Chapter 4

Grant Me the Benefits: part 2

Asuka stood in the shower listening to what she deemed a hysterical Misato. The water washed away at the feeling of the day. Misato washed the redhead's back with her rag before speaking in a calm tone.

"Why did you do that?" she asked.

"He wouldn't stop complaining about how cold he was." she lied and Misato knew it. Shinji does not complain especial this Shinji.

"How long are you going to lie to me?"

"How long are you going to mind my business?"

"I am not Kaji I am not going to put up with your qualms. I saw that look last night. I know that look it. It the look of a woman that loves a man that doesn't love her." Asuka wheeled around with tears in her eyes and clung to her. Within seconds, her blouse was dripping wet from the tears and showerhead. Misato did her best to comfort the girl.

"Shinji is special." Misato thought as she patted the girl on the back, "He can cool the volcano that is Asuka. Maybe he could melt the ice princess." Misato jumped when she heard the door slam.

"Shinji is heading to school with out me."

"No, he is going to meet with some Nerv operatives."

"Good because I going to smash the doll." she thought.

Shinji stood outside Kaji's apartment and knocked twice. A red dot appeared on his forehead.

"I am getting real sick on being shot in the same fucking spot." he roared as the bullet pierced his skull. If not for the railing, he would have fallen down seven stories. The apartment door opened and Kaji dragged what he assumed was the lifeless body of Shinji into his apartment. When Shinji decided to become coherent, he found that Kaji and Rei shared similar taste in many things. Kaji threw him a towel.

"I suspect you are here on order of Ikari, correct?" he asked downing a can of peaches.

"Yeah. I don't think like not being able to showcase my special talents to the world."

"Misato is still hot? I guess you are the only one that can help me?" Shinji walked over and punched the slightly taller man in the jaw; Kaji flew across his apartment before stopping. "Next time you shoot me Kaji make sure you ask. Because that is getting rather annoying."

"Point taken." he rubbed his jaw, "I can't wait to see your powers in action."

"What do you require of me?"

"A disk was stolen from master computer at Seele headquarters. The operative was killed but not before, she was able to hide the disk. We need the disk because of the reference it makes to the Archangel Formation and the Baptismal Procedure." Shinji's eyes widen as he thought about the things that information represented. He smiled to himself.

"I will have my revenge on you." he whispered. As he stood, Kaji looked at him. "You are Gendo's child" Kaji thought.

"Lets us begin at once."

"Yes…Kaji let us."

Asuka walked slowly to school this was earliest she ever left. There was no way in hell had this been a normal day she would have left this early. No this was battling day. Misato's word didn't deter her they propelled her forward. He was hers, why she asked herself. Well because 1 2 3. And that was reason enough. Asuka was the second child and Shinji was the third because 2 is closer to 3 then 1. He was hers because they lived together and there was no way a damn doll, a fucking porcelain doll was going to fuck Shinji's brains out before she did. This was a matter of principle a matter of honor and though she could never admit to anyone but herself, it was a matter love. She knew this was not the same Shinji that was lost to them for 12 hours, it was a different Shinji. A stronger Shinji. A bolder more defiant yet gentle Shinji. He was perfect and there was nothing about him that needed to change. She felt she could probably handle being second to Rei if that meant she would have Shinji for just an hour each day. A day each week. A week each month. As long there was a second everyday he belong to her and no one else's she could stomach being underneath Rei. However, that was an alternative. Today about vying for complete control and seeing if she could snatch him away from her and become doll number one before she accepted a position as doll number two. She had a plan. Oh yes she had a magnificent plan. She was going to shatter every bone in her porcelain doll body. Then when she is battered and broken, lay her at Shinji's feet as an offering to him. Then she would know where she should lied with him. Above or below.The name rung in her head as she deified him.

"Shinji Ikari." Somewhere near a ditch, a necromancer had his first very sneeze. She sat in Rei's usual spot and when Rei came in today the fight of the centurybegin. The hybrid calmas everwalked over to Asuka.

"Pilot Sohryu you are in my seat."

"What did you say to him?" she asked only to receive a slight angulation in her head.

"Exactly who is him?" in her normal monotone manner.

"I was referring to Shinji." she screamed.

"Are you referring to the private conversation between the two of us?"

"Yes." she said placing her hands underneath her chin mimicking Gendo's usually pose.

"The conversation in question is a private one as well as classified because of the information discussed." Asuka turned red but it held. No was there yet not even Hikari who usually came in after Rei. Rei gave another confused head tilt and blank look. Asuka became more annoyed the more she feigned ignorance. Asuka was not a fool and Rei knew it. For some odd reason she felt good about making's Asuka's life hard.

"Rei tell me what did you discuss. Tell was made him feel how he felt."

"The conversation was a private exchange between me and pilot Ikari. If he has not told you of what it entailed then he did not deem it necessary for you to know. That is a rational judgment." Asuka face was redder then her hair. She leapt from her seat onto Rei. Hikari walked in just in time to see Asuka's forward motion force Rei onto the ground. Interestingly the first physical blow throw had belong to Rei. Rei managed to get her knees under her in time place them in Asuka's stomach. A shot to the cheekbones to disorientate her, the redhead was sent flying. She landed on her back beside a shocked Hikari to stun to move. In college, Asuka had read that the Aztecs sacrifice some of their best warriors to please their gods. Rei had begun to prove there was some fight in her. Asuka moved to her knees.

"Shinji does remind me of the Aztec gods." she thought running at Rei and letting at powerful war cry. Rei braced herself. Hikari and the classmate the soon followed her stood front row to the fight of the century. The Pilot of Unit 00 vs. the Pilot of Unit 02! The Legendary Fire Demon vs. the Legendary Ice Queen! The Rag Doll vs. the Porcelain Doll! Asuka Langley Sohryu vs. Rei Ayanami! Fight hard girls because only one can be number one in Shinji's eyes.

Kaji helped Shinji through the bog. Seele had a personal graveyard all of its rouge agents or "retired agents" to spend the eternity in. All of the graves were unmarked and a few exposed corpses littered the ruined earth. Kaji covered his nose but Shinji breathed deep of it.

"Oh god this is beautiful." Shinji said as he continued onward, "Why didn't I sense this earlier?" Kaji chuckled looking at him but continuing forward.

"Are you getting anything?"

"How the hell am I supposed to know? I don't communicate with the dead I control them. Do I look like fucking John Edwards Silvia Brown?" Kaji nodded no.

"Okay sorry. Then why don't you control her over and make talk."

"I need two things. A name and a skull." Shinji walked over to the skull cleaned out the mud and mush from it.

"Name Misuzi Gowa." he informed him. He let the name ring his head for a second before he told it to the skull by whispering its ear. The eyes of skull had begun glowing a bright green along with Shinji's. He pointed the skull and various directions when he final got a hit he followed it. He brought Kaji to it and stopped.

"This is it." he said sitting on top of marker.

"Okay." They stared at each other for a while. Kaji looked at Shinji. Shinji looked at Kaji. Moreover, for a time there was silence.

"I hope you don't expect me to unearth it." Shinji said looking up at the burning sun.

"You are the only one capable of doing it without a shovel." A sigh escaped his lips as he tossed Kaji a shovel.

"How in the …?"

"I am a necromancer this is a graveyard. You do the math." Kaji dug for two hours straight before he hit anything. Shinji jumped down on the casket. He opened it. The soul tried to escape into the open air but being able to see it running, Shinji was unmercifully able to imprison it into the skull. He climbed out and begun to walk away.

"Where are you going?" Kaji inquired struggling to get out.

"I have to make a homunculus for it." he said covering the skull's mouth. Shinji looked around for something to plug the mouth the thing could escape.

"Why don't you use one of husk?"

"There are two problems with that plan."

"And what is that?"

"I require someone just as powerful as me to perform the forcing process. Secondly, I would have explain the process in great length."

"Then why not ask Rei to help you?"

"I am not speaking to her."

"Trouble in paradise?" Kaji said giving a sly look. Shinji wheeled around and walked over to Kaji. He cocked his fist back. Kaji learned never to bring up Ayanami or the problems Shinji was having ever again. At least until the swelling went down.

Asuka wiped off a bit of Wonder girl's blood as she stood up. Everything hurt. Her body hurt, her soul hurt, her brain hurt. In addition, due to the way Rei fought back instead of being a good little offering; her pride would soon be hurt. Rei was swollen in various places; it was difficult to maintain her erect form. Asuka was getting tired of fighting but if she quit the doll would make her an offering. The thought of her touching him. The thought of her tastying him. A fire lit inside her, her spirit was overcome by a desire to kill. Something inside Rei smirked but the monotone girl looked perplexed.

"I will not lose." her greatest battle cry erupted from the fired up redhead's mouth. Asuka rushed at Rei. Rei's AT Field mysteriously had a hard time blocking brunt of the attack even at full power.