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Chapter 16
Flopping down on his bed, Shinji looked up at the ceiling. Losing him self as he replayed the days events in his head.
'Things today started off so normally…' Shinji thought to him self. 'But she's a goddess?'
Closing his eyes Shinji slowly drifted off to sleep… still with the events from earlier that day playing over and over.
Finding him self in his class room, Shinji automatically knew it was a dream.
"So Shinji what else have you found out about the Morisato sisters?" Toji asked.
"Yeah come on man tells us something!" Kensuke nearly shouted. "I mean I see them hanging out with Asuka and Ayanami all the time. You have to know something."
"Not really…. They have a brother." Shinji replied.
"What is he an older brother or younger?" Toji asked. "Damn it dude give us something!"
Shinji just shrugged his shoulders.
"He's got nothing…" Kensuke said with a sigh.
Shinji watched as his two friends both looked to the front of the class room then he looked over where the sisters sat. They where talking with Asuka, he wasn't too sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. But something was for sure, and that was they where talking about him. The three girls busted out in a fit of giggling then they all three glanced over at him. Making Shinji blush, they giggled even more.
"…. So anyways I go in to his room to get him up." Asuka said going on with her story. "You know Misato's cooking just sucks, so I go and get Shinji up. Well anyways I didn't want that crap."
"Okay…." Fiona said still not knowing where the red head was going with the story.
"Then what happened?" Anata asked getting in to the story.
"Well his blankets where at the foot of his bed, totally understandable. It was hot the night before, but the pervert had….." Asuka paused and blushed. "… well you know that thing that guys get in the morning? Well he had that!"
"What!" Fiona yelled. "I don't want to hear this!" Fiona then covered her ears.
"You made a… Sorry about the bad pun, but a big deal about that?" Anata asked.
"Well yeah, he lives with two women!" Asuka said back.
"Asuka look I'll let you in on something." Anata said making Asuka and Fiona lean in closer. "I've been dating Kou for about two years now and…." She paused and looked around the room to make sure that no one was listening in on them. "….. Sleeping with him for about a good half a year, and that's something that just can't be helped, it happens."
Asuka let out a gasp. "You two have….."
Anata smiled and nodded.
And so the school day went on like any other school day. The teacher went on about is normal rant about second impact, while the students sent instant messages back and fourth. Shinji sat there staring off in to space. He didn't know how long the message box was on his computer screen, but when he finally noticed it. He was quick to read it.
'Shinji are you still up for learning how to ride a bike today?' the message read.
He then glanced over at Anata who gave a small wave back at him.
'Sure, but wont I be getting in the way at your job?' Shinji typed back.
'Nah, I'm sure that it'd be okay with my boss.'
And again the day went on and lunch came around. And Shinji sat there at his desk picking away at his lunch. Then a shadow loomed over him. Looking up he found that Asuka was standing before him.
"So Shinji how are you feeling after this morning and your pervertedness?" She asked.
"Sorry it's something that's out of my control." Shinji said. "Besides why did you have to come in to my room anyways?"
"Did you want me to suffer through Misato's cooking?" She answered back with a question.
And it was true, Misato's cooking skills where what most could consider a form of child endangerment.
"No…."
"So how are you going to make it up to me?" Asuka asked.
Shinji knew right away how he was going to make things up to Asuka and maybe even get things started in the direction of a normal relationship… Well that is as normal as you can get when you're one of three pilots of a fifty foot tall robot.
"I'm working something out right now." Shinji said. "But I need a couple days to get everything set up."
"A couple days… Alright it'd better be good." Said Asuka then she walked away.
Hours later Shinji had met Anata in front of the school.
"So Shinji you ready?" She asked.
Shinji nodded. "I guess…"
And so Shinji and Anata walked to the shop that the goddess worked at. "So I hear that your father taught you about motorcycles?"
"Yeah he tough me how to take care of them and how to ride them." Anata replied. "But I'm just going to teach you the basics or riding."
Along the way and now Shinji still couldn't believe that he didn't catch on before. But on the way to the shop, He and Anata made stops along the way. One stop was to pet a letter of kittens that where sitting there in the grass with their mother. And to Shinji at the time thought nothing of it, maybe a girl thing. But after looking back on it seemed that Anata Morisato could understand what the kittens where saying…. And maybe the kittens could understand her too. Then they stopped so a group of school children could cross in front of them. She waved at them and they all waved back. Like they trusted and remembered her from some past life. Sure the two sisters that when you first meet them you get the feeling that you can trust them with your vary life, and that feeling only gets stronger as you know them more.
When they got to the shop that Misato takes her car when ever something goes wrong with it, Shinji was shocked to see that the place wasn't as big and fancy as he had thought it was. In matter of fact it was a privately owned place.
"It's pretty quite here…" Anata said to her self. "Uh Shinji there a cooler in the back that has drinks, if you want you can have something to drink. I just need to find out where my boss is at and find some safety gear."
"Okay…" Shinji replied then he went deeper in to the shop. As he did he found photos of what looked like Misato's car being rebuilt. Then there was a photo of a much younger Misato. Shinji examined the photo more closely to make sure if it was….
"There you are Shinji." Anata said making the boy jump. "Apparently my boss had to take a quick trip to some scrap yard over seas to make sure he get the parts he looking for, something about the paper work being all screwed up." Anata explained. "He said that I have the day off, but I'm still going to teach you how to ride."
Then Anata noticed the photo that Shinji was looking at. "Oh the photo? I asked about that too, but I really didn't get an answer. I really don't think that it's Miss. Misato though, she's not tall enough."
Hearing that little detail Shinji too a second look at the photo, and it was true; the woman in the photo was a bit shorted then Misato.
"Well anyways safety first… Here go in to the restroom and put these on." Anata said handing Shinji a change of cloths.
"What are these?" He asked.
"Oh those are to make sure that you don't get a nasty case of road rash if you crash." Anata replied.
Once in the restroom, Shinji went about changing in to the strange cloths. But for some reason the colors where just like those of his plug suit, he shrugged it off.
"Lucky guess I guess…." He said to him self.
When he was done he walked out to find Anata waiting for her turn. "Alright Shinji it looks go on you." She said with a thumbs up.
"Really?"
"Well yeah, I'd even venture to say that you might have been met to ware race gear…. Okay well give me a moment and I'll be ready." Anata said. "Now don't go peeking on me." She added with a smile then she disappeared in to the restroom.
As he waited Shinji took the chance to look around some more, and soon he found three motorcycles parked in the vary back. One was for sure a sports motorcycle but it looked like it was a work in progress and was missing its engine. The other two where dirt bikes from what he could tell.
"Oh I see that you found them already." Anata said again making the boy jump. But it went unnoticed by Anata. "The Ducati is waiting for her rebuilt engine, but the two Hondas where easy to fix and are ready for action."
"You fixed them on your own?" Shinji asked.
Anata nodded. "I learned all I know from my dad."
"I wish that I had that type of relationship with my father…." Shinji whispered to him self.
Hearing that from Shinji, Anata instantly picked up the sudden wave of sadness from Shinji. She smiled and looked at the boy to offer some type of comfort. "Look Shinji no matter what your father may do or say, I bet he really wants nothing but the best for you and he loves you vary much."
"I know….."
Anata still got the feeling that her words didn't help all that much and quickly went to change that subject. "Well anyways let's get on to teaching you so you can impress Asuka…. First we have the speed controls here on the right handle. You simply move it back to speed up and to slow down you let it go back to where it was while using the brake and this is the break, here is the clutch, and down here was have the shifter….."
After a good fifteen minute to a half hour of instruction, Anata felt that Shinji knew enough to at the vary least be able to ride around in the back in circles.
"Okay Shinji why don't you help me push this thing in to the back ally." Anata said as she grabbed one side of the bike.
"Sure." Shinji said and he grabbed the other side.
Once out side, Anata turned to Shinji and handed him a helmet. "Okay Shinji you are going to ride in a circle a couple times until you become comfortable enough then you're moving on to figure eights."
Shinji nodded then he got on to the bike and started it… With a little help from Anata. Then he took off driving in a tight circle like he was told.
Controlling the motorcycle was much harder then what Shinji had first thought. It took him a while to keep balance but after his first ten circles and several close calls he was finally getting a hang of it.
'Man I thought piloting Eva was hard…' Shinji thought to him self.
As Anata watched Shinji make his circles, the phone started to ring. So she reached around the corner of the door frame to pick up the cordless that was hanging there. "Hello, Tokyo-3's best damn body shop. This is Anata Morisato, how may I help you?"
"So how's the teaching job going?" Kou Asked from the other end of the phone.
"Kou! I thought you where were closing to day?" Anata said cheerfully.
"Well I was able to get out early." He replied. "So how is he doing?"
"Well he looks like he's mastered the complexities of driving in circles." Anata replied. "And just about to move on to figure eights."
"Well you are a good teacher; you should look in to training to be a teacher in the Heavens when we get back." Kou said.
"You're doing great Shinji keep it up!" Anata cheered. "No I really don't want to teach in the heavens but maybe oh earth… Yeah help young gods and goddesses get their Earth license."
Anata then watched as Shinji moved on to circles to figure eights. "He's doing figure eights now…"
"See you are a good teacher." Kou added.
"Well I don't think that it's just me behind this, I think that he really wants to impress Asuka so he's trying really hard." Anata stated.
"Well love can make a man break the bounds of his own limits." Kou said. "So when should I have dinner ready?"
"I don't know… Shoot for six, maybe six thirty." Anata replied.
"It will be ready for you when you get home." Kou said. "Talk to you later love you."
"Love you too Kou." Anata replied then hung up.
Hanging up the phone Anata looked back at Shinji and waved him to stop.
Stopping Shinji looked over at his 'teacher'. "Did I do something wrong?" He asked over the engine.
"No you did great, now I want you to drive back and forth to the ends of the ally, practicing how to Shift up and down. You have any questions?" Anata asked.
Shinji shook his head.
"Alright have at it."
Anata watched and waited for Shinji to stall the bike and sure enough it happened. But Shinji started the bike right back up and went at it again and again.
'I want to have Asuka see me…' Shinji thought as he fought with the bike.
It was about an hour later when Anata finally stopped Shinji. "Okay Shinji you think you have it down?"
"I think so." He replied.
"Good because we're taking the bikes out one the open streets." Anata replied.
"On the streets? But I'm not old enough." Shinji pointed out. "We can get in to some really big trouble."
"True but there are girls out there that like guys that take risks." Anata said. "And something tells me that Asuka is one of those girls."
She had him there. "Okay…."
"Good… Now let me get the other bike and I'll fallow behind you." Anata said as she went back in side.
Moments later she returned with the other dirt bike and a helmet for her self. Shinji watched as she got on to her bike and started it up. Anata nodded to him and he started his bike up and he was off with Anata fallowing him.
As they drove through the city, Shinji found that it was easier then he had first thought. The only thing was he really had to watch out for other drivers. But besides that everything was going really good. And with Shinji's confidence he started to go a little bit faster and faster. Anata fallowed as he drove out of the city and out to the same road that Misato took him to watch the city sky like grow from the ground.
Having had needed some place to stop for a break anyways Shinji stopped at that vary spot he and Misato stopped at.
"This is some view Shinji how did you know about it?" Anata asked.
"Misato showed this place to me." He replied. "I like the view…. It helps me forget about that pain that takes place in that city."
"You hate this place don't you?"
Shinji nodded.
"Don't Shinji… Believe it or not but everyone that lives in this city in front of us looks to you Asuka and Rei to keep it safe. You three are heroes." Anata said.
"I know that…." He said. "But how come I don't feel like one?"
"Shinji you know you're a hero in your mind, but you truly don't believe it in you heart." Anata stated. "Once you know that in your heart you'll feel much better about what you do."
"I once read that to truly break one's bounds they must break that bound to they're mind." Shinji thought out loud.
"Losing our minds will never have any good out come…." Anata whispered as she clinched down on the guard rail remembering her past battles with Natsuki. "…. No good will come of it."
"What?" Shinji asked thinking that she said something.
"What it was nothing just thinking to my self." Anata replied. "It's getting late we should get these things back to the shop."
The drive back down the mountain was going well, Shinji was felling that he could control the bike with no problems at all. But that was until he was taking a sharp turn and hit a patch of sand that was in the middle of the road. Feeling his bike slide, he looked up just in time to see the guard rail.
Behind him Anata only had a heart beat to react, closing her eyes she formed a force bubble around Shinji taking him off the bike just before it slammed in to the guard rail. Anata stopped her bike in a skid just short of Shinji then fell over on her side trying to catch her breath.
"Damn it that was close… I need to get that fixed…. SHINJI ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" Anata asked from the ground catching her breath.
Shinji didn't know what to think at first. One moment he was on the bike sliding to the guard rail then the next he was floating just inches from the ground. Things weren't making much since to him right now.
"What just happened?" Shinji asked him self then he turned around. "What happened?"
"Looks like you noticed… " Anata said still a bit out of breath. "Give me a moment."
Shinji stood there in the middle of the street waiting for a response.
"Well Asuka and Rei already know…." Anata said.
"Know what?" he asked again.
"Fiona and I are goddesses, Raziel and Kou are gods." Anata replied. "Somehow we where pulled from our own universe in to this one. And we're trying to get back home. And before you ask. No we are not those angle things you three fight."
"So you saved me from crashing?" Shinji asked.
Anata nodded. "Yeah but now I'm really weak… Shinji can you help me over to the side of the road?"
Shinji helped the goddess over to the bus stop that was on the side of the road. "What's wrong with you?" he asked.
"Since I'm half goddess and half mortal I have a limit to the amount to power I can use here in this universe. Back home I have a set of reactors in the heavens that keep me from getting this weak when I use low level magic. But here the connection isn't that good." Anata explained.
"Like the single strength to a cell phone?" Shinji asked.
"Yeah something like that." Anata replied.
There in the bus stop Shinji looked over and found a vending machine. "Would you like something to drink?"
"Sure…."
Returning with something to drink the two just sat there at the bus stop. Shinji's bike still lying under the guard rail and Anata's standing there in the middle of the street. "Good thing this road isn't used that mush." Shinji said. To break the silence. "Sorry about the bike."
"Its okay we all have our crashes…." Anata said. "Like in life we all crash but we have to get right back up to keep on going."
Waking back up in his room, Shinji looked over at the alarm clock. It was only three thirty. Rolling over on his side to look away from the burning red lights of the alarm clock.
'She is a friend and I will not let this bother me. Like how Toji and Kensuke don't just see me as an Eva pilot, I will not just see Anata, Fiona, Raziel and Kou as gods and goddesses. But friends.'
Then with that thought Shinji went back to sleep, then in the morning again there will be school, and another lesson on how to ride a motorcycle. The day will go on like any other.
But else where, deep in NERV. Gendo Ikari in front of a girl that looked just like Asuka but with black hair.
"Do you know where you are at?" Commander Ikari asked.
The girl shook her head no.
"You are at the strong hold of humanity, this is NERV headquarters." Gendo answered. "What is your name?"
The girl thought for a moment then her eyes flashed a faded red, unnoticed by Gendo. "Natsuki… "
"What is your reason for being in this world?" Gendo asked.
"To bring about it's end….. This is not my normal body…. What happened to my normal body and why do I have a body of another?"
"You have the body of the second child, we at this time do not know why….. Doctor, please make sure that Natsuki here has a full medical work up, cloths and quarters here at NERV."
Ritsuko shook her head. "Yes sir."
"And Doctor Akagi, Natsuki is to remain top secret." Gendo added then he left the room.
"Yes sir… Come on Natsuki." Ritsuko said as she placed a towel over Natsuki. "Let's see if I can find you some cloths."
Then Ritsuko lead Natsuki out of the lab….
T.B.C.