Shinji's Growing Up

Revised

Disclaimer: dont own evangelion nor anything, if I do ill tell you.

The sun shone brightly onto Tokyo 3, people were either getting up to welcome the new day or cursing it because it was a Monday. Either way this was going to be a very, very interesting week in the Katsuragi residence.

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MONDAY MORNING

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" WAKE UP!!!!"

A loud banging sound awoke Shinji from a pretty good dream consisting of him and Asuka on a deserted island with no clothes on. As Shinji's mind became more aware of his surroundings, he heard the banging stop and start again only this time much harder. He opened his eyes, which were greeted by the ceiling.

" Familiar ceiling."

" WAKE UP!!!" followed by more banging greeted him yet again.

' Asuka,' he thought as he got up and threw open the door only to be kicked in a place where it would really really hurt if you were a guy.

There they stood as of they were in suspended animation, Asuka with her risen leg, foot connecting to the groin of Shinji Ikari who had a neutral expression on his face. She looked at him strangely as she slowly lowered her leg. Shinji still stood with the same look as he lifted his hand, gripped the door, and slid it shut. Asuka blinked at the scene.

' You'd think he scream or something after getting hit there,' she thought with a perplexed look on her face.

The city was quiet and silent, the streets were deserted and the sweet chirping of birds was the only sound anyone can hear. Then a scream broke that very silence, one of pure and unimaginable pain. It lasted a good 30 seconds before it died down. There in his room, the mighty Third Child, laid on the ground in a fetal position on the verge of crying while holding what was left of his manhood and two buddies.

" W... hy.... m...e...?"

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Misato came out of her room after the scream heard around the world.

"Asuka, what the hell was that?!" she shouted at the girl still looking at the door that led to Shinji's room, "ASUKA!!!"

" I kicked Shinji" was not the answer she was expecting.

" Why did you kick him... where?"

" There..."

Misato stood there not knowing what she meant by that but a moment later realization dawned at her as she mentally cringed.

" There?!"

" There..."

Misato left the girl, went into the kitchen and took out an icepack from the refrigerator. She walked back to Asuka, picked up both her hand and planted an icepack on them..

" Go in there and apologize."

" Why should I?! He opened the door while I was kicking it! I was trying to wake up the baka" Asuka retorted.

" Thats exactly why you should apologize. God Asuka, Shinji could be a girl now"

" I heard that!" was the muffled high-pitched voice of the boy inside the room.

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Nothing interesting happened during breakfast other then the two roommates watching Shinji make breakfast walking like a cowboy that has been on a horse for a long time. Misato sipping on the beer she held and Asuka nibbling on her piece of toast watching Shinji with a pained expression on his face walking back and forth from the counter and table. Taking big and wide steps so that his pants wouldn't chafe his injury. To everyone's surprise Shinji glared at Asuka as he left his room to go to the bathroom to sit in cold water. When that was done, he came out and glared at her again. Now Shinji sat finally after making and putting everything on the table.

" Does it still hurt?" Misato asked masking the grin behind the beer can.

He sighed, " Not really anymore."

" Baka, consider yourself lucky that I don't do that again after you glared at me"

" Shut up, you temperamental bitch"

Misato spewed her beer out as Asuka's mouth hanged open, dropping the toast she was just eating.

" WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" she screamed, her face matching her red hair.

Misato, too dumbstruck, just stared at Shinji. Sure she was happy to see that he stood up for himself but him and cursing wasn't a combination you think would exist.

Asuka herself was hurt and angry, hurt because she felt guilty for what she did to him and for him calling her a temperamental bitch. Angry because well... its Asuka.

" You heard me!", Shinji stood up and slammed his palms into the table, shaking all the plates. This action surprised Asuka so much she fell back into her seat and sat staring at the glaring, angry face of Shinji Ikari.

" What the hell! I wanted to sleep a little more and what do I hear but her royal highness, pain in my ass slam her fist on my door at 6 freaking 30 in the morning. For what huh? TO GET MY BALLS SHOVED INTO MY BODY AND POP OUT OF MY ASS!!!!" Shinji stood, hands clenching and relaxing, the look he had when he was fighting Zeruel on his face, and something that looked like foam coming out of the side of his mouth. Silence had taken over the whole apartment, the complex in fact because neighbors were afraid if they made a sound the person would start to attack or something. Two women stared at the crazed looked child. Were they afraid? Would you be afraid if he snapped like that in front of you? .... I thought so. Shinji sat down and calmly grabbed a piece of toast and started eating. Asuka and Misato looked like stone statues as the young Ikari ate his breakfast.

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" He flipped out on me!" Asuka recounting the events of the morning to Hikari.

" I dunno, Asuka, he seems normal and you did hit him there" casting a glance at the sitting boy typing on his laptop.

" I swear I never saw him like that, I couldn't move. I thought he'd kill me or something" Asuka said with frightful eyes glancing at the sitting nuclear bomb.

" Asuka, Shinji wouldn't do that to you," the look Hikari got from Asuka thought otherwise.

The sensei chose to enter the class as the bell rang. All the students took their seats as the class rep did the regular "stand, bow, sit" routine as the sensei began the 7 hour snooze fest about the second impact.

Toji and Kensuke started a chat room with the laptops and invited Shinji into it.

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You have just entered room "ZZZZZZZZ"

StUdBoY: hey shinji

nobody3: hey

The truth is out there: hey shinji, whats with asuka?

StUdBoY: yea she hasnt called us stooges or anything

nobody3: beats me i could careless

The truth is out there: woah shinji ikari not caring about asuka

StUdBoY: newlyweds have a fight????????????

nobody3: she kicked me in the balls

The truth is out there: ...

StUdBoY: ...

nobody3: yes i know

The truth is out there: OMG

The truth is out there: WTF

nobody3: yes i know

StUdBoY: jeez are you ok, i mean she knows like karate and stuff

nobody3: i wont be having kids anytime soon...

StUdBoY: ouch

The truth is out there: ouch

nobody3 has left the room



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Shinji watched the annoying "you have been signed off" pop up on his screen. He typed his screen name and password and waited to be connected. Once connected he immediately got a chat room invitation. He clicked it and entered.

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You have just entered room "ZZZZZZZZ"

nobody3: damn computer

StUdBoY: haha

The truth is out there: heh technology is a beaut, speaking of which hikari is look at you toji

StUdBoY: OMG

StUdBoY: IS SHE?!! DO I LOOK OK?!!!

The truth is out there: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

StUdBoY: KENSUKE YOU BASTARD!!!

nobody3: hehehehehe toji LOVES someone

StUdBoY: IKARI YOU TOO!!!!

The truth is out there: toji and hikari

nobody3: sitting in a tree

The truth is out there: K

nobody3: I

The truth is out there: S

nobody3: S

The truth is out there: I

nobody3: N

The truth is out there: G

StUdBoY: F U ALL!!!!

classrepgirl has entered the room.

nobody3: hi hikari

classrepgirl: hi shinji whats up?

nobody3: bored bored and bored

classrepgirl: hee hee

The truth is out there: how can you sit in the front and look like your interested?

classrepgirl: years of practice

nobody3: ahhhhhhhh

The truth is out there: ahhhhhhh

nobody3 has left the room.

StUdBoY: there goes shinji again

classrepgirl: Hi Toji ^_^

StUdBoY: hhhhyyeee

The truth is out there: haha

nobody3 has entered the room.

nobody3: hate cpu

classrepgirl: hee hee

StUdBoY: hahahaha

The truth is out there: you could always step on it with your Eva

nobody3: i might consider it

classrepgirl: is it ok to invite asuka in here?

StUdBoY: seru

StUdBoY: srue*

StUdBoY: sure*

The truth is out there: haha i dont care

nobody3: NO

classrepgirl: why not?

nobody3: i have my reasons

The truth is out there: she kicked him in the nuts

classrepgirl: ouch, ive heard the story from asuka

classrepgirl: did you really snap at asuka

StUdBoY: YOU TALKED BACK TO THE DEVIL

The truth is out there: AND LIVED!!!!???????

nobody3: um... yea... i guess.....

StUdBoY: .... YOU ARE OUR HERO

The truth is out there: HAIL LORD SHINJI DEFEATER OF THE DEMON

nobody3: sigh

classrepgirl: i invited her

ReDbAbE2 has entered the room.

nobody3: why did you have to do that?!

nobody3: .... asuka....

ReDbAbE2: why did you invite me to the den of losers hikari?

nobody3: leave then

ReDbAbE2: oooo hooo looks like wussy boy has a spine

nobody3: still a bitch i see

The truth is out there: wow

StUdBoY: ooooooooooooo

classrepgirl: O.O

ReDbAbE2: WHAT DID YOU CALL ME

nobody3: a bitch

nobody3: would you like me to go into depth with the meaning

ReDbAbE2: GRRRRR WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

nobody3: WHATS WRONG WITH ME! YOU ALMOST TURNED ME INTO A DAMN GIRL!

ReDbAbE2: YOU ACT LIKE A GIRL SO I WAS JUST FINISHING THE JOB

nobody3: i bet id be a better girl then you anyway

The truth is out there: ooooooooo

ReDbAbE2: WHAT?!

ReDbAbE2: SHUT UP KENSUKE!

nobody3: DONT TELL HIM TO SHUT UP

nobody3: YOU SHUT UP

nobody3: GOD BITCH BITCH BITCH IS THAT ALL YOUR GOOD FOR!!

ReDbAbE2: FUCK OFF SHINJI WHAT THE HELL

nobody3: no

nobody3: you cant tell me what to do anymore

nobody3: besides reis a better friend then you

ReDbAbE2 has left the room.

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The sound of a fist connecting to a keyboard was heard throughout the classroom. Asuka let out a staggered breath and calmed down.

" Ms. Soryu, what may ask is wrong that you disturb the class just like you did?" asked the sensei, raising a questioning eyebrow.

" I'm sorry" she says meekly and sat down. The students were staring at her with a look of shock as she apologized. Everyone was looking but one person who was twirling a pencil around and looking out the window with a bored expression on his face.

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classrepgirl: OMG SHINJI LOOK WHAT YOU DID

classrepgirl: YOU HURT HER FEELINGS

StUdBoY: holy crap dude when did you get this new attitude from man

The truth is out there: yea seriously you usually just take what she dishes out

nobody3: im sick of her crap

nobody3: today was the last straw

nobody3: im not putting up with her anymore i dont have the strength nor the patience

nobody3: let her rot in hell for all i care

classrepgirl: SHINJI IKARI I CANT BELIEVE YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SAID THAT

nobody3: would you be acting differently if you were in my shoes?

classrepgirl: ...

StUdBoY: wow shinji

The truth is out there: yea no kidding, i never heard you say that about anyone

nobody3: people change

classrepgirl: i have to go bye

classrepgirl has left the room

The truth is out there: thar she goes

The truth is out there: im out too its almost lunch anyway

The truth is out there has left the room.

StUdBoY: shinji what the hell happened, how can you change like that, didnt you have a crush on her?

nobody3: not anymore

nobody3: im out too later

nobody3 has left the room.

classrepgirl has entered the room.

classrepgirl: where is everyone

StUdBoY: left

classrepgirl: oh... its just you and me then ^_^

StUdBoY: em hvea to og talk to ouy ater

StUdBoY has left the room.

classrepgirl: sigh

classrepgirl left the room.



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The bell rang as Asuka bolted out the classroom like a bat out of hell. Hikari followed her after casting a glance to an impassive looking Shinji. He stood after a few seconds, stretched and turned to Toji and Kensuke.

" Ready to get some lunch?" he said with a smile on his face. Both boys looked at him followed as he started to left the room.

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Asuka stood in front of the girls bathroom mirror, she inhaled and exhaled loudly to calm herself down. Hikari was behind her with a look of symphony on her face.

" What the hell? Why is Shinji being so mean to me? What did I do to him?!"

" ... well you did kick him..." Hikari spoke softly.

" I know", Asuka sighed," but him acting like that. I never knew he even possessed something like that."

" I don't know, Asuka, I don't know."

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Lunch seemed to have passed and gone as the students entered the class minus one red head. Toji looked at the empty seat then looked at Hikari for answers. She seemed to say with her face "your asking the wrong person", he then turned to Kensuke who too was looking at the seat and looked at Toji with a face that said "what?" Toji sighed; 'dense' he thought when he looked at Kensuke's still confused face. Shinji entered the room with stares from the class drawn to him. Was he limping or something? Shinji sighed and sat down with a painful expression that passed as quickly as it got there. Asuka then entered the room and everyone was silent. She walked up to Shinji's desk and stood there. The boy didn't acknowledge the presence of Asuka, as he looked the other direction and scratching his upper ear with his finger.

" Shinji..." she said it so softly and with uncertainity.

Shinji turned his head to her and looked into her eyes. Asuka met the expressionless eyes and what seemed to look like a frown on his face.

' Jeez... he is mad at me....' she thought looking at him.

" What is it?" he asked monotone.

" I'm sorry..."

This Shinji didn't expect, hell he'd expect more if molten lava started to burst out of the ground and Satin himself rising from it with a pink tutu on. Asuka had apologized to him.

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A small chuckle was heard then a full-blown laugh. Asuka looked at him like he was a madman. There in his seat, sat Shinji, holding his stomach and looking like he's seconds away from crying and crapping his pants.

" Shinji's snapped."

" He's definitely getting it now, look how red Asuka is."

" He was a brave man."

" He fell off his chair"

" Holy shit."

All the students turned to the first pilot, Rei Ayanami, all stared in shock at her shocked face.

" .... what?"

A collective "nothing" was all she heard.

" Where the hell did she come from" asked one of the students.

She was met with multiple shrugs just as the sensei walked into the room. He stood looking at Shinji who seemed to be sounding like he's dieing and Asuka who was twitching all over and the color of the sun. He turned around and walked out of the room. The students could of sworn that he said "should lay off the drinking" as he left.

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" HE LAUGHED AT ME, MISATO!!!"

" I know, Asuka"

" SO WHY ARE YOU BLAMING THIS ON ME"

" He almost got lung failure because of your apology" Misato said as she looked through the window into the hospital room where Shinji Ikari laid with a face splitting smile on his face.

" HAHAHAHAHAHA NUTS FIND WAY TO HEART BUT ACORNS ARE IN MY BUTT HAHAHAHA"

" You made him nuts too...."

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Shinji snapped out of his daydream as he stared at what looked like an irritated Asuka. '... what the hell was that about?' he thought to himself as Asuka was waiting for an answer for her apology.

" Huh..." asked Shinji with a dense look.

" I SAID I'M SORRY WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO WRITE IT DOWN AND DOCUMENT IT!!" snapped Asuka.

" ... oh its ok..." Asuka's mouth was left open, Toji fell out of his chair, Hikari looked at Shinji like he had two heads, Kensuke was looking out the window for the flying pig, and the rest of the class face faulted into the floor.

Asuka didn't say anything as she walked back to her seat and plopped down. The sensei entered the room and looked at the students staring at him with amazed faces. The sensei glanced down to his fly to see if it was open... no... he looked back up and shrugged it off as he sat and began "Boredom Plan 2 C3", I mean more about the Second Impact.

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Asuka sat pondering what was wrong with Shinji, first he was a warrior who wouldn't take any crap from anyone and then later he forgives her like it was nothing.

"What the hell?" she mumbled to herself.

She then glanced at the blue haired girl that was sitting in the same seat as her only two rows to the left. 'Well she has to know something... I guess'

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Rei has been sitting throughout the day in the same chair, never moving. She wasn't enjoying sitting there and doing nothing. Rei let out a sigh as she opened her laptop and started to type her notes on the lecture. In reality she was surfing the net looking for something to do. If given the chance, Rei can be a pretty normal girl. Sure she was the clone of Shinji's long dead mom and also the third one from the series of who knows how many that got destroyed awhile back. With no angels left to fight and with no true purpose to be achieved, she decided it was time to see what she actually was. She opened herself up little by little but who noticed. Shinji did however. She let out a louder sigh and started to click on random things out of boredom. Nope, Rei isn't an emotionless doll anymore, she was a normal girl trying to learn about herself and about what she can do. Who would of thought that the blue haired, red eyed, pale beauty was like that, huh? Rei was startled by a incoming message from her instant messenger.

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blue: Yes?

ReDbAbE2: ... you seriously need a new screen name, wondergirl

blue: I am aware, Pilot Soryu.

ReDbAbE2: sigh, anyway do you happen to know what is wrong with shinji

blue: I am not aware of anything that may be wrong with him.

blue: Are you worried about his well being?

ReDbAbE2: NO, i could care less. but you saw how hes acted

blue: He seemed to have forgiven you for something.

ReDbAbE2: BUT I KICKED HIM THERE

blue: Where?

ReDbAbE2: god wondergirl there as in THERE

blue: Ohhhhhh

blue: Then you wonder why Pilot Ikari acting the way he did. He must of let some of his anger out, forgave and forget it.

ReDbAbE2: i guess

ReDbAbE2: thanks wondergirl but dont expect to hear that from me again

blue: I dont expect anything, Pilot Soryu

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Asuka shivered, no matter what Rei always had that affect on her and everyone else.

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MONDAY AFTERNOON

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Misato sat in her chair staring into the monitor of the computer, which she had been staring at since this morning. She had to reports and progresses of the children. For hours now Misato tried her best to explain what happened that morning but all she had was.

At about 7 o'clock in the morning, first pilot Shinji Ikari snapped at Asuka Langley Soryu...

That was all that was on the screen.

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Back at home, Shinji sat on the couch watching TV. The day had been really hard on him and all he wanted was some peace and quiet and the icepack on his nuts to not melt. Pen Pen sat next to him mimicking the exact slouching position Shinji was in minus the icepack, that was replaced by a beer can. Both sighed as Shinji flips through the channels in search of anything remotely entertaining.

" Um... Shinji" he looks up to see Asuka looking down on the floor.

' You'd think after all she's done she would stop starting at her handiwork,' he thought.

" Yes," he asked looking back at the TV.

" What's wrong with you today?" 'Can she be any more dense?'

" Do you expect me to river dance after the way you hit me today?"

" No..."

" Asuka, I'm sorry I snapped at you and called you those things", he said looking up at her face, " I didn't mean them, I was angry."

" Okay then your forgiven, Third Child" she said with her regular "I'm queen of the world" attitude back in place.

Shinji sighed and so did Pen Pen. Asuka walked over his stretched out legs and sat in the armchair on the side of the couch. She looked on with a smile as he went on to scratch his ear and Pen Pen mimicked him exactly. What Asuka really didn't want to see was when Shinji lifted the icepack and scratched and put it back in. Pen Pen on the other hand lifted the beer can, scratched and put it back in place. They both sighed and looked mindlessly at the TV.

' Men...'

" I'm home," came suddenly into the apartment.

" Misato's home," Asuka got up and greet her, not only to do that but also to talk about Shinji. All she got was a human grunt and a penguin grunt.

Asuka walked up the hallway, grabbed Misato's hand, which nearly tripped her as she was taking off her shoes and dragged her to the kitchen.

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" He forgave you?"

" Yeah, all the sudden I go up to him and apologize and he spaced out for a second then he said 'it was ok', " Asuka said looking into the living room.

" Well at least we have the old Shinji back", Misato said downing her first beer, " and after today, holy crap, I couldn't work at all today. I mean come on our little shy Shinji blew up."

" I know, I don't understand it my..." Pen Pen interrupted her by warking to his master. He walked up to the refrigerator and took out a can of beer and a soda, then walked back to the living room.

Both stared at the penguin until they heard a "Thank you, Pen" from Shinji and a wark of acknowledgment from Pen Pen.

" Those two are getting along these days" Asuka said looking at the back of Shinji's head and seeing Pen Pen plop down beside him.

" I'll say"

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MONDAY EVENING

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It was dinnertime; Shinji sat down after finally preparing everything. The two roommates looked at him and he looked back the both of them.

" What?"

" Nothing" they said at the same time. Shrugging it off, Shinji dove into his meal.

" You seem to have quite an appetite these days too" Misato said

" Yeah, I can't help it. I'm always hungry now."

It was then that it hit Misato like a ton of bricks. She had read about this kind of thing happening to men; the hunger, Shinji has also grown an inch in like a month and his voice seemed hoarse and getting deeper. He was going through puberty. No wait that's not it, that would mean he would of been like this for a while now. He can go thorough it in one day. Or maybe he can?

" WHAT?!"

" NOTHING!!"

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To be continued...

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Behind the Story Comments...

This one didn't have drastic changes, mostly spelling and some grammar that I know of. I remember how I started this story, ended up being mostly of me putting myself in Shinji's shoes and going on from there. So most of the stuff that Shinji says in this story is stuff I would say in real life if given the opportunities that Shinji got in the stories (yeah I would say that romantic stuff to a girl too... embarrassing... also the council is based on daydreams I had in high school, "what if congress was in my head"... yeah I'm a weird individual). Anyway I'm working on Tuesday but got side tracked with writing another story (EVA too) so I'm gonna see how that one goes, and I have began brainstorming for Sunday, so far just concepts and a BS story line that'll probably be changed around a lot. Doing all this and college ain't easy. Began my freshman year and happy as hell wooo... I'm going to sleep...