CHAPTER THREE : THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FIRST BATTLE
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything that has to do with NGE they belong to GAINAX and the creator of the series, of course.
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At the training simulator, Shinji was doing particularly well for his first try. After about two hours of tests, that he passed without trying hard, lunch time arrived. He walked around the complex, over the past year or so he found he could eat less than most people and still have the sufficient energy to work. While he was walking around, he walked into lt. Maya Ibuki. He asked if he hurt her.
"I'm alright, what about you?" asked Maya. Shinji was taken aback by what she asked him.
'This total stranger is concerned about me. This is something I am not accustomed to.' Shinji thought as he nodded, and walked on.
Maya giggled a little bit, then sighed. "I don't think he knew how to react to kindness." After lunch break was over Shinji headed back to the locker room. When he turned the corner, he saw Ritsuko-san waiting for him.
"Am I late, Dr. Akagi-san?" Shinji asked hoping he hadn't angered her.
"No, you are not late, but I need you to come with me to the commander's office." Ritsuko-san answered.
"Hai." Shinji complied. As they waked to Gendo's office Shinji turned his head to face Ritsuko-san.
"Dr. Akagi-san, why do you think I am still in a state of shock induced trauma?" he asked bluntly but still held no emotion in his voice.
Unlike Misato, Ritsuko-san handled this with elegance. "It's because not many children your age have the same attitude that you have, unless they went through some very bad trauma."
"You are correct, but trauma induced personality changes don't last as long as my personality has." Shinji countered. Ritsuko-san knew he was right.
"I have one more question. Who is Rei? I have been compared to her many times." Shinji asked.
"My, aren't we full of questions today? Well Rei is the pilot of unit 00, the prototype model evangelion, and the reason we were comparing her to you, is that she acts alot like you." Ritsuko-san answered two questions, one he yet to ask. "Well here we are. After you." Ritsuko-san said as she motioned for him to enter. After they got in there Ritsuko-san personally gave Gendo the reports on the tests that she did on Shinji's chance of compatilbility with merging him with the Adam cells. Shinji for the most part, just stood there, looking out one of the windows, at the geo-front forest, seemingly unaware of the conversation that had to do with him. Gendo called him, which got his full attention on the spot.
"Sir?" He answerd as he was supposed to.
"In the near future I will call on you to participate in a project. You are to cooperate in any way you are able. Is that understood?" Gendo ordered.
"Hai." Shinji answered.
"How is your meds? They sould be getting low, right?" Gendo inquired.
"Yes, but I do not know where to get them filled." Shinji responded.
"That's fine, Dr. Akagi will give you the needed medications." Gendo said as he scribbled down some med names on a piece of paper, and handed it to Ritsuko-san.
"That is all, you may leave now." Gendo said waving them off. As the pair walked to her office to get the meds, she noticed that these were the same meds given to Rei, to suppress her emotions.
"So, it isn't trauma induced…" She said aloud. Shinji ignored her, looking straight ahead. The rest of the day went as scheduled, with the exception that Shinji finished the training a little earlier than expected. He was walking around, waiting for Misato to get off shift, he made his way to the infirmary. He walked down the halls, for some reason, something in an open door caught his eye, he looked in, and saw a girl with blue hair was sleeping. He looked at the door and saw that it had Ayanami, Rei on the folder, in the holder.
'So this is the Rei I have been compared to so much.' he thought. He continued his walk. Misato finally got off her shift, and she and Shinji went home. On the way home, she asked
"So how did your tests and training go today? I had to go meet someone on an American ship, so I missed them." Misato asked.
"According to Dr. Akagi-san, they were satisfactory. I believe I heard lt. Ibuki say that they were remarkably high." Shinji answered in a monotonous voice.
"Those meds are the same that you give Ayanami, aren't they?" She asked, she knew the answer but wanted to hear it from him.
"Yes, why do you ask?" He inquired.
"I would like to know why you are giving them to him." Ritsuko-san answered.
"Simple, it would serve me better to have both subjects to be submissive to my orders rather than objective. You agree, don't you?" Gendo said, in his usual cold tone.
"I agree." Ritsuko-san said, not totally believing how ruthless this man could be.
"Is that all?" He asked.
"Yes, that is all." Ritsuko-san said leaving Gendo's office. By this time Misato and Shinji have made it back to their place.
When Misato walks in she shouts "TADAIMA!" Shinji walks in and goes straight to his room and puts his meds in his drawer, after he takes some. After a horrible dinner, Shinji asked if he could cook from now on. Misto immediately agreed.
"You should get ready to go to bed, it's getting late, and you have school tomorrow." The next morning, when Misato got up, it was 5:30,and she found Shinji had already prepared both of their breakfasts as well as his lunch for the day. and he was getting out of the shower.
"Talk about an early bird." Misato said remembering what the person on the ship said, when she got off the helicopter, looking drowsy. After Shinji had gotten his clothes on, he ate his breakfast. "You sure are up early, aren't you Shin-kun." Misato said looking at Shinji who was now reading a book.
He never looked up from the book, and answered, "I do not want to be late for school."
"You want a ride to school?" Misato asked, trying once again to get close to her charge. 'I'm starting to think this was a bad idea.' Misato thought.
"I...would like that, Misato-san." Shinji said, thinking that would be a good place to start his little experiment. Inside Misato was jumping for joy.
'I think I'm starting to get him to open up to me.' She thought. Misato took him to his new school, and went back to her place. Shinji went in to the class room he was assigned to and the teacher showed him where to sit. After he got settled in to his new seat, he noticed that blue haired girl he saw in the infirmary, she still had bandages on various parts of her body but she could at least walk., and do some activities. Shinji was taking down notes as the teacher instructed the class to do, when his laptop made a sound, and an instant message appeared.
""Are you the pilot of the giant robot? Y/N""
Shinji replied ""I can not say, that is classified."" and then half of the class gathered around him. Everyone except the blue haired girl he knew was Rei. She continued to stare out the window. The teacher got the children to settle down and give Shinji some much wanted space.When lunch time got there, Shinji finished his lunch, and proceeded to go back to the class room. When he got near the class room, two boys called him in to one of the closets. The more muscular one swung at Shinji. Luckily, Shinji had taken ju-ditsu lessons while he was with his last guardian / teacher, and deflected his attack and twisted the boys arm around his back, and pushed him against the wall, and kicked the other boy, in the stomach, making him double over.
"Why did you try to attack me?" Shinji asked in his monotone voice.
The boy that was doubled over wheezed out, "He talks like the ice princess." Shinji asked one more time, putting more pressure on the boy's arm.
"AAAGHHH, I have to hit you, I won't be satisfied until I do." He managed. The boy that was doubled over had since gotten his breath back and was standing next to Shinji.
"I do not understand." Shinji said, trying to figure out why some stranger would want to harm him for no reason.
"You have to look at it from his point of view. You see, his sister was in one of the buildings that collapsed the day the angel attacked. She lived but was injured and needs special care." the boy explained.
"I...did not know that. I am sorry that your sister was injured, but it could not be helped. I was not aware of, nor advised to watch out for civilians." Shinji stated as he let go of the other boy. As soon as he let the other boy go he turned and planted his fist in Shinji's temple, and knocked him against the wall, and slid to the floor.
After Shinji stood up looking unphased by the blow, he said, "Does that help ease your grief?" and walked out of the room and in to the class room. The only sign he had been hit was the red mark on his fore head.
"He sure does act like that Rei girl doesn't he?" the boy with glasses said.
"He is a jerk, Kensuke, and yes he does act a lot like Rei, but he is a little more decisive than she is, maybe a little, but not very much." said the boy who attacked Shinji.
"I don't know, Touji, he has the same lifeless expression that she has. and I noticed something else about them both. They look like they could be related." Kensuke said.
The rest of the school day went perfectly. no disruptions and, by the time the class bell rang Shinji had a stack of notes that stood a good three inches. On his way to Misato's apartment, he caught a glimpse of the two boys following him. Shinji jogged in to an alley, waitng for them to follow. They did. Shinji stepped out of his hiding spot, right behind them.
"Why are you following me?" he said in his monotone voice. That, added to the fact that the alley was already scary looking made them jump pretty high.
"How did you do that!?" Kensuke asked more out of amazement than fear or anger.
"Why are you two following me?" Shinji asked again in the same voice.
"I wanted to apologize to you, I was a little rude." Touji answered. Shinji cocked an eyebrow, and continued to look at Touji. "Ok, more than a little rude. I apologized, now you can hit me." Touji continued.
"I see no need to hit you." Shinji answered.
"Uhhh, I was.. Well we were wondering if we could come to your place and hang out." Kensuke said,butting in, as he rubbed the back of his head.
"I think we got off on the wrong foot, and we were wanting to try to get to know you better to try to understand the reason what happened, happened to my little sister." Touji finished. Shinji stood there about a minute in silence.
"Most of what you want to know is classified, but I will help in any way I can." He finally said. Kensuke and Touji gave the victory sign as they gave each other five. Misato was gone when Shinji got there. There was a note on the table.
It said, "Shin-kun, I have gone to NERV on some buiseness. Do your chores and when I come in, I will inform you on what you and I will be doing tomorrow." Shinji went about his chores making sure his company was comfortable. After he got through he sat on the floor facing the sofa that Kensuke and Touji sat on.
"You said you had some questions to ask me." Shinji said, again in his usual monotone voice.
"Well the first question is, what were you doing when you were piloting that thing?" Touji asked, sarcasm evident in his voice.
"Following my orders, take out the enemy. The only other thing about that I can tell you is that it was my first time piloting it." Shinji said, still no emotion in his voice.
"I see, so basically, what happened was beyond your control? I thought that pilots for eva were trained years in advance." Kensuke thought aloud. Mistake, Shinji made a mental note to inform the commander of the information that Kensuke had. They talked, well Kensuke and Touji asked questions in which Shinji answered as best he could without divulging any classified information, or talking much.
"I think it's about time to leave Kensuke, it's about five o'clock and I have to get to the house." Touji lied, he was getting tired of the company he was in.
"I think that we should go as well, I have some... things to do." Kensuke said. After the company left, he called commander Ikari and informed him of the situation.
"Keep an eye on them and inform me if either of them find out any classified information you think would jeapordize our project, and don't let captain Katsuragi know of this, understood?" Gendo ordered.
"Hai." Shinji answered. About that time, Misato swipes her key card through the slot and unlocked her door. She entered and found Shinji putting the reciever back on the base.
"Got friends already?" Misato asked a smile on her face.
"Wrong number." Shinji answered.
Misato only shrugged her shoulders and sighed, "Well you and I have a parent teacher conference tomorrow. Something about you beating a kid up."
"I acted in self defense, the other person attacked first." Shinji answered.
"Oh, and do you know who it was?" Misato asked.
"Yes, it was Suzuhara, Touji. He and his friend just left, you might have seen them while you were coming up to the room." Shinji answered.
END CHAPTER THREE : THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FIRST BATTLE
A.N.. Again, I have not decided on which way the romance thing would go. I may make a split off from the start of the romance thing, making a side story for the other fans of which ever one I pick. Like if I choose a rei/shinji pairing I'll make a split off from the original story and write with the other pairing to please the other fans. I may just make it an asuka/ shinji pairing, with Rei as his 'sister' well I still have no pre-reader so if any eva nut wants to help I would appreciate it. well I'm heading to bed now, oh and I'm sorry that some of these chapters seem long, I sit at home all day with nothing to do, and I come up with ideas for this story. I know I said it would stick to the main story line, but I just couldn't, I had too many good ideas and not enough brain space, so I started writing them on the screen and it fit perfect with the mood and everything. well I'm getting sleepy, I know this because I only ramble when I'm sleepy. well I'm 10-7