A/N: Yo Erkman here, I finally got my import Sega Saturn… Yeah I have a Saturn, big deal I also own one that was made here in the US. Well anyways I got an import Saturn so I can finally play Evangelion 2nd Impression. The game is cool. If anyone out there has a chance to get one do it. It's worth the money and time. So far today I've came across two endings. Both slightly different, but thus far I've ended up in the hospital. The game Evangelion 2nd Impression plays like an episode that takes place around episode 13 or 14… I'm not sure right off hand. It could have been at one time an idea for a real episode, because the animation on the cut sense are done beautifully. But the real hard part is trying to fight in your Eva, I'm sure that the controls are easy… easy if you know Japanese. But I'm writing everything and finding a place that can translated, but that's going to take some time. Well on to something else. I've gotten some rather harsh reviews. And I've only got this to say to those readers. If you don't like it don't read it. There was no need to rip me a new one like that, normally I wouldn't mind getting a bad review, but that was simply uncalled for…. Well with that out of the way, let's get on with the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything.

Chapter 6

After a long day of work Raziel walked back to the apartment, along the way he found that the city of Tokyo-3 gets hot even in the twilight hours. 'There's something about this city… I can't quite place it…' Raziel thought to him self. Stopping at a cross walk; he waited for the light to change. As he did he saw there was several people on the other side of the street.

Just on the other side of the street Shinji was standing there waiting for the light to change as well. 'Another day… Soon there where be an angel or some test.'

When the light changed, both boys started across the street, as they walked they happened to noticed the other. Then for both boys everything went in to slow motion. When they had passed the other, both Shinji and Raziel shook their heads. 'That was strange.' They thought at the same time.

At the apartment, Kou had long since returned home. Having given up job hunting for the day he decided that the apartment was still in need of cleaning. So finding a bucket and rag, Kou started to scrub the floor. For reasons beyond Kou, he's always found cleaning or some sort of chore gave him some quite time to think. Normally that time would be used to think out a problem with Anata he had to fix. Sure he was a god, but still a male, doomed to screw up as one from time to time. But now he needed this time to figure out a solution to the problem of being stuck in a universe that was not their own. This problem was doubled for Anata and Raziel, because of being ripped from their own universe.

Taking the rag Kou put it in the bucket and pulled it back out. Wringing it out he kept the rag twisted until almost all the water as out. 'Needing to get back to our own universe we're going to need vast amounts of energy, energy greater then what one god or goddess can produce… Well except for all four of Anata's reactors, but she dose not have a good connection to them nor do I want to put the strain on my love.' Kou thought to him self. 'So the problem still remains. Where do we find the energy needed to get us back to our own universes?'

Just then Anata and Fiona came in the apartment, prompting Kou to turn around to stop them before they walked on his clean floor. "STOP!" He yelled holding his arms in front of him. Making both sisters stop before walking all the way into the room.

"What?" Anata and Fiona asked in unison.

"Shoes and socks off." Kou answered, now back in his normal tone. "Clean floor."

The sisters looked down at the floor, to find it sparkling clean. "Kou this floor is as clean… cleaner then clean." Anata said. Then she thought about it some more. "Okay what happened. We both know your cleaning habits!"

Kou stood up and started to laugh nervously. "Well you see…. I didn't have that great of luck on finding a job, and we still need to figure out a way back." Kou laughed some more while scratching the back of his head.

"Well don't feel bad about not finding a job. I didn't have much luck my self." Anata said as she floated over to the bathroom. "I need to change out of this uniform."

"I got on." Fiona said excitedly. "I start first thing right after school; I'm a waitress over at this diner not to far from school."

"That's good to hear." Kou said. "I guess it's safe to assume that Raziel got a job today too…"

Looking over his shoulder just in time to see a soft glow coming from underneath the bathroom door, Kou looked back over at Fiona. "Has she to day?" He asked.

"She dozed off in class a couple of times." Fiona replied. "Why?"

"Hm… Just keep an eye on her. Remember she has a weak connection to her reactors, I don't want her over doing it." Kou whispered.

Fiona nodded at Kou getting the idea to keep it to her self. Moments later Anata came out of the bathroom and walked up to the door. "I'm going up on the roof for a while, someone come and get me in a little bit just incase I doze of while I'm up there."

"Anata are you feeling alright?" Kou asked.

Anata slipped on her shoes and looked up at Kou. "I… I just need some time to my self." She finally replied, and then she walked out of the apartment, making Fiona give her sister a questioning look. But Anata didn't catch it.

Walking to the stairs, Anata walked past Rei's apartment just as the girl was about to walk out of her own place. She watched Anata walk past her like she was in her own world.

Back in the apartment, Kou went back to cleaning as he listened to what Fiona had found out about this universe they're now living in.

"… The world is still recovering from this event called Second Impact, from what I read; it was caused by some type of meteor, causing something like half the Earths population to die by rather the initial blast of by the rising of the sea level. Then after that there was the starvation….." Fiona said, she was about to say more but Kou cut her off.

"But that doesn't make any since, an impact like that wouldn't kill that many people." Kou said looking up at Fiona.

"I know that's exactly what I thought… But that's the only reason I was able to find. So I moved on to the computer stuff." Fiona said excitedly and hopping of the kitchen counter top. Making Kou quickly stand up.

"Clean floor!" Kou yelled, pointing at the floor.

"Sorry!" Fiona cried, quickly hopping back on to the counter top.

"Anyways… What else did you find?" Kou asked.

"Well there is this agency called NERV that has control over the worlds strongest and fastest super computer. To be more precise three super computer. Their networked together and use some programming to come up with answers to just about everything they also manage this city." Fiona answered. "I have lot more info in my school bag if you want to read it."

"I'll read it later, thank you." Kou said.

"Umm… Kou can I ask you something?" Fiona nervously asked.

Looking up again Kou smiled. "You can ask me anything, you're Anata's sister… well sort of… yeah you're her sister."

"It's about Anata, all the way here she was acting strange, I just thought about now. Would know by any chance know what's bothering her?" Fiona asked.

Stopping his cleaning, Kou stood back up and sat on the kitchen counter top across from Fiona with a heavy sigh. "I think she just wants to go home…"

"No, its more along the lines of worry. See like our mom we can read emotion… and this was worry mixed in with some anxiety." Fiona quickly added.

"Did anything happen today?" Kou asked. "Anything out of the norm?"

Fiona placed a finger on her chin trying to recall anything. "She… She did think she heard something, but no one else heard it."

Hearing this Kou floated over to the door, landing on the floor. He then started to put on his shoes. "I'm going to the roof…"

Else where, Asuka and Shinji just so happened to run in to each other just outside the apartment. Asuka shot a glair at Shinji. "So where have you been?" She asked.

Shinji only held up a bag of what looked to be metal wires, Asuka quickly assumed it to be strings for Shinji's cello.

"I see… You know you should play at home more often…. It's your gift." Asuka said.

Shinji looked over at Asuka as they waited for the elevator to arrive at the ground floor. "You like to hear me play?" Shinji asked.

"I'll listen to a real pro play, but in a pinch you'll do." Asuka replied. "Have you ever thought about taking up something else?"

"Asuka I've always played the cello… I don't think that it's that easy to just pick up another instrument and start playing it." Shinji said in a tone.

Just before Asuka was about to say something about Shinji's tone, the elevator doors opened and the two teens walked in. the ride up to their floor was quite except for the hum of the elevator motors. Arriving at their floor, both teens jumped slightly when the doors dings as they opened.

They walked down to the apartment and found that the door was locked, that meant that Misato was at work. When they got in, Asuka just dropped her school bag at the door and went on to her room, Shinji just looked at the red heads things and picked them up then went about placing them in the closet near the door. When Asuka's and his things where put away Shinji went in to the kitchen where he saw that the answering machine had a message.

'It's probably Misato…' Shinji guessed to himself.

Pressing the button, Misato's voice came over the machine. "Hi guys it's me. I just wanted to tell you that I'm going to have a late night at work, so you two kids are on your own tonight… Don't do anything to crazy, bye!"

Shinji let out a heavy sigh… normally when Misato was working late meant it was going to be a long night for him, mainly because of Asuka.

"Shinji was that Misato on the answering machine?!" Asuka shouted as she walked from her room to the kitchen.

Turning around, Shinji found that Asuka was already standing there at the doorway to the kitchen. "She said that she was going to be working late." Shinji answered.

"Is that so…" Asuka said almost absent mindedly as she went over to the fridge and opening it looking for something.

'Say something! Say something! Say something!' Shinji mentally screamed. "A-Asuka…"

"Yes?"

"I… I was wondering I-if you wanted to dosinethingtonight?" Shinji said finally, but making himself say the last bit as quickly as he could.

It took Asuka a moment to take in what Shinji had just said to her. "Did… Did you just ask me out?" Asuka asked sounding a little bit confused.

"Damn it… I knew it was stupid of me to ask….." Shinji moaned, and started to walk out of the kitchen.

"What did you have in mind?" Asuka asked, making Shinji stop before he could leave.

"What?"

"I said what did you have in mind?" Asuka asked again.

"I was thinking maybe getting something to eat then…. Maybe a movie?" Shinji replied in a form of a question.

"Well get changed and show me that you know how to give a girl a good time." Asuka said, making Shinji rush out of the room.

Deep in the Geo Front, Misato sat going over the data from last night's battle. The data that was gathered from all three Evangelions was not the data they would gather when fighting an Angel. Then there was the damage that Unit-02 was dealt.

"Major Katsuragi report to Commander Ikari. Major Katsuragi report to Commander Ikari." The PA system announced.

"Great what did I do now…." Misato said to her self as she stood up from the desk she was working at.

Across town, Kou found Anata on the other side of the apartment complex roof looking out at the city; watching the setting sun. He walked up to her and tapped her on the shoulder making her looked over at him.

"Are you alright." Kou asked.

Anata gave him a look, a look of almost being annoyed then she looked back out at the city. "I already answered that. And I said I was fine."

"I know you said that you where fine, but I want to know for real." Kou said. "Now tell me… Anata I'm worried about you, Fiona is worried about you too."

Anata looked down over the railing. "I've been dizzy… light headed. I know I have a bad connection to my reactors… and there is something else."

"What is it?" Kou asked, pulling Anata close to him letting her know that it was okay to tell him.

"Natsuki… She's here." Anata said in a small voice.

"Anata Raziel dealt with her in our own universe… and you said on a message you sent to me that she was also dealt with her in that Empresses realm." Kou said. "She can not be here."

"But what about that shadow last night?" Anata asked, "They know about this place now… "

"Think about it Anata." Kou said making Anata turn to him. "The shadow thought needs to make her in their realm, they can't make her out side of that. And if they did we would know, we would feel that evil energy."

Anata looked at the ground. "I know but I heard her voice today.. I know I heard her."

Kou Smiled, he wanted to believe his love but he's known ever since he fight in the Shadow Realm Anata has had vivid flash backs and nightmares. "Maybe you just need to some time out and relax." Kou said. "Maybe we should check out this city of Tokyo-3?"

"Really like what?" Anata asked, sounding slightly better.

Kou shrugged his shoulders. "We'll make it up as we go."

Anata laughed. "I really do love you, you know that?"

"Yeah I know. Anata can I ask you something?"

"Sure, what is it?" Anata replied looking over at Kou as they walked back to the stairs.

"It's hot here… do you think you can cut my hair short again?" Kou asked. "It's starting to bother me again."

Anata giggled. "Sure, I can do that for you."

Back in the apartment Raziel walked in to the apartment. He quickly noticed the clean floor and Fiona sitting on the counter top reading some magazine. "Kou cleaned didn't he?" Raziel asked pointing at the floor.

Looking up from the magazine, Fiona gave him a questioning look. "How did you know?"

"I've been living with him for a couple of weeks you know." Raziel replied. "He's like your mom when he goes on a cleaning binge."

"… Yeah that's what Anata said…. Wait! What do you exactly do you mean by that?!" Fiona shouted, again jumping from the kitchen counter on to the clean floor.

"AHH!! The Floor!!" Raziel yelled pointing at the floor.

"CRAP!! SORRY!!"

Just as Fiona jumped back on the counter top, the door opened up. Fiona and Raziel looked over to see Anata and Kou standing there, both giving them a questioning look.

"We didn't do anything." Both Raziel and Fiona said in unison.

Kou looked over at the floor then back at the other two. "My floor… Did you do anything to it?" Kou asked with an almost scary tone.

Their eyes went wide. "No."

Kou quickly smiled. "Vary well… My self and Anata are going to see more of this city. So you two will be on your own."

"Yeah why don't you two check out some more of this city too. I mean it's a big city you know." Anata added.

Raziel yawned. "No… I think I'm going to stay here…. I had a long day."

Fiona then pulled out her backpack from school and pulled out the computer that was issued to her. "I have some things I want to read up on."

"Alright… We'll be back later. See ya." With that Anata and Kou was gone.

Raziel then stretched and yawned again. "Well I'm taking the bed this time…. Wake me if something cool happens…."

"You're just going to go to sleep?" Fiona asked, sounding a little annoyed by that fact.

"Yep using that bed over there." Raziel added.

Getting off the kitchen counter top, Fiona rushed over to Raziel. "I thought that we where going to let Anata and Kou have that bed for a couple of nights?"

"We did… I'm just going to use it for my nap…"

"Raziel!"

"Yeah… I'm sleeping now." Raziel said back as he got on the bed.

"Come on Raziel!"

"Raziel…ZZZ… Sleep…ZZZ… Now…..ZZZ…zzz…ZZZ…"

"That's not funny!"

Back at the Geo front, Dr. Akagi saw studying the peace of armor that came for Unit-02, looking at it through a microscope she was able to tell that the whole fragment of armor was completely to stone. Lifting her head up front the microscope to have a smoke break; searching for her cigarettes in her lab coat. Just as she found her pack Misato came in to the office.

"So what are you up to?" Misato asked offering her friend a cup of coffee.

"Looking at this sample of Unit-02's armor, you want to see?" Ritsuko replied taking the cup of coffee.

"Oh sure I'll take a peek." Said Misato as she looked in to the microscope. "Okay I'm looking at rock… I thought you said this was a peace of Unit-02's armor?"

"You are. It was changed to stone my something that has the same power as that cross we found in the forest." Ritsuko replied. "So what time you get off today?"

"I'm working the late shift. So I had to leave Shinji and Asuka home alone tonight." Misato said.

"Oh? So are they really like that… When Misato is away the children will play." Ritsuko said in a teasing tone.

"I don't think they're like that… At least I'm sure that they're not…." Misato said lifting her head from the microscope with a mental image of Asuka and Shinji doing all sorts of naughty things, but that was quickly replaced with an image of Asuka calling Shinji a pervert then smacking him.

"Yeah I'm pretty sure that their not like that." Misato said again this time sounding like she was convincing her self and not Ritsuko.

"Are you sure about that?" Ritsuko asked with a smile, trying to make her friend worry.

"Don't be like that! Damn it Ritsuko."

Across town, Shinji and Asuka sat at a diner waiting for their food. Shinji looked across the table at Asuka.

"What?" She asked just as she finished her drink.

"W-What… Sorry…" Shinji stuttered over his own words. 'Damn I was staring at her…..'

"So Shinji staring at me again?" Asuka asked, "I've noticed you looking at me all the time even as school." She teased.

"You've seen!?" Shinji asked back slightly scared.

"I just made that up! You where looking at me during class?!" Asuka said back.

"You did it to me again! Damn it Asuka!"

"I have to keep an eye open when living with a p….." Asuka was cut shut short of what she was going to say when she heard a voice from school. Looking past Shinji to see one of the new girls from school with some guy.

"Shinji look." Asuka said pointing behind him.

Turning around Shinji saw Anata with some guy.

"… Come on Kou it would be fun." Anata begged and pulled on Kou's arm. She then pointed at an arcade just across the street.

Shinji watched the two cross the street, then he looked back over at Asuka. "So… She has a boyfriend."

"Think about it idiot, some strange things are going on here." Asuka stated in a mater of fact tone.

"Like what?" Shinji asked more then a little unsure of Asuka's reasoning.

"First…" She holds up her index finger. "….You, Misato and Dr. Akagi find that strange cross thing in the forest." Then Asuka brings up a second finger. "Second NERV picks up strange power readings in that same forest that you guys find that cross." Then Asuka brings up a third finger. "Then today we get two new people in our school who has never heard of NERV before."

Shinji thought about it for a moment. "All good points but have you ever thought that maybe they are just normal kids like everyone else we go to school with."

"Okay then smart guy, then how do you explain the fact that they didn't know anything about second impact?" Asuka asked, making a vary good point. "Come on lets fallow them."

"B-But Asuka what about the food?!" Shinji asked, as he tried to get his coat on and fallow Asuka.

"Forget about it, just pay for it and have it delivered to Misato or something!" Asuka shouted as she made her way for the exit to the diner.

Shinji ran to the counter to pay for the meal.

The guy behind the counter looked at Shinji with a questioning look. "What about you two kids food?" the waiter asked, slightly more then a little confused.

"Here." Shinji said handing the guy the money for dinner. "Have it delivered to the NERV compound for Major Katsuragi. She'll eat it."

At the arcade, Kou was being dragged in to the building. "Anata…. I don't think we have the money to do things like this." Kou said as he looked over at the cost of some of the games.

"Oh come on Kou we can just use some of…." Before Anata could finish what she was about to say, Kou placed a finger on her lips.

"Don't even say it. No, we are trained to use our powers to bring happiness to others in need." Kou said. "Using our….abilities for such things is not right."

Anata looked down for a moment knowing that Kou was right. "I know…. But where here with out any help from the heavens, so who would know?"

"We would."

"Damn you're right…." Letting out a heavy sigh, Anata leaned against an old DDR game. The moment her hand had touched the machine, lights started to flash and the music started to play. Just at same time Asuka and Shinji came in to the arcade in time to see the machine come on as Anata touched it, making Asuka looked over at Shinji; who was standing vary close to her.

"See, I told you something was strange about her." Asuka said, and then she noticed how close she and Shinji was. "Shinji?"

"Yes?"

"You're to close to me."

"S-Sorry!" Shinji yelped and backed away from Asuka.

Asuka watched as Anata went through the music looking for a song to play, and then she came up with an idea. "I'm going to play her…."

"A-Asuka…." Said Shinji as he reached out to her but she was already on her way there.

Still going through the songs, Anata heard someone's voice from behind her. Turning around she found that it was Asuka.

"Why Hello… Anata is it?" Asuka asked in her tone that was heavy in an eastern European accent.

"Uh… yeah… Hi Asuka." Anata said sounding not to enthusiastic to see Asuka.

"Mind if a challenge you on a game?" Asuka asked with that little wicked grin she has when she has something planed.

"Wait Asuka I don't think that…."

"Shut your trap stooge!" Asuka yelled at Shinji then looked back over at Anata. "So shall we?"

"Okay." Anata replied. 'What's with this girl?'

Behind the two girls Shinji sat down at a bench where Kou just so happened to be sitting at too. The two looked over at each other, both gave the other a weak smile.

"Are… Are you Anata Morisato's boyfriend?" Shinji asked.

Kou nodded. "I'm Kou Morino, nice to meet you…."

"Shinji. Shinji Ikari."

"So are you with…."

"No…. We just live in the same apartment, go to the same school and we work together…" Shinji quickly replied.

"Oh…" Kou looked over at Anata and Asuka as they played DDR.

Everyone dance with me, everyone
(Get on the dance floor now!)

And this is your last chance for a dance tonight
(Aaaaaahhhhhhh, yeah!)

Ready, set, go - c'mon take a chance

Move away 'till forever, dance

There's plenty more, what we've got in store

But this jam don't start till we hit the floor

So c'mon everybody, from left to right

D2R is here, get your party hyped

If you want romance, forget this show

On the floor, party now, forevermore!

Everybody dance with me

Let the music move your feet
(c'mon c'mon c'mon)

Everybody dance with me

Dance with me
let the music move your feet for me

"Besides I don't think she seems me like that." Shinji added.

Kou looked over at Shinji; he could see that there was more to the boy that's sitting beside him. Something in his eyes that said that he's had so much hurt and pain in his life. Then yet there was a something else that he held out for, some form of hope. "If one knows where to look… then he can find the answers he's looking for."

C'mon, baby

Work that body

We're gonna dance, dance, dance

All dance, all night, ooohh right

I'm gonna come back
With a rhyming fit

Below the deck
Here's another hit

Quicker to the steps
As far as I can see

Let your body jack
'Till you feel the beat

All I wanna say is on the count of three

Put your hands in the air
where my eyes can see

9 to 5, bring it to the floor

So c'mon, make me run up and move!

Listen as the DJ plays

Jams to make you wanna sway

So c'mon baby, take my hand, make some plan

Feel that romance is here to stay

Throw your hands up in the air

Wave them like you haven't got a care

I want you to romance with me
dance with me,

Help the music set your body free

D2R!

When the music ended both girls got the exact same score, both mad about not beating the other they turned to the two guys behind them.

"We need money!" Both girls yelled.

"Shinji give me more money!" Asuka said holding her hand out in front of her.

"Kou I need to play again!" Anata said her hands resting on her hips.

"But I don't have that much……"

"Remember what we talked about……"

But what ever words both Shinji and Kou said in response to the demands of Asuka and Anata didn't work. They both let out a heavy sigh of defeat.

"Fine…."

Shinji pulled out what little moment he had left, and then Kou got up and walked over to Anata. "Don't over do it with your powers, and make it look like you're putting money in the machine too." He whispered.

Down in the Geo Front, Misato stood in the NERV complex lunch room. With a lunch tray in hand she stood there in line looking at the stuff they called food, it was nothing more then surplus army rations… pre-second impact surplus rations.

"Man this sucks….." Misato muttered to herself, just about the same time as Commander Ikari came in to the same line. "Commander? What a surprise… Umm working late tonight sir?"

"Delivery for a Major Katsuragi?" a delivery man said from the entrance to the lunch room.

Misato walked over to the delivery man slightly confused. "I didn't order anything…"

"No some kid with a redhead got it for you. It's all paid for, here you go." The delivery man said handing the food to Misato.

Looking in to the box, Misato quickly closed it, just to slowly open it again. Taking in the smell, a smell that made the commander even hungrier. "What's this… mashed potatoes… corn…. And meat loaf… Thank you Shinji, and there is one more thing that will make this perfect…."

Just then the delivery man came back, "I almost forgot, here." The delivery man reached in to a bag and pulled out a nice cold can of beer.

The commander walked over and looked in to the box, he too took in a deep breath. "Major, would you mind if I joined you?" The commander asked as his mouth watered at the sight of the food she had delivered to her from Shinji.

"Ha.. Ha… I would really love to stick around and eat with you sir but I have paper work to do." Misato nervously laughed as she backed away from the elder Ikari. "You know our work is never done…. Bye."

When Misato was gone, the commander let out a mental sigh. "I really hate the food here…" he said to himself. 'To bad Ritsuko can't cook…'

At a remote apartment not to far from her work, Ritsuko Akagi quickly moved her head away from the meal she was making for her self and sneezed. "It's not often I get to do this, but cooking is so much like chemistry. Mixing compounds in the right proportions to get a desired product." She said to her self as she measured out something in a measuring cup. "It's almost therapeutic…."

But in the forest the stone mass, cracked slightly then was fallowed by an evil laugh. "Soon sister… I will open a gate to this world, to replace the one you took from me and my people…."

T.B.C.