Shinji's Dream Girl
By CCSBeyond
CCSBeyond@yahoo.com
Neon Genesis Evangelion is owned by Gainax, with American distribution rights owned by ADV and Manga Entertainment respectively. I do not own any of the characters except for those created for my own purposes. With that, and the fact that I am a poor college student, please don't sue me. Thank you.
Chapter 3 - An Invitation
It had been a long week since Shinji had his walk home with Yui. First, there had been a power outage all over Tokyo-3, and Rei, Asuka and Shinji had to travel through the ventilitation shafts of NERV in order to reach headquarters. This already difficult and annoying task was made much more difficult through both their choice of routes as decided by their team leader, Asuka and because of the attack of the ninth angel, Matriel.
Fortunately. Asuka's made a much better strategist than she did navigator. Her attack plan killed the angel with only cosmetic damage to Unit 02 and Asuka had been quite proud of her achievement, pushing it into everyone's face, despite the fact that Shinji was the one who had made the actual kill. After several days of listening to Asuka's comments over who great and wonderful she was and how she should have Misato's job, the official report regarding the angel was somehow leaked to the general NERV staff. For some reason, Asuka lost her bluster upon reading the statement, "Matriel has been deemed an Epsilon level threat, the lowest status of priority given to an Angel Class Lifeform. (Note: This status has only been given to the lifeform due to the Blue Blood Type detected. Had the Blue Blood Type not been detected, Matriel would receive a BNC classification, due to the ease of its termination.) The amount of strategy it took to terminate such a low status lifeform reflects badly on NERV in general and on the Pilot of Unit 02 specifically, as she was the leader of this sortie." So, instead of a happy but gloating Asuka, Shinji found he had to deal with an angry and insulted Asuka. And work with an angry and insulted Asuka. And live with angry and insulted Asuka.
One thing that had made the past week bearable for Shinji was his new playmate. Specifically, this playmate was for Hide and Go Seek, as he now saw her quite often, but only for a few seconds at a time. Usually, he saw her among crowds at school, where she would see him and wave, before a wave of people would walk past, pushing her from his sight. However, he saw her a few afternoons before at the mall. He had been forced to go clothing shopping with Asuka, who had told him that she needed a "male perspective" on her purchases and Kaji had been much too busy to go with her. It was his good fortune to be asked and he should appreciate it or so she told him so he had found himself at the mall on a Wednesday afternoon. This was why he was in a position to see Yui when she was also at the mall, apparently looking at clothes for herself in another section of the store. He had been about to head over to her and say hi when he was dragged away by Asuka, who was yelling at him, asking what was so important that he should stop paying attention to Asuka's purchases.
So, when Friday rolled around again, Shinji made sure that he was walking home from school before Asuka had been done her school chores that day. Kensuke had the unfortunate luck to be paired with her and while this meant that Shinji was again walking alone, as Touji again had practice, it did mean that the amount of time he had before Asuka came home from completing her chores would be greatly increased. Unless she killed Kensuke, having her receive a prison sentence and then he would be free from her for an indeterminate amount of time. The thought please Shinji far more than even he would have thought so he was far too distracted to notice the return of his walking companion from the previous week.
"What are you smiling about?" Yui asked, frightening Shinji out of his revelry. He gasped and then stared at her sheepishly.
"Nothing...really. I just had an...amusing thought," Shinji told her, hoping the true nature of his thoughts wasn't too easily read upon his face.
"Ah. I don't suppose it has anything to do with that gaijin pilot, the one with the red hair?" Yui asked, with a very large grin on her face. Shinji could only stare and chuckle uncomfortable."
"Um, not in the way you're probably thinking." He said.
She nodded. "Ok then. Well, I was under the impression that you were contemplating some plot where she would be removed from your life for the foreseeable future. If it isn't that, than your were obviously thinking about Langely and sex. Makes sense." Yui, nodded again, indicating that it all made perfect sense to her.
"Uh, no. That's not quite it either." Shinji scratched his head, hoping that Yui would stop this line of questioning soon.
Yui stopped walking, and Shinji followed in turn. "So, you weren't thinking about your girlfriend in a sexual manner?" Shinji looked at her, eyes growing wide.
"Girlfriend?" he gulped. He tried to stammer a follow-up but nothing audible was coming out of his mouth. Yui didn't appear to be kidding with this current line of questioning, making Shinji wish for yet another one to be brought up.
"Yes, girlfriend. You and her. Langley and You. I mean, come on. Your both pilots, you come to school together, Hikari always talks about you picking up the phone when she calls Langely so you obviously spend a lot of time at Langely's..."
"She's my roommate. We both live at the head of NERV's operations apartment. I only hang out with her because I have to." Shinji looked quite sullen over his confession.
Yui stepped right up to Shinji and looked deep into his eyes. "So, let me see if I understand this. Langely isn't your girlfriend. You only spend time with her due to your job. You have no interest whatsoever." Shinji nodded. "Good," Yui said and she broke into a big grin. She began walking again and Shinji just stood there, looking at Yui walking ahead before it occurred to him to follow behind. He started running to catch up with her.
When he had finally caught up, Yui gave him a second to catch up. "I think you should take me out to the park after school tomorrow," speaking as if this was the most natural thing in the world.
"What?" Shinji exclaimed, hoping his companion would explain her comment.
"Well, your not dating Langely. Therefore, there wouldn't be a problem if you took me out to the park after class gets out tomorrow. It's Saturday so we only have a half day, which means that we can have lunch in the park. You can make the bento's and I will bring my company. Granted, your getting the better part of the deal but..."
Shinji interrupted her. "Why do I have to bring the bento's? You're the girl, you should bring them," Shinji than blushed at the boldness of his statement and Yui looked at him in amazement.
"I'm the girl so I should make them?" Yui asked, stressing the I's and the girl. "Your not being very egaliterian, Mr. Ikari. The way I see it, it's the twenty first century, so we should be considered equal in our gender roles. In this case, I am asking you out, placing me in the aggressor or male position while you take on the role of the acceptor or female role. As the acceptor, you are the one who prepares the bento's. Besides, you make lunch for yourself and Langely all the time and I hear your meals are quite tasty in fact."
Shinji thought about this before speaking. "Well, what if we went out to eat. As the aggressor, you would pay, right?"
Yui looked shocked. "Pay, Shinji, I can't pay, I'm a girl!" and she laughed while Shinji tried to reconcile the two opposing viewpoints that Yui had just shown.
By this time, they had reached the outside of Shinji's apartment. "So, I'll meet you outside your apartment at 13:00 tomorrow?" and when he nodded in agreement, she began to walk off.
'Wait," Shinji yelled. Yui stopped and turned around. "This is the second time you've walked me to my home. Shouldn't I walk you home sometime?"
Yui gave him a sly look, saying, "If you play your cards just right, Shinji, maybe you'll walk me home tomorrow. It just depends on how well you can cook." She laughed, a sweet melodious sound that stayed with Shinji, long after she had walked away.
Authors notes:
I had to do some research as to where I wanted this story to take place. So, Prologue and Chapter 1 took place between episodes 10 and 11 and Chapter 2 takes place after episode 11 but before 12.
It took me a while to write this chapter although I usually bolt them out in a few hours. This is because of a massive Bio test I had and a philosophy paper I had to write. Crew had also been driving me nuts, since my rowers have decided to become less than reliable recently in terms of coming to practice. However, this just makes it that much nicer for me when I finally get a chapter posted.
People who I said I would contact about prereading, please stay interested. I have just been very slow in responding to people because I'm slow at responding to e-mails. However, since this is the last chapter I want to send out without a prereader, I will try to e-mail people. Thank you for your patience and consideration.
As for my chapter style, it is a lazy style. It works well for the time considerations I am under now. When I have large amounts of time that slowly write long chapter stories this summer (sitting in my professors lab, waiting for the social amoeba's to aggregate gives one plenty of time for story construction), I will try experimenting with other styles that won't leave people with short segments of little character development and even less plot.
Well, until the next time I post, have a nice night.
By CCSBeyond
CCSBeyond@yahoo.com
Neon Genesis Evangelion is owned by Gainax, with American distribution rights owned by ADV and Manga Entertainment respectively. I do not own any of the characters except for those created for my own purposes. With that, and the fact that I am a poor college student, please don't sue me. Thank you.
Chapter 3 - An Invitation
It had been a long week since Shinji had his walk home with Yui. First, there had been a power outage all over Tokyo-3, and Rei, Asuka and Shinji had to travel through the ventilitation shafts of NERV in order to reach headquarters. This already difficult and annoying task was made much more difficult through both their choice of routes as decided by their team leader, Asuka and because of the attack of the ninth angel, Matriel.
Fortunately. Asuka's made a much better strategist than she did navigator. Her attack plan killed the angel with only cosmetic damage to Unit 02 and Asuka had been quite proud of her achievement, pushing it into everyone's face, despite the fact that Shinji was the one who had made the actual kill. After several days of listening to Asuka's comments over who great and wonderful she was and how she should have Misato's job, the official report regarding the angel was somehow leaked to the general NERV staff. For some reason, Asuka lost her bluster upon reading the statement, "Matriel has been deemed an Epsilon level threat, the lowest status of priority given to an Angel Class Lifeform. (Note: This status has only been given to the lifeform due to the Blue Blood Type detected. Had the Blue Blood Type not been detected, Matriel would receive a BNC classification, due to the ease of its termination.) The amount of strategy it took to terminate such a low status lifeform reflects badly on NERV in general and on the Pilot of Unit 02 specifically, as she was the leader of this sortie." So, instead of a happy but gloating Asuka, Shinji found he had to deal with an angry and insulted Asuka. And work with an angry and insulted Asuka. And live with angry and insulted Asuka.
One thing that had made the past week bearable for Shinji was his new playmate. Specifically, this playmate was for Hide and Go Seek, as he now saw her quite often, but only for a few seconds at a time. Usually, he saw her among crowds at school, where she would see him and wave, before a wave of people would walk past, pushing her from his sight. However, he saw her a few afternoons before at the mall. He had been forced to go clothing shopping with Asuka, who had told him that she needed a "male perspective" on her purchases and Kaji had been much too busy to go with her. It was his good fortune to be asked and he should appreciate it or so she told him so he had found himself at the mall on a Wednesday afternoon. This was why he was in a position to see Yui when she was also at the mall, apparently looking at clothes for herself in another section of the store. He had been about to head over to her and say hi when he was dragged away by Asuka, who was yelling at him, asking what was so important that he should stop paying attention to Asuka's purchases.
So, when Friday rolled around again, Shinji made sure that he was walking home from school before Asuka had been done her school chores that day. Kensuke had the unfortunate luck to be paired with her and while this meant that Shinji was again walking alone, as Touji again had practice, it did mean that the amount of time he had before Asuka came home from completing her chores would be greatly increased. Unless she killed Kensuke, having her receive a prison sentence and then he would be free from her for an indeterminate amount of time. The thought please Shinji far more than even he would have thought so he was far too distracted to notice the return of his walking companion from the previous week.
"What are you smiling about?" Yui asked, frightening Shinji out of his revelry. He gasped and then stared at her sheepishly.
"Nothing...really. I just had an...amusing thought," Shinji told her, hoping the true nature of his thoughts wasn't too easily read upon his face.
"Ah. I don't suppose it has anything to do with that gaijin pilot, the one with the red hair?" Yui asked, with a very large grin on her face. Shinji could only stare and chuckle uncomfortable."
"Um, not in the way you're probably thinking." He said.
She nodded. "Ok then. Well, I was under the impression that you were contemplating some plot where she would be removed from your life for the foreseeable future. If it isn't that, than your were obviously thinking about Langely and sex. Makes sense." Yui, nodded again, indicating that it all made perfect sense to her.
"Uh, no. That's not quite it either." Shinji scratched his head, hoping that Yui would stop this line of questioning soon.
Yui stopped walking, and Shinji followed in turn. "So, you weren't thinking about your girlfriend in a sexual manner?" Shinji looked at her, eyes growing wide.
"Girlfriend?" he gulped. He tried to stammer a follow-up but nothing audible was coming out of his mouth. Yui didn't appear to be kidding with this current line of questioning, making Shinji wish for yet another one to be brought up.
"Yes, girlfriend. You and her. Langley and You. I mean, come on. Your both pilots, you come to school together, Hikari always talks about you picking up the phone when she calls Langely so you obviously spend a lot of time at Langely's..."
"She's my roommate. We both live at the head of NERV's operations apartment. I only hang out with her because I have to." Shinji looked quite sullen over his confession.
Yui stepped right up to Shinji and looked deep into his eyes. "So, let me see if I understand this. Langely isn't your girlfriend. You only spend time with her due to your job. You have no interest whatsoever." Shinji nodded. "Good," Yui said and she broke into a big grin. She began walking again and Shinji just stood there, looking at Yui walking ahead before it occurred to him to follow behind. He started running to catch up with her.
When he had finally caught up, Yui gave him a second to catch up. "I think you should take me out to the park after school tomorrow," speaking as if this was the most natural thing in the world.
"What?" Shinji exclaimed, hoping his companion would explain her comment.
"Well, your not dating Langely. Therefore, there wouldn't be a problem if you took me out to the park after class gets out tomorrow. It's Saturday so we only have a half day, which means that we can have lunch in the park. You can make the bento's and I will bring my company. Granted, your getting the better part of the deal but..."
Shinji interrupted her. "Why do I have to bring the bento's? You're the girl, you should bring them," Shinji than blushed at the boldness of his statement and Yui looked at him in amazement.
"I'm the girl so I should make them?" Yui asked, stressing the I's and the girl. "Your not being very egaliterian, Mr. Ikari. The way I see it, it's the twenty first century, so we should be considered equal in our gender roles. In this case, I am asking you out, placing me in the aggressor or male position while you take on the role of the acceptor or female role. As the acceptor, you are the one who prepares the bento's. Besides, you make lunch for yourself and Langely all the time and I hear your meals are quite tasty in fact."
Shinji thought about this before speaking. "Well, what if we went out to eat. As the aggressor, you would pay, right?"
Yui looked shocked. "Pay, Shinji, I can't pay, I'm a girl!" and she laughed while Shinji tried to reconcile the two opposing viewpoints that Yui had just shown.
By this time, they had reached the outside of Shinji's apartment. "So, I'll meet you outside your apartment at 13:00 tomorrow?" and when he nodded in agreement, she began to walk off.
'Wait," Shinji yelled. Yui stopped and turned around. "This is the second time you've walked me to my home. Shouldn't I walk you home sometime?"
Yui gave him a sly look, saying, "If you play your cards just right, Shinji, maybe you'll walk me home tomorrow. It just depends on how well you can cook." She laughed, a sweet melodious sound that stayed with Shinji, long after she had walked away.
Authors notes:
I had to do some research as to where I wanted this story to take place. So, Prologue and Chapter 1 took place between episodes 10 and 11 and Chapter 2 takes place after episode 11 but before 12.
It took me a while to write this chapter although I usually bolt them out in a few hours. This is because of a massive Bio test I had and a philosophy paper I had to write. Crew had also been driving me nuts, since my rowers have decided to become less than reliable recently in terms of coming to practice. However, this just makes it that much nicer for me when I finally get a chapter posted.
People who I said I would contact about prereading, please stay interested. I have just been very slow in responding to people because I'm slow at responding to e-mails. However, since this is the last chapter I want to send out without a prereader, I will try to e-mail people. Thank you for your patience and consideration.
As for my chapter style, it is a lazy style. It works well for the time considerations I am under now. When I have large amounts of time that slowly write long chapter stories this summer (sitting in my professors lab, waiting for the social amoeba's to aggregate gives one plenty of time for story construction), I will try experimenting with other styles that won't leave people with short segments of little character development and even less plot.
Well, until the next time I post, have a nice night.
