By Satosh1
Chapter 5: Connections with Another
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Shinji had shoved Asuka, hard. The push sent Asuka flying backwards, hitting her back onto the wall behind her, and thus giving a loud thud across the room. She yelped in pain. Shinji's eyes were filled with a fiery intensity. Soon after, he came to his senses, his eyes calmed, and he fully realized what had occurred.
"What... what did I just do!?" Shinji shouted, a bit intensely. He glared upon the disgruntled Asuka who had landed onto the floor. Shinji dashed out of the apartment in fear, running down the stairs and sometimes stumbling his steps. He ran away, like he always had in all of his problems. It was a personality trait he thought he was rid of.
Asuka wasn't at all hurt, due to Shinji overestimating his own strength. She pondered for a time, wondering why Shinji pushed him, and also where he had went. After she stood herself up and dusted her shorts and undershirt, she immediately went in search for him. It was her determination to not lose Shinji's love that made her search so repeatedly. And it was also the same, which made her forget and overlook the incident that happened. Rei eventually got up out of Shinji's bed and followed soon after, though in her own direction, while grabbing an elongated umbrella from its hold to help support her as her knee still gave pain. It seemed like a race of who could find and catch the runaway.
Dusk began to form from above. It was only a matter of time before the darkness had blanketed the skies with its vast number of bright, twinkling stars. The city lights diminished what else surrounded Tokyo-3 with a similar illumination to the moon, it having emerged from its common slumber to shine upon everyone with its silver luminescence.
Shinji ran a few distances outside from the apartment building, only stopping for the reason that he felt stupid to have done so from the beginning.
"Why am I running away..." Shinji whimpered. "Why am I running away... again...?"
He peered around until he found a bench, and he sat, slouching upon it, his eyes wondering around the endlessly pebbled pathway on the ground. Calming himself, he immersed himself in thoughts and pondered on about what he would do when it would come to the inevitable; to confront the fiery persona, Asuka. His thoughts came to an end, as he noticed someone approaching him from the same building. And it would be a girl with the ever individualized hair of light blue.
"Ayanami..." Shinji quietly whispered.
Though handicapped, Rei had managed to come down from Misato's apartment from the endless stairs with only an umbrella sustaining her. It worried Shinji bitterly.
"Ikari... I have not finished my earlier discussion with you..." Rei quietly stated as she came closer.
A slight wobbling of the same arm that had her hand clutched on the umbrella, gave notice to Shinji. The umbrella could not hold Rei any longer as it suddenly snapped in half, having Rei tumble to the ground, her face firstly. But the impact was blocked, by someone. Rei clutched both her hands onto what would be the arms of Shinji Ikari, and her face had landed gently onto his chest instead. Her cheeks filled a great red, being her first time having been so close to someone, even if it was somewhat unintentional.
Shinji asked with a worried expression, "Are you okay, Ayanami?"
"Yes..." Rei said only that single word. She became aware of a new feeling coursing through her body.
Rei enjoyed the newfound sensation. A feeling of... embrace... one of the many affectionate emotions Rei had never experienced within her short life. She wanted to indulge in it more, and more was what she had. She clutched at Shinji's slender build ever more tightly, and shut her eyes among the sense.
Rei's scent intruded Shinji's senses, awestruck by how pleasant it was. He glanced upon Rei's face, convinced he was watching over a heavenly angel. He had only realized these feelings. Feelings that had only come to form. Feelings he never thought he had for the girl holding him. Feelings he now had only realized, for Rei Ayanami. Shinji slowly wrapped his arms around her and held her waist. Rei jumped at the soft held.
"I..." Rei stuttered noticeably in her speech.She lifted her head up to glance at Shinji's eyes. And it was in that same time, where she would finally tell of her feelings for the 14-year old pilot of NERV. She uttered those four lone words, those she had longed hoped to confess.
"I love you, Shinji..."
Her lips approached Shinji. They touched his own. And they blushed a bright crimson red while their lips were locked, their newfound, pleasant emotions fluttering immensely like the flight of beautiful butterflies. Rei held onto Shinji's hand as their kiss continued, further enchanting their desires.
At that time, it didn't matter what obligations Shinji had for Asuka. It also didn't matter what would happen to him if Asuka were to find out. Shinji never had a care in the world, as their loving embrace was the only thing of importance in that single, beautiful tranquility. They stood among the moonlight of serene which glittered upon them. Rei's ivory complexion glowed amongst the shine with total elegance, her light-blue hair glimmering by the moonlight.
They did not know it, nor would they have cared if they did, but Asuka had been watching from the window of the apartment, observing everything. She gave a haunting stare, looking down upon Shinji and Rei as they still held their lips together. Her anguish and heartbreak was hidden from her appearance, covered by her overwhelming rage. Indefinitely, it was there. She punched the table beside her as hard as she could and then muttered a few words.
"Rei... you slut... you won this time..."
"But don't think I will ever let go of this..."
"We'll see who gets Shinji in the end..."
"I will never give up... even if my life depended on it... you'll see..."
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to be continued...