Hey hey hey!!! This is the 8th chapter. This one will be really good. Nothing else to say, all the original stuff. well, enjoy! : ) ________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 8 Troubles stir and Yui and Eva reawakened

At the Katsuragi Residence all was silent, but not for long. Everyone slept soundly, not noticing the ones that slept next to them. After the first rays of light shone brightly into the messy apartment, a body began to stir.

Hikari slowly opened her eyes, observing her surroundings. That was when Toji woke up at the movement beside him. He slowly opened his eyes, looking around. He tried to sit up but found Hikari's arms wrapped around him. He started to sweat nervously. By that time, Hikari noticed that Toji was awake and started to sweat as well. Toji shifted his body around slowly and came face to face with Hikari. None of them spoke, they just stared at each other.

Shinji started to wake as he felt a heavy weight on his chest move. He slowly opened his eyes and was greeted with something that could've given a boy a nosebleed any day. He was staring at the open top of Asuka's yellow T- shirt. He couldn't stop staring. At that moment, Asuka lifted her head and saw Shinji staring at her. She followed his gaze and at once became furious. She flung her hand back and slapped him across both sides of his face.

"What the hell was that for!?!" Shinji stormed finally awake, rubbing his cheeks.

"What do you think, taking a free look, and probably taking an advantage of me while sleeping!" Asuka stormed.

By this time, Rei, Pen-Pen, Hikari, and Toji were all staring at them. Shinji sat up and moved a fair distance away from Asuka, just incase of another attack. Pen-Pen got up and waddled back to the door of his refrigerator. Before opening it, he turned and gave Rei a happy "Wark". Rei smiled gently, go up and headed towards Asuka room to change back to her normal clothes. As Hikari turned away from Asuka and back to Toji, he found him looking at her as well. She followed his gaze like and found him looking at the same thing that Shinji was looking at a moment ago before Asuka slapped him. She blushed, then became very mad. Toji seeing this became scared. Seeing that there was nothing else to do but to resolve to slapping him as well like Asuka, she flung back her hand and slapped him across the face two times.

"What the hell was that for!?!" Toji screamed, massaging his cheeks tenderly.

"What do you think!" Hikari stormed.

Toji sensing her anger flaring again, he quickly scampered to where Shinji was sitting, rubbing his cheeks. Shinji looked up and saw Toji walking over to him. He also noticed that he too was rubbing his cheeks.

As he sat down, Shinji asked, "Man, you too? I never knew that she had it in her."

"Well, apparently, she does. She hits really hard too!" Toji exclaimed.

At that moment, a loud BANG and a SLAP was heard. A moment later, Kaji ran out of Misato's room, holding on to dear life as a desk was sent flying into the air, barely missing him. A loud BANG was heard as Misato slammed her door shut. Kaji was also rubbing his cheeks gingerly. He looked down at the two other boys, which also apparently were rubbing their cheeks as well. He decided to sit down since they had things in common. They looked at each other and exchanged glances.

"You too?" asked Shinji and Toji almost in unison.

"Yeah, I guess." his voice trailing off.

They returned to their staring at something random throughout the house. After the girls were done changing in Asuka's room, they came out and decided to have a little rest and watch TV. As they turned on the TV, the door to Misato's room slid open. Kaji looked to his right and found Misato towering over him. He started to sweat immediately and his eyebrow started twitching. He quickly hid behind Toji for cover.

"What the." Toji's voice trailed off as a killing looking Misato started to come up to them, "Oh crap."

With that Toji ran for cover behind Shinji while Kaji took cover behind Toji. Shinji looked up to see what was causing this disturbance. He quickly found the answer, and he didn't like a bit. He started sweating immediately. (Oh man, I think she's gonna kill me, c'mon think of something fast. oh crap) As Misato came almost a yard away from the frozen Shinji, she quickly put on one of her cute faces.

"Aww, Shinji, won't you please move. I gotta kill someone," Misato said sweetly.

Shinji started sweating so much that it drenched his shirt. His eyebrows started twitching as to what Misato just said.

"I SAID MOVE IT!!" Misato screamed finally getting impatient.

After that all that was heard was screams and yelling of one mad woman and three victims. They ran around the house, Kaji in the lead, Toji second, and Shinji following last. Misato threw anything she could get at Kaji, not caring if it Toji or Shinji. Shinji was thinking at this moment: Man, not even my Eva's berserker is that menacing.

While that was happening, the three girls were silently watching TV, while the chase was still going.

"What do you think they're doing? It sounds fun." Hikari asked.

"Well, I guess it must be fun, I mean, they're screaming their ass off right now!" Asuka explained. (Well, serves them right, she thought).

This went on for like another hour or so, the four chasing each other madly, the three girls watching TV as if nothing is happening. Finally after the 70th time around the house, Misato ran out of furniture to use. When coming upon the kitchen, she saw knives and cutting boards. (yeah, those will do perfectly) She grabbed them and started the chase once again.

(Shinji's thoughts: WHAT THE HELL, SHE'S USING KNIVES NOW, OH MAN, I SWEAR SHE WANTS TO KILL US.)

(Toji's thoughts: OH MAN, WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS!)

(Kaji's thoughts: MAN I KNEW I SHOULDN'T HAVE MESSED WITH HER. WHAT THE HELL, ARE THOSE KNIVES!)

After more chasing and throwing, finally Misato made a statement during the chase.

"You know Toji, Shinji, you don't help me to capture Kaji, it was nice of you though." Misato said panting.

Shinji and Toji stopped dead in their tracks. Misato sped by them saying "Thanks for helping though" Both of them fell to the floor.

(Shinji's thoughts: What the hell, I thought she wanted to kill me for not letting her kill Kaji there and then)

Toji was thinking along the same lines. They finally sat up, still out of breath. They looked around to find Misato and Kaji, sure enough, there came Kaji and a knife throwing Misato after him. Both kids sweat dropped. They sighed, then retreated to where the girls were watching TV.

"Had fun?" Asuka teased.

"You have no idea," Shinji replied, still out of breath.

* After like another half hour *

"Man, how long can she run?" Toji exclaimed, seeing Misato still chasing Kaji.

Shinji shrugged and kept on watching TV. They were disturbed when the phone rang. Asuka got up and answered the phone. After a minute, she hung up and called to Misato.

"HEY MISATO, DR. AKAGI CALLED AND SAID WE HAVE TO MEET HER AT NERV TODAY!" Asuka yelled over the commotion.

All was heard from Misato was a "okay, I'm almost done". Everyone except Kaji and Misato sweat dropped. Finally, Kaji got a little smart and ran for the door, quickly reached for the doorknob and turned, opened the door, and shut it before Misato reached it. As he shut it, Misato couldn't stop in time and collided with door, making a hole in it indicating where she crashed. She looked out the hole to find Kaji taking the elevator down.

"Oh no you don't!" Misato roared as she went out and took the stairs. You'll be amazed at how fast she ran down the stairs.

* Back at the apartment *

"So, what you guys wanna do?" Asuka asked, since it was still a bit early for Toji or Hikari to be leaving.

"Let's just watch a movie, we have enough time for one," Hikari insisted.

"Sure," Shinji replied.

"Yeah," Toji responded.

"I would like that," Rei replied.

At that moment, the door to the refrigerator opened again and out hopped the happy penguin. Apparently, he has been eavesdropping on the conversation. He quickly jumped into Rei's laps. He gave her a small "wark".

"So, what kind do you wanna watch?" Asuka asked Hikari.

"Well, I haven't seen a horror movie in a long time," Hikari replied.

"Great, I was thinking of a horror movie too. How about we watch THE RING?" Asuka asked, "It's one of the most scariest movies in the 21st century, it is still pretty good." (In my opinion, it wasn't that scary, I found it funny in some ways)

"Sure," Hikari replied.

They started watching the movie. Shinji sat on the left side. Asuka was right next to him, while Hikari sat next to Asuka. Toji sat next to Hikari, while Rei sat at the very right end with Pen-Pen in her laps. At moments where it was really scary, Asuka decided to test Shinji again. She moved really close when it was really close to the scary moment, then when it happened, Asuka pretended to be frightened and let out a shriek and grabbed Shinji, almost embracing him. He blushed profusely.

Hikari seeing this, she knew that she was setting him up again, since they were discussing it while they were chasing each other. She decided to make her move. When the next scary part came up, she shrieked as well, and grabbed hold of Toji. He didn't blush as much as Shinji, but he wrapped his own arms around her to make her feel better. Hikari never knew that Toji would do that, but it made her feel good. So she let him stay like that through the whole movie.

Shinji seeing this, thought to himself: Man, Shinji, make a move, why do you always have to be a wuss! Follow what Toji's doing) So, after sometime, he slowly slipped his arm behind Asuka and wrapped his arm around her. Surprised at this she looked at him. (Oh man, please don't kill me, I won't do that again, I swear!) But she just smiled gently and hugged Shinji even closer, and resting her head on his shoulder. They stayed that way till the end of the movie.

After the movie ended, the two couples still held each other close, unaware that the movie has ended. Rei noticing this, she made a comment:

"You know that the movie ended five minutes ago," Rei said a-matter-of- factly.

At that the two couples let go of each other rather unwillingly. Shinji got up so that nothing would happen to him, and turned the TV back to the news that they were watching. What he saw surprised him. On the screen was a huge car accident. The speaker came on and said that the cause of these accidents was of a purple haired woman chasing a guy that had a beard and was wearing a bluish shirt. Everyone in the room fell down. After they got up, and cleaned a little bit of the rooms, Hikari, Toji, and Rei left for their own houses.

After a while, the front door opened and in came Misato, rather messed up looking. As she walked around, the kids avoided her as much as possible. Misato noticing this finally broke the silence.

"What," Misato asked.

"Oh nothing," They replied.

"Then why are you avoiding me as much as possible?" Misato asked.

"What, we're not," They lied.

"C'mon, what is it?" Misato asked. "Well, you almost killed me," Shinji stated.

"Then you caused this major car accident," Asuka stated.

"Well, that was only minor." Misato replied.

"Minor?" They both yelled in astonishment.

". Well, Ritsuko called me again and said that we should go soon, so get ready," Misato said, trying to get off the topic.

"Why are we going?" Shinji asked.

"You have another Sync. Test," Misato replied.

Shinji started sweating, "What, didn't the Evas get destroyed?"

"No, they were in "Ok" condition, and now we repaired it, we need the pilots again," Misato explained.

"But why do we need it, there are no more angels!" Shinji asked.

"That I don't know. Probably against SEELE or something. We might find out when we get there, but I have a feeling that they're hiding something.

Shinji didn't say a thing but turned around and flopped himself onto the couch. Misato went into her room to get changed into her uniform. After leaving Asuka there, alone in the middle of the room puzzled, she finally decided to go over to where Shinji was. She approached him slowly, and sat down next to him. She slowly looked at Shinji face. She gasped as she found Shinji's face stained with tears. Then she decided to do something that the old Asuka never would've done. She held Shinji in a warm embrace and said these words softly.

"I know what you're feeling, don't worry, I'm here for you," Asuka whispered.

Finally noticing the presence of Asuka, he looked at her, staring into her eyes. Those beautiful eyes. Shinji finally broke the stare and hugged her back. They stayed that way until Misato came looking for them. As she approached them, she noticed them. (Aww, I shouldn't disturb them, not at the moment at least, we need to get going though) She gently tip toed back to where she was then called for them. They broke the hug and went to the door getting ready for the trip.

As Misato came, she decided to trust them and let them have some time together and let them walk together to NERV.

"Hey, Asuka, Shinji, I have a little errand that I have to accomplish before going to NERV, you two can walk there by yourselves.

They both nodded, Asuka seemed a little happy about this. As they walked into the parking lot, and waving good bye to Misato as she zoomed off at a killer speed, almost causing another accident. They both sighed and started walking towards NERV.

On the walk, they were engaged in some small talk, passing some small stores that were on the sides of the streets. When they were almost there, they passed a dark alleyway. As they passed it, a gangster looking person came out from the alleyway and grabbed hold of Asuka and carried her into the alleyway.

"Shinji!!" Asuka yelled to Shinji for help.

Shinji seeing this, he got enraged. How can he have anything happen to Asuka! He once made a promise to himself that he would protect her at all costs, even if it meant his own life. He ran after them as fast as he could. After finally catching up, the gangster suddenly stopped and turned around.

"So little boy, out saving your little girlfriend, eh!" He said mockingly.

"Let go of her right now," Shinji said through gritted teeth.

"Ooh, I'm scared. HAHAHAHAHA!" The gangster replied.

"YOU WILL PAY!!!" Shinji roared as he charged at him.

"Heh," smirked the gangster as he tossed Asuka to the right as he prepared to fight this little wimp.

As Shinji approached the man, he reared back and threw himself towards him. The man dodged him easily, but Shinji knowing that he was going to dodge, spun around and swept his leg, which caused the man to fall down. Shinji wasn't about to let the man to get away with this. Upon approaching the body on the floor, he reared his leg back for a kick. As he extended the kick out, the man grabbed his foot and spun him around, smashing him into the concrete. The man stumbled as he got up again. He drew out a knife and tossed it in his hand, waiting for the kid to get up.

As Shinji sat up, he noticed that there was blood dripping from his shirt. (What the). He spun around to meet his foe once again. He stood up and faced him. This time it was the man that charged at him. From what he could make out from the darkness, he had a knife, and it was coming straight at him. He dodged to the side, only to be grazed in the side. He cupped his hand over his side and withdrew it. There was blood dripping. As he looked up again, he saw the man. He had menacing eyes, face that was full of scars. He raised the knife and started to charge at him again. But this time, Shinji knew the weakness of this man. From what he could make out of him, he was a burly man, but he was slow. So from upon nearing him, he ducked and rammed into his stomach, causing him to gape and trying to draw in air. He dropped the knife and bent down. Shinji slowly reached down and picked up the knife. As he slowly approached the crouched man, he stopped.

"Tell me, why did you want to hurt Asuka!?!" Shinji yelled.

"So that's what your little girlfriend's name, eh!" The man laughed.

Shinji got pissed off at him for the way that he was treating Asuka. He reared his leg back again to kick. Once again, did the man grab his leg and spun him around and slam him to the ground. Shinji lay there, the wind knocked out of him. He lay there panting. He was just too strong. The man grabbed Shinji by the collar and slammed him into the wall.

"So ready, to die?" The man asked mockingly.

"You first!" Shinji roared as he thrust the knife into the man's chest.

The man at once released his grip on Shinji, letting him fall down and collapse on the floor. The man stared down at his chest, his own knife protruding from his chest. I will not allow this to happen to me, thought the man. He wrapped his hand around the hilt of the knife, and pulled, his face was twisted with pain. Blood came out from the opening. He switched the position of the knife so that it was facing down.

"Ha, DIE!" the man roared as he started thrusting the knife into the back of Shinji.

At that moment, a loud WHACK was heard. The man stumbled around a little and turned around, still dazed at had hit him. He saw the girl he had captured, and the thing that had hit him. It was a baseball bat.

"Why you little runt!" the man roared as he approached Asuka.

Asuka swung one more time with all her strength and hit him directly in the head, knocking him out (well duh). He fell down to the floor with a loud THUD.

"That serves you right you BASTERD!" She yelled.

She dropped her bat and ran to the bleeding figure. She turned him around and saw that the cuts weren't that major, but it was bleeding still. She quickly took out her cell phone from her pocket (I dunno where she puts it, she doesn't have a purse.) and dialed Ritsuko's number. Finally after a few beeps, the line connected.

"Hello," Ritsuko said into the phone.

"Dr. Akagi, this is me Asuka. Please help me, Shinji is like bleeding to death," Asuka almost cried.

"WHAT, ok, where's Misato?" "She drove off first, she said that she had business to attend to!" Asuka said.

"Ok, crap. Ok, where are you right now!" Ritsuko said hurriedly.

"We're basically at NERV, just few minutes and we're there," Asuka replied.

"Ok, Asuka I want you to bring Shinji to NERV, I'll be waiting for you," Ritsuko replied before the line closed.

"Oh man. Shinji, hold on.!" Asuka pleaded.

She was worried about Shinji's wounds, even though it was bleeding only a little now. He quickly unbuttoned his shirt and looked at him. She found a cut at his thigh. Then she looked at his arms, there were about 5 little cuts or scrapes from falling. She quickly tore a bit of her clothing and wrapped it around Shinji's cut. (Good thing I went to medical training in College!) As she finished the wrapping, she put his shirt back on. She lifted the unconscious figure up and wrapped his arm around her neck and started hauling him towards NERV.

It was after a minute that Shinji regained consciousness. He noticed that his arm felt like it was going to be ripped out of his socket. His wound in his thigh seemed to stop bleeding. Then he noticed that he was being carried along. He looked over and saw a very worried Asuka carrying him by the arm. He slowly moved, and Asuka noticing this, she stopped and let Shinji stand on his own. He stood and looked at her.

"Thanks Asuka." Shinji said as his voice trailed off.

Asuka smiled a little, then turned hard on him again, "Who told you I needed help anyways. I handled him very well. You didn't need to go suicide, you know!" Asuka stormed, but Shinji didn't care, he just stared at her.

"Well, we better get to NERV," Shinji said.

"Yeah," Asuka replied softly.

They started walking towards NERV. After a few minutes, they arrived and slid their cards through and the doors opened. They walked in and turned a series of corners and doors, before arriving at the main room where Ritsuko had told them to go. Upon arriving, there were medics and Ritsuko stood there impatiently. After seeing them come in, Ritsuko came up to Shinji.

"Shinji, are you ok?" Ritsuko asked, "What happened?"

"Well, we were coming here, then when we past a dark alleyway, this basterd came up to Asuka and grabbed her and took her into the alleyways. So I followed them and we fought and. here's the outcome," Shinji explained.

Ritsuko sighed.

"You look okay though, so I don't have to worry about it," Ritsuko sighed again.

"Yeah, I bandaged him up," Asuka stated proudly.

Shinji felt his cheeks grow warm. After realizing why they had to come here in the first place, he decided ask a question.

"Umm, Dr. Akagi. Am I still having Sync. Tests?" Shinji asked.

"I do." Ritsuko was cut off.

"May all pilots report to for Synchronization Tests," boomed the loudspeaker.

"I guess you do." Ritsuko sighed, "He never let's anyone go off easy."

* At the Changing rooms *

After Asuka and Shinji ran towards the Locker rooms to change, they ran upon Rei. She was heading towards the locker rooms too.

"Brother, what happened to you!?!" Rei asked upon noticing the cuts and blood stains.

"Oh nothing, don't worry, it's all good," Shinji reassured her.

"Oh yeah, Shinji, what's up with the brother thing hunh?" Asuka asked Shinji.

"Oh nothing, I'll tell you later," Shinji told Asuka as he hurriedly ran off to the locker rooms.

Once finished changing, they reported to the cages and were helped into the entry plugs. The LCL started to fill.

"All systems green. Test starting now," reported Hyuga.

"Right," Misato replied. She opened a connection two all Evas, "Ok kids, this will be a normal test what so ever, so. just be patient."

The test proceeded without error. After completion, the kids went back to the locker rooms and took a shower. After that Asuka and Rei changed back to normal clothes and was about to report back to the command room to receive scores. But Asuka noticed that Shinji wasn't finished yet, usually, he was the first one done. She told Rei that she forgot something and went back to the locker rooms. But she went into the boy side. She found Shinji half dressed. He was wearing his pants, but not his shirt. He was staring at his wound.

"Shinji," Asuka whispered.

At the mention of his name, he merely fell over.

"A- Asuka. what are you doing here?" Shinji asked nervously.

"Seeing what you're doing. You're usually the first one out," Asuka explained, eyeing the wound, "Want me to wrap that again?"

Shinji blushed, "Uh sure."

Asuka went over to a little box and took out a first aid kit. She took out some De-contamination liquid (dunno what they use in the future) and wrapping clothe. She sat next to Shinji and slowly applied the liquid into the cut. He winced at the searing pain. After that, she gently wrapped the cut with the cloth. After done with that, she put the things away and started heading out.

"Wait." Shinji said.

She turned around.

Shinji smiled warmly, "Thanks Asuka"

"Baka," Asuka whispered.

After she left, Shinji got dressed and reported to the command room. After arriving, the three kids awaited their scores.

"Asuka, with a score of 76%, Rei with a score of 70%, and Shinji, you have a score of 81%!" Ritsuko announced.

"Ha, baka, I'm going to beat you!" Asuka declared.

"Let's see what happens then!" Shinji replied with a small smile.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

"Eva 01 is reactivating!" Hyuga reported.

"What that is not possible!" Ritsuko declared, "The entry plug and pilot are not in there!"

At that instant, Eva 01's eyes started glowing.

"Sir, AT field found in the cage of Eva 01!" Maya reported, "Something is taking form on the bridge!"

"Is it another angel? But how!?!" Misato asked in astonishment.

"No, it's human, pattern detected, it's human sir," Maya reported again, "Sir, DNA confirmed."

"Put direct connection to the cage," Gendo stated calmly.

At once on screen was the image of the cage of Eva 01. In front of it, on the bridge, a human form was taking place. After another 2 minutes, the shape took on a more definite shape. It was a female and had short hair like Rei but it was brown. It had almost the same Plug suite that Shinji wears.

"It can't be!" Gendo said.

After another minute, the shape took solid form. Gendo was looking in disbelief, Shinji gaping at the person. Ritsuko gasped as she recalled the person.

"Y-Yui?" Gendo called.

"Yeah, Gendo it's me," she said through the video, then her face hardened, "Yeah, another thing. GET YOU ASS DOWN HERE YOU HEAR ME GENDO IKARI!!!"

Everyone cringed in fear, especially Gendo. Shinji looked at the screen, "M- Mom,"

"Hey honey," Yui said sweetly.

THUD. Everyone looked where Shinji "was" standing, then looked down. He had fainted. Rei and Asuka took care of him while he was there.

". did he just faint?" Yui asked.

"Y-yeah." Gendo replied, rather shocked at the turn of events.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, I TOLD YOU, GET DOWN HERE, THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS I'M GONNA DISCUSS WITH YOU, YOU HEAR!?!" Yui yelled again.

Everyone cringed back in fear again.

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Well that was it, I hope you liked it, I didn't want to make the fights scenes and all that long or gory, so. tell me if you want it that way or what ever. PLZ REVIEW!