Here is the second chapter of my NGE fic. Don't ya just love it! Even if you don't just smile and nod. It works for me smiles and nods. Okay, don't know when the next instalment is going on but for now here is the 2nd chapter.
I pulled on my black pants and wondered around my small room. I was searching for a package that had arrived before I had. Inside was an important document that needed to be signed. I had been here 3 days and it was a mess. Schoolwork littered the floor as did 'personal' items and underwear.
"I know, I know I let you down, I've been a fool to myself," I sung to myself. The tune was uplifting but the words were sad. An image appeared on my monitor; some one was at the front door.
"Hey Kaworu, its Shinji Ikari. We have to be at NERV in 5 minutes. Come on and hurry up!" his voice was suiting to his face. Worried.
Gendo Ikari, Shinji's dad, hated tardiness. In fact, I had already been punished for being late once already. A large bruise was forming on my chest; it was the shape of a boot. The ridge marks were almost as black as night and the area around it was a greenish colour.
Picking up my books for school and grabbing my shirt, I ran out the door. Shinji looked at me in all my glory of not being ready in time. He blushed furiously. Between a piece of bacon, I gave him my books.
"Howd un shu zis chevy," I muttered out. He looked confused but understood the basic idea. Holding onto my bag, I pulled on my shirt. Shinji had seen the bruise that glowed on my chest. Quickly I did it up and got my bag back.
Shoving stuff into it, he asked me about it, "Kaworu, how did you get that bruise? Is that the punishment that my father always speaks about?" Looking at his worried face I smiled.
"No Shinji, this was from something different. It was not for being tardy. You can stop worrying now. I won't die on you," I spoke calmly. The words seemed to do the trick. He relaxed slightly before we started to talk about what we were going to do on the weekend.
"Do you want to go see a movie with me Shinji?" we had spent a lot of time together in the last few days, as I was still new to town. His face light up with the question.
"Really, yeah of course I would like to come. Is it a horror or an action movie?"
"Horror I think, we get enough action around here that we could be super heroes ourselves. Well you can be Ikari," he turned red.
"SHINJI IKARI HURRY UP OR YOU AND THE FIFTH CHILD WILL BE LATE!" the annoying German accent broke my train of thoughts of Shinji. Looking up, a flame of orange hair in a dress was standing on the train.
"Yes Asuka, sorry,"
"Stop apologising for everything Shinji. Do you know how pathetic it sounds? Just stop it!" she must have not had any coffee this morning I thought.
"It shows that he has a sympathetic side as well as a serious one Asuka. I don't think I have ever heard you say sorry," I told her straight off. Shinji looked up at me as I stood up for him.
"How would you know Nagisa? You only got here a few days ago!"
"I have been watching you and the others for a long time now. I know what your darkest secrets are. Yours are very dark Sohryu," I added lightly. Asuka looked at me angrily and walked to the other end of the train. Shinji and I sat together talking about our weekend again.
The time flew by on the train; we were totally absorbed in each other's opinions and jokes. Evil glares were thrown at us every few minutes from the hotheaded German, but we didn't care.
"Shinji, I heard that you play the cello. Would you like to meet in the music room one day to play a duet together? It would be something that I would never had tried before. Would you?" I asked the question when we started to talk about music.
Looking at his fingers and feet Shinji replied, "I'm not as good as you are on the violin, but yeah. The school has cellos that I can borrow for an afternoon."
"Do you not prefer your own?"
"Yeah I do, but it is hard to take around. It is one of the few things that I let people touch…" he started to turn red. He looked down at the floor then out the window. Seeing this, I reached out and touched his fidgety hands to settle them.
"You hide yourself from everyone to well. Be yourself around me. I do not judge people on how they act, but by who they are," I had clasped his left hand in mine. I entwined my fingers with his.
He tensed up but then relaxed, it was another of those strange moments for him. We sat for the rest of the trip holding hands. I could tell that he liked the girl Ayanami, but I liked him more.
As we stopped at NERV, I got up, pulling him along. Shinji came along blindly, but he knew that I was watching out for him. As we came to the steps that led down the flat main level of the geo-front, he tripped over. My reaction took both of us by surprise. I lunged forward and caught him in midair. Just like at the lake he gave me a long hard look.
Today was going to be a wake up call for the Japanese boy I think.
Asuka was going down the escalator first, Shinji and I were next. We stood on the same step so that I was close to him just in case he fell over again. I couldn't let that happen to him.
Stepping onto one of the many horizontal escalators, we went to the change rooms. Pulling off our clothing we pulled out our Eva suits. Shinji got into his in a half daze while I got into mine without looking. I was looking at the body of the boy next to me.
Pushing the skintight button, my suit stuck to my body like hot plastic. The teen beside me was walking out with it half on.
"Ikari stand still for a moment. You are not ready yet," running to the boy I pulled the suit over his soft shoulders, and did it up at the back. Grasping his wrist I hit the vacuum button and watched it mould on to his body. I continued to hold his hand until we were outside the synchronisation room. As we walked in, he sort of woke up.
I looked down at the ground, then touched the bruise on my ribs. It now started to ache more. Walking over to Ristuko Akagi, she took me to the entry plug of Eva Unit 02 for synchronisation testing. Shinji went straight to his and jumped in. his face was not happy. There was no reason that he really piloted his unit from where I stood.
The plug filled with LCL and the language selected was Japanese. An image of Shinji appeared in front of me. Looking at him I smiled, faintly he smiled back before closing his eyes for the test.
Closing my own, I modified the harmonics with the Eva to suit me. Relaxing, the image that had plagued me for days crossed my mind. Expect this time, he was not wearing a shirt. Slowly these images were revealing more of him to me. This was interesting as I had only seen his bare torso since we met.
As the testing finished, I heard Shinji's voice, "Kaworu, lets go get some lunch, I am starved." Smiling I nodded to him. This day wasn't a waste of my time again, instead it was the opening to a relationship I hoped.
"Who are you Fifth Child?" came the German voice.