Sins and Retributions

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Gluttony

Shinji woke with a bad feeling, as if something would go wrong today. He checked on Asuka's still sleeping form, and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee.

Asuka stirred in her room and slid open her door, rubbing her eyes, "Morning. My back feels great."

Shinji smiled, "Glad to have been of service."

She nodded, and her eyes lit up as she thought of something to do, and said, "Hey, let's go to the park."

Shinji donned a face of confusion, "Why?"

Asuka's eyes mirrored fire, "Because we can. Don't you want to go?"

Shinji shrugged and said, "That's fine, I was just curious. Are you hungry?"

Asuka nodded and said, "I'm gonna check on Misato. Hope she isn't too plastered." Asuka walked into their guardian's room and saw that Misato was asleep on the floor, two feet from her bed. She prodded the purple haired woman with her toe, the Sub-Commander of NERV responded by rolling over and her eyes flickered open. Asuka spoke to the still drunken Misato, "Shinji and I are gonna go to the park. Okay?"

Misato smiled strangely and said in a slurred speech, "Tha sfine. Imago backt tasleep now, g'night."

Asuka prodded the lady again and said, "You do know its morning, right, and you have to be at work in an hour?"

Misato sat up like a zombie, and her eyes blinked in the light, "Shit, I wasn't plannin' on gettin' smashed las' night."

Asuka sighed and walked away, "She never learns, does she?"

(-----)

Shinji and Asuka walked through the park, hand in hand, taking in the beauty of the nature around them. Shinji hadn't said a word since they had left the house, and Asuka was getting worried. "Shinji. What's wrong?"

He shook his head, "Nothing… Don't worry about it."

She stared hard at the boy and said, "Don't try and pull that shit on me. Now tell me what's on your mind!"

He stared back and attempted a fake smile, "Really, it's nothing. Don't worry about it." No sooner had Shinji said those words than the sirens blared, the first angel to attack in months was coming to Tokyo III. Its massive form appeared over the mountains, this angel looked akin to the Eva, though it was morbidly obese. Its face could be seen, along with its facial expressions hanging on its mouth from its chubby cheeks. This monster labeled the 18th angel, sprinted towards the park, almost as if it knew the two pilots were there.

The angel's face was livid with rage, and it leaped high into the air and pulled its fist back behind its head. If they weren't in danger, Asuka may have found the event hilarious, for this behemoth was leaping through the air, fat jiggling endlessly, but this was no laughing matter.

Countless things were running through Shinji's head, but his most clear thought was this, 'I won't let you kill Asuka. Even if I die, you will not kill her.'

At the NERV control center, Dr. Akagi screamed in terror, "They'll die!"

Shinji screamed in the loudest voice he could, "YOU WILL NOT HARM HER!" A yellow aura surrounded Shinji and enveloped the surrounding area.

Maya Ibuki shouted aloud, "Oh my God, this is the biggest AT Field we've ever seen. It isn't from the angel, and there aren't any Eva units launched yet… How is this possible! It's coming from Shinji!"

The angel's hand was stopped yards away from the pair of pilots, and was slowly getting pushed back. "MOTHER! HELP US!" the Third Child screamed, maintaining the peak volume of his voice.

Eva Unit 01 activated and launched from the catapult, though there was no pilot in the entry plug. The brown haired assistant to Dr. Akagi cried, "Unit 01 is launching. No pilot is detected within it."

The purple giant started running, and steadily increased its pace, and it had reached the park within fifteen seconds. Unit 01 grabbed a hold of the angel and threw it back over the hills. The feat was amazing, for the angel easily outweighed the Evangelion, yet it was tossed aside like a simple piece of grass.

The entry plug was ejected, and Shinji pulled a dazed Asuka inside, covering the two in LCL. Shinji's synch ratio jumped to 150 and he bounded towards the angel sprawled over the hills. He reached for its arm and savagely tore it off of the angel's large body. It screeched in pain its grotesque face was contorted with pain, but Shinji didn't stop there. He slashed open the torso of the angel with his claws, and seized the core. With one vicious pull, the purple monster held the core above the angel, and plunged its free hand into the still thrashing angel's head, spilling its brains.

Shinji was shaking with rage, and he didn't know why. His mind was a blur, but the only thing that made sense to him was the need to protect Asuka. The last angel she had fought had raped the girls mind, even the last battle she fought mortally wounded her… and Shinji didn't want to put her through that again.

He opened an intercom channel with Ritsuko, and spoke with a barely controlled tone, "Doctor Akagi… I have a core for you to study." Seconds after he said these words, he slumped over his controls.

Asuka slightly shook him, a look of fear spreading over her face, "Shinji…? Shinji! Shinji, quit fooling around! Dummkopf, this isn't funny, wake up!"

(-----)

Shinji remained in the infirmary for days. The last fight had drained him of energy, so he collapsed as he exited the Eva. Asuka stayed by his bed as long as she was allowed to. The others visited frequently, but Asuka was the only permanent visitor. She was resting her head on his shoulder as he blinked awake.

He slowly sat up and immediately said, "Asuka, are you okay?"

She was stunned for a minute then broke into tears, "Shinji, you idiot! Who cares about me? You're the one in the hospital. How are you feeling?"

Shinji looked into her eyes and said, "I care about you. I feel fine now, honest. It was just a weird feeling using an AT Field outside of the Eva."

Asuka looked back into the deep pools of water that were his eyes, "Shinji… Before you used the AT Field you screamed, 'You will not harm her…' What was that about?"

Shinji was turning red, "I… I remembered your last encounter with an angel. I didn't want you to be hurt. All I want is for you to be happy. I'd guess that my emotions triggered the AT Field outside the Eva."

She stared back, "Is that true…? Did you fight for me?"

He was turning crimson, and he nodded. Ritsuko Akagi walked into the room and said, "Shinji, I need you to come with me." He gave a look in Asuka's direction, and Ritsuko nodded slightly.

(-----)

Shinji sat on the examination table, and Ritsuko stood in front of the boy, with Asuka at her side. Ritsuko curtly said, "Shinji, shirt."

Obediently, the boy removed his shirt. Asuka slightly blushed at the sight of Shinji without a shirt. She took in every detail. Where he used to be scrawny, the boy was bulking up, and becoming a man. Shinji lied down on the table and Dr. Akagi began prodding and probing his body and reactions.

Next she ran a computer test to view his insides, to make sure everything was in order. Dr. Akagi wrote something down on her clipboard and said, "There is nothing wrong, you were just exhausted after the battle. Since we're here, Asuka, why don't you go next? I've been meaning to get a physical on all the pilots."

Asuka nodded and Shinji's face began to redden with the thoughts of what he'd see, but Dr. Akagi ushered him out, despite his arguments. "She's a girl, Shinji. You know the rules."

Shinji walked out and Asuka smiled faintly, "He's still the same pervert I thought he was."

Ritsuko replied, "Shirt. Yeah he has changed a lot though. He can express his feelings more openly, at least with you."

The younger girl complied and her bare nipples hardened in the cool air. Dr. Akagi ran all the same tests on Asuka as she did with Shinji. When she was finished, Asuka redressed and walked out the door, to find a quiet Shinji sitting in the waiting room.

He stood when she entered the room, and she playfully hit him, "Trying to stay in the examination room, huh?"

Shinji tried his best to hide his embarrassment, but he stuttered, "U-Um… Eh, well, I uh…"

The German touched her finger to the boy's lips and said, "Trying to explain would only get me pissed, especially when you're stuttering like that."

(-----)

Shinji and Asuka once again found themselves sitting on the couch staring at the television. Shinji just sat, dreading what the next day would bring: high school.

Asuka yawned and stood, stretching her legs. The slender redhead had captivated Shinji since they had met on the UN battleship Over the Rainbow. She exuded a confidence that Shinji had never felt in himself or anyone else, and the only thing that was clear to the young man was his love for her.

She noticed his gaze and said, "What? Thinking perverted thoughts again, Dummkopf?"

He shook his head and sighed, "No Ma'am."

She looked Shinji and murmured under her breath, "Such a dull little boy."

She sat back down after retrieving a drink from the refrigerator. Shinji was still looking at her, it unnerved the girl slightly, but she couldn't think of any form of insult to hurl at him. He moved closer to her, and her heart fluttered, as she thought, 'He's going to make the first move! He has grown something for a spine.'

Shinji closed in on her, but it was Asuka that closed the last few centimeters that locked their lips together. The two clumsily kissed at first, then, Shinji slowly slid his tongue into Asuka's mouth. The astonished girl fought his tongue in a furious duel. Both the pilots had reached a feeling of rapture, and the two continued, not wishing to let go of the other.

Misato burst through the front door, screaming, "I'm HOOOOOOME!"

She looked at the spot where Asuka and Shinji were sitting, as soon as she had started to unlock the front door, the boy and girl had pretended to be asleep on the couch. She knew that they weren't asleep, so she picked up the phone and pretended to dial Kaji's number, she spoke, "Hey Kaji! Wanna come over? I got an itch I think you can scratch."

A furious Asuka stood and said, "THAT IS COMPLETELY DISGUSTING!"

Shinji, oblivious to the hidden meaning, spoke after Asuka, "Where's the itch, I might be able to help."

Misato purred and hugged Shinji, "See, I guess Shinji prefers older women."

Shinji was puzzled and said, "Huh? What are you… talking about?"

Asuka was blushing and fuming at the same time, "DUMMKOPF! SHE MEANS SEX!"

Immediately, it dawned on Shinji. He jumped out of Misato's arms and hid behind Asuka. Misato laughed uproariously, and Shinji was breathing hard, "MISATO! You're my guardian!" Asuka was thankful that he at least had the decency to scold Misato for her sordid joking. Misato was unaware that her phone was on, and it did reach Kaji's ears… the whole conversation.

(-----)

Kaji knocked on the door and said, "Katsuragi!"

Misato opened the door and scowled, "What do you want?"

He smiled fiendishly, "I got your message. I'd be happy to help you with that itch of yours."

He winked, and Misato turned a deep red, "T-T-That call wasn't supposed to get through to you."

He shrugged and said, "I see that you're still after the younger ones… but Shinji?"

Misato's eyes widened and she said, "YOU ASSHOLE! IT WAS A JOKE!" She paused, ran her finger on his chest and spoke in a sultry voice, "I was going to let you come in, but now…"

Immediately Kaji quit laughing, he stepped forward, but was greeted by a door. He smacked his head against the door and sighed, "It was at least worth a try. There's always next time Katsuragi."

Misato leaned against the door, she though to herself, 'I still push him away… He's just like my father.'

Shinji and Asuka watched the spectacle with morbid interest. Shinji eventually headed to bed, tomorrow would bring a new year of school.

(-----)

The pilot of Unit 01 woke up an hour before what was necessary, and he set about making lunch and breakfast simultaneously. He packed both his and Asuka's lunches, and packed the two pilots' school bags. Asuka usually liked to wake up, shower, eat, then leave, so Shinji had to get up earlier to let her do her standard practice. Shinji jumped in the shower quickly, bathing in his normal ten minutes flat. He got out of the shower and started to dry himself in the bathroom.

Asuka slid the door open and her face became scarlet, as the naked sight of Shinji greeted her. As quickly as he could, the boy covered himself. Constantly apologizing, he ran back to his room, burning red.

Asuka stood in the bathroom confused at the events that just took place, and she thought, 'What the hell just happened?'

Shinji dressed as quickly as he could and waited in the kitchen, trying to figure out how to apologize again. She entered the kitchen a half hour later, and Shinji sputtered another request for forgiveness, "I-I-I'm s-sorry Asuka."

She just shrugged and said, "Nah, that one was actually my fault… the only time."

Shinji let his breath escape in a sigh of relief, "At least you're not angry. I guess this makes us even."

Asuka's eyes instantly narrowed, "What are you saying…?" Shinji slightly leaned towards his stuff, with a quick flash of movement he dove for his school supplies, and scurried to the door, followed by a cursing German redhead.

As he was opening the door, she pinned him against the wall, and demanded, "You're going to answer my questions. Got it!"

Shinji could do nothing but concur, lest he be on the receiving end of her fury.

"When did you even the score!" she asked adamantly.

Shinji bleakly smiled, "You left your door halfway open after your shower yesterday. I saw a little bit when I walked into the kitchen to cook dinner."

Her face darkened, "If you want to see me, just ask, okay, Third Child?"

He blushed, "R-Really?"

The redheaded German shrieked, "VERDAMMEN SIE! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE A GENTLEMAN! DUMMKOPF!"

He slid to the ground in an attempt to escape the girl's rage, but he instead caught a flash under her skirt, and a foot to the stomach. "NICE TRY, PERVERT!" she screamed, she stalked off and got her things together.

She helped Shinji stand after she was packed, "Now… Let's just forget about this little 'incident,' shall we?"

Shinji mumbled, "Can anyone say Over-reaction?"

Thankfully, the girl was humming too loudly to hear his remark, because if she had heard it, the police would have to tape off the apartment and send him to the Coroner's Office. The Second Child gripped his hand, and walked out of the apartment building, smiling happily with Shinji at her side.

High School

Her demeanor had changed a lot since the morning. Asuka was calm and actually pleasant to be around. When the couple walked into the classroom holding hands, every boy, except his friends, immediately shot Shinji dirty looks. The girls of the class were surprised by this development, because the redhead showed little interest in boys, and even less in Shinji.

Toji shouted as loud as he could, "So! It's the Newlyweds!"

Asuka shot daggers from her eyes straight into Toji, but he laughed even harder. She stepped towards the laughing boy, but Hikari beat her to the punch. She had his ear in her vice-like grip, twisting and tweaking. "SUZUHARA!" she roared, "APOLOGIZE!"

Toji grumbled a brief apology, but tacked on a snide remark about the Red Devil.

Hikari screamed, "SUZUHARA! YOU JUST LANDED A MONTH OF CLEAN UP DUTY!"

The boy with a prosthetic leg immediately shut his mouth, but Kensuke laughed and said, "Tough break, I'll have to tape this!"

Hikari wheeled on the boy in glasses, snatched his ever-present camera, and shouted, "You can tape it while you're helping him! There's a month for you too, Mr. Aida!"

Toji stared at the ground and muttered, "Shit!"

Hikari glared at the boy and said, "Are you trying to land another month?" The boy in his tracksuit shook his head, and the Class Rep screamed, "Then clean up that foul mouth of yours!"

Asuka took a step back, surprised at her best friend's actions, but ran into Shinji, and she tumbled towards the floor. As she was about to crack her skull, the young Eva pilot made a miraculous save, preventing the girl from loosing her brain to the floor.

The girl looked into Shinji's eyes, corrected herself, and kissed the boy lightly on the lips. "Thanks, Third," she murmured into his ear.

The whole class was amazed, three impossible things happened, Hikari became as ruthless as Asuka, Asuka and Shinji were dating, and she actually kissed him in the classroom.

Asuka looked around the classroom at the astonished teenagers, and screamed, "WHAT THE HELL D'YOU WANT!" Everyone went back to their work, fearing the foreign girl's wrath.

Shinji took up Rei's way of spending class, except he wasn't watching the window. The boy was watching a frustrated German girl attempting to read the questions in her textbook. She cursed the textbook in a myriad of dialects. The classmates in her immediate vicinity shuddered at her blazing wrath, despite the fact that it was aimed at the textbook, and not them. Shinji simply smiled, yet the girl continued.

Their boring old teacher simply continued the exact same lecture that he had started from last year, about the Second Impact. Rei still stared out the portal to the outside world, and Toji simply laid his head down and went to sleep. Kensuke Aida had different plans. He was working with photos from a memory chip, a gift from the Sub-Commander of NERV.

Though he worked feverishly on his computer, nobody noticed, for this was the way that Kensuke acted quiet frequently. Even as he leapt from his seat shouting, everyone ignored him, except Hikari that is.

She exploded, "Sit down or I'll add another month!"

The boy sat down in his seat, his outburst was due to the fact that he had finally accomplished what he set out to do, and he sent a copy of the final product to the Sub-Commander of NERV.

(-----)

Misato stood from her desk and screamed, "HELL YES!" Opening an intercom channel, Misato screeched into the receiver, "Dr. Ritsuko Akagi! Report to the Sub-Commander's office! Immediately!"

Ritsuko looked up from her paperwork and sighed, "What does she want now?"

The blonde haired doctor stood in front of Misato's desk, tapping her foot impatiently. Misato cheerily looked at Ritsuko, but the woman glared, "What was so important?"

Misato waved to a chair and said, "You'll need a seat for this one."

As the doctor sat down, a slide show started on a projector on the wall. Every picture taken of Shinji and Asuka were arranged and presented in a slide show. Ranging in order from least to most intimate, the finale was not something to miss. Ritsuko stared in amazement as she stared at the screen, jaw dropping.

Her brow furrowed, "Is that Shinji… is that ASUKA!"

Misato nodded furiously, and laughed wickedly, "I have the ultimate blackmail, now I won't even have fetch my own beer."

Ritsuko still looked on in a horrifyingly intrigued manner, her jaw dropping even further at some of the pictures. The blonde doctor stated, "You'll end up a fatty if you don't even walk around."

Misato was laughing, but stopped, "Damn, I didn't think of that one. But I still can't wait to see their faces when I show them this!"

(-----)

Shinji sat on the hill near the school, gazing at the clouds. He hadn't even touched his lunch, the boy just wasn't hungry. Asuka had finished her lunch back at the school, and Shinji had wandered off. He knew that he wasn't alone, NERV intelligence was keeping an eye on him, as their jobs commanded. But it didn't matter to Shinji, all that mattered was that he was in the crisp, clean air.

A redheaded girl sprinted up the hill at full speed, diving on the Third Child. The two rolled around for a short period, but the two finally settled on the hill, Asuka on top of Shinji. The boy was blushing, because her face was so close to his… her angelic face was almost touching his own.

She gazed into the boy's eyes, loosing herself in the never-ending azure pools. The two slowly moved their heads together, but the intelligence agent was fed up with this behavior, and moved into the view of the children. Mr. Ikari, Miss Sohryu, I believe that class is about to start again."

The redhead just shrugged then asked, "Just who the hell're you?"

The man in sunglasses just gruffly said, "NERV Intelligence."

Shinji stood and took Asuka's hand in his own, and helped her to stand. She cursed, "Damn them! So annoying." Shinji meekly nodded and smiled.

Hand in hand, the pair walked towards the monotonous school that would hold them prisoner for the rest of the year.

(-----)

Asuka sat in her chair slumping slightly, but recoiled when a message flashed on her screen. It was from Shinji.

The girl opened it and read its contents, it read, 'Uh, Asuka, what should I do about the other guys? I've received, if I remember right, seventy eight and a half death threats.'

The redhead smiled, and sent him back a message, 'You'll just have to fight them, or best them at something, and how can you get half a death threat?'

After seconds of waiting, her screen beeped again, 'If I must fight, I will… but I wish I could avoid it. And some guy said that he'd flog me mercilessly until I screamed that I hated you. Quite interesting choice, don't you think?'

Asuka furiously typed, 'Those shit-heads! You could easily beat them up, you're the Invincible Shinji! I just thought of an idea to get them off your back, all I have to do is be a bitch to them!' The maliciously laughing Asuka didn't notice the stares that were directed towards her.

Shinji sighed and sent back another message, 'I even got a joke threat from Toji! But anyway, these guys are way to spineless to actually fight me, but I guess I don't really have room to talk, do I?'

Asuka smiled inwardly, as she thought of Shinji's spinal growth, he had cultivated a backbone in the few months after the Third Impact.

Kaworu Nagisa sat at his desk looking at a computer with bewilderment. "I never was too good with new technology. How do you work this contraption?" the former angel whispered.

Though he spoke softly, Rei could still hear him, and she reached over gingerly and said, "Allow me to be of service, Pilot Nagisa."

The blue haired girl turned on the machine, and Kaworu smiled genuinely, "T-Thank you Miss Ayanami."

She blushed faintly, and dismissed it, "It was of no consequence."

Kaworu's brow furrowed, though nobody noticed, he thought, 'How is it that I am so easily able to converse with everyone… except Miss Ayanami. She makes me falter somewhat.' His mind repeated the thought constantly, and he resolved to ask Shinji and Asuka about his feelings.

Toji reclined in his seat, moping over the fact that he had already gained a month of cleanup duty after one day. He ran himself through various scenarios of how the day could pass… each one had him going straight home after school.

Glancing at Kensuke, Toji knew that it didn't matter to him, for staying after school did nothing to faze the boy.

Kaworu simply sat there, attempting to figure out how to use his laptop.

Asuka was furiously typing, as was Shinji, Toji thought that the two must be talking, and laughed about the joke threat he had sent, 'I'll save you buddy. But the only way to do that is to kill you before the Red Devil gets to it.'

Hikari was listening, taking notes, and writing a list of people that were screwing around, all at the same time.

Ayanami did the usual thing: stare out the window, except he could have sworn that the young girl would steal an occasional look at the mysterious boy dubbed Kaworu.

Toji's thoughts drifted to the boy, 'Just who the hell is he?' The jock shook his head and changed his thoughts to Hikari, even though she was a conservative girl, Toji still could always think of her.

(-----)

Pen-Pen sat at home, with a squawk of puzzlement on his barely readable face. He shook his head, grabbed a beer, and started to dial Misato Katsuragi's phone number.

(-----)

The purple haired woman sat in a position like Gendo Ikari. If anyone cared to listen carefully, they could hear snoring coming from the motionless female. Her phone rang, and she picked it up after the twentieth ring, "Sub-Commander Katsuragi here, speak."

A weird screeching emitted from the phone, and Misato gasped in horror, because she had forgotten to leave Pen-Pen's food out for him. Anyone not familiar with the bird would have found it odd that Misato was getting chewed out by a penguin that doesn't even speak any form of real language, only his simple squealing. Misato stood up from her desk, and walked out to her car.

Pen-Pen wasn't too happy with the Sub-Commander of NERV right now, but she had promised to make it up to him. Her car roared to life and sped out of the underground parking lot straight to the elevator.

(-----)

Asuka crossed her arms and smiled viciously, "Why don't you run along? Now, leave me and Shinji alone!"

She craned her neck to glance at the young man, he had grown bigger and more muscular, and had managed to fight off three guys on his own. Asuka draped an arm over the boy and said, "See, nobody will bother us now. You did some major ass kicking today, for you at least… that surprised me."

The German girl planted a soft kiss on his lips, and started to walk out of the school yard.

He ran to catch up with her and said, "I think that I might start to work out or something…"

Asuka giggled, in her mind she saw the boy, barely taller than her, bulking up and being massive.

He sputtered, "W-W-What's so funny?"

Asuka just smiled, "I can't see you being a lifter."

He immediately blushed, seeing Asuka's mental picture form in his own head. "I don't mean power lifting or anything… maybe jogging or something like that."

Asuka looked into the teenager's eyes and beamed, "You'd make a great runner… all you need to do for training is piss me off!"

Shinji knew that the running would be the training, but escaping Asuka's wrath would be a whole different story.

She continued to smile and they walked towards Misato's apartment, talking jovially.

(-----)

Kaworu walked in silence towards his shabby-looking quarters. The inside was a whole different story. After days of painstaking scouring, he had created a work of art. Perfectly cleaned and kept, his house had only one cluttered space: the former angel's desk.

It was covered with transcripts of all sorts, biblical writings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, even apocryphal writings. A crucifix the size of the youth's head was hung on the wall, looking down upon Kaworu. As he knelt to pray to the Lord, his cellular phone rang, NERV was under attack.

He said quickly, "In Nomine Patris, et Fili, et Sanctus Spiritus (In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.)" His crimson eyes darted about, and he strode out the door.

(-----)

Gendo sat behind his desk as Misato gave the briefing to the Eva pilots. Misato spoke up, "The Second Sin is on the way. We need to mobilize and destroy this angel before too much damage can be incurred."

Asuka's brow furrowed, "Sins? What do you mean?"

As Misato started to speak, Shinji cut her off, "The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony, Avarice, Sloth, Lust, Wrath, Envy, and Pride."

Asuka's face was clouded over, "How the hell do you know that?" He cheerily replied, "I took a course on Catholicism. It was interesting to say the least. I learned all about the Seven Deadly Sins, the Angels, and Christ. Though I've never attended a Catholic Mass, I've read about them."

Asuka smirked, "I haven't been to church in eight years."

Misato stopped their bantering, "Look the next one is Avarice, so watch out for it. We aren't sure what the Sins are capable of quite yet."

Shinji nodded and let his eyes caress Asuka and her body, garbed in the tight fitting red plug suit. The other pilots began to walk toward the cages, but Shinji remained, staring.

Gendo finally spoke from where he was sitting, "Pilot Ikari! Staring at Ms. Sohryu's figure doesn't seem like a prudent choice at a time like this."

With a slight jolt, the boy hurried towards his fellow pilots. Misato said out loud, directed to nobody in particular, "He still can't help but looking at her."

Gendo smiled coldly, for that was the only way he could smile, and thought, 'He has grown some… He even has taken a liking to the opposite sex.'

Alright, you've already met one of the Seven Deadly Sins. I tried to explain why they were attacking. Its so old to say that the original 17 were just one choir, so I figured I'd try something unique (I think its unique).

Outtakes

Gendo finally spoke from where he was sitting, "Pilot Ikari! Staring at Ms. Sohryu's figure doesn't seem like a prudent choice at a time like this."

With a slight jolt, the boy hurried towards his fellow pilots. Misato said out loud, directed to nobody in particular, "He still can't help but looking at her."

Gendo busted out laughing like a maniac, and shouted, "THANK GOD! I THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE GAY WITH THAT KAWORU KID!"