Tears of an Angel
Chapter 5

Oh, God. I hope that it's just early enough to help, Misato's mind screamed. "I have to find those two soon!" Misato kept running to the cemetery despite her being out of breath. The moon gleamed through Tokyo Tower in the distance as the stars were beginning to gleam in one of their most sublime moments. Misato gazed up at the sky to see a strange flow of twilight glitters coming from afar. "Oh, no" she whispered. Pick up the pace! Misato felt like she was gonna have a heart attack if she ran any faster, but she had no time to waste.

At the cemetery~

"I so sorry to hear about your mother, Shinji- kun," said Kaworu, now looking whiter than before. "She sounded like a lovely woman from what you have told me."

"She was," Shinji continued looking at the grave of his mother that really didn't protect any corpse for eternal rest. "I miss her very much." Shinji leaned closer to the long pillar of stone. "Hey, mom; it's me, Shinji. I brought a close friend for you to meet. His name is Kaworu Nagisa and...." But before Shinji could finish, Kaworu slid down near the grave and rested on the cold ground. With his head rested fully on Shinji's mother's grave, Kaworu began looking rather faint. "A-Are you all right, Kaworu?" asked Shinji now with no joy in his face.

"I-I'm all right. Just a little tired is all. I just need to sit down." One thing Kaworu was really good at was making others not worry too much about him, especially Shinji. No, thought Kaworu as he looked meaningful at Shinji as his sight began to go a blur just a little, not Shinji. I rather be stabbed with a thousand swords through my body than see him cry out of pain and suffering. I-I-I don't want to put him through any trouble. Shinji looked about as though he would start to panic.

"Kaworu? Kaworu?" Shinji said with a frightened look. "Your hands are shaking. Are you cold?"

"Come here," Kaworu said as he reached out his hand for Shinji's face as he pulled him in to come close to his own body. "Now I'm warm." Kaworu hugged Shinji as tightly as a child with a cute teddy bear. Shinji's eyes shot wide open when he turned to face Kaworu smile at him. There were dark black lines forming under Kaworu's eyes which were now as empty as Asuka's wallet.

"KAWORU?!?" Shinji said with fear, "What's wrong, Kaworu? Are you sick? Hurt? Tell me, Kaworu!" Kaworu tried his best to smile sweeter but he was so weak now. "Can you stand up?" Shinji asked. Kaworu shook his head 'no'. Kaworu's sight was no half gone. He held Shinji's head close to his face so he could properly see his lover's eyes of cerulean.

"I-I................I'm.....okay, S-Shinji. Rea......lly. Do not......worry." Kaworu could barley talk now. He was whiter than a sheet and his hands that held Shinji's face were trembling so hard that he looked as though he was a grade A anemic.

"Are you having cardiac arrest?" Shinji said without trying to cry which was very hard for him to do at a moment like this. Kaworu shook his head no again. Now Kaworu did not have the strength to speak. To top Shinji's fear, he could feel Kaworu's hot, heavy breath down his neck now feeling that his lover's breath was slower and heavy. Kaworu was dying. Shinji broke free of Kaworu's grasp and called out for help. No answer. Kaworu leaned on the grave still, panting and begging for air.

"Kaworu! You're having some kind of heart attack, I know it! Don't die, Kaworu! Please! I love you! Don't die, please. Mercy!!" At that last word, Kaworu froze instantly. He lay motionless until his arm flew up by itself and a hand reached out for Shinji's neck. Kaworu's mouth started moving but a different voice that sounded like Kaworu's came out as his hand tightened around Shinji's neck. Shinji cried out Kaworu's name and asked why?

"If you truly love this boy called Kaworu, you will know how to save him. I'm warning you; if Kaworu dies, then I die."

"Who the....hell...are y-y-you?!" Shinji cried out with what little oxygen his throat had left. "Kaworu?"

"My name is Tabris. I'm the evil side of Kaworu, the seventeenth angel to tell the truth. Kaworu has been trying to get ride of me for quite some time now. Basically, I'm the one who's really suffering."

Shinji forced himself free of Tabris' grip. "What are you talking about? W-W-W-What do you want?" Shinji was now breaking out in a cold sweat.

"As I said, I'm Kaworu's ev-"

"Yeah, yeah, I know that much, but why are you here?"

"I'm here to see if you truly love my better side. I already told you that I'm an angel, right? Well... I need your help."

"Wait a minute, if you're the seventeenth angel then doesn't that mean you're my enemy?"

"No, not true. You see I'm the super natural ora and soul of Kaworu that supports his angel powers that maintains his stable internal conditions in order to properly live in the human world."

Dot-Dot-Dot-Dot-----Sweat drop

"Uh...huh?" Shinji stated confused as a duck inside a black cave with a blindfold on.

"This will take awhile I guess..." Tabris sighed. "Well, Rome wasn't built in a day."

At Misato's Place~

"Let's play Suikoden!" Asuka exclaimed

"No, let's watch more Evangelion," Toji said

"Let's dig a moat!" Rei suggested.

As you can see, these three were so bored that anything would amuse them for more than five seconds. Asuka almost forgot about Misato, Kaworu and Shinji. It was almost midnight and there was no sign of either of them. As Asuka came to realize that she was in deep thought, Toji was grabbing two chairs from the kitchen and covering them in large, long blankets and surrounding them with soft, fluffy, white pillows.

"What are you doing, Toji?" Rei asked watching him getting tangled between a green blanket and a vanilla colored one.

"I'm building a fort! Let's play WWI! One, two, three, not Germany!" Toji called out.

"I'll be Germany," Asuka said. "After all, I am a quarter German. I'll kick your sorry but!"

"Where do I come in on this war?" Rei raised her hand shyly.

"You are the medic!" Asuka said. "Whoever dies first by your check-up loses!" Rei nodded her head in agreement looking moderately neutral. She looked at the clock that glowed in the dark which read 11:30. Her dead, mono-toned complexion came back to her face as she wondered about Shinji and Kaworu.

"I feel a strange angelic aura from somewhere. I hope it's not Kaworu. He is after all, an angel. Shinji..." she said gently.

"You say something, Rei?" Toji asked as he crawled into his fort with a plastic fork as his pistol.

"Oh, nothing, Toji" Rei replied as she put on a plastic stethoscope around her neck and sat on the coach. Rei watched as Asuka flung plastic utensils at Toji who hid in his fort as he threw extra pillows at her. Rei tried not to be too distracted by the all-so-perfect- rendition of WWI as she tried to gather her thoughts. He is an angel, she thought, angels are so pure of heart that they can feel the world's agony, suffering, and pain. I know he can. Probably has a darker side to him that takes in all these sad visions and locks them up in his soul. He becomes so weak by seeing these scenes, that his angelic powers are too weak to make him stable enough. I can feel his voice within the chambers of my mind. Kaworu is dying, fast. He needs help. Banish all the sad memories he has in the soul he shares in one body. Or else, he will wish to die. Only he can let himself die, but only another person with a pure heart can save him and restore his power so that it never dies again for all eternity. Only a heart that is so pure and true, that really loves him with all the universe and the next can save him. I just hope that person sees it in himself to know that he is capable to do such things. Dear God, I pray for them. I pray also that Misato finds them too. Amen.

Rei got hit with a free-flying pillow as Asuka said out loud that Toji was down because that he was out of ammo and that he started to duck for cover after Asuka raged an all out utensil annihilation. Toji said for her to cut it out and Rei stepped over to see if he had any scraps. He didn't, so Rei announced that Asuka didn't win the war yet. The battle went on.....and on and on and on and on and on.

At the Cemetery~

"Do you understand now?" Tabris concluded to the amazed yet scared Shinji. "Think of the fairy tales that were told in olden days. The price that really loves the princess will rescue her and they will live happily ever after."

"Do you mean that I'm the only one that can save Kaworu?"

"Correct. More importantly, save him from dying. You see, Kaworu can only be saved by a person with the purest heart of all to restore his angel powers so he'll be able to co-exist with humans in this world and to keep him healthy and alive. The world today has so much pain and torture; Kaworu can actually feel that. It hurts. I can feel it too. So that's when I need help from you.

"H-How can I help? Will it save Kaworu? Is it going to make him all right again?"

"Yes; however, this will be hard for me to beat around the bush with. You will have to give some of your pure powers of truth and good to Kaworu's body through a kiss. Y'know! The prince that disperses all evil to rescue the princess and gives her a passionate kiss for true love and to break the spell and live happily ever after, c'mon! Through the power of your kiss, Shinji, all the evil will disappear into oblivion."

"Wait a minute. What will happen to you then? To Tabris?"

"Me; I will disappear too."

"You'll what!?" Shinji said with a face that actually felt sorry for an angel.

"Didn't I tell you? I AM the soul that absorbs all the pain and suffering that Kaworu sees and feels. If you destroy all the evil inside Kaworu, then you destroy me along with it."

"I-I-I can't do that! Won't Kaworu be killed as well?"

"Didn't you listen to a word I've said?" Tabris said slightly annoyed by repeating the same thing at least four times straight, "Kaworu, the nice one will BE OK, OK? OK! He will be free of all the evil he has to endure every single day. He will be happy. Besides...."

"Yes?" Shinji finished him off politely.

"I'm tired of feeling all the people's torment, suffering, pain, and fears. The fires and sins of hell go to my soul and shred it apart with the pain I feel. I'm an angel after all, y'know." Kaworu's eyes started to fill with tears. Tabris was crying. "It hurts so much to see a murder, a bonafide accident, a death, or a sad face. Anything depressing, I feel and see wherever it happens. I'm just tired of feeling this hellish pain in my heart. I don't want to see the world suffer anymore. I want you to kill me. Kaworu will not have to feel this if I'm gone, and you're doing yourself a favor too, Shinji."

"What is that?"

"You're getting rid of another angel. Oh and one more thing, you have till midnight to kiss him before his angel power is way too low to be saved. If you don't kiss him before midnight, the Kaworu will die."