Chapter 4

A/N: Nothing to say here.

The next morning, Asuka frowned to the fact that she wasn't in the arms of Shinji. She turned to see that Shinji has fallen off the futon. She stood up and nelt down next to him.

"Shinji?" she said shaking him gently.

He woke up and as he turned to say hi to Asuka, he quickly grabbed his arm.

"Oww!" he said rubbing his arm.

Asuka looked as him arm, but nothing was there.

Shinji though felt a lot of pain and he saw blood spilling from it. Flashes of the past came back to scare him. Asuka looked at him as he groaned, she hugged him and whispered over and over again, nothing's wrong.

But he burst from her embrace and screamed in pain.

Finally the flashbacks stopped, and the bleeding disappeared.

"Shinji are you ok? What just happned?"

"I'm fine, something…something just happened to my arm."

"But there was nothing there."

He smiled at her to reassure her that he was ok, "I don't want you to worry, I;m fine," he held her again, "I'll be just fine."

She smiled and held him tight again. She lay her head on his shoulder and said, "Don't leave me promise?"

"Don't worry."

"Please tell me, tell me that you promise to never leave me."

Later on they walked to Nerv not wanting to be driven by Miosato, just to be safe.

As they walked there, Shinji winced in pain once in a while, and Asuka grabbed his hand and held it tight, "Don't worry Shinji, I'm here!"

He smiled at her and they continued to walk there.

At Nerv, Ritsuko greeted them and lead them to their testing room. Shinji sighed in relief to the fact that he would never pilot again. But he wondered why they were taking tests.

As they lay inside the room, xrays and other machines observed them.

Dr. Akagi smiled at the fact that Asuka seemed fine, but when she saw Shinji's she frowned and started to cry a bit, "No, it can't be…"

Misato heard her and asked, "What happened?"

"Look at this," she pointed to the scans of Shinji's brain.

"What the heck…"

On the x-ray, there was a part missing with a shape of a 3. Also they found a bruise in the shape of eva on his back, and a very thin cut on his arm, so thin that you wouldn't be able to see it, but the machines caught it.

"What does this mean?" Misato asked looking away from the scans.

"Shinji I'm afraid, is going to die."

"WHAT!" Misato screamed and fell to her knees.

Ritsuko placed her hand on Misato's shoulder trying to comfort her, but Misato brushed her hand away.

This can't be possible! You've got to be kidding me! He can't die…"

"But he is, you see, The Third Impact has affected him greatly, there was supposed to be a one in a million odds of this happening, but he was unlucky."

"How can you be so calm?"

"Sorry, but it's life, I find it natural."

Misato ran outside and got into her car and drove away. The two pilots got out and walked to the park.

"I wonder why we had to take the test…"

Asuka shrugged and pulled him towards the hill.

"Sit," she commanded. As he sat, she sat on his lap. He turned red.

"Asuka?"

"It's okay," she grabbed his hands and they looked into the sunset.

"Shinji, please tell me, do you like me?"

He was confused, he answered it already, but she wasn't satisfied, maybe…

He wrapped his arms around her waist, "Yes I do, you're the best frined, I've never been so close to you before, and I've seen a completely different side of you."

Asuka froze at his answer, 'Baka…' she didn't bother to yell at him and she enjoyed their moment.

They talked for the rest of the time, laughing about the old times and talked about the future. They had a wonderful time and at time to time Asuka kissed Shinji on the cheek. He blushed, but he kinda enjoyed them.

And they stayed there till night.

Then when they arrived home, they lay on Shinji's bed and she wrapped her arms around his back.

"Good night Shinji-kun."

"Good night Asuka."

The next morning Asuka was the first to wake up and walked into the kitchen to see a crying Misato.

"What's wrong, ran out of beer?" she laughed at her little joke, but stopped when she saw that Misato was still crying.

"What's wrong?"

Misato placed her head up and looked at Asuka, "It's Shinji-kun"

"What about him?"

"He's, he's going to die."

Asuka's eyes went wide open and she fell to her knees and wept, "No, it can't be true, it can't be true."

"The third impact, it did this to him. He's been scarred, and will die in about six months."

She slammd her fist into the ground, 'But I haven't even told him that I loved him…We haven't even got to sleep together besides the cuddling. I wanted to grow old with him, I wanted to stay with him forever.'

She slowly walked back to Shinji's room, and before she got in again, she saw him wincing in pain, and she saw a huge bruise on Shinji. It was the shape of an eva. This time, she saw some blood, and she saw the tears flow from his eyes, and hers…

A/N: Sorry all you Shinji fans. But this is how it goes, and this helps turn out the end of this. If you think this is surprising though, better think again, because when will Asuka confess her feelings, will they ever sleep together in more ways of cuddling? And if this does happen, how does it affect everything?