Well, looky here... I made another chapter to WFTEOA.... go figure... I could have sworn ACOS would have been my next update. Ah well, can't argue with my ever changing... ummm, whatever the name is for the opposite of writer's block. Yeah that's it!
I'll give you fair warning though, most likely this story and all my other ones will be on hold as I manage my fic 'Vengeance'. To say the least, it's a beast. 33 pages and I still need to fix it up... Sigh...
A short chapter this time, but lots o memories to work with. Mostly the old men this time, sorry! But read it anyway.
'...' stands for thought
"..." stands for talking
--?--?-- stands for beginning and end.
~~...~~ stands for author interruption(Me, making myself heard) and has little relevance to the story
--- stands for... I guess the next Scene
*Shinji* or *Ikari* stand for someone referring to Asuka in Shinji's body
*Asuka* or *Sohryu* stand for someone referring to Shinji in Asuka's body
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
World from the eye's of Another
09: End of a dream / Silence
--?--?--
After the whole Toji incident had died down, breakfast had actually been achieved. Pancakes was the order of the day... well Asuka's order of the day, but Shinji hadn't minded that too much. Seeing how everyone was wolfing them down, Shinji noted not really anyone had paid much heed to Asuka's little tirade about having pancakes for breakfast.
"Hey Shinji" Misato lifted up her face from the plate and glanced at Shinji. She was still in her morning attire that the original idiot duo liked to sneak quick glances at just before then bit into their breakfast again.
"Yeah, Misato?" Shinji didn't bother to look up from making the latest batches of breakfast food. He was still decked out in Asuka's sleeping clothing but with the cook apron on.
"Great pancakes but..." Misato shook her hand in only a way Shinji and Misato could understand, Shinji flipped a pancake over as he formed a response. He found that since his body switching incident his confidence had begun to grow, it was almost uncanny to himself as he almost lightly brushed off Misato.
"Misato, I'm busy enough, ask someone else or better yet, get a beer for yourself" mumbled Shinji as he flipped another pancake and feeling like he could stand up for himself just a bit better then usual.
Misato huffed for a moment, but no one really paid attention to her at the time being, except for the quick glances from the idiot duo that Hikari was beginning to pick up as the glance stealing continued. So with a soft huff, she got up to find her own Yebisu.
Shinji flipped another pancake and watched it bask in the pan's heat... He flipped another one and deemed it almost ready... Then he...
"Psst. Shinji?" Asuka seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
...Nearly suffered a heart attack when Asuka whispered in his ear. Asuka had appeared right behind Shinji.
"Um, yeah Asuka?" Shinji huffed trying to steady his new found heart. Asuka leaned a bit closer whispering softer as if she was telling what the secret of life was or something.
"This'll be the first time, your stooges see Misato's early morning *charms*" Shinji blinked at Asuka's statement. 'Well, her charms? Running around half naked which they have so far enjoyed to no end... being a total slob... her stupid morning beer cheer... OH, the beer cheer'
"Seeing the look on your face I take it that you finally understand what I'm talking about" Asuka sneered. She seemed to be in WAY too cheery a mood Shinji noticed. Asuka then twisted both of them around and faced Misato who was already hard at it.
"YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Misato whooped after she chugged 2/3 of the can "That's the way to start your morning!" Misato concluded her usual morning ritual with the new found audience. Now the entire kitchen was watching Misato.
"Ah? What?" Misato asked blinking.
'That's no way for a Japanese woman should act!!'Hikari stared in silent horror as while Toji and Kensuke watched with rapt fascination. Asuka was sneering and Shinji was trying to figure out what the two would do...
'Hey, Misato, that's gross. In fact we don't like you anymore - no. Not like them' Shinji regretted that thought out right after all, he could only dream that those two would get over her and move on.
'Misato... that's disgusting... - well that's more like them but it doesn't seem to fit either...' Shinji felt this would be his preferred response from his friends, but after all this was Toji and Kensuke, they were practically the senior members of Misato's fanclub.
'Hot damn Misato, do that again!!! - Also seems a bit out of character knowing them... I wonder what are they going to do?' Shinji's brain continued to whittle closer to an answer as he kept changing what could happen in his mind.
Shinji's silent musing was interrupted when two voices in sync started a whole hearted...
"wwwwwwwWWWWWWWWOoooooOOOOOOaaaAAAAAAhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Toji and Kensuke practically leapt over each other to get to a beer in the fridge.
'What are they doing?' was the one thought circling through 3 three females and 1 male as they started to battle over opening the door to the beer half of the fridge.
"KENSUKE! BACK OFF! YOU AIN'T MAN ENOUGH TO HOLD Y'UR BEER!!!" Toji muttered through Kensuke's hand which was forcing his head away.
"YEAH RIGHT, MOVE IT TOJI. FIRST DIBS, BESIDES YOU GOT HIKARI, WHY YA TRYING TO IMPRESS MISATO?!" Kensuke mumbled through the head lock that was slowly being placed over him.
Shinji blinked.
Asuka held her head.
Misato smiled.
Hikari blushed.
Toji played dumb "Say what?!"
Kensuke opened the fridge in the moment of delay.
"AH HA!!!" Kensuke was about to pop the tap when a hand swooped by and stole the Yebisu away "Hey I was gonna... err, Misato..."
"You young man will not touch a drop of my stock" Misato told him with an almost motherly tone.
"Yes ma'am" Kensuke squeaked, while he was being talked down it was sort of exciting. After all it was Misato.
Misato glanced at her watch "Shouldn't you guys be heading off to school?"
5 sets of eyes blinked.
"Oh shoot! What time is it!" Hikari piped up rushing to the bathroom to prepare herself for her public job of class rep.
" About..." Misato glanced down at her watch. Toji then looked at the clock and his face paled.
"OH JESUS KENSUKE, WE GOTTA GO!!" Toji shouted grabbing the stoic boy. Kensuke stood still confused by Toji's sudden sprint to the door and the shoes awaiting them.
"Wait a minute why we leaving we still have" Kensuke glanced at his watch " 15 minutes"
"Kensuke! We left our bags at my house remember!?" Toji shouted as he rushed to shove his shoes on. Kensuke panicked just as equally and joined Toji in the mock funny dance of shoving their shoes on while standing up as they ran down the hall.
"Misato... tell me if I'm right" Asuka turned to face Misato, talking levelly "even after all the body switching... we still have to go to school?" Asuka held some spite in her last sentence, but Misato only grinned lop-sided perhaps all the tomfoolery had let her drunk state to slip into place a bit.
"Yeah. I heard you guys skipped out on Saturday remember? You should at least go today" Misato nodded her head accordingly but mentally she was getting panicky. She was wondering if it was a smart move... 'Too late to switch tactics, all guns forward!'
"Misato, you have to be kidding!" Shinji exclaimed before grabbing some of his new red hair "I'm a girl now! How the hell am I going to hide that!?"
Shinji blinked for a moment 'Wow... I just sounded like Asuka'
"Hey, your not the only one who's stuck in this position baka" Asuka muttered and Shinji blushed as Asuka lifted up her shirt showing what used to be Shinji's bare chest revealing she was still stuck in Shinji's body.
'So I might be acting a bit like Asuka but... Asuka's still acting like Asuka' Shinji pondered as Asuka slipped the shirt back down.
"I'm very serious. As your commanding officer I *order* you to go" Misato crossed her arms and any sign of tipsiness or weakness faded as a stern look crossed her face. The Yebisu balancing on the side of the table questioned her decision 'Hush, I'll deal with you later'.
"Fine..." Shinji muttered before heading for Asuka's room.
"Hey, your not going to stand up for yourself?! Again!?" Asuka glared at Shinji with Misato sipping her beer listening intently.
"Well... may as well... besides... we could just do what we were doing on Saturday" Shinji muttered as he swung open Asuka's door.
Under normal circumstances Asuka would have hung Shinji for entering her room, under normal circumstances Shinji wouldn't even think of entering Asuka's room, due to threat of a hanging. However since Shinji was now a 14 year old red headed, blue eyed girl and not his old self, he needed Asuka's clothing. The same fact was going for Asuka as she too resigned to her fate and raced towards Shinji's room in hopes to find a school uniform ready to use.
When both were ready they met Hikari who had stayed behind holding her school bag, which she had thoughtfully brought with her last night.
"Thank you for the party last night miss Misato" yelled Hikari waving as the three took off at a fast clip to get to school on time.
'I was going to let them get away with no school, but Ritsuko said that even the Magi were stumped at how this even happened!!' Misato wondered as she slipped back into a more relaxed position.
"There's gonna be hell to pay..." Misato muttered as her phone started ringing wildly in the morning calm. Her Yebisu still taunting her
"Hush you"
---
Hyuga hung up the phone and turned to face Fuyutsuki who was still sitting patiently on the command chair "Sir. Misato will be here on command level in 30 minutes"
"Good" Fuyutsuki didn't grace the bridge bunnies with many words as he was feeling older by the minute.
Several of Gendo's plans had been 'not very pretty' to give such ugly possibilities a name, while others were what could be termed as 'perfect instrumentality'. Fuyutsuki was guessing that Gendo already knew what was going to happen and was keeping him in the dark. However considering that Gendo actually explained these possible outcomes gave Fuyutsuki a sense of balance and thus he could easily maintain his air of superiority over the lesser positions.
However, he could remember when he didn't need a superior attitude to manage his daily life. Dragging his eyes from the main screen to the current crew, which had just switched, letting the 3 main terminal workers, Hyuga, Maya and Aoba, a chance to rest before the time that the angel would once again be ready to attack, go about their duties. The current group was a bit more happy go lucky then the main crew, for good reasons too, managing battles and watching helplessly weren't stresses this crew has experienced.
A joke was shared and the female tech had giggled to it. Regardless of the content of the joke, Fuyutsuki felt a pang as he remembered when he could have laughed so easily. His past life as a university teacher was the closest he could come to that. Even then when he had been having fun it was due to the students from dragging him away from his tests and papers rather then himself going out.
"A lonely old man..." Fuyutsuki mumbled as his eyes went back to the spinning white shape on the main screen.
---
"And so we shall soon know what path has been chosen for us" Gendo spoke in the large room, his voice echoing adding an undertone to it.
"You know it was your idea to allow the children to decide..." Gendo continued to look forward his eyes staring intently ahead. His tone had been almost playful when he spoke the words.
"So now, SEELE has begun operations to gain a new understanding of what's happening" Gendo's chiselled chin stayed level towards the face in front of him.
He remembered the current blight the children were in. The failed activation tests, the abandonment of Shinji, the reports of the angels confirmed. The Katsuragi expedition. The recovery of the lance... All of these held a part of his torn heart.
All that was left of that organ was the shattered remains, which had it's needle sharp memories digging into Gendo. Every time he lost control, they'd sink deeper. Every time to relaxed, the shards would tunnel deeper scything all they touched. But if he was the commander, no... If he was Commander Ikari, the cold bastard with no remorse, no emotions and no outbursts... then the shards didn't move so deeply, or cut so painfully.
Looking at the purple Evangelion in front of him, one of the largest shards that belonged to the woman he still loved sank deeper, rending him nearly speechless. He lowered his head, and the glasses caught the light offering their protection to the tall black clad man.
The First Evangelion activation... Unit 01. What was to be NERV and the Ikari's greatest achievement, a fully functional Evangelion, was the first curse that came into effect. It stole Gendo's heart that day.
"Yui... I ask every time I come here... Did you plan for this?" Gendo turned away and left the huge storage cage. The eva's eyes stared forward as if unmoved and uncaring to the small man's plight.
Maybe it did care, maybe it didn't. Perhaps without power it wouldn't have heard anyway. Gendo just walked up the hallway and entered a waiting elevator. His confection over, his mask replaced upon his face.
The glasses ended there defense and the cold uncaring eyes of Commander Ikari gazed at the closing elevator doors in front of him.
---
"So anything interesting happen while I left you alone?" Asuka sneered as she watched Shinji in his desk.
Shinji sighed as he lowered his head down on the desk. Asuka merely turned to face him again.
"Well?" earlier Asuka had left the room with Hikari, which was an odd sight as Asuka was in Shinji's body after all.
Rumours flew across the room like a forest fire in a drought. As Asuka's roommate Shinji was questioned rather shyly by some of the surrounding students. Not that there were too many left.
The 14th angel had done a number to the city. Entire blocks had to be replaced and that not even counting the ecosystem damage done to the geo front. A good number of non mandatory citizens had made a mad exodus out of the city.
So that now left the student body at about 15 to 20 students in the class 2-A, give or take.
"Well... I don't know what to say" Shinji glanced around his red bangs flying around his head as he looked around.
Sure was weird to be getting fanmail especially from the male cast of the class.
--?--?--
and so ends this nice little instalment of WFTEOA. It was a nice cute Uber-Kawaii sized version compared to the usual chapters eh?
Well anyway, I'm sorry for keeping ya'll hanging waiting patiently for this fic's update. It'll get interesting as Shinji and Asuka have to keep the entire student body from learning their secret while the NERV dudes and dudettes prepare for Arael's awakening which was predicted at late night!
And so I leave you with this Omake to end on a pleasant note. Do note the second one has a touch of lime ^_^ just watch as everybody skips to that one. I think only one or two people will know which line I borrowed from a friend. It just had to be given it's own Omake.
_-~Omake~-_
~The Katsuragi expedition~
"Hey Shinji" Misato lifted up her face from the plate and glanced at Shinji.
"Yeah, Misato?" Shinji didn't bother to look up from making the latest batches of breakfast food.
"Great pancakes but..." Misato shook her hand in only a way Shinji and Misato could understand, Shinji flipped a pancake over as he formed a response.
"Misato, I'm busy enough, ask someone else or better yet, get a beer for yourself" mumbled Shinji as he flipped another pancake and feeling like he could stand up for himself just a bit better then usual.
Misato huffed for a moment, but no one really paid attention to her at the time being. So with a soft huff, she got up to find her own Yebisu.
Shinji flipped another pancake and watched it bask in the pan's heat... He flipped another one and deemed it almost ready... Then he...
"RROOOOAARRRR!!!" *BANG!*
...Nearly suffered a heart attack when a giant Yebisu can monster leapt onto his shoulder and started to gnaw on his ear, and only seconds later shot off by Misato's elephant gun.
"Wha??!" Shinji screamed when the dead(and holy(heh heh)) Yebisu can fell from his shoulder "Misato what was that and what are you wearing?!"
"Oh? you didn't know Yebisu's are wild by nature and have the tendency to get loose? As for the outfit... you think the skimpy amazonian is a bit much?" Misato slung the gun over her shoulder and knocked Toji out when it hit his head. Kensuke was still drooling a little sea on his shirt.
"You know it's illegal to hurt animals" Asuka stated with little conviction.
"You know as well as I do that Yebisu's taste best, wild and freshly shot full of lead" Misato then rose the corpse of the yellow can to her lips and sucked greedily.
"I think Asuka was referring to Toji..." Shinji stated and pointed at the knocked out fanboy.
_-~end of Omake~-_
~_-Omake-_~
---A reality that won't come---
Shinji flipped another pancake and watched it bask in the pan's heat... He flipped another one and deemed it almost ready... Then he...
"Psst. Shinji?" Asuka seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
...Nearly suffered a heart attack when Asuka whispered in his ear. Asuka had appeared right behind Shinji.
"Um, yeah Asuka?" Shinji huffed trying to steady his new found heart. Asuka leaned a bit closer whispering softer as if she was telling what the secret of life was or something.
"This'll be the first time I've been a boy..." Asuka continued to mutter silent enough to not let any words slip to the ears from the table " but I had the most vivid dream last night..."
Shinji blinked for a moment letting the pancakes in the pan to cook a bit more on their bottom. What was Asuka getting at?
'A vivid dream... She's just become a boy... Oh good god I didn't need to know this!' Shinji's mind whirled as he put the pieces together. His head suddenly whipped towards Asuka with an almost audible whip sound
'I like she just learned why most teenage boys have a fear of falling asleep during class time'
"Hemm... don't stare... but was it what I think it was?" Asuka slightly blushed as she shifted her gaze to the counter surface.
"You had a wet dream!?" Shinji hissed at her his own face was nearly bursting red.
"What!? I think I had a nightmare!!! What's a..." Asuka's face lit up with recognition and she transformed into what could be considered, red devil.
"PERVERT!!!" Shinji never stood a chance standing so close to Asuka.
~_-End Omake-_~
Few have survived the wrath of Asuka Langley Sohryu... and Shinji wasn't one of them this time... ooww, sorry Shinji... no hard feelings? Ummm... Perhaps I should begin mass production Shinji clones... No, what am I thinking, Rei would monopolize that in 15 seconds. Ah well hope to get something out for you all to enjoy soon! In case I don't make it in time, Merry Christmas!!
I'll give you fair warning though, most likely this story and all my other ones will be on hold as I manage my fic 'Vengeance'. To say the least, it's a beast. 33 pages and I still need to fix it up... Sigh...
A short chapter this time, but lots o memories to work with. Mostly the old men this time, sorry! But read it anyway.
'...' stands for thought
"..." stands for talking
--?--?-- stands for beginning and end.
~~...~~ stands for author interruption(Me, making myself heard) and has little relevance to the story
--- stands for... I guess the next Scene
*Shinji* or *Ikari* stand for someone referring to Asuka in Shinji's body
*Asuka* or *Sohryu* stand for someone referring to Shinji in Asuka's body
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
World from the eye's of Another
09: End of a dream / Silence
--?--?--
After the whole Toji incident had died down, breakfast had actually been achieved. Pancakes was the order of the day... well Asuka's order of the day, but Shinji hadn't minded that too much. Seeing how everyone was wolfing them down, Shinji noted not really anyone had paid much heed to Asuka's little tirade about having pancakes for breakfast.
"Hey Shinji" Misato lifted up her face from the plate and glanced at Shinji. She was still in her morning attire that the original idiot duo liked to sneak quick glances at just before then bit into their breakfast again.
"Yeah, Misato?" Shinji didn't bother to look up from making the latest batches of breakfast food. He was still decked out in Asuka's sleeping clothing but with the cook apron on.
"Great pancakes but..." Misato shook her hand in only a way Shinji and Misato could understand, Shinji flipped a pancake over as he formed a response. He found that since his body switching incident his confidence had begun to grow, it was almost uncanny to himself as he almost lightly brushed off Misato.
"Misato, I'm busy enough, ask someone else or better yet, get a beer for yourself" mumbled Shinji as he flipped another pancake and feeling like he could stand up for himself just a bit better then usual.
Misato huffed for a moment, but no one really paid attention to her at the time being, except for the quick glances from the idiot duo that Hikari was beginning to pick up as the glance stealing continued. So with a soft huff, she got up to find her own Yebisu.
Shinji flipped another pancake and watched it bask in the pan's heat... He flipped another one and deemed it almost ready... Then he...
"Psst. Shinji?" Asuka seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
...Nearly suffered a heart attack when Asuka whispered in his ear. Asuka had appeared right behind Shinji.
"Um, yeah Asuka?" Shinji huffed trying to steady his new found heart. Asuka leaned a bit closer whispering softer as if she was telling what the secret of life was or something.
"This'll be the first time, your stooges see Misato's early morning *charms*" Shinji blinked at Asuka's statement. 'Well, her charms? Running around half naked which they have so far enjoyed to no end... being a total slob... her stupid morning beer cheer... OH, the beer cheer'
"Seeing the look on your face I take it that you finally understand what I'm talking about" Asuka sneered. She seemed to be in WAY too cheery a mood Shinji noticed. Asuka then twisted both of them around and faced Misato who was already hard at it.
"YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Misato whooped after she chugged 2/3 of the can "That's the way to start your morning!" Misato concluded her usual morning ritual with the new found audience. Now the entire kitchen was watching Misato.
"Ah? What?" Misato asked blinking.
'That's no way for a Japanese woman should act!!'Hikari stared in silent horror as while Toji and Kensuke watched with rapt fascination. Asuka was sneering and Shinji was trying to figure out what the two would do...
'Hey, Misato, that's gross. In fact we don't like you anymore - no. Not like them' Shinji regretted that thought out right after all, he could only dream that those two would get over her and move on.
'Misato... that's disgusting... - well that's more like them but it doesn't seem to fit either...' Shinji felt this would be his preferred response from his friends, but after all this was Toji and Kensuke, they were practically the senior members of Misato's fanclub.
'Hot damn Misato, do that again!!! - Also seems a bit out of character knowing them... I wonder what are they going to do?' Shinji's brain continued to whittle closer to an answer as he kept changing what could happen in his mind.
Shinji's silent musing was interrupted when two voices in sync started a whole hearted...
"wwwwwwwWWWWWWWWOoooooOOOOOOaaaAAAAAAhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Toji and Kensuke practically leapt over each other to get to a beer in the fridge.
'What are they doing?' was the one thought circling through 3 three females and 1 male as they started to battle over opening the door to the beer half of the fridge.
"KENSUKE! BACK OFF! YOU AIN'T MAN ENOUGH TO HOLD Y'UR BEER!!!" Toji muttered through Kensuke's hand which was forcing his head away.
"YEAH RIGHT, MOVE IT TOJI. FIRST DIBS, BESIDES YOU GOT HIKARI, WHY YA TRYING TO IMPRESS MISATO?!" Kensuke mumbled through the head lock that was slowly being placed over him.
Shinji blinked.
Asuka held her head.
Misato smiled.
Hikari blushed.
Toji played dumb "Say what?!"
Kensuke opened the fridge in the moment of delay.
"AH HA!!!" Kensuke was about to pop the tap when a hand swooped by and stole the Yebisu away "Hey I was gonna... err, Misato..."
"You young man will not touch a drop of my stock" Misato told him with an almost motherly tone.
"Yes ma'am" Kensuke squeaked, while he was being talked down it was sort of exciting. After all it was Misato.
Misato glanced at her watch "Shouldn't you guys be heading off to school?"
5 sets of eyes blinked.
"Oh shoot! What time is it!" Hikari piped up rushing to the bathroom to prepare herself for her public job of class rep.
" About..." Misato glanced down at her watch. Toji then looked at the clock and his face paled.
"OH JESUS KENSUKE, WE GOTTA GO!!" Toji shouted grabbing the stoic boy. Kensuke stood still confused by Toji's sudden sprint to the door and the shoes awaiting them.
"Wait a minute why we leaving we still have" Kensuke glanced at his watch " 15 minutes"
"Kensuke! We left our bags at my house remember!?" Toji shouted as he rushed to shove his shoes on. Kensuke panicked just as equally and joined Toji in the mock funny dance of shoving their shoes on while standing up as they ran down the hall.
"Misato... tell me if I'm right" Asuka turned to face Misato, talking levelly "even after all the body switching... we still have to go to school?" Asuka held some spite in her last sentence, but Misato only grinned lop-sided perhaps all the tomfoolery had let her drunk state to slip into place a bit.
"Yeah. I heard you guys skipped out on Saturday remember? You should at least go today" Misato nodded her head accordingly but mentally she was getting panicky. She was wondering if it was a smart move... 'Too late to switch tactics, all guns forward!'
"Misato, you have to be kidding!" Shinji exclaimed before grabbing some of his new red hair "I'm a girl now! How the hell am I going to hide that!?"
Shinji blinked for a moment 'Wow... I just sounded like Asuka'
"Hey, your not the only one who's stuck in this position baka" Asuka muttered and Shinji blushed as Asuka lifted up her shirt showing what used to be Shinji's bare chest revealing she was still stuck in Shinji's body.
'So I might be acting a bit like Asuka but... Asuka's still acting like Asuka' Shinji pondered as Asuka slipped the shirt back down.
"I'm very serious. As your commanding officer I *order* you to go" Misato crossed her arms and any sign of tipsiness or weakness faded as a stern look crossed her face. The Yebisu balancing on the side of the table questioned her decision 'Hush, I'll deal with you later'.
"Fine..." Shinji muttered before heading for Asuka's room.
"Hey, your not going to stand up for yourself?! Again!?" Asuka glared at Shinji with Misato sipping her beer listening intently.
"Well... may as well... besides... we could just do what we were doing on Saturday" Shinji muttered as he swung open Asuka's door.
Under normal circumstances Asuka would have hung Shinji for entering her room, under normal circumstances Shinji wouldn't even think of entering Asuka's room, due to threat of a hanging. However since Shinji was now a 14 year old red headed, blue eyed girl and not his old self, he needed Asuka's clothing. The same fact was going for Asuka as she too resigned to her fate and raced towards Shinji's room in hopes to find a school uniform ready to use.
When both were ready they met Hikari who had stayed behind holding her school bag, which she had thoughtfully brought with her last night.
"Thank you for the party last night miss Misato" yelled Hikari waving as the three took off at a fast clip to get to school on time.
'I was going to let them get away with no school, but Ritsuko said that even the Magi were stumped at how this even happened!!' Misato wondered as she slipped back into a more relaxed position.
"There's gonna be hell to pay..." Misato muttered as her phone started ringing wildly in the morning calm. Her Yebisu still taunting her
"Hush you"
---
Hyuga hung up the phone and turned to face Fuyutsuki who was still sitting patiently on the command chair "Sir. Misato will be here on command level in 30 minutes"
"Good" Fuyutsuki didn't grace the bridge bunnies with many words as he was feeling older by the minute.
Several of Gendo's plans had been 'not very pretty' to give such ugly possibilities a name, while others were what could be termed as 'perfect instrumentality'. Fuyutsuki was guessing that Gendo already knew what was going to happen and was keeping him in the dark. However considering that Gendo actually explained these possible outcomes gave Fuyutsuki a sense of balance and thus he could easily maintain his air of superiority over the lesser positions.
However, he could remember when he didn't need a superior attitude to manage his daily life. Dragging his eyes from the main screen to the current crew, which had just switched, letting the 3 main terminal workers, Hyuga, Maya and Aoba, a chance to rest before the time that the angel would once again be ready to attack, go about their duties. The current group was a bit more happy go lucky then the main crew, for good reasons too, managing battles and watching helplessly weren't stresses this crew has experienced.
A joke was shared and the female tech had giggled to it. Regardless of the content of the joke, Fuyutsuki felt a pang as he remembered when he could have laughed so easily. His past life as a university teacher was the closest he could come to that. Even then when he had been having fun it was due to the students from dragging him away from his tests and papers rather then himself going out.
"A lonely old man..." Fuyutsuki mumbled as his eyes went back to the spinning white shape on the main screen.
---
"And so we shall soon know what path has been chosen for us" Gendo spoke in the large room, his voice echoing adding an undertone to it.
"You know it was your idea to allow the children to decide..." Gendo continued to look forward his eyes staring intently ahead. His tone had been almost playful when he spoke the words.
"So now, SEELE has begun operations to gain a new understanding of what's happening" Gendo's chiselled chin stayed level towards the face in front of him.
He remembered the current blight the children were in. The failed activation tests, the abandonment of Shinji, the reports of the angels confirmed. The Katsuragi expedition. The recovery of the lance... All of these held a part of his torn heart.
All that was left of that organ was the shattered remains, which had it's needle sharp memories digging into Gendo. Every time he lost control, they'd sink deeper. Every time to relaxed, the shards would tunnel deeper scything all they touched. But if he was the commander, no... If he was Commander Ikari, the cold bastard with no remorse, no emotions and no outbursts... then the shards didn't move so deeply, or cut so painfully.
Looking at the purple Evangelion in front of him, one of the largest shards that belonged to the woman he still loved sank deeper, rending him nearly speechless. He lowered his head, and the glasses caught the light offering their protection to the tall black clad man.
The First Evangelion activation... Unit 01. What was to be NERV and the Ikari's greatest achievement, a fully functional Evangelion, was the first curse that came into effect. It stole Gendo's heart that day.
"Yui... I ask every time I come here... Did you plan for this?" Gendo turned away and left the huge storage cage. The eva's eyes stared forward as if unmoved and uncaring to the small man's plight.
Maybe it did care, maybe it didn't. Perhaps without power it wouldn't have heard anyway. Gendo just walked up the hallway and entered a waiting elevator. His confection over, his mask replaced upon his face.
The glasses ended there defense and the cold uncaring eyes of Commander Ikari gazed at the closing elevator doors in front of him.
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"So anything interesting happen while I left you alone?" Asuka sneered as she watched Shinji in his desk.
Shinji sighed as he lowered his head down on the desk. Asuka merely turned to face him again.
"Well?" earlier Asuka had left the room with Hikari, which was an odd sight as Asuka was in Shinji's body after all.
Rumours flew across the room like a forest fire in a drought. As Asuka's roommate Shinji was questioned rather shyly by some of the surrounding students. Not that there were too many left.
The 14th angel had done a number to the city. Entire blocks had to be replaced and that not even counting the ecosystem damage done to the geo front. A good number of non mandatory citizens had made a mad exodus out of the city.
So that now left the student body at about 15 to 20 students in the class 2-A, give or take.
"Well... I don't know what to say" Shinji glanced around his red bangs flying around his head as he looked around.
Sure was weird to be getting fanmail especially from the male cast of the class.
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and so ends this nice little instalment of WFTEOA. It was a nice cute Uber-Kawaii sized version compared to the usual chapters eh?
Well anyway, I'm sorry for keeping ya'll hanging waiting patiently for this fic's update. It'll get interesting as Shinji and Asuka have to keep the entire student body from learning their secret while the NERV dudes and dudettes prepare for Arael's awakening which was predicted at late night!
And so I leave you with this Omake to end on a pleasant note. Do note the second one has a touch of lime ^_^ just watch as everybody skips to that one. I think only one or two people will know which line I borrowed from a friend. It just had to be given it's own Omake.
_-~Omake~-_
~The Katsuragi expedition~
"Hey Shinji" Misato lifted up her face from the plate and glanced at Shinji.
"Yeah, Misato?" Shinji didn't bother to look up from making the latest batches of breakfast food.
"Great pancakes but..." Misato shook her hand in only a way Shinji and Misato could understand, Shinji flipped a pancake over as he formed a response.
"Misato, I'm busy enough, ask someone else or better yet, get a beer for yourself" mumbled Shinji as he flipped another pancake and feeling like he could stand up for himself just a bit better then usual.
Misato huffed for a moment, but no one really paid attention to her at the time being. So with a soft huff, she got up to find her own Yebisu.
Shinji flipped another pancake and watched it bask in the pan's heat... He flipped another one and deemed it almost ready... Then he...
"RROOOOAARRRR!!!" *BANG!*
...Nearly suffered a heart attack when a giant Yebisu can monster leapt onto his shoulder and started to gnaw on his ear, and only seconds later shot off by Misato's elephant gun.
"Wha??!" Shinji screamed when the dead(and holy(heh heh)) Yebisu can fell from his shoulder "Misato what was that and what are you wearing?!"
"Oh? you didn't know Yebisu's are wild by nature and have the tendency to get loose? As for the outfit... you think the skimpy amazonian is a bit much?" Misato slung the gun over her shoulder and knocked Toji out when it hit his head. Kensuke was still drooling a little sea on his shirt.
"You know it's illegal to hurt animals" Asuka stated with little conviction.
"You know as well as I do that Yebisu's taste best, wild and freshly shot full of lead" Misato then rose the corpse of the yellow can to her lips and sucked greedily.
"I think Asuka was referring to Toji..." Shinji stated and pointed at the knocked out fanboy.
_-~end of Omake~-_
~_-Omake-_~
---A reality that won't come---
Shinji flipped another pancake and watched it bask in the pan's heat... He flipped another one and deemed it almost ready... Then he...
"Psst. Shinji?" Asuka seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
...Nearly suffered a heart attack when Asuka whispered in his ear. Asuka had appeared right behind Shinji.
"Um, yeah Asuka?" Shinji huffed trying to steady his new found heart. Asuka leaned a bit closer whispering softer as if she was telling what the secret of life was or something.
"This'll be the first time I've been a boy..." Asuka continued to mutter silent enough to not let any words slip to the ears from the table " but I had the most vivid dream last night..."
Shinji blinked for a moment letting the pancakes in the pan to cook a bit more on their bottom. What was Asuka getting at?
'A vivid dream... She's just become a boy... Oh good god I didn't need to know this!' Shinji's mind whirled as he put the pieces together. His head suddenly whipped towards Asuka with an almost audible whip sound
'I like she just learned why most teenage boys have a fear of falling asleep during class time'
"Hemm... don't stare... but was it what I think it was?" Asuka slightly blushed as she shifted her gaze to the counter surface.
"You had a wet dream!?" Shinji hissed at her his own face was nearly bursting red.
"What!? I think I had a nightmare!!! What's a..." Asuka's face lit up with recognition and she transformed into what could be considered, red devil.
"PERVERT!!!" Shinji never stood a chance standing so close to Asuka.
~_-End Omake-_~
Few have survived the wrath of Asuka Langley Sohryu... and Shinji wasn't one of them this time... ooww, sorry Shinji... no hard feelings? Ummm... Perhaps I should begin mass production Shinji clones... No, what am I thinking, Rei would monopolize that in 15 seconds. Ah well hope to get something out for you all to enjoy soon! In case I don't make it in time, Merry Christmas!!