Neon Genesis Evangelion: Phase One

"My name is Kaworu. Kaworu Nagisa." said the boy. As his gray hair flapped in the wind his blood red eyes gazed at the moon above him and a small smile curled up upon his lips, "And you are Shinji Ikari, are you not?"

A brown haired boy was starring at Kaworu before realizing his rudeness and slowly speaking, "How do you know my name?" But he said the question emotionlessly for his dark blue eyes were fixated on Kaworu, although they had never meant, Shinji couldn't help but feel that they had.

"You aren't aware of your own status are you?" asked Kaworu and an almost loving tone of voice, "Third Child?"

Shinji nodded, "Yes… I am the Third Child… Not that I want to be?"

"Hm? Ikari, is there something you aren't telling anyone? Something you want to hide?" asked Kaworu as he slowly stood up from his location lying on the beach to look Shinji in the eye.

"Please… Just call me Shinji, Nagisa." He was trying the avoid answering the question.

"Then please, you call me Kaworu." A grand smile spread across Kaworu's face.

The nauseas fumes of NERV headquarters entered Shinji's nose as he stepped inward for his synchronization test. But he saw that the familiar face of Kaworu stood there as well, "Kaworu… You are an Eva pilot?"

"Yes… I am the most… qualified person to pilot an Eva."

"Oh…" Shinji has already become friends with Kaworu in the short time they knew each other and Shinji did not want his new friend to be tortured by the Eva as he was, "You know… if you don't want to pilot the Eva… you can always run away…"

"I know… But if I run away… Then I won't be near you." Kaworu was looking Shinji deep in the eye, "You are afraid of something aren't you?"

"What..? No…"

"You are afraid of love aren't you?"

Shinji turned away for a moment as his right hand twitched a bit before he placed his left hand on his wrist to stop it, "No… That isn't true?" What, why was he asking it? Could he really not know himself?

"You are afraid of rejection are you not?" Kaworu smiled at Shinji a big and grand smile, "Well, I won't reject you."

Shinji gasped for a moment, "What are you saying?"

Kaworu smiled and fell onto Shinji, slowly whispering in his ear, "I am saying… I love you…"

Shinji turned red with Kaworu on top of him, "What… love?"

"Are you afraid?" Kaworu whispered in Shinji's ear, "Or will love come to you?"

Shinji tried to stand up, "I need to go to my synchronization test, see you later Kaworu!" He yelled as he ran off into the dark hallway before him.

"Could you really be in love with a lilium, Tarbiss?" A voice in Kaworu's head asked him.

"Love is love. It takes many forms." Kaworu replied, as he looked upwards towards the ceiling.

"This won't stop your mission will it?" asked the voice.

"No… Of course not sir…" Kaworu waited a moment and then under his breath muttered, "You call yourself a bringer of light, sir. But if you cannot even comprehend such a simple feeling as love, then it is you who is as foolish as the lilium."

"0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1, 0.0! Synchronization failed, Evangelion 001 has rejected the pilot." yelled someone from the NERV control room. Shinji heard these words inside of the Eva simulator. He was disappointed in himself; he failed to synchronize with the Eva… his Eva… his mother…

"Shinji, you are a useless child." Gendou, Shinji's father, told him through a microphone, "Pack up your possessions and leave."

"What?" asked the purple haired beauty, Misato, "Who will pilot Eva 001? Kaworu can't and Rei is…"

"Don't you ever talk about Rei like that!" Yelled Gendou but suddenly he calmed down, "That boy is useless, and therefore, we shall use the dummy plug."

"Commander-" muttered Misato before she was interrupted abruptly.

"And you are also forbidden from interaction with that boy Misato. It would be best for him if he forgets everything about NERV."

"How can you treat your own son like that?" Screamed Misato practically ready to pounce on Gendou, "You bastard!"

"I have no son…" said Gendou coolly as he left the NERV control room.

However Shinji has heard all of this and suddenly turned his head down as a tear rolled down his face, "Father…"

"My… my…" Spoke the blonde haired scientist, Ritsuko, "Factions have already devolved in NERV?"

Meanwhile, in an empty part of Tokyo-3, a certain red haired girl was sitting in a bathtub with a knife in her left hand which was leaning over the side of the tub, "I am worthless…" She tells herself, "I deserve to die… All I could do was pilot the Eva… and now the Eva is gone… I am worthless…" She picked up the knife but it slipped out of her hand and slashed her leg. She let out a yelp as the bath's water turned a pale red. She suddenly feels warmth in the water.

"This… blood… Is this… the same… as…? LCT fluid…?" She coughed up blood into her hand as her eyesight became blurry, the red water still crawling up her body. The water as red as an angel's blood.

"It is finally time." A nameless voice said, "The time as come for the end of days… Tarbiss do not let your master down."

"That's weird…" coughed Asuka, "I swear I heard… mother's voice…" And with that and a gust of wind, she fainted.