Work Work Work

Disclaimer: do not own anything of Evangelion. It would be pointless to sue me. I try reading it over but it got boring, but I did correct some mistakes. If there are anymore I probably missed it, whatever. Oh I do not own the characters of Noir.

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The nights in Tokyo 3 have always been quiet, so it was rather surprising to Shinji to walk see the vibrant lights and sounds of the people. Not having to see the angels for a while does help the matter a bit. As he strolled down the main street, he was disgusted by the sight of them all. Prostitutions, gambling, drunken, and stealing, it strucked him that these people are the people he has been protecting all this time. Rather odd that they would never know the boy that held their life threads.

Shaking his head he continues down the road and took a seat at a noodle stand. He glanced to his left and nodded to the strange man in dark glasses and black coat. Turning to the cook, he gestured that he would like some ramen with pork, and asked for a glass of water. Still looking at the menu, "Did you find out what it is you were looking for old man?"

"Rather more than I needed to know," the strange man hands him a roll of black scotch tape. "Here's the information you wanted me to look up. I'm sure you will be surprise"

"Thanks again for helping me out old man." Shinji nodded and quickly slipped the tape into his jacket.

"You really have to stop calling me old man, I'm not even in my 40s yet." the man chuckles.

"I'll stop calling you old man when you stop being so perverted" Shinji slowly got up and just as he was about to leave, he placed a roll of bills onto the table. "Keep the rest; I heard you have gone underground, stay safe"

The man smiled. "Thanks, and you too Shinji"

"Jya ne...Kanji"

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Once again Shinji found himself stuck under the weight of his duties. Sitting besides looking as exhausted as he felt was Misato. The room they were working in couldn't have been any smaller than it is, but somehow Shinji felt it closing in on them as more and more reports and accident claim papers fly in.

"If they bring me anymore papers to look over, I'm going to kill someone"

"Coming from you I'm sure it's a promise" Misato answered as she leaned back on her chair and gave another glance the papers in front of them and the pile behind them. "We almost have a quarter of it done."

"Don't jinx it.." just in cue more papers were place in front of them. The person tried to move away as fast as possible after seeing the look in Shinji's eyes. "We will never going to finish this."

"Never say never Shinji-kun"

Glancing up to see Maya, he quickly turned away. "You have more stuff for us to finish up or what?" He leaned back on his chair and closed his eyes trying to not look at the woman in front of him. 'Maya..Kanji...sigh'

"No, I was told to come help you out. Looks like you guys desperately need some" Maya glanced at the piles of papers. "I'll go ask the others to come up too if you like"

"Iie, We'll be fine, Maya" Shinji went back to the file he was looking at. 'We really did made a lot of mess in the last battle"

"Hai..." Maya shook her head as she walks off.

The room was silent again, and the tension could be cut up with a rusty knife. Taking another folder, Misato went back to her work.

"Yup. We'll never get this done."

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"Are you sure this is such a good idea? I mean...him?"

"Oh come on, don't be such a wuss!"

"But you are suggesting that we ask him this?"

"It's okay Jui! Your brother can't say no to you"

"But Akiko! We are talking about a lot of money! Besides, it's such a waste of money." Jui protested against her friend.

"This is a trip of a life time. We can't miss out!"

Akiko is one of Jui's best friend, but for some reason Shinji never liked her. But he was always suspicious of girls like Akiko. The kind that could persuade his little sister to ask an older guy out is just not the kind of girl he wants his sister to hang out with.

"Jui, what's up?" He glanced up from his paper work to see Jui looking down at her hand nervously. 'Something is up'

Nudge "Go on, ask him" Akiko whispered softly.

"Umm..ahh...Onii-san...there's this thing..in school...mumble..want to..." Jui shook her head.

"If you are talking about the school trip, you can forget it" Shinji turned back to his paper. Jui sighed. "I don't want you to spend any of your money so I asked someone to delivered the money directly to school account under your name, you should be all set"

Suddenly there was a large weight on his neck. "Arigatoo Onii-san!" Jui sniffed, wipping her tears with her sleeves.

"Don't worry about it" he smiled gently at Jui, and handed her a card. "I also set up a special account for your spending privileges. Don't go crazy on it, but have fun"

"I don't know what to say" Jui smiled. "Doomo arigatoo Onii-san"

"Just take care of yourself, and ask your sister to look over your suitcase before you leave"

"Are you going to be here when I leave?" Jui looked up from where she landed.

"I'll try to be, but I can't really promise anything" Looking back to his pile of work, he will be lucky just to get through these tonight.

"You really need to take a break Onii-san" Jui looked concernly at her brother and jumped up onto his lap.

Shinji grimaced at the extra weight. Cough Cough He looked back behind them to see Akiko still waiting. Turning back to Jui, he messed her hair a little and smiled. "I'll be okay sweetie. Don't worry about me, and take care of your sister while I'm out okay?"

She nodded and slid off his lap, and ran after her friend, smiling as she went.

"Onii-san!" another little voice came behind him and along with it another weight on his neck.

'I'm never going to finish...'

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"Have you thought about getting help with taking care of the house?" Hikari walks into his room.

"Not really. With two guests here, I'm sure we should get some help." He leaned back to examine his work and smiled. "I'm done. Finally"

"That's good, now you can help me out with Reika's homework. She's supposed to write about her hero, and I think she wants to do it on you" Hikari smiled at the boy/man in front of her. 'He has become one of us now.'

"I guess with you father being..." there was a silence and he turned to Hikari. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned it" He said after seeing the clouded look in Hikari's eyes.

"No, no it's okay. I have been so busy these days to even think about father...haha..I'm such a horrible person" Hikari closed her eyes and violently wipe her tears away.

"You aren't that bad of a person Hikari" Shinji got up from his chair and gave her a brotherly hug. Knowing that Hikari has a boyfriend that was also his best friend, he could never give her anymore than just a brotherly hug. "I didn't really visit my mother's grave when she died. Not after my father send me away. After that I have always been busy with one thing or another. I'm sure he completely understands what you are going through."

"sniff...We should take sometime off to see his grave soon. I'm sure Jui and Reika would want to see father again." she pulled away from his embrace and smiled softly at him. "You should definitely take some time way from work too Shinji. Don't let Misato ride you all day."

cough cough...'wrong choice of words'

"With the reports being done, things should be a little hectic around the head quarter so I should have some time for you guys. That is if the angels would let us have some peace." he looked out the window almost expecting one to come out just to in spite. Turning way from the window he turned to see Hikari frown a bit. "Don't worry about it. I'm sure everything will be okay"

"No, it's not that. I'm just worry that they might have to cancel Jui's trip. She's really looking forward in going to the underwater Okinawa. I would hate to disappoint her."

"Haha..and you want me to tell the angels to stop their attack so that Jui can have her trip?" Shinji laughed, looking at the girl in front of him with some happiness.

"If you could, just for a week, it would really help me out" Hikari smiled.

"I'll do my best. But don't worry, I'm sending the Noir to go with her just in case something bad happens."

"You are really good to us you know that right Shinji" Hikari's face turn serious for a moment.

sigh "What can I do, I love you guys too much" he smiled at her. "Now, let me go to bed, I feel like my arms are about to fall off"

"Oyasumi..." she turned around and wave to him at the door.

"Hai..Oyasumi...imooto-chan"

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It just had to be today. Of all the days the angel could attack them, it has to be the day that the four of them were out to visit his sensei's grave.

"All signs are normal. Ready to launch." Maya spoke through the intercom.

"Hai, hashin!" Misato yelled.

"I just know today would suck but I never thought it would be this bad"

"Stop complaining Shinji-baka! We have a mission! Have some pride in you work!" Asuka barked back as she moved into the ready position. "I thought all working Japanese men love their jobs."

"I think that's a stereotypes you Germen would think" Shinji stated calmly. "You people wouldn't know anything about that."

"WHY YOU LITTLE!"

"URUSEI!" Misato screamed. "I swear if you both need some serious lecture when we are through with this angel. I can't believe you decided to pick an argument right now. With Rei being out of commission we can't fail to lose! UNDERSTAND!"

"Hai! wakarimasu!"

"Hai..."

"I hate kids.."

"We hate you too Major" Shinji smiled to the camera inside the cockpit.

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sigh not sure when I'm gonna be able to update again, but I'll try. Hope some ppl are somewhat satisfy. Correct anything you see fit. I'm sure I make at least a thousand mistakes on this one. Jya ne.