Chapter 5

A/N: I wonder, how does everyone else react to Shinji's illness.

She couldn't stand to see him like that so she ran into the kitchen again.

Misato greeted her and Asuka sat on the table. She saw Misato had been drinking way more beer then usual. She wondered, 'I wonder if it really helps.'

She approached a can of beer and opened it up. She stared at it for a while, and when she heard him again, she drank it all.

When Misato saw this she snatched the beer out of her hands, "You drank all of it! You're still too young!"

"I don't care," she continued to cry, "Shinji's going to die!"

"That doesn't mean you can drink beer!"

"You're drinking it."

"Well…That's what I always do!"

"But it seems like it helped, so I wanted to try."

"Since when did you care so much for Shinji?"

"Since…"

"Since?"

Asuka looked down hiding her blush from Misato, "Since I first saw him."

Misato's jaw dropped and she scratched her head, she then smiled, "I knew it! Actually, no I didn't, but you sure did yell at him a lot before. Which means you've always wanted his attention, and now you seem to be around him a lot…"

"So?"

"Wow, you surprise me Asuka. So how do you exactly feel for him?"

Asuka just looked down again, but Misato still saw the red on her, "Oh I see, you love him don't you."

"Shut up!"

"What? It's written all over your face, and you were so sad to find out that he was going to die."

"Hmm…"

"So have you told him yet?"

Asuka sighed, "No not yet, I've been wondering if he liked me, but all I got was 'of course I like you, you're my friend.' I'm getting the feeling he only wants me as a friend."

"Maybe he thinks that's all your asking."

"You may be right…" she looked at the time, "I guess I should wake up Shinji, we have to go to school."

"Don't tell him."

"what?"

"Don't tell him that he's going to die."

"Why not?"

"He's going to spend his months crying and moping, I want him to enjoy his life as if he wasn't going to die."

"Ok."

"And Asuka."

"What?"

"You're going to have to tell him."

She nodded and walked back to wake up Shinji.

At school, she tried her best to act normal around Shinji, but he caught her crying a bit, and she used the excuse, 'there was something in my eye.' But at one time he didn't believe her.

"Seriously, what's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"Have I been hurting you in your sleep?"

"No its not that," she said and she caught eye of his back and the picture of the bruise appeared.

"What's wrong with my back?" he asked turning around.

"Nothing."

"Are you just tired?"

"Maybe."

"Then I guess I must be keeping you up, maybe you shouldn't sleep in my bed anymore."

"NO! I mean, I'm fine, let's just go."

He frowned as she walked ahead of him.

At school Asuka was greeted by Hikari and they walked to class.

ClassRep: Asuka, you seem down today.

RagingFire: It's nothing.

ClassRep: You're eyes are red, and I've seen you cry a biut once ina a while, and you haven't yelled at anyone and Touji recently called you a bitch.

RagingFire: I don't care what he thinks of me.

ClassRep: Asuka, I really think something is wrong with you.

RagingFire: Why you think its strange for me to cry?

ClassRep: Yeah.

RagingFire: Why?

ClassRep: Because you told me that you'd never cry again. And you have too much pride to cry this much. What's wrong? Did Ikari-kun do something you?

RagingFire: No, it's just that…

ClassRep: What? You can tell me anything.

RagingFire: Shinji, that Baka is going to… HE'S GOING TO DIE OK!

ClassRep: Oh my gosh…

YouSuck: Yo Hikari why are you and the devil here crying.

PilotW2B: Yeah, did someone die in your favorite soap opera?

ClassRep: Does he know?

RagingFire: No.

YouSuck: Does who know what?

ClassRep: Well you are his friends. Asuka can I tell them?

PilotW2B: What?

RagingFire: Fine, but I'm outta here.

ClassRep: Ok you guys, brace yourselves.

YouSuck: We can take on anything, whatever is making you cry shouldn't make us!

PilotW2B: But she said that he was our friend… Is this about Shinji?

YouSuck: What did you do to our friend?

ClassRep: We didn't do anything, Shinji is going to die.

CRASH

Both stooges fell off their chairs and looked directly at Shinji.

"What is the matter?" the sensei asked.

They just continued to look at Shinji, then Touji said, "Dude, are you really-"

"Shut up you two!" Hikari whispered.

"Go back to your seats!" the sensei yelled.

They nodded and sat down, now, there were four in there crying, but not as much as Asuka.

Outside Shinji asked them why they were crying. They didn't say anything and rushed home.

Asuka arrived home and quickly grabed a beer from the fridge, "I don't care what Misato says," she then took three more, "It just hurts too much."

When Shinji arrived home he looked around for Asuka and he opened her door. He was surprised to see her lying down in her bed. He sat next to her, "Is that beer?"

She didn't reply, it grew silent and all you could hear was the sound of her tears. He then lay down to face her, she turned around.

"Asuka?"

She still didn't reply, he looked around to see more cans of beer, "Whats going on Asuka? Why are you drinking?"

She turned around and stared at him with her huge red eyes. She hugged him fiercely and cryed on his shoulder. He rubbed her back and said, "It's going to be ok, don't worr about anything, its your nightmare wasn't it? I'm here, and I'll always be."

The word 'always' made her cry more. She knew that it wasn't possible, she continued to embrace him, that was until he jerked again. He began to have a seizure and she called 911.

She stayed at his side until the ambulance came, "Shinji!" she yelled as he was taken away.

She ran out and grabbed a little kid's bike and followed the ambulance.

Shinji woke up to find himself in a hospital bed. He felt a little hot, and he felt a weight on his chest. He looked at it and saw Asuka crying on him.