Chapter 2: Home, School and Disaster
Darkness... everywhere and everything was in pitch black to Shinji. No matter where he looked there was nothing but total darkness.
And he found himself running, running away from the darkness. Then he stopped his clasped his hands on his knees breathing heavily for he was too
tired to go on. Suddenly something made a noise behind him. Turning he saw Unit-01 grinning menacingly at him, its eyes glowed red. Shinji noticed that
the EVA was in bad shape like it was during the angel attack.
It's face amour dangled loosely on its head. Shinji gasped as the EVA took a step forward towards him. He backed away and the EVA took another step
towards him again. He tried to back away again but loose his footing and fell on his rump. The EVA stood before Shinji glowering down at him,
" Go away! " he shouted but the EVA didn't move. Then there was crash as the face amour fell to the ground beside Shinji's feet. Looking up he saw the
hideous form of the EVA's face . The face had no eyes. Then he noticed something underneath the skin moving at the place where the eyes should be, the
skin began to bulge and move then two green eyes emerged. Blinking once the eyes focused at Shinji on the floor. Shinji stared at the eyes and the eyes
stared back at him. Shinji's screams could be heard through the darkness.
Shinji woke up with a start, sweat beaded down on his forehead. Looking around frighteningly it took him a few moments for his brain to register
where he was and his shoulders sagged when he saw that there is no Unit-01. He placed his palms on his face, ' It was a dream,' he shuddered and rubbed
his eyes to shake the sleepiness away. Looking down onto his lap he then noticed that he was dressed in a hospital gown. Glancing around the room again he
saw some food laid on the table beside his bed. Feeling a bit hungry Shinji slowly picked up the food on the tray and started eating. It's not that good and it's not
that bad either, hospital food wasn't always that delicious and eating the food gave him something to do other than just sit around doing nothing. Just then the door
to his room opened and a nurse came in to check on him. " Oh you're already up I see and eating too. A good sign, " she smiled at him. She went up to him and
took his temperature. She then proceed to examine him, seeing everything is alright she said goodbye and left. After a few moments of peace Misato came in,
" Shinji! " she cried and ran forward and hugged him. Shinji was stunned by the sudden move and was caught
speechless for he hadn't been hug like that from anyone before except his mother. He had forgotten how it felt like since it was a long time ago.
" I'm - Ok, " he said to Misato. She then loosen her hug from him and looked into his eyes." Don't you ever do that again, " she said putting her hand on his shoulder.
The statement confused Shinji but he just nodded. " The doctor told me that you had not taken any injures so you can leave NERV's hospital now," she explained
handling him some clothes to change and his duffle bag.
" Don't worry about signing the discharge forms I've already taken care of it, " she added as he got of the bed and made his way to the bathroom.
****
" You're letting him live alone? " said Misato in shock at Futsuyuki. They were in his office discussing about Shinji's welfare.
" Yes, his unit would be located at level 6, in NERV's staff quarters," said Futsuyuki then he turn his attention to Shinji.
" What about his father? " said Misato.
" I'm afraid his step father couldn't let Shinji live with him due to some circumstances that cannot be avoided and his busy schedule," said Futsuyuki, he knew of course
that Gendo would not choose to accept his son into his living quarters. The reasons were already given to the lavender haired operations director who was standing in
attention before his desk.
And both of those reasons were true and it was hard to be believed by most people other than some of the NERV's staff who knew the commander well, would
forsake his son to his duties. To the top ranking officials in NERV this is a sign that Gendo had already withdrawn himself from his family.
" Is that so? " said Misato in an annoyed tone. She had already had enough of Gendo's cold attitude towards Shinji.
" I'm afraid it is, " said Futsuyuki sadly.
" But I don't think he would mind. Would you Shinji? " asked Futsuyuki to Shinji who stood quietly through the whole conversation .
" No, I don't mind," said Shinji but Misato looked at him unsure.
" Are you sure? " she asked.
" Yes, I've always lived alone so it wouldn't be a problem," he said in a voice that is barely a whisper.
Misato regarded Shinji for a moment examining his facial expression. His face was dull and showed nothing, his mouth was spread in a thin line but
she didn't take notice of this. She was looking into his eyes. She noticed that it lacked the sparkle of life in most teenagers of today, then
she had her answer.' Nah, I don't think so Shinji. You may be a pilot but you're not superman, ' she said silently.
Turning to Futsuyuki she spoke, " I will take full responsibility of him. I will be his legal guardian,".
Futsuyuki nodded, " Okay Captian. I'll hand you over the documents that you need to sign to claim your guardianship over Shinji, dismissed,".
Misato saluted a smile beaming on her face. She was going to be a guardian and the thought excited her.
Shinji didn't say anything but still stayed silent.
" So I told the assistant commander I would take the responsibility of taking care of him," said Misato over the phone to Ritsuko .
She was leaning against one of the phone booths located in NERV central. If one should notice now that NERV's corridors were not thoroughly empty for
in every corner there is a chance that a person might come across an access terminal, pictorial screen displays or the occasional security camera other than
phone booths. Ritsuko had told Misato that she wanted her to report where Shinji would stay since Misato was responsible for the welfare of all pilots in
NERV and she also wanted to know so she can call on him if she needed to conduct some synchronization test or when she needed him in case of an
emergency. " Are you sure it is wise? " Ritsuko asked, the tone in her voice told Misato that this wasn't a good idea at all.
" Yes, he'll be fine once I get him prep and ready," said Misato confidently.
" I hope so because you barely seem to be able to take care of yourself," said Ritsuko recalling that she had once visited the Major's apartment.
It wasn't a pleasant sight to her. After her first visit Ritsuko made sure she brought a small insect repellent along just in case she got attacked by some unwelcome
visitors in the Katsuragi residence.
"Oh? Nah, we can manage just fine," scoffed Misato.
" And once he puts his trust on me and opens up a little then I can make the moves on him," she added seductively, playing with her long time friend since collage.
She knew that Ritsuko used to laugh at these jokes along with her especially when she tried to nettle some guys in collage when they attended parties or
gatherings. Although Ritsuko is not a party type person she will usually tag along with Misato if she wasn't busy with her collage work.
Unfortunately Ritsuko was in no mood for such jokes today . " WHAT?!" yelled Ritsuko over the phone.
" HOW CAN YOU THINK OF SUCH A THING! YOU'RE BAD LIKE THE REST OF THEM!"
" Aiiii," said Misato pulling away the receiver an arms length away from her ear. She could fill it ringing from the yell that Ritsuko gave her.
" I was only joking! I'm not planning to do anything! You don't have to shout so loud! " she complained as Ritsuko still continued to yell at her.
****
Misato drove in her blue Renault with Shinji sitting at the passenger seat towards her apartment. She glanced at him for he was unusually quite at
the moment,' Guess that he has been through a lot. His father didn't welcome him for his return and he got nearly killed on his first battle,' she thought sadly.
' I know! I bet this would cheer him up, ' her face brightening up suddenly.
" When we get home we are going to throw a party! " said Misato suddenly grinning at Shinji. " A party? What for?" he asked with a confused look on his face.
" To welcome my new room mate of course!" she answered with a smile. " Oh and if you don't mind I'll have a few things to pick up first before we get home, " said Misato
taking a different route to her apartment. " I don't mind, " he said looking out at the window enjoying the scenes of Tokyo-3 city.
Minutes later they arrived in front of a grocery shop. Misato got off the car and went into the shop with Shinji.
" Let's see some milk , eggs, instant food, sausages, " she said going through her shopping list. Shinji helped her push the cart along the isle as Misato left him to look for
eggs in the poultry section. He was strolling down one of the isle that stocked canned food looking for an item Misato mentioned to him.
After a few minutes of searching he finally spotted it. Grabbing a few cans he started to stack them inside the cart. And as he did so he accidentally overheard someone
gossiping at the other side.
" I heard that people are moving out of the city because it's getting dangerous with all the angels around," said a woman's voice.
" Yeah my husband, me and my kids are moving out next week. I don't want my children to play outside where the angels are stalking," said another woman.
" Are the rumors true saying that more people are dying from the last angel attack? " asked said the first one. " Yes and I bet NERV has something
to do with it because they are hushing up everything that is happening during their battle between the angels, " said the second.
" Why would they do that? " asked the first.
" I think it's because they don't want people to know they had messed up or something bad happened during the battle," said the second.
There was a moment of silence then the second spoke ," And I would pay some good money too if I know who piloted those giant robots,".
" You mean the EVA? " asked the second.
" Ah, yes that's what it is named. Normally we don't even get to see them since we are all down at the shelter and the government had cut all
TV channels during the angel battle," said the first.
" Why would they do that? We had our own wars in the past and the media didn't cut those much," said the second.
" Probably it will very gruesome to watch what is going out there," the first assumed. " They are giant aliens or so I heard of and they probably
don't fight like the way we do,".
' So NERV is lying to the public about the angel attacks. The woman was correct, the battles against the angels are indeed gruesome, ' thought Shinji having
his fair share of the battle scene. The thought of his EVA eating Azazel's hand send shivers down his spine.
He didn't have to ponder for long for just then Misato came to him, " Is that everything in the list? " she asked Shinji who was holding the list for her.
Shinji scanned the grocery list and nodded, " Yes that's all of it," .
" Good, Let's go," she said walking towards the casher.
****
They left soon in Misato's car after they loaded the groceries in the trunk. Shinji was glad she decided to drive carefully this time for
he wasn't in the mood of getting sick. He had a though time and a rough day if you count that getting the feeling of your arm being crushed and your eye getting blasted
out from it's socket by an angel is a rough day and his anger towards his step father for sending him out to fight the angel without any training had already added the strain
which was enough to make him burst. His thoughts then unintentionally wondered to Rei. The girl was a mystery to Shinji.
Who was she? Why did she follow his father's orders without question? Does she know that he was a heartless person?
He was trying to hard to recapture the moment when he first saw her on the ward bed. He noticed that her eyes lacked the sparkle of a normal teenager .
It's like she was what? Resigned?
Like she knew what is going to happen to her and yet she went on with it.
And another weird thing is that she closely resembled someone that he had known before but he could place it now. Shinji had to admit that she's kind of pretty
and her beauty was enforced in some kind of mysterious way. These thoughts made Shinji totally confused, ' I barely even know her and yet I can't stop thinking of
her,' he sighted quietly. " You're thinking of Rei right? " said Misato who seemed to be able to read his mind.
"What?" said Shinji looking innocently at Misato.
" Don't give me that look!" she said sternly. " I know it when someone is thinking of someone else especially when a guy thinks about a girl," she added smiling evilly.
"Why should I be thinking about her?" he asked hoping this question will get him out of Misato's pestering.
" Oh don't give me that," her eyes narrowing playfully at him when she stopped the car at a red light. " Shinji the hero piloting the EVA to save Rei from his heartless
father and the evil angel," she said doing a dreamy eyed expression of a damsel who had just been rescued by a hero in fairy tales .
"N-no," he stammered, " It's not what you think?" he said trying to change the subject. " Don't deny it Shinji," she said and started driving the car again when the light
turned green. " Everyone already knows that you had something for Rei judging by the way you behaved back in NERV," she said teasingly.
" I don't care what they think!" he snapped lightly, " I do it to protect someone that is all. She's my co-worker nothing more, " crossing his arms he turned towards
the side window and resumed staring at the scenes of Tokyo-3 thus ending the conversation.
' Sure Shinji whatever you say, ' chuckled Misato under her breath.
****
' I'm home!' said Misato as she entered the front door of her apartment. Taking a step inside she moved out of the way and ushered Shinji in,
" Come on in, " she said.
" It's not much but it is cozy," she smiled at Shinji.
Shinji hesitated for a moment then took a few steps in, " I-I'm home," he said and a felt peace washed over him. For the first time in Tokyo-3
he felt welcomed. " Well I just moved into this place so it's a little messy and I hope you don't mind, " said Misato going to the kitchen and placed the
groceries on the table before she went into the bathroom. Shinji looked around the living room and found that it was a little dark so he went switched
the lights on as she talked. He suddenly gave a gasped in surprised " You call this a little messy? " he said softly staring at the lighted up apartment.
Crushed papers and instant food packages littered the floor. Boxes of all sizes were stacked all over the living room and magazines were stacked
untidily beside them. His eye caught something small scurrying among the litter and thought it was a cockroach or two crawling.
" Ewww..," he said in disgust, apparently Misato hadn't been keeping tidy. He slowly shuffled his way to the kitchen carefully avoiding the mess
on the floor. Since he had nothing better to do he decided to help Misato unpack the groceries. Once he entered the kitchen he saw that it was even
messier than the living room. Dishes were piled up on the eating table and need washing . His eyes scanned across the kitchen and spotted the sink.
That too was full of dirty dishes. Shinji then smelled something horrible then his eye caught sight at the dustbin that sat near the sink. It was overflowing
with garbage with a few milk cartons around it.
Shinji could only stare at the sight, ' This is going to take a long time to clean up,' he sighed, although he didn't fell like doing it he wanted to be helpful
and made a mental note to clean the apartment later after dinner.
Rummaging through the shopping bag he took out some food stuff that needed to be kept cold. Opening the fridge door to place them in there
he found something that quite surprised him.' Snacks ?,' he said when he pulled out a shelf filled with snacks. ' Ice? ' he said when he pulled another
shelf out. ' Beer ? ' he said when he saw a dozen cans of beer stacked up at the shelf he pulled out.
" There is nothing in nutritious in here at all," he grumbled. " What kind of life she's leading? " he asked himself after all the things he saw in the apartment.
Just then Misato called from the bathroom," Oh, I forgot to tell that you can drop your stuff in the room down to your left," she said in a voice was
a bit muffled through the shut door . So Shinji went to his new room at the left after he unpacked the groceries, he slide open the paper screen door
and stepped in. Surprisingly this room was cleaner than the living room outside except it was a little dusty,
' I guess Misato hadn't turned this room into a mess hall yet,' he chuckled.
There was not much furniture in there just a desk, cupboard and a bed. " Well not too shabby and looks comfortable too, " he commented looking
around then dropping his duffel bag beside the desk he went to see if there are any spare mattresses in the cupboard. He found one and started making
the bed and when all is done he slumped down on the bed staring at the ceiling.
" Ita na chima!" said Misato then she open up a can of beer and started chugging it down in a few seconds. " AHH! " she let out a long
satisfying sigh. Both of them had cooked frozen dinner that Misato just bought from the grocery store. It took a little longer for dinner to get ready
because most Misato's cooking utensils required washing and so they nearly spend half an hour clearing the table and the sink. " Em?!" she said looking up
after she saw Shinji hadn't touch the food. " Why are you not eating? " she asked. " S-sorry. I'm not used to this," he said with his head bowed.
" That's no excuse! " she frowned at him. Shinji saw that Misato wasn't going to let him off easily so he picked up his chopsticks and started to
take a piece of fish ball. He brought it close to his eyes, carefully examining it.
He saw Misato's frowned darken and popped it in to his mouth to please her chewing it slowly. Misato's frown turned to a smile.
" There you go. Not bad isn't it?" she asked eagerly.
Shinji just nodded but to him it tasted dull more like cardboard.
' Maybe a little chili sauce will kill the cardboard taste,' he thought and dipped another in chili sauce and this time it wasn't so bad.
" Now isn't this fun?" said Misato, " Two dining for dinner instead of one alone," . Shinji just nodded.
" Heeiii," she said in an irritated tone, " You haven't said a word except ' yes ' and nodding your head since I teased you about Rei.
Are you angry with me or is there something wrong?" she asked raising an eye brown.
" Well I'm sorry but I usually not good at making a conversation, " he said slightly embarrassed.
" Oh Really? Well I'm going to change all that," she said grinning evilly at him.
Shinji gulped, ' This is going to be a long night,".
****
As the first rays of dawn came shining through the window in Shinji's bedroom he was already up first preparing to
go to his school in Tokyo-3. He had made himself a simple breakfast, few fried sausages with eggs and toast ( he found the toaster sitting in the corner
collecting dust and managed to cleaned it before using it) and a cup of orange juice. When he had finished he noticed Misato was not up yet.
He went up to her room and slid open the paper screen, " Misato shouldn't you be up now for work? " he asked in a concerned tone.
He heard Misato muttering under the blanket, " I just got back from a late night shift so let me sleep. See you later from school," and ended her sentence
with a big yawn. " Okay, see you later," said Shinji, grabbing his duffle bag filled with some textbooks and stationary he packed last night.
And he left the apartment walking to school.
The classroom of Multiple Council High was usually packed with students during its early years. And it was quite full in the year before too.
But now since the war against the angels had begun the school of Multiple Council High was slowly being abandoned.
Now there are less than 20 people in a class since most of the students and their families moved out considering it a danger to live in
Tokyo-3 when a war is being fought. Now there is one particular student who didn't seem bothered by this and to him the Angel Wars was a blessing to
his seemingly uninteresting life. Many of his classmates find him weird about this since he always got exited when the alarms blared everywhere in Tokyo-3
stating an angel attack had begun. So far he haven't had the chance to see a battle due to some circumstances that cannot be avoided and this disappointed
him greatly. This had put him in a grim determination and he would really do anything even if it means dying to get a close up view of an angel battle and
especially one of those giant bots battling the angels. He had spend most of his time in the internet collecting information
about these giant bots that are 20- stories high from websites that had articles about it even though there is little information about them.
He was so obsessed of these bots that he even dreamed of piloting one and everyday he prayed for his wish to come true.
Now this boy was playing one of his air ship models making sounds of guns blazing from his mouth in front of his camcorder.
He was seated at his desk waiting for the teacher because he arrived at school a little early so he decided to admire one of his toy models before
class began.
" Kensuke!" cried someone to get his attention. " Eh?! " said Kensuke putting the camera down.
" Ohio, Hikari," he greeted when he saw it was the class reprehensive of class 2-A, Horikai Hikari who was walking up to him.
" Did you hand out the print outs like I told you to?" she asked. Kensuke's face suddenly lost it's color when he heard what she had said.
" Err, print out? Y-Yes I did, but there wasn't anybody home at Touji's place, " he stammered, quickly grabbing the printout under his desk drawer and chucking
into his pocket. Hikari didn't seem to notice this but she knew he was lying because she was a shrew judge of character and knows when the students are
telling the truth or not. " Kensuke-san aren't you Suzuhara's friend and aren't you worried about him?" she said frowning at the bespectacled boy.
" Er... well yes," he stammered.
" And as a friend shouldn't you be worried about him? " said Hikari.
" Err.. umm, you don't suppose he is injured do you? " he answered trying to change the subject and to ask Hikari why Touji wasn't home.
" What?!" she cried in shock. " I thought the media said that there was no one injured during there last angel attack,".
" Nah, I don't think so. Have you seen the size of that crater near Mount Hijrah? It was because of the explosion from the last angel attack
and there are forest fires everywhere when that happened. Judging by it's size I say at least 20 people are either dead or injured," he said, frowning from the
memory of a rumor he had heard passed through the internet.
Both of them didn't notice that Shinji came into the class room and took his seat at one of the classroom desk. He was surprised to see Rei in the corner at
the end of the class reading a book still covered in her bandages oblivious of her surroundings. ' She must have been discharged today
from the NERV infirmary,' he thought. Shinji then plugged his S-DAT's player headphones into his ears and pressed the play button unaware of the
conversation that Hikari and Kensuke were having a few tables behind him.
" Oh! I hope Suzuhara is all right. He lives near that place you know, " said Hikari looking downcast. Kensuke could only stare at her in pity.
He really wish he could do something to get news about Touji's whereabouts but there is no one here that he can confirm with since he and Hikari were
the only two person who really know the jock well.
Kensuke saw Hikari haven't said a word from her down cast state and said, " Don't worry Hikari I'm sure Touji is all- " he didn't have to finish his sentence
because he saw Touji appeared at the classroom door.
" Suzuhara! " said Hikari in surprised as Touji walked to his desk and dumped his bag there. Kensuke just smiled, he was glad that his friend came to school.
" Where is everyone?" he sighed looking around the empty class. " Well since the Angel War has started everyone seems to have moved out and we are the
few ones left here," Kensuke explained his eye was through the peep hole of his camcorder again.
" You're the only one who seemed to be enjoying all this," Touji said to Kensuke with a look of disgust.
" True to me the Angel Wars is a historical event. When will you ever get to see these things in your lifetime?" he said with a dreamy eyed expression
on his face. " How about ' No thanks I'll pass. Give me peace any day'," said Touji rolling his eyes and staring at the floor grumpily.
" Hmm? Why so glum and what happened to you Touji? You have been gone for a few days without a word and people have started wondering
if you are involved in the Angel War," said Kensuke aiming his camcorder lens at the gloomy Touji when he came and sat on his desk top.
"No not me but my little sister was," he said in a soft tone.
"Oh," Kensuke blinked removing the camcorder from his eye with a look of concern at his friend.
"Yes, she found crushed under a pile of debris, unconscious and she was sent to the hospital for medical attention. Since my dad is
working in the lab far away from us there was nobody there for her and she'll really be alone. And I went and see her, " he said in a strangled tone in his voice.
Then his face contorted in anger, " The pilot of that giant robot is really an idiot!
What does he think he is doing wreaking our city like that!" he slammed his fist on the table. " It makes me want to hurt him badly!" he yelled.
Fortunately Shinji didn't hear what Touji had said because the music of his S-DAT player had muffled all outside noise in his ear.
" Speaking of the pilot have you heard of the rumor of the new exchange student? " said Kensuke.
" What transfer student?" asked Touji frowning at the bespectacled boy. It's been a days since he had fresh news of school gossip.
" Him over there," said Kensuke jutting his chin towards Shinji.
" He just came in after the angel attack. Don't you think it is a coincidence? That he and the pilot are somehow liked?" he said shifting his glasses up his nose
and turning to look at his friends expression.
" Hmm, I don't know," said Touji rubbing his chin and frowning at Shinji darkly.
" Well I read a book once that says if you follow coincidence closely enough it'll lead you to it's fate," said Kensuke.
" Hmm, maybe your right but its just bad to jump into conclusions...," said Touji drifting from reality into his thoughts.
" Yo! Earth to Touji," said Kensuke when he saw Touji wasn't paying any attention to him.
" Huh?!"
" Look, let's get a few points straight. One, the last angel attack caused nearly everyone to leave Tokyo-3. Since the city is at war it is kinda strange for
a new student to move in unless he has urgent business or his parents have a job here. But I do not think it's the latter because most parents want their
children to be safe from harm so they move out and find another job somewhere else. He must be the new pilot besides Ayanami sitting at the
corner over there," said Kensuke his eyes glowered hungrily at Shinji.
There were so many questions he would like to ask him about the giant robots, the weapons they used, how does it feel to be a pilot and such.
He could have asked Rei about it but she wasn't that talkative and there is something strange about her. There was always a cold eerie feeling around
her that will send the shivers down someone's spine whenever somebody tried to get close to her. He tried to ask her a question once and all
he got was a cold stare from her. Kensuke got so frightened that he thought she might suddenly come up and swallow him whole.
After that incident he started avoiding her.
" Hmm.... maybe you're right. Why don't you go and ask him if you are so interested? " said Touji eyeing his friend.
Kensuke was just about to answer when the school sensei came into the class. The students went to their proper places when the sensei walked up to his desk.
" All rise!," cried Hikari and the students stood up to greet the teacher.
****
The old sensei droned on about the second impact from the history book. The students were completely bored through the whole period.
Listening to the old teacher
talked about the second impact in a monotonous tone wasn't what they had in mind as a lesson. For the last ten minutes or so Shinji's felt his eyes getting heavy,
he was nearly going to drop off to sleep when suddenly his laptop which belonged to the school made a soft beeping noise. The sound had put him on alert, he
saw on the screen that a private message was sent to him opening the message it read, ' Are you really the new pilot? ' and ended with a Y/N .
' Huh!' said Shinji his eyes went wide. He quickly glanced around the classroom hoping to get a glimpse of that someone sending that message.
He saw a girl seated at the end of the classroom waving at him, ' I guess it must be her,' then the computer bleeped again indicating another message was sent to him.
' Well are you?' it said. Shinji hesitated for a moment, ' What does she want from me?' he asked himself. Shinji's thoughts raced weighting
the pros and cons in his mind if he should answer her question. ' Maybe she wants to be friends? ' he said to himself and the thought of having a friend
had drowned all other reasons. ' Yes' he typed and pressed enter. " Whoa! " cried the whole class and began crowding towards him.
Shinji suddenly noticed he had made a mistake and groaned before they bombard him with a string of questions.
" What's it like to pilot the robot?" asked one girl. " Hey you guys! We're still at class!" interrupted Hikari a little irritated at the breach of class discipline.
Her cries for order were unheard of as the whole class crowded around Shinji, interested in this new pilot.
" Well... " he began but was cut of by someone else.
" Do you have to take a test? " asked another girl.
" No, not really, " he answered.
" What are this giant bots called ?" asked a boy.
" They are called EVAs, "
" How do they operate? " asked another boy.
" Well I dunno , I'm not suppose to reveal classified information," said Shinji.
Apparently the old sensei didn't notice the class crowding about at one place and continued to drone about the 2nd impact, the history book
close to his eyes. At the back of the class Touji began to growl under his breath while Kensuke was pricking up his ears and writing down
Shinji's answers down into his laptop. The only person not interested in the whole ordeal was Rei who remained seated at her desk staring at the
window to the outside world.Finally the bell rang for recess and Shinji praised it for it's timing. " Excuse me," he said to those who crowded around him.
He managed to squeeze his way through and made a wild dash towards the door.
****
Shinji ran all the way towards one of the empty corridors, he had been chased around lately by other class students in the school who never wanted
to leave him alone. It seems that word of him being a pilot had spread fast, " Damn! " he swore under his breath as he hid behind an empty corridor near
the school canteen.
" I shouldn't have answered that stupid question," he slammed his fist on the wall.
" Now I'm being chased and followed everywhere," he said through heavy breaths.
" Hey new guy!" called a voice behind him. ' Oh shoot, just when I thought I lost them, ' turning he saw Touji standing an arms length away from him.
The next moment Shinji found himself on the floor staring at the sky. ' What just happened?' he blinked then felt his cheek swell.
" Sorry new guy, " said Touji flatly. " I had to hit you for some personal reasons," rubbing his knuckles where he struck Shinji.
Then Kensuke came running up from behind, " Oh - dear, it ap-pears I- m too late," he wheezed through short gasps.
" Come on Aida, let's have lunch," he said as he walked pass him. " But aren't you going to tell him about it?" Kensuke asked, blinking at Touji for his sudden
cold departure. It wasn't the Touji he knew before and the accident which involved his sister really made him mad.
" No, he's too dumb to notice anyway," Touji said flatly and stalked away.
After hearing those words Shinji just lay there on the floor staring at the blue sky. A wave of emotions washed through him light a tidal wave ,
anger, sadness, shock, surprise but mostly it was anger.
With instincts taking over Shinji stood up glaring angrily at Touji.
Both Touji and Kensuke turned to go to the canteen but stopped when Touji felt a hand on his shoulder.
" Now what!? " he said irritated at the sudden disturbance.
The moment he turned to face the person who clapped his hand on his shoulder Touji found a fist slammed on his face knocking him back.
Rubbing his cheek Touji glared at Shinji angrily who had just punched him, " THAT'S IT! DIE! " he screamed and launched himself on Shinji.
Both boys tumbled down to the ground wrestling each other. Shinji had his back on the floor and Touji was on top of him punching his face.
After taking a few blows Shinji used his leg he kicked Touji on the chest and that got Touji off him and knocked him few feet backwards.
Shinji then took a few steps back distancing himself from him.
Touji gave a low growl and Shinji just gave him a deadly look." Hey enough already you two!" Kensuke cried trying to break up the fight.
His cries go unheeded when Touji charged at Shinji with a punch. Shinji managed to dodge it but was unable to avoid his round house kick to his face.
The blow send him sprawling to the floor again and his head pounded like a jackhammer. He managed to pick himself up but did it slowly for the
pain was unbearable and everything in his head seemed to spin uncontrollably. Suddenly he felt someone grabbed his shirt and jerking him forward.
His eyes slowly came to focus and he saw Touji with his fist raised in the air
intending to give the final blow to finish him off. Shinji closed his eyes bracing for the end as Touji's fist came down.
" Stop!" cried a voice so cold behind them that all warmth seemed to seep out the area. Touji paused, fear beating in his heart.
The three boys slowly turned towards the new comer.
Rei was standing a few paces behind them, one of her eyes that wasn't bandaged was staring at them, cold and dark. Both Kensuke and Touji gulped.
" Let him go," she said motioning to Touji, her voice was nothing more than a hiss.
Reluctantly Touji slowly let go of Shinji. " Now leave," she said in a monotonous tone to Kensuke and Touji.
Although her voice was nothing but a soft whisper they could feel a cold edge to it that pierce through the heart. Slowly both boys walked away as if
being controlled by an unknown force towards the school canteen. When they reached the canteen both of them shook their heads clearing themselves
from a trance.
Turning to each other they asked, " What just happened? ".
" Are you all right?" she asked Shiji flatly after watching the two boys leave.
" Er y-yes," he stammered not knowing what to make of this. " There is an emergency, " she told him taking no notice.
" I will go there and report in first," she said given the thought that Shinji was injured from the fight and needed some time to recollect himself.
Before Shinji could utter another word of thanks she turned and ran towards NERV.
' Wait! What emergency?' he blinked. Then he touched his swelling cheek, " What have I just done?" he said in confusion.
Having said that the emergency alarms suddenly blared all over Tokyo-3 answering his first question.
' I have a feeling that this is going to be a bad day,' sighed Shinji stumbling after Rei.
~~ End of chapter 2 ~~
To be continued....
Omake (extras)
Scene one:
Rummaging through the shopping bag he took out some food stuff that needed to be kept cold. Opening the fridge door to place them in there he
found something that quite surprised him. Inside one of the shelves sat a green monster with a round head and 8 tentacles.
On the head were two bulging eyes that rolled about.
One of it's tentacles suddenly shot out and wrapped around the food package that was held in Shinji's hand. It yanked the package away and start
gobbling it up in a few bites. " YAAA!! " shouted Shinji in fright and slammed the fridge door at the monster and ran out of the kitchen.
" What?! what happened!," said Misato who came running out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel when she heard his screams.
" M-m-m-mo-monster!" Shinji stammered pointing at the fridge. " Em?! Oh you must mean the octopus I bought the day before you came," said Misato.
" I was planning to have it for dinner but it was too big for one person so I guess we have to share it," she said licking her lips .
Upon hearing this Shinji's eyes rolled up began to lost his balance.
THUMP!!
Shinji's faints to the floor with a crash.,
" Oh dear, not a day has passed yet and he has already fallen for me, " sighed Misato, staring at the comatose Shinji.
Scene two:
Shinji ran all the way towards one of the empty corridors, he had been chased around lately by other class students in the school who
never wanted to leave him alone.
It seems that word of him being a pilot had spread fast, " Damn! " he swore under his breath as he hid behind an empty corridor near the school canteen.
" I shouldn't have answered that stupid question," he slammed his fist on the wall.
" Now I'm being chased and followed everywhere," he said through heavy breaths.
" Hey new guy!" said a voice behind him. ' Oh shoot, just when I thought I lost them, ' said Shinji turning behind. To his amazement he saw a crowd of girls
come rushing towards him.
" It's him that cute pilot! Get him! " they shouted.
" ACCKKK!!!! " Shinji screamed and ran like the wind with the girls chasing him from behind.
Scene three:
" Stop!" cried a voice so cold behind them that all warmth seemed to seep out the area. Touji paused, fear beating in his heart.
The three boys slowly turned towards the new comer. Rei was standing a few paces behind them, one of her eyes that wasn't bandaged was staring at them, cold and dark.
Both Kensuke and Touji gulped.
" Let him go," she said motioning to Touji, her voice was nothing more than a hiss.
Reluctantly Touji slowly let go of Shinji. " Now leave," she said in a monotonous tone to Kensuke and Touji.
Although her voice was nothing but a soft whisper they could feel a cold edge to it that pierce through the heart. Slowly both boys walked away as if being
controlled by an unknown force towards the school canteen. The boys being too slow for her liking made Rei open up her palm.
Shinji could see a ball of blue light gathering around the face off her palm and with a push she send ice bolts flying at their feet. Both boys
shrieked and ran all the way to the canteen with ice bolts flying behind them. Rei cackled with glee still shooting ice bolts madly at them.
Shinji sweat dropped from behind after what he had just seen.
Scene four:
" Are you all right?" she asked Shinji flatly after watching the two boys leave.
"Er y-yes," he stammered not knowing what to make of this.
" I....I have something to tell you," said Rei walking closer to Shinji.
" Yes what is it?" he asked Rei turning towards her.
She didn't answer but continued to stare at Shinji as she walked closer until their faces were inches apart.
"Err Rei isn't this a little to close to tell me something?" he said feeling a little uncomfortable.
Rei didn't say anything but continued to stare at Shinji.
Shinji tried run but he was caught in a spell by those crimson eyes that bore into his very soul.
Then she suddenly gave him a kiss on the lips and walks away smiling to herself.
" What had just happened?!" he blinked touching his lips now rimmed with frost.
Well that concludes the end of chapter2. I hope you all like the story and the funny scenes I put up.