BOREDOM

by: Andross937

disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or Dragon Ball Z. I do not claim any ownership over any of the characters of either series. I am not making any profit off of this story, and am only writing it for entertainment purposes. If the owners of either series wishes it, I will remove this story from the internet. I do not wish to offend anyone with this story. If anyone is seriously offended by this story, please notify me of the material you found offensive and I will attempt to remove it from the story. If it is impossible to do so, I may leave the story off of the internet. I do own the character Andross. He is not patented, but it would be greatly appriecated if anyone that wishes to use him would contact me for permission to use him before using him.

Author's Notes: In the last chapter I made it plain that I was not meaning for this story to be taken seriously, or treated like it was suppose to be a serious effort of mine. It is simply a work of entertainment for me. However, I did not mean for so many people to assume that I would not continue working on it because it's not a serious piece of work. I wanted to assure people that I intend to continue working on this right up to the end of the series, if it is possible for me to keep my motivation and inspiration until then. Your reviews are greately appriecated, and serve to motivate me to continue. So, to help me with movtivation problems, just keep sending those reviews! Any suggestions you have are welcome and will be considered where possible.

I do not know if I will include any kind of serious pairing/romantic relationships in this story with Shinji. If there is a pairing you wish to see, then include it in your review, maybe even send any kind of idea or way you would like to see it happen to my e-mial, found in my profile, it seems that I can't put it in my story. However, I am making it known right now that this story will definately NOT have a Shinji/Rei pairing in it. I'm sorry, but I have a problem with the kid hooking up with a clone of his mother that's half angel. The half angel part isn't sooo bad, but the clone of his mother makes it technically incest, a very wierd incest. Any other pairings that are not homosexual are welcome, especially with ideas of how it would work. Sorry, but I don't do any kind of homosexual pairings, even when they happen in or are suggested by the series.

If there are not indentions in this chapter, or any others, then I am sorry. When I post it, the indents are removed for some reason that I can't figure out why. I have attempted to fix this with no success, and can only hope that it gets fixed soon.

I am very sorry to do this, I really hate to ask for this, but please review, no matter how short it is. It's the only way I know that people are actually reading this story at all. Anonymous reviews are accepted and appriecated just as much as signed in reviews. Even sending me an e-mail is good, just so long as I know that someone read this. Please, review, it really keeps me going. Thank you.

Enough of my rantings, enjoy the next chapter!

-story begin-

Shinji arrived back in the cage room that he had left Misato, Ritsuko, and his father in. There was no one there any more, but he figured they probably had some way of knowing he was there, so he would just wait. Until then he would keep examining the giant creature they kept calling an Evangelion. He hovered infront of the other eye this time and started to wave again.

Suddenly he could detect a sudden, but small ki spike from within the beast. It was as if it were responding to him. The eye glowed a dim yellow for a second, before going dorment. A low growl echoed within the large room, and Shinji wasn't sure of it, but he could have sworn that it came from the Eva.

"Wow... It's alive after all. I wonder what it was trying to tell me..?" Shinji mused to himself.

"What was that Shinji?" Misato asked as she entered the room, not quite sure that she heard Shinji correctly.

"Hmm? Oh, hi Misato! I was just trying to figure out what the Evangelion thing was trying to tell me when it growled a little just now." Shinji said with a happy smile.

Misato sweat dropped for a moment before continuing in a nervous voice, trying to sound as nice as possible. "Shinji, EVA's don't talk. The only time they ever make any noise at all is when one goes berserk, and that would be detected. Besides, EVA's don't just go berserk and then go back to being dorment just like that, and they have to be activated to go berserk anyways." she spoke, as if speaking to a small child, which she still wasn't sure about Shinji's mental capabilities. "Anyways, you want to go get something to eat?" she asked with an inviting smile.

"Sure! I'm starved!" Shinji said as he hopped onto the cat walk.

-site of the dead angel-

The large body of the angel still sat in the outskirts of Tokyo 3, yet undisturbed by humans. The recovery team had been dispatched to recover it, having to drag an angel down into NERV rather then an Evangelion this time. They had yet to arrive though, when a lone figured appeared above it.

Andross floated down until he was standing ontop of the angel's core. He looked down at what remained of the angel and smirked. The kid had it in him after all. Now Andross would just have to stick around and make sure the kid was able to survive the rest of these creatures. Besides, Andross wanted to know how this dimension would deal with such a major change. That was the fun of coming here, to make a huge change to its fate, and watch how it dealt with it.

While he was there though, he might as well get some useful traits from it. Andross leaned down and ripped off a small chunk of the core of the angel, only enough to fit in his fist nicely. He grinned, as a needle-like object extended from his forearm, and suddenly spread out like a large funnel. Andross grinned more as he placed the chunk in his 'funnel'.

The funnel closed around the chunk of angel core, and the buldge it made began to shrink and be absorbed into his arm, and ultimately, his body. His muscles pumped up for a second as a shock wave of power came off of him and sent several pieces of debri flying away. It stopped suddenly as his muscles went back to their normal shape, and Andross smiled once more.

"Vegeta is going to be incredibly upset when he finds out that I have, what did they call it again... an A.T. field. Right, well, it ought to have some uses later on. I wonder if I should give Shinji one...? No, they would probably think that he was an angel then and try to kill him, if they don't anyways. Well, better be going then." Andross said as he vanished into thin air.

-NERV food court-

Shinji continued to gulp down food. He had already eaten as much as two people, and he was still going strong. He ate, and ate, and ate some more. Just for a change of pace after another serving, he ate another one. When he finally stopped, he had eaten five servings worth. He patted his stomach and yawned.

"Wow! That was the best tasting food I have ever eaten!" Shinji exclaimed.

"Glad you enjoyed it Shinji. You deserved it after you just saved the city, and ultimately the world." Misato said with a nervous smile.

"No problem! I... I... I just wanted to... help people..." Shinji said before suddenly falling asleep.

"About time!" Ritsuko said as she walked into the room. "We gave him more then enough seditiave in that food to knock out three people! Let's get him to the infirmary!" she ordered as several doctors and nurses put him onto a strecher and wheeled him out.

"Are you sure we had to do that Rits...?" Misato asksed, using her friend's nick name.

"Yes Misato. You said yourself that he may have suffered trauma to the head from the N2 blast. Besides, we have to find out why he's just so strong!" Ritsuko exclaimed.

-NERV hospital room 404-

Shinji stirred awake. He sleepily looked up at the white cieling above him. A strange thought went through his head just then.

"Oh no! I got wasted somehow last night and slept with Misato and now I'm in her bed!" Shinji exclaimed, before suddenly realizing that he was in fact in a hospital room. "That or I tried to and she beat the everliving snot out of me... Or maybe it was something completely different. That seems the most likely... Yeah, if anyone was listening just now, ignore what I said completely. It was the insane rantings of a child who ate three servings of mexican food last night, just before eating two servings of american food. Never trust Mcdonalds, or what ever they call it. You know what, I'm going to shut up now..." Shinji finally finished nervously. For some reason he thought that he could hear laughing in the distance, and so he decided to start a never ending search for its source, and his clothes.

"If I didn't do anything last night, then why are my clothes missing? And why the heck am I in a hospital?" Shinji asked outloud, to no one in particular as he sat up and covered himself with the sheet. It was strange, he had nothing on under the sheets, yet didn't people usually get dressed in some kind of appren thing when they came to the hospital.

Shinji bunched the sheets up and wrapped them around himself like they were a towel and he was fresh from the bath. The only difference was, he was in a highly populated building full of strangers and he was not the slightest bit wet. Shinji jumped off of the bed and jumped back on once he realized that the floor was quite cold to his bare feet. He sat there for a few seconds, trying to figure out just what to do. A smile came to him as an idea popped into his head.

Shinji jumped back off of the bed, and hovered just one inch off of the ground. He still moved his feet around as if he were walking on the ground, but was careful to keep off of the ground. It was actually a good test and exercise for his control over his new power. He 'walked' over to a nearby cabinet in the room. He opened it up to find several changes worth of hospital pajamas.

Moving faster then the human eye could see, just incase there was a camera in the room, he changed into a set. Feeling much better he let out a sigh of relief. Opening the door he stuck his head out into the hallway and looked around. No one was around for as far as he could see. The sudden realisation that he could feel ki levels made him slap himself in the forehead and close his eyes. Only a few people were on this floor at all. Shinji breathed out another sigh of relief.

"Now to get to a phone and call Ms. Misato to find out what really happened to me last night. Wait, I don't have her phone number!" he said as he walked out into the hallway and started to walk in the direction that he hoped a phone was in. He had just turned a corner when he spoke again, his voice echoeing through out the halls, "I guess that I don't have to go to school today after all!" he exclaimed happily.

-Ritsuko's personal lab-

Misato and Ritsuko sat around a monitor. On the monitor was an image of a scan of Shinji's brain. The two women were looking at it intensly. One understood it better then all but just over thirty people on the planet. The other, felt like she was trying to read a foriegn laungage that was describing a hyroglyphic schematic to an atom bomb made of common car parts. Ritsuko was almost absolutely sure what she was looking at, while Misato couldn't have been more confused if she had tried.

"So, is he crazy from the N2 mine going off on his head, or what?" Misato asked.

"Well, from what I can see here, no. I do believe that it had some kind of effect on his mental state, but not really on his sanity. Ofcourse, the fact that he says that he is still trying to process a lot of information that was put directly into his mind by some strange man that could read his thoughts is alarming. The strange thing is, I think his mind is trying to absorb some kind of information, like it was locked away and is gradually being released so that he can understand it all. That may be what's causing his strange behavoir, or it could be the trauma from the blast. The only thing that I can see that might be effected though, is his emotions. I think that's why he seems so... incredibly happy now, or it could be a type of power high from how strong he is now." Ritsuko said, or at least that's what Misato thought she said. Misato had a really hard time keeping up with her, and might have missed a few sentences.

"So, is he nuts or not?" Misato asked again.

Suddenly Misato's phone rang. She pulled it out to find that Section 2 was calling her.

"Hello? He's what? He said what! You lost him after all that! Fine! I'm on my way!" she exclaimed.

"What was that?" Ritsuko asked.

"Shinji's nuts. He's bonkers! He's got the mentallity of a child! He's got the mentallity of a... a...!" Misato paused to think.

"A teenager?" Ritsuko asked.

"Yes!" Misato exclaimed.

"What did he do?" Ritsuko asked.

"He woke up and started to shout how he got wasted and slept with me! Then he started to say how I had beet the snot out of him, before ranting about eating a ton of food! He then disapeared after talking about using the phone to call me and something about school! The kid is nuts!" she exclaimed exasperated.

"He's a normal fourteen year old boy then." Ritsuko said with a smile. "After all, why wouldn't he have dreamed about sleeping with you after all the drugs we pumped into him to keep him knocked out while we ran those tests?" she said with a bigger grin.

"Shut up you!" Misato said throwing a pen at Ritsuko.

A knock on the door got their attention. Misato opened it to find Shinji floating on the other side. He was wearing a pair of hospital pajamas and a big grin.

"Found ya!" he exclaimed.

"Shinji? How in the world did you find me? We're twenty miles from the hospital." Misato said in confusion.

"Remember me telling you how I could feel people's ki? Well, everyone has their own personal ki signature. I just tracked yours down and flew here. I had to go really fast so no one would see me in my pajamas. Why was I naked when I woke up anyways? Don't people put you in a gown or something when they take you to a hospital?" Shinji asked, still with that ever present smile.

"What? You were wearing a gown the last time I saw you..." Misato said, before looking over to Ritsuko.

Ritsuko sat there with the slightest of blushes.

"What? You think I did something improper? I had several more tests to run after you left, and then he was attended to by several nurses. Nothing improper was done to him, and there is video footage to prove it." Ritsuko said, sounding as professonal as possible.

"I have no idea if I should feal reassured, or disturbed by that last part, or by the entire speech at all. In fact, we will never, ever speak of this again." Shinji said.

"I agree. Come on Shinji, I bought you a few extra pairs of clothes last night. They're in the car. Let's go, see ya Ritsuko!" Misato said.

-Parking Garage-

Misato and Shinji quickly approach Misato's car. It's still banged up, and has a large metal patch over the hole in the roof, but it obviously has several new parts to keep it working.

"Get it fixed already?" Shinji asked.

"Yeah! It cost me a bunch, but it works now." Misato said with a grin.

"Wow... how long have I been out of it anyways?" Shinji asked.

"Two days now. We're really sorry Shinji, but we had to check to make sure that you weren't seriously injured by the N2 mine, and that you weren't contaminated by the angel in any way." Misato said with a nervous laugh.

"Well, okay. Just, don't leave me alone with Dr. Ritsuko again please." Shinji said.

Misato popped the trunk open and handed Shinji a set of normal clothes. "Sure thing Shinji, here you go. You can change in the car, the windows are tented enough..." Misato started to say before the image of Shinji holding the clothes disapeared infront of her eyes. She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned around to find Shinji wearing the clothes she had just handed him a second ago. "Uh, never mind...?"

"Thanks Misato. Shall we go now?" Shinji asked with a smile while he got into the car.

"Sure. Oh yeah, the word came through yesterday, you'll be living with me! We'll have to have a party to celebrate!" Misato said happily as she got in the car.

"Cool! That means food! I'll cook, I really like to cook!" Shinji said happily. "Are we inviting anyone?" he asked with a big smile.

"Well, unfortunately... no, not really. But! You will get to meet your other roommate!" Misato said with a smile.

"Alright!" Shinji said before Misato slammed her foot on the gas pedal. "Whaaaah!"

-scene change-

The two finally arrived at Misato's apartment building. It had been less then half an hour, over a fifty miles, and a grocery store stop. Shinji didn't know if he could fly that fast! Misato was a maniac behind the wheel, and it was the only thing that could actually scare him, other then being left alone with Ritsuko, that he had encountered since he showed up in Tokyo 3!

"Wow Misato!" Shinji exclaimed as he got out of the car at literally inhuman speeds. "I can't believe that you got us here in one piece! I think I'll just follow you from the air next time!" he shouted out.

"Oh shut up you! I don't drive that fast, and I'm not really reckless!" Misato defended.

"Misato, yes you are." Shinji stated.

"Whatever, lets just go inside." Misato said getting half of the groceries from the trunk.

Suddenly Misato found that the groceries in her hands had disapeared. She looked up to see Shinji holding all the groceries like a gentleman, waiting on her to show him the way. She smiled at him and ruffled his hair.

"You know what Shinji? You may be stark raving mad sometimes, but you're really a good guy. Don't ever change." she said with a huge smile.

"Thanks!" Shinji piped up as he began to follow her.

They took the elevator up to Misato's floor and calmly walked to Misato's apartment. Misato opened the door and walked into the messiest place Shinji had ever seen, ever imagined, ever considered could exist in all of the universe! It was pure insanity to Shinji's mind, looking at something so horrible, without doing anything about it.

Before Misato could blink, Shinji had already put away all the groceries. She watched in awe as a pure blur of colors ran about the room cleaning up infront of her eyes. She couldn't see the cleaning, nor even what the blur could have really looked like, but every where it went, the area was clean afterwards. She dropped her keys in shock when the blur stopped to reveal itself as Shinji, and the entire apartment was clean!

"What in the world...?" she whispered out.

"I cleaned up. Don't worry, I left your room untouched, and I didn't get a chance to mess with the bathroom yet. I'll do that after dinner, unless you want to go take a bath now?" Shinji asked.

"No, no... I'm just fine Shinji. I'm going to go to my room and get changed. No peaking now!" Misato shouted back in a tease, showing she had just gotten over the shock of seeing her apartment clean.

Shinji cocked his head to the side. "I wouldn't peak..." he said, clearly not getting the joke.

-Inside Misato's Room-

Misato didn't get changed just yet. She walked over to her bed and sat down. It had been a long day for her, trying all she could just to get ready for Shinji to wake up and live with her. The Commander had ordered that she convince Shinji to pilot the EVA. How could she do that? He was stronger the the angel for goodness sakes!

Misato reached over to her bedside table and opened the drawer. She pulled out a notebook from it. She opened it up and began to write.

How to convince Shinji to pilot the Eva...?

options:

Force him.

Misato barely kept herself from laughing at that. Shinji was more powerful then the Third angel, and he could survive an N2 mine detonating on his head. According to what he said ealier, he has even more control over his power now. In fact, now that Misato thought about it, she could swear that Shinji was walking at least an inch above the ground ever since he found her ealier. She continued writing.

Trick him.

That might work somehow if she did it right, but she didn't feel that it was the right thing to do. Besides, she had no idea how she would do that anyways... Again she started to write.

Bribe him.

Misato almost laughed again. She didn't have enough money to even think about that one. Although, she might be able to convince the Commander to agree to put him on a high NERV salery to convince him to pilot the EVA... she kept writing anyways.

Dare him.

That one seemed childish to her. It was then that Misato remembered that she was deeling with a fourteen year old. She thought about it, and decided that that might work, and it might not. It all really depended on how she went about it. Once more she started to write.

Order him.

For that to work she would have to get him to give a care about NERV and make him look up to it as if it really had authority over him. As long as he could defeat the angels without having to use the EVA's at all, then NERV really didn't have any real authority over him. She kept writing again.

Seduce him...

Now she did laugh. If she had still been in college, she would have really seriously considered that, despite the fact that it was illegal. After all, he was kind, caring, funny at times, constantly happy, and strong! But now, well, she might get away with it because of the Commander's orders. In fact, with the tone he used when he gave the orders, she wasn't sure that that wasn't what he had had in mind at the time. She would just have to save that for an absolute last resort.

Convince him.

Misato sighed. She would just have to sit down and talk to him. She would actually have to come up with a good reason that he should use the Evangelion to fight the angels and not his own strength. That would be tough. He really had all the convidence in the world that he didn't need the Evangelion, and he had all the reason to believe that. The kid beat the Third angel with almost no effort at all. NERV was really nothing more then a henderince to him.

Putting away the notebook, Misato went about getting changed. When she was done she walked out of her room to find Shinji cooking. He was moving at incredible speed, but could only go so fast with out burning something. Misato watched in awe yet again as Shinji cooked a meal worthy of being made by a professional cook. The smell in the air was actually something alien to the apartment, the smell of good food.

The smell had such a strong effect that Misato found herself patiently sitting at the table, waiting for the food and watching as Shinji cooked. It was so strong, that it even brought out the only other member of the house. A penguin jumped up and sat down in another chair at the table. Misato didn't blink an eye at this, but Shinji actually stopped and stared a few seconds, before going right back to work.

"Misato, is that my roommate?" Shinji asked as he cooked.

"Hmm? Oh, yes. This is Penpen, he's a warm water penguin. He's your other roommate, but don't worry. He sleeps in that other fridge over there." Misato said pointing at the other fridge.

"Hmm? Oh, you mean the fridge that I put all the beer we brought in?" Shinji asked.

At hearing this, Penpen was torn between his love of good food, and his love of beer. In the end, Penpen jumped off of the chair and waddled at high speeds to his personal fridge. He pressed the button, got the penguin equelivent of a slack jaw, and waddled into his fridge in happiness. The door closed, and one could hear him installing a lock on the other side.

"What was that about?" Shinji asked.

"Penpen happens to drink as much as me. Speaking of drinking, could you hand me a beer." Misato said.

"Sure." Shinji said, and a beer practically appeared in Misato's hand.

"Thanks Shinji! Listen, I've been meaning to talk to you about this..." Misato started.

"My father wants me to pilot the Evangelion." Shinji said simply.

"How'd you know?" Misato asked confused.

"Well, he did order me to his city for that purpose. I didn't think that he would let it slip so easily. Plus I was fadding in and out of sleep for those two days of testing because Ritsuko kept letting my drug dossage slip. I heard not only you, but several people talking about it, but it barely made sense at the time." Shinji said as he kept cooking, still sounding quite happy.

"If you were waking up and didn't know what was going on, why didn't you panic and break yourself free? There was no way we could have held you." Misato asked, sounding really confused.

"Simply put, I trusted you. Besides, if I had met someone with this much power but no older then me before I got this way, I would have been worried too." Shinji said, turning to smile at Misato. "Anyways, I heard that you were ordered to get me to pilot the Evangelion, no matter what?" Shinji asked, wanting to confirm what his dazed state had distorted.

"Yes..." Misato answered, drinking her beer quickly.

"Well, I have a deal for you then." Shinji proposed.

"What might that be..." Misato asked nervously, that seducing thing coming back into her mind. It was suppose to be a last resort, but now it may have to be the very first thing she does about it, she couldn't deny it. Shinji may have the mentality of a child at times, but he was still a teenage boy.

"You stop drinking for good, and I'll pilot the Evangelion for free." Shinji said, still keeping the childish grin on his face.

"What!" Misato exclaimed. Misato had been willing to give up alot of things, do a lot of things, arrange a lot of things. She had been willing to do a lot of things for this. But give up beer! Could she do it?

Misato sat in shock for a few minutes. Shinji turned back around and kept cooking. Misato sat and thought. A world without any form of alcohol? Could she handle such a place? What would happen if she didn't? Shinji wouldn't pilot the EVA, and the Commander would fire her, if not worse... If Shinji didn't pilot, and his powers suddenly gave out on him, then they might not be able to defeat the angels... Was beer really worth not stopping the angels?

"Alright." Misato said as Shinji put a large plate of good food infront of her.

"Really, you'll give up all forms of alcohol for good?" Shinji asked.

"Y, yes... I'll stop drinking altogether..." Misato said in a small voice, as if she were a child who just agreed to never eat candy again.

"Thanks Misato. Don't worry, in a few weeks, you'll feel a hundred percent better!" Shinji encouraged.

"Yeah, probably so Shinji. It's the next few weeks that you'll have to be careful of." Misato stated glumly.

"I'll survive it, and so will you. Just don't go killing anyone at work, and you'll do great!" Shinji reassured. "Now the only other problem will be Penpen's reaction to there being no beer or anything else alcoholic in the apartment..." Shinji mused.

Misato only frowned and watched in near horror as Shinji made the beer supply disappear in a blur, taking it all outside of the apartment. Even her half drinken bear disappeared in a flash, and she had no more alcohol. It was all gone, even her hidden supply under the sink that only her and Penpen knew of. She ofcourse still had a few beers stashed away in a cooler in her bedroom.

Misato slowly stood up and walked into her room alone. Shinji stood near the table waiting for her reaction. He hadn't truely expected Misato to come out carrying her last cooler of beer. She slowly handed it to Shinji, and he blurred it outside. He was back in a second, but Misato was already sitting again at the table. She had a sad look on her face, but looked determined to not pout.

"Thank you Misato. My old guardian nearly died from drinking too much, and his wife had died from a drunk driver. It did nothing to make him stop, so I promised myself that I would do everything I could too keep alcohol out of my life, and everyone's around me. It does nothing but cause harm from what I've seen." Shinji said quietly.

"You're right Shinji. I'll be better in a few weeks. You know, it's almost funny. Because of alcohol, I can't remember more then three fourths of my years at college. In a few weeks, I'll be feeling free, I hope." Misato said, before taking a bite from the food in front of her. Her eyes lit up some at the taste of it. "Wow Shinji. This is really good!" she said before eating more.

"Thanks." Shinji said.

-Thirty Minutes Later-

"Paper!" Misato called out as she won again.

"Aww man, I lose again. That's all the chores, and I have over four fifths of the chores. Oh well, at least I'm always cooking." Shinji said with a smile.

"And what does that mean? I can cook too you know!" Misato defended.

"No no, I mean that I love to cook. I used to do it just because I had to, but a few years ago I really began to enjoy doing it. I got as good as I could and enjoyed learning more and more about it. I really love doing it, because it's something I'm really good at." Shinji said trying to calm Misato down. "You can cook sometimes if you want to I guess." he offered.

"It's alright Shinji. I might cook every now and then, but for now, I really like your cooking. Now then, it's time that you go take a bath. A bath will clense the body, mind, and soul! It's good for you!" Misato exclaimed. "And I insist that you not peek on me when I take one after you." she ordered.

"I wouldn't peek." Shinji said simply, really wondering why Misato kept telling him that. "I promise."

With that Shinji walked to his new room to quickly unpack his clothes and other stuff. It took him less then thirty seconds. Afterwards he stood infront of the opened bathroom door in his boxers. He entered and settled in for a nice long bath. He sat in the steeming tub for a while, just letting his mind wonder from topic to topic.

His mind wondered from the moment he arrived straight to the present moment. He wondered who that girl was that he had seen, and then didn't see. He was sure that she had been real, becuase that man named Andross had been looking at her. He wondered more about Andross, and why he had given him so much power... It sounded almost like he had just done it for amusement. Well, whatever the reason, he had allowed Shinji to have the power he would need to save the world.

Shinji wondered about his father. Why was he so determined to have him pilot the Evangelion, when he could clearly see that he was more powerful then it was. Was he just a part to him, just a pawn in a chess game? Would he ever look at him like his son ever again? No sense in really worrying about that though, since he was sure that he would never be able to mend things with his father.

Shinji wondered about why these monsters were attacking them at all. Again, not much sense in wondering about that. Shinji wondered about Misato, and if she could really go through these next weeks with out her alcohol. How had she had such will power to be able to agree to this at all? Shinji had thought that he would have to work her over to even consider it for several weeks. She must really want him to pilot too...

Finally Shinji was done with his wonderings. He was also done with the bath. He pulled the plug and got dried off and dressed.

-Ten Minutes Later-

Misato lowered her body into the warm bath water. It felt good to her skin, and she breathed out a sigh of enjoyement from it. She picked up the phone and dailed a familair number. It rung a few times before it was answered and a friendly voice came over the line.

"Ritsuko speaking." Ritsuko said picking up her phone.

"Hey Rits, It's Misato." Misato said with only a slight bit of cheer.

"What's the matter Misato, your plan to have Shinji living with you not going as well as you had planned?" Ritsuko asked with some amusement.

"You remember how the commander told me to get Shinji to pilot through any means neccesary?" Misato asked, all joy still gone from her voice.

"Yes..." Ritusko said, slight concern now coming to her voice.

"Well, we made a deal." Misato said, the joy still gone from her voice.

"Oh no Misato, you're not actually sleeping with him, are you!" Ritsuko exclaimed into the phone. Right then she was quite glad she was in her office alone.

"No..." Misato said, her voice still saddened.

"Then what?" Ritsuko asked, confusion and curiousity growing in her voice.

"I... I had to... He made me... give up alcohol..." Misato said in a tiny voice.

"WHAT!" Ritsuko exclaimed so loud it echoed in her office for several seconds, and could be heard all the way down the hall.

"You heard me. Don't make me repeat it." Misato said as she sank further into the bath until only her neck was above the water.

Ritsuko was extremely silent for several seconds, before she could gather the breath to actually speak again. When she spoke, it was quiet and almost difficult for Misato to make out. It sounded like something was actively sucking the air out of her lungs while she tried to speak.

"Never, in all the years that I've known you have you ever, I mean ever even entertained the thought of giving up alcohol. Now you call me and tell me that a fourteen year old boy has convinced you to give it up for good in just one night." was all that Ritsuko could say.

"Hey! I can do it you know! Besides, this is no normal fourteen year old boy we're talking about here. This boy can fly around, survive angel attacks, take a N2 mine to head, over power and even blow angels to atoms! And now, thanks to the deal we made, he is also officially the pilot for Unit 01." Misato said in her defense.

"Hmm... I guess you're right. I wonder why he had you give up alcohol though." Ritsuko asked herself more then Misato.

"Apparently, his last guardian was an alcoholic that wouldn't stop drinking no matter what. His wife, Shinji's other guardian, died in a car accident from a drunk driver. He said he made a promise to himself to make sure that his life had nothing to do with alcohol after that." Misato answered, her mood dropping more as she spoke. 'Poor kid.' she thought to herself. 'He really is trying to look out for me.'

"That would explain it. So, how are the two of you getting along other wise?" Ritsuko asked, trying to change the subject.

"Great actually. Except for the transportation problems we seem to have." Misato said, her smile starting to return.

"Transportation problems?" Ritsuko asked.

"He thinks I drive recklessly and too fast, while I don't want to have him flying the car everywhere." Misato explained.

"Oh yes. I had gotten so used to the way you drive I hadn't actually thought how anyone else would react to it." Ritusko said with a slight laugh, finding it quite amusing.

"I don't drive that badly! Other then that, it's all great. Oh yeah, one more thing. Shinji's the best cook I've ever seen! You should taste this kid's cooking, it's to die for!" Misato said as she remembered the good food Shinji had made for dinner.

"As opposed to your cooking, which you could die from." Ritsuko said with a smile.

"Har har, not funny Rits." Misato said with a fake laugh.

"Yes is was. Now, seriously, you will have to visit my office before and after your every shift. I'll have to monitor your withdrawl symptoms if you're to stay on active duty." Ritsuko said in a serious tone.

"Yeah, I figured that." Misato said, sounding slightly depressed. "Well, I'm done with my bath now. I have to go now."

"See you here tommorrow in my office Misato." Ristuko said before hanging up.

-Fifteen Minutes Later-

Shinji lay in his bed, trying to get to sleep. It seemed that the full control he had gained over his ki in such a short time had put him on a type of adrenaline high, and made it somewhat hard to sleep. Being able to sense the every movement of every single ki source within two miles didn't help him at all.

Misato knocked on the door of his room after standing there for nearly a minute. Shinji had been wondering why she had been standing there, and turned to face the door.

"Come in." he said loud enough for her to hear him.

Misato opened the door to reveal herself wearing nothing but the green towel that she had dried herself off with wrapped around her body. Shinji blushed some and turned his head to look away from her. Misato smiled at the action, finding the fact that a teenage boy that could probably destroy the entire city was so modest quite humorous.

"Shinji, there was something I wanted to say." she said softly.

"Yes Misato?" he asked, still looking away from her.

"You did something very good the other day. Don't let anyone tell you differently." she said with a smile.

"Thanks Misato." Shinji said, his blush growing.

"Also..." Misato began, mischevousness in her voice as her smile grew. "You have school tommorrow. Your uniforms are already in your closet as you probably saw. So make sure to get to sleep, because you have to get up pretty early for me to give you all the information I have to. See you tommorow Shinji. Have a good sleep!" Misato said with a wide smile before shutting his door.

"Great." Shinji said rolling his eyes and lying down again. "Now all I need to do is fall asleep." he says while looking up at the ceiling. It was unfamiliar to him for sure, but he could get used to it.

Finally, he began to count ki signatures. He figured that if it worked for counting sheep, it might work for counting ki signatures too. One, two, three... he began to mentally count in his head. Slowly, the room began to grow darker and darker. Then, he was lost in dreams, switching between dreams of battles and controling his power, and dreams of a normal happy life. Either way, a smile was formed on his lips as he slept.

To Be Continued...!