by Satosh1
Chapter 2: Rei, what's up with you?
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Rei could only watch in vain as the robustly mature and unusually sweaty man approached her in quick haste. For the first time she feared for her own safety, and feared for her own life, even when knowing that she is merely a canvas to an experiment for the near future. Rei was well aware of her creator's intentions. And yet, she didn't want to die... as she did before within her earlier years. Rei could only lay there on the floor in silence as the perspiring man took his clothes off, and in a total rush to do so. His skin and gut jutting out due to his uncommonly heavy weight and drenching with bodily fluid, he finally slid down to his boxers. It was a disgusting sight, as the man's unsightly smile showed his disgusting, gaping yellow teeth.
The man grabbed Rei by the hips in a rough handling and threw her onto her own bed, leaving Rei in a discomfiture and with her skirt lifted up, well enough for the man's contented notice. But as the man was about to approach and touch her in the most horrible of ways, an earsplitting gunshot from behind the door sounded, the bullet protruding from its chassis in a swiftly manner and puncturing through the man's chest, propelling him off the floor and out of the broken window, and as he screamed in vain while plunging towards the bottom, Rei peered upon the man from atop, watching with no grief as he went on towards a grisly death.
"Are you alright, Rei?"
"Yes, Commander Ikari."
The Next Day...
It felt like another of those regular days in class as always for everyone within the class of 2-A. Again they were taught the history of the world's calamity, but in all truthfulness none of the classmates even cared or took notice to any of the teachings, as all of them were silently frolicking with one another through the assigned laptops. Kensuke sneaked a military magazine through the teacher's lectures and started reading it with an enthrallment. Toji slouched back and took a nap while Hikari kept insisting on him to stay awake with her constant pokes and whispers.
Everyone seemed all well and happy, all except for Rei.
His eyes still onto the magazine he brought and stashed into his backpack before coming to school, Kensuke immediately noticed an article about the "Evangelion" and how it'll "come to the devastation of the entire world." Of course, Kensuke didn't believe this at all. To have something so powerful in Japan's arsenal was a great thing to have, as it shows the world that Japan isn't just a small, overcrowded country.
There were publicized images of the "Eva Unit 00." Kensuke figured it resembling a human being. The article at the bottom says;
"These images were taken from our undercover operatives who went ahead of an espionage to uncover the truth NERV's been hiding all these years."
This, for some reason reminded him of his own situation, which was somewhat similar. Kensuke turned his head to the left to glance at what Rei was doing.
She was staring intently out the window as if entranced, well engulfed within her own thoughts. Kensuke put away his magazine and playfully nudged Rei's shoulder with his elbow, and quietly enough not to give notice to the other classmates.
"Rei... what're you thinking about?"
Rei ignored the question.
"Hello... Rei, are you there?"
Silence. Rei continued to be within her own thoughts.
Utterly defeated, he gave up and merely slouched onto his seat with disappointment in his eyes. Toji witnessed this and thought it was hilarious. He chuckled so hard that the whole class stopped what they were doing and silently stared at Toji, who simply looked away and ignored their gawks with a slight embarrassment showing in his cheeks.
It was the end of class. Everyone left except for Toji and Kensuke, who were both in contemplation on somehow getting Rei's attention.
"Why are you so intent on talking to this girl Kensuke? It annoys the hell out of me!"
"Come on Toji, I just want to get to know her better... she's not like any of the other girls in our class."
Toji snickered and with an irritation he said;
"You sure are attracted to the weird girls..."
"What the hell Toji? Why do you always think that I like Rei? It's not like I do... well... maybe..."
With some confusion, Toji followed Kensuke's saying with;
"Yeah, Rei is kinda hot, but not enough to go after her like a demented stalker..."
"I'M NOT A DAMN STALKER, ALRIGHT?"
"OKAY! Okay... calm down! I was only joking Kensuke! You don't have to go berserk..."
Kensuke having been fed up with Toji's constant bickering and childish hilarity, he attentively asked;
"So are you going to help me out or not? I need some ideas in how I can get her attention."
"Well..." Toji thought to himself. "What I only know is that she's one of the pilots for that prototype robot thing, an Evangelion most people call it."
"I already know that Toji. Don't you know anything else about Rei?"
"Um... she sometimes takes walks to the park with a man who kinda looks like her father."
"Really..." Kensuke pondered.
And so they decided to go to the local park in the city of Tokyo-3. It was a simple, small park reserve to satisfy the citizens who've demanded a more naturalistic environment within the city. There weren't a lot of people in the park mainly because everyone was busy with their usual routine workings, but there was one individual within that caught both Toji and Kensuke's eye.
"Wow, just our luck. It's Rei!" said Kensuke, admiring their good fortune. They walked towards her in an attempt at conversing with her.
Rei stood by a small trashcan underneath a beautiful tree with her arms behind her, leaning onto the tree and seemingly waiting for someone. The season was mainly autumn, blaming the 2nd impact for the awkwardness of our weather and seasonal changes as it would've instead been snowing. Leaves were gracefully falling from their stems due to the call of the wind, and one particular leaf carried itself onto the top of Rei's lovely blue hair. She didn't notice it landing on her hair, and so it laid there in its own, with its colorful elegance blending in with her blue hair.
Both Kensuke and Toji were now face to face with Rei, who stared at them... giving them an unnerving feel. They immediately noticed the leaf on top of her hair, but not knowing what to say about it they simply tried to ignore it. The leaf was actually distracting them, so they hard an even harder time to think of what to say.
"Uh... Toji... you go first." Kensuke steadily whispered and then pushed Toji in front of him.
"Wha... what? Uhm... hi Ayanami Rei. What a coincidence to meet you here..." Toji was bravely throwing out greetings.
"And uh... Rei... your hair..." Kensuke stuttered, trying to tell her of the leaf that perched on top of her head.
'Screw it...' Kensuke approached Rei in hopes that she would let him whip the leaf off of her hair.
Rei took a step back, which made Kensuke feel a bit intimidated. Her expression became afraid and uneasy. Rei stepped away from the two and then turned around swiftly, distancing herself and having the leaf whipped away from her sudden movements to slowly fall onto the ground. Rei was gone before they even knew it.
This appalled the two teenagers. Both each gave each other a worrisome look.
While picking up the leaf that she left behind and carefully glancing at it while adjusting his glasses, Kensuke whispered to himself;
"Rei... what's up with you?"
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dekiru...