Devil Never Cries

by Andross937

NGE Devil May Cry crossover. What happens when Shinji joins the ranks of the 'Sons of Sparda' at eight years old? The world of Neon Genesis Evangelion gets a dose of demon slaying! Can NERV handle a war with heaven AND hell at the same time?

3. Refuge from Angels l Haven for Demons

Devil Never Cries

Authors Notes: I'm happy to be back, and sorry for the wait. Thanks for all the great reviews you've given me so far, and I hope they keep coming. They've helped me though the pain I've been in the last six weeks. I extend my big thanks to those who wished me luck with my surgery and your warm wishes that my shoulder would feel better. I'm doing better now, and just got out of my brace that I've been confined to for the last six weeks.

Yes. That's why I haven't updated. I thank you for being patient and understanding the pain I've been in and why I haven't updated until now. As for all the people who whined and pleaded for me to update and not let the story die, I have this to say. DOESN'T ANYONE READ THE AUTHOR'S NOTES! I specifically stated in the notes in chapter 2 that I was going into surgery THE DAY AFTER I posted it, and that I wasn't going to be able to update until I was feeling better. After all, surgery does tend to hurt. A LOT! I'm sorry if you think I'm being too harsh, and normally I wouldn't be upset by this, but when I'm waking up screaming in pain for six weeks, and it hurts to move my arm to even reach for the keyboard, it doesn't help to see people whining about how long it's been since I've updated, and leaving no way to contact them to explain.

So here I am, warning you that I don't know how long it will be before my next update. I will TRY to have it up soon, but don't go expecting a one a day update or anything, because my arm is still in lots of pain, and it just drains my motivation to see people assuming I'm giving up on the story and whining about the wait when the real reason for the wait is the extreme pain in my right shoulder. Add to the fact that up until a matter of days ago, everything I could type had to be done with only my left hand, and my motivation is easily lost for a day or two at a time.

So I thank you all for enjoying the story as much as you have, and I thank you for your reviews, they're all great! It makes me feel good that someone is enjoying this, and it does help my motivation and let's me put aside the pain for a while. I am sorry that I haven't been able to update until now, but I made the choice not to update until my arm was out of the brace so I would have a chance to get started on chapter 4. So just read and enjoy, review if you like it, tell me what you liked about it, review if you don't like it, tell me what you didn't like about it. Thanks again to those who sent me messages telling me that you understood the pain I've been in, you made me feel a hundred percent better, despite the pain.

Without further interruption, here's the story and I hope you like it! Hope it's worth the wait!

-Chapter 3-

Ritsuko sat at a small desk with a not so small set of monitors around her in the "Eva Training Simulation Room" sipping her coffee. Today was going to be a long day. Only yesterday had they received the newest pilot, but he was most certainly the most interesting, and problem making pilot so far. Being a half-devil, meant that she had to run even more thorough tests on him then she had ever run before, and analyze every line of data several times to make sure that she wasn't missing anything important to his performance or any other effects his demonic blood could have on anything.

And since he was adamant about the Evas and angels being demons, she would have to run multiple tests on his blood, and any similarities it might have to the Evas, and how that could effect his piloting, or the Eva's themselves. Not to mention the number of extra tests she would have to run if they ever got a hold of any angel samples. She just hoped that they didn't all self destruct at death.

As she was almost finished sipping her coffee from its cup, the doors on the other side opened. Shinji poked his head around the door, but did no more. Ritsuko raised an eyebrow at this, as he appeared almost... shy about something. Since the day before, when she had met him, she couldn't imagine him being shy about anything.

"Um, Ritsuko? Do I really have to wear this thing?" Shinji finally asked.

"What? Your plug suite?" Ritsuko asked.

Shinji frowned as if it should be obvious. "No Ritsuko, the piece of male lingerie that Misato bought me this morning." he dead panned, sarcasm almost dripping from his voice.

"Yes Shinji, yes you have to wear the lingerie." Ritsuko answered, not even a hint of playing around in her voice, as her eyes almost seemed to become those of a predator watching its prey at the thought of such a thing.

"Yes I mean the plug suite!" Shinji exclaimed.

"Yes Shinji. The plug suite will help you synch with the Eva, and it also helps me with my tests, so please come in now." Ritsuko said, the look fading in her eyes and her tone became more casual.

"Fine." Shinji said, sounding upset and disappointed. "But this thing is uncomfortable." he complained.

Shinji then walked into the room in his plug suite. Ritsuko's eyes almost bugged before the predatory look came back to them full force. Shinji's muscular figure was shown off quite well by the tight suite he had to wear. It was taking every ounce of Ritsuko's control to keep from examining every curve that was shown off by the suite. It was unfortunate that Ritsuko didn't have much control in this case.

"Uh, Ritsuko? Doc? Dr. Ritsuko Akagi?" Shinji began to ask as she was just staring at him. This continued, Ritsuko mumbling something in an almost strained sounding voice, but it wasn't coherent so not even Shinji's incredible hearing could make out what she was saying. Finally, Shinji was getting desperate.

Shinji pulled out his silver pistol, Yui, and fired it three times at the ceiling. This scared Ritsuko out of her staring with a small scream, squeezing her eyes closed as she momentarily forgot where she was and who she was with. When she finally opened her eyes, she was looking at a rather annoyed looking Shinji, still holding his pistol to the sky.

"Next time you want to space on me while I'm wearing something embarrassing to me, take a picture or something and drool later." Shinji said as he was calming down.

Ritsuko nodded with a still slightly frightened expression. Shinji put away the pistol, looking away to do so, and suddenly there was a small flash of light. Shinji looked up in surprise to see Ritsuko holding a camera at him, having just taken a picture. Shinji had to use every ounce of his will power to keep from blowing that camera away with his pistols...

"Can we just get started already?" Shinji finally asked in an exasperated tone.

"Yes, uh, of course. Please step through that door there and enter the test plug. Once inside we will be running a several points test. We will be monitoring your synch closely, your various medical stats, and we will be training you further in the use of the Evangelions, as well as familiarizing you with the city's lay out and locations of things important to the piloting of the Evas, such as extraction points and weapons buildings." Ritsuko said, managing to regain her professionalism somewhere in the middle of her speech.

"So... in other words your giving me the tutorial to this little video game?" Shinji asked.

"Uh... yes Shinji. You could say that." Ritsuko finally responded.

"Alright, let's fire this puppy up!" Shinji let out in a small shout to get himself psyched as he walked through the door.

-later-

"This is getting really boring." Shinji complained. "I mean, this is beginning to border on sucking." Shinji continued on.

"Relax Shinji. The training is almost over." Ritsuko assured him over the intercom.

"So?" Misato asked as she came into the monitoring room and up beside Ritsuko. "How's our little demon doing in his tests?" she asked.

"He won't shut up."Ritsuko said as she held her forehead in frustration.

"I mean seriously! This is a really boring way to shoot a gun! Center the target, pull the trigger! Come on, where's the style? Where's the fun? Can't I at least shoot at a different looking target then that stupid demon that I killed last night! This is what? The 215th one I've killed already?" Shinji exclaimed.

"There are no other targets to kill Shinji! That's the only one we've seen so far! Okay! When the next angel comes around, then you can have a different target!" Ritsuko shouted in anger.

"Alright, alright already. Sheesh... Can't I at least face one that doesn't go down after just a few shots?" Shinji asked.

'He wants to face a tougher angel huh? Fine! I'll give him a tougher angel!' Ritsuko thought to herself with a demented mad scientist grin.

"Are you feeling alright Ritsu?" Misato asked as Ritsuko got that 'I'm about to go nuts' grin.

"Alright! Alright! Of course I'm feeling alright! I've never felt better!" Ritsuko exclaimed as she was typing into her keyboard at a speed that was almost impossible to see.

Suddenly the 216th angel popped into the simulation that Shinji was in. Sighing in boredom, Shinji shot it through the core, but the angel kept it's slow march up anyways. Shinji arched his eyebrow as he looked at the hole he shot clear through the core as it shut on its own. Grinning wide, Shinji finally got excited.

"Now this what I'm talking about!" he exclaimed. "Thank's Ritsuko!" he said happily.

"Should we be doing this?" Misato asked as she watched the simulation program, and watching Shinji's Eva rush into close range combat with the angel.

"Of course. It's good to see how a pilot responds to an unbeatable scenario." Ritsuko said as they watched Shinji's Eva begin to beat the living crap out of the angel, ripping chunks out of it with its fists.

"Yeah, but, this won't make him mad or anything when he finally loses?" Misato asked, a little worried.

"No..." Ritsuko said as they watched the angel regenerating, only to have chunks ripped out again. "He seems to be enjoying it actually." Ritsuko said, her plan to aggravate Shinji backfiring somewhat.

Shinji finally backed off after a bit. The angel regenerated again, and went to stand. Shinji smiled, before pulling out the rifle again. Aiming at the feet, he shot the angel's ankles off, sending it to the ground. Leaping on it again, he began to jump on it like it was some kind of trampoline. The sounds of bones cracking under the Eva's weight made the girls wince, but it only made Shinji grin bigger. Finally he made a big 'bounce' on the angel and came down on it hard with his full body.

He crawled up to all fours and held the angel down with his legs and left arm. Reaching up, he grabbed the prog. knife kept in the shoulder wing of the Eva. Pulling it out with an evil gleam in his eye and an insane grin, Shinji went to work. The girls were almost ready to shut it off from the sick feeling they were getting as Shinji began to carve his name into the angel's back.

"Uh, Shinji?" Ritsuko asked tentatively.

"Don't worry." Shinji said in a amused sounding tone. "I'm just having a little bit of fun." Shinji said as he finally got off the angel.

"If you say so..." Misato said uneasily.

"Hey, Ritsuko, could you maybe get the angel to run a little or something?" Shinji asked.

"A..alright." Ritsuko said nervously.

"And I don't mean run away. I want it to chase me. Okay?" Shinji asked with a smile.

"Sure Shinji. Chase you. Okay." Ritsuko said as she typed in her speedy fashion.

Suddenly the angel started to get up, and Shinji could tell it wanted to grab onto him something fierce. Just what he wanted it to do. Quickly Shinji broke into a run away from the angel, using his rifle to slow it down by shooting out its legs. The angel would spend a second or two on the ground before getting up again and continuing the chase.

Shinji ran out of ammo just about when he reached an extraction lift. Smirking, he set it to start when he pressed the remote button in his plug. Standing there, he waited for the angel as it came charging at him again. Just as it went to tackle him with its energy pistons first, Shinji leaped up and tossed down the prog. knife, stabbing it through it's foot and into the lift. Just then he pressed the button, sending the lift down at full speed, as the angel almost seemed to disappear it fell so fast.

"Whooh this is fun!" Shinji shouted in excitement.

He grabbed another rifle from a armament building and went back to the lift quickly. Without a second thought he jumped down the hole, falling at nearly the same speed the angel fell at. As he was almost to the bottom of the incredibly long drop, Shinji let out a shout of excitement and covered his face as a cross flare passed over the Eva's body, unable to even slow or heavily damage the Eva as it then slammed feet first into the angel's face. The two giants became tangled at the bottom, as most of the angel was now crushed from the Eva's fall on top of it.

Shinji rolled off it and started to run again, right through the simulated NERV base. The angel soon regenerated and began to chase after him as it was programmed to do. Shinji seemed to be taking random turns as he ran around like a chicken with its head chopped off. His hilarious laughter didn't make it seem like he had a plan either. Finally he started to almost randomly hit things, but then stopped almost a second later, and the angel almost caught up to him. He quickly football tackled the angel down then ran past it again.

Again he stopped next to the lifts, waiting for the angel. Again the angel came barreling at him, but this time Shinji didn't move away. Instead he emptied his entire rifle into the angel's ankles, ripping its feet off. As the feet were reattaching themselves, Shinji shoved the angel onto a lift. Smashing the brakes and the locks quickly, Shinji gave the angel one last parting gift before launching the lift.

"Bye bye now mister demon." Shinji said as it shot upwards at incredible speeds, almost twice as fast as the speed of sound.

The angel flew upwards with a cannister strapped to its stomach. It wasn't programmed to care about such things, so it did nothing to remove it. The lift finally slammed to the surface, breaking off as there had been no breaks. The angel flew high into the air, almost higher then most jets could fly. Suddenly the cannister strapped to its chest, an N2 mine, exploded, raining fire down on the simulation city as most buildings were thrown to the ground from the shockwave alone.

Ritsuko and Misato let their jaws drop as the message that the 216th simulation angel had been defeated.

"No way! I programmed that angel to be unbeatable!" Ritsuko shouted in shock.

"I figured that." Shinji replied over the intercom. "But, I also figured that you hadn't thought to program it to be able to regenerate from being totally vaporized, or at least the program might be tricked into thinking it self destructed or something and not allow it to regenerate." Shinji explained with a smirk. "That was fun, anything else?" Shinji asked.

"No Shinji. That's all." Ritsuko mumbled as she disengaged the simulation.

"Thanks. I've been in this thing for hours, and that was the only fun thing the whole time." Shinji commented as the LCL began to drain.

Finally the intercom shut off, cutting off any other comments from Shinji as Ritsuko and Misato were left just staring forwards at the last screen from the simulation. Tokyo-3 had been heavily wrecked by the shockwave, but only the eastern outskirts. Shinji had sent it to the mountains next to the city, therefore only wrecking about an eighth of the city with the explosion. Still, the sight of the crumbled buildings, and the Eva almost grinning down in NERV, was a little unnerving.

"Wow." was all Misato could finally say.

"You said it." Ritsuko replied.

"Mental note: never let that kid get a hold of fireworks." Misato almost mumbled.

"Those are wise words. I can still hardly believe he just beat me at my own program... and he did it with 35 seconds left in his Eva's batteries. If this kid is only the younger brother of three half-demons, I'd hate to see what would happen if we ever made enemies with the whole family..." Ritsuko said breathlessly.

"Or had them host a barbeque with fireworks..." Misato muttered before finally shaking her head. "Well, now I have to get him ready for school..." Misato said before sighing.

"What's the matter captain? We've already taken care of registering him in his new school, and he doesn't actually start school until tomorrow... All you have to do is take him by the school today and make sure that he gets well acquainted with the rules, customs, where he has to go, and generally what the school is like. Then you get to take the rest of the day off. What's so bad about that?" Ritsuko asked, rather envious of Misato's light work load for the day, especially considering that her work load had only increased with Shinji's arrival and that her day's work had hardly begun.

"Well, he really is completely used to American ways of doing things. I mean, he speaks Japanese perfectly, but his life style is so very different then the way it is over here. I mean, the next thing you know, he'll be looking for a McDonald's or something..." Misato said as she looked out the window at the test plug.

Ritsuko could tell that her friend lacked the usual conviction behind her words that she usually had, so she wasn't telling her everything. A quick glance in Misato's direction told Ritsuko that she was right. Misato was definitely distracted by something, her mind being somewhere else completely. Wondering what was so interesting, she followed her line of sight.

Her answer was quite obvious when she saw Shinji walking out of the test plug chamber and heading into the hall to change his clothes. Misato's eyes were roaming over Shinji's body the same way she had been doing when he arrived that morning. Acting fast, Ritsuko managed to pull out her camera and snap a shot of Shinji's back side just as he was about to walk out of their vew. The flash brought Misato back to the real world with a start, jumping an inch back as she shook her head before glaring at Ritsuko.

"Ritsuko! Taking pictures of Shinji is just wrong!" she exclaimed.

"I'll sell you a copy of this one and the earlier one for just a few hundred yen each..." Ritsuko said with a large grin.

Misato eyed her friend for a moment before fishing out the desired money.

"This is just because I think it would be a little awkward to ask him to model his plug suite for me at home." she said as she handed Ritsuko the bills. "After all, we're friends now." she said with a large smile.

"Oh really? Friends?" Ritsuko asked. "How close of friends are you?" she asked with a mischievous grin to her face and a twinkle in her eyes. "I thought you said you wouldn't do anything without telling me?" she asked with mock hurt in her voice.

"Oh hush up you. It's nothing like that. He just..." Misato paused for a few seconds to regain her composure before continuing. "He just said that he was fighting the angels as a favor to me because we're friends." she said with a ghostly smile to her face. "He said that I'm not using him because he wants to do this. I was afraid that I was only using him, but he already knew that and relieved me of that fear... We're friends." Misato finished as she was mostly talking to herself out loud now.

"So you're not just after him for the sex huh?" Ritsuko asked teasingly.

"Well, that is a pretty big factor, yes." Misato answered back teasingly. "And if you want me to share you had better lay off me some alright!" Misato threatened.

"Alright, so if you're so friendly, then what is the matter with getting him ready and adjusted to school here?" Ritsuko asked, calming down from her teasing high somewhat at Misato's threat. After all, she couldn't be sure if she was serious or not.

"Well..." Misato started rather nervously as she blushed a little and leaned back. "The school has a uniform rule, and Shinji doesn't have any uniforms... So I have to take him shopping." Misato finished.

"Oh, so that's what's the matter? Well..." Ritsuko began as she leaned closer to Misato and whispered. "Might I suggest some... male lingerie for him." she said with a cat-like grin.

"Ritsuko! This is serious! I've decided to work on my self control, but I don't know if I could handle that...! Besides, there is a bigger problem..." Misato claimed.

"Oh, and that would be?" Ritsuko asked, her curiosity peeked.

"You're forgetting that no matter how old he looks, he's still fourteen." Misato elaborated.

"So?" Ritsuko asked, honestly not seeing any problem. "He's old enough to fight and die for the entire world, he's old enough to do some of the more adult things afforded to legal adults. If you're really worried about that, NERV can officially make the pilots legal adults, and you could call up his legal guardian if you feel the need to. That Dante guy Shinji told us about. I'm sure that you could come to an arrangement of some sorts. After all, he takes him out to fight demons, how could he not see him as mature enough to make his own decisions." Ritsuko explained.

Misato sweat dropped for a moment at Ritsuko's justification of sleeping with Shinji. It sounded like she had been running that one through her head for a while. Just like herself actually. She shook her head as that wasn't what she had a problem with at the moment.

"Ritsuko, that was thoroughly thought out and well put, but that wasn't the problem I was referring to." Misato dead panned.

"Oh, then what's the problem?" Ritsuko asked with an arched eyebrow.

"The problem is that he is fourteen, he looks much older, and he is going to a highschool that will undoubtedly be filled with fourteen year old girls filled with hormones and gunning for him." Misato explained fully.

"Oh, you're worried about competition." Ritsuko concluded.

"Hell yes I'm worried about competition!" Misato exclaimed. "After all, he is a hormone filled teenage boy that will no doubt have at least half the girls in the school all over him. Who knows what could happen!" Misato said worriedly.

"Oh don't worry so much Misato. After all, why would he have some little inexperienced highschool girl, when he could easily have a much more developed and experienced woman instead?" Ritsuko asked as she subtly flexed her muscles in the perfect way to accentuate her feminine features under her lab coat before turning a somewhat roaming eye on Misato to help with her point.

"Well, youth does have its advantages..." Misato muttered.

"Oh please Misato. Like you couldn't, or better yet, we couldn't keep up with the most youthful and energy filled teenage girl?" Ritsuko pointed out with a light smack to Misato's arm. "Besides, we already know the truth about him and aren't afraid of him. That's bound to make him more comfortable with pursuing relationships with us instead of someone that might get scared of him." Ritsuko said to help reassure her friend.

"You're really set on us seducing him together, aren't you?" Misato asked sarcastically.

"Tell me that you weren't tempted to try and jump his bones when you first saw him, and I'll say no." Ritsuko challenged. When she didn't get any response besides a slight blush from Misato, she continued. "Besides, I would be glad to pursue him by myself, but he seems rather interested in you. And besides... I rather enjoyed those days with Kaji and you, and wouldn't mind reliving them with Shinji... It was fun." Ritsuko said with a nostalgic smile on her face as her eyes glazed over for a few seconds.

"Well, the more the merrier I guess." Misato resigned herself to having to involve her friend should anything ever happen between Shinji and herself.

"You know, he should be changed by now. You had better get him to a clothing store and buy him those uniforms." Ritsuko said to get Misato off on her way. After all, she had a lot of work to do and talking about what she would like to do to Shinji wouldn't get any of it done.

"You know, we really are just two old perverted women." Misato said as she headed for the door.

"That's not true Misato. We're not old." Ritsuko called back as Misato opened the door.

"That makes me feel a lot better. Thanks. See ya later." Misato called back as she walked towards the pilots changing rooms.

When she arrived she found Shinji already waiting for her, once again dressed in the outfit that he had been in when she first met him. Misato raised an eyebrow at this.

"What's the matter Shinji, don't have any more clothes then that?" she asked curiously.

Shinji looked at her with a smirk and a gleam to his eyes as he answered.

"Of course I do Misato, but these are my most comfortable clothes... After all, they are bound to me the same way that my weapons are." Shinji said with a chuckle.

"Huh?" Misato asked.

Shinji shrugged his shoulders before his trench coat disappeared into thin air right off his body. Misato's eyes bugged, though she would later reflect that she should have been prepared for that. A moment later the jacket reappeared back on Shinji's body as if it were never gone. Pushing himself off of the wall where he had been leaning, Shinji started walking towards the exit, looking back at Misato with a warm smile to silently invite her to walk with him. Misato numbly took him up on his invitation and followed after him.

"So you can, what...? Just call those clothes to you whenever you want?" Misato asked.

"Yeah, actually, I can. They can replace whatever I'm wearing at the time, while the clothes I may have been wearing before disappear until I send this outfit away. It just so happens that these are my fighting clothes, but are also my most comfortable clothes." Shinji answered as he maneuvered himself to be walking next to Misato now, instead of in front of her.

"Well, we're going to have to see what we can do about that. I have to take you shopping for some school uniforms so you'll be ready for tomorrow. After that we are going to swing by the school itself and get you introduced to the faculty ahead of time. When we're done with that, we're free for the rest of the day!" Misato said with a big grin on her face.

Shinji could actually feel the happy relief coming off of her. He wondered what was getting her so excited about having the day off. Was working for this place really that bad? Shrugging his shoulders to himself, he decided to just ask her later as he could tell that she was already spacing about something.

Misato herself was relishing the thought of having the day off. After all, the day before had been the first angel attack in fifteen years, and she should have been tied up for the next two days. Instead, because of Shinji's special condition and its possible ties to the Evangelions and the angels, almost all of her work had to go to Ritsuko so that she could do the most research she could into the possible consequences this could have. Of course, her work wouldn't always go to Ritsuko, but this time it did, and that had her rather excited about getting the day off when she should be buried under a mountain of papers.

"Sorry to ruin your perfect little trip to the moon and everything, but you do know that they might not make uniforms for that school in my size, right?" Shinji interrupted Misato's lapse from reality.

"Don't worry about it Shinji. It's just simple dress shirts and dark blue pants. Nothing really fancy or special." Misato said as she shook her head to clear the fog of day dreams out of her mind.

"Oh... Well, that's alright I guess." Shinji said nodding his head. "Of course, they won't be nearly as comfortable as these clothes, but alright." Shinji said with a shrug.

"Just why are those clothes so comfortable to you anyways?" Misato asked, finally letting her curiosity get to her about his clothes.

"Since they're bonded to me, they're effectively a part of me. They feel like a second skin to me." Shinji answered as they reached the half way point to Misato's car.

"How do you keep them clean? I mean, they were covered in LCL when you were in the Eva." Misato asked as she eyed the outfit again, only partially checking out Shinji this time.

"Magic I guess." Shinji answered.

"Magic?" Misato asked, only a little skeptically.

"My demon powers keep them clean by killing germs, brushing off dirt, drying them almost instantly when they get wet, and otherwise cleansing them when I consider them dirty in someway." Shinji explained. "That's also the reason why they're repaired when damaged, like when I stabbed myself. These clothes are bonded to me, so when I healed, they did too."

"I was starting to wonder about that..." Misato admitted as they finally reached the garage.

"Well, let's go get those school clothes. Never had any of those." Shinji said mostly to himself.

This made Misato curious.

"You've never had school clothes?" she asked, eyeing Shinji again, this time managing to keep from checking him out completely. "Why not?"

"I've never been to school." Shinji said with a shrug.

"Never?" Misato asked unbelievingly.

"Never." Shinji answered her.

"So how did you learn anything? What kind of education did you get?" Misato asked as they finally reached the car.

Shinji stared over the roof of the car at her dumbly, his head cocked to the side and one eye crossed while the other wasn't.

"Dah... education? What's that Misato?" he asked in a sarcastic tone.

Misato frowned at him as she unlocked the doors.

"I was home schooled of course. The more I trained in demon hunting, the more that Lady wanted to make sure I studied too. After all, I have to know how to read in order to study the books they had about demons and demon killing. If you must know, I'm around the level of a high school senior, but I'll take what ever classes you put me in. Quite frankly, I'd like to be around kids my age anyways." Shinji said as he plopped himself down in the passenger seat.

"You know Shinji, you don't really look fourteen... That could cause problems." Misato admitted.

"So? I'm a transfer student from America that just happens to have been born in Japan. I think I'll be weird enough that it'll just be one more thing weird about me. I'm not worried." Shinji said with a shrug before leaning back in the seat to relax until they got to a clothing store.

"You're not worried at all?" Misato asked, eyeing him again even as she gunned it for the elevator to the surface.

"Nah. I've faced hundreds of demons and two portals directly to hell. Why should I be worried about what some highschool kids think about me? Besides, I've managed to make friends with plenty of kids around my age over the years, despite looking older." Shinji said with his eyes closed and a confident smile on his face.

Misato shrugged as she stopped to swipe her card and get onto the train. Maybe Shinji's going to school wouldn't be a problem after all. After all, other then looking eighteen and having an incredible body, he could pass as completely normal. Heck, he fooled her until he transformed, even when he had practically spelled it out that he wasn't normal at all.

"Of course, most of those kids were people that Dante or I saved from demons at some time or another. They were weirded out by what I am for a while, but then got over it. Just like you actually." Shinji said with a grin before seemingly going to sleep.

"About that Shinji..." Misato paused to consider how to go on.

"Hmm?" Shinji hummed as he poked one open at her.

"Could you... maybe not tell everyone that you're a demon. Or about the angels being demons? That's all sorta suppose to be top secret stuff and all that." Misato finished as she parked on the train.

Shinji started to laugh.

"Misato...!" he said between loud chuckles. "What did you think I was going to do? Walk in there and say something stupid like 'Hi! I'm Shinji Ikari, a son of the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda, a demon who fought all of hell back into the holes they crawled out of and sealed Earth off from hell. I kill demons for a living, and am now fighting the really giant looking bastards that have been tearing the city up with the giant demon that NERV gave me to fight with! How are you today?'" Shinji exclaimed, laughing all the way through his little speech.

"Well, I didn't exactly expect you to put it that way, but yes. I just wanted to make sure you know that this is all suppose to be top secret." Misato said with a bright red blush on her cheeks at being made fun of.

"Sure, sure. I won't tell them what I really am, what we're really fighting, or what I'm really piloting. Of course, since it is a little hard to not have seen that big demon walking around out there yesterday, I'm not going to deny it's existence or anything like that. If they can figure out on their own that I'm the new pilot, then I won't deny it. Alright?" Shinji asked as he was settling down.

"Agreed. We really don't expect you to keep your status as an Evangelion pilot secret. Everyone at the school knows that Rei is a pilot, so it's alright if they know about you being one too. Just don't go talking about demons and all that. At least not until the Commander clears it to become public knowledge." Misato pleaded weakly.

"Which will never happen." Shinji pointed out.

"Right." Misato admitted.

"Sure thing Misato. No one would have believed me anyways." Shinji said with a shrug, having been expecting something like this all along.

Shinji laughed a bit to himself before continuing on.

"You probably wouldn't believe this Misato... but most people don't believe that I'm a demon until I show them proof or I have to save them from one." he said sarcastically.

"I never would have guessed."

-later-

Since the actual angel battle had taken place just the night before, the city was mostly still cleaning up. Even though they had already opened up several sections of the city that hadn't been involved in the battle, few stores were opening so soon after something as colossal as a battle between an angel and an Eva. Misato drove them around for nearly two hours looking for a clothing store. It wasn't easy, but eventually they found such a store.

"Finally." Shinji said with a relieved sigh as they pulled into a parking space at the clothing store. "I don't know if I could have withstood anymore of this slow driving." he said with a smirking grin.

Misato eyed him warily for a few seconds, honestly wondering if he was serious or not. After all, she had only known Shinji for a day, and she didn't actually know all that much about him. He didn't seemed fazed by her driving habits, which relieved her as she was rather annoyed with everyone getting so worked up about it. Still, she couldn't help but wonder if perhaps he was used to riding with someone who drove more extreme then she herself did.

"Hey Shinji...?" she began to ask, pausing as she got out and shut her door. "...does your guardian Dante drive more... recklessly then I do?" she asked with a curious look to her face, trying to imagine what kind of stunts this Dante guy might make in a car.

"Huh? Sure, I suppose... but I was actually referring to my own driving. Sorry Misato, but when you're not afraid to die in a car wreck, you quickly get used to taking whatever you're driving to the limit. Besides, both Dante and Lady are killers with a motorcycle, literally." Shinji said with a wide smile.

"Literally? You mean they... kill with their motorcycles?" Misato asked, more then a little confused.

"Yup. In Lady's case, she likes to set demons on fire by revving the engine and letting the flames do all her work. In Dante's case... well, he likes to use it as a club." Shinji said with a chuckle at the memories of Dante teaching him to properly use a motorcycle as a lethal weapon.

"A club?" Misato asked disbelievingly, her eyebrows raised as high as they could go.

"Yup. A club. I like it too, but I wouldn't use my motorcycle like that." Shinji said as they reached the store's entrance.

"You have your own motorcycle!" Misato exclaimed loud enough to get the stares of the few people actually in the store, most of which were the people working there.

Shinji shrugged before answering. "Yeah. I just had to leave it back at the shop for now. I can have it sent up as soon as NERV gets me a license to drive it around here. Normally I wouldn't care about that, but I figure I wouldn't want to give NERV a bad image by having one of their oh so important pilots getting pulled over without one." he said with a small chuckle.

"You have your own motorcycle..." Misato whimpered once more before deciding to try and ignore it for now and find him his school clothes.

Spotting the proper colored dress pants and shirts at the front of the school clothes section, Misato made a bee-line for them. She had to be careful, because in this store, the men's underwear was only thirty feet to the left of the school clothes section, and she didn't want to be side tracked by Ritsuko's earlier playful suggestion. At least, she thought that she was only being playful. That was Ritsuko, one minute cold and serious minded, the next moment she was almost normal, and then the next she was somewhat single minded about pursuing someone that caught her eye. The scary thing was that she almost never failed to get a guy if she wanted him, no matter how hard he resisted. It was just that she rarely felt like going after anyone.

Misato got a goofy grin to her face when she remembered the time that Kaji flirted with Ritsuko enough that she finally became interested in him. Kaji had thought that it would be fun to suddenly play hard to get and resist her advancements on him. He hadn't lasted half the day before she had broken him down. He of course didn't try to resist very hard, but she had really expected him to last longer.

Then there was the time that she genially took an interest in a guy during college. She decided that she wanted him, and that she would have him. The only problem had been that he was gay. After three weeks, Ritsuko had her man. The poor guy was dumped by her a few weeks later when they graduated.

She laughed to herself as she wondered what had happened to him after that...

"Misato!" Shinji exclaimed as he had been waving his hand in her face for the last two minutes. "Misato!"

"Huh?" she asked as she finally came out of her own little world of memories.

One look at Shinji's annoyed expression and Misato figured out what had happened. She blushed and smiles weakly at him in a silent apology before looking back at the clothes to cover her embarrassment. Deciding to move on, Misato pointed at the clothes and turned back to Shinji.

"Pick out some clothes that are your size, go try them on, and if they fit we'll buy enough to get you through a week." she said, trying to ignore the look on Shinji's face that told her he hadn't forgotten her spacing episode.

"You know, I wouldn't mind you going off to la la land like that, except you were staring right at the men's lingerie section." Shinji stated sourly.

"I was?" Misato asked in embarrassment, her face burning with a blush now.

Shinji smiled wide and bright as he answered. "Nope. Just messing with you. You were actually just staring at the school shirts." Shinji said with a chuckle as he grabbed a shirt, pants, and a pair of shoes and headed for the changing rooms.

As soon as he was securely behind a closed door, Misato let out the breath she had been holding as a small nervous chuckle. Why had he mentioned men's lingerie? Had he heard Ritsuko's remark somehow, and thus their entire conversation, or had he and Ritsuko had some kind of joke about it earlier? She was getting nervous just thinking about it, so she tried to just focus on something else.

Try as she might, she couldn't think about anything for very long, other then what Shinji might look like in a school uniform. Her eyes took a far off look as she remembered what Shinji had looked like in the plug suite, a smile spreading on her face. Shaking her head, she scolded herself silently for thinking like that when she was trying to gain more control over herself. Rolling her eyes, she went to find a seat to sit on until Shinji was out. At least, she chuckled inwardly, she had managed to avoid thinking about what Shinji would have looked like without the school uniform or plug suite.

'He has his own motorcycle...' she thought to herself, going back to being depressed about it to keep her from thinking about more tempting thoughts.

"Hey Misato..." Shinji called out just as she sat down.

"Yeah?" she called out back.

Shinji opened the door to the changing rooms, now fully dressed in a school uniform. It fit him well, not being too tight or loose, though it still managed to show his muscles well. Misato had to admit that while she had never really had a thing about school boys, Shinji's outfit could get her started down a road to liking the look a lot. On him at least.

"Does the school have a gym uniform?" he asked as he came out and walked a little to get a feel for the clothes.

"Uh... Yeah." Misato said as she tried to remember what it was. Looking around the school clothes section a bit, she finally pointed towards a rack of jump suite-like outfits that were what most schools had for a gym uniform, including Shinji's new school. "There you go. A few of those should do." she finally said, managing to keep from staring at Shinji too much.

"Thanks." Shinji said as he walked over and grabbed one of the hanging uniforms and headed back for the changing rooms.

'Those schoolgirls won't know what hit them...' Misato thought to herself as she just stared at the door to the changing room that Shinji was in.

"Hey Misato?" Shinji called out again.

"Yeah?" she asked, wondering what clothes Shinji was going to try on and model next.

"Would it be too much trouble to get me my license soon. Those demons I mentioned will start arriving in a few days, and we don't want them to get to causing trouble because I couldn't get to them fast enough. Unless you have no problem with me flying around the city in full demon trigger?" Shinji asked with a chuckle, still in the changing room.

"You can fly?" Misato found herself asking, knowing that she really shouldn't be surprised by it, but she couldn't help but be surprised at hearing that Shinji could fly.

"For a while, yeah. I mean, you really didn't think that those wings of mine are for decoration, did you?" Shinji asked sarcastically. "It's a little tiring, but I can probably fly around the city a few times before having to change back and not have to change to my devil trigger for a while." he answered plainly before opening the door and stepping out.

Once again Shinji's outfit fit him nicely. The gym uniform was tight here and there, showing his muscled frame, but it was loose enough for him to move around in easily. It didn't flatter him as well as his tight black shirt did, but it wasn't as loose as his baggy brown jeans. Misato thought it looked good on him, so she decided to throw caution to the wind and began clapping.

"Very nice looking Shinji." she said with a smile.

Shinji looked at her with those confident eyes of his and gave her a big smile. It wasn't a smile of superiority or arrogance, but a smile of aplomb and appreciation of being complimented. Soon that smile became a smirk, but a friendly one.

"Thanks Misato. So what do you say about me getting my license soon?" Shinji asked.

Misato sat back for a moment, thinking about how she would go about doing something like that. Deciding that it wouldn't really be hard for NERV to arrange for something like that, and that the commander would approve of it since it meant Shinji getting to NERV faster incase of emergency, she nodded to herself. It wouldn't take long at all.

"Sure Shinji. Just let me borrow your license that you have now, and I'll have you a license for Japan by tomorrow when you come in after school for tests." Misato said as she gave him a smile of her own.

"Thanks Misato. It should only take two days or so to get my motorcycle up here, so it won't be a moment too soon. I'll have it in time to start cleaning up the trash that show up around the city. Maybe I'll take you for a ride when it gets here...?" Shinji offered as he went back into the changing room to change out of the track suit.

Misato blushed and nodded hard, blushing again in embarrassment as she realized he couldn't see her.

"I'd like that Shinji. I'd like that a lot." she said with a great deal of enthusiasm.

"Great! Don't worry, I won't be using it as a club while you're on it." Shinji said with a chuckle.

"Thanks. I'd appreciate it." Misato said wryly, rolling her eyes and smiling to herself.

-later-

"So that's what your school is like. Now that you've met with the faculty and know where to go, have any questions?" Misato asked as they were walking out of the school and heading for the car.

"Since you explained and demonstrated every single tradition and protocol three times already... not really. Though, I especially enjoyed watching you demonstrate the bow the class does at the start of the day. The view from behind was great. I wouldn't mind seeing you do that again...?" Shinji said hopefully.

"Smart ass." Misato said with a smirk. "Try not to stare at my butt too much while all the teachers are looking, okay? It was hard enough convincing them that you're really fourteen and not some college age student being held back or something. I'm pretty sure that every female teacher there was jealous of me, thinking we were lovers or something from how old you look, and the way you kept checking me out." Misato said with a chuckle.

"Hey!" Shinji began to defend himself. "It's not my fault that you kept showing me the bow over and over again."

"I wouldn't have had to if you would have just got it right the first time." Misato accused.

"I didn't know you were being serious. I thought you were teasing me and giving me a show at the same time." Shinji said with a shrug.

"Liar." Misato accused. "You knew I was serious all along. You just wanted to see me bend over more." she said with a mixture of an accusing tone, and a smirk of playfulness on her face.

"Well," Shinji said with a large grin plastered on his face, "you got me there." he finished with his customary smirk.

Misato couldn't help but laugh.

After the car was speeding back towards the apartment, they had settled into a comfortable silence. Misato was actually watching the road as she drove, obeying at least half of the laws of the road, and making up a few new ones of her own to replace the old ones. Shinji was sitting back and just feeling good. He did have a pretty good time teasing Misato by getting the bow wrong over and over again, forcing her to show him how to do it again, giving him plenty of eye candy to look at.

"Hey Shinji?" Misato asked, breaking the silence with a curious tone to her voice.

"Yeah Misato?" Shinji replied, still leaning back in the chair.

"You can just change forms and fly around the sky?" Misato asked, mostly to confirm it to herself.

"Yeah..." Shinji replied.

"Well, I noticed that you're somewhere in the realm of inhumanly strong... so, could you support me if you decided to take me flying with you?" Misato asked, her voice slightly unsure.

"Yeah, I could. Are you asking me to take you flying some time?" Shinji asked as he brought the seat back up to better be involved in the conversation.

"Well... yeah, I guess I am." Misato admitted slowly, still unsure of herself.

"I don't know if you would like it as much as you think Misato. You remember seeing what I looked like when I was changed... I really do look like a demon then. I'm not all that pretty, and am actually pretty ugly to tell the truth." Shinji explained to her.

"Yeah, well, you're not all that ugly. Sure, you don't exactly look human, but it's not all that bad... because it's still you." Misato said in a quite tone, just above a whisper.

Shinji smirked again and looked at Misato with a chuckle escaping his lips. He felt truly flattered by her words. It made him feel pretty good to have her say something that nice about him.

"Thanks Misato... Sure. We'll try it sometime soon, and see if you like it. Let me get through this batch of demons coming, and then we'll try it. I don't want to do it any sooner so I can save my strength. It's hard to hold my devil trigger for a long time..." Shinji said with a smile.

Misato's eyes lit up as she smiled at Shinji. Quickly she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. Almost before he could blink though, she was back at the wheel and driving as normal, reckless and fast. Shinji looked dumbly at her for a moment, before smirking again and shaking his head side to side.

"Thanks Shinji." Misato said with a big smile, her confidence back full force.

"You're welcome Misato. It's no problem at all." Shinji said with a light laugh, happy with Misato being happy.

Misato casually changed course for a different destination.

-later-

"Where are we?" Shinji asked as he got out of the car.

"Somewhere special..." Misato answered.

They were parked on a large hill at the edge of Tokyo 3. It over looked the entire city, showing a mostly barren sight. Few buildings the size of a sky scraper were anywhere to be seen. It was rather small looking compared to most large cities. It certainly didn't portray what most described as a massive city, a fortress for man-kind, nor a gathering place for those who would face against the angels. It looked large and wide, but empty of the usual large buildings.

"Well, I know where we are, but I'm actually asking why we're here." Shinji asked again.

"I'm doing something to repay you for your promise. You promised to let me see the city from a whole new perspective, and so I'm going to let you see the city you saved from a new perspective." Misato answered with a smile.

Just then the alarms sounded and the buildings began to rise from the ground. It was slow moving, but what more could one expect from buildings that were growing from the ground up. It was an amazing sight to see, as in only moments the city was suddenly filled and covered in large buildings, showing signs of human life. Now the city projected an air of confidence and life to all who viewed it.

Shinji smiled at that. He had of course known about all of that before he ever arrived, but he knew the gesture that Misato was making. It brought a happy smile to his face to see that Misato wanted him to experience pride and wonder, seeing the world through new eyes. She was giving him this wonderful sight as a gift, and he really did cherish it.

Letting out a light sigh of enjoyment, Shinji turned his smile on Misato. "Thanks a lot Misato. This is really great."

Misato's face lit up as she knew that her gift was appreciated.

Then confusion washed over her when she saw Shinji's smile drop into a deep frown.

Shinji suddenly rushed over to her and forced her behind him. Pistols appeared in his hands out of thin air, and he pointed them forwards towards the nearby woods of the hill. Misato looked past Shinji at the woods, but could see nothing there. She was getting worried at Shinji's nasty frown as his eyes darted over the tree line over and over again.

Then she heard a sound. At first it was small, but it kept repeating itself. It had a slow and steady rhythm, happening over and over again, getting louder each time. It sounding like a scrapping sound, like something was being dragged through the dirt. It was getting closer and closer, though slowly. Finally Misato realized that it was foot steps of someone in the woods, someone who was dragging their feet.

"What's going on Shinji?" Misato asked.

Shinji only growled as he locked his eyes and pistol sights on the sound as it came closer, almost to the tree line from the sounds of things.

Then it emerged into the light enough for Misato to see what it was. It was something from a nightmare. A skeleton was shuffling its feet towards them, its body encased in a heavy wrapping of steel and rust. It was inside of an iron maiden, a cage-like fitting that someone would be hung from a chain in above the ground and left to die. The skeleton within the iron maiden was not what you would see hanging in a science class room. It was dirty and misshapen, parts warped slightly out of proportion and other parts being twisted or bent at slight angles that shouldn't be there. It was also broken apart in places, held together by the bars of the iron maiden that encased it. Its skull was the worst, being long and stretched out, its mouth hanging open and its teeth shaped into fangs, and its empty eye sockets glowing red right at them.

In each of its hands was a large machete that was more like a giant three foot butcher knife in shape. It was stained in blood, and Misato realized that most of the rust that covered the iron maiden was not rust, but crusted and dried blood. It was shuffling towards them slowly but purposely. It's intentions could not be questioned at all. It wanted to cut them to tiny pieces.

Then two more just like it walked out of the woods behind it.

"Misato, I think you'd better get back in the car. I'll take care of these demons." Shinji said as he was slowly walking towards them, placing himself between them and Misato and the car.

Misato dumbly nodded and got in the car, starting the engine. She didn't want to leave Shinji here, but she didn't want to have to waste time starting the engine if they needed a quick get away. She just hoped that Shinji would be alright against those things.

That's when she looked in her mirror to see five large and ugly lizard-like things walking on two legs and carrying shields and wearing helmets only a few hundred feet behind her car. If she backed up, she would have to go through them. They looked big, and knowing that they were demons, she knew they were undoubtedly strong. They might be able to stop the car's movement, and then they would have her. Even in the small mirror she could see their claws and fangs, dripping with saliva.

They had locked their eyes on the car and they looked hungry.

Her eyes snapped forwards as a gun shot erupted in front of the car. This gunshot was followed by another, then another, and yet another. She looked up to see Shinji firing his twin pistols rapidly at the iron maiden-like demons as he slowly walked towards them. For the most part they shook off the bullets slamming into their bodies, but Misato could see the chips and dents forming in them slowly, but surely as he continued his assault.

In the blink of an eye his guns were gone and his sword was in his hands. He shot forwards more then fifteen feet without his feet even touching the ground with blurring speed. Misato's eyes even lost track of him for a moment as he seemed to glide over the ground towards the demons with incredible speeds. Upon reaching them he slammed his sword into the chest of the center and closest iron maiden, impaling it for only a moment before it was blown backwards off the sword again by the force of Shinji's charge.

Without pausing for a moment, Shinji turned to the iron maiden on his left and struck it upwards with his sword in a rising slash. The iron maiden went over ten feet into the air, Shinji rising up with it. When they had reached the peek of their flight, Shinji defied gravity itself by staying in the air for a moment as he slashed at the demon four times in the air, both staying until he had finished. His first slash was coming down from overhead, his second was almost horizontal but angled slightly upwards, his second traveled backwards on the same path going slightly down, and then finishing with a diagonal slash downwards.

At his final slash in the air the iron maiden shattered to pieces. Acting before he could fall to the ground, Shinji threw his sword at the third iron maiden on the right, impaling it and forcing it to the ground. In a small flash Shinji had the Beowulf equipped and charged downwards with his right foot first, slamming down into the first and center iron maiden just as it was getting up. The impact caused the front part of its cage body to crack and give way, forcing it to the ground again. Shinji did not give it another chance to get up though as he gave a three hit combo attack. His left fist struck it with a straight punch, then his right fist struck it with an uppercut, and finally his right leg gave a rising kick that shattered its body.

The whole time he was dealing with the first iron maiden, his sword was spinning inside the chest of the third iron maiden, causing the rusted and blood crusted steel of its cage to moan and its skeleton to crack within its bindings. With a thought Shinji's sword broke free of the iron maiden's body and returned to Shinji, spinning lethally all the way until it vanished again upon reaching Shinji. He turned to face the just rising iron maiden, and smirked as he sent away Beowulf and called forth his Cerberus.

Shinji leaped forward, his body going horizontal to the ground, and whirled his body around with the Cerberus held out three times, slamming the Cerberus into the iron maiden each time with lethal effects. Upon landing his brought the Cerberus around once more and finished his attack with a fourth and final slam of the icy nunchucks. The last strike shattered the iron maiden to pieces, ending the life of the demon.

Misato however did not notice this. She had been distracted by Shinji's skills at the start, but hearing the horrible screech of the lizard-things from behind her car had brought her back to the reality of her situation. She looked back in fear at the horrible demons that were now running straight for her car, only two hundred feet away and closing fast. She glanced around in a panic. Shinji and the demons he was still fighting were in front of her, so she couldn't go that way. The woods and a sharp incline in the hill was to her right, so no way she was getting her car up there without hitting a tree or getting stuck. The cliff was to her left, so no way she was going there either. Gritting her teeth and gripping the wheel in a white-knuckled embrace she came up with the only plan she could.

She gunned it backwards.

The lizards didn't seem fazed by this move as the stayed somewhat spread out, each hoping that she would swerve towards them so they would catch her and they could enjoy a tasty meal. Misato drove her foot as hard down on the accelerator as she could, keeping a straight path until she was only ten feet from the lizards, heading right for one.

Suddenly she turned hard and brought the car up on two wheels, barely managing to get her car through the space between two of the lizard-men. As her car continued to turn her driver's wheel slammed into the face of the lizard on her driver's side, knocking it back and onto its ass. Unfortunately its teeth had caught most of the blow, so they had dug into the tire and popped it. Misato nearly jumped out of her seat in fright as the lizard on the passenger side had caught part of the roof with its claws, cutting a deep path through the roof right by her head.

She continued the turn until she had brought the car around suddenly and landed on all four wheels with the lizards now behind her, and she was turned completely around. Again she slammed on the gas, but her car was sluggish to respond. She was now off of the paved road and in the dirt, and her popped tire wouldn't catch any friction with the loose dirt, causing her to swerve to the left. She had a hard time compensating, and it cost her precious time. Time she didn't have.

Sure enough one of the lizard things managed to turn around in time to tackle into the back of the car.

The impact sent her suddenly onto the paved road and turned her right for the railing. She panicked and slammed on her brakes, swerving to turn away from the cliff. Her car went into a spin, but she managed to stop right at the edge of the railing. She didn't even have time to breath a sigh of relief as suddenly her car died. She hadn't had time to get it fixed from the damage it had received in the shockwave of the N2 mine explosion the day before, and the impact from the lizard creature tackling the car had shaken the batteries and engine enough to kill her car.

She would have wept, at her car being broken, at her having no where to run, at her fright of the demons coming after her, but she simply didn't have any time.

As soon as Shinji had finished the third iron maiden he turned to go to Misato's assistance. Almost the moment he had laid eyes on her car spinning for the railing, the air in front of him shattered like glass breaking and eight demons leaped to the ground. They were all Hell Prides, all wearing the same dark robes and having the same scrawny skeleton-like bodies. All wielded the same deadly scythe. They were the same as the one Shinji kept in his room, and he narrowed his eyes at them as his lips frowned even more. He would have to mow through them to get to Misato.

Shinji dashed forwards so that he was right in the face of a Pride. It swung at him with its scythe, but he stepped aside and let it hit nothing but air. He performed at ten part combo with his Cerberus nunchucks, two upwards vertical strikes, two horizontal strikes going one way then back again, he then finished with six upwards vertical strikes. The Pride exploded in sand that Shinji charged through with a leap and a single whirl of his body, striking another Pride and knocking it off balance. He landed and jutted his arm forwards with Cerberus's ring over his wrist, spinning the nunchucks around rapidly like a propeller a dozen times in only a second or two, slicing the Pride to pieces as it burst into sand as well.

Side stepping another Pride's slash attack, Shinji whirled Cerberus around his body upwards five times to send the Pride stumbling back in pain, nearly finished off. Shinji let Cerberus return to the air as he had his sword, Eva, back in his hands in an instant. He threw it at another Pride to impale it before turning back at the still stumbling Pride he had attacked with Cerberus, kicking at it with his left leg. The kick blew it to dust before he equipped himself with Beowulf, leaving his sword spinning in the torso of the Pride he had impaled with it.

Seeing another Pride about to strike him with its scythe, he stopped it by ramming into it at blurring speeds again, this time slamming it with his fist. The Pride was thrown back. Shinji turned to another Pride that hadn't been expecting him to suddenly be beside it. He stepped forward practically into its face as he struck upwards with his right fist hard, sending both it and himself upwards into the air, spinning his body to increase the force of the blow. It burst into sand in the air, and he came down foot first in another attack on the Pride he had punched backwards, crushing it beneath his heal. It burst into sand under his foot.

The Eva sword returned to Shinji again, but he let it vanish once more as he began another combo with Beowulf against a Pride that had thought it had snuck up behind him. First a straight left punch, then a right uppercut, then a dozen blurred kicks forward with his right leg, and finally finishing with a right axe kick that finished the Pride off. Sending Beowulf away, Shinji gripped his sword once again and lunged forwards in another blurred dash and impaled the Pride he had thrown Eva at before, smashing blade first into it. It burst into sand that dispersed around Shinji.

The final Pride leaped into the air and landed behind Shinji, but never got the chance to attack. Shinji turned faster then it had thought he could, and spun his sword by the hilt at it, spinning the sword like a cowboy would spin his pistol, cutting upwards into the Pride with the blade several times, and launching the Pride upwards. Lifting his other hand, Shinji had his shotgun ready and blasted the Pride back through the air with a double-barreled buckshot. As it landed hard against the ground, Shinji charged his sword with energy, causing it to glow red for a moment before he swung it with both hands upwards at the fallen Pride. A shockwave flew off of the Eva's blade and kicked up dirt as it barreled at the downed Pride, crashing into it and bursting it into sand as it died.

Misato dove for the glove box, wanting to grab at the pistol she kept there. She hadn't thought to carry her pistol on her today, but she always kept one there, and always fully loaded. Her hands scrambled to get it open, and finally it popped open and the pistol she wanted so badly fell into her hands. She raised her head to look out the windows to see where the lizard-men were as she cocked the pistol. Immediately her eyes went wide and she ducked again as a lizard shot its claws right off its hand at her, propelling them with a build up of blood pressure. The claws crashed through the front passenger window and on through the right side of the front windshield. Misato screamed a little as the glass rained down on her for a moment, before looking up again. A terrible looking lizard-creature was standing right at the passenger door, looking down at her with drool dripping from its open jaw.

She scrambled back faster then she had ever moved on all fours in her life, barely dodging a clawed hand as the lizard thing tried to grab at her. It screeched horribly at her, and she screamed in terror back. Pointing the gun forwards she began to unload it into the thing's face. With each ear piercing shot a bullet flew into the flesh of the demon, causing its head to snap backwards, but each time it snapped its head forwards again to look at her. Each time another bullet had lodged itself into its face, disfiguring it horribly, but not causing lethal damage. About the fifth shot Misato began to realize that she wouldn't be able to kill this thing with the bullets she had in her gun. She needed something more powerful, or at least another clip or two of bullets. She had neither, and she knew she wouldn't have time to reload even if she did have another clip anyways.

She began to cry as she knew that the demon was going to get her as soon as she ran dry of bullets, which wasn't far off.

The other lizard creatures were charging at her car too, each wanting to have their share of the meal, but all stopped when bullets began to rip into their backs. Shinji ran as fast as he could towards Misato's car, his Uzi's in both hands, firing at the demons the whole way. They turned to face him, shrugging off the pain of the assault of bullets. One tried to slash at him with its claws just as he reached it, but he leaped high into the air above it, switching to his pistols as he spun through the air upside down, raining bullets down on their helmets and shoulders as he passed right over them.

Just as he cleared them, he flipped over again, and leaped again while still in the air. His demon powers formed a magic platform under his feet that only lasted half a second, but it was long enough for him to gain more air time. Just them Misato ran out of bullets and the demon at her passenger door roared in triumph as it sank its claws into the doorframe. It never managed to tare the door away though as Shinji came down on it with his sword first in a slash that sliced right through its helmet and its skull which Misato's desperate assault had softened, cutting down until the demon had been cut in half.

It stood there for a moment before its body fell away in two pieces. Shinji looked into the car at Misato with a reassuring smile, happy that he had made it in time to save her. She weakly smiled back at him, just glad that she hadn't wet herself when she ran out of bullets. Shinji nodded at her before turning back to face the demons.

"Alright you fucking bastards... I don't know why you're here so much earlier then I expected, but I'm going to send you back to hell just as fast as you came!" Shinji shouted in righteous anger as he stared hard at the demons still approaching.

He threw his sword at one demon, catching it in the chest as he had all the times before. As it fell backwards, Shinji charged forwards at the closest lizard-demon, holding his shotgun first. He rammed the double barreled shotgun into the chest of the demon and fired a blast of magically charged buckshot into its chest, blowing a hole through its body with a burst of red light. Even as it fell back Shinji pulled out his Uzi's and unloaded into the face of another lizard-demon. Its head snapped back and its skull was quickly overcome by the concentrated assault of bullets, splattering its head apart. Shinji let the Uzi's vanish and equipped Cerberus and moved onto the next demon.

He whirled through the air three times and slammed into it a fourth time again, cutting its body hard and knocking it to the ground. Shinji whirled around and equipped Beowulf before leaping into the air and coming down with a lethal kick to the still impaled demon. It burst into a spray of blood under his foot and he grabbed his sword again. Both the Eva sword and Beowulf disappeared again as he dashed back to the downed lizard-demon. Catching it still lying on the ground from his previous attack, Shinji planted his foot down on it hard and drew his pistols. He fired down into it dozens of times at such speed that Misato could only see a blur and a constant flash of muzzle fire. When he was done shooting it, he violently kicked away the corpse. It flew over the railing and tumbled down the cliff.

Misato felt her heart relax as it was finally over, and she had survived. Shinji had saved her from the demons and hadn't even worked up a sweat. She would have to relax a bit first, but she just knew that she would be truly amazed at his skills, just as soon as she stopped trying to have a heart attack.

A shadow fell over Misato's car, and she looked out the front windshield to see what was causing it. Her heart jumped and her breath caught for a moment as she saw what was in front of the car. It was a gigantic worm that was almost the size of a house. The worst part of the worm though, was the fact that it had a mouth. Not only did it have a mouth, but that mouth was about the same size of her car. It loomed over her for a moment, seemingly looking down at the car with out having any eyes to do so.

It had caught her scent and it was hungry.

Shinji heard Misato scream. He had no idea why she screamed because he couldn't see her, but he didn't get to immediately find out as a sharp scythe cut down into his right shoulder. Shinji whirled away from his attacker, seeing that it was a Hell Sloth, a demon capable of teleporting in a burst of sand. It was skinny like the Hell Pride, but it was robed in a large white robe and had a white hood that stood up slightly rather then a hood that joined the robe. It's scythe was also different, having a shorter blade, but still being just as deadly. It had snuck up on him as he hadn't even known it was around, and used its chance to attack him.

But what caused him to begin to panic was the sight of the worm that was in front of Misato's car. The Sloth stood between him and Misato, and he would have to get past it to help her. Suddenly the air behind the Sloth broke like glass as more demons appeared to block his path. Six Hell Prides joined the Sloth in standing between Shinji and Misato. Shinji heard more shattering sounds and knew that at least three demons were behind him now as well. A glance back told him they were Hell Lusts, demons like the Sloth and Prides with skeletal-like bodies and sharp scythes, but were covered in red cloth outfits with white feathers on parts. They were known for being faster then the Prides, dodging better and lunging forward twenty or more feet when they attacked.

Misato tried desperately to get her car to start, but the engine only whined and refused to cooperate.

Shinji knew that he would have to fight through, and didn't hesitate a moment longer as he pulled out his Alastor sword. With a swing he sent it flying at a Pride, spinning parallel to the ground constantly in its flight until it connected with the Pride, continuing to spin as it started to chop into the Pride. Acting fast Shinji threw his Eva sword to impale another Pride before launching forward at the Sloth with Beowulf equipped. He connected the first two punches of his three hit combo before it teleported away in a burst of sand. Not letting it faze him, Shinji knew that it would have to appear somewhere else before it could come at him again to attack. He immediately turned on another Pride with a dash forward at it and a hard punch that sent it flying back. Turning to another he gave it a hard uppercut that launched them both upwards, spinning his body again to add to the impact. It burst into sand as it died, and he came down in a hard kick on the Pride he had punched, finishing it as well.

Misato knew now that her car was worthless to her and she tried to leap from it to make a run for it, but the worm had other ideas. It moved with speed that such a large body should be incapable of moving at and scooped the front of Misato's car up in its mouth, wrapping it around the front two doors of Misato's car. She couldn't force her door open, so she scrambled into the back seat.

Shinji's Eva sword returned to him while Alastor was still cutting into the Pride it was attacking. Shinji gave it no mind as he pulled his pistols and leaped into the air, flipping upside down and twirling around and around, firing straight down on the Pride that he had impaled with Eva. The rain of bullets finished shredding the Pride until it burst into sand, and Shinji flipped over again and came down on yet another Pride with his Eva sword, slicing hard into it. Just then the Sloth appeared behind him to attack him again, but it was unlucky as Alastor began to fly back and cut deeply into its back before reaching Shinji and vanishing again. It was distracted long enough for Shinji to turn and attack it again.

He lunged forwards with a step and sliced upwards into the Sloth with his Eva sword, sending them both into the air. Again he defied gravity as he sliced four times in the air, hovering to do so, and finally came down with a downward slice into the Sloth. It fell hard to the ground as Shinji planted his foot on it and fired down into it with his pistols. The Sloth proved to be much stronger then the Prides as it withstood Shinji's assault and he kicked it away. He immediately turned around and blasted with his shotgun into the Pride behind him he had attacked before, bursting it into sand.

As soon as Misato managed to roll over the seats and into the back seat, she clawed desperately at the door lock, unlocking it and shoving it open. Before she could dive out of the car though, the worm-demon took a hard gulp and swallowed the car into its mouth another three feet, forcing the door shut again and pinning it that way. Another gulp and both doors were covered completely. Only the back window and the trunk hung out of the giant worm-demons' mouth.

Misato desperately banged against the glass of the back window with her bare hands, as she had dropped her pistol in the front seat. Her hands slapped against the glass, but did nothing to crack the glass. The window had managed to withstand the shockwave of an N2 blast, and it wasn't about to give way under the assault of Misato's bare hands. Still she banged against it and screamed. She could see Shinji trying to fight his way through the demons that blocked his path to get to her. She could do nothing now but stare and scream for him.

She had never screamed so hard in her life. She didn't even understand what she was screaming now. She only picked up on the words "Shinji" and "help" as she screamed in panic and fear. Panic was overcoming her and all she could do is scream her lungs out.

Shinji heard her screams quite clearly and gritted his teeth, knowing there was no time left to deal with these pesky demons. He turned his back on them, something he never did in a fight, and ran to help Misato. This move proved costly as the Sloth suddenly appeared in front of him and drove its scythe down into his chest, impaling him right through. The three Lusts chose that moment to lunge forwards as well and sank their scythes into his back. Even the Pride leaped into the air and came down with its scythe stabbing into his left shoulder.

Shinji was stunned from the pain for a moment, but growled in a low, angry tone when he recovered his senses. In a flash he had Beowulf around his fists and feet, and he forced himself to move despite the scythes buried in his body. He reached down and slammed his fist into the ground, and a bright white light erupted upwards around him engulfing the demons in its heat. The only remaining Pride was burnt to death and exploded in sand, while the three Lusts and the Sloth were blown back by the attack, their scythes coming loose with them.

Shinji gave no mercy as he leaped up and came down on a Lust with his right foot, stomping it into sand as it died. The other demons stood to their feet, but Shinji only growled as he pulled out his Grenade gun. He aimed and fired it at a sluggish Lust, blowing it to sand in the resulting explosion. Drawing his sword Shinji charged in and impaled the remaining Lust on it, sending it flying back before he leaped over it and rained bullets down on it with his pistols, ripping its body to sand as it died..

The moment he landed the Sloth teleported beside him and attacked. Shinji side-stepped the attack and attacked back with a combo with his sword. A slash going down from over head, a slash horizontally, another slash horizontally going slightly up, a diagonal slash going down, then he finished with a body spin and going into a series of over a dozen forwards stabs a blurring speeds, then a final forwards stab that launched the still surviving Sloth away and to the ground. Now it was near death. He dashed forwards with his shotgun again, this time firing three magically charged blasts of red energy down into the Sloth, finally killing it as it turned to sand and was blown away from the blasts.

Finally free of the interference from the demons, Shinji turned to go to Misato's assistance. His eyes quickly found the giant worm-demon and Shinji nearly froze. He had never seen anything as frightening as Misato's tail lights going down that giant demon's mouth and into its throat since his teacher had been killed by a Hell Pride ten years ago. It filled him with a bone-chilling fear, and a blood boiling rage at the same time, and he acted on the rage. He was going to save Misato, and kill this foolish demon for daring to attempting to harm someone he cared about.

With a shout of anger Shinji tore forwards, his feet kicking up dirt and rocks as he ran faster then he had ever run in his life. The demon sensed his approach and opened its maw to attempt to swallow him up. It hadn't even needed to try as Shinji dove through the air straight down its throat. The worm-demon shut its mouth and swallowed as it thought about the good meal it had found today.

It started to move back towards the woods to await someone else to come by, when it suddenly stopped. A slight bulge was all that told of the car somewhere between its mouth and it stomach, and it had been moving steadily towards its stomach since it had swallowed it. However, it had stopped now, and the flesh around it began to turn blue.

The flesh continued to turn blue until finally frost began to gather as it froze completely in that section. Seconds passed by as its throat was turned to ice, and it writhed in pain. Finally though, a sword pierced quickly through its frozen body and completely cut its head off from its body. Shinji leaped up and out of the body, Misato safely held in his left arm as his right arm still held his Eva sword.

He landed some twenty feet from the worm-demon's decapitated body and gently set the shocked and scared Misato down. She clung tightly to Shinji for a few moments even as his sword disappeared and he held her in a tight hug and then held her back. His eyes roamed over her completely before he lightly felt over her for injury.

"Are you alright Misato!" he exclaimed, worry heavy in his voice.

Misato didn't respond at first and it worried him greatly.

"Misato!" he shouted, and Misato quickly blinked and buried her face in his shoulder and started to cry for nearly a minute.

He just held her like that as she cried. When she started to calm down he tried to hold her back again. Now he could plainly see the cuts on her arms and right leg from when her windows broke from the demon-lizard shot its claws at her. Other then that he could see no injury, but those few cuts only served to enrage him more.

"Misato! Are you alright?" he asked again, his voice firm but reassuring.

"Y-yes. Yes. I'm alright. I'm not hurt..." Misato finally said before trying to regain her composure.

Just then they heard the strange moans of the somehow still living worm-demon behind them. Shinji's eyes narrowed into slits as he turned to look at the demon's two halves squirming. A low growl escaped his lips as he stared hard at the target of his inhuman rage.

"Misato, I'm going to let you go for a minute. I promise that I'll be right back, and that nothing will happen to you. I just have to deal with something for a minute. Okay?" Shinji asked in a voice that was barely suppressing his rage.

Misato knew full well what he was going to deal with, and she slowly nodded her head.

"Alright Shinji. I'll be fine." she promised him.

"Good." he said before letting her go.

With that he stood and turned towards the worm-demon. He slowly began to walk towards it, each step was heavy and purposeful. Finally when he was ten feet from the squirming demon, Shinji drew his Eva sword and growled at the demon.

"You... Are... DEAD!" Shinji shouted in rage as he transformed into his devil trigger.

His voice became distorted as he let out a shout that was little more then a blast of pure rage and hate as he attacked the demon. He hacked and slashed and burnt and froze and blasted and crushed and attacked that demon until there was nothing but a smoking crater in the ground where it had been. When he was finished a minute later, he stepped back and spit at the dirt before shifting back to his human form in the blink of an eye. He turned back to Misato and let his weapons fade away.

Walking back over he kneeled next to the still sitting Misato. She had silently sat back and watched him vent his demonic rage without uttering so much as a word. Now she stared at him with blank eyes, not sure of what to think. He looked at her too for a moment, that rage still there for only a second before his eyes softened into concern and worry. When he reached for her, she didn't back away. Instead she tackled him in a hug and began to sob again.

She had thought that she was going to die for sure when the light had been cut off by the worm's mouth.

Shinji carefully removed his cell phone from his pocket several minutes later when Misato had finished having her cry. Still holding her with his left arm, he dialed up NERV with his right hand. He was going to call for a transport to take Misato back home. After that... he had work to do.

These demons didn't come to the city on their own. They were too group orientated and they had come too early. Someone had summoned them here, and had been giving them orders. Shinji was going to find that someone. When he did, he was going to kill them...

-that night-

Shinji had been on the verge of going nuts by the time the med-unit from NERV had gotten there to pick up Misato. They were to take her back to NERV to be checked over by Ritsuko, and it had seemed like it took them forever to get there. When they had finally arrived, he had intended to send Misato with them so he could go hunt down the bastard that was summoning demons in Tokyo-3. Instead they had insisted that he go with them to be checked out too. A not so kind word from his black pistol Lady had silenced them, but not Misato. She had asked him to go with her back to NERV. It would make her feel better.

Shinji had gone with her back to NERV without any more resistance.

Still, the moment that she said that she would be alright with him leaving her alone for a while, he had begun his hunt through the city. It had taken him several hours, but he had finally located the summoner that had been summoning demons. He had tracked his stench to a warehouse on the outskirts of the city, rather close to the cliff Misato had taken him to and where they were attacked. It absolutely stunk of demons, and Shinji could literally feel the power coming from the warehouse, telling him that the person in there was summoning demons even as Shinji stared hard at the warehouse.

The guy in there was fucking dead... he just didn't know it yet.

With a mighty roar of inhuman rage, Shinji ripped a hole through the roof and fell into the far side of the warehouse. It was completely empty of anything that would be stored inside of any normal warehouse. Instead this place was stocked full of freshly summoned demons. Demons of all kinds that Shinji knew of.

All demons stopped what they were doing at turned to stare at the still crouching Shinji as he scanned the warehouse looking for his prey. He saw a dozen Blades, the name for the lizard-men demons, a few dozen Hell Prides, ten Hell Lusts, three Hell Sloths, twenty Agonofinis, the name of the iron maiden demons with the hatchets, ten Terreofinis, the name for iron maiden demons with two long swords rather then hatchets, four Mortifinis, the name of iron maiden demons with two spiked disks that it could throw and catch like yo-yo's, five Pulas, the name for large vulture-like demons that could throw their feathers like arrows or claw at their enemies, and two Hell Vanguards, large demons much like the Hell Pride but much stronger, with pure black robes and the ability to teleport even better then the Hell Sloths. The place was full of demons, but Shinji wasn't interested in them at all. Finally though he spotted his prey.

A single human was in the center of the building, flanked by the Vanguards.

He was somewhere in his mid-thirties, stood almost six feet tall, and had black hair that was stringy and thin. His facial hair was sparse and unkept, growing in small patches. His eyes were green and blood-shot, while his face was twisted in a mix between anger and alarm. His was skinny and weak looking, but he radiated with dark power. It wasn't much power though. Shinji could feel that he was only a second rate summoner, but he was using the angel's natural lure for powerful smaller demons to amplify his own summoning and controlling powers. He looked at Shinji with a wild look in his eyes, not knowing wither to order his demon minions to attack Shinji, or to run.

He did both.

With a gruff shout he sent the full force of his demon minions at Shinji and then ran for the main door. When he reached the door he could hear the combat going on behind him, but didn't dare to turn to look at it. He ripped the door open and escaped outside, slamming it shut behind him and locking it.

When he turned around again he was face-to-face with a very angry Shinji.

"What! How!" the man exclaimed before Shinji drove his sword through his shoulder and into the warehouse door, pinning him there.

"Let's just say I can be in two places at once..." Shinji said in a dark, hate-filled tone as he stared hard at the man. "How that is really doesn't matter right now. All you should be thinking about is the place you've reserved yourself in hell." he said coldly.

Shinji changed into his devil trigger and tore into the still nameless man. When he was done, there was no body left behind, only a hole in the door and a smoking crater where the man had been before, screaming all the way to the end. Shinji once again spat before drawing his sword and rushing into the warehouse to help his doppleganger clean up the mess of demons. The force of demons was vast, yes, but they never knew what hit them when Shinji tore into them.

It was less then an hour later that Shinji came home to the apartment.

-back at the apartment-

There was a knock on Misato's door. She had been lying in bed, wondering where Shinji was, for the last hour. She actually hadn't bothered drinking more then three beers tonight, so she was still sober when she heard the knock. Rolling over to face the door, she sat up and brushed her hair out of her face.

"Come in." she called.

The door opened to reveal Shinji standing there, an unreadable expression on his face.

"Misato... I'm sorry for what happened today. I should have done better..." he said slowly, only to be interrupted by Misato.

"It's alright Shinji. You saved me, so there's nothing to be apologizing for." Misato assured him suddenly.

Shinji didn't even smile.

"Misato, I was overconfident today. If I had just grabbed you and flown you to somewhere safe, I could have returned to kill off the demons later. Your safety should have been my biggest priority, but I wasted too much time. I should have gotten you out first thing..." Shinji said, only to be interrupted again.

"It's alright Shinji. You got me out safely. You couldn't have known that so many demons would show up. You did the best you could. Besides... I saw you get cut down trying to come to my rescue before you killed the demons off... That was the last thing I could make out, and I thought you were dead..." Misato paused for a moment. "That's when I started to cry. I thought we were both going to die..." she said with a bit of a depressed tone, but she shed no tears. "I'm glad you're alright." she said with a small smile.

Shinji snorted and came to sit next to her. His eyes were locked on the bandages she wore on her arms and her leg.

"I'm glad that you're alright. I'm sorry that you got hurt, and it's my fault. I'll do better if it happens again... I promise." Shinji said, finally letting himself relax.

"Thanks Shinji. Thank you for saving me today." Misato said before giving him a peck on the cheek. "Now get out of here, you've got school in the morning and you have to walk. Since my car got destroyed, you'll have to leave an hour or so earlier so you can pick up a uniform to wear before you head to school, so you had better get some sleep." Misato chided playfully.

Shinji smiled wide at that and finally smirked again. "Thanks Misato." he said before going back to the door. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight Shinji." Misato said with a large smile of her own before he shut the door.

Misato sat like that in bed for a while, thinking about the events of the day. Life with Shinji was going to be a lot more eventful then she had ever thought it would be... but it definitely had its advantages. After all, she had finally been saved by her knight in shining armor just like every little girl wishes for sometime in their lives. Her knight just happened to be a half-demon in a red coat.

A smile graced Misato's lips as she thought that she wouldn't have it any other way.

-outside-

Vergil once again stood on the rooftop that he observe Shinji's apartment from. He held his phone to his ear as he listened to it ring. When the other end was picked up he did not hesitate to speak immediately.

"There was a bit of a... snag." Vergil said with some distaste. However, as soon as he had said it, he smiled openly. "It proved that he can handle himself and protect those he cares about. Yes. I'll tell you more about it when I come back tomorrow. Yes. I think he will handle himself just fine with us not around for a while. Yes. Of course we'll still check on him, but we should let him be on his own for a while. Yes... He'll be perfectly fine... After all, he is our brother, and a son of Sparda. I'll see you tomorrow." and with that Vergil closed the phone and put it away.

He turned to walk away, and found himself face-to-face with Shinji. He didn't look pleased.

"One question Vergil. Did you know about the summoner or his little demon band that attacked us?" Shinji asked in an angry tone. His eyes told Vergil that he wasn't messing around, and Vergil personally knew that he could have any of his weapons in his hands with a mere thought.

Vergil shook his head, shocked at being snuck up on, but not thrown off enough to keep him from responding. "I didn't know any more then you did. I wanted to hunt him down as badly as you did, but I let you have him."

Shinji continued to stare hard into his brother's eyes for a few more moments.

"If I find out you planned that little event to test me Vergil... you'll regret it for the next thousand years." Shinji said darkly before his expression changed completely around to a friendly smirk. "Other then that, it's been good seeing you and good to know you care about me. See ya later brother, I have to get to sleep. School in the morning and all that." Shinji said before walking past him for the roof's edge.

Vergil only smirked at Shinji's drastic change in attitude.

"So... you really have feelings for that Misato woman?" he asked.

Shinji stopped but kept facing away from Vergil as he spoke.

"Call her 'that Misato woman' again Vergil, and I'll cut your tongue out. And yeah, I think I do have something for her. We'll just have to see where it leads... Good night." Shinji said before leaping off the roof and landing on his balcony.

"Good night Shinji. Have a good time in Japan. We'll be by for a visit some time." Vergil said before walking off and leaping down from the several story tall building into the alley below.