In the arms of my lover
I feel at peace
Shinji awoke to sounds. One was the moaning of the girl he was still unified with, their lips meet again as his morning erection impaled her every time she tried to move her lower body. Then the sounds coming from a crying Misato who stood at the doorway clapping. Shinji looked past his lovely bedmate and stared at his retainer.
"Morning Misato." he said between kisses.
"Emperor is not going to introduce your most loyal friend and retainer to your friend." she said wiping her tears. The girl sat up turned her head and looking at Misato. It was something in those eyes. Misato had only saw two pairs of red eyes in her lifetime on belonging to a boy swordsman she once knew and hers. She smiled.
"Maybe they are related. He was a strong boy and a skilled fighter. She doesn't look it but I feel an aura of strength and power." she thought looking the couple.
"I am Rei Ayanami." she moaned out as her sudden shift in weight caused the bed to bounce and her to be impaled again.
"Like eyes of a dragon." she muttered incoherently to anyone but herself. Shinji gazed up at her as she took his hand and placed it on her heart.
"This belongs to you, Shinji." she said as lend in giving him another kiss. Misato noticed the look from Shinji and quiet back away. After sliding the door close, she jumped into the air happily then rushed through the halls to get him food.
"He will need his strength for … err … the good of the empire." she rationalized knocking over servants and guards alike, "She need her strength too Misato."
Reika was in the kitchen-watching cooks preparing the emperor's breakfast, she sitting in the chair kicking her feet as the chefs ran around grabbing vegetables for their stir-fry and fish. She hummed a happy tune as Misato entered. After bowing and showing respect to the princess, she walked over to the head chef.
"Do you think you could make something fast for the emperor and his guest to snack on? He needs to keep up his strength." The head chef looked rather perplexed.
"Lady Misato what do you mean?" Misato gulped glancing over to Reika.
"Um…Shinji and his guest have become one." she said in a whisper hoping that the chef heard and not Reika. It was quite the opposite; Reika got up and tugged on Misato's hand. Misato looked down praying that she didn't have to explain herself to a member of the ruling family.
"Misato what do you mean become one with my brother? I want to be one with him." Reika said innocent of the meaning of the phrase. Misato rather blushed but a second of swaying and holding her face the cook caught on and nodded.
"Shinji is a man and one of the things man do with woman is become one with them. Usually producing children from it." The cooks begun fixing a platter of food with various fruits and a few pieces of meat. Reika frowned looking at Misato.
"Do you think he would become one with me?" she asked with the same innocence as before still intact. However, before her question could be answered Misato was gone with the platter. Stealing an apple from it, she ate on the way to the emperor's bedroom. When she arrived to find a very happy sleeping, Shinji wrapped in a sheet. Smiling brightly as Rei stroked his sweaty hair. She placed the platter down on the small table, grabbed a piece of fruit, and gingerly gave it to Rei. She took it and started to feast on it. Misato examined the girl over once more. This time she noticed a tattoo of a blue dragon.
"What did you get that?" she asked.
"I was born with it." she answered her as she walked over to and caressed Shinji's face ginger. Getting a small pang of an emotion, she never had before she glared at the hand. Misato quickly retracted it.
"The emperor looks happy." the retainer mentioned.
"That he does." Misato found it difficulty to converse with the girl specially seeing how her words didn't reveal any emotions.
"You think of him as a son." she heard unexpectedly from the girl as she played in sweaty tangled brown.
"He is the son of heaven. It would be pompous of me think I can give birth to a celestial dragon such as him." she said sitting on the bed, "He accepted me as a retainer when I allowed my last lord to be killed. Sometimes I think he is too benevolent to be human. He is kind peaceful."
"Dragons are just humans that transcend their own humanity."
"There is a dragon for every aspects of nature. There are more dragons then gods." she quipped. Rei stood up out of bed. She glanced at Shinji before turn to Misato. For some odd reason she found that staring into her eyes relaxing; so much that she couldn't help get somewhat drowsy, that in addition with the fact that she didn't get much sleep until after they completed their encounter. She fell asleep on the bed. Rei kissed Shinji's lips and in his ear she whispered, "I will be back tonight." She disappeared from the palace and reappeared in the middle of a forest clearing.
"Kensuke…Kensuke…" she called out barely above a whisper. From a boy dressed in only a loincloth appears.
"You call me Mistress Rei?" he asked scratching the small patch of scales on his backside. She nodded and sat down. "Go get the others. I have an official order."
Shinji and Misato both stared out at the window of his room. Neither had moved from their spot neither spoke to anyone but each other. Reika had walked and plot down on the bed beside Shinji and throwing her little feet on Misato's breast.
"Brother lunch is ready." she said sweetly. Both Shinji and Misato gave a pleasured sigh, "I am not hungry. Thank the cooks for me." he said keeping face on the window.
"So what is it like to be one with someone?" she asked.
"Reika." Misato shouted, "Don't talk about that in front of the emperor."
"Don't worry about it Misato. It was magical…I can't explain it." Shinji said.
"Can I be one with you brother?" again the innocence of youth shining through. Misato was enjoying her euphoria before Reika had interrupted her.
"Reika would mind looking for Lord Kaji for me? I need to talk to him about something." Reika nodded kissed Shinji's cheek and skipped off.
"Misato I had this odd dream."
"Tell me about it."
"Well I was sitting on the high throne surrounded by a red and blue dragon. They were fighting while I was between them but I didn't get hurt."
"That is a tough one. Maybe Lady Naoko can help you with that." Shinji's face dropped. "I don't want to go see that witch."
"Shinji! That is no way to speak about the woman that helped you into this world."
"And the woman that helped my mother out of it." Shinji got out of bed, naked as the day he was created. Misato walked over to him and struck him over the head. "Why didn't you tell me about Rei?"
"Misato I don't know. I was thinking about her and she appeared."
"Maybe you are a sorcerer Shinji." Shinji looked at her as she helped him into his clothes. His face told her he was confused and she needed to tell him more.
"Think about it. Empress Yui was an accomplished Tao Sorceress. Maybe you got some of her powers."
"Misato, I don't want to be sorcerer."
"Why not, Shinji think about it. If you are a sorcerer you can do more good."
"But I would have to deal with that witch. I don't want to be one."
"Shinji for me and for your mother's spirit. We will you see if you are one." Shinji conceded with a nod then a hug from his retainer reassured him.
"Still don't see why but I will."
"Because there are a few things I can't protect you from. Something that you must fight on your own." Shinji raised an eyebrow. "Like what?"
There was a scream before a charred corpse flew out the tavern door and rested in from of a group of merchant stall. More screams emerged from the drunkards that instantly somber up from the sight of some being reduced to cinders. Everyone kept there eyes of the redhead clad in light armor that matched her hair. She walked in further smirking cruelly.
"Why must I repeat myself? Don't touch me. Don't touch my hair. Don't touch my sword. Don't ask to touch me. Don't ask to fuck me. I am not a whore. I am not a barmaid. I don't want you to buy me a drink. I don't want you to look at me." She said facing the drunkards and geishas that stared at her. "Did I just say I don't want you looking at me?" She screamed as every eye left her body.
"Good." She stepped up to a table and the waiter came over keeping his eyes on the floor.
"Good day mistress. How…how may I serve you?" She looked at him; his eyes remained glued to the floor not once glancing at her.
"I want your best meat…I want dumplings and rice. I want fresh fish and two litters of your best sake." she bellowed. The waiter nodded then hurried on his way. However, before he could get out of arm's reach of her, she grabbed his arm. He fought hard the instinctually reactions of looking at the person that grabbed him. He gulped then spoke, "Is there anything else mistress?"
"Yes…if my food isn't ready by the time my stomach growls again. I will come back there and eat everything edible and everyone back there. Then I will burn this place to the ground. You have twelve minutes to feed me." Once he was free, he dashed back there, knocking over patrons and servers over as he went.
"Is that all your kind is good for? Hording gold, eating everything insight, and terrorizing people? What happened to the old ways, why can't you make yourself useful." a voice came behind her and stared the redhead beauty. A blue eye twitched as she felt the glare on her skin. She turned ready for combat spying the blonde hair Taoist dressed in priestly robes of yellow and white covered in the kanji for faith.
"Are you the Akagi?" the redhead asked.
"I am one of the masters of the Akagi house. I am Naoko's eldest daughter." the Tao answered. One the bar patrons stood up and looked over at the speaking woman.
"I know her she is Ritsuko the Younger. She going to kick that fire demon's ass." he cried.
"Yeah. Lady Ritsuko. Kick fire crotch's ass." That really pissed the redhead, who stood up and reduced the two patrons, their friends and the geishas to cinders.
"I was invited by the Akagi Clan." she said as Ritsuko took a seat and from of her. The waiters brought the food as she order out to him. When the eight plates spread around the table her sake bottle in front of her, she removed to golden chopsticks and begun eating and drinking. "So where is Naoko?" she asked between bites and gulps. "She sent for me. In addition, promised me a great horde for coming. Especially in this lowly form." Ritsuko adjusted her robes and removed a pouch of gold. She tossed it on the table. Using the chopsticks as she drink, she lifted it up and held it from of her face then she turned to Ritsuko, "Do you honest think that this can be considered a horde? Is your mother trying to anger me, Asuka the legendary Fire Demon?" she said just above a whisper so no one but Ritsuko could hear her.