Devil Never Cries
By: Andross937
disclaimer: Neither Neon Genesis Evangelion, nor Devil May Cry belongs to me in any way. I claim no ownership over either, and am making no profit from this story. The sole purpose for me writing this story is my own personal enjoyment, and so that others may possibly take some enjoyment from it as well. If the owners of either Neon Genesis Evangelion or Devil Man Cry wish it, I will remove this story from the internet completely. If someone is seriously offended by the material in this story, I will take the story down and attempt to remove the offending material before reposting it. If it is impossible to remove the offending material, I will leave the story off the internet all together.
Author's Notes: Sorry for the long wait for this update. I'm going into shoulder surgery in less then twenty-four hours, and I wanted to have chapter three done before I posted so that I would have a bit of a buffer while my shoulder heals. Thanks for all the great reviews! Each one was great and I thank you for them. I hope this chapter will answer some of your questions. Enjoy!
SPOILER ALERT! This chapter explains a lot of the back story, and contains many, many spoilers for all three Devil May Cry games. Though certain events have of course been properly altered thanks to Shinji's presence in the Devil May Cry time-line, they still give a basic idea of how they turned out in the games, and anyone that has not finished one of the games is going to come across spoilers. But as long as you're not too upset with knowing that (spoiler) the good guys win should be able to get through this rather painlessly. Hope I'm not ruining it for anyone, because these are really great games! Any ways, hope you enjoy my slight re-write of history.
-Chapter 2-
When Shinji exited the plug, he was met with the sight of Misato holding his red trench coat, Ritsuko, and several guards in suits. Smirking, he hopped down onto the catwalk with ease. Strolling forwards, he stopped when the guards almost reached into their jackets.
"What's with the suits?" Shinji asked.
"They're only here to escort you to the medical center with us Shinji. We want to get you checked out as soon as possible." Ritsuko assured.
"No, I meant why are they wearing suits? Isn't it kind of hot in those things?" Shinji asked.
"Heh, well, it looks more official this way Shinji." Ritsuko answered.
"Here's your trench coat back Shinji." Misato said as she handed the red coat over.
"Thanks Misato." Shinji said with another smirk as he put it on, once again completing his outfit.
-medical center, examination room 404-
"So, Shinji, you say that you are a half demon. Tell us how that happened. When you were born tests revealed that you were a normal human child." Ritsuko inquired.
Shinji sat on a table for patients to lay down on. Ritsuko was beginning to fill out some papers on a clip board, while starting up some recording cameras. Misato sat patiently in a chair by the door. As for the guards, they had already left, their presence only a formality.
"After Gendo left me at the train station with my teacher, we had to wait around to get a few things. It got dark quickly, and began to rain. We hadn't even left the train station before something attacked out of the shadows. It was a demon, and it had popped out of thin air as if breaking through glass. Before he could scream, my teacher was impaled on its scythe, and then he died.
"At first it was going to kill me too, but a sword impaled it before it could. I had been saved by him, the son of Sparda, Dante the demon slayer. He took pity on me, knowing I had no where to go if I had been under the protection of an old man. He took me in, and started to raise me like a little brother.
"He had just got done preventing a portal to hell from opening somewhere in America, and his shop was back there. He had come to Japan on a demon slaying job, and he took me back with him. He had also just got a partner, a woman, her name was Lady. She acted more like a big sister to me, but I think of her as a second mother.
"I lived with them for a almost a year, training with them in how to fight demons. While I was there, I also studied in the many books that Dante had in the back of his shop, and the books that Lady had from her dead father, who had become a devil himself through black magic. I found something interesting in my studies, but it was hard to understand. I brought it to Dante and Lady, and it shocked them. There was a way for me to forsake my father's blood and take on the blood of a demon. It detailed how to become a demon using the blood of another demon.
"I told Dante that I wanted this, but he tried to talk me out of it. We argued a lot for nearly two years, until he finally caved in. We made a deal for me to wait another year, and then he would help me become a half demon like him. I would loose all the blood of my father, but keep the blood of my mother.
"The next year went by almost in a flash, and I was finally ready. The reason he made me wait, was because there was an age limit of sorts. If it was done before a person was at least eight years old, then there was a chance the process could kill them. When it was safe, I went through the process. Dante also had to go through some pain, since he would be the source of my demonic blood. In the end, Dante and I took a week to recover from the procedure. He had given me the demon blood of his father, Sparda, the Legendary Dark Knight. In the process, we became sort of half brothers, as we had different mothers, but we both now had the same father.
"If anything, my training only became harder after that, but I kept up with it easy thanks to the blood of Sparda in my veins. Working with Dante, over the next two years, I made my own set of twin pistols and my own sword, and trained in them. We even stumbled upon a way to call upon them anywhere we were, no matter what, and have them vanish afterwards so we could call them from thin air, making them a part of us permanently." Shinji said, suddenly having huge twin pistols in his hands, the right one silver and the left one black.
Both had incredibly long barrels that stretched out farther then any handgun that either women had ever seen. The silver one in his right hand had an etching of a woman's face with a beautiful smile, caring eyes, and a short hair cut. The black one had an etching of a different woman's face with a confident smirk, happy eyes, and short eyes that spread out at the bottom.
"Wow..." Misato said as Shinji apparently finished his story.
"That's all... rather amazing. Hard to believe even..." Ritsuko admitted.
"Then you explain what I am and how I became what I am." Shinji challenged.
"Well Shinji, you can't really blame me for having a hard time believing your story. I mean... demons..." Ritsuko said, letting the sentence hang in the air.
"Oh, and you don't have a hard time believing that there are angels stomping around the city?" Shinji countered.
"Point taken." Ritsuko said.
"Oh yeah, and they're demons actually." Shinji added. "Their just a different kind then what I've seen or faced off against."
"Right... Well, their designation is angels, and only the commander can change that. I don't think he's going to change that any time soon." Ritsuko said.
"Fine, whatever." Shinji said rolling his eyes.
"Hey Shinji? You said you faced off against other demons. Tell us something about that." Misato asked.
"Alright, well, my first really big test and chance to face demons came about four years ago, when I was ten. I was good and used to my demon blood by then, as if I had always been that way. I was getting a little anxious as all we had been able to find business with lately were killing low level and rather weak demons lately. Even the strong ones were only one at a time, so there was little challenge. Then, Trish arrived, crashing into our shop while Lady was on a little mission in another part of the world.
"She told us that the demon Mundis was trying to open the gates to hell on an island. Lady couldn't make it in time, so Dante and I went with her. Dante treated the whole thing like a kind of graduation test for me, so we stuck together and he watched over me to grade me. We faced off against a rather large army of hundreds of demons, some strong, most weak but in groups.
"The only highlights were that any new weapons we came across I got to keep, and then when we faced off against a demon from a mirror, Dante's reflection. We fought him several times, until in the middle of a fight, I spotted his necklace. It was the same as Dante's.
"It turned out that the demon that we thought was just trying to copy Dante, was actually his twin brother Virgil, who Dante had fought before he found me and had been trapped in hell. He had mutated and changed, now being controlled by Mundis as a servant demon. We worked together, and managed to defeat him for good without killing him. We cut his connection to Mundis and knocked him out for a while.
"It was a little after that when Trish betrayed us, revealing herself as a devil working for Mundis. We half expected it, because she looked just like Dante's mother. She was a copy being used by Mundis to gain our trust..." Shinji paused for a moment to catch his breath.
No one noticed Ritsuko flinch at Shinji's last sentence.
"We spared her after she was beaten, and went to fight Mundis. He tried to use Trish as bait to kill us, but she threw herself in the way of Mundis' attack, nearly killing herself. Dante and I worked together and defeated Mundis, actually managing to kill him rather then just send him back to hell. Trish even managed to help us with the final blow.
"We got back to Virgil and brought him with us to Dante's shop. It took us nearly a week of containing him, having to work together to do so, but we found a way to free him from Mundis's mutations and free his mind again. He was... rather badly affected by the whole experience and left us to go into solitude to think about what had happened somewhere in Alaska. Only a year ago did he return, still a little distant to us, but changed from the evil demon he had been before. I can't even describe how happy Dante had been to see that.
"Then, just a few months ago, in Greece, a man tried to summon a demon army and open another gate to hell. Both Lady and Trish were on other missions, so Dante and I went to stop it. We were joined by Lucia, a decedent of a demon hunting clan. We worked together on that one, and agreed to split the weapons. I kept the Uzi's that we found, while Dante got everything else in exchange for the Cerberus devil arm, a weapon. Also, I exchanged my Ifrit, for his Beowulf. Anyways, in the end it turned out that Lucia was actually a half demon made by the man that sought to open the gates of hell, and he tried to use her against her will to do just that. Fortunately, Virgil showed up to help us out, and it made it a rather easy battle.
"We stopped him, and Freed Lucia. The portal opened anyways, but it was weakened. At first Dante was going to go through it and close it from the other side, but Virgil suggested a better idea. We worked together and shut the portal after defeating the few big demons that came out of it. Now that city is pretty much in waste, but rebuilding. Lucia still lives there, but occasionally works with us, and Virgil finally joined us fully as a brother and a partner in the business. He's even thinking of making his own set of pistols."
"Wow..." was all Misato could say. "Do you have any of those weapons with you?" Misato asked, curious.
"Yeah, I made all of my weapons a part of me and can call them up like my pistols." Shinji answered with a grin.
"Show us..." Ritsuko said, growing more curious.
"Alright..." Shinji said.
He put down his pistols on the bed before standing up. Turning to the bed, he began moving his hands like he was pulling weapons from their places in or on his coat, and weapons began to appear in his hands. First a sawed off double barrel shotgun, then a pair of Uzi's, then, to Misato and Ritsuko's amazement, a large grenade gun, then a weapon that Shinji called a needle gun for underwater. Finally Shinji pulled out something that fit over most of his arm, even bending at the elbow. It was incredibly strange looking, and the portion that fit over the hand looking like some kind of mutated head or face.
"That one's called Nightmare-beta. It was made in hell, and is kind of based off of the demon Nightmare. It fires lasers that bounce off things and of course damage whatever they touch. It's real strength comes from charging it up so it fires a bunch of powerful lasers that bounce everywhere at once. Just got to be careful that it doesn't hit something you don't want them to, like yourself. Nearly took off Dante's ear the first time I used it..." Shinji said before laughing at the memory. "It's a good thing that it's pretty hard to kill us demons." Shinji said with a chuckle.
With that Shinji began to pull out the melee weapons. First his sword, A long silver blade with a grey hilt that had a beautiful carving of a woman's smiling face in it, etchings of her hair flowing down the blade, stopping just before the tip. He didn't say its name yet. Then a sword he called "Alastor", it was long, dark colored, and had an occasional arc of electricity that almost looked purple. Next he pulled out a pair of gauntlets and greaves, both were a dark grey, almost black, covered in bright white lines that glowed a pure light. The greaves formed feet with claws on the end of the toes, while each gauntlet had a mouth with fangs over the fist. He called these weapons Beowulf. Finally Shinji pulled out a strange looking nunchuck-like weapon. It was a ring, with three blue rods with spiked edges at the end attached to the ring by chains. Shinji called it "Cerberus", because that was the name of the demon who's soul had taken the shape of the weapon itself, effectively it was the soul of the demon "Cerberus" who Dante defeated. Shinji said it had powers of Ice, which is why he liked it, balancing his weapons, with ice, lightning, and light. Indeed, the Cerberus was covered in a thin layer of frost, but the women didn't feel any chill coming from it.
"So, what's the name of your first sword?" Misato asked.
"Eva." Shinji answered.
"Excuse me?" Ritsuko asked.
"It was the name of Dante's mother. Trust me, I had no knowledge of the existence of the Evangelions until a few days ago." Shinji answered.
"A few days ago?" Misato asked.
"When I got the letter to come from Gendo, I was going to ignore it completely." Shinji started to explain.
"But then, I also got a picture of a beautiful woman saying she would pick me up at the train station. I figured that I didn't want to disappoint such a pretty woman, so I decided to come and find out what the old fart wanted." Shinji continued, making Misato blush. "I didn't want to come without any knowledge of what I was getting into, so we did a little research on the place that Gendo commanded, NERV, and his pet project, project E. The Evangelions." Shinji finished.
"So basically Section 4 is dragging their ass." Misato said flatly.
"Hey, don't be so hard on them. They were up against some very curious demons." Shinji said with a big grin.
"Shinji, you said that it's hard to kill demons like you. How hard would you say it is?" Ritsuko asked, getting her clipboard ready again.
"Here, let me show you..." Shinji said with a grin.
Picking up his sword "Eva", he held it out, then in a lightning fast move, he turned it on himself and impaled himself through his chest and out his back. Picking up his silver pistol, "Yui", he held it to his forehead and pulled the trigger three times, earning himself three bloody spots on his forehead. This of course earned screams and curses from Misato and Ritsuko. Shinji stood there afterwards, a grin on his face, blood on his forehead, and blood on his chest and back, and perfectly fine. He spun around a few times with the sword still sticking through him, chuckling the whole time.
"Would you like to see me with Alastor sticking through my back and out my chest too?" Shinji asked with a small laugh.
"Shut up you! You just scared the crap out of me!" Misato shouted, bopping him on the head with her fist.
"Well, it's nice to see that you care." Shinji replied.
"How is this possible!" Ritsuko exclaimed, walking all around him, looking closely at the stab wound with the sword still in it, and the spots on his forehead where the bullets hit. There weren't even holes there, just the spots of blood to show where the bullets hit.
"I'm a half demon remember? Not only that, but it's the blood of Sparda flowing through my veins. His power is so great that many demons have coveted it. He was able to single handedly beat back all the demons in the world and seal them in hell using just his sword, bearing his own name." Shinji said, still unaffected by the sword in his chest.
"Doesn't that hurt? And when did this whole 'Sparda' thing happen?" Misato asked.
"The stab only hurt when it happened, I don't feel a thing right now. And the 'Sparda' thing as you called it happened around two thousand years ago." Shinji answered.
"Hmm, and what happened to Sparda?" Ritsuko asked.
"He was a demon too, so he was sealed away in hell too. He went willingly in order to save the humans of Earth from the rule of the demons. Eva, his wife and Dante and Virgil's mother also sacrificed her life to seal the portal to hell." Shinji said, his voice going soft.
"Sorry to bring that up. Well, what's the prognoses Ritsu?" Misato asked.
"Well, he seems healthy, except the sword in his chest..." Ritsuko motioned towards the Eva.
"Oh..." Shinji said, realizing she wanted him to remove it. "You'll like this..." he said with a grin.
He grabbed the handle and pulled on the sword. It slid out of his chest easily, and there was absolutely no wound to show it had ever been there. It had bled only when he stabbed it in, and when he pulled it out. There wasn't even a cut in his shirt. Misato and Ritsuko could only stare wide-eyed for a moment.
"And uh... he's not contagious. You're not contagious, are you Shinji?" Ritsuko asked.
"No, but I do appear to grow on people after a while." Shinji said with a smile.
"What about sexually transmitted diseases? Anything like those?" Ritsuko asked, a blush on her cheeks as well as Misato's cheeks.
"Heh, nope ladies. No risk there." Shinji said with a smile. "Only a child fathered by me would get any demon blood in their veins. And no kind of diseases at all for anyone that comes in contact with my blood." Shinji said with a bigger grin.
"Right, well... I'll have to get a blood sample." Ritsuko said as she pulled out a syringe.
"Well, don't worry about that. I think I can take it..." Shinji said with a chuckle.
"I'm sure." Ritsuko said with a smile as she went through the usual procedure of cleaning the spot then taking the blood sample anyways.
"One last thing. Shinji, how did you change your appearance in the plug of the Eva?" Ritsuko asked.
"That was my Devil Trigger. In other words, I took my demon appearance. Because I'm a half demon, I can only take my demon appearance for so long, so it can only be triggered for short periods of time. That's why it's called Devil Trigger. It also changes appearance with the different Devil Arms that I use, the melee weapons I use. What you saw was my generic appearance, what I look like without any weapon..."
"Alright. Thank you." Ritsuko said.
"I have a question. Where do you get ammunition for your guns?" Misato asked.
"I don't. Because of my demonic nature, I don't require ammunition. I just pull the trigger and a bullet flies out. Same with all my guns. It's really convenient, what with not having time to reload in the middle of a fight with demons and all." Shinji said with a grin.
"Dang, that's pretty cool." Misato said with a snap of her fingers.
"Well, now what?" Shinji asked.
"Now you're officially designated the pilot of Evangelion Unit One. Misato will take you to get your quarters assigned to you." Ritsuko explained.
"Oh, alright." Shinji said.
In an instant, all the weapons still on the bed disappeared. Shinji turned to walk out, but he paused. Taking a moment to turn around, he looked at the ladies with a puzzled look.
"You should really have those guards fired. I fired three gunshots in here and no one came running." Shinji said, sounding puzzled.
"Oh don't worry, they are either long gone, not having stuck around in the first place, or they're deciding wether or not to get back up before not coming at all." Misato said with a wave of her hand and a chuckle.
"She means that we sent them away, so they didn't hear the shots. No one is around, so no one heard them. We trusted you not to kill us. Also, she means that Section 2 can sometimes be a little... indecisive and sometimes cowardly when it comes to fighting demons." Ritsuko said with a smile of her own.
"Oh, okay." Shinji said with a nod.
-later-
"He'll be living alone?" Misato asked, sounding confused.
"That's right." the NERV employee said with a nod.
"Are you alright with that Shinji?" Misato asked, sounding concerned now.
"Hey, I'm a big kid you know. But, I'm also used to having company around me. I guess I'll be okay no matter what is decided." Shinji said, suddenly sounding a little... uncomfortable with the idea of living alone.
"Hmm.." Misato hummed to herself.
-later, again-
"What did you say!" Ritsuko exclaimed over the phone.
"You heard me. I'm going to be taking him home to live with me. It's already been cleared. Don't worry, I'll... try not to make any passes on him." Misato said, having to pause at the thought of trying to make a pass on him. She had to admit it to herself, the thought was rather tempting.
"Well... uh, you had better not. But... what about him?" Ritsuko asked, suddenly sounding a little nervous.
"What do you mean?" Misato asked.
"You know... he seemed rather interested in both of us before. And he does act a lot like Kaji used to." Ritsuko said, suddenly having flashes of the times Kaji would talk her into having a little fun with him and Misato.
"Well, yeah he does. But he can actually take a no for an answer." Misato said.
"Yes, but will you be able to say no?" Ritsuko asked, wondering to herself if she could even so no...
"..." Misato paused. "Of course I would." she finally said. "He is under age after all." she added as an after thought.
"Right. Well, be careful around him. He is a hormone filled teenager that doesn't seem one bit under age from his looks." Ritsuko finally said. "And..." she paused, finally speaking in a whisper. "If you do give in, invite me over some time. It can be just like old times." she said with a whisper.
"Sure, I guess..." Misato said awkwardly, trying not to consider actually giving in, for fear of doing just that. "Listen, I've got to go now. Bye." Misato said before hanging up.
Shinji sat on a bench not too far away, trying to not to give away the fact that he could hear every word of their conversation, even what Ritsuko was whispering. He shook his head at it, wondering what he had gotten himself into. He would never try anything if Misato didn't want it, he was only teasing before. Though, Ritsuko was right... He was a rather hormone filled teenager, and he didn't want to consider what would happen if Misato made the offer for something more then just roommates. Especially after hearing what Ritsuko said. What kind of guy had that Kaji been anyways?
"Ready to go?" Misato asked.
"Sure." Shinji said as he got up and followed her out of NERV.
"We have to pick up a few things at the store on the way back the apartment. Your things should already have arrived there." Misato said as they walked out to the car.
"Okay, fine with me." Shinji said with his smirk finally back.
-at the store-
"So, I guess we're having a party tonight huh?" Misato prodded at Shinji as he browsed down the instant food isle with her.
"Huh? Party? And why might that be?" Shinji asked.
"A welcoming party for my new roommate of course." Misato responded as she started grabbing box after box of instant food.
"Sure, sounds great..." Shinji said, seeming to stare off into the distance for a moment, before shaking his head to clear his thoughts. "You should have been at the last party Dante held... You'd think a demon attacked the place with the mess the shop was in by the next morning." Shinji said with a laugh.
"Sound's like I'd like this Dante. Can he hold his liquor?" Misato asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Actually, he doesn't drink much. Of course, devils can hold several times more liquor in their systems then a human can survive before becoming intoxicated, but Dante is more of a pizza and Coke-Cola kind of guy. Besides, he was trying to be a 'responsible role-model' for me." Shinji said with a snort and a grin.
"Never seen a more sloppy guy in your life that could always somehow keep from making a mess." Shinji said laughing.
"How'd he do that?" Misato asked.
"Everyone lives in the back of the shop. That includes two women and one that visits regularly. It was a necessary skill." Shinji said with a smirk. "Though Trish is almost as messy as he is sometimes."
Finally Shinji started to pick something out. A large pile of microwave pizzas found themselves stacked in Misato's cart. Next a few dozen bags of potato chips. A few boxes of popular American cereal followed shortly after that. He finally finished it off with a few cases of sodas.
"What's all this stuff?" Misato asked, slightly alarmed at the money such a stockpile would cost in one trip.
"Food. Don't worry, I'm paying for this stuff." Shinji said with a grin.
"Alright. How do you eat all this stuff and get so fit?" Misato asked.
"I'll answer your question if you answer me this. How do you keep such a great figure on the stuff you eat, and..." Shinji pauses as he saw that there was over twice as much beer as the sodas he grabbed. "..and that much beer?" Shinji asked.
"I don't know, just lucky I guess." Misato replied with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Well, I keep 'fit' by killing off demons regularly. In fact, it's our job to kill demons. Besides, this stuff isn't really what we live off of." Shinji said.
"Oh yeah, then what is?" Misato asked.
"The blood of the demons we kill." Shinji said with an evil grin.
Misato looked at him nervously, unable to tell if he was joking or not.
"I'm kidding Misato." Shinji finally admitted.
"... Well, alright then..." Misato said after a pause.
"Mostly anyways." Shinji mumbled just to get at Misato's head.
"Shut up you." Misato said as she started for the check out.
-Katsuragi apartment-
"Home sweet home." Misato said as she opened the door with a card key and walked in.
Shinji walked in with the bags of groceries, looked around, and knocked the beer cans off the table to put the bags down. Taking another look at the amount of alcohol that Misato must drink in order to have caused such a large pile up, Shinji shrugged. There was no way that this was anything less then a few months worth of cans.
"Oh, don't mind the mess. I just moved in here myself a few weeks ago." Misato called out from her room. "Could you put the beer in the fridge?"
"Sure." Shinji called.
Opening the fridge, Shinji saw at least twice as many beers in the fridge as there were on the floor and other surfaces. This woman had a serious thing for drinking. Maybe she had demon blood in her, because that was the only way Shinji could see her being able to live through that much alcohol in such a short amount of time. Shaking it off, Shinji found a small hole to stuff the rest of the beers in. There wasn't room for the sodas anywhere, but he found a place for the pizzas at least.
"What's in the other fridge?" Shinji asked.
"Oh don't worry, he's probably still asleep." Misato called out.
"Well, I'm going to get my room set up now!" Shinji shouted as he walked out to grab his boxes.
-later-
"Let's eat!" Misato declared loudly.
"Let's!" Shinji shouted almost as loud.
With that they dug into the piles of instant food. Shinji feasting upon his pizzas, while Misato ate the strange concoctions she had come up with using all the other instant foods and the potato chips. The sounds of sloppy eating and enjoying it filled the apartment for the next few moments. Finally Misato paused in her eating to speak.
"What's the matter Shinji? You're not eating the rest of the food?" Misato asked.
"Sorry Misato. I may be Japanese, but I was raised by an American half-devil demon hunter. I like pizza." Shinji stated before biting off another bite of pizza.
"What! Are you being finicky!" Misato declared as she leaped up and leaned over to get in Shinji's face.
As she did, her low color shirt, the same one from the picture she had sent Shinji, fell down to reveal a very good portion of her cleavage, and the extremely short shorts that she was wearing weren't helping. Shinji's eyes nearly bugged out of his head as he quickly brought them up to stare in her eyes. When he saw that she wasn't backing down, Shinji decided to throw caution into the wind. After all, she could shoot him all she wanted. With that thought, he brought his eyes back down to the low hanging collar.
"And what do you think you're doing?" Misato asked in a low tone.
"Doing what you told me to in the picture." Shinji said matter-of-factly.
"Fine." Misato as she sat back down in her seat, taking the sight away from Shinji. A small smirk was on her lips.
-later, again-
"Alright, let's decide who's doing what chores we're going to be doing each." Misato said. "How about Rock Paper Scissors?" she asked with a gleam in her eyes.
"Uh..." Shinji said as he caught the gleam. "How about I pull out my pistols and shoot myself in the head and get it over with. You're obviously very good at Rock Paper Scissors. How about I take three out of four jobs, and you decide which ones you want?" Shinji asked.
"Humph, you're no fun, you know that?" Misato asked with a pout.
"Sure I am, hand me one of your warm beers." Shinji said.
Misato hesitantly handed him a beer, afraid he might drink it instead of her. Shinji smiled and winked before pulling out Cerberus, lightly holding it under the can. Suddenly frost began to gather, and Shinji handed the can back, ice cold but not frozen. It was just the right cold temperature.
"Have I told you how awesome you are lately?" Misato asked with a goofy smile.
"Tell me later, I have to take a shower and get ready for some shut eye." Shinji said as he walked towards his room to get some extra shorts.
Soon Shinji was standing before the bathroom door, finding himself staring up at the hanging lingerie for a moment, again wondering what he had got himself into. Misato was obviously not used to living with a roommate, especially a boy. Shaking his head he pulled the door open after making sure one more time that Misato was in the kitchen and hadn't snuck into the bathroom quickly.
Steam quickly filtered out the bathroom door, and a silhouette of a small dark figure shook almost violently before Shinji. Wiping his hands to clear the steam, he found himself staring down at a penguin with a puzzled expression on its face. The Penguin just stared at Shinji for a few more moments, before walking past him and to the fridge.
"Misato?" Shinji asked as he walked into the kitchen. "Why didn't you tell me I had another roommate?" Shinji asked.
"It didn't come up in conversation. He's Penpen, a warm water penguin. He's great." Misato said with a smile. "And uh, Shinji, don't you want to cover up?" Misato asked.
Shinji looked down at his black boxers with his eyebrow raised.
"What? They're clean and they cover everything up with room to spare." Shinji said as he walked off and to the bathroom.
As soon as he was gone Misato wiped the drool away from her mouth where it had been threatening to form since she saw Shinji's figure fully revealed to her. How could a fourteen year old have such a developed figure again? Oh yeah, not fully human. That thought hardly mattered to Misato anymore as she contemplated 'accidentally' walking into the shower.
'No Misato! Bad thoughts! He's underage! Sure he's old enough to fight and die for the world, but he's not old enough to get away with THAT!' Misato shouted in her mind. 'Then again with the permission from his guardian, Dante, maybe...' she started to scheme before slapping herself to make herself get off that line of thought. "Down Misato, down." she quietly whispered to herself.
-later, Misato in the bath-
"So, have you jumped him yet?" Ritsuko asked over the phone.
"Oh, shut up you! It's not as easy as you might think!" Misato exclaimed, almost letting her voice carry out of the room. "I mean, if I see him in his boxers one more time, I might just do that." Misato said, tears almost reaching her eyes in desperation. 'He'd be the first guy since Kaji...' Misato thought, again almost bringing the tears.
"Well, I can't really sympathize, but if you want me to, you could send him over here for a few days." Ritsuko suggested.
"And let you sink your claws into him without me? I don't think so." Misato said with a frown. "Besides, he's a good kid. Heck, he's literally faced off against hell, and he laughs about it like they were some great memories. It's hard to imagine doing the same thing." Misato said, softer now.
"Well, if he's right about the angels being demons, then we might just be doing the same thing now." Ritsuko said, also more serious.
"Yeah well, we're going to be depending on him pretty heavily, aren't we?" Misato asked.
"Yes, I'm afraid we are. There's something I didn't say during the attack because I couldn't believe it then. When the Eva went berserk, and Shinji changed to his Devil Trigger form, he... he achieve a synch of 99.99. It should have been impossible, but he did it while he was transformed. The Eva was berserk alright, but he controlled it with ease, I guess merging his anger with it. He's the perfect Eva pilot." Ritsuko said, a bit of concern in her voice.
"Yeah, I guess so. The question is, will it be enough?" Misato asked. Suddenly a question popped into her mind, and she had to ask it. "Did he use his AT-field at all during the battle?"
"Yes. When he tossed the angel away and tackled it again. The angel had deployed its AT-field. Shinji ripped right through it so easily, we didn't even see it visibly as we would have if it had taken any effort. He was so good, it's scary." Ritsuko admitted.
"Well, he's on our side, so we don't have to worry about that at least." Misato said with a sigh.
"Yeah. Just pity the angels." Ritsuko said with a chuckle before getting her cheerier mood back. "I've got to go. See you in the morning when you bring him in for tests, then we get him ready for school. Good night." Ritsuko said before hanging up.
Misato put the phone down beside the tub and leaned back into the water. She stared hard up at the ceiling, watching images that weren't there play back. Quick flashes of her version of hell flashed before her eyes, those giant wings stretched high into the sky.
"Pity for the angels? I don't think so. You kill the fuckers Shinji." Misato breathed before slipping back into the water.
-later, Shinji's room-
"Shinji?" Misato called through the door. "Can I come in?" she asked.
"Yeah, come on in." Shinji called back.
Misato opened the door and immediately paused at what she saw. Along the walls were plaques, as if they should have skulls on them, but they were empty. Then she noticed the one thing that could be a trophy. On the wall across from Shinji's bed hung a single huge scythe, just like what Misato imagined the Grim Reaper might use.
"What's that?" Misato asked.
"It's the scythe that killed my teacher. It would have killed me too, but instead it set me on a path to becoming a demon hunter and a devil myself. I keep it to remind myself, of what might have been and what is." Shinji said as he stared at it from the foot of his bed.
"And the empty plaques?" Misato asked.
"Their trophies." Shinji said with a grin.
"Of demons?" Misato asked, earning a nod from Shinji. "But there isn't anything on them." Misato stated in confusion.
"I haven't killed any yet around here, except the big ugly one, and it's skull is just a little to big too fit in the room. Maybe on the side of the building..." Shinji said with his grin only growing into his smirk.
"Do you really think you'll be able to kill any demons here other then the angels?" Misato asked.
"Where there's a really big one, little ones are always sure to follow shortly. Don't worry, there won't be more then a few dozen after every angel. I can hunt them down easily before they cause any damage. They should be arriving in a few days. Then I'll have a few skulls to put up on display, the more dangerous ones." Shinji said with a chuckle.
"Oh, well, I wanted to say something that I didn't before. I wanted to say that you did something very good today. You saved our city, and maybe the world. Just... hang in there okay?" Misato tried to encourage.
"Don't worry about me Misato. I'll kill them for you, just like you asked me to do." Shinji said softly.
"After all, you're the only one that's seen the kind of hell I have other then the others at the shop." Shinji said, his eyes seemingly looking far off again.
"You... you know? You know about that?" Misato asked surprised.
"Yeah, like I said, we checked up on NERV, Gendo, and you too. Few could handle what you did. That's why I'll kill them for you, because you asked me too, and because you want it as much as anyone could." Shinji said seriously, but with a small smile. "So don't worry. Don't feel guilty about using me, because you're not. I told you to ask me, and you did, so this is a favor." Shinji assured her.
"A... a favor? A favor for what?" Misato asked.
"Well, that's what friends do, right? They do favors for each other, not always expecting something back. So, how about we just be friends, okay?" Shinji asked.
"Sure Shinji, we'll be friends." Misato said with a smile. "Now get some sleep. Tomorrow you have synch tests, then we get you set up to go to school. Good night." Misato said as she left the room.
"Good night Misato." Shinji said as he laid back on the bed.
When he was sure he was alone he began his thinking again.
'It seems like we all have problems with our fathers. Lady hated her father for killing her mother, and becoming a devil. Trish's father was a demon that created her for a puppet. Lucia has the same problem. Dante hated his father for abandoning him. Virgil disliked his father for locking up the gates to hell and refusing power over others. I...I gave up my old father for a new one that's already dead. Heh, he's been a better father anyways. And Misato hated her father, but loved him for giving up his life for hers. It's all a confusing thing if you let it get to you, so, I think I'll just go on not giving it too much thought. That stuff will only give you head aches.' Shinji thought with a smirk as he fell asleep.
-scene change-
A roof top nearly half a mile away held a shadow. It soon walked into the light, revealing itself as Virgil with a pair of binoculars. He watched the apartment with nothing but a small smirk, barely there at all. Holding up a cell phone, he pressed the speed dial.
"It seems that he's adjusting well after all. He's even living with a woman, a rather attractive one at that. I think he'll be fine after all... Yes, I'll continue to watch him for a while. Good bye." Virgil spoke softly and confidently as his smirk grew slightly. It would be good for the boy to go it alone for a while. After all, every demon must stretch his legs for the first time some time... He had every confidence that he would do well, after all, he is his half brother and a son of Sparda.
-To Be Continued-