Disclaimer: I do NOT own Neon Genesis Evangelion. I DO own Katsume, her family, and their story.

IMPORTANT READ: Sentences in Italic are thoughts followed by the person's name. Sentences in Italic and Bold are Katsume's thoughts. And sentences in Italic and underlined are Sasuke's.

Chapter 16

The Two Rooms

Katsume glanced at Shinji and saw the picture in his hand. She braided her hair quickly and went to the stove. "Does ramen sound okay? I forgot to go shopping so that's basically all there is." Katsume told Shinji. "Yes ma'am. Ramen sounds fine." He answered surprised that she had asked. "Good and don't call me ma'am. We're the same age you know." She said putting the ramen on the stove and making tea. "You can watch TV or read or do whatever you like. I have to clean the house and wash the clothes." Katsume told Shinji. "May I look around the house?" He asked. "Go ahead." She answered picking up a shirt and walking into her room. She was out a second later putting the basket down to close the door. Shinji could hear here go to a few more rooms before stopping and then he heard the washing machine start. She walked back out and Shinji followed her to the room beside the first one that she had entered.

He gasped as soon as he got inside. The walls were white with three black stripes running the length of the room. There was a black bed with white sheets in the center of the room. The bed's made. Shinji noticed. A white dresser and white wardrobe stood side by side on one side of the room. They both had black draws and doors with white handles. On the dresser was a picture and a necklace. The picture was the same one that he held in his hands and the neck less he had never seen before. It was a cross with half white and half black.

Shinji opened the door and walked into the next room. He was surprised by what he saw. The room looked exactly the same. Except the walls and draws and doors and handles where white where the other room had been black. And black where they had been white. He looked on the dresser and saw the same picture that he held in his hand along with three others.