Aloha!! How's it going ye scurvy brigands? You ready for another chapter of Evangelion fanfic goodness? (or as with my story) Evangelion OKness? Well anyways in this chapter there will be a dramatic takover of NERV by Santa Cluase!!! Yeeeee....This chapter is pretty angsty...It's skeeto's angsty...At least for my writing it is.

Hey this one should be long....Yeah I'm planning on putting in something surprising between Asuka and Shinji. It is not turning A/S though...This does have a little bit of S/R going on though..This is not a romance fic....Yeah this is probably going to be the second to last chapter...I'm not sure if there is going to be any music in this one...Maybe there might be. Yeah the characters are a bit OOC...Specilly Rei...She's hard to write right...Right? ^_^

Ha!!!! I'm not putting up a disclamor!!! =====================================================

"Hey we finally got that song down!" Toji exclaimed as they finished it up.

Shinji's mind said.

"What song do you think we should practice now?" Kensuke asked as he adjusted his drum set which had just taken a nice beating.

"I was thinking we could try "Eating Me Away"" Shinji said as he tuned his bass for the song.

"That will not be possible Ikari" Rei interjected.

"Huh why not Rei?" Shinji asked.

"Becuase we have to report at NERV in 30 minutes" She said.

"Thirty minutes? Oh crap!!! How are we going to get there on time?" Shinji said as he started panicing. ( AN, Shinji hates being late to anything.)

"If we leave our instruments here and go now we should be able to get there on time, Ikari" Rei said to get him to calm down. She asked herself. ------------------------------------------

"I don't see why we have to have these stupid synch tests every freaking week" Asuka said as she left NERV with Rei and Shinji.

"They have them so they will know if we are able to pilot the Evangelions to the best of our abilaties if an angel should attack" Rei said.

"I knew that wondergirl" Said Asuka who was slightly stunned by hearing Rei say so many words.

Shinji thought as he heard a strange alarm go off. he thought as he was blushing at a daydream that popped into his mind about a certain blue haired pilot.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING STANDING THERE SHINJI?!!? THAT'S AN ANGEL ALARM YOU BAKA!!!!!" Asuka shouted at Shinji who was standing still and blushing. she thought.

"Oh crap!" Shinji shouted as he followed Asuke who started moving as she saw him breaking out of his reverie. ===================================================

Asuka asked herself as tears ran down her face. I knew that he would act that way, and now he's in the hospital because of me. She thought as she sulked in her bed and remembered what had happened last week and how he had injured himself in the last angel fight. She remembered how even though she had said some really nasty and mean things about him he still put himself in emmence danger to save her and. ------- As I recall with my stomach turning, I was hiding away from myself, away from you, Like nothing, though something was terribly wrong. And I admit I was only waiting for the right time, night time, the right moment for you to look away. Though you never did. I pretended for a while. So I could walk where I don't belong.

And I remember every word you said. Come back in time, come back. And I remember that I would be dead. Now so pitiful, so pitiful.

But I know as I hammered those nails into your beautiful hands. Your eyes they still try to search for mine, but I look away. Now your eyes are the only thing that can save me. I'm still afraid of them piercing. You're breaking into my prison.

Just pretended for a while. My soul is dying. I won't look away.

And I remember every word you said...

I'll remember every word you said. This time I won't look away. ----

Sung Shinji's Sdat that Asuka was using as she walked towards his hospital room. I'm going to make up for all the times I've been a jerk to him, he risked his life to save mine. She thought as she recalled how he had jumped into the vulcano to save her.

As she came to his room she peeked in and found him talking to Rie who was sitting by his bed. ---- "She's right, I'm worthless Rei" Shinji said.

"No you are not Shinji" She responed

"I can't do anything right, She almost got killed because of me."

Asuka thought as she was filled with sadness at how he blamed himself for hurting Asuka when she was the one doing the hurting.

"No she did not, you had nothing to do with her getting put in danger" Rei replied to the depressed boy.

"But..I..I" Shinji tried.

"No Ikari" Rei said "You are not worthless, you are not worthless to me."

"Huh??" was all that came out from Shinji.

"I have been thinking a lot about it and have found that you are my only freind." She said. "You are the only one who talks to me and cares for me, I need you Ikari"

"You....You need me?"

"Yes" Rei said.

I Asuka thought as she eavesdropped on their conversation.

"I think I need you to...I..I..love you Rei" Shini stammered.

"I love you to Shinji-kun" She whispered. -----

A soft knock on the door broke their attention on each other as they both turned towards the door.

"Um hi Shinji, Rei." Asuka said. "I..I..I just came to apologize."

"For what?" The confused Shinji replied.

"I'm the reason you're in here Shinji, if I hadn't of screwed up you wouldn't be here" She said.

"No it's my fault Asuka, I should have listened to you earlier so you wouldn't have been distracted."

"Shinji stop blaming everything on yourself, it was all my fault that this happened" Asuka said as she realized how much pain she must have caused him.

"But I..."

"No Shinji, I came here to apologize, not to have you apologize for something you didn't do"

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After she finally convinced Shinji that he wasn't the one at fault (which took a long time) Asuka decided to leave Shinji who was touched by her kindness.

As she headed towards the door she heard Shinji asking her to come back.

"Thanks for helping me out Asuka, I well, do you want to be freinds?" Shinji asked as he hoped she would say yes.

"Why are you asking that?" Asuka said?

"I dunno...I guess I've just come to view you as a sister, and even though you always are mad at me you are one of the only people who knows me" He said. "And well I guess I just wanted someone to talk to, you can say no...I'll understand."

"Yeah...You can count on me being there for you from now on Shinji" Asuka said to Shinji's total surprise. "I've been such a jerk and caused you so much pain it's the least I can do" Asuka added.

Shinji was just sitting there stunned at hearing Asuka saying those words to him...He was nearly as stunned as when Rei told him that she loved him a little earlier. He never thought that he would hear anything like what Rei and Asuka said come from their mouths

After about thirty seconds of him sitting there with a surprised look on his face Asuka decided to say something.

"Well are you going to say anything baka-kun?" She said.

"I..." Was all that came out from the ecstatic boys lips.

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Well I'm done with this chapter!!! This one took a while...Yeah it may seem discombobulated but thats because it is. Yeah I have no prereaders or anything...I'll just write it out then change what I don't like and stuff...But yeah anyways. Well there wasn't any band action in this one like I said there would be...Yeah I think that next chapter is going to have the talent contest and it's going to be the last one... Oh yeah that song in there was "Pitiful" by Blindside...They're a great band...Check there stuff out if you can. Well that's it for now folks. R&R

Tokyo Chrunching Mike