Ok. I see that I had caught some attention with this fanfic. I honestly didn't know somebody else used a similiar name (Though in a different language). I plead ignorance. I never really checked the other languages for similiar stories... Anyway...
As we can remember from the last chapter, Arael the 15th angel, attacked and was beaten, though not killed. Shinji and Asuka had been the targets of a dual mind 'invasion' (I dislike using the real term, espesically when it's related to my favorite EVA girl) beam. Both pilots wandered around in a world of memories and out ran Arael's vengence, thus returning to their bodies. However, they ended up in the wrong bodies.
Due to the fact that people will be calling them the wrong names in reference to who's using the body. I'm going to be using *Shinji* and *Asuka* when someone is calling/referring to one of their bodies, not their mindset. Remember Shinji is in Asuka's body and Asuka is in Shinji's body. To clarify here's an example:
"Hey *Shinji* !! Wait up!" Asuka turned around and replied "I'm Asuka not Shinji"
'...' stands for thought
"..." stands for talking
--?--?-- stands for beginning and end. Also author interruption(Me, making myself heard)
--- stands for... I guess the next Scene
ok? OK!
And the Disclaimer IS the first chapter. So go look over there before mouthing off about rip offs and such.(Though I feel guilty about tripping over somebody else's name)
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
World from the eye's of Another
02 : Never believe that the human animal can't adapt
--?--?--
"I feel sick..."
The single line that *Shinji* had said described exactly what both felt.
Asuka raised what was Shinji's hand looked blankly at it for maybe a minute and then slowly reached forward to touch what should have been Asuka's shoulder. Asuka stopped her new hand hovering maybe a centimeter from the shoulder. Shinji reached over and lightly touched the arm that reached out. 'It must be a dream'. He tapped it and found the arm soft but solid. He gulped audibly. His heart felt like it would pound it's way through his chest. He lowered his arm and placed his hand over his heart and closing his eyes, hoping to settle it.
Asuka saw his hands resting on what used to be her breast, thinking the worst. She swung her right arm back.
"YOU PERVERT GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY BREAST!!" Shinji then remembered his body wasn't has own and he looked up at Asuka's now dark blue eyes as they radiated fire and brimstone. The slap could have really hurt if not for the fact that Asuka slowed it's descent to that of push.
Asuka couldn't believe that she almost slapped herself.
"Ahh... Asuka... I really think it wasn't what you thought it was" Shinji's speech was slightly garbled because Asuka's hand was holding/gripping the cheek she had planned to slap.
"I couldn't bring myself to slap such a perfect creature. Even with a hentai-pervent-baka-moron-idiot like you inside it" Shinji just shrugged and Asuka removed her hand from his face.
'Too damn weird...' ran through their minds at that moment.
"... Could I use the bathroom... I could really use a cold shower..." Asuka stared at Shinji like he was stupid.
"NO! Ever heard of Chivalry! Ladies first!!" Asuka stormed over to the door and was going to slam it when the implacations of her sentence came to her in full force.
"...Ah... Asuka?..." Shinji turned towards here and spread his arms, displaying his body. Well her body. Shinji would have had to stiffle a laugh if the sitaution wasn't so weird. Or better yet, didn't have him included in it. Asuka stared dumbly for a moment, her mind working overtime.
"You know what I meant!!!" Asuka replied with her face turned slightly red at the thought. Her thinking suddenly halted on another train of thought. 'I don't want to see this Baka's body naked!!!! Damn it, today is gonna be really aweful!' her face flushed to a deeper red.
Asuka walked away from the bathroom sat on her bed and waved Shinji ahead. Shinji lifted his eyebrows.
"Your letting me go first?" Asuka nodded and watched Shinji go through the door and closed it behind himself. Asuka suddenly boarded another train of thought.
'Did I just let a boy go with my body to shower?! That boy being Shinji no less!!' Asuka bolted to the door and barged through.
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Shinji suddenly realised one of the reasons Asuka probably gave up on the shower so easily. She didn't want to look at Shinji's naked body. Shinji had realised this too as he had reached to undo the gown. He blinked several times in the mirror. Whether or not it was his body or not, he didn't feel right looking at it. He closed his eyes and undid the gown, then placed it covering the mirror before he opened them again. He kept his eyes forward daring not to look down. He stepped into the shower as Asuka burst in.
"HEY THIRD!!!" Shinji jumped and clutched the shower curtains over his body as Asuka shouted at him. Asuka sort of realized this must be murder to Shinji as she saw her face showing bewilderment, fear and confusion. 'Jesus, my heart stopped when I looked back at my face' she thought.
"Ahh... Yeah Asuka?..." Shinji stuttered the words. Holding onto the curtains like they were a lifeline. Asuka stared for a moment. 'I shouldn't feel embarressed. That is my body after all... Still this is way too weird'. Asuka snapped out of her silence.
"I'm here to make sure you don't take advantage of *MY* perfect body!" She glared at the cowering Shinji.
"I know perfectly well, that you'd kill me if I did anything to you..." Asuka suddenly wondered if she would have the determination to strike what had been her body. 'Well... Shinji never made a move before, so I'll just keep up the threats until something around here makes sense'.
--?--?--
I could go on and on and on about this, but for the benefit of the doubt. Shinji promised no funny business.
--?--?--
Shinji actually got to take a shower in Asuka's body(though he stared at the ceiling the whole time). Asuka agreed to stand outside the bathroom, however she glanced over to Shinji's black silhouette making sure there was no, quote "funny business" unquote.
The shower finally stopped and Shinji took a towel and wrapped it around himself. He blushed after seeing himself in the mirror 'How did I end up in Asuka's body anyway?'.
"See? All better now. And look no new scars!" Asuka beamed at him. Shinji blinked a few times and wondered why Asuka was trying to make any good idea sound like it was hers in the first place?
"Ahh... yeah Asuka..."
Misato then walked into the room, thus stumbling across the two.
" Oh my! I didn't know my *Shinji* liked to admire *Asuka* in such a way" Misato grinned as the two turned around and slightly flushed. Oddly enough it was *Shinji* that spoke up first.
"Oh shut up Misato!" She then watched *Shinji* storm into the bathroom, snagging the clothing Misato handed out. Misato leaned over *Asuka's* towel clad figure and smiled.
"*Asuka*, I know that Shinji is fun to tease but, next time play fair" Misato nudged her companion. Shinji blinked confusedly then remembered that he was only in a towel.
"Misato it's not what you think!" Misato grinned and patted him on the back.
"Really? And just what do I think *Asuka*?" Shinji was going to make a suggestion when Asuka walked out of the bathroom.
"There, *Asuka*... You can have it now" Misato's grin only widened at seeing *Shinji* turn aside and blush seeing *Asuka's* state of undress. *Asuka* gave an unrecognizable face and raced into the bathroom with the clothing Misato had held out for her.
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"Dummkopf! What are you trying to do!!" Asuka (lightly)swatted Shinji as they walked down the corridor. Shinji cringed, then collected himself. Misato hadn't noticed.
"I was just going to..."
"Act like yourself right!?" Shinji cringed again, seeing Asuka barely hold back another swing. Asuka's new eyes flashed annoyance.
"Well... yeah... sorry" Asuka looked at Shinji as if he was a watermelon with purple lipstick on doing the hokie-pokie.
"S~T~O~P, apologizing!"
"Sor..."
"Do you really wanna blow our cover!" Asuka interrupted Shinji with a hiss when she realized what he was going to repeat earlier.
"What are you to whispering about so secretively?" Misato turned around, glancing back at her two charges. Then had been lagging behind her ever since they left the hospital room and had been chatting just below the level Misato could hear. She expected some odd behavior after what happened to them today but this was different. Didn't Asuka usually lead the troop out of the hospital?
Both Asuka and Shinji stopped talking immediately and turned to face their purple haired guardian. Both stared dumbly at Misato until *Asuka* suddenly spoke up.
"Why are you pestering us? You said it yourself we've had a rough day" Misato only maintained her gaze for a fraction of a second before mentally shrugging and returning to the map in her hand.
Shinji swatted Asuka's hand off his butt, and gave a little glare at her. Asuka glared back and Shinji backed off.
"You almost gave us away!" she hissed the words almost to the point where Shinji almost couldn't hear them. Asuka scanned the hallway, noting that nothing had changed. The lights didn't cast shadows so there was no chance of someone hiding in a corner or something. One of the side doors were open behind them but it lead to an empty lounge with a few vending machines. Misato had gone a fair clip ahead of them before Shinji spoke again.
"Why do we not want to give ourselves away?"
"Are you crazy?!! Just think about all the freaking tests those scientists would put us through! They're nut jobs I swear!" Asuka shuddered at the memory of being the test subject for the heat resistant plug suit and the D-type equipment. 'That damned suit was the ugliest thing ever and what they did to my eva!!! Even me and unit 02 couldn't make that look good!!'. It was not a pleasant memory.
Shinji himself really disliked the idea of being Ritsuko's guinea pig. He imaged himself wearing a costume of a guinea pig with Ritsuko's body the size of an EVA with an evil grin as she inched her instruments towards him. She laughed as Shinji sweated.
"... Ok... maybe for awhile..."
"I swear as a little girl she pulled the wings off flys or roasted ants with a magnifying glass" Asuka had begun talking while Shinji had his little *vision*. When they turned around the corner they bumped into Misato who had a wicked grin over her lips.
"Talking about Ritsuko eh?" Both pilots faces turned a pale white.
"Actually at a young age, I think she went out during rainstorms stepping on earthworms that were on the sidewalk"
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Misato hadn't heard them talking about their secret but she had overheard the pilots making guesses at Ritsuko's past. While Misato drove half heartedly she was recalling some of her college experiences and what she had remembered of Ritsuko as a young girl. Shinji stared out the window in the front seat as they drove and barely gave an ear to what Misato was talking about. Shinji would have to relearn a few things, now that he was a girl. Just before they got in the car Asuka had warned Shinji not to speak again claiming 'You almost gave us away last time!'. Shinji just shrugged and leaned back into the chair closing his eyes and letting the relaxing motions of the car craddle him to rest. Well the way Misato was driving, he'd need to close his eye's inorder to relax.
Asuka looked up at Shinji seeing how the scenary was zooming past faster then normal. She saw Shinji close his eyes and gain an almost blissful appearance. Asuka envied him suddenly. 'How can that Baka, have himself so relaxed at all the crap that's just happened to us!' Asuka stared at Shinji another few moments, before she overheard Misato swear some new colours into a rainbow and then whipping the car around another turn they almost missed. Misato then continued her one-sided conversation. Asuka leaned back sighing as she watched a school bus whip by with all the children screaming.
'I'm going to need to teach Shinji how to act more unlike himself, if we're going to make this last'. She watched Shinji again close his eyes, she noticed Shinji counting down. Silently mouthing numbers and tightening his grip on the arm rests.
5...
4...
3...
2...
1...
"Ah damnit!!!" The car swerved again as Misato nearly missed another turn off. Shinji smiled inwardly noting how even if everything changes some things stay the same.
"...*Asuka*... Just cause Shinji does that, doesn't mean I will put up with that from you too" Misato glared at Shinji for a moment before returning to her driving. Asuka just mumbled a "Whatever" as the apartment came into view.
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"Well... Today is..." Misato stopped in front of the chore list that hung from the wall. Asuka plopped herself on the couch and Shinji stood by Misato. Asuka stretched knowing it was Shinji's turn to cook and made herself more comfortable.
"My, my *Shinji* you sure look comfortable there. I wouldn't want to bother you, but 2 very beautiful and hungry ladies are awaiting dinner" Asuka realized the situation before she looked up over her shoulder. 'Damn third child. A pain even til the end'.
"...But Misato there's not a lot left. We'd need to go shopping..." Asuka was racking her brain looking for an excuse to get out of this. Anything would do now! "Asuka! I umm... learned a few dishes you might like! Ah... come with me to get the groceries!"
Asuka twitched her left eye brow and Shinji caught on just before Misato turned around. Shinji crossed his arms under his new found breasts, turned his head and raised his nose into the air looking indignant. 'I don't really look like that do I?'.
"Fine, I'll grace you with my presence. Let's go *Shinji*" Asuka got up from the couch and followed Shinji out the door.
"This wouldn't be half as bad if we just admitted to Misato what happened" Asuka looked at Shinji again.
"Don't you remember what we discussed earlier?" Asuka prodded Shinji with her elbow.
"I meant we only tell Misato. Get her to promise not to tell anyone or something" Asuka rolled her eyes.
"Idiot! She's our commanding officer!! First thing she'll do is lock us up in one of NERV's test rooms" Shinji had to admit Asuka did have a few points to work with. They continued to walk in silence.
"You know... I really do not like being stuck with chores... espesically if they were YOUR chores" Shinji held his hands up to ward any blows that were to come.
"Look... we'll figure out what to do" Shinji knew Asuka wasn't the best house keeper. In fact Shinji usually ended up doing the cleaning on the other females turns, so something would have to be done soon.
"I just had an idea" Asuka gained an awefully wicked grin Shinji saw.
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"I've seen somethings that seem out of character for them..." a voice was mentioning something from the other end of Misato's phone line.
"Well, I could bring them in but they just went out now for groceries just now..." Misato fiddled with a pencil in her hand as she listened to the voice.
"No. I don't think anything like that is needed... You remember what happened to them right?" Misato paused, as the voice again spoke.
"Sure, that's something I can do... No, no problem at all" Misato sat up in the kitchen table chair and crossed her legs over one in front of her.
"Alright, until then... take care"
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They had all the ingrediants that Asuka said she'd need. Asuka wasn't a 5 star chef and she knew mostly western foodstuffs when it came to cooking, however what she could make, she made it great. They shared the burden of carrying the bags as they waited for the elevator to stop at their floor.
*Ding*
They shuffled down the darkened hallway and stopped in front of the door with *Katsuragi M* on the name plate.
"Alright Shinji stick to the plan"
"We'll be done in 62 seconds"
Asuka lifted an eyebrow at the reference to the 7th angel. The door whisked open 'show time'. Shinji tensed then leapt into his part.
"You miserable Baka! You'd be suprised at how good I can cook! I'll even make one of your Japanese meals you always serve me to prove it!"
"*Asuka*... I meant nothing by it..."
" HMMFP!!!" Shinji crossed his arms in a close representation of what Asuka would do "Oh!! Is that SO!"
Misato looked stunned from where she sat at the table hearing the children arguing their way to Misato. When they came into view *Asuka* immediatetly turned to her.
"Misato! I'm cooking tonight's dinner!" Misato blinked a few times as *Asuka* went about dinner. *Shinji* only watched this for about 3 seconds before going off to do something in the living room. Misato watched *Asuka* for a moment before joining *Shinji* who was watching some nature show.
"What's got *Asuka* on the cooking binge?" Asuka almost smiled. 'If only she knew the truth'.
"I don't know but it looks like she needs to work it out of her system. Perhaps you should give her the cooking duties for the rest of the week?" Misato had hit a buzz by now. 'Why there must be as few as 4 empties on the table right now'.
"Well..." Misato blinked at Asuka " *Shinji*. I was hoping to try those western foods you were talking about" Asuka replied by changing the channel.
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"*Asuka* you really know how to make a mean Miso soup!" Misato drunkenly praised Shinji "Why I'd say your a better cook then *Shinji*!" Misato flung an arm around Asuka and ruffled her hair for effect.
"Well, what did you expect! I'm Asuka Langley Sohryu! The most talented and beautiful girl in Japan, the highest sync-ratio holder of them all and you thought I couldn't out cook Shinji!?" Misato only grinned and reached for her NERV jacket. Asuka was giving a dirty look at Shinji. Shinji's left eye brow started twitching nervously, the only thing that prevented them from seeing that was the pose he struck. Arms tucked under breasts, chin raised nose facing to the left wall, blue eyes closed.
"Well. Nice to see your all ok. I had to take time off to bring you guys back here, so I have to make up for it with a nightshift" Misato's hang over seemed to evaporate, faster then the orange juice Shinji served Misato one day, when she mentioned work.
"Bye kids" she then winked at them "And don't think I don't know what you'll be doing when I'm gone" Misato was spared a vicious glare from two fronts when the front door whisked closed.
Shinji sighed then slumped in his chair. Asuka's glare turned away from door to a certain red head, stunk with the personna of a certain Shinji Ikari. Her glare seemed to have been noticed by Shinji who immediately met her gaze. Shinji could have sworn he heard teeth scraping together very slowly and very loudly. She was leaning over a very tall chasm, one that if pushed into, Shinji would bear every bruise. His silent gulp seemed to snap her patience like a twig.
"Don't you think that was laying it on a little thick... SHINJI IKARI..." everytime Shinji thought back to this moment he would swear she even pronouced the capitalizations.
"Wh... at do you me... an Asuka?" Asuka leaned closer to Shinji.
Asuka's face suddenly went into super-Kawaii mode and her voice followed suit.
"Well what did you expect! I'm Asuka Langley Sohryu! The most talented and beautiful girl in Japan, the highest sync-ratio holder of them all and you thought I couldn't out cook Shinji!? And Did you know that I lie like a rug and am twice as thick!" Asuka repeated the sentence and then added the last part with a mocking tone. Her features returned back to very AGKYA(Asuka's-Gonna-Kick-Your-Ass) mode.
"I only did what you would do!"
"Are you nuts! I never do things like that! And I certainly never looked so utterly foolish and conceited!!!" Asuka was tuned out for a moment as Shinji mentally added opposition 'sure ya did...'. A solid smack to the fore head brought him back to the wrath of Asuka.
"Pay attention when I, Asuka Langley Sohryu, is speaking" Shinji only narrowed his eyes and glowered at her.
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It had been quite the adventure but oddly enough Shinji had convinced Asuka to take a shower. Asuka had been repulsed by just the thought of being naked with my body but I told her what I had done earlier *for her* at the hospital and she finally agreed. Whether or not our attitudes were different about the situation we both looked at our bodies like rentals. You get them and then depending on their state of repair at their return will affect if you will have insurance chewing your ass off. Well something along those lines. Basicly we were afraid of messing with what had once been our roommate's body. Why, just yesterday I was a boy and Asuka was beautiful girl(which I am now).
We scored a lucky break with Misato taking the nightshift tonight. It allowed us to sleep in our own rooms.
"Baka. I don't want you in my room unless absolutely nessecary!" Asuka waved a finger at him dangerously. Shinji was running on empty at that point and was making a trip to his only sanctuary. Asuka paused him with her hand.
"What?"
"You going to your room? Why so early?" looking up at the clock it barely read 6 pm. In fact it wasn't even all that dark out.
"Well... today's been... well..." Shinji used his hands to gesture what he couldn't describe with words. Asuka knew perfectly well without the flailing arm signals.
"So what were you going to do?"
"Well... sleep"
"With your music?" Shinji nodded but still couldn't quite put his finger on what Asuka was getting at.
"Would Asuka do that sort of thing?" Shinji's thoughts snapped into place like a rubber band and just as loud too.
"Quit groaning! Sheesh! Don't worry about it so much now but really, you can't get careless like that. If Misato was home she would have caught on" Shinji then motioned towards Asuka's bedroom again. Shinji had to admit seeing, what had been his facial features, did look 'funny' when Asuka glowered at him with her hands on her hips.
Asuka then shushed Shinji off down the hall towards his door before she disappeared into her own.
Very likely Asuka was *removing* things she wouldn't want me to find while I was in her room... In fact if she was doing that, then Shinji really wouldn't want to know what she was *removing*. Regardless of all the scuffling coming from the wall connecting to her room, Shinji felt somewhat blissful as the sounds of his SDAT filled his ears, it's music gently rocking him to sleep. He closed his eyelids letting his new saphire perfect blue eyes to rest.
"Today has been a busy day..."
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The Sun shined, cicadas buzzed, the birds sang, the wind whistled and all was right with the world. Everybody walked with a lighter step some even skipped, everybody except for two teenage saviours of the world who now sat across of from each other all had a smile on their face(except for Gendo, the temperature dropped 20 degrees the day he smiled).
Shinji and Asuka sat across from each other the next morning staring into each other eye's intently. Neither made a move, only their silent hushed breathing could be heard in the echoing silence. They didn't dare take their eyes of the other in case the other dared to prove they were unfaithful. Shinji stared at Asuka with a grim passion and Asuka stared back with determination.
Penpen(Everyone's lovable little warm water penguin) waddled onto the scene. After shifting his gaze between the unmoving statues that were a pretty good mockery of humans, he gave his customary call.
"WARRK!!"
This snapped both humans out of their trance. The penguin continued to stare at them as they stared back. Oddly it was the loud and cute one that went to get breakfast. Penpen suddenly remembered last time the fiery red-haired human served him his fish. While not bad, it was almost nothing compared to the silent boy that fed him. Still food was food. Penpen gingerly nibbled a bit of one of the fishes and immediately leaped into the air in joy tasting how good the fish was.
"I think he liked your cooking Shinji" Shinji nodded shocked at the penguins reaction to what he did.
"Asuka...?" Asuka shuffled in her seat
"Yeah Shinji?"
"I do agree with you. It's only saturday classes. We can skip today" Shinji continued to watch the flightless bird gobble the fish down.
"This situation is weird enough with out having to deal with constant pressures" Shinji perked an eyebrow up and faced Asuka.
"What?" Asuka gave a vexed sigh at Shinji's obliviousness.
"BAKA! You've just barely managed to not blow our cover and we've barely had to manage it for a total of 20 minutes yet!!" Asuka sat up from the table and stormed over to the fridge and removed a soda of sorts from the non-beer section.
"..."
"Oh stop it with that damned silence!! I know what you want to ask for help but if we do we'll be lab rats faster then you could say, Baka-idiot" Asuka sucked back the drink in a Misato like manner before Shinji replied
"I don't want to be a mad scientists guinea pig anymore then you do, HOWEVER" Shinji continued before Asuka could interject "With help we might be able to figure out how to reverse this" Asuka just crossed her arms and huffed.
'Do I really look like that?' Shinji wondered this as he stared at his body. Asuka suddenly had another idea. Shinji wondered what put that wicked grin back on Asuka's face.
"Well, *Asuka*, I think it's about time to go shopping, don't you?" Shinji paled to Rei's skin tone.
'Hell has a new gate keeper and her name is Asuka'
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Yo thats the end of chapter 2 !! Let's party like it's 1999!!! Ok maybe not. I hope you liked it.
In the next chapter 'Adventures in everyday life' We'll see how our poor spineless hero(Shinji) deals with the challenge of Asuka's shopping spree. What happens when they cross paths with friends!? Who was on the other end of Misato's phone!? And why haven't I started the next chapter yet! All these and more, answered in the next chapter!!!
Until then Read, Review, laugh, cry.
^.^
As we can remember from the last chapter, Arael the 15th angel, attacked and was beaten, though not killed. Shinji and Asuka had been the targets of a dual mind 'invasion' (I dislike using the real term, espesically when it's related to my favorite EVA girl) beam. Both pilots wandered around in a world of memories and out ran Arael's vengence, thus returning to their bodies. However, they ended up in the wrong bodies.
Due to the fact that people will be calling them the wrong names in reference to who's using the body. I'm going to be using *Shinji* and *Asuka* when someone is calling/referring to one of their bodies, not their mindset. Remember Shinji is in Asuka's body and Asuka is in Shinji's body. To clarify here's an example:
"Hey *Shinji* !! Wait up!" Asuka turned around and replied "I'm Asuka not Shinji"
'...' stands for thought
"..." stands for talking
--?--?-- stands for beginning and end. Also author interruption(Me, making myself heard)
--- stands for... I guess the next Scene
ok? OK!
And the Disclaimer IS the first chapter. So go look over there before mouthing off about rip offs and such.(Though I feel guilty about tripping over somebody else's name)
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
World from the eye's of Another
02 : Never believe that the human animal can't adapt
--?--?--
"I feel sick..."
The single line that *Shinji* had said described exactly what both felt.
Asuka raised what was Shinji's hand looked blankly at it for maybe a minute and then slowly reached forward to touch what should have been Asuka's shoulder. Asuka stopped her new hand hovering maybe a centimeter from the shoulder. Shinji reached over and lightly touched the arm that reached out. 'It must be a dream'. He tapped it and found the arm soft but solid. He gulped audibly. His heart felt like it would pound it's way through his chest. He lowered his arm and placed his hand over his heart and closing his eyes, hoping to settle it.
Asuka saw his hands resting on what used to be her breast, thinking the worst. She swung her right arm back.
"YOU PERVERT GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY BREAST!!" Shinji then remembered his body wasn't has own and he looked up at Asuka's now dark blue eyes as they radiated fire and brimstone. The slap could have really hurt if not for the fact that Asuka slowed it's descent to that of push.
Asuka couldn't believe that she almost slapped herself.
"Ahh... Asuka... I really think it wasn't what you thought it was" Shinji's speech was slightly garbled because Asuka's hand was holding/gripping the cheek she had planned to slap.
"I couldn't bring myself to slap such a perfect creature. Even with a hentai-pervent-baka-moron-idiot like you inside it" Shinji just shrugged and Asuka removed her hand from his face.
'Too damn weird...' ran through their minds at that moment.
"... Could I use the bathroom... I could really use a cold shower..." Asuka stared at Shinji like he was stupid.
"NO! Ever heard of Chivalry! Ladies first!!" Asuka stormed over to the door and was going to slam it when the implacations of her sentence came to her in full force.
"...Ah... Asuka?..." Shinji turned towards here and spread his arms, displaying his body. Well her body. Shinji would have had to stiffle a laugh if the sitaution wasn't so weird. Or better yet, didn't have him included in it. Asuka stared dumbly for a moment, her mind working overtime.
"You know what I meant!!!" Asuka replied with her face turned slightly red at the thought. Her thinking suddenly halted on another train of thought. 'I don't want to see this Baka's body naked!!!! Damn it, today is gonna be really aweful!' her face flushed to a deeper red.
Asuka walked away from the bathroom sat on her bed and waved Shinji ahead. Shinji lifted his eyebrows.
"Your letting me go first?" Asuka nodded and watched Shinji go through the door and closed it behind himself. Asuka suddenly boarded another train of thought.
'Did I just let a boy go with my body to shower?! That boy being Shinji no less!!' Asuka bolted to the door and barged through.
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Shinji suddenly realised one of the reasons Asuka probably gave up on the shower so easily. She didn't want to look at Shinji's naked body. Shinji had realised this too as he had reached to undo the gown. He blinked several times in the mirror. Whether or not it was his body or not, he didn't feel right looking at it. He closed his eyes and undid the gown, then placed it covering the mirror before he opened them again. He kept his eyes forward daring not to look down. He stepped into the shower as Asuka burst in.
"HEY THIRD!!!" Shinji jumped and clutched the shower curtains over his body as Asuka shouted at him. Asuka sort of realized this must be murder to Shinji as she saw her face showing bewilderment, fear and confusion. 'Jesus, my heart stopped when I looked back at my face' she thought.
"Ahh... Yeah Asuka?..." Shinji stuttered the words. Holding onto the curtains like they were a lifeline. Asuka stared for a moment. 'I shouldn't feel embarressed. That is my body after all... Still this is way too weird'. Asuka snapped out of her silence.
"I'm here to make sure you don't take advantage of *MY* perfect body!" She glared at the cowering Shinji.
"I know perfectly well, that you'd kill me if I did anything to you..." Asuka suddenly wondered if she would have the determination to strike what had been her body. 'Well... Shinji never made a move before, so I'll just keep up the threats until something around here makes sense'.
--?--?--
I could go on and on and on about this, but for the benefit of the doubt. Shinji promised no funny business.
--?--?--
Shinji actually got to take a shower in Asuka's body(though he stared at the ceiling the whole time). Asuka agreed to stand outside the bathroom, however she glanced over to Shinji's black silhouette making sure there was no, quote "funny business" unquote.
The shower finally stopped and Shinji took a towel and wrapped it around himself. He blushed after seeing himself in the mirror 'How did I end up in Asuka's body anyway?'.
"See? All better now. And look no new scars!" Asuka beamed at him. Shinji blinked a few times and wondered why Asuka was trying to make any good idea sound like it was hers in the first place?
"Ahh... yeah Asuka..."
Misato then walked into the room, thus stumbling across the two.
" Oh my! I didn't know my *Shinji* liked to admire *Asuka* in such a way" Misato grinned as the two turned around and slightly flushed. Oddly enough it was *Shinji* that spoke up first.
"Oh shut up Misato!" She then watched *Shinji* storm into the bathroom, snagging the clothing Misato handed out. Misato leaned over *Asuka's* towel clad figure and smiled.
"*Asuka*, I know that Shinji is fun to tease but, next time play fair" Misato nudged her companion. Shinji blinked confusedly then remembered that he was only in a towel.
"Misato it's not what you think!" Misato grinned and patted him on the back.
"Really? And just what do I think *Asuka*?" Shinji was going to make a suggestion when Asuka walked out of the bathroom.
"There, *Asuka*... You can have it now" Misato's grin only widened at seeing *Shinji* turn aside and blush seeing *Asuka's* state of undress. *Asuka* gave an unrecognizable face and raced into the bathroom with the clothing Misato had held out for her.
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"Dummkopf! What are you trying to do!!" Asuka (lightly)swatted Shinji as they walked down the corridor. Shinji cringed, then collected himself. Misato hadn't noticed.
"I was just going to..."
"Act like yourself right!?" Shinji cringed again, seeing Asuka barely hold back another swing. Asuka's new eyes flashed annoyance.
"Well... yeah... sorry" Asuka looked at Shinji as if he was a watermelon with purple lipstick on doing the hokie-pokie.
"S~T~O~P, apologizing!"
"Sor..."
"Do you really wanna blow our cover!" Asuka interrupted Shinji with a hiss when she realized what he was going to repeat earlier.
"What are you to whispering about so secretively?" Misato turned around, glancing back at her two charges. Then had been lagging behind her ever since they left the hospital room and had been chatting just below the level Misato could hear. She expected some odd behavior after what happened to them today but this was different. Didn't Asuka usually lead the troop out of the hospital?
Both Asuka and Shinji stopped talking immediately and turned to face their purple haired guardian. Both stared dumbly at Misato until *Asuka* suddenly spoke up.
"Why are you pestering us? You said it yourself we've had a rough day" Misato only maintained her gaze for a fraction of a second before mentally shrugging and returning to the map in her hand.
Shinji swatted Asuka's hand off his butt, and gave a little glare at her. Asuka glared back and Shinji backed off.
"You almost gave us away!" she hissed the words almost to the point where Shinji almost couldn't hear them. Asuka scanned the hallway, noting that nothing had changed. The lights didn't cast shadows so there was no chance of someone hiding in a corner or something. One of the side doors were open behind them but it lead to an empty lounge with a few vending machines. Misato had gone a fair clip ahead of them before Shinji spoke again.
"Why do we not want to give ourselves away?"
"Are you crazy?!! Just think about all the freaking tests those scientists would put us through! They're nut jobs I swear!" Asuka shuddered at the memory of being the test subject for the heat resistant plug suit and the D-type equipment. 'That damned suit was the ugliest thing ever and what they did to my eva!!! Even me and unit 02 couldn't make that look good!!'. It was not a pleasant memory.
Shinji himself really disliked the idea of being Ritsuko's guinea pig. He imaged himself wearing a costume of a guinea pig with Ritsuko's body the size of an EVA with an evil grin as she inched her instruments towards him. She laughed as Shinji sweated.
"... Ok... maybe for awhile..."
"I swear as a little girl she pulled the wings off flys or roasted ants with a magnifying glass" Asuka had begun talking while Shinji had his little *vision*. When they turned around the corner they bumped into Misato who had a wicked grin over her lips.
"Talking about Ritsuko eh?" Both pilots faces turned a pale white.
"Actually at a young age, I think she went out during rainstorms stepping on earthworms that were on the sidewalk"
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Misato hadn't heard them talking about their secret but she had overheard the pilots making guesses at Ritsuko's past. While Misato drove half heartedly she was recalling some of her college experiences and what she had remembered of Ritsuko as a young girl. Shinji stared out the window in the front seat as they drove and barely gave an ear to what Misato was talking about. Shinji would have to relearn a few things, now that he was a girl. Just before they got in the car Asuka had warned Shinji not to speak again claiming 'You almost gave us away last time!'. Shinji just shrugged and leaned back into the chair closing his eyes and letting the relaxing motions of the car craddle him to rest. Well the way Misato was driving, he'd need to close his eye's inorder to relax.
Asuka looked up at Shinji seeing how the scenary was zooming past faster then normal. She saw Shinji close his eyes and gain an almost blissful appearance. Asuka envied him suddenly. 'How can that Baka, have himself so relaxed at all the crap that's just happened to us!' Asuka stared at Shinji another few moments, before she overheard Misato swear some new colours into a rainbow and then whipping the car around another turn they almost missed. Misato then continued her one-sided conversation. Asuka leaned back sighing as she watched a school bus whip by with all the children screaming.
'I'm going to need to teach Shinji how to act more unlike himself, if we're going to make this last'. She watched Shinji again close his eyes, she noticed Shinji counting down. Silently mouthing numbers and tightening his grip on the arm rests.
5...
4...
3...
2...
1...
"Ah damnit!!!" The car swerved again as Misato nearly missed another turn off. Shinji smiled inwardly noting how even if everything changes some things stay the same.
"...*Asuka*... Just cause Shinji does that, doesn't mean I will put up with that from you too" Misato glared at Shinji for a moment before returning to her driving. Asuka just mumbled a "Whatever" as the apartment came into view.
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"Well... Today is..." Misato stopped in front of the chore list that hung from the wall. Asuka plopped herself on the couch and Shinji stood by Misato. Asuka stretched knowing it was Shinji's turn to cook and made herself more comfortable.
"My, my *Shinji* you sure look comfortable there. I wouldn't want to bother you, but 2 very beautiful and hungry ladies are awaiting dinner" Asuka realized the situation before she looked up over her shoulder. 'Damn third child. A pain even til the end'.
"...But Misato there's not a lot left. We'd need to go shopping..." Asuka was racking her brain looking for an excuse to get out of this. Anything would do now! "Asuka! I umm... learned a few dishes you might like! Ah... come with me to get the groceries!"
Asuka twitched her left eye brow and Shinji caught on just before Misato turned around. Shinji crossed his arms under his new found breasts, turned his head and raised his nose into the air looking indignant. 'I don't really look like that do I?'.
"Fine, I'll grace you with my presence. Let's go *Shinji*" Asuka got up from the couch and followed Shinji out the door.
"This wouldn't be half as bad if we just admitted to Misato what happened" Asuka looked at Shinji again.
"Don't you remember what we discussed earlier?" Asuka prodded Shinji with her elbow.
"I meant we only tell Misato. Get her to promise not to tell anyone or something" Asuka rolled her eyes.
"Idiot! She's our commanding officer!! First thing she'll do is lock us up in one of NERV's test rooms" Shinji had to admit Asuka did have a few points to work with. They continued to walk in silence.
"You know... I really do not like being stuck with chores... espesically if they were YOUR chores" Shinji held his hands up to ward any blows that were to come.
"Look... we'll figure out what to do" Shinji knew Asuka wasn't the best house keeper. In fact Shinji usually ended up doing the cleaning on the other females turns, so something would have to be done soon.
"I just had an idea" Asuka gained an awefully wicked grin Shinji saw.
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"I've seen somethings that seem out of character for them..." a voice was mentioning something from the other end of Misato's phone line.
"Well, I could bring them in but they just went out now for groceries just now..." Misato fiddled with a pencil in her hand as she listened to the voice.
"No. I don't think anything like that is needed... You remember what happened to them right?" Misato paused, as the voice again spoke.
"Sure, that's something I can do... No, no problem at all" Misato sat up in the kitchen table chair and crossed her legs over one in front of her.
"Alright, until then... take care"
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They had all the ingrediants that Asuka said she'd need. Asuka wasn't a 5 star chef and she knew mostly western foodstuffs when it came to cooking, however what she could make, she made it great. They shared the burden of carrying the bags as they waited for the elevator to stop at their floor.
*Ding*
They shuffled down the darkened hallway and stopped in front of the door with *Katsuragi M* on the name plate.
"Alright Shinji stick to the plan"
"We'll be done in 62 seconds"
Asuka lifted an eyebrow at the reference to the 7th angel. The door whisked open 'show time'. Shinji tensed then leapt into his part.
"You miserable Baka! You'd be suprised at how good I can cook! I'll even make one of your Japanese meals you always serve me to prove it!"
"*Asuka*... I meant nothing by it..."
" HMMFP!!!" Shinji crossed his arms in a close representation of what Asuka would do "Oh!! Is that SO!"
Misato looked stunned from where she sat at the table hearing the children arguing their way to Misato. When they came into view *Asuka* immediatetly turned to her.
"Misato! I'm cooking tonight's dinner!" Misato blinked a few times as *Asuka* went about dinner. *Shinji* only watched this for about 3 seconds before going off to do something in the living room. Misato watched *Asuka* for a moment before joining *Shinji* who was watching some nature show.
"What's got *Asuka* on the cooking binge?" Asuka almost smiled. 'If only she knew the truth'.
"I don't know but it looks like she needs to work it out of her system. Perhaps you should give her the cooking duties for the rest of the week?" Misato had hit a buzz by now. 'Why there must be as few as 4 empties on the table right now'.
"Well..." Misato blinked at Asuka " *Shinji*. I was hoping to try those western foods you were talking about" Asuka replied by changing the channel.
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"*Asuka* you really know how to make a mean Miso soup!" Misato drunkenly praised Shinji "Why I'd say your a better cook then *Shinji*!" Misato flung an arm around Asuka and ruffled her hair for effect.
"Well, what did you expect! I'm Asuka Langley Sohryu! The most talented and beautiful girl in Japan, the highest sync-ratio holder of them all and you thought I couldn't out cook Shinji!?" Misato only grinned and reached for her NERV jacket. Asuka was giving a dirty look at Shinji. Shinji's left eye brow started twitching nervously, the only thing that prevented them from seeing that was the pose he struck. Arms tucked under breasts, chin raised nose facing to the left wall, blue eyes closed.
"Well. Nice to see your all ok. I had to take time off to bring you guys back here, so I have to make up for it with a nightshift" Misato's hang over seemed to evaporate, faster then the orange juice Shinji served Misato one day, when she mentioned work.
"Bye kids" she then winked at them "And don't think I don't know what you'll be doing when I'm gone" Misato was spared a vicious glare from two fronts when the front door whisked closed.
Shinji sighed then slumped in his chair. Asuka's glare turned away from door to a certain red head, stunk with the personna of a certain Shinji Ikari. Her glare seemed to have been noticed by Shinji who immediately met her gaze. Shinji could have sworn he heard teeth scraping together very slowly and very loudly. She was leaning over a very tall chasm, one that if pushed into, Shinji would bear every bruise. His silent gulp seemed to snap her patience like a twig.
"Don't you think that was laying it on a little thick... SHINJI IKARI..." everytime Shinji thought back to this moment he would swear she even pronouced the capitalizations.
"Wh... at do you me... an Asuka?" Asuka leaned closer to Shinji.
Asuka's face suddenly went into super-Kawaii mode and her voice followed suit.
"Well what did you expect! I'm Asuka Langley Sohryu! The most talented and beautiful girl in Japan, the highest sync-ratio holder of them all and you thought I couldn't out cook Shinji!? And Did you know that I lie like a rug and am twice as thick!" Asuka repeated the sentence and then added the last part with a mocking tone. Her features returned back to very AGKYA(Asuka's-Gonna-Kick-Your-Ass) mode.
"I only did what you would do!"
"Are you nuts! I never do things like that! And I certainly never looked so utterly foolish and conceited!!!" Asuka was tuned out for a moment as Shinji mentally added opposition 'sure ya did...'. A solid smack to the fore head brought him back to the wrath of Asuka.
"Pay attention when I, Asuka Langley Sohryu, is speaking" Shinji only narrowed his eyes and glowered at her.
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It had been quite the adventure but oddly enough Shinji had convinced Asuka to take a shower. Asuka had been repulsed by just the thought of being naked with my body but I told her what I had done earlier *for her* at the hospital and she finally agreed. Whether or not our attitudes were different about the situation we both looked at our bodies like rentals. You get them and then depending on their state of repair at their return will affect if you will have insurance chewing your ass off. Well something along those lines. Basicly we were afraid of messing with what had once been our roommate's body. Why, just yesterday I was a boy and Asuka was beautiful girl(which I am now).
We scored a lucky break with Misato taking the nightshift tonight. It allowed us to sleep in our own rooms.
"Baka. I don't want you in my room unless absolutely nessecary!" Asuka waved a finger at him dangerously. Shinji was running on empty at that point and was making a trip to his only sanctuary. Asuka paused him with her hand.
"What?"
"You going to your room? Why so early?" looking up at the clock it barely read 6 pm. In fact it wasn't even all that dark out.
"Well... today's been... well..." Shinji used his hands to gesture what he couldn't describe with words. Asuka knew perfectly well without the flailing arm signals.
"So what were you going to do?"
"Well... sleep"
"With your music?" Shinji nodded but still couldn't quite put his finger on what Asuka was getting at.
"Would Asuka do that sort of thing?" Shinji's thoughts snapped into place like a rubber band and just as loud too.
"Quit groaning! Sheesh! Don't worry about it so much now but really, you can't get careless like that. If Misato was home she would have caught on" Shinji then motioned towards Asuka's bedroom again. Shinji had to admit seeing, what had been his facial features, did look 'funny' when Asuka glowered at him with her hands on her hips.
Asuka then shushed Shinji off down the hall towards his door before she disappeared into her own.
Very likely Asuka was *removing* things she wouldn't want me to find while I was in her room... In fact if she was doing that, then Shinji really wouldn't want to know what she was *removing*. Regardless of all the scuffling coming from the wall connecting to her room, Shinji felt somewhat blissful as the sounds of his SDAT filled his ears, it's music gently rocking him to sleep. He closed his eyelids letting his new saphire perfect blue eyes to rest.
"Today has been a busy day..."
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The Sun shined, cicadas buzzed, the birds sang, the wind whistled and all was right with the world. Everybody walked with a lighter step some even skipped, everybody except for two teenage saviours of the world who now sat across of from each other all had a smile on their face(except for Gendo, the temperature dropped 20 degrees the day he smiled).
Shinji and Asuka sat across from each other the next morning staring into each other eye's intently. Neither made a move, only their silent hushed breathing could be heard in the echoing silence. They didn't dare take their eyes of the other in case the other dared to prove they were unfaithful. Shinji stared at Asuka with a grim passion and Asuka stared back with determination.
Penpen(Everyone's lovable little warm water penguin) waddled onto the scene. After shifting his gaze between the unmoving statues that were a pretty good mockery of humans, he gave his customary call.
"WARRK!!"
This snapped both humans out of their trance. The penguin continued to stare at them as they stared back. Oddly it was the loud and cute one that went to get breakfast. Penpen suddenly remembered last time the fiery red-haired human served him his fish. While not bad, it was almost nothing compared to the silent boy that fed him. Still food was food. Penpen gingerly nibbled a bit of one of the fishes and immediately leaped into the air in joy tasting how good the fish was.
"I think he liked your cooking Shinji" Shinji nodded shocked at the penguins reaction to what he did.
"Asuka...?" Asuka shuffled in her seat
"Yeah Shinji?"
"I do agree with you. It's only saturday classes. We can skip today" Shinji continued to watch the flightless bird gobble the fish down.
"This situation is weird enough with out having to deal with constant pressures" Shinji perked an eyebrow up and faced Asuka.
"What?" Asuka gave a vexed sigh at Shinji's obliviousness.
"BAKA! You've just barely managed to not blow our cover and we've barely had to manage it for a total of 20 minutes yet!!" Asuka sat up from the table and stormed over to the fridge and removed a soda of sorts from the non-beer section.
"..."
"Oh stop it with that damned silence!! I know what you want to ask for help but if we do we'll be lab rats faster then you could say, Baka-idiot" Asuka sucked back the drink in a Misato like manner before Shinji replied
"I don't want to be a mad scientists guinea pig anymore then you do, HOWEVER" Shinji continued before Asuka could interject "With help we might be able to figure out how to reverse this" Asuka just crossed her arms and huffed.
'Do I really look like that?' Shinji wondered this as he stared at his body. Asuka suddenly had another idea. Shinji wondered what put that wicked grin back on Asuka's face.
"Well, *Asuka*, I think it's about time to go shopping, don't you?" Shinji paled to Rei's skin tone.
'Hell has a new gate keeper and her name is Asuka'
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Yo thats the end of chapter 2 !! Let's party like it's 1999!!! Ok maybe not. I hope you liked it.
In the next chapter 'Adventures in everyday life' We'll see how our poor spineless hero(Shinji) deals with the challenge of Asuka's shopping spree. What happens when they cross paths with friends!? Who was on the other end of Misato's phone!? And why haven't I started the next chapter yet! All these and more, answered in the next chapter!!!
Until then Read, Review, laugh, cry.
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