Evangelion

The Past's Blind Love

"Who the hell are you?" Asuka's face was a mask of utter confusion, Misato gladly filled her in "Asuka, this boy brought you here, when that angel tore out your Eva's plug Shinji managed to fend it off, this boy was watching and pulled you from the wreckage and brought you to this hospital, he saved you" Asuka only scoffed, her arms crossed "probably just looking for a hand out like the rest of the perverts, blinded by what they say is love" Misato sighed and tried to tend to the unconscious Shinji. The new boy simply chuckled and leaned against the door frame "You insult me, placing me with the rest of the male population, how your words strike me is so painful to bear as is being of the very gender you speak of" The fiery red head only scoffed again "great, another poet trying to win me over" The boy himself scoffed as he finally stepped into the room "If I were trying to win you over, I'd bring roses" Asuka arched a brow, a smile twitching at her lips, Misato was giggling as the young pilot in her arms began to stir, catching their attention with a groan. When both the women turned to the door, the boy was gone, and leaving only confusion and wonder.

Misato was the one to break the silence "He's cute" Asuka blushed and began spouting curses in German, insinuating the woman had sent the boy trying to win her over. Shinji woke up during this and was abruptly slapped again. After they finally arrived home Asuka found Misato at the dinner table, drinking water. She sat across from the woman, finally asking "what happened out there? During the fight with the angel? Did Shinji kill it?" She had already been plotting on how to abuse the poor pilot for taking her honor, but Misato shook her head "no, he chased it away from you then it just... vanished..." Asuka could only blink at the older woman "What you mean vanished?" Misato sighed and ran her fingers through her dark lavender hair "it was... like its shadow swallowed it up" The phrase reminded her of another angel, one that literally swallowed up part of the city with what they thought was a shadow, even eating Eva 01, who managed a gory escape.

With a sigh the German pilot spoke softly "when... that angel was about to impale my Eva... I had... a vision or a dream... I can't really remember it but... it felt like some one was in my mind, whispering my name... a boy was there... I can't really remember but... for a moment..." She looked up; Misato was staring intently at her. She chuckled and waved a hand "never mind, it's stupid... I think I'll head off to bed" When she opened the door, Shinji was no where to be found. She scoffed "pervert's probably off with wonder girl..." As she said it, a tear welled up and slowly crossed her cheek as she fell onto the bed, sighing softly "stupid pervert..." She soon drifted off to sleep, an empty dream awaited her.

When she awoke, she groggily went about drawing a bath, cleaning her self up and getting dressed in a large tee shirt that stopped a bit above the knee, she didn't care, Shinji probably wouldn't be home this early, if he was it'd give her another reason to curse and abuse him. When she entered the kitchen there was indeed a boy sitting at the table with Misato, but it wasn't Shinji "What The Hell Is He Doing Here!?" The said boy simply smiled and gave a wave as Misato grinned while Asuka pulled the large yellow shirt lower with a deep blush. The boy lifted from the chair and took the young red head's hand, placing a delicate kiss upon her knuckles. Any normal circumstance would have saw this male thrown out of the window, but this odd ritual had brought back a memory of college, when she met her date for the formal dance. She was brought back to her senses and brought her hand back, yet when the teen lifted his gaze and smile upon her, she was frozen. His eyes were a deep crimson, much like that stupid pervert's whore doll, yet... they held emotion... and passion...

"His name is Jaeger Allen Lockhart, Commander Ikari has sent for him to be your as well as Shinji's and Rei's ahem body guard" The young pilot could only shake off her odd stare as she glared at her guardian "and where is he going to sleep?" The dark brown hair that accented the teen's brow was brushed as he smiled "I will be sleeping within major Katsuragi's quarters second child" Misato blushed giggling softly as Asuka's brow arched "and where will she be sleeping?" Misato chuckled, waving her hands defensively "Uh, Commander Ikari assured me that Jaeger is a perfect gentleman and will not do anything to affect his mission!" Asuka expected as much, it was Misato she was worried about. She waved them off and started for her room before Misato's voice caught her "Jaeger also offered to take us to dinner" She scoffed again and began walking again before the older woman's voice stopped her again "It's that new restaurant, The Swartz Valde Buffet!" Her eyes snapped open, she read about the German restaurant in the paper, but knew they couldn't afford it, how did this guy scrap up the money for such a place?

When she turned she found the body guard standing in the hallway, an odd smirk on his lips the mirrored even her slyest smiles. But it wasn't his lips that bothered her, it was his eyes. In them she saw a passion she only saw once, though not in such a menacing way. She shivered and went into her room, though even behind the door she felt as though the teen's eyes were watching her. She brushed the feeling off and searched through her clothes "do I have anything to wear to a place like that?" Just as she had said that very sentence there was a knock at the door, by the time she turned to see who it was she found a dark crimson silk dress hanging on the door. She could only stare at it, it was beautiful and most likely amazingly expensive. She expected it to be from the so called body guard, but the note attached said a different story, one that lifted her heart 'Asuka, I wore this dress when me and Kaji had our first date, I hope it works for you as it did me on our 'guest' love Misato' there was a small picture of what appeared to be Misato as a cat with a Cheshire grin.

Misato sat down with the teen, who currently was thumbing through a thick book. The title read 'The Da Vinci Code', she had never heard of it, though something else caught her interest "I didn't know you wore glasses" The teen glanced up, lenses on thin frames drifting down his nose as he smiled "There's a lot that has changed about me Major Katsuragi, I'm no longer the young boy you had your first sexual encounters with, I'm twenty one, soon to be twenty two, I'm no longer the Naïve hormone driven teenager you slept with, but a man who has a responsibility" The woman could only smile, the man sitting across from her told the truth, he was no longer the kid she met long ago. "It's just weird, you don't look like you've aged a day since then" The man simply chuckled as he slid his glasses off "I don't remember wearing a tie, much less a suit"

Her eyes glanced to a coat rack where a sport coat lay, the man himself was wearing a dark red dress shirt and a dark black satin tie. With a sly grin she slid into a closer seat next to him, her lips close to his ear as she purred into it "Jaeger... I don't suppose you'd like to relive those days... would you?" The man's blush could have rivaled Shinji's, though he quickly recovered and stood "Major Katsuragi, I have a duty to protect the first, third, and second child, and nothing shall distract me from my assignment" The woman smiled, leaning in on her elbow "you have changed..." The teen offered a smile, however his eyes were following the shadow that was traveling from the hall, a moment later the fiery red pilot of unit 02 smiled as she gave a little spin in the silk dress "well? How do I look" Misato could only beam as the man smiled and bowed before her "Extravagant mein netter Engel" The pilot blushed and smiled, it had been a while since she heard a German phrase from any one but herself "warum Danke Jaeger"

The moment that Asuka saw the restaurant, she felt right at home. Jaeger opened the door of his car for her, and she smiled as she stepped out with Misato, and their escort led them in, elbows entwined. Misato was giggling the whole time as they were soon shown to a table, where their menus were quickly brought out. They ordered what they wanted and a conversation was started with the body guard and Misato, Asuka simply fiddled with her silver where as the two spoke of their past. It wasn't until his voice spoke to her that she was snapped out of her interest with the steel fork and knife "So Asuka, how was life living with Major Katsuragi?" That was the only incentive she needed to start berating Shinji as the stupid pervert who often tried to get a peek of her undressing or trying to get into her bed. Misato corrected her for nearly every sentence, but Jaeger only listened to the young red head. Finally after an unusual tale of Misato and Asuka embarrassing the poor boy near to depression, Asuka's curiosity got the best of her pride "Jaeger, exactly where did you meet Misato"

Both blushed at that one, Misato giggled and took a sip of her wine as the man sighed lightly "well... honesty from my point of view it seemed that Misato was looking for" The woman elbowed him hard giggling with an even darker flush "A body guard, that's it, a bodyguard!" Asuka figured out the whole story just from her guardian's reaction as Jaeger continued "anyway... she 'hired' me and we became close pretty fast... though no matter what we did I swore never to go past the boundaries of friendship... no matter how drunk she had gotten..." Misato blushed and simply drank her wine; the German pilot suddenly became near repulsed but not too surprised either. Their meals came and Misato could only stare as Asuka tore into her plate. A brief glance and she found Jaeger simply smiling and eating his meal slowly. They finished up and soon got back home, Misato giggled as she hung onto Jaeger, oddly enough Asuka couldn't stop smiling as much as her pride hated it. Misato finally let her slave go and blew him a kiss as she slowly wobbled into her room, leaving Asuka to finally ask "so what's the real story between you two?"

The man's smile vanished and his stern mask returned "I was training in the martial arts in a nearby dojo to a college... a lot of young women always came to stare at us as we practiced out in the sun... some even tried to sneak inside but we were pretty tight when it came to secrecy" Asuka simply rested against the fridge, she was at least glad this one wasn't as full of himself as Kaji was. It was at that moment she realized... her obsession with Kaji was gone... "However you may be known to Misato's superior determination... she some how found a way in after hours and I found myself pinning her down like any of us would have an intruder" She could see it plain as day, the man wearing little more than shorts pinning the rather intrusive women down as she joked and giggled about it with a blush "She took it amazingly well considering she could have gotten expelled from her college for it, but she didn't... because I let her go" She blinked as her body guard laid against a wall, his arms in his pockets, she hadn't even realized the rock hopper penguin that strolled in minutes ago, who simply stared in fascination with a beer in his wings "Honestly when I joined that dojo I had forgotten just what being a guy was all about until she broke in... her eyes..."

Asuka could only make assumptions, and every one of them was shot down by a single fact she had noticed halfway through this little tale 'he's lying... at least he thinks he is...' The man's eyes were down cast, he was hiding a lot more than just a college love life "soon I managed to get here into the classes and we spent a bit of time together... then I saw where this was going and I cut it off... I couldn't get involved" Asuka simply watched him a moment, she knew that this man was hiding something, but what was the hundred dollar question. Pen-Pen finally yawned and crawled into his fridge with his beer as Jaeger glanced up to the red headed pilot "do you ever wonder what it would be like if Shinji chose you over Rei?" She shot her gaze of daggers at him before scoffing and crossing her arms "tch, why do I care what that stupid pervert does with his wonder whore?" She waited a moment in silence before turning her prideful glare upon him again, and found a rather stern stare burrowing into her eyes. Her face softened, the great Asuka Langley Soryhue was being stared down, by a male of all people. Yet oddly she couldn't say anything, she could not yell nor glare nor declare him a perverted moron, she could only stare.

Finally she gave a deep sigh and cast her gaze down "yes... I do once in a while... he might have been a dumb pervert but... he was my dumb pervert" She felt tears welling up a moment, soon blocking them with her pride before she felt a warm grasp around her waist. She looked up and found eyes of soft blue staring into her own. Pride told her to slap, wisdom told her to push, but for the first time in so long, she listened to her heart, which told her simply to rest upon his shoulder, and hold him. In that moment she saw in her mind, just what he really was. She saw an empty and dead stare in his eyes, then the massive Angel that nearly had tore her apart in her Eva. The boy was mauled, laying dead within shattered cement. Then the massive beast began to shrink, slowly becoming the size of a normal man. But she then saw what may be the truth, for when that figure turned, she only saw Jaeger, only this version had two eyes, one of the cool blue of a lover's, the other with a fierce crimson of a monster. She lifted her head, the vision was fading quickly, and the only color she saw in those wondrous eyes was soft baby blue. The memory had gone from her completely, yet deep within the back of her mind she knew that something was not right about this man. Yet she could only smile, and fall into his embrace again, darkness soon consuming her conscious.

The moment her eyes opened she gasped, her red locks whipping about her face as air rushed by her. She was falling, faster and faster. She closed her eyes, part of her fearing such a rush, yet deep inside she enjoyed the flight. The air soon became still and she found herself standing atop a tall building, gazing out over Tokyo Three. The sight was a wonder before one of the tall towers was crushed under her red Eva. She gasped and watched as the black Angel leapt from the ground, battling with her beloved unit two. She reached up and brushed her locks away, and in the distance she saw another figure standing atop the buildings, a shock of light blue flowed lightly in the wind. "Wonder girl?" Asuka craned her neck and even found Shinji atop another building, both were staring in silence, eyes heavy with fatigue. Then she saw him, Jaeger, arms crossed with the sinister smirk burned into her mind. She could only stare a moment longer before gasping while the two massive figures began to descend upon her. Her screams came with the darkness that had once again surrounded her.

She shot up with a gasp, finding herself in Misato's motherly hold "Asuka its okay! Its fine now..." She tried to control her ragged breathing, her eyes wide as saucers. Soon her blood slowed and she managed to fall back gently into her bed, staring silently at the ceiling as Misato stroked along her brow. A quick glance at the door saw Jaeger watching her silently; his eyes welled up with a deep sorrow. Only one question remained in her mind, could this man, this boy, be the same creature she continues to see? With a soft sigh her eyes fell shut, with a simple thought on her mind 'where are you baka?'