NGE 5

I hate LCL

This chapter may contain ' profain' language.

Ritsuko Akagi is up late again, much past closing,at her desk. Puffing a freshly lit cigerette she exhales deeply, than sighs. She slowly picks up the phone and begins to dial. A voice is heard. " Hello, yes. I'm concerned about the EVA proto-type. What? That's right. Evangelion Unit Seven. Yes. Yes. I realize that she passed all her tests. Yes. I'm aware of the incredible sync. But, Sir, I'm more concerned for the saftey of the pilot.We haven't tested it for a long period of time and the Evange- what? You're just going to give the green light on this project without further delay? .......... Yes, Sir. Goodbye." Ritsuko slams the phone back on her desk. " Gendou Ikari, what is going on in your head?" Ritsuko wonders inhaling her cigerette again, flipping through the documents one final time.

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Shinji and Yuzika talked for a good hour before she had to leave. They talked about NERV most of the time, and his father.
" Oh, Shinji! I get to work with you!" She suddenly brings up happily. Shinji looks puzzled.
" What do you mean?" He asks.
" I'm going to pilot EVA!" She exclaims. Shinji's face turns pail.
" W-what? You're going to p-p-pilot EVA? When?" He asks shakily.
" Probably tommorow." She says heading twards the door. Shinji flusters, opening it for her. She smiles softly. " Aw, don't worry. Thanks for having me over." She says, gently kissing him on the cheek, than walking away smiling. Shinji put his hand over his cheek and stood in silence for a long while. It wasn't the same as when Asuka kissed him. It was different. It was warm, and friendly. Shinji quickly realized he was standing there and closed the door. Spinning around, he bumps into Asuka and Hikari.
" Baaakkaa," Asuka grummbles. " Are you trying to cause me more bodily injury?!" She growls at him. Shinji shakes his head.
" S-sorry." He weakly murmers walking into his room, gently closing the door behind him. HIkari shrugs. Asuka walks Hikari to her house down the dark streets of Tokyo-2. Shinji stares at his ceiling motionless. " That was probably a friendly kiss," Shinji murmers. " Because we barely know each other, or was she really the one inside EVA with me? How could that be? Who is she? How could she come out of the entry plug?" He ponders this for quite a while.

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Misato arrives at her home. Shinji hears her stummble in through the door; dropping her papers, cursing, shuffling them together in a pile and opening the fridge to extract a beere. She rips it open and gulps it down. She taps on Shinji's door and peeks in. " Hey Shinji. Where is Asuka?" She asks. Shinji raises an eyebrow, suprised Asuka wasn't back yet.
" She walked Hikari home." He murmers, walking out into the kitchen to make Misato some food. She never bothered Shinji unless she was sick of take-out. " She left about an hour ago." He murmers, bringing out the frying pan and some ingredients.
" An hour ago? Oh, I'm sure she's fine. She can take care of herself, you know. Tommorow is my night off Shinji. How about it? Wanna' stay home and have a, what do you call it, family type night?" Misato asks, clearly getting a fresh buzz started with the second beere. Shinji sighs and cuts up some vegetables.
" It's okay Misato. You can go out. I don't mind really." Shinji says softly pouring the veggies into the pan, adding rice and more tid bits. Misato smiles and laughs.
" Aw, Shinji. We need to throw a party again. Remember how much fun you had?" Misato asks, opening her third beere. How could she drink them that fast? Shinji couldn't help but wonder. He places a clear glass lid over the pan, and sits down across from Misato at the table to let the food simmer for a while. Misato sniffs the air and murmers, " That smells great Shinji. You should take cooking classes or something an' show em all." She smiles. Shinji smiles a little.
" Right, Misato." He says slightly smiling. Misato gives him a serious look.
" No really, with something that smells that great, I bet the neighbors are gonna start commn' over here askn for a taste," She giggles. " It smells a hell of a lot fresher than..take out." She shuddered at the word take out. And also thought of the words'four nights in a row', and sighed in relief that Shinji could cook. Shinji smirks a little at Misato's comical like drama. He rests his chin on his hand, and enjoys her company for once.

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" I hate going through this part of town." Hikari whispers, walking close to Asuka. They are walking down a dark part of town with barely any street lights, and a few cars and bars speckled around.
" Oh, HIkari. Don't worry," Asuka starts. " I'm proffesionaly trained to handle any situation involving hand to hand combat." Asuka says proudly. Hikari swallows hard.
" That's what I'm worried about, Asuka. They wouldn't be using hands here." She whispers shakily. Asuka shakes her head.
" Hikari, just try to remain concious. We're only two blocks from your house now. Don't worry..." Asuka's voice trails off as a few figures ahead of them on the sidewalk approach the opposite direction they were going. Hikari was visibly pail, passing the street light. Asuka takes a deep breath. ' They'll just pass. They always do.' She bites her lip. Why was she nervous? She had beaten many thugs before. After all, she was the GREAT ASUKA LANGLEY SOURHYU!! She tugs at her school uniform nervously, though. She curses under her breath.
" Asuka," Whispers a nervouse Hikari, " Why did we take the shortcut from the cafe'?" She asks quivering. Asuka shakes her head. They're about to pass the thugs. Two feet, One, passed. Asuka gives a secret sigh. All of a sudden, the thugs charge Asuka from behind and knock her tummbling to the sidewalk.
" SHEIST!" Asuka grummbles getting to her feet. " What was that for?!" She snaps. Hikari is standing behind her shaking. The main man pulls his hood closer around his face.
" You should watch where you're going." The man laughs with his group. Asuka frowns and tightens her fists, readily. The man picks it up.
" Aw, you think we want to fight you?" The man chuckles. Asuka frowns, her temper obviously rising from this bunch of highschool students. Most of the group members were wearing badges sewed onto their coats and sweat shirts from the school opposite of Asuka's. Asuka curses for wearing her school uniform after school, as well as Hikari.
" Do you think I'm afraid of a bunch of goons from the retard school?" Asuka murmers. The man ( AN- I'll just continue to call the male highschool student a man, because he's a highschool boy with manly features, sorry for not clearing that up *.* End of AN.) raised an eyebrow at the comment. He clenched his fist and put a hand into his sweatshirt pocket.
" Retard school? You don't know who you're messing with." He murmers angrily between clenched teeth. Asuka cocks her head back in disgust.
" Yea, retard school." She smirks confidently. They were just highschool students like she was. She could take them all on at the same time. Hikari still looked ridgid as a pole.
" You bitch, how dare you call our academy a retard school! I bet your school is going to get smashed up by those stupid robot pilots! Or has it once already?" The man says chuckling heavily. Asuka's nostrils flared, and before she knew what she was doing charged at the man. The words ' stupid robot pilots' obviously triggered her rampage. " How dare they call my Leibling stupid..." Asuka thinks charging at the man angrily, fists ready.
The man takes a few quick steps back and falls onto the pavement, set off step by her charge. Asuka stops and looks down at him, smirking.
" Pathetic. You trip before I have a chance to hit you." Asuka murmers. His other friends are standing behind her. Asuka spits on the ground in front of him. " Consider this a warning." Asuka murmers spinning around, facing the others. Before she had a chance to say; " Move it jocks." One of the men pulls out a small shiny metallic box , and shocks Asuka's neck. She falls to the ground limply, eyes wide open.
" Why did you use the stun gun? Are we going that far?" The first man asks.
The second man looks at Hikari. " You better get out of here, you're a lot younger than her it looks like. So you better get out of here now, kid!" The main man shouts. With tears welling up in her eyes, HIkari runs back blindly twards Shinji's appartment. Asuka stares up blankly at the men dragging her into the alley. ' What are they doing? They can't do this to me! I'm an Eva pilot! Don't they know anything! I'm going to kill them! I'm going to kill them all! They better not do anything!' Her inner voice screams in her head. The men prop her up a grubby brick wall and crowd around her. The three men whisper amongst each other.
" Well, red head. I guess you've never been stunned before." The main man says. " You shouldn't have been so cocky back there, or this wouldn't have happened to a girl in your school unifrom." The main man smirks. Asuka strains herself. She can twitch her fingers a little at the most.
" What...are we gonna do?" Asks the nervous man next to the main man.
" SHUT UP JOHN," The main man says. " If you don't want to be here than go home." The main man says. Shyly, John shuts up. The other man, just stood there waiting for the next orders.
" I'd like to know what we're going to do." He asks calmly in a dark rich voice. " We already broke the law anyways." He trails off. The main man sighs.
" We'll just rough you up a bit to put you in your place." He murmers rumaging through his school bag. He pulls out two permenant markers, duct tape, a pocket knife, and a memo pad.
" That's all you have." The calm man asks, smirking.
" Yeah. I wasn't really expecting anything tonight." The main man smils, and shrugs, selecting the pocket knife off the ground. He lifts if up by Asuka's chin. Inside, Asuka really wasn't that scared, she doubted highschool punks would kill. The main man slid the pocket knife along the button line of her school uniform. Her school uniform top opened up, revealing her undershirt, and he slit that carefully, showing off her skimpy athletic bra. Asuka was trying to command her body to move. The calm man and the main man pick up a permanent marker and begin to scribble on her shoulders, breasts, stomach, and face. Anywhere above her stomach they wrote something.
A half hour had passed, the men were gone. Asuka lay against the wall, mouth taped as well as hands. She sat against the wall graffitied and memoed, fondled, and harassed. The violent words stuck out on her white skin.
BITCH, SLUT, WHORE, COCKY SKANK, RED HEADED FUCKER, GERMAN BITCH, with many other profanities. And to top it all off they left a memo stuck to her forhead, that read:
' We hope you learned your place, Red Head. '
Asuka didn't cry. She never cried. This was nothing. They didn't do anyting. She would find them. She would kill them. She would destroy every cell in their bodies, untill they were dead.

Hikari ran into Yuzika on the street. Hikari's face was red and tear streaked down to her chin. Yuzika looked at her sadly. " What's wrong?" She asks kindly. Hikari managed to tell her the story through her sobbing and panting. Yuzika told Hikari to go to Shinji's house, and she would go. Hikari shook her head in disagreement.
" No they might still be there! I'll go with you. Do you know how to fight?" Hikari asked shakily. Yuzika thought for a moment, as if deeply pondering.
" Yes, I beleive so. Let's hurry than." She says. The sprint all the way there. They finnaly arrive at the alley way, panting and huffing.
" Asuka..?" Hikari pants, walking into the alley. Hikari gasps. Yuzika's eyes widen as she helps untie Asuka. Asuka rips the tape off her mouth. Yuzika gives Asuka her jacket.
" Are you okay? Did they do anything to you?" Hikari asks. Asuka takes the jacket, and puts it on Zipping it up. She rips the memo off her head angrily, reading it and crummpling it, and throwing it to the ground angrily.
" No, this is all they did. Listen you two. I don't want anyone else to know about this, got it?" Asuka asks, litterly collapsing inside. Hikari and Yuzika nod.
" Your...your...face...they'll see it..." Hikari stammers. Asuka shakes her head.
" No they won't." Asuka gives Hikari a hug. " Thank you. You..too." She nods at Yuzika. She storms home.
" ASUKA!" Hikari goes after her. Yuzika shrugs and goes home.

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Asuka opens the door slowly and pratically runs into her room.
" Oh, Asuka is home Misato." Shinji says swallowing his rice.
" Oh. That's nice. This is great Shinji! It's absolutely excellent!" Misato says pigging out, and drinking her who-knows-what-number beere. Shinji smiles.
" Thank you." He says quietly.

Asuka stands in front of her mirror, quickly undressing.
" I'll haft to soak in the tub a week. THOSE CREEPS!" She pounds her fist into a glass cup on her dresser. It shatters and makes her knuckles bleed.
" How disgusting. I don't want to bathe in the same tub as Misato and Shinji, but I have no choice. I don't want to live here either. But I have no choice. I want to be with Kaji. But damn! I have no choice," She trails off, choking and sniffing.
" Right...mama?"

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TBC....

Well that was different. Rei Ayanami will be making an entrance next chapter, as well as more on Yuzika! THE SUSPENSE!! *-* THE SUSPENSE!!!!! ....Sorry. ^.^ See you next time! PLEASE R+R!!!!