The Right To A Kiss

By Shinji_of_nerv02

Silver: Takes a mallet and hits it over Shinji

Shinji: Oww! What was that for?!

Silver: Fix the authors.

Shinji: But this is my fic (Bonks him over the head) Ok, Ok! I'll change it shesh.

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The Rite To A Kiss

By Shinji_of_nerv02 and Silver Raye Adams

Shinji:  Happy?!

Silver: Very. (bonks him over the head)

Shinji: Ow. Ok, On with the story.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion, the ppl at Gainax Studios and Yoshiku Sadamato owns them. Don't sue cause I got no money…. Blah, Blah, Blah.

Note: This is a rewrite of The Rite To A Kiss By Silver Raye Adams who left out a lot of details (whack!) Owww… Ok so here we go!

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The whole class stood stared as the new couple entered the class. Toji was the first to stand up and shouted, " You traitor! What happened to the stooges?!"

"Shut up." Shinji's blush was intensely red, so much so that it almost matched Asuka's auburn hair. "I don't say anything about you and Hikari..."

Hikari and Toji both blushed and turned away at this remark.

Kensuke, who was filming this scene, was hit with a mallet by Rei.

"Stop taping you baka!"

"Come on, kids, settle down," Misato called out. "Sit down. I don't want to mark anyone absent by mistake." Shinji rolled his eyes, knowing full well that she was bluffing. Misato never marked anyone absent...unless they had pissed her off.

"Now, you guys are getting off lucky today," their teacher said as she finished taking attendance. "I'm taking a grading day, so you can just sit there with your laptops and do...whatever it is you do when you're pretending to work." She opened the minifridge under her desk, pulled out a Yebisu, and popped it open. "You can talk if you keep the volume level down. Grading gives me a headache and I don't need noise to add to the problem- I'm out of aspirin and I didn't have time to pick any up this morning."

Shinji raised his hand. "I could run down to the drugstore and pick some up for you." Shinji could, when he wanted to, be pretty clever, and he was definitely smart enough to recognize an opportunity to get out of class.

"Fine," Misato said, pulling a stack of exams out of her desk. "I'll give you extra credit for that- you need it after your scores on that last exam."

"Loser," Kensuke murmured with a friendly grin towards Shinji to show he was only joking.

"Take Asuka with you, I don't want you getting lost. But if you two DO get lost..." She gave him a wink. "I'll understand." Shinji blushed furiously, thinking to himself that he seemed to be doing quite a lot of blushing this morning.

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It took them the better part of an hour to reach the drugstore, as Asuka's limping and using Shinji as a crutch slowed the pair down considerably. She also needed to stop and rest every few blocks, leaning on Shinji for support if there was no bench around. Shinji himself was also beginning to get rather tired and wondered if this was how it felt to be an invalid's walker. Perhaps he should just get Asuka a wheelchair...

He rejected the idea as a mental image of Asuka chasing Toji and Kensuke in motorized wheelchair seized him. It might save HIM some pain, but she would be an unholy terror to everyone else.

...Actually, that alone made the concept worth it.

After about five breaks to let the crippled redhead catch her breath, Shinji pushed open the door of the drugstore. He breathed a sigh of relief as the air-conditioning washed over him, driving back the warm morning sun. Asuka leaned the inner wall, leaning down to rub her ankle.

"What brand of aspirin does Misato take again?"

"I think it's Bayer, but I don't think she'll be picky about it. The only thing Misato is particular about is her beer."

"True."

It took trips down three of the unmarked aisles before Shinji and Asuka stumbled across the aspirin. Literally in Shinji's case, since he tripped over a case of it that was lying in his path.

Unfortunately for him, Asuka had been again using him as a crutch and so was pulled down with him, leaving them in a compromising position that Kensuke would have killed to be in.

"ANTA BAKA!!" she shrieked.

"Gomen ne!" Shinji was cowering...or rather, cowering as best he could considering that Asuka was on top of him. It wasn't until he had been yanked into a headlock and given a few sound slaps that he was released and allowed to get a bottle of aspirin from the box he had fallen over. The pair half walked, half hobbled to the counter to pay for the medicine. Shinji slipped his hand into his pocket for his wallet and abruptly froze.

"Something wrong, Shinji?" inquired Asuka.

"Asuka, my wallet is in my pencil bag..."

"So?"

"My pencil bag is in my backpack, and that's back in the classroom...do you have any money?"

"Baka," she groused, reaching into her pocket. She came up with a handful of coins. "Shitz...Shinji, I'm short two hundred yen."

"For the love of God..." Shinji mumbled. He was about to turn around and go back to the aspirin aisle for a cheaper bottle when a pale hand reached out from behind him and deposited two hundred yen on the counter. He and Asuka both turned to see Ayanami Rei standing behind them with a cheerful expression.

"Hi there you two! Whats taking so long? Mrs. Katsuragi was wondering what took so long."

"Oh, Hi Rei," said Shinji.

The cashier handed Shinji his bottle of aspirin, neatly thrown into a plastic bag with the drugstore logo emblazoned on the side, and the three set off for school, Shinji and Rei supporting Asuka between them.

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Yay! I finally finished a new chapter after 5 months! ^_^

R&R and thanx to Silver!

Preview for next week:

"YOure heavy for a girl," said Rei.

"Are you calling me fat?! Huh? Are you?!"

"No, no, no. I'm just saying that your heavier than me, that's all," remarked Rei.

"THAT MEANS YOURE CALLING ME FAT!!!"

^_^