Yin and Yang
"Actually, there's a funny story about that. Remember at the mall when we went shopping the other day? Well that girl was the same one whose boyfriend tried to beat me up the other day. Remember? That girl that I was making out in the dressing room? Her boyfriend tried to beat me up the other day." Toji and Kensuke were surprised that Shinji had admitted to 'making out' with somebody. Asuka, on the other hand, was fuming.
"SO IT WAS YOUR FAULT!!!" Shinji was so taken back by the outburst he fell off his seat. He quickly recomposed himself as he got back on his seat.
"Hey hey, you don't have to sound so mad," Shinji coolly replied as he waved his hands to calm her down. Asuka didn't let up the venom in her anger though.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!" Some of the classmates started to turn their attention to the screaming German girl. Toji and Kensuke quickly noted the reactions of the other people.
"Quit making a scene Asuka, you're attracting attention," Kensuke pleaded. Asuka gave him such a cold stare that it almost literally made him mess his pants. "I mean never mind, hehe," he quickly added. Both Kensuke and his other friend slowly backed away from her.
"You're on your own Shinji, see ya!" Toji proclaimed as he and his partner ran from the classroom. Shinji's eyes followed them until they left the room.
"Bunch of wussies…" Asuka turned her attention to Shinji again.
"I can't believe you! Look what happened because of your stupidity!" she scolded.
"It wasn't ENTIRELY my fault! If you didn't even slap him then none of this would have even been happening!"
"Shut up! If only you could've kept your hands to yourself, then we wouldn't even be in this situation in the first place! This is ALL your fault!"
"What are you talking about?! It's your fault! Besides, YOU can't keep your hands to yourself! Do you always have to slap somebody when you get mad?!"
"YES! Because they deserve it! Especially you!"
"Just because I was just having a little fun doesn't mean I deserve to be slapped. Why did you even care at all with what I was doing anyways?"
"Shut up! You deserved to be hit!"
"That's all you can say huh?" Asuka was getting angrier by the second.
"You!"
(SLA-) Huh? No slap again? What happened this time? A class let out a collective (GASP!!!) seeing the sight before them. Asuka's arm was stuck in mid slapping motion; a hand had grabbed her arm halting the movement. It wasn't so surprising to see that somebody had stopped Asuka; actually it was surprising but even more shocking was the fact that it was Rei that stopped Asuka!
"Wondergirl?!" Yes, it was indeed Rei that had stopped Asuka from slapping Shinji. Shinji was surprised that Rei had stepped in. The class was anxious in seeing the potential of a possible catfight.
"Shinji is right, resorting to violence solves nothing." Asuka forcefully withdrew her hand.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!"
"You should not blame Shinji for his actions, he can't help but be that way."
"Why the hell are you defending him?!!"
"Because I see no merit in your argument."
"Why you…"
(SLAP!!!) Rei slowly brought her hand up to her cheek and lightly caressed it. The classroom had unconsciously held their breath hoping for the worst to happen. Hey, anything to break up the monotony of school. That was when the class rep entered the room; Toji and Kensuke could be seen hiding behind her.
"What's going on here?!"
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"He really is an idiot isn't he?" Shinji had asked Fate.
"Sometimes, but you can't deny the fact that he cooks likes an iron chef."
"I'll be the judge of that, if I even get to taste my own cooking." Shinji let out a long-winded sigh. "Now that I think about it, Asuka doesn't seem all that imposing."
"Maybe if you actually stood up for yourself and not let yourself be slapped you would see that."
"Sure she was annoying but she never hit me that much really."
"What I'm trying to say is don't let her push you around, you know what I'm saying?"
"Yeah…I guess."
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'I need to be more careful now. My carelessness really got me in trouble, as well as my other side. Asuka is, if not, completely right about me. I pretty much screwed up big time. One thing still bothers me though, why did Rei stand up for me? Granted I would have taken that slap, to alleviate my guilt, but I wonder why she did stop Asuka? I should ask her after school.' Shinji looked up at the clock. 'Three…two…one…' (RINGRINGRING!!!) The class started to chatter about the event at lunch as they left the classroom. Asuka quickly got up and started to leave for Nerv. Shinji got up and was met with his friends.
"Dodged that bullet didn't you?" Toji teased.
"Yeah, hey, could you guys wait here?"
"Sure, why?" Kensuke asked.
"I need to have a little chat with Rei." Toji smiled.
"Going to put the moves on her huh?" he said suggestively.
"Already did that and look what I got." Shinji pointed to his bruise. "Just wait," he ordered as he started to follow Rei out the classroom. "Rei, wait up!" She stopped and turned to face the boy.
"What is it Shinji?"
"I just wanted to say thanks, for earlier." The edge of Rei's mouth curved upward ever so slightly.
"It was no problem."
"I need to know though, why'd you do it? Why did you stop her from hitting me? I felt I deserved it."
"That's the difference between you and me, because I felt you didn't." With those last words, Rei left. Shinji had an annoyed look on his face.
"You guys can come out now." Toji and Kensuke had popped up from their hiding places where they had eavesdropped on the conversation.
"Hehe."
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"I hate him! Why can't he be more like the other Shinji? The one he sent to the hospital!" Asuka grumbled to herself as she entered Nerv headquarters.
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"This is different, I never saw her so…worried before," Shinji observed. Fate was sitting on its own couch.
"Actually, she was always like this, but you wouldn't know mostly because you were out most of the time."
"Really?"
"Does this face look like one that could lie?" Fate asked pointing to its face. Of course, not a lot of details can be discerned by looking at Fate's face seeing as how it was made of shadow.
"I can't tell."
"Are you saying I'm ugly?" Fate asked with a hint of anger.
"What? I just-,"
"You are JUST like my sister! I can't believe it! And an other thing…" Shinji rolled his eyes, he hated it went Fate would take Shinji's words the wrong way.
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"Sir, it seems that your son has been fighting at school," Fuyutsuki reported.
"Really?" Gendo replied with a hint of pleasant surprise.
"Uh…yes?"
"Did he win?"
"Yes."
"That's my boy!" he replied gleefully sounding almost like a squealing giddy schoolgirl.
"Sir?" Gendo immediately resumed his cool cold demeanor.
"Again, if you tell anybody…"
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Sweet Shinji was walking around in an empty space composed of the colors purple and green. He was wary of his environment and somewhat afraid.
'Where am I? Why does this place seem so…familiar?' He wandered aimlessly until he spotted a faint glow far off in the distance. 'What is that?' He started to run towards this source of light. As he got closer, he could make out the form of two couches and two television screens. He got closer and closer until…
"AH!!!" Original Shinji yelped as he felt a pair of hands rest on his shoulders. He knew it couldn't be Fate, because he was sitting in front of him. He quickly turned around to face…himself. Fate turned to Shinji when it heard him yelp.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I remember this now…" Fate said to itself.
"You!" both Shinjis said in unison. "What are you doing here?!" they both asked at the same time. Original Shinji was the first to speak up.
"Which one are you?" Sweet Shinji was confused.
"I'm the good one of course! Don't you remember?"
"Good one? I'm the original!"
"What?!" Sensitive Shinji let out. Fate tapped its foot impatiently.
"Any minute now…" it quietly mused.
"You're the original? Then where is-," Shinji woke up to find himself in the Nerv hospital. He was covered in cold sweat. He spotted somebody out of the corner of his eye. The person was Asuka. "Asuka?" Asuka quickly turned to Shinji.
"Shinji! You're alrig-I mean, took you long enough!" Shinji got up on his bed and rubbed his head lightly.
"What happened?" Asuka resumed her fuming demeanor.
"You ran off and almost got yourself killed!"
"Really?" Asuka let out a sigh.
"Why else would you be in a hospital?"
"I guess that makes sense." There was silence for a few moments. "I just had the weirdest dream."
"What was it?"
"I dreamt that I met my original self, which was me and my brother combined." Asuka showed mild interest.
"Really? What did he say to you?"
"Not much, I woke up before we could have much of a conversation." Asuka raised her arms in the air tiredly.
"I'm sure it was just a dream."
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"Fate, you never told me I was going to meet up with my self." Fate shrugged its phantom shoulders.
"I forgot."
"That brings me to a question, is this a dream world of some kind?"
"You can say that."
"Theoretically, I can meet up with myself when they're dreaming and tell them to kiss each other so I can high-tail it out of here."
"No, not really."
"But, don't they dream?"
"This world is reserved for the people in a coma state, you know what I mean?"
"So what my good side had wasn't a dream?"
"Nope."
"Alright, so much for that idea. Hmmm, what do my sides dream anyways?"
"Do you really want to know? Good Shinji has normal dreams and all but do you really want to know what your bad side dreams? You might pass out from the embarrassment."
"If you say it like that, I guess not."
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"This is boring, there's nothing to do! All of the angels were destroyed already," Shigeru complained.
"Think of this as a time to relax. Maybe you'll enjoy this peaceful time more if you think about it that way," Maya said.
"At least out jobs had meaning when they were rampaging through out city," Makoto butted in.
"Forget this, let's just continue," Shigeru tiredly said.
"What's the score?" Maya asked Makoto.
"95 to 93," he said reading a piece of paper.
"Alright," Maya acknowledged. Maya and Shigeru faced each other.
"Rock paper scissors!"
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Cool Shinji was walking towards his apartment tired from the day's events.
'Asuka must be with my brother…good to see things happening between them.' He entered the elevator and started to ascend. 'That Rei, she still puzzles me.' The elevator doors parted and Shinji started to head for the apartment door. He opened the door and entered. He immediately started for the couch and lay down. "What a tough day."
"Is that you Shinji?" Misato's voice called out.
"Yeah."
"You know, Shinji regained consciousness, I'm going to go down to Nerv and bring him back. You want to come?"
"So I can have you drive like grandma again? Sorry but I pass."
"Hey, only on the second half of the trip. You had better cook dinner by the time we get home."
"Alright, I'll get up to it."
"Good!" she cheerfully let out as she exited the room. He got up slowly and walked towards the fridge.
"So what do we have today?" he opened it and spotted something out of place. "A watermelon?"