Chapter 11: Something Amazing
A/N: This chapter, they talk about the baby, about the past and their future, and hey what's going to be the name of the baby?
Misato's mouth opened and closed over and over again. Shinji looked at Asuka and they exchanged looks of concern.
"You two…You two…" she smiled lightly and tears began to form in her eyes. The anger in her heart was being overwhelmed by happiness for them.
Shinji and Asuka were a little shocked as Misato hugged them both. Shinji winced a bit, "Ouch," he said quietly and Misato mumbled a sorry.
Asuka and Shinji looked at Misato and Misato rubbed her eyes, "Congratulations, right now I'd be pissed out of my mind but…I'm happy for you two."
She hugged them once again and they returned to eating. Misato eyed the two and sighed, "So, what are we going to do about this baby?"
Asuka sighed, "I don't know Misato," she rubbed her tummy, "Shinji's going to…"
"I'm going to what?" he looked at them strangely and the shook their heads.
"It's nothing Shinji-kun," Asuka said in a tender and soft voice. Tears formed in her eyes and she looked at Shinji's calm face. She approached him carefully and embraced him, "It's just nothing, Shinji, it's nothing…"
He shrugged and embraced her back. He felt her tears on his shoulder and he saw Misato crying too, sure, she's pregnant, but what is with all the water works? He felt some pain and he winced, but its okay, he was in her arms anyways.
The next day, the rumor spread pretty quickly about the baby. The girls at school surrounded Asuka and asked many questions, and so did the guys that surrounded Shinji. The two didn't like the attention, and so they escaped at lunch and met at the top of the school.
Hikari and the other two stooges followed, but they didn't want to disturb them, so they ate on the stairwell waiting for them to come down.
Shinji munched on his sandwich and looked at Asuka with tender eyes, "So, what now?"
Asuka finished her own sandwich and sat with her knees in front of her. Sighing she placed her head on it and mumbled, "I have no idea…"
"What about we make a name?"
She looked at him, he saw the red in her eyes, and he wiped away the tears that remained on her face. They thought for a moment, and Shinji put his arms around her. This was something new to the both of them. They never did name anything in their life. They had no pets beside Pen-pen, and he was named before they came.
Suddenly, the hot sun that was going down on their backs disappeared, and it began to rain. Shinji's injuries began to bleed again, and his uniform turned red, Asuka turned to him in concern, but he told her that the baby name comes first.
"hmm," she pondered. Looking as the rain fell, "Aha," she said to herself, "Maybe Raine…" she looked into the cloudy sky, "Yeah, Raine!"
"That is, if it was a girl," he smirked, "Since your using your surroundings, how about Cloud, if it was a guy?"
"You play too many of those final fantasy games," she said smiling, she giggled lightly, "Hmm, remember when we always argued?"
He held her tighter, "Yeah, I usually was afraid of you, you were very over powering," he laughed though, "But it was kind of funny, how you would usually win, and I'd end up in my room listening to my SDAT…"
She nodded and rested her head on his shoulder, "So, Raine if a girl, and Cloud if a boy?" she smirked, "Well, we're very good at picking names."
"Yeah," his smile grew wider, "So, I wonder how life would be with them…Maybe by the time they're born, I'll be healed."
Asuka's heart grew heavy when he said this. She remembered that he still doesn't know that he is going to die. She turned to him, "Shinji-kun…"
He turned to her, his smile still attached to his face, she couldn't do it, "Yes Asuka-hime?"
"N-nothing…" she turned away and plastered on a fake smile.
"Ok then," they sat there as the rain continued to fall. Minutes later, the lunch bell rang and they head to the stairs. They saw Hikari, and the other stooges there.
"Can I be the god mother?" Hikari asked right away.
"It depends," Asuka said with a smile, "If Shinji says its ok!"
"Sure Hikari!"
"Can we be god fathers?" Kensuke and Touji asked at the same time.
"Su-" Shinji was cut off by his girlfriends fist.
"You better not make my bay stupid with your idiocy!" she raised her fists at them and they quivered in fear.
"Of course Asuka! Or shall I say, Mrs. Asuka!" they joked and then they got whammed in the head by Hikari.
"Oh well…" Shinji blushed and turned to Asuka, pulling out a small box he bent one knee, "Asuka, since, you are pregnant, and I do love you. I was going to wait until we finish high school but, will you marry me?"
Asuka stared in wonder at the ring, "Of course…" her eyes watered, "Of course I'll marry you Shinji-kun!'
The other friends smiled widely and offered to be best man and bridesmaids. The moment was happy, although Asuka still had the thought of Shinji dying in her.
Later, the three stooges walked home together, and Hikari with Asuka.
"So when is the wedding?" Hikari asked.
"Next week…" Asuka said in a low voice.
"Why so sad?"
"Don't you remember what next week is?"
"The chance that Shinji might die?"
"Yes…"
"But…You never know, he could still survive…Don't think so negative…"
"But look at his condition!" she pointed to them, they weren't that far in front, "He could die…He could die on the day we get married…"
Hikari hugged her best friend, "It'll be fine…Believe me."
Asuka blocked all noise, she cried, but without Shinji hearing, she couldn't stand the thought of Shinji dying again. She forgot all about the happiness from that afternoon. Her thoughts were surrounded by death.