Disclaimer: look at note
Many thanks to Danny who help me by pre-reading this chapter.
[At the door number 402 of Rei's apartment]
Well I'm at the door now. I really wonder what Ayanami wanted to show me. I hope I won't fall on her again like the last time…
He shudders at the thought.
Might as well know. I doubt the door bell works
*Knock* Knock*
The door opened and he saw something that surprised him. Rei was in a mess. She looked much paler than normal but what he didn't know that it was actually flour covering her face.
When Rei tried to open a bag of flour earlier in the evening, she accidentally pulled the string too hard causing the bag to explode. (For the explosion I have no idea how she pulled the impossible.) There was also flour on Rei's hair making as if she dyed her hair with white streaks. But there was also some kind of liquid dripping out of her hair onto her school uniform. Her clothing was stained red mostly with some cooking ingredients.
"What… what happened?"
"I was making a smoothie and during the process the blender exploded."
"Exploded?"
Unknown to Shinji, Rei was raised to obey order and follow instructions.
Flashback
Ah Thought Rei as she checked her cake to see how it is going.
It's baking. Good. Objective: get Shinji to taste my cake since he wasn't at the festival. My cake will be the best, therefore with no competitor, I have an automatic win. Now must serve some kind of drink when Shinji comes here. Must make Shinji's stay pleasant…Hum what drink does the book suggests with the cake? She went and flipped through the cookbook for the perfect drink until something caught her eyes, a picture of a glass with a small umbrella top on it.
Nice picture
She saw next to the picture there were directions on how to make a strawberry banana smoothie and read it.
Put strawberries, banana and half a liter of milk in the blender then press the mix button. Simple enough. thought Rei and she began to work.
But of course she didn't do the way most people did such as cutting off the green leaves on the top of the strawberries and peeling the skin of the bananas. Luckily she didn't cram the milk carton in the blender because the instruction didn't mention anything about cartons at all, just milk. So she assumed it was the content inside the box.
After shoving the entire ingredients in, she pressed the mix button. By the time her finger pressed the button, the blender exploded considering that she didn't put the lid on top of the blender.
*BOOM*
That's doesn't make sense, the instruction didn't mention an explosion? puzzled Rei after wiping some chunks of liquefied banana off her eyes and blinked at the mess. Indeed the supposed "smoothie" was splattered everywhere on the wall even on the ceiling. Overall there was one thing Rei lack: COMMON SENSE.
Yep she was good at following orders but never used any of the common sense that normal people used like not putting the lid on top of the blender before pressing the mix button. (Indeed let us guess who the person that poorly raised Rei was?) By the time she wiped her face with her hands and her arms afterward thus putting flour on her "cleaned" face there was the sound of knocking. She looked around and thought.
Priority is to greet Shinji first. Cleaning can wait later. She left to greet Shinji.
End of Flashback...
"Yes exploded," repeated Rei.
"Ah, should you clean yourself up, like uh changing your uniform?" asked Shinji
Hum a request from him. Must make his visit go smoothlythought Rei.
"Of course. Come in," gestured Rei.
Shinji enters and shivers.
"What is wrong?" inquired Rei.
"Ah Ayanami, why is the room so cold?"
"Oh you can go to the kitchen room. It's much warmer there and there is a chair for you to seat. I'll go change into another outfit." She guides him to the kitchen and when he's in the kitchen she starts to undress into a clean uniform.
By the time Shinji arrived in the designated room, he was horrified at the sight he saw with his very own eyes, Rei's kitchen seemed to have been in a war or something. Utensils, apparatus, pots, pans and ingredients were scattered all over the table and floor. The "Blood"( the smoothie that Rei made) was sprayed everywhere including the ceiling. Ingredients such as flour and butter were spilled on the floor.
By the name of Kami.
Normally Shinji was a clean freak. He couldn't stand anything that was dirty. His freakiness could explain why his room is so clean and that Misato's (the slob) overall apartment is clean too. When he saw a dirty room, he has the urge in which his mind kicks in overdrive telling him Room must be spotless. Clean it!
Shinji was about to start by finding some paper towels to clean up the reddish liquid when Rei walked in with a new uniform and a clean face with some extent cleaning her hair. She saw him looking for something and asked: "What are you doing?"
"I was looking for some paper towel"
"Paper towels are located in my bedroom down there." She pointed at the closet.
"Look next to the closet, there are rolls of them."
This is not going to plan at all.
When Shinji went to Rei's room, he almost had a heart attack. Her room was a mess as well but it was not as bad as the kitchen. At one corner there were bloody bandages. Another corner was lot and lots of dirty underwear. Pretty much all the floor was covered with dirt. On top of the dresser, there was a beaker filled with water and some kind of algae was growing inside. By the time he saw Rei's bloody bed, his instinct of neatness went into play.
He started to rummage around the room hoping to find some sort of bag. Rei was in the kitchen wondering why it has taken Shinji so long so she went to seek him out. What she saw was him scouring the closet which had Rei's many dirty uniforms.
"Ah hum!" interrupting Shinji cleaning process. "I like to inquire what you are doing."
"Ah Ayanami, you see I'm ah looking for a bag…"
"Why?"
"Well.. ah your underwear! They need to be clean! Don't you ever clean them?"
"No, I never do. Underwear will always get dirty even if I clean them anyways. It's much more convenient to buy new ones than to wash them. It saves time too."
"Well you would be saving more money if you washing them anyways. So hum where's the bag?"
"It is in the 2nd drawer."
"Thanks," replied Shinji and got the bag. He started to scoop up Rei's panties into the bag. Then he tackled Rei's closet and shoved all her clothes inside the bag. Shinji with the bag full of dirty clothes, went straight to the door out of the apartment.
"Where are you going?" inquired Rei.
"To the laundromat. Where else would you go to get clothes clean?"
"Then I will follow you."
Cannot let Shinji out of sight.
[Streets of Tokyo-3]
It's been a while during the long walk in which neither spoke anything. Shinji broke the silence.
"Ayanami, I haven't seen any garbage cans at your house. Where do you throw your trash especially your dirty panties?
"Out of the window."
"Out of the window?"
"Yes. I throw trash and panties out of the window monthly."
Shinji was baffled. Of course it made sense to Rei. There was a dumpster at the very bottom of the window. But what Rei didn't know was that there was a guy who was a hobo living there. So when Rei threw all her stuff out of the window, the sleepy hobo thought he was in heaven consider it was raining with panties. Actually the hobo told his experience to other hobos. So every end of the month, a bunch of hobos camped around the dumpster as if it was a shrine and prayed for rain to come (mainly girl panties). Not always panties came down. There was trash too and sometimes a bag hits one of the hobos on the head knocking him unconscious. The hobos thought getting hit on the head meant good luck as if a bag of money came down from heaven. (I don't know why but that's the way they thought) But of course sometimes the wind makes some of Rei's panties blown away to other places not designated to the dumpster such as to pollinate the male population of hentai's thoughts…
"We're here now," said Shinji stopping in front of the Brain Wash Cafe and Clean-X-Press Laundromat.
"Let's go in"
Shinji went to one of the coin washing machines with Rei following him. What Shinji never expected to see was one of his classmates.
"Hello Mana! What are you doing here?" exclaimed Shinji.
"Oh, hi Shinji! I'm here to pick up my clothes that I left in the dryer. What about you?" said Mana excited to see him.
This could be my chance to get him for sure!
"Oh me? I'm here to clean Ayanami's clothes."
"Her clothes?"
"Yep" said Shinji as he pointed behind him at Rei.
Reithought Mana
Kirishima thought Rei.
They then went into a staring contest. Mana stared at Rei with her green eyes while Rei stared back with her own crimson eyes. Of course Shinji wouldn't know consider he was shoving all of Rei's clothes inside the machine. By the time he closed the door and went to the slot where you put coins in, he interrupted the girls' staring contest.
"Say Ayanami, do you have any money on you?" asked Shinji.
"No, I have none," replied Rei.
Since Rei didn't have any money, Shinji inserted coins he had earned earlier from his job by playing music. The machine started the wash cycle.
**DING!**
"My clothes are dried now. I should go home soon, it's getting dark. See ya Shinji!" said Mana as she took her clothes' from the dryer.
"Bye." Said Shinji. Of course Rei didn't say any word. She just gave a cold look at Mana as a way to say bye. Same with Mana but at a lesser extent. (She wasn't an expert at glaring, only being cute)
By the time Mana was gone by turning around the corner in which the pilots were watching at her, they stopped.
"Well Rei what do you want to do now?" asked Shinji
"I don't know," replied Rei.
"Did you have dinner already?"
"No."
"Then let's go to the café. My treat."
"Ok."
They both went to the café, which was conveniently next to the room with filled with coin operated machine. Shinji paid for some sandwiches, pastries, and drink for himself and Rei.
I never ate these before. Intriguing food. thought Rei. Rei was a vegetarian and never ate any pastries in her life. Tastes very different unlike bread. as she ate one of the croissant.
Very buttery and soft.
The two pilots ate their dinner and never spoke anything during this time. They ate in peace while waiting for their laundry to be done. Washing clothes was not the same as the pre-impact. A person would have to put in a washing machine and wait for it to be done. Then the person would have to put the wet clothes into a dryer and wait for some more for it to be done. In this era, a person would just need to shove all their clothes in one washing/dryer machine and just wait for it to be done. The appliance would first clean the clothes with water. Depending on the type of clothing the person putted in, the appliance would automatically adjust to the correct temperature. After a 20 minutes cycle, water would drain from the container and the process of drying the clothes would start. It took on average 40 minutes for one load. But consider that Rei had an abundance of dirty clothing it took an hour. Meanwhile somebody was watching the pilots….
End of part A
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Author's Notes:
Gomen! I know that not the full chapter. I have some trouble writing the last 20% of the chapter. It's Rei and Shinji. It's not easy to write about them especially their thoughts. It's been a while I haven't posted anything, so I split this chapter in half for the readers. Later I might combine the 2 chapters together.
P.S. I need some prereaders especially readers who are Shinji/Rei fan to look at the 2nd part of the chapter 7 that I almost done writing but not type up yet.
NO don't think this story is going to be Shinji and Rei because I want readers who can understand Rei's character well. That's why I chose readers that are Shinji/Rei fan because I think I would have the greatest chance of getting someone who knows Rei's character accurately.
Many thanks to Danny who help me by pre-reading this chapter.
[At the door number 402 of Rei's apartment]
Well I'm at the door now. I really wonder what Ayanami wanted to show me. I hope I won't fall on her again like the last time…
He shudders at the thought.
Might as well know. I doubt the door bell works
*Knock* Knock*
The door opened and he saw something that surprised him. Rei was in a mess. She looked much paler than normal but what he didn't know that it was actually flour covering her face.
When Rei tried to open a bag of flour earlier in the evening, she accidentally pulled the string too hard causing the bag to explode. (For the explosion I have no idea how she pulled the impossible.) There was also flour on Rei's hair making as if she dyed her hair with white streaks. But there was also some kind of liquid dripping out of her hair onto her school uniform. Her clothing was stained red mostly with some cooking ingredients.
"What… what happened?"
"I was making a smoothie and during the process the blender exploded."
"Exploded?"
Unknown to Shinji, Rei was raised to obey order and follow instructions.
Flashback
Ah Thought Rei as she checked her cake to see how it is going.
It's baking. Good. Objective: get Shinji to taste my cake since he wasn't at the festival. My cake will be the best, therefore with no competitor, I have an automatic win. Now must serve some kind of drink when Shinji comes here. Must make Shinji's stay pleasant…Hum what drink does the book suggests with the cake? She went and flipped through the cookbook for the perfect drink until something caught her eyes, a picture of a glass with a small umbrella top on it.
Nice picture
She saw next to the picture there were directions on how to make a strawberry banana smoothie and read it.
Put strawberries, banana and half a liter of milk in the blender then press the mix button. Simple enough. thought Rei and she began to work.
But of course she didn't do the way most people did such as cutting off the green leaves on the top of the strawberries and peeling the skin of the bananas. Luckily she didn't cram the milk carton in the blender because the instruction didn't mention anything about cartons at all, just milk. So she assumed it was the content inside the box.
After shoving the entire ingredients in, she pressed the mix button. By the time her finger pressed the button, the blender exploded considering that she didn't put the lid on top of the blender.
*BOOM*
That's doesn't make sense, the instruction didn't mention an explosion? puzzled Rei after wiping some chunks of liquefied banana off her eyes and blinked at the mess. Indeed the supposed "smoothie" was splattered everywhere on the wall even on the ceiling. Overall there was one thing Rei lack: COMMON SENSE.
Yep she was good at following orders but never used any of the common sense that normal people used like not putting the lid on top of the blender before pressing the mix button. (Indeed let us guess who the person that poorly raised Rei was?) By the time she wiped her face with her hands and her arms afterward thus putting flour on her "cleaned" face there was the sound of knocking. She looked around and thought.
Priority is to greet Shinji first. Cleaning can wait later. She left to greet Shinji.
End of Flashback...
"Yes exploded," repeated Rei.
"Ah, should you clean yourself up, like uh changing your uniform?" asked Shinji
Hum a request from him. Must make his visit go smoothlythought Rei.
"Of course. Come in," gestured Rei.
Shinji enters and shivers.
"What is wrong?" inquired Rei.
"Ah Ayanami, why is the room so cold?"
"Oh you can go to the kitchen room. It's much warmer there and there is a chair for you to seat. I'll go change into another outfit." She guides him to the kitchen and when he's in the kitchen she starts to undress into a clean uniform.
By the time Shinji arrived in the designated room, he was horrified at the sight he saw with his very own eyes, Rei's kitchen seemed to have been in a war or something. Utensils, apparatus, pots, pans and ingredients were scattered all over the table and floor. The "Blood"( the smoothie that Rei made) was sprayed everywhere including the ceiling. Ingredients such as flour and butter were spilled on the floor.
By the name of Kami.
Normally Shinji was a clean freak. He couldn't stand anything that was dirty. His freakiness could explain why his room is so clean and that Misato's (the slob) overall apartment is clean too. When he saw a dirty room, he has the urge in which his mind kicks in overdrive telling him Room must be spotless. Clean it!
Shinji was about to start by finding some paper towels to clean up the reddish liquid when Rei walked in with a new uniform and a clean face with some extent cleaning her hair. She saw him looking for something and asked: "What are you doing?"
"I was looking for some paper towel"
"Paper towels are located in my bedroom down there." She pointed at the closet.
"Look next to the closet, there are rolls of them."
This is not going to plan at all.
When Shinji went to Rei's room, he almost had a heart attack. Her room was a mess as well but it was not as bad as the kitchen. At one corner there were bloody bandages. Another corner was lot and lots of dirty underwear. Pretty much all the floor was covered with dirt. On top of the dresser, there was a beaker filled with water and some kind of algae was growing inside. By the time he saw Rei's bloody bed, his instinct of neatness went into play.
He started to rummage around the room hoping to find some sort of bag. Rei was in the kitchen wondering why it has taken Shinji so long so she went to seek him out. What she saw was him scouring the closet which had Rei's many dirty uniforms.
"Ah hum!" interrupting Shinji cleaning process. "I like to inquire what you are doing."
"Ah Ayanami, you see I'm ah looking for a bag…"
"Why?"
"Well.. ah your underwear! They need to be clean! Don't you ever clean them?"
"No, I never do. Underwear will always get dirty even if I clean them anyways. It's much more convenient to buy new ones than to wash them. It saves time too."
"Well you would be saving more money if you washing them anyways. So hum where's the bag?"
"It is in the 2nd drawer."
"Thanks," replied Shinji and got the bag. He started to scoop up Rei's panties into the bag. Then he tackled Rei's closet and shoved all her clothes inside the bag. Shinji with the bag full of dirty clothes, went straight to the door out of the apartment.
"Where are you going?" inquired Rei.
"To the laundromat. Where else would you go to get clothes clean?"
"Then I will follow you."
Cannot let Shinji out of sight.
[Streets of Tokyo-3]
It's been a while during the long walk in which neither spoke anything. Shinji broke the silence.
"Ayanami, I haven't seen any garbage cans at your house. Where do you throw your trash especially your dirty panties?
"Out of the window."
"Out of the window?"
"Yes. I throw trash and panties out of the window monthly."
Shinji was baffled. Of course it made sense to Rei. There was a dumpster at the very bottom of the window. But what Rei didn't know was that there was a guy who was a hobo living there. So when Rei threw all her stuff out of the window, the sleepy hobo thought he was in heaven consider it was raining with panties. Actually the hobo told his experience to other hobos. So every end of the month, a bunch of hobos camped around the dumpster as if it was a shrine and prayed for rain to come (mainly girl panties). Not always panties came down. There was trash too and sometimes a bag hits one of the hobos on the head knocking him unconscious. The hobos thought getting hit on the head meant good luck as if a bag of money came down from heaven. (I don't know why but that's the way they thought) But of course sometimes the wind makes some of Rei's panties blown away to other places not designated to the dumpster such as to pollinate the male population of hentai's thoughts…
"We're here now," said Shinji stopping in front of the Brain Wash Cafe and Clean-X-Press Laundromat.
"Let's go in"
Shinji went to one of the coin washing machines with Rei following him. What Shinji never expected to see was one of his classmates.
"Hello Mana! What are you doing here?" exclaimed Shinji.
"Oh, hi Shinji! I'm here to pick up my clothes that I left in the dryer. What about you?" said Mana excited to see him.
This could be my chance to get him for sure!
"Oh me? I'm here to clean Ayanami's clothes."
"Her clothes?"
"Yep" said Shinji as he pointed behind him at Rei.
Reithought Mana
Kirishima thought Rei.
They then went into a staring contest. Mana stared at Rei with her green eyes while Rei stared back with her own crimson eyes. Of course Shinji wouldn't know consider he was shoving all of Rei's clothes inside the machine. By the time he closed the door and went to the slot where you put coins in, he interrupted the girls' staring contest.
"Say Ayanami, do you have any money on you?" asked Shinji.
"No, I have none," replied Rei.
Since Rei didn't have any money, Shinji inserted coins he had earned earlier from his job by playing music. The machine started the wash cycle.
**DING!**
"My clothes are dried now. I should go home soon, it's getting dark. See ya Shinji!" said Mana as she took her clothes' from the dryer.
"Bye." Said Shinji. Of course Rei didn't say any word. She just gave a cold look at Mana as a way to say bye. Same with Mana but at a lesser extent. (She wasn't an expert at glaring, only being cute)
By the time Mana was gone by turning around the corner in which the pilots were watching at her, they stopped.
"Well Rei what do you want to do now?" asked Shinji
"I don't know," replied Rei.
"Did you have dinner already?"
"No."
"Then let's go to the café. My treat."
"Ok."
They both went to the café, which was conveniently next to the room with filled with coin operated machine. Shinji paid for some sandwiches, pastries, and drink for himself and Rei.
I never ate these before. Intriguing food. thought Rei. Rei was a vegetarian and never ate any pastries in her life. Tastes very different unlike bread. as she ate one of the croissant.
Very buttery and soft.
The two pilots ate their dinner and never spoke anything during this time. They ate in peace while waiting for their laundry to be done. Washing clothes was not the same as the pre-impact. A person would have to put in a washing machine and wait for it to be done. Then the person would have to put the wet clothes into a dryer and wait for some more for it to be done. In this era, a person would just need to shove all their clothes in one washing/dryer machine and just wait for it to be done. The appliance would first clean the clothes with water. Depending on the type of clothing the person putted in, the appliance would automatically adjust to the correct temperature. After a 20 minutes cycle, water would drain from the container and the process of drying the clothes would start. It took on average 40 minutes for one load. But consider that Rei had an abundance of dirty clothing it took an hour. Meanwhile somebody was watching the pilots….
End of part A
*****************
Author's Notes:
Gomen! I know that not the full chapter. I have some trouble writing the last 20% of the chapter. It's Rei and Shinji. It's not easy to write about them especially their thoughts. It's been a while I haven't posted anything, so I split this chapter in half for the readers. Later I might combine the 2 chapters together.
P.S. I need some prereaders especially readers who are Shinji/Rei fan to look at the 2nd part of the chapter 7 that I almost done writing but not type up yet.
NO don't think this story is going to be Shinji and Rei because I want readers who can understand Rei's character well. That's why I chose readers that are Shinji/Rei fan because I think I would have the greatest chance of getting someone who knows Rei's character accurately.