven't noticed, you're out of class too. Hey, we never wanted to _intrude_ on your territory - hell, we never want to see you again." Growled Toji, who had taken up a discreet fighting stance, ready to make the first blow.
"What the fuck did you say?" It really sounded as if the blob had trouble understanding. As the fist sped towards Toji, Toji ducked and the punch landed Kensuke instead, hitting him square on the shoulder blade. Kensuke, with some miracle sense of balance, remained standing, clutching his shoulder with a wince of restrained pain on his face. Toji stared at his friend in horror then turned back to the blob with an expression of fury never before seen.
"I never wanted to come anywhere near you - I never wanted to talk to you, I never wanted you to talk to me. Then you hit my friend - ok, so it was my fault that I ducked, but the fact that you punched is bad enough. No one messes with me or anyone close to me...and those who do..."
Toji gave a blow to the blob's stomach. The blob retched and doubled upon himself, but before he could curl up to protect himself, Toji aimed another punch that landed on the blob's face. A sickening thud was heard as flesh came into contact with flesh, and a devastating crunch indicated that the blob had probably had his nose shattered as he fell face first onto the floor.
"You didn't kill him, did you?" Inquired Kensuke with the faintest trace of concern in his voice. His shoulder seemed to be fine and he was waiting for Toji.
"Nah...if I did, I'll send flowers to the funeral." Replied Toji in a distracted manner. He placed a hand lightly on Kensuke's shoulder. "Are you sure you're ok?"
Kensuke nodded and shot a victory-v sign as proof. He entwined his arm so that the two had their arms around the other's shoulder. "Now...according to the map, if we take these set of stairs..."
Toji's present thoughts wait a moment...Kensuke didn't cheer me up then - maybe he did, when he did the victory-v... I would've _really_ killed that blob if Kensuke was hurt more than he was...but he was ok then, and he's ok now, I hope so at least...
##CHANGE FLASHBACK/DREAM##
Toji is now in the hospital. He has just woken up after Hikari's visit. Turning his head towards the chair, he sees that his closest childhood friend, Kensuke Aida, now occupies it. His face is turned away from Toji; his expression is almost pained.
"I thought that she was exaggerating...no, I knew that she wasn't...then does that mean that I hoped falsely...?" A quiet murmur that was obviously not supposed to be overheard. Kensuke covered his face with one of his hands and a low moan of despair can be heard. "Did he love his sister that much...to accept being one of NERVs puppets? No, I'm not suppose to cry, dammit...but what am I supposed to do now?"
Toji stared on helplessly at his friend. A repressed sob shuddered Kensuke's body - he still hadn't noticed that Toji was awake.
"I wanted to pilot the EVA..." Kensuke's voice suddenly turned envious, "but they said I knew too much so I couldn't be the Fourth Child...he's still asleep, I better go before I break down again."
As he stood up, Toji said in a hoarse whisper, "It was fun, you wouldn't believe what you were missing!"
Kensuke turned his head sharply and stared at Toji, trying to figure out if he had been awake all that time. "Are you serious?"
"Nope...please stay a while longer, huh?" Kensuke kept on staring in shock - Toji was usually the one who pulled the controls in their friendship, but now he was reduced to almost begging. Kensuke smiled, and what Toji didn't know, for the first time ever since he had heard about the accident, and nodded.
Toji's present thoughts what was that? Was that me cheering him up, or him cheering me up? Maybe it worked both ways then...he cheered up when he saw that I was ok (considerably)...it was nice seeing him smile - too bad he was still crying behind it though...I chose to deny that I made him cry back then...baka.
##END ALL FLASHBACKS (IN THIS CHAPTER)##
A clock chimed somewhere in the distance. Toji opened his eyes wearily as he realized that he had fallen asleep. Kaworu probably would've disappeared by now. The sunlight indicated that it was a bit past noon. He rubbed his eyes - with his left hand.
That shocked him into ultra-awake mode. He stared at his hand - it was real, as if he had never lost it at all. He ducked his head under the covers - his leg had been miraculously restored as well. The restored parts responded magnificently (and painfully) as Toji pinched them. A gigantic smile of ecstasy and confusion broke out on his face.
"I hope you had a pleasant rest." Spoke a voice from the other side of the covers. Toji poked his head back out and saw Kaworu, still on the seat and still smiling, although there were obvious signs of fatigue on his face. "I have to go now, maybe I will meet you again soon."
As he stood up, Kaworu put his hands back into the eternal depths of his pockets [a/n - gosh, have you noticed how deep his arms go in the episode] and started to walk out with that careless grace of his. Toji had a sneaking suspicion that the silver-haired enigma had something to do with this miracle.
"Wait!" Kaworu turned his head slightly towards Toji's direction. "Thank you...and hey! You never answered my question did you?"
"Question?" The sly smile within his eyes indicated that he still hadn't stopped with the games. "What question would that be?"
"Who do you think is 'the one'?"
The mischievous expression had taken over the fatigue in Kaworu's face. As he continued walking, he cried out behind him, "I will give you your answer soon!"
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Neoangel: that took a while, didn't it?
Kitty Kasumi: definitely - hello people of the Evangelion fanfiction community! Did you (want to) know that the little fish flashback was based on my brother (Bunny Boy Kaworu) and Bunny Boy Shinji? They were sooo KAWAII back then!!! Of course, I was busting at the time, so I never really appreciated at the time...poor Spubble...I was the one that flushed him *sobble*!!!
Neoangel: I wonder if anyone ever had a teeny little notion in their heads telling them to match these two as a couple... tell us if you ever did, okies? Well, as any other fanfic, we claim no affiliation (or money concerned) with Evangelion - except for the fact that I _love_ Kaworu (more than the rest of you), and that the characters seem to be running around and being stupid at Kitty Kasumi's house. Argh, Toji pulled down his pants again...all I see is the keyboard at the moment...
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"Stupid toy parts..." muttered Toji in disgust as he glared at the artificial limbs resting on the chair beside his bed. They were state of the art, as expected from NERV, but they were still too false for Toji's liking. As a protest, he had decided to remain in bed today and miss out on rehabilitation.
"A cruel torment - to touch but not to feel...they are noting but a doll's appendages." Agreed a voice from the door. Toji lifted his head up slightly to get a better view of the stranger. A boy about the same age as Toji stood leaning against the doorframe with his hands buried deep in his pockets. The morning sun exaggerated the boy's pale features and enhanced the vivid ruby of his eyes. An empathetic smile played across his lips.
"And who are you? Are you a volunteer sent to cheer me up? Are you lost? Are you another failed Child?" Toji was in no mood to talk about philosophical comparisons with a stranger - with all their limbs intact.
"There is only one person that can cheer you up - and it is not I. I am also not lost, for I have found the one Shinji calls Toji Suzuhara. But...yes...I am a failed Child. I am Kaworu Nagisa." The stranger replied, never leaving the doorframe.
"Umm...yeah, I'm Toji Suzuhara." Shinji sure had weird tastes in friends, Toji thought as he tried to shake this guy off. The stranger's words fully sunk in. "Another failed Child, huh? What room did you escape out of?"
"I am not a patient of this institution." His smile now revealed the guy's nature as an enigma - an enigma that had captured Toji's full attention with his words.
"Oh...right. Do you want a seat? Just chuck the Barbie parts on the floor." Toji gestured with his head. The guy - Kaworu - sauntered up and sat down with a grace that was very unusual for someone with his or her hands in their pockets. "So, you said that you're not here to cheer me up - why are you here then? No...I can always find that out later. Who do you think _is_ the one that can cheer me up?"
"How can I answer if you don't know yourself? Is that what you are thinking? Look deep inside - you _do_ know whom. If you know, then I can answer." Kaworu took his hand out of his pockets and rested them on his lap, as if he had no intentions of stopping the word and mind games. Toji scowled in frustration but did what Kaworu asked anyway. He was about to close his eyes, but halfway he opened them again.
"The answer's pretty obvious, come to think about it..." He murmured as he let his eyes droop.
##FLASHBACK/DREAM##
Two little Kindergarten-chibi boys were sitting on the edge of a sandpit. One had black, spiky hair and was sniffing away the last of his tears. The other boy, who had oversized spectacles and a couple of freckles placed in a kawaii fashion, was comforting him.
"My baby sister chucked Spubble down the toilet." Sniffed Toji miserably. "Daddy said that Spubble was dead anyway." He wiped his runny nose on his sleeve.
"Dead?" Asked Kensuke, looking as lost as he sounded.
"My Daddy said that when Spubble is dead, it means that he couldn't wake up anymore."
"Oh...what happened after you sister chucked Spubble down the toilet?"
"She pushed the button."
"Maybe we can get him back!" Kensuke cried out suddenly. "My Daddy says poop goes down the toilet through pipes that are connected to each other. So maybe Spubble woke up when he got flushed and swimmed to my toilet! We can go fishing for Spubble!"
#~#~#~#~#
The two boys had taken a pair of Kensuke's father's pointers and stuck chewed up and stretched out bubble gum on the ends of them. They had also taken two chibi chairs and were now sitting around the toilet, with the ends of the gum dunked in the abyss of the toilet water.
Both were laughing happily as the jerked their homemade fishing rods around, and occasionally sprinkling fish food as bait.
Toji's present thoughts as he watches flashback we never did retrieve Spubble...
##CHANGE FLASHBACK/DREAM##
The Kindergarten-chibis are now seventh-grade newbies at the newly constructed Tokyo-3 high school. The older students stare at the newcomers, analyzing their social worth. Toji scowls at the unwanted attention as Kensuke tries to figure out the map to get to their class.
"Um, where are we exactly?" Asked Kensuke as he looked up from the map. "This doesn't look like class 2-A, does it?" The door read 3-B. There was no one inside.
"Wow, we have a genius..." drawled a lazy voice from behind them. Both turned around to see a large blob, which they figured was a senior (or possibly a regular repeat). The blob was smiling unpleasantly at them. "What do we have here? Two little plebeians ready to find out what happens when they skip class."
"If you haven't noticed, you're out of class too. Hey, we never wanted to _intrude_ on your territory - hell, we never want to see you again." Growled Toji, who had taken up a discreet fighting stance, ready to make the first blow.
"What the fuck did you say?" It really sounded as if the blob had trouble understanding. As the fist sped towards Toji, Toji ducked and the punch landed Kensuke instead, hitting him square on the shoulder blade. Kensuke, with some miracle sense of balance, remained standing, clutching his shoulder with a wince of restrained pain on his face. Toji stared at his friend in horror then turned back to the blob with an expression of fury never before seen.
"I never wanted to come anywhere near you - I never wanted to talk to you, I never wanted you to talk to me. Then you hit my friend - ok, so it was my fault that I ducked, but the fact that you punched is bad enough. No one messes with me or anyone close to me...and those who do..."
Toji gave a blow to the blob's stomach. The blob retched and doubled upon himself, but before he could curl up to protect himself, Toji aimed another punch that landed on the blob's face. A sickening thud was heard as flesh came into contact with flesh, and a devastating crunch indicated that the blob had probably had his nose shattered as he fell face first onto the floor.
"You didn't kill him, did you?" Inquired Kensuke with the faintest trace of concern in his voice. His shoulder seemed to be fine and he was waiting for Toji.
"Nah...if I did, I'll send flowers to the funeral." Replied Toji in a distracted manner. He placed a hand lightly on Kensuke's shoulder. "Are you sure you're ok?"
Kensuke nodded and shot a victory-v sign as proof. He entwined his arm so that the two had their arms around the other's shoulder. "Now...according to the map, if we take these set of stairs..."
Toji's present thoughts wait a moment...Kensuke didn't cheer me up then - maybe he did, when he did the victory-v... I would've _really_ killed that blob if Kensuke was hurt more than he was...but he was ok then, and he's ok now, I hope so at least...
##CHANGE FLASHBACK/DREAM##
Toji is now in the hospital. He has just woken up after Hikari's visit. Turning his head towards the chair, he sees that his closest childhood friend, Kensuke Aida, now occupies it. His face is turned away from Toji; his expression is almost pained.
"I thought that she was exaggerating...no, I knew that she wasn't...then does that mean that I hoped falsely...?" A quiet murmur that was obviously not supposed to be overheard. Kensuke covered his face with one of his hands and a low moan of despair can be heard. "Did he love his sister that much...to accept being one of NERVs puppets? No, I'm not suppose to cry, dammit...but what am I supposed to do now?"
Toji stared on helplessly at his friend. A repressed sob shuddered Kensuke's body - he still hadn't noticed that Toji was awake.
"I wanted to pilot the EVA..." Kensuke's voice suddenly turned envious, "but they said I knew too much so I couldn't be the Fourth Child...he's still asleep, I better go before I break down again."
As he stood up, Toji said in a hoarse whisper, "It was fun, you wouldn't believe what you were missing!"
Kensuke turned his head sharply and stared at Toji, trying to figure out if he had been awake all that time. "Are you serious?"
"Nope...please stay a while longer, huh?" Kensuke kept on staring in shock - Toji was usually the one who pulled the controls in their friendship, but now he was reduced to almost begging. Kensuke smiled, and what Toji didn't know, for the first time ever since he had heard about the accident, and nodded.
Toji's present thoughts what was that? Was that me cheering him up, or him cheering me up? Maybe it worked both ways then...he cheered up when he saw that I was ok (considerably)...it was nice seeing him smile - too bad he was still crying behind it though...I chose to deny that I made him cry back then...baka.
##END ALL FLASHBACKS (IN THIS CHAPTER)##
A clock chimed somewhere in the distance. Toji opened his eyes wearily as he realized that he had fallen asleep. Kaworu probably would've disappeared by now. The sunlight indicated that it was a bit past noon. He rubbed his eyes - with his left hand.
That shocked him into ultra-awake mode. He stared at his hand - it was real, as if he had never lost it at all. He ducked his head under the covers - his leg had been miraculously restored as well. The restored parts responded magnificently (and painfully) as Toji pinched them. A gigantic smile of ecstasy and confusion broke out on his face.
"I hope you had a pleasant rest." Spoke a voice from the other side of the covers. Toji poked his head back out and saw Kaworu, still on the seat and still smiling, although there were obvious signs of fatigue on his face. "I have to go now, maybe I will meet you again soon."
As he stood up, Kaworu put his hands back into the eternal depths of his pockets [a/n - gosh, have you noticed how deep his arms go in the episode] and started to walk out with that careless grace of his. Toji had a sneaking suspicion that the silver-haired enigma had something to do with this miracle.
"Wait!" Kaworu turned his head slightly towards Toji's direction. "Thank you...and hey! You never answered my question did you?"
"Question?" The sly smile within his eyes indicated that he still hadn't stopped with the games. "What question would that be?"
"Who do you think is 'the one'?"
The mischievous expression had taken over the fatigue in Kaworu's face. As he continued walking, he cried out behind him, "I will give you your answer soon!"
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Neoangel: that took a while, didn't it?
Kitty Kasumi: definitely - hello people of the Evangelion fanfiction community! Did you (want to) know that the little fish flashback was based on my brother (Bunny Boy Kaworu) and Bunny Boy Shinji? They were sooo KAWAII back then!!! Of course, I was busting at the time, so I never really appreciated at the time...poor Spubble...I was the one that flushed him *sobble*!!!