Day One: Part Two: Fair Times
The group of one adult false blonde and three very important children made their to the entrance of the Tokyo-3's Yearly Fair. There waiting at the ticket booth were a group of kids. Two of these kids were just as important as the three with the adult.
"What the hell?" Ritsuko muttered to herself. "Where did the rest of these brats come from?"
Standing at the ticket booth was Touji accompanied by Kensuke and Hikari. Leaning on the other side of the booth was Kaworu with his hands in his pocket and whistling absently.
When the group made it to the ticket booth they were greeted.
"Geeze, took you long enough!" Touji exclaimed. "I was beginning to think that this was a trick of some sort."
Asuka gestured with her thumb in the direction of Rei. "Blame Wondergirl. She's the one that was playing dead."
"I was doing what?" Rei questioned softly and very much confused.
"Don't worry about it." Shinji assured, standing next to her. "In fact, just forget everything that happen in your apartment today."
Rei was about to question that when Ritsuko spoke up.
"Okay, I was only suppose to have five kids. Why do I have seven? I was only given money to please five kids. Why are there seven? I know for a fact that there are only five Children. So, why are there seven here?"
"Do not worry, Dr. Akagi," Hikari assured. "Kensuke and myself are paying for ourselves."
"Well, that's good. Also don't come to me with your problems."
Asuka rolled her eyes and looked at Hikari. "Doesn't she just radiate love?" she whispered.
"I heard that Asuka." Ritsuko sighed. "Anyways, I need a smoke break." She paid for six tickets and handed each Child their ticket and a wade of cash. "You each should have enough money to not have to come back to me till..." Looking at her watch she continued. "5 o'clock, that's when I will feed you and then send you off again. Got it?"
"Yes." came the collective mumbles.
"Good. Should anything happen to go wrong, I'll be by..." She opened the map and scanned for a place where she could stand and smoke. "...the Deer Lounge."
"All the Deer you not really eating." Kensuke quoted.
Ritsuko looked at him emotionless before reverted her eyes back to the map and walking away. "Enjoy yourselves. Oh and remember: We at NERV do know you aren't just tools and we love you very much." she mumbled this and sounded like a broken recorded.
"Wow," Kaworu started a bit surprise. "They sure are really expressing their love."
Still watching the retreating figure of Ritsuko, the next comment was made.
"'We at NERV do know you aren't just tools and we love you very much'?" Asuka repeated. "That sounded like an advertisement."
"What am I suppose to do with this money?" Rei asked, changing the subject. All eyes fell on her.
"Spend it." Touji answered, simply.
"You could just give it to me. I'll spend it for you." Asuka answered with a sarcastic grin.
Rei thought on this for a second. She wasn't really planning to do anything with it. Maybe keep a little of it to eat, but that was all. So giving the money to the Second didn't seem like a bad idea. So after she pulled out a couple of the bills she handed the cash to Asuka and started walking off.
"Shit," Asuka blinked in surprise, "she really gave it to me."
"Now go give it back." Shinji ordered, pointing at the retreating Rei. "You knew she was going to take you literally."
"No," Asuka said honestly, "I didn't think she was going to really give it to me."
"Give it to me dammit." Kensuke commented. "God knows I could use it."
Shinji was getting frustrated. "No! The money is going back to Ayanami."
"I think that might cover my food." Touji added.
"Is anyone listening to me?" Shinji asked, waving his hands. No one was paying him any attention, they were instead looking at Rei's money that rested in Asuka's open hand.
"You don't need it Touji. You have your own wade of cash." Kensuke complained. "Let me have it."
"Hello, its me Shinji Ikari!"
"Why should I give it to you!?" Asuka exclaimed. "I think Hikari should take it."
"Fine, pay me no mind. I hate you all!" Shinji continued to complain behind the circle.
"Actually I think we should give it back." Hikari suggested. "Its not right for us to keep it."
"I just love being ignored." Shinji continued, groaning.
"I agree with the Class Rep." Kaworu spoke up. "Let's go catch Ayanami and give it to her."
"Okay! That's what I said in the first place!" Shinji yelled.
"Yeah, Hikari and Kaworu are right." Asuka agreed.
"No, that was my idea!" Shinji corrected.
Asuka turned to Shinji. "Shut-up, you haven't done anything but whine about how you wanted the money for yourself! It was not your idea, idiot!"
And with that the group started after Rei Ayanami. Shinji stood there for a moment growling and clenching his fists.
"I hate you! I hate you all!" he cried and stomped after them.
********
Rei Ayanami was looking for an exit. Yes they were standing in front of the entrance, but Section Two was standing right there and there was no way they were going to let her just waltz on out, so she went in search of another exit. That was when the calling started. Several people were screaming her name.
"REI!"
"Ayanami!"
"Wondergirl!"
"Hey Sexy Blue-haired I want you in my bed--OW!"
Touji lowered his hand after smacking Kensuke upside the head.
"Kensuke," Touji cut in, "Don't start that! Not right now!"
Kensuke glared at him and grumbled something. "Okay, fine."
"Miss Ayanami!" Hikari called, cupping her hands around her mouth to amplified the call.
"Wondergirl! I know you can hear me! I know your not--well now I'm started to question that--anyways, get back here!"
Rei frowned. Sure attract attention to her. With Kensuke little description people were now staring right at her. Of course there were no other blue haired girls in this area....or city. Rei was now starting to question if she was the only blue haired girl in the world. Well, natural blue haired girl in the world.
"REI!"
'Might as well turn around and go back.' she thought.
And with that she turned around and headed to the screams. Why were they looking for her anyways? She wondered.
*********
Kaworu pointed when Rei came into site. "Hey, look there she is!"
"Finally! I've wasted precious time looking for her!" Asuka cried. She marched up the blue haired girl, grabbed her hand, slapped the money down in Rei's palm, smiled widely though forcefully, and finally said, "I don't want your money." With that Asuka turned on her heel, and left, grabbing Hikari on the way.
"Oh and don't forget: We at NERV do know you aren't just tools and we love you very much!" she mocked and laughed.
The boys shuddered at that. Rei just stared at the money. If came back and she still didn't know what to do with it.
"Ayanami," Kaworu began, stepping up to her. "why don't I show you just what you could do with that wade of cash?" His grin was almost inhuman.
"Dude, and you said I was doing something wrong?" Kensuke whined, pointing at Kaworu. "Look what he's doing!?"
Touji observed and didn't see anything wrong. "What is he doing?"
Kensuke glared. "I hate you, Touji, I hate you so very much."
Shinji's mind was filled with thought. 'I'm forgetting something. Something to do with Kensuke and Rei...that's kinda funny. Kensuke and Rei. Wow, Kaworu and Rei look like they are having a very deep conversation over there. I wonder what it could be about...'
"So, have you ever had the sudden urge to just release your AT field and kill our teacher?" Kaworu asked Rei as they began their trek back to the three stooges.
"No."
"Never?"
"Never."
"Ever?"
"You are starting to act very immature, Nagisa." Rei replied.
Kaworu was a bit taken back a little with her bluntness, but replied. "Sorry."
"So are we all ready to go do something fun!?" Touji pleaded.
"Yes...yes we are." Kaworu answered. He then grinned evilly. "But first I have to ask you something."
The three stooges exchanged glances and looked back at Kaworu.
"Go ahead." They said at once.
"You wouldn't get all freaked if I killed our teacher now would you?"
"Nagisa, that is not a question you can ask everyone." Rei stated firmly.
The three boys were just giving the two red-eyed teens weird looks.
"Remind me not to get on your bad side." Kensuke finally said.
"Yea, me too." Touji agreed. "Anyways, let's go."
******
Hikari and Asuka were observing the booths as they pass them by trying to pick one to play first.
"Say..." Hikari started thoughtfully. "Do you really think it was such a good idea to leave Rei with the guys? I mean don't you think she'll be uncomfortable?"
Asuka gave Hikari that look that clearly said: 'Does it really look like I care about Rei?'
Hikari noticed the look and smiled sheepishly. "Right, I guess she's better off there then here."
Asuka rolled her eyes, losing the look and looked around. "Exactly. Besides she'd probably rather hang out with the idiot than with us anyway."
Hikari thought about that. Shinji was probably one of the only people Rei actually cared to talk to so Asuka explanation seemed truthful. "Yea, I guess so. But let's not stay by ourselves the whole time. I want to spend time with the guys too."
Asuka looked from where she was watching the game of darts to Hikari with a grin that clearly spoke what Asuka was thinking.
"Before you say anything, and I mean ANYTHING, Asuka. Shut-up!" Hikari threaten.
Asuka returned her attention back to the game of darts, never losing her grin. She did however shrug and nod her head. "Fine, whatever you want then. No comments coming from this girl. Nope none at all."
"Thank you."
"Who cares that you have that God-awful crash on Suzahara anyways?" Asuka continued as if Hikari had said nothing, her grin growing as Hikari's blush started. Asuka returned her attention back to Hikari. "But aside from that I also want to go back. I've got a stooge to talk to."
Hikari's blush started vanishing. "Which stooge do you speak of Asuka?"
"Oh, four-eyes. I just have to know if he's got a crush on Wondergirl. I must find out if this is true."
With that Asuka walked over towards the dart game with Hikari following with a perplexed expression.
"Kensuke has a crush on Ayanami?" Hikari questioned. "Since when?"
******
'Oh, God I love you...' Kensuke thought looking longingly at Rei Ayanami who was being briefed on what the objective of the water game was by Shinji and Kaworu.
"Watch out," Touji warned. "you keep staring and you'll probably burn a hole in her. God only knows where that would lead you."
"Maybe I should tell her what to do the next time around." Kensuke pondered with a silly little love grin on his face. "I could even show her how to...ya know work the gadgets and even probably adjust them for her probably."
Kaworu and Shinji were staring wide-eyed at Kensuke he noticed. He looked over at Touji who had a rather disturbed look on his face.
"What is something on my face?" he asked, wiping at his face. "You guys are staring as if there's a tiny alien on my face. Stop staring at me like that!"
Shinji scratched his head. "Geeze, Kensuke, you're kinda loud." he told the boy.
Kaworu chuckled. "Yeah, you're very loud. One could almost say that we heard you way over here!"
Kensuke gave them a dead panned look. "Don't tell me," he started, sounding awfully unenthusiastic about his comment, "you heard everything?"
Kaworu chuckled again. "Well, only the things you said aloud."
"Which was," Shinji continued, grinning as well. "A whole lot."
Rei suddenly leaned back revealing herself from behind Kaworu. She looked up at Kaworu then at Shinji, then towards Kensuke and Touji. Then she said "Are we not playing this one?"
All eyes landed on her. They figured she either wasn't paying them any attention and missed the whole conversation or was trying to ignore it altogether. In any case she was waiting patiently for them to come to the booth and play the game.
"After this," Touji said, grabbing a gun and taking aim at the hole, "we're going on a ride."
"A ride?" Rei repeated quietly to herself. 'Hmm, this sounds interesting.'
Kensuke grinned. He could sit next to Rei on the ride. All he had to do was put himself close enough so when they got in he could end up next to her.
Kaworu's thoughts were wondering in that same direction as he squeezed his trigger when the game started, but they weren't about sitting next to Rei, no his thoughts were a little more mischievous. 'Oh, how I will enjoy torturing that love-sick boy today. How I will enjoy this indeed.' he would have crackled evilly but well Touji was already giving him strangest look when he had the evil smile.
Shinji's thoughts were a little bit more normal. 'I've never actually had the pleasure of going on a ride. I wonder where Asuka and Hikari wondered off to. I hope they come back."
The race ended with Kaworu being the victor. After receiving a funny looking stuffed monkey they started walking through the game booths towards the rides. "Ugh...does anyone want this monkey?" he asked, holding it up for the group to see.
"Wow, Kaworu, its kinda of weird when a guy accepts a prize won by another guy." Touji commented. "You get my drift."
Kaworu stared at him blankly. "I have no idea."
"Look," Touji started and gestured at Rei who was a little ahead of them with Shinji. "just give it to Ayanami. That seems like the most normal thing you can do with it."
"Ooookay. Hey, Ayanami, catch!"
Rei turned, Kaworu threw the monkey. Rei blinked, ducked, the monkey soared over her head and hit some guy in the back of the head.
"Great catching skills, Rei." Kaworu muttered dryly.
"I was suppose to...catch...it?" Rei questioned, rather confused at why Kaworu threw it in the first place.
The guy who was hit by the monkey turned around and looked right at the wrong person. "YOU!" he bellowed pointing at Shinji.
"ME!?" Shinji squeaked. "ME!?"
"Just because you don't want it doesn't give you the right to throw it at people!" he started marching over towards Shinji.
'Just my luck. I'm going to be beaten up for somebody else's stupid tactics. I wish people would just get it through their heads to remember they're talking to Rei. Now I'm about to be beaten up for it.' "Umm...I'm sorry?" Shinji replied.
"Ya know, Ayanami, when people yell 'Hey, Ayanami, catch!' you are suppose to catch it." Kaworu explained.
"Oh, I am sorry, I did not hear everything you said. I only heard my name." came the reply.
"CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!" Shinji cried as the guy started dragging him away.
"Hey, you can't take Shin-man!" Touji protested. "He's...well...he's Shin-man!"
"Besides!" Kensuke added. He suddenly pointed at a random person. "That guy over there threw it!"
The guy released Shinji. "Oh, you must forgive for my actions." With that he turned his attention on the random guy and chased after him. "So you don't like monkey's pal!"
The section two agent who just happen to be the random guy blinked and was taken down to the ground by the other guy.
"The quicker we leave the least its our fault." Kaworu spoke.
"But how does a hastily retreat remove fault from us?" Rei inquired.
"No one will ever know..." Shinji started, dragging the pondering Rei along. "Its kind of like how no one will ever know how many licks it really takes to get to the chewy center of a tootsie pop."
"The world may never know!" Chorused Touji and Kensuke.
After a short moment Kaworu spoke up with confusion evident in his tone.
"What the hell's a tootsie pop?" he asked.
*********
Hikari Horaki bowed in respect and said something she had said just five seconds prior. "Please forgive my friend. She's a little temperamental."
"Damn Gaijin!" Cursed the teenage man. "They are so rude."
Asuka glanced in his direction. The look she gave him spoke volumes of anger and she was about to explode. "Call me that again and I'll feed you to your children."
"Asuka!" Hikari snapped in her direction. Hikari looked at the equally angered man and bowed again. "Again I apologies."
"Don't apologies to him! He ran into me!" Asuka shouted. "He should be the one to apologies!"
The man glared. "Well, if you were watching out where you were going then you would have saw me, you stupid gaijin!"
Asuka trembled in rage. "Didn't I tell you not to call me that again!"
"GAIJIN!"
"You trottel. And another thing Ihre Mutter!" Asuka started a string of curse words that no one but her knew what they meant.
The anger teenage man glared and grabbed a cup. "GAIJIN! No but a little stupid gaijin!" With that he tossed it.
Hikari groaned. "This is not looking good."
Asuka dodged the cup and stomped towards him, pulling up her arm sleeves. "Oh, I'll show you what this 'gaijin' can do!"
Now noticing just how dangerous Asuka looked and probably was, the young man freaked and started running.
"Oh, now you wanna run!" Asuka shouted, chasing after him. "No one throws stuff at Asuka Langley Sohyru and gets away with it."
Hikari sighed. "This is turning out to be an interesting day. I wonder how the guys are doing. Maybe we'll run into them or something."
*********
"BUMPER CARS!" Touji shouted, leaning forward in rage.
"NO!" Kensuke shouted in equal rage. He pointed furiously at the ride labeled 'Demon Twister' and replied. "We're riding that!"
"No, we're riding the bumper cars!" Touji argued back.
Again the First, Third, and Fifth Children found themselves on the sidelines watching the events.
"Why can't we just ride one then ride the other afterwards?" Kaworu asked.
"Its got to do with that whole male dominance thing." Shinji replied. Kaworu only stared at him, so he explained. "You see once we pick a ride, the person whose ride was picked first will assume leadership and we will always ride the rides they pick for the remainder of the day."
"Oh." Kaworu nodded. "So why don't we just pick another ride, agree to it and then one of us will be the dominant male?"
Shinji shrugged. "I don't know."
"Why not just ask our opinion?" Rei spoke up.
Again Shinji shrugged. "I don't know."
"We're riding the bumper cars or I'm gonna kill you!" Touji threaten, showing Kensuke a balled fist.
"Hey, how about we go on the slide?" Kaworu offered, trying to extinguish the fire.
Kensuke and Touji glared in his direction. "NO!" they both shouted.
Kaworu frowned. "I'm going anyways." he replied. "C'mon Shinji."
"Actually, I was thinking about playing that game over there while they settle things." Shinji response pointing at the dart game not to far away.
Kaworu's frown deepen. "No, we're going on the slide."
An argument then started between the Third and Fifth Child.
"The Slide!"
"No, the game!"
"Demon Twister!"
"Bumper Cars!"
The First Child stared on. 'This is how wars are started.' she thought absently.
"What the hell are you idiots yelling about!?" came a new, very much angry voice.
The guys all quieted down and looked over to where the First Child was standing. They were however not staring at her because they all knew Rei was not the type of person to even say something along those lines yet alone yell. They knew that voice. It was the voice of the one and only Second Child and she didn't look to please.
"You men and your stupid dominance factors!" Asuka continued. She was already frustrated that she had lost her target in the crowd and then she finds these idiots arguing over what they were going to do next. She'd settle this now. "We're going to play that game right there, then when were done we'll decide like women what to do next!" She pointed over at the horse game and her hard stare harden.
'Deciding like women seems like the right course of action.' Rei thought in agreement while nodding.
Hikari was standing behind her. "Asuka, how do you get men to decide like women?" she asked in a whisper.
The four males glared at her and at one time replied. "WE WILL NOT!" and returned to arguing with each other.
Asuka's eye twitch. "What...did you...say!?"
They continued to ignore her.
"This is becoming quite an annoyance." commented Rei quietly. Not really expecting anyone to hear her.
Asuka and Hikari looked at her in shock.
"Oh my GOD!" Hikari screamed as if someone just shot Asuka. Touji was actually hoping that was the case when they looked in her direction.
"What's wrong?" Shinji asked, panic evident in his tone. He hoped no one shot Asuka. She'd blame it on him and get him back for the rest of eternity.
Hikari looked at Shinji in the same state of shock. "You guys are annoying Rei." she said in a very surprised matter.
Everyone quieted down. Touji sighed and frowned when she answered.
"So Asuka's not dead." he muttered in disappointment.
"What did you say, stooge!?" Asuka bellowed.
"We're annoying Rei!?" Kensuke squeaked. "I'm so sorry, Rei!"
Rei only seem to frown even more. Kaworu noticed this. Shinji thought on this.
'Wow, if we're upsetting Rei, then were really getting out of hand.' he thought intently. 'I wonder just how long we can keep this up before she goes off?' he grinned. 'I'll have to look into that.'
"That does it." Kaworu started. "We're officially just acting like idiots."
Shinji nodded in agreement as his thoughts of annoying Rei further vanish. "Let's just solve this problem in the most mature and reasonable matter."
The other three nodded and they stood in a circle. "Ready?" Touji asked. The others nodded.
"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS!"
Asuka smacked herself upside the head. "They call this mature and reasonable?"
Hikari shook her head and shrugged. "Boys will be boys."
*********
Kensuke grinned like an idiot as the group of seven stood in line for 'Demon Twister'
'Revenge....' Kaworu thought as he glared at Kensuke. It was not the first time the thought passed threw his thought process and it surely wasn't going to be the last.
'At first I didn't even care. How did I let my male hormones take over and make me act like them.' Shinji thought and sighed. 'Now I have the sudden urge to kill someone. Namely Kensuke.' Shinji blinked when he noticed something. 'He's standing awfully close to Ayanami.'
'My plan is working. My plan is working.'
'Morons, idiots, dumb asses, how many ways can I say how stupid those idiots are acting today.' Asuka thought. She blinked. 'Oh isn't that just so cute, the stooge is standing next to Ayanami.'
'Kensuke is standing real close to Ayanami.' Hikari thought.
'Could 'Suke be more obvious. Its so clear that he's doing that on purpose. I wonder how Ayanami feels.' Touji thought.
Rei looked to her left at Kensuke. She frowned, he didn't see. 'He is standing within my personal space parameter. Surely he knows that he's violating the rules. I must inform him if he does not.'
"So, Ayanami," Kensuke started, moving even closer. "looks like we'll be sitting next to each other."
"Aida, your are violating my personal space." Rei spoke with indifference. "Please take exactly eleven steps back and all we be returned to normal."
Asuka laughed. She had nothing else to do. Sure she didn't like Rei very much, but the blue-hair girl's straightforwardness was just funny. Also Kensuke's shocked look made it even funnier.
"Asuka, don't laugh at him." Hikari demanded. "He's clearly hurt."
Asuka wiped the tear from her eye. "I'm sorry...." she shuddered, trying not the laugh again. "Its...just...oh my god!" with that she started laughing again.
Kensuke did as she instructed, but he wasn't happy about it. 'Oh man, I can't believe she just said that to me. ME!? I'm her soulmate.'
'That's all the revenge I need.' Kaworu thought, satisfied at the events and snickered lightly.
"So after this what are we getting on?" Hikari asked. She decided that she needed to get everyone's thoughts off of what just happen before they tease Kensuke till he cried. Well they hadn't started but if she made them forget they wanted to it would be great.
"Oh there's no arguing, we are going on the bumper cars." Touji answered. He glared at the other three males. "Right, no disagreements among us?"
Though Shinji and Kensuke caught the nice threat given by Touji, it flew right over Kaworu's head.
"Hey, just why do we have to go on what you say because you say it?" he was starting to like this male dominance thing and he was determined to become the dominant male.
Touji's left eye twitch. "Because I said so."
"Not a very good answer." Kaworu shot back.
Hikari smack herself. 'Great, this again.'
"C'mon, hurry up!" The operator rushed, he gestured wildly for the group to hurry up inside. Kensuke stepped up first followed by the others and they all started looking for places to strap themselves down.
"Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls," the operator shouted in a creepy voice. "Its now time to witness the power of the 'DEEEEEMON TWISTER'!"
"Oh, shut-up and start the ride already!" Asuka interrupted. Who was he trying to scare with that lame intro? Surely not her.
Touji chuckled and looked at Shinji. "Hey, I bet Asuka feels right at home on this ride."
Shinji chuckled to himself while not giving a reply.
The ride started.
Several minutes into the ride...
'This ride is not very entertaining.' Rei thought, keeping her expression of indifference. The only thing is was doing was whipping her clothes and her hair about. And that was annoying. 'Going in circles is not something one should enjoy.'
But apparently people were enjoying it. Others were just downright scared of it. She couldn't figure either out. How could someone feel scared or excited about going in circles?
'We're only going in circles.' Kaworu thought bluntly, blinking the wind out of his eyes and frowning. 'Lilium are strange.'
The ride ended and the seven teenagers stepped off the exit. The guys were looking a bit more flushed up than the girls as they kept trying to keep their balance and kept wobbling around.
"I'm really starting to wonder what God was thinking when He created the male." Asuka spoke, as she watch the guys try to overcome their dizziness. "I mean really that ride sucked! Majorly and they can't even take it."
Hikari stopped next to her. "I'm a little dizzy." she admitted.
"What about you, Wondergirl?" Asuka asked turning around to look at Rei.
Rei focus her attention on her. "No need to worry, Second."
"Well, that's nice." Hikari decided to reply. "Did you like the ride?"
"No." Rei answered flatly.
"Oh. Well, that's errm...nice."
Before any of them could start up another conversation three guys came up to them.
"Hey, good lookin', what fine girls like you doing alone?"
"Standing." Rei answered, truthfully. That's what they were doing.
A little taken back at first, the leader regain composure and said to Rei. "I can put you on your back if you like."
Rei blinked. Hikari gaped. Asuka rolled her eyes. None said anything.
The leader moved a little closer to Rei.
'This is the second time someone has enter my personal space.' Rei thought, narrowing her eyes slightly.
"Here, you can have this. I won it awhile back and don't seem to need it." he held the stuff animal in her direction.
Rei stared down at the animal in his hand and looked back at him. "I have no need for it either."
He blinked. "Oh, well, then who cares. Love what you did with her your hair. What's your natural hair color. Black?"
'Oh my God!' Asuka thought and started to grin. 'I wish I had a camera! I'm loving this. C'mon Wondergirl, give him one of those replies.'
"I have done nothing with my hair. This is my natural hair color." Rei answered.
"Uh-huh, yea sure. You even have red contacts. You're a little wild aren't you?"
Hikari was grinning nervously. 'I was always wondering if that was Rei's real eye color.'
"So, hot mama want to go do some bumping on the bumper cars?" ask one of the other guys as they look at Hikari.
"Ugh....."
"What the hell happen to the guys?" Asuka wondered aloud.
*******
Shinji blinked and turned around. That's when he stopped completely and frowned. 'I knew it was a little too quiet. Touji and Asuka would be arguing right now if she was present. Ayanami and the Class Rep are missing as well.'
"Shin-man, why'd you stop?" Kensuke asked.
"The girls are missing."
"THEY ARE!?" Touji and Kaworu asked.
"Wow, didn't even notice." Kaworu said honestly.
Shinji ignored them and started walking back. "C'mon let's go find them."
"Fine, fine, but you just lost your turn in picking the next thing." Kensuke said.
"Hey, that's not fair!"
Kaworu and Touji nodded. "It is so."
"Why!?" Shinji whined.
"Because you're the one that wants to go find the girls." Kensuke explained as if he should have known.
Shinji glared but said nothing else. 'Stupid...this is not fair. I wouldn't take their turn because they were worried about the girls.'
*********
"Sir, if you would take thirty steps back away from me you will be close enough to communicate on an 'stranger passing by' level." Rei stated.
The leader was again taken back, but did as he was told. He couldn't figure it out. He put all the moves on this girl and she was not in love with him. He rubbed his hatted head and groaned. 'And she's cute too!' he whined. He was not going to give up. He was going to get a number at least. "Hey, so, wanna give me yo number?"
Rei continued to stare passively. "Why?" she asked innocently enough.
"What do you mean 'why'!? I just want it! I want to call you and get to know you and all that good stuff!"
"Why?"
"AHH! C'mon! You're really cute that's why!"
Rei blinked and replied. "You're request has been denied. That answer is not a sufficient reason for me to give you my phone number."
He dropped to his knees. "THIS ISN'T FAIR!" he cried. 'I'm gonna lose the bet too!'
He somehow had gotten close enough to Rei as to where he could touch her and that thought alone did not make Rei happy. It also didn't help that he grabbed the hem of her dressed and started begging for her number.
"Please remove your hands from my uniform."
'I had to make that stupid bet! Dammit! I knew I should have tried for the red-head.'
"Who told you could touch me!?" That very same red-head yelled.
"AHHHHH!" cried one of his friends as they went flying through the air.
'Or maybe not.'
"You are still touching me." Rei pointed out. "Please remove your hand."
"Asuka, do you think that was such a nice thing to do?" Hikari asked. "I mean Rei's not being violent with that guy."
Asuka grabbed the guy that was trying his chances with Hikari and tossed him as well.
"She's trying to get taken! So back off!" she screamed. She looked at Hikari and grinned when she saw the girl blush. "That was a good enough reason to throw him."
The guys chose that moment to arrive. Touji and Shinji had to literally jump out of the way to avoid a guy smashing into them as he flew by.
"Oh, well, we can now see what happen to the ladies." Kaworu said.
"Hey is that guy graveling at Rei's feet?" Touji asked in amazement. "Rei can make people gravel? Who would have thought."
'If I had known that all I had to do was gravel at her feet and I'd be able to be that close I would have done so already.' Kensuke thought grimly as he watched the guy pulled at her dress.
Rei finally showed that she was now annoyed with the situation. She frowned. The guy looked up and saw her frown.
"You are still touching me." She repeated. "Remove your hands or they shall be removed by force."
"Eep!" the guy let go and stood up. "So does this mean you're not going to give me your number?"
Rei glared. He took a step back. "Right of course. Well it was nice talking to ya, here you can still have this." He dropped the animal in her hand and ran off all the while yelling to himself. "Dammit! I'm gonna owe Bill money now. The guys are gonna rub this in my face. Speaking of which, where are the guys?"
"You see there are other ways to handle a situation than with beating people up, Asuka." Hikari said as she gestured in Rei's direction. "Rei handle that situation quite nicely."
"Hey!" called Kensuke. He peeped from behind the bench he was hiding behind. "Has the devil calmed down or should we come back later?"
Hikari sighed and frowned annoyingly. "She was calm..." she whispered. "Till you said something."
And just prove how much she was right, Asuka's eye twitch and she started after Kensuke ranting in Japanese, English, and German alike. "I'll kill you!" was one of the only sentences everyone was able to full comprehend and Kensuke was running for dear life after he heard it and saw Asuka coming.
"One situation leads to another." whiserped Kaworu.
"Let's go do something and leave the two of them to it." Touji suggested. "Like ride the Bumper Cars."
Hikari groaned. "FINE! We will ride the bumper cars!"
Kaworu didn't like this idea and was about to protest when Hikari turned to him.
"After that we will go on the slide! Now everyone is happy!"
"Actually, I'm kinda thirsty..." Shinji admitted, looking around for a refreshment booth.
Hikari glared at him and then allowed her eyes to fall on the one person who had yet to complain. "Do you have anything to add, Rei?"
Rei stood there for a moment, "No."
Hikari blinked. She really thought Rei was going to add something. Finally she turned away from the blue haired pilot and returned her attention to Shinji and Touji.
"Fine, we'll do a few more things and then eat."
Touji and Shinji exchanged similar glances, which said: 'Who put her in charge?', but said nothing of it and followed after the Class Representative that would always be their class rep no matter where they were.
Kensuke passed them screaming and failing his arms about.
"WHY!? I didn't mean it, Asuka! I really didn't mean it!" he cried.
"Oh, but you did! YOU STUPID STOOGE!" Asuka followed.
Touji and Shinji shook their heads in as one. "Tsk tsk." Both young men said. "He should learn to keep his mouth shut." They briefly exchange a glance, then looked back just in time to see Kensuke vault over a turned over trash can and continue on his way.
Hikari was a bit disturbed at the boys synchronized talking, but kept such thoughts to herself.
Kensuke ran by once again.
"HELP ME!" he screamed at the group, his attention was focus more on Shinji and Touji though. "You're suppose to be my best friends."
Both young men shrugged as one again and replied. "This is a lesson well...or well soon to be well learnt."
"Is that really necessary?" Kaworu asked, giving both suddenly synchronized boys a disturb stare.
Touji and Shinji returned the stare with a blank one and asked. "Is what necessary?"
"Must you continue the synchronize talking?" Hikari choose to explain.
After giving each other a knowing glance, which possibly no one caught, they returned their gazes to Hikari and Kaworu with the same blank look as before.
Possibly no one meaning that Rei Ayanami caught the glance and figured out what they were up to. 'They're doing this on purpose.' she thought to herself. After that little thought she decided that she had been around these people far too long and made her leave as quietly and effectively as possible. Had this been anyone but Rei Ayanami they would have informed Kaworu and Hikari of Shinji and Touji's little game, but Rei simply did not care about affairs that did not concern her.
Did I mention no on saw her go? I guess I should say that's what happen. No one saw her go.
Kensuke continued to run from Asuka.
"So once we've ridden the bumper cars and the slide," Hikari planned, looking at Kaworu since he was the only person paying her any attention, "we're going to eat and then decide on what else to do. How's that sound?"
"Sounds fine to me!" Touji and Shinji exclaimed.
Kaworu and Hikari ignored them.
Asuka walked up with Kensuke the headlock. "So, are we ready?"
"Yes." Hikari nodded. "We're off to the Bumper Cars!"
"ALL RIGHT!" Touji cheered. "I rule!"
Shinji smacked himself in the forehead. "You blew it Touji; I thought we had that synchronize thing down too!"
"Stooges now and forever!" Hikari and Asuka unison and then laughed.
Kensuke squirm in Asuka's grip. "Ahh, c'mon Asuka let me go. Please?"
"No, this is your punishment for your crimes against the Great Asuka Langley Sohyru."
"Right. Shall we be off?" Kaworu suggested, gesturing in any given direction. "Don't want to be behind schedule or anything like that."
They all agreed and set forth to ride the bumper cars.
*******
Meanwhile....
Ritsuko Akagi lounged in her chair at the "Deer Lounge" and read up on the current news, which was something she never got to do quite often being an employee of NERV and all. So she indulged in the fact that she was finally able to know what was going on in the outside world and be apart of it rather than just it being there and her being here.
In just a few seconds, Ritsuko's was going to learn that some things will always catch up to you. Especially if you're an employee at NERV.
"Dr. Akagi, where are the Children at this current time?" questioned a woman in a stern tone.
"Off doing kid things I suppose." Ritsuko replied, nonchalantly without taking her eyes off her newspaper.
"You suppose?" the voice questioned again, this time with some edge.
Ritsuko, once again not taking her eyes off the paper, replied. "Yes, I suppose that's what they should be doing. But who knows maybe they decided that kid things weren't their forte and decided to crush a building with an Eva. All things considered they'd probably have more fun doing that then playing at this fair anyways-wow, who would have thought such a healthy man would contract such a deadly sickness quickly."
"Dr. Akagi, are you even listening to yourself?" The woman asked, flatly.
"No, I suppose I'm not listening to myself. I find that listening to myself is a part of my job at NERV and since I'm away from NERV I choose not to listen to myself unless it deem important. Hmm? I didn't know Tokyo- 3 had a soccer team. There not bad either. Who would have thought? Uh, I really AM missing out on the world."
Growing frustrated with the good doctor, the woman snatched the paper and tossed it aside. Ritsuko got a look and the woman. Then she frowned.
"Oh, Dr. Hoshi, what brings you here?" Ritsuko asked.
Dr. Hoshi's brown eyes flared. "Dr. Akagi, where are the Children!?"
Ritsuko looked left. Then she looked right. "Hmm? There not right here that's for sure."
"No duh!" Dr. Hoshi screamed. "Now, where are they!?"
"NERV perhaps?" Ritsuko genuinely wondered.
Dr. Hoshi shook her head fiercely. "No! They are not at NERV, Dr. Akagi."
Ritsuko thought long and hard. Long and hard for Ritsuko Akagi usually brings results of such magnitude that she could possibly solve world hungry, but at this moment and on this subject, Ritsuko was drawing a blank. After all the Children weren't her responsibility, they were Misato's.
"I honestly haven't a clue as to where the Children would be. You should ask the Major. She usually keeps up with them."
Dr. Hoshi's eyebrow twitched. "Dr. Akagi, did you forget why you were at the fair?"
"Yes, actually I have. I just figured I was going AWOL."
"Did you forget the agreement between NERV and Social Services?"
Ritsuko nodded. "No, I haven't."
"Do you know what today is?"
"Monday? No, wait its Tuesday. I don't really keep up with the date anymore."
"Its Monday, Dr. Akagi." Dr. Hoshi answered calmly. "Anyways, I shall explain to you what's is going on. You were assigned to spend the whole day with the Children. Is this all coming back to you?"
After much thinking on the subject, the information did returned to Ritsuko and she finally knew why Dr. Hoshi was here.
"Oh, Dr. Hoshi, you're here to check on the Children, well I haven't the clue where they are so why don't we go find them." Ritsuko stood and walked ahead of Dr. Hoshi as if everything was all right and it was normal to forget about children.
Dr. Hoshi was a balloon ready to pop. "I swear these people at NERV have no shame! They don't even keep up with their kids! ARGH! I have a good mind to take them away. That'll show them all!"
"Dr. Hoshi, are you all right?" Ritsuko asked, turning to the other doctor with concern.
Dr. Hoshi snapped out of her little world and looked at Ritsuko. "Oh, I'm fine Dr. Akagi. Let's search for the Children now."
"Right...if you say so."
*********
When not here, we're there!
"Take that!" Touji screamed, running into the back of Shinji's car.
Shinji jerked forward and slammed against his seat. "Ow, Touji, that hurt!"
"Ha ha, no pain, no game. Deal with it, we're all Eva pilots out here."
Kensuke chose that moment to make his present's known by slamming into the side of Touji's car, sending him skidding off somewhere.
"I haven't had the pleasure of such a job! So don't rub it in, Touji!"
Shinji scanned the area for his next target. 'Let's see here: Touji, no, he just got creamed by Kensuke, Asuka: NO! I won't see the end of the day. Hikari? Ah, no, she doesn't deserve it. Ayanami....hmmm...? Hey, wait a second...'
"Where's Ayanami?"
*********
Elsewhere....or Where else?
Rei Ayanami strolled through the crowd searching for a way out of this place of hell. Yes, to Rei Ayanami the Fair was a place of hell and she figured she hadn't done anything yet to deserve such a punishment. Not only had this place made the other Children act just, well, strange, but it was filled with people she didn't know and frankly didn't ever wanted to know.
'There must be away out of here.' Rei thought, her eyes darting from area to area.
Something usual happened at that exact moment, something Rei Ayanami would not have expected and she surely did not enjoy.
"WHY HELLO THERE LITTLE GIRL!?" exclaimed and all to happy giant pink elephant. He had somehow stepped in front of Rei, blocking her path and greeted her with extreme happiness.
Rei was not happy about this.
"Oh, little girl, you look sad. Have you lost your mommy?" asked the elephant in a sad tone of voice.
"No." came Rei's dead reply.
"You're daddy?" wondered the elephant.
"No."
"Hmm...?" pondered the elephant. "I know, you lost your dolly wolly."
There was a pause and Rei's stare harden. The elephant took her stare as a no and decided another approach.
"You look sad, do you need help?"
Rei, despite herself found herself saying something vaguely familiar. "I don't need your help, you stupid elephant." She blinked at her comment and wondered why most of that sounded like she had said it before.
"Well, someone's being a spoil sport. Let's go find your parents so they can tell you treat others with respect." the elephant scolded.
"You're nothing but a useless elephant." Rei replied. She, somehow, and unknown to her, was taking pleasure from tormenting this poor elephant man.
Taken back at her comment, the elephant clutch his heart and took a step back. "Oh, you hurt my feelings. You need a hug."
"You're nothing but an annoying, useless elephant." Rei continued.
"Hey, you're not being nice. I'm telling your mother."
"Such a useless animal should be dealt with properly." Rei said, casually.
"AHH! I give up!" the voice suddenly changed from a cute and squeaky voice to a deep manly voice. The head of the elephant suddenly came off to reveal a man in his late forties, balding at the head and with a unkept bread growing on his face. "I'm so sick of you kids today!"
"OH MY GOD!" screamed a little girl as she pointed at the man. "Mommy, Elphy's changed into a monster! Protect me mommy."
Rei raised an eyebrow and continued to stare at the man. All around her children were screaming and crying and running to their parents.
"You see what you did?" cried the man. "Now I'm probably gonna lose my job because of kids like you. Why couldn't you just smile and do what the rest of them do? But no you had to make things complicated. I hate your kind."
'How does he know I'm an angel? I must have him eliminated.' Rei's eyes narrowed at the man. 'Quickly.'
The man not sure if he really enjoyed the deadly gaze Rei was giving him started to look around the area nervously. Its amazing how an area clears when little kids don't like what they see and neither do their parents. "Right, ya know, sorry about that girl, I'll just leave now."
Turning to make a run for it, Elphy...or the man acting as Elphy ran right into a orange hexagon field.
"No, elephant," Rei started, eyes glowing, hair fluttered. "there is no escape for you!"
Elphy gulped. He should have just left her alone.
*******
Once again...we bring you...THE CHILDREN
After exiting the ride and Shinji telling everyone about the missing Rei, the group set out on a quest to find her and get something to eat.
"So, we're not going to get to go on the slide?" Kaworu asked.
"We will," Hikari assured. "We just need to find Miss Ayanami."
"Why do we need to find wondergirl again?" Asuka asked. Again. For the seventh time.
"Because who knows, maybe we left her behind and she's alone and sad." Touji answered.
"I didn't ask you, Stooge!"
"Well, I answered anyways!" Touji shouted back.
Asuka growled. Touji growled.
"Here we go again." Kaworu said, shrugging and sticking his hands in his pocket.
"I'M GONNA GET YOU WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT AND...."
Tuning out the argument the four other children continued forth in search of Rei and lunch.
"Hey, weren't we suppose to meet up with Dr. Akagi at the Deer Lounge around this time?" Shinji asked.
Kaworu looked at his watch. "Wow, we've killed a lot of time doing nothing."
"That's because this fair sucks!" Kensuke announced. "I'm ready to go home."
("That's why you're mother is a elf!") Asuka yelled.
"Yea, I'm kinda bored too. We're doing more walking than anything else." Shinji agreed.
Kensuke, still trapped in whatever world he was trapped in, continued to rant as if Shinji hadn't said a thing. "How could such a place lose my bride to be?"
Shinji looked at Kensuke with a look that told that he knew exactly what was going on in Kensuke's mind and was tired of it.
("You're dad licks beats off your ass!") Touji cracked back.
"Kensuke's in his 'Rei is the only one for me' world again." Announced a weary Shinji.
"Oh, really?" Hikari's curious reply followed while she raised an eyebrow for effect. "I always wondered what he was yelling about during these types of moments. Now I know."
("Don't worry, my love, I shall find thee and protect thee from harm!") Kensuke ranted.
"How long will he be in this world of his?" Kaworu asked, already annoyed with Kensuke's ranting.
Shinji shrugged. "Don't know. Depends."
Kaworu groaned and looked forward away from Kensuke, Touji, and Asuka.
"This day will not end..." he silently cursed to himself.
However, Kaworu's prayer was about to be answer. Answered in the form of an angel alarm.
"Ahh, man!" Touji whined. "I don't wanna!"
"You don't do anything!" Asuka shouted. "You're backup you stupid monkey!"
"And what backup I am too!" Touji countered with a grin.
'Idiots!' Kaworu thought and ran towards the exit with Shinji in tow.
********
In a place deep within the bowels of Tokyo-3
Major Misato Katsuragi was a bit confused as she stared at the black haired man by the name of Makoto.
"So, wait, the angel is...where again?"
Makoto gulped and answered. "The fair..."
"And the casualty number is....?" Misato waited.
"Currently zero." Maya choose to answer.
"What....the....hell?" Misato said. She turned and looked up at the Commanders and said: "WHAT THE HELL!?"
Both Commanders exchanged a glance and looked back at Misato.
"This is most unusual." Fuyutsuki said. "But we all know who it is?"
'Oh she's gonna get it...' Gendou Ikari thought, squeaking his hands in fist. 'Oh, she's gonna get it good. I'll stick her in that tank for a week after this...'
"So, where is it?" Misato asked.
The bridge bunnies sweatdropped.
"It vanished, Major."
"Right, of course," Misato replied. "Giant building size monsters just vanish after killing no one!"
"The Major seems upset." Fuyutsuki pointed out. "Do you think its that time of the month?"
Gendou's tighten his gloves again and said: "God save us all if it is."
Fuyutsuki bowed his head. "And on the seventh day, God decided women should have a time of the month."
"Amen." both Commanders muttered.
"What the hell are you two up there mumbling about!?" Misato shouted. Turning to glare at the Commanders. "Don't think I don't know what you're talking about! I'll come up there!"
"A hasty retreat is in order." Fuyutsuki suggested.
"Another trip to Antarctica seems about right." Gendou continued.
-End Chapter 2-
A/N: Yes, I suppose I dragged this chapter on long enough. I felt that was a nice place to end it. So anyways, stay tune for the next installment. Later!
The group of one adult false blonde and three very important children made their to the entrance of the Tokyo-3's Yearly Fair. There waiting at the ticket booth were a group of kids. Two of these kids were just as important as the three with the adult.
"What the hell?" Ritsuko muttered to herself. "Where did the rest of these brats come from?"
Standing at the ticket booth was Touji accompanied by Kensuke and Hikari. Leaning on the other side of the booth was Kaworu with his hands in his pocket and whistling absently.
When the group made it to the ticket booth they were greeted.
"Geeze, took you long enough!" Touji exclaimed. "I was beginning to think that this was a trick of some sort."
Asuka gestured with her thumb in the direction of Rei. "Blame Wondergirl. She's the one that was playing dead."
"I was doing what?" Rei questioned softly and very much confused.
"Don't worry about it." Shinji assured, standing next to her. "In fact, just forget everything that happen in your apartment today."
Rei was about to question that when Ritsuko spoke up.
"Okay, I was only suppose to have five kids. Why do I have seven? I was only given money to please five kids. Why are there seven? I know for a fact that there are only five Children. So, why are there seven here?"
"Do not worry, Dr. Akagi," Hikari assured. "Kensuke and myself are paying for ourselves."
"Well, that's good. Also don't come to me with your problems."
Asuka rolled her eyes and looked at Hikari. "Doesn't she just radiate love?" she whispered.
"I heard that Asuka." Ritsuko sighed. "Anyways, I need a smoke break." She paid for six tickets and handed each Child their ticket and a wade of cash. "You each should have enough money to not have to come back to me till..." Looking at her watch she continued. "5 o'clock, that's when I will feed you and then send you off again. Got it?"
"Yes." came the collective mumbles.
"Good. Should anything happen to go wrong, I'll be by..." She opened the map and scanned for a place where she could stand and smoke. "...the Deer Lounge."
"All the Deer you not really eating." Kensuke quoted.
Ritsuko looked at him emotionless before reverted her eyes back to the map and walking away. "Enjoy yourselves. Oh and remember: We at NERV do know you aren't just tools and we love you very much." she mumbled this and sounded like a broken recorded.
"Wow," Kaworu started a bit surprise. "They sure are really expressing their love."
Still watching the retreating figure of Ritsuko, the next comment was made.
"'We at NERV do know you aren't just tools and we love you very much'?" Asuka repeated. "That sounded like an advertisement."
"What am I suppose to do with this money?" Rei asked, changing the subject. All eyes fell on her.
"Spend it." Touji answered, simply.
"You could just give it to me. I'll spend it for you." Asuka answered with a sarcastic grin.
Rei thought on this for a second. She wasn't really planning to do anything with it. Maybe keep a little of it to eat, but that was all. So giving the money to the Second didn't seem like a bad idea. So after she pulled out a couple of the bills she handed the cash to Asuka and started walking off.
"Shit," Asuka blinked in surprise, "she really gave it to me."
"Now go give it back." Shinji ordered, pointing at the retreating Rei. "You knew she was going to take you literally."
"No," Asuka said honestly, "I didn't think she was going to really give it to me."
"Give it to me dammit." Kensuke commented. "God knows I could use it."
Shinji was getting frustrated. "No! The money is going back to Ayanami."
"I think that might cover my food." Touji added.
"Is anyone listening to me?" Shinji asked, waving his hands. No one was paying him any attention, they were instead looking at Rei's money that rested in Asuka's open hand.
"You don't need it Touji. You have your own wade of cash." Kensuke complained. "Let me have it."
"Hello, its me Shinji Ikari!"
"Why should I give it to you!?" Asuka exclaimed. "I think Hikari should take it."
"Fine, pay me no mind. I hate you all!" Shinji continued to complain behind the circle.
"Actually I think we should give it back." Hikari suggested. "Its not right for us to keep it."
"I just love being ignored." Shinji continued, groaning.
"I agree with the Class Rep." Kaworu spoke up. "Let's go catch Ayanami and give it to her."
"Okay! That's what I said in the first place!" Shinji yelled.
"Yeah, Hikari and Kaworu are right." Asuka agreed.
"No, that was my idea!" Shinji corrected.
Asuka turned to Shinji. "Shut-up, you haven't done anything but whine about how you wanted the money for yourself! It was not your idea, idiot!"
And with that the group started after Rei Ayanami. Shinji stood there for a moment growling and clenching his fists.
"I hate you! I hate you all!" he cried and stomped after them.
********
Rei Ayanami was looking for an exit. Yes they were standing in front of the entrance, but Section Two was standing right there and there was no way they were going to let her just waltz on out, so she went in search of another exit. That was when the calling started. Several people were screaming her name.
"REI!"
"Ayanami!"
"Wondergirl!"
"Hey Sexy Blue-haired I want you in my bed--OW!"
Touji lowered his hand after smacking Kensuke upside the head.
"Kensuke," Touji cut in, "Don't start that! Not right now!"
Kensuke glared at him and grumbled something. "Okay, fine."
"Miss Ayanami!" Hikari called, cupping her hands around her mouth to amplified the call.
"Wondergirl! I know you can hear me! I know your not--well now I'm started to question that--anyways, get back here!"
Rei frowned. Sure attract attention to her. With Kensuke little description people were now staring right at her. Of course there were no other blue haired girls in this area....or city. Rei was now starting to question if she was the only blue haired girl in the world. Well, natural blue haired girl in the world.
"REI!"
'Might as well turn around and go back.' she thought.
And with that she turned around and headed to the screams. Why were they looking for her anyways? She wondered.
*********
Kaworu pointed when Rei came into site. "Hey, look there she is!"
"Finally! I've wasted precious time looking for her!" Asuka cried. She marched up the blue haired girl, grabbed her hand, slapped the money down in Rei's palm, smiled widely though forcefully, and finally said, "I don't want your money." With that Asuka turned on her heel, and left, grabbing Hikari on the way.
"Oh and don't forget: We at NERV do know you aren't just tools and we love you very much!" she mocked and laughed.
The boys shuddered at that. Rei just stared at the money. If came back and she still didn't know what to do with it.
"Ayanami," Kaworu began, stepping up to her. "why don't I show you just what you could do with that wade of cash?" His grin was almost inhuman.
"Dude, and you said I was doing something wrong?" Kensuke whined, pointing at Kaworu. "Look what he's doing!?"
Touji observed and didn't see anything wrong. "What is he doing?"
Kensuke glared. "I hate you, Touji, I hate you so very much."
Shinji's mind was filled with thought. 'I'm forgetting something. Something to do with Kensuke and Rei...that's kinda funny. Kensuke and Rei. Wow, Kaworu and Rei look like they are having a very deep conversation over there. I wonder what it could be about...'
"So, have you ever had the sudden urge to just release your AT field and kill our teacher?" Kaworu asked Rei as they began their trek back to the three stooges.
"No."
"Never?"
"Never."
"Ever?"
"You are starting to act very immature, Nagisa." Rei replied.
Kaworu was a bit taken back a little with her bluntness, but replied. "Sorry."
"So are we all ready to go do something fun!?" Touji pleaded.
"Yes...yes we are." Kaworu answered. He then grinned evilly. "But first I have to ask you something."
The three stooges exchanged glances and looked back at Kaworu.
"Go ahead." They said at once.
"You wouldn't get all freaked if I killed our teacher now would you?"
"Nagisa, that is not a question you can ask everyone." Rei stated firmly.
The three boys were just giving the two red-eyed teens weird looks.
"Remind me not to get on your bad side." Kensuke finally said.
"Yea, me too." Touji agreed. "Anyways, let's go."
******
Hikari and Asuka were observing the booths as they pass them by trying to pick one to play first.
"Say..." Hikari started thoughtfully. "Do you really think it was such a good idea to leave Rei with the guys? I mean don't you think she'll be uncomfortable?"
Asuka gave Hikari that look that clearly said: 'Does it really look like I care about Rei?'
Hikari noticed the look and smiled sheepishly. "Right, I guess she's better off there then here."
Asuka rolled her eyes, losing the look and looked around. "Exactly. Besides she'd probably rather hang out with the idiot than with us anyway."
Hikari thought about that. Shinji was probably one of the only people Rei actually cared to talk to so Asuka explanation seemed truthful. "Yea, I guess so. But let's not stay by ourselves the whole time. I want to spend time with the guys too."
Asuka looked from where she was watching the game of darts to Hikari with a grin that clearly spoke what Asuka was thinking.
"Before you say anything, and I mean ANYTHING, Asuka. Shut-up!" Hikari threaten.
Asuka returned her attention back to the game of darts, never losing her grin. She did however shrug and nod her head. "Fine, whatever you want then. No comments coming from this girl. Nope none at all."
"Thank you."
"Who cares that you have that God-awful crash on Suzahara anyways?" Asuka continued as if Hikari had said nothing, her grin growing as Hikari's blush started. Asuka returned her attention back to Hikari. "But aside from that I also want to go back. I've got a stooge to talk to."
Hikari's blush started vanishing. "Which stooge do you speak of Asuka?"
"Oh, four-eyes. I just have to know if he's got a crush on Wondergirl. I must find out if this is true."
With that Asuka walked over towards the dart game with Hikari following with a perplexed expression.
"Kensuke has a crush on Ayanami?" Hikari questioned. "Since when?"
******
'Oh, God I love you...' Kensuke thought looking longingly at Rei Ayanami who was being briefed on what the objective of the water game was by Shinji and Kaworu.
"Watch out," Touji warned. "you keep staring and you'll probably burn a hole in her. God only knows where that would lead you."
"Maybe I should tell her what to do the next time around." Kensuke pondered with a silly little love grin on his face. "I could even show her how to...ya know work the gadgets and even probably adjust them for her probably."
Kaworu and Shinji were staring wide-eyed at Kensuke he noticed. He looked over at Touji who had a rather disturbed look on his face.
"What is something on my face?" he asked, wiping at his face. "You guys are staring as if there's a tiny alien on my face. Stop staring at me like that!"
Shinji scratched his head. "Geeze, Kensuke, you're kinda loud." he told the boy.
Kaworu chuckled. "Yeah, you're very loud. One could almost say that we heard you way over here!"
Kensuke gave them a dead panned look. "Don't tell me," he started, sounding awfully unenthusiastic about his comment, "you heard everything?"
Kaworu chuckled again. "Well, only the things you said aloud."
"Which was," Shinji continued, grinning as well. "A whole lot."
Rei suddenly leaned back revealing herself from behind Kaworu. She looked up at Kaworu then at Shinji, then towards Kensuke and Touji. Then she said "Are we not playing this one?"
All eyes landed on her. They figured she either wasn't paying them any attention and missed the whole conversation or was trying to ignore it altogether. In any case she was waiting patiently for them to come to the booth and play the game.
"After this," Touji said, grabbing a gun and taking aim at the hole, "we're going on a ride."
"A ride?" Rei repeated quietly to herself. 'Hmm, this sounds interesting.'
Kensuke grinned. He could sit next to Rei on the ride. All he had to do was put himself close enough so when they got in he could end up next to her.
Kaworu's thoughts were wondering in that same direction as he squeezed his trigger when the game started, but they weren't about sitting next to Rei, no his thoughts were a little more mischievous. 'Oh, how I will enjoy torturing that love-sick boy today. How I will enjoy this indeed.' he would have crackled evilly but well Touji was already giving him strangest look when he had the evil smile.
Shinji's thoughts were a little bit more normal. 'I've never actually had the pleasure of going on a ride. I wonder where Asuka and Hikari wondered off to. I hope they come back."
The race ended with Kaworu being the victor. After receiving a funny looking stuffed monkey they started walking through the game booths towards the rides. "Ugh...does anyone want this monkey?" he asked, holding it up for the group to see.
"Wow, Kaworu, its kinda of weird when a guy accepts a prize won by another guy." Touji commented. "You get my drift."
Kaworu stared at him blankly. "I have no idea."
"Look," Touji started and gestured at Rei who was a little ahead of them with Shinji. "just give it to Ayanami. That seems like the most normal thing you can do with it."
"Ooookay. Hey, Ayanami, catch!"
Rei turned, Kaworu threw the monkey. Rei blinked, ducked, the monkey soared over her head and hit some guy in the back of the head.
"Great catching skills, Rei." Kaworu muttered dryly.
"I was suppose to...catch...it?" Rei questioned, rather confused at why Kaworu threw it in the first place.
The guy who was hit by the monkey turned around and looked right at the wrong person. "YOU!" he bellowed pointing at Shinji.
"ME!?" Shinji squeaked. "ME!?"
"Just because you don't want it doesn't give you the right to throw it at people!" he started marching over towards Shinji.
'Just my luck. I'm going to be beaten up for somebody else's stupid tactics. I wish people would just get it through their heads to remember they're talking to Rei. Now I'm about to be beaten up for it.' "Umm...I'm sorry?" Shinji replied.
"Ya know, Ayanami, when people yell 'Hey, Ayanami, catch!' you are suppose to catch it." Kaworu explained.
"Oh, I am sorry, I did not hear everything you said. I only heard my name." came the reply.
"CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!" Shinji cried as the guy started dragging him away.
"Hey, you can't take Shin-man!" Touji protested. "He's...well...he's Shin-man!"
"Besides!" Kensuke added. He suddenly pointed at a random person. "That guy over there threw it!"
The guy released Shinji. "Oh, you must forgive for my actions." With that he turned his attention on the random guy and chased after him. "So you don't like monkey's pal!"
The section two agent who just happen to be the random guy blinked and was taken down to the ground by the other guy.
"The quicker we leave the least its our fault." Kaworu spoke.
"But how does a hastily retreat remove fault from us?" Rei inquired.
"No one will ever know..." Shinji started, dragging the pondering Rei along. "Its kind of like how no one will ever know how many licks it really takes to get to the chewy center of a tootsie pop."
"The world may never know!" Chorused Touji and Kensuke.
After a short moment Kaworu spoke up with confusion evident in his tone.
"What the hell's a tootsie pop?" he asked.
*********
Hikari Horaki bowed in respect and said something she had said just five seconds prior. "Please forgive my friend. She's a little temperamental."
"Damn Gaijin!" Cursed the teenage man. "They are so rude."
Asuka glanced in his direction. The look she gave him spoke volumes of anger and she was about to explode. "Call me that again and I'll feed you to your children."
"Asuka!" Hikari snapped in her direction. Hikari looked at the equally angered man and bowed again. "Again I apologies."
"Don't apologies to him! He ran into me!" Asuka shouted. "He should be the one to apologies!"
The man glared. "Well, if you were watching out where you were going then you would have saw me, you stupid gaijin!"
Asuka trembled in rage. "Didn't I tell you not to call me that again!"
"GAIJIN!"
"You trottel. And another thing Ihre Mutter!" Asuka started a string of curse words that no one but her knew what they meant.
The anger teenage man glared and grabbed a cup. "GAIJIN! No but a little stupid gaijin!" With that he tossed it.
Hikari groaned. "This is not looking good."
Asuka dodged the cup and stomped towards him, pulling up her arm sleeves. "Oh, I'll show you what this 'gaijin' can do!"
Now noticing just how dangerous Asuka looked and probably was, the young man freaked and started running.
"Oh, now you wanna run!" Asuka shouted, chasing after him. "No one throws stuff at Asuka Langley Sohyru and gets away with it."
Hikari sighed. "This is turning out to be an interesting day. I wonder how the guys are doing. Maybe we'll run into them or something."
*********
"BUMPER CARS!" Touji shouted, leaning forward in rage.
"NO!" Kensuke shouted in equal rage. He pointed furiously at the ride labeled 'Demon Twister' and replied. "We're riding that!"
"No, we're riding the bumper cars!" Touji argued back.
Again the First, Third, and Fifth Children found themselves on the sidelines watching the events.
"Why can't we just ride one then ride the other afterwards?" Kaworu asked.
"Its got to do with that whole male dominance thing." Shinji replied. Kaworu only stared at him, so he explained. "You see once we pick a ride, the person whose ride was picked first will assume leadership and we will always ride the rides they pick for the remainder of the day."
"Oh." Kaworu nodded. "So why don't we just pick another ride, agree to it and then one of us will be the dominant male?"
Shinji shrugged. "I don't know."
"Why not just ask our opinion?" Rei spoke up.
Again Shinji shrugged. "I don't know."
"We're riding the bumper cars or I'm gonna kill you!" Touji threaten, showing Kensuke a balled fist.
"Hey, how about we go on the slide?" Kaworu offered, trying to extinguish the fire.
Kensuke and Touji glared in his direction. "NO!" they both shouted.
Kaworu frowned. "I'm going anyways." he replied. "C'mon Shinji."
"Actually, I was thinking about playing that game over there while they settle things." Shinji response pointing at the dart game not to far away.
Kaworu's frown deepen. "No, we're going on the slide."
An argument then started between the Third and Fifth Child.
"The Slide!"
"No, the game!"
"Demon Twister!"
"Bumper Cars!"
The First Child stared on. 'This is how wars are started.' she thought absently.
"What the hell are you idiots yelling about!?" came a new, very much angry voice.
The guys all quieted down and looked over to where the First Child was standing. They were however not staring at her because they all knew Rei was not the type of person to even say something along those lines yet alone yell. They knew that voice. It was the voice of the one and only Second Child and she didn't look to please.
"You men and your stupid dominance factors!" Asuka continued. She was already frustrated that she had lost her target in the crowd and then she finds these idiots arguing over what they were going to do next. She'd settle this now. "We're going to play that game right there, then when were done we'll decide like women what to do next!" She pointed over at the horse game and her hard stare harden.
'Deciding like women seems like the right course of action.' Rei thought in agreement while nodding.
Hikari was standing behind her. "Asuka, how do you get men to decide like women?" she asked in a whisper.
The four males glared at her and at one time replied. "WE WILL NOT!" and returned to arguing with each other.
Asuka's eye twitch. "What...did you...say!?"
They continued to ignore her.
"This is becoming quite an annoyance." commented Rei quietly. Not really expecting anyone to hear her.
Asuka and Hikari looked at her in shock.
"Oh my GOD!" Hikari screamed as if someone just shot Asuka. Touji was actually hoping that was the case when they looked in her direction.
"What's wrong?" Shinji asked, panic evident in his tone. He hoped no one shot Asuka. She'd blame it on him and get him back for the rest of eternity.
Hikari looked at Shinji in the same state of shock. "You guys are annoying Rei." she said in a very surprised matter.
Everyone quieted down. Touji sighed and frowned when she answered.
"So Asuka's not dead." he muttered in disappointment.
"What did you say, stooge!?" Asuka bellowed.
"We're annoying Rei!?" Kensuke squeaked. "I'm so sorry, Rei!"
Rei only seem to frown even more. Kaworu noticed this. Shinji thought on this.
'Wow, if we're upsetting Rei, then were really getting out of hand.' he thought intently. 'I wonder just how long we can keep this up before she goes off?' he grinned. 'I'll have to look into that.'
"That does it." Kaworu started. "We're officially just acting like idiots."
Shinji nodded in agreement as his thoughts of annoying Rei further vanish. "Let's just solve this problem in the most mature and reasonable matter."
The other three nodded and they stood in a circle. "Ready?" Touji asked. The others nodded.
"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS!"
Asuka smacked herself upside the head. "They call this mature and reasonable?"
Hikari shook her head and shrugged. "Boys will be boys."
*********
Kensuke grinned like an idiot as the group of seven stood in line for 'Demon Twister'
'Revenge....' Kaworu thought as he glared at Kensuke. It was not the first time the thought passed threw his thought process and it surely wasn't going to be the last.
'At first I didn't even care. How did I let my male hormones take over and make me act like them.' Shinji thought and sighed. 'Now I have the sudden urge to kill someone. Namely Kensuke.' Shinji blinked when he noticed something. 'He's standing awfully close to Ayanami.'
'My plan is working. My plan is working.'
'Morons, idiots, dumb asses, how many ways can I say how stupid those idiots are acting today.' Asuka thought. She blinked. 'Oh isn't that just so cute, the stooge is standing next to Ayanami.'
'Kensuke is standing real close to Ayanami.' Hikari thought.
'Could 'Suke be more obvious. Its so clear that he's doing that on purpose. I wonder how Ayanami feels.' Touji thought.
Rei looked to her left at Kensuke. She frowned, he didn't see. 'He is standing within my personal space parameter. Surely he knows that he's violating the rules. I must inform him if he does not.'
"So, Ayanami," Kensuke started, moving even closer. "looks like we'll be sitting next to each other."
"Aida, your are violating my personal space." Rei spoke with indifference. "Please take exactly eleven steps back and all we be returned to normal."
Asuka laughed. She had nothing else to do. Sure she didn't like Rei very much, but the blue-hair girl's straightforwardness was just funny. Also Kensuke's shocked look made it even funnier.
"Asuka, don't laugh at him." Hikari demanded. "He's clearly hurt."
Asuka wiped the tear from her eye. "I'm sorry...." she shuddered, trying not the laugh again. "Its...just...oh my god!" with that she started laughing again.
Kensuke did as she instructed, but he wasn't happy about it. 'Oh man, I can't believe she just said that to me. ME!? I'm her soulmate.'
'That's all the revenge I need.' Kaworu thought, satisfied at the events and snickered lightly.
"So after this what are we getting on?" Hikari asked. She decided that she needed to get everyone's thoughts off of what just happen before they tease Kensuke till he cried. Well they hadn't started but if she made them forget they wanted to it would be great.
"Oh there's no arguing, we are going on the bumper cars." Touji answered. He glared at the other three males. "Right, no disagreements among us?"
Though Shinji and Kensuke caught the nice threat given by Touji, it flew right over Kaworu's head.
"Hey, just why do we have to go on what you say because you say it?" he was starting to like this male dominance thing and he was determined to become the dominant male.
Touji's left eye twitch. "Because I said so."
"Not a very good answer." Kaworu shot back.
Hikari smack herself. 'Great, this again.'
"C'mon, hurry up!" The operator rushed, he gestured wildly for the group to hurry up inside. Kensuke stepped up first followed by the others and they all started looking for places to strap themselves down.
"Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls," the operator shouted in a creepy voice. "Its now time to witness the power of the 'DEEEEEMON TWISTER'!"
"Oh, shut-up and start the ride already!" Asuka interrupted. Who was he trying to scare with that lame intro? Surely not her.
Touji chuckled and looked at Shinji. "Hey, I bet Asuka feels right at home on this ride."
Shinji chuckled to himself while not giving a reply.
The ride started.
Several minutes into the ride...
'This ride is not very entertaining.' Rei thought, keeping her expression of indifference. The only thing is was doing was whipping her clothes and her hair about. And that was annoying. 'Going in circles is not something one should enjoy.'
But apparently people were enjoying it. Others were just downright scared of it. She couldn't figure either out. How could someone feel scared or excited about going in circles?
'We're only going in circles.' Kaworu thought bluntly, blinking the wind out of his eyes and frowning. 'Lilium are strange.'
The ride ended and the seven teenagers stepped off the exit. The guys were looking a bit more flushed up than the girls as they kept trying to keep their balance and kept wobbling around.
"I'm really starting to wonder what God was thinking when He created the male." Asuka spoke, as she watch the guys try to overcome their dizziness. "I mean really that ride sucked! Majorly and they can't even take it."
Hikari stopped next to her. "I'm a little dizzy." she admitted.
"What about you, Wondergirl?" Asuka asked turning around to look at Rei.
Rei focus her attention on her. "No need to worry, Second."
"Well, that's nice." Hikari decided to reply. "Did you like the ride?"
"No." Rei answered flatly.
"Oh. Well, that's errm...nice."
Before any of them could start up another conversation three guys came up to them.
"Hey, good lookin', what fine girls like you doing alone?"
"Standing." Rei answered, truthfully. That's what they were doing.
A little taken back at first, the leader regain composure and said to Rei. "I can put you on your back if you like."
Rei blinked. Hikari gaped. Asuka rolled her eyes. None said anything.
The leader moved a little closer to Rei.
'This is the second time someone has enter my personal space.' Rei thought, narrowing her eyes slightly.
"Here, you can have this. I won it awhile back and don't seem to need it." he held the stuff animal in her direction.
Rei stared down at the animal in his hand and looked back at him. "I have no need for it either."
He blinked. "Oh, well, then who cares. Love what you did with her your hair. What's your natural hair color. Black?"
'Oh my God!' Asuka thought and started to grin. 'I wish I had a camera! I'm loving this. C'mon Wondergirl, give him one of those replies.'
"I have done nothing with my hair. This is my natural hair color." Rei answered.
"Uh-huh, yea sure. You even have red contacts. You're a little wild aren't you?"
Hikari was grinning nervously. 'I was always wondering if that was Rei's real eye color.'
"So, hot mama want to go do some bumping on the bumper cars?" ask one of the other guys as they look at Hikari.
"Ugh....."
"What the hell happen to the guys?" Asuka wondered aloud.
*******
Shinji blinked and turned around. That's when he stopped completely and frowned. 'I knew it was a little too quiet. Touji and Asuka would be arguing right now if she was present. Ayanami and the Class Rep are missing as well.'
"Shin-man, why'd you stop?" Kensuke asked.
"The girls are missing."
"THEY ARE!?" Touji and Kaworu asked.
"Wow, didn't even notice." Kaworu said honestly.
Shinji ignored them and started walking back. "C'mon let's go find them."
"Fine, fine, but you just lost your turn in picking the next thing." Kensuke said.
"Hey, that's not fair!"
Kaworu and Touji nodded. "It is so."
"Why!?" Shinji whined.
"Because you're the one that wants to go find the girls." Kensuke explained as if he should have known.
Shinji glared but said nothing else. 'Stupid...this is not fair. I wouldn't take their turn because they were worried about the girls.'
*********
"Sir, if you would take thirty steps back away from me you will be close enough to communicate on an 'stranger passing by' level." Rei stated.
The leader was again taken back, but did as he was told. He couldn't figure it out. He put all the moves on this girl and she was not in love with him. He rubbed his hatted head and groaned. 'And she's cute too!' he whined. He was not going to give up. He was going to get a number at least. "Hey, so, wanna give me yo number?"
Rei continued to stare passively. "Why?" she asked innocently enough.
"What do you mean 'why'!? I just want it! I want to call you and get to know you and all that good stuff!"
"Why?"
"AHH! C'mon! You're really cute that's why!"
Rei blinked and replied. "You're request has been denied. That answer is not a sufficient reason for me to give you my phone number."
He dropped to his knees. "THIS ISN'T FAIR!" he cried. 'I'm gonna lose the bet too!'
He somehow had gotten close enough to Rei as to where he could touch her and that thought alone did not make Rei happy. It also didn't help that he grabbed the hem of her dressed and started begging for her number.
"Please remove your hands from my uniform."
'I had to make that stupid bet! Dammit! I knew I should have tried for the red-head.'
"Who told you could touch me!?" That very same red-head yelled.
"AHHHHH!" cried one of his friends as they went flying through the air.
'Or maybe not.'
"You are still touching me." Rei pointed out. "Please remove your hand."
"Asuka, do you think that was such a nice thing to do?" Hikari asked. "I mean Rei's not being violent with that guy."
Asuka grabbed the guy that was trying his chances with Hikari and tossed him as well.
"She's trying to get taken! So back off!" she screamed. She looked at Hikari and grinned when she saw the girl blush. "That was a good enough reason to throw him."
The guys chose that moment to arrive. Touji and Shinji had to literally jump out of the way to avoid a guy smashing into them as he flew by.
"Oh, well, we can now see what happen to the ladies." Kaworu said.
"Hey is that guy graveling at Rei's feet?" Touji asked in amazement. "Rei can make people gravel? Who would have thought."
'If I had known that all I had to do was gravel at her feet and I'd be able to be that close I would have done so already.' Kensuke thought grimly as he watched the guy pulled at her dress.
Rei finally showed that she was now annoyed with the situation. She frowned. The guy looked up and saw her frown.
"You are still touching me." She repeated. "Remove your hands or they shall be removed by force."
"Eep!" the guy let go and stood up. "So does this mean you're not going to give me your number?"
Rei glared. He took a step back. "Right of course. Well it was nice talking to ya, here you can still have this." He dropped the animal in her hand and ran off all the while yelling to himself. "Dammit! I'm gonna owe Bill money now. The guys are gonna rub this in my face. Speaking of which, where are the guys?"
"You see there are other ways to handle a situation than with beating people up, Asuka." Hikari said as she gestured in Rei's direction. "Rei handle that situation quite nicely."
"Hey!" called Kensuke. He peeped from behind the bench he was hiding behind. "Has the devil calmed down or should we come back later?"
Hikari sighed and frowned annoyingly. "She was calm..." she whispered. "Till you said something."
And just prove how much she was right, Asuka's eye twitch and she started after Kensuke ranting in Japanese, English, and German alike. "I'll kill you!" was one of the only sentences everyone was able to full comprehend and Kensuke was running for dear life after he heard it and saw Asuka coming.
"One situation leads to another." whiserped Kaworu.
"Let's go do something and leave the two of them to it." Touji suggested. "Like ride the Bumper Cars."
Hikari groaned. "FINE! We will ride the bumper cars!"
Kaworu didn't like this idea and was about to protest when Hikari turned to him.
"After that we will go on the slide! Now everyone is happy!"
"Actually, I'm kinda thirsty..." Shinji admitted, looking around for a refreshment booth.
Hikari glared at him and then allowed her eyes to fall on the one person who had yet to complain. "Do you have anything to add, Rei?"
Rei stood there for a moment, "No."
Hikari blinked. She really thought Rei was going to add something. Finally she turned away from the blue haired pilot and returned her attention to Shinji and Touji.
"Fine, we'll do a few more things and then eat."
Touji and Shinji exchanged similar glances, which said: 'Who put her in charge?', but said nothing of it and followed after the Class Representative that would always be their class rep no matter where they were.
Kensuke passed them screaming and failing his arms about.
"WHY!? I didn't mean it, Asuka! I really didn't mean it!" he cried.
"Oh, but you did! YOU STUPID STOOGE!" Asuka followed.
Touji and Shinji shook their heads in as one. "Tsk tsk." Both young men said. "He should learn to keep his mouth shut." They briefly exchange a glance, then looked back just in time to see Kensuke vault over a turned over trash can and continue on his way.
Hikari was a bit disturbed at the boys synchronized talking, but kept such thoughts to herself.
Kensuke ran by once again.
"HELP ME!" he screamed at the group, his attention was focus more on Shinji and Touji though. "You're suppose to be my best friends."
Both young men shrugged as one again and replied. "This is a lesson well...or well soon to be well learnt."
"Is that really necessary?" Kaworu asked, giving both suddenly synchronized boys a disturb stare.
Touji and Shinji returned the stare with a blank one and asked. "Is what necessary?"
"Must you continue the synchronize talking?" Hikari choose to explain.
After giving each other a knowing glance, which possibly no one caught, they returned their gazes to Hikari and Kaworu with the same blank look as before.
Possibly no one meaning that Rei Ayanami caught the glance and figured out what they were up to. 'They're doing this on purpose.' she thought to herself. After that little thought she decided that she had been around these people far too long and made her leave as quietly and effectively as possible. Had this been anyone but Rei Ayanami they would have informed Kaworu and Hikari of Shinji and Touji's little game, but Rei simply did not care about affairs that did not concern her.
Did I mention no on saw her go? I guess I should say that's what happen. No one saw her go.
Kensuke continued to run from Asuka.
"So once we've ridden the bumper cars and the slide," Hikari planned, looking at Kaworu since he was the only person paying her any attention, "we're going to eat and then decide on what else to do. How's that sound?"
"Sounds fine to me!" Touji and Shinji exclaimed.
Kaworu and Hikari ignored them.
Asuka walked up with Kensuke the headlock. "So, are we ready?"
"Yes." Hikari nodded. "We're off to the Bumper Cars!"
"ALL RIGHT!" Touji cheered. "I rule!"
Shinji smacked himself in the forehead. "You blew it Touji; I thought we had that synchronize thing down too!"
"Stooges now and forever!" Hikari and Asuka unison and then laughed.
Kensuke squirm in Asuka's grip. "Ahh, c'mon Asuka let me go. Please?"
"No, this is your punishment for your crimes against the Great Asuka Langley Sohyru."
"Right. Shall we be off?" Kaworu suggested, gesturing in any given direction. "Don't want to be behind schedule or anything like that."
They all agreed and set forth to ride the bumper cars.
*******
Meanwhile....
Ritsuko Akagi lounged in her chair at the "Deer Lounge" and read up on the current news, which was something she never got to do quite often being an employee of NERV and all. So she indulged in the fact that she was finally able to know what was going on in the outside world and be apart of it rather than just it being there and her being here.
In just a few seconds, Ritsuko's was going to learn that some things will always catch up to you. Especially if you're an employee at NERV.
"Dr. Akagi, where are the Children at this current time?" questioned a woman in a stern tone.
"Off doing kid things I suppose." Ritsuko replied, nonchalantly without taking her eyes off her newspaper.
"You suppose?" the voice questioned again, this time with some edge.
Ritsuko, once again not taking her eyes off the paper, replied. "Yes, I suppose that's what they should be doing. But who knows maybe they decided that kid things weren't their forte and decided to crush a building with an Eva. All things considered they'd probably have more fun doing that then playing at this fair anyways-wow, who would have thought such a healthy man would contract such a deadly sickness quickly."
"Dr. Akagi, are you even listening to yourself?" The woman asked, flatly.
"No, I suppose I'm not listening to myself. I find that listening to myself is a part of my job at NERV and since I'm away from NERV I choose not to listen to myself unless it deem important. Hmm? I didn't know Tokyo- 3 had a soccer team. There not bad either. Who would have thought? Uh, I really AM missing out on the world."
Growing frustrated with the good doctor, the woman snatched the paper and tossed it aside. Ritsuko got a look and the woman. Then she frowned.
"Oh, Dr. Hoshi, what brings you here?" Ritsuko asked.
Dr. Hoshi's brown eyes flared. "Dr. Akagi, where are the Children!?"
Ritsuko looked left. Then she looked right. "Hmm? There not right here that's for sure."
"No duh!" Dr. Hoshi screamed. "Now, where are they!?"
"NERV perhaps?" Ritsuko genuinely wondered.
Dr. Hoshi shook her head fiercely. "No! They are not at NERV, Dr. Akagi."
Ritsuko thought long and hard. Long and hard for Ritsuko Akagi usually brings results of such magnitude that she could possibly solve world hungry, but at this moment and on this subject, Ritsuko was drawing a blank. After all the Children weren't her responsibility, they were Misato's.
"I honestly haven't a clue as to where the Children would be. You should ask the Major. She usually keeps up with them."
Dr. Hoshi's eyebrow twitched. "Dr. Akagi, did you forget why you were at the fair?"
"Yes, actually I have. I just figured I was going AWOL."
"Did you forget the agreement between NERV and Social Services?"
Ritsuko nodded. "No, I haven't."
"Do you know what today is?"
"Monday? No, wait its Tuesday. I don't really keep up with the date anymore."
"Its Monday, Dr. Akagi." Dr. Hoshi answered calmly. "Anyways, I shall explain to you what's is going on. You were assigned to spend the whole day with the Children. Is this all coming back to you?"
After much thinking on the subject, the information did returned to Ritsuko and she finally knew why Dr. Hoshi was here.
"Oh, Dr. Hoshi, you're here to check on the Children, well I haven't the clue where they are so why don't we go find them." Ritsuko stood and walked ahead of Dr. Hoshi as if everything was all right and it was normal to forget about children.
Dr. Hoshi was a balloon ready to pop. "I swear these people at NERV have no shame! They don't even keep up with their kids! ARGH! I have a good mind to take them away. That'll show them all!"
"Dr. Hoshi, are you all right?" Ritsuko asked, turning to the other doctor with concern.
Dr. Hoshi snapped out of her little world and looked at Ritsuko. "Oh, I'm fine Dr. Akagi. Let's search for the Children now."
"Right...if you say so."
*********
When not here, we're there!
"Take that!" Touji screamed, running into the back of Shinji's car.
Shinji jerked forward and slammed against his seat. "Ow, Touji, that hurt!"
"Ha ha, no pain, no game. Deal with it, we're all Eva pilots out here."
Kensuke chose that moment to make his present's known by slamming into the side of Touji's car, sending him skidding off somewhere.
"I haven't had the pleasure of such a job! So don't rub it in, Touji!"
Shinji scanned the area for his next target. 'Let's see here: Touji, no, he just got creamed by Kensuke, Asuka: NO! I won't see the end of the day. Hikari? Ah, no, she doesn't deserve it. Ayanami....hmmm...? Hey, wait a second...'
"Where's Ayanami?"
*********
Elsewhere....or Where else?
Rei Ayanami strolled through the crowd searching for a way out of this place of hell. Yes, to Rei Ayanami the Fair was a place of hell and she figured she hadn't done anything yet to deserve such a punishment. Not only had this place made the other Children act just, well, strange, but it was filled with people she didn't know and frankly didn't ever wanted to know.
'There must be away out of here.' Rei thought, her eyes darting from area to area.
Something usual happened at that exact moment, something Rei Ayanami would not have expected and she surely did not enjoy.
"WHY HELLO THERE LITTLE GIRL!?" exclaimed and all to happy giant pink elephant. He had somehow stepped in front of Rei, blocking her path and greeted her with extreme happiness.
Rei was not happy about this.
"Oh, little girl, you look sad. Have you lost your mommy?" asked the elephant in a sad tone of voice.
"No." came Rei's dead reply.
"You're daddy?" wondered the elephant.
"No."
"Hmm...?" pondered the elephant. "I know, you lost your dolly wolly."
There was a pause and Rei's stare harden. The elephant took her stare as a no and decided another approach.
"You look sad, do you need help?"
Rei, despite herself found herself saying something vaguely familiar. "I don't need your help, you stupid elephant." She blinked at her comment and wondered why most of that sounded like she had said it before.
"Well, someone's being a spoil sport. Let's go find your parents so they can tell you treat others with respect." the elephant scolded.
"You're nothing but a useless elephant." Rei replied. She, somehow, and unknown to her, was taking pleasure from tormenting this poor elephant man.
Taken back at her comment, the elephant clutch his heart and took a step back. "Oh, you hurt my feelings. You need a hug."
"You're nothing but an annoying, useless elephant." Rei continued.
"Hey, you're not being nice. I'm telling your mother."
"Such a useless animal should be dealt with properly." Rei said, casually.
"AHH! I give up!" the voice suddenly changed from a cute and squeaky voice to a deep manly voice. The head of the elephant suddenly came off to reveal a man in his late forties, balding at the head and with a unkept bread growing on his face. "I'm so sick of you kids today!"
"OH MY GOD!" screamed a little girl as she pointed at the man. "Mommy, Elphy's changed into a monster! Protect me mommy."
Rei raised an eyebrow and continued to stare at the man. All around her children were screaming and crying and running to their parents.
"You see what you did?" cried the man. "Now I'm probably gonna lose my job because of kids like you. Why couldn't you just smile and do what the rest of them do? But no you had to make things complicated. I hate your kind."
'How does he know I'm an angel? I must have him eliminated.' Rei's eyes narrowed at the man. 'Quickly.'
The man not sure if he really enjoyed the deadly gaze Rei was giving him started to look around the area nervously. Its amazing how an area clears when little kids don't like what they see and neither do their parents. "Right, ya know, sorry about that girl, I'll just leave now."
Turning to make a run for it, Elphy...or the man acting as Elphy ran right into a orange hexagon field.
"No, elephant," Rei started, eyes glowing, hair fluttered. "there is no escape for you!"
Elphy gulped. He should have just left her alone.
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Once again...we bring you...THE CHILDREN
After exiting the ride and Shinji telling everyone about the missing Rei, the group set out on a quest to find her and get something to eat.
"So, we're not going to get to go on the slide?" Kaworu asked.
"We will," Hikari assured. "We just need to find Miss Ayanami."
"Why do we need to find wondergirl again?" Asuka asked. Again. For the seventh time.
"Because who knows, maybe we left her behind and she's alone and sad." Touji answered.
"I didn't ask you, Stooge!"
"Well, I answered anyways!" Touji shouted back.
Asuka growled. Touji growled.
"Here we go again." Kaworu said, shrugging and sticking his hands in his pocket.
"I'M GONNA GET YOU WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT AND...."
Tuning out the argument the four other children continued forth in search of Rei and lunch.
"Hey, weren't we suppose to meet up with Dr. Akagi at the Deer Lounge around this time?" Shinji asked.
Kaworu looked at his watch. "Wow, we've killed a lot of time doing nothing."
"That's because this fair sucks!" Kensuke announced. "I'm ready to go home."
("That's why you're mother is a elf!") Asuka yelled.
"Yea, I'm kinda bored too. We're doing more walking than anything else." Shinji agreed.
Kensuke, still trapped in whatever world he was trapped in, continued to rant as if Shinji hadn't said a thing. "How could such a place lose my bride to be?"
Shinji looked at Kensuke with a look that told that he knew exactly what was going on in Kensuke's mind and was tired of it.
("You're dad licks beats off your ass!") Touji cracked back.
"Kensuke's in his 'Rei is the only one for me' world again." Announced a weary Shinji.
"Oh, really?" Hikari's curious reply followed while she raised an eyebrow for effect. "I always wondered what he was yelling about during these types of moments. Now I know."
("Don't worry, my love, I shall find thee and protect thee from harm!") Kensuke ranted.
"How long will he be in this world of his?" Kaworu asked, already annoyed with Kensuke's ranting.
Shinji shrugged. "Don't know. Depends."
Kaworu groaned and looked forward away from Kensuke, Touji, and Asuka.
"This day will not end..." he silently cursed to himself.
However, Kaworu's prayer was about to be answer. Answered in the form of an angel alarm.
"Ahh, man!" Touji whined. "I don't wanna!"
"You don't do anything!" Asuka shouted. "You're backup you stupid monkey!"
"And what backup I am too!" Touji countered with a grin.
'Idiots!' Kaworu thought and ran towards the exit with Shinji in tow.
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In a place deep within the bowels of Tokyo-3
Major Misato Katsuragi was a bit confused as she stared at the black haired man by the name of Makoto.
"So, wait, the angel is...where again?"
Makoto gulped and answered. "The fair..."
"And the casualty number is....?" Misato waited.
"Currently zero." Maya choose to answer.
"What....the....hell?" Misato said. She turned and looked up at the Commanders and said: "WHAT THE HELL!?"
Both Commanders exchanged a glance and looked back at Misato.
"This is most unusual." Fuyutsuki said. "But we all know who it is?"
'Oh she's gonna get it...' Gendou Ikari thought, squeaking his hands in fist. 'Oh, she's gonna get it good. I'll stick her in that tank for a week after this...'
"So, where is it?" Misato asked.
The bridge bunnies sweatdropped.
"It vanished, Major."
"Right, of course," Misato replied. "Giant building size monsters just vanish after killing no one!"
"The Major seems upset." Fuyutsuki pointed out. "Do you think its that time of the month?"
Gendou's tighten his gloves again and said: "God save us all if it is."
Fuyutsuki bowed his head. "And on the seventh day, God decided women should have a time of the month."
"Amen." both Commanders muttered.
"What the hell are you two up there mumbling about!?" Misato shouted. Turning to glare at the Commanders. "Don't think I don't know what you're talking about! I'll come up there!"
"A hasty retreat is in order." Fuyutsuki suggested.
"Another trip to Antarctica seems about right." Gendou continued.
-End Chapter 2-
A/N: Yes, I suppose I dragged this chapter on long enough. I felt that was a nice place to end it. So anyways, stay tune for the next installment. Later!