Goodbye
By
One-Winged Angel
Thank Yous:
Animefan 2017- Great encouragement and help is appreciated from you.
Ishagu- Thanks; I look forward to reading your fics.
Dennisud-Thank you for you review, and your suggestion, I was already planning.
D14852001-The explanation is in this chapter.
BGM-109A-I will.
Nigoki-Thanks.
Keyblade-00- Thanks for the encouragement.
Lord of Pencil- Sure.
Dave S-The wrong spellings are when I type too fast, and forget to correct it.
Jennyjennai- I do so too, but there will be a happy ending.
Kman- Thanks for the advice.
Vanimal- I'm glad you liked the story so much.
If there's anyone I left out, sorry I'll make it up to you next time.
This is the part where you'll know why Shinji and Asuka are that way in Chapters 1 and 2.
Animefan2017 has shown me the error of my ways. I changed Shinji's eye color to a blue color in this chapter.
Sorry, I forgot Shinji's eye color, It's been 2 years since I last watched EVA, and it's only been recently that I found my DVD collection of it.
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Running…
Running from…
What?
All he could see was darkness.
He was falling…
Plunging into the darkness…
I shot up from the park bench I was sleeping on, my forehead dripping with beads of sweat.
It had been so long since I had a nightmare before. I hardly ever had one when I was back at home.
I wiped the sweat from my forehead and looked at my surroundings, the night was dead silent, and if you listened closely you could hear crickets.
The park was empty, and the wind was silently playing with the leaves rustling it softly through the park, the only illumination that could be seen was from the bright, yellow streetlights that lined up the walls of the park.
I slowly went into a seating position on the bench and slowly began to think about the events that led to my arrival at the park.
~*~*~*Flashback~*~*~*
The sounds of footsteps could be heard from the apartment. I slowly descended down the steps to the hard stone ground. He was tempted to run back up the steps and go back inside the apartment, but restrained myself from doing so.
I proceeded to walk down the street; my head was a mess of jumbled thoughts. 'What now? Where do I go?' these were among the line of thinking I was having. The question I wanted answered most was, 'What about Asuka?' I couldn't forget about her.
I couldn't just forget the sound of her voice, the way her hair swayed when she turned around, the times she would look so beautiful without realizing it. She always mesmerized me with her unique beauty, though it wasn't just her beauty, her headstrong and courageous attitude was what attracted me to her the most. The two qualities I didn't have and always wanted to have.
As I thought about it, my walking led me to the park. I looked at the sign, and realized that maybe this is where I would spend the night, I followed the cobblestone path, and trudged down the steps until I saw a solitary bench.
I went, sat down on it, and reminisced on what I considered the happiest day of my life.
*~*~*~*Flashback*~*~*~* (Flashback within a flashback, lol)
The church bells could be heard ringing from the distance, but for me, it was as clear as the bright summer's day.
I stood in front of the minister for my wedding, 'but it isn't a true wedding' I thought.
'But maybe it will become a true wedding.'
All his friends and what I considered as family. Misato, Kensuke, and all his other friends were there. Touji was my best man, and Hikari was Asuka's maiden of honor.
My friends were shocked, to say the least, of our wedding. They never would have imagined them together, ever. It would have taken a miracle to persuade Asuka to marry, what she called, an idiotic pervert.
However, here she was going down the aisle, towards me.
I felt so surreal, here she was, the most beautiful person my eyes had ever laid upon, marrying me, of all people.
Asuka reached the minister and we both turned to looked at him. I glanced at Asuka's eyes, noticing how devoid of emotion, it was like she hated the very fact that this was happening. I was torn to see that feeling in her eyes, but I just put those doubts away to the back of my mind.
The minister was saying the things that were to be said before the "I do's". It seemed to go on for an eternity, but I felt it go by in a breeze.
Then it was the moment of truth, the moment that would decide Asuka's, as well as my, fate.
"Do you Shinji Ikari, take this woman Asuka Langley Souryu, as your lawfully wedded wife, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, 'till death do you part?"
"I do." I happily said.
"Do you Asuka Langley Souryu take this man, Shinji Ikari, as your lawfully wedded husband, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, 'till death do you part?"
Silence.
"I do."
The voice that stung with pain, came from Asuka.
"Then, I now pronounce you man and wife, you may now kiss the bride."
I turned to her, but she was already walking towards the front doors, I ran to follow. She just went into the car without even throwing the bouquet. I went in with her.
When I got in, I asked her "Why didn't we kiss?"
She just shrugged and looked out the window, and said, "Didn't feel like it."
Her voice was devoid of emotion.
Her face was a casual face.
I knew from then on, that she didn't love me, but I still had hope that in the future it would change.
*~*~*~*End of Flashback*~*~*~*
I sat there with a smile, looking at the stars.
I sighed at that thought; I really believed it would come true.
'But, it didn't come true.' I thought. I held my head between my hands. Tears were flowing down from my eyes now. I just didn't want to remember all those bad things that happened when we were married.
I banished those thoughts and returned to situation at hand, how to make the bench a semi-comfortable place to sleep in. I gathered some old newspapers I saw earlier and arranged them in a neat spread on the bench.
I lied down and swiftly drifted off to sleep.
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The next chapter will still be about Shinji and how he tells everyone he's leaving.
There are about 3 chapters… at least, to my estimation. I'm not sure. This was supposed to be a short story, but it turned out to be pretty long one. Thank you for the advice, everyone.
Thanks for the reviews.
Thank you to Animefan 2017 for pre-reading for me.
Thank you very much.
(Bows).
Domo Arigato.