Okay this is the second chapter that picks up immediately after the 1st. Im going to be revising these all soon. So if you don't like but kinda like it check back in a week and hopefully it'll be better. Hey and chap 3 should be up in a few days. Random1337 is still my idol. Im still a lazy bastard loser in high school. And I still don't own Evangelion, gainax does. Damn them!

"I killed it!"

"Killed what?"

"The angel dummkopf," she smiled," not you!"

"I know Asuka. You did it all by yourself" He wondered why she was bringing this up. 'Self-assurance?'

"Good, just making sure you knew that baka, I killed it not you, which means I get all the credit."

"Asuka everyone knows you're the best anyway, you've got the highest sync rate scores." he said tiredly, tired that she never lets this kind of stuff go. 'Why do I care?'

"Damn right I do."

"So why are you bringing it up?" Her face contorted trying to understand why she did bring it up. 'She must not know, heh.'

"Whatever," she sneered. They started walking again, but in relative silence. Aside from the noise that's the super-fortress slash mega-city Tokyo-3; passing cars, walking signals and Eva sockets that beeped when people got too close. But it wasn't really an uncomfortable silence. She was being nice enough today, even courteous, maybe even a bit playful. He had rarely seen her like this before and chose to enjoy it while it lasts. Although that last bit was a bit. off. She looked somewhat tense and obviously deep in thought about something, Shinji could only imagine what. He was wondering though why she had brought up the subject of her victory in the first place though. He continued with his reasoning in his mind until he was interrupted once again.

" Sorry," she said quickly, maybe a bit harsh too, but Shinji couldn't detect it.

" What?" he said.

"Sorry."

"Oh um.. for what?" he said confused? She tensed and fumbled with her hands.

"I, err, um, "she threw down her hands and ran in the opposite direction. Shinji just stood there where he was before. He was looking at her cock-eyed as she moved down the walk. "What the?"

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" Err," Asuka growled and slammed the door of their apartment door. 'Why the hell couldn't I say it, what's wrong with me! I had the perfect opportunity and I blew just like that! Stupid baka Shinji! Why couldn't I just say it!' She hit her hands on the counter. "Ow, mein Gott in Himmel this is so stupid!" She looked over her hand and it had a red ring and she looked down. She had smashed one of Misato's beer cans. She looks at it with distaste. "Japanese crap, they call this shiesse beer?" She grabbed one of Misato's near finished cans and drank what was left in a swallow. 'Well it's not so bad for foreign crap and it's the only stuff I can get here.' She looked around her apartment to check to see if Misato was still there. She checked her room. She slid the door open. 'It still bothers me that they don't have locks on their doors. Ugh, disgusting lady, how can she live in this filth?' Her room was covered everywhere and every corner in something or
P.2 another. Empty beer cans, clothes dirty and clean, and crusty cups of discarded chicken ramen.' If she's so lazy then why doesn't she just have Shinji clean it up for her? It's not like he has the spine to say no.' She hit herself on the forehead. 'Why do I keep torturing him like this? What is wrong with me?'

She had never really had this kind family before. 'Family? I consider them my family? No, it just slipped I'm sure of it.' But still she was having trouble sorting out what she thought about Shinji. 'What an enigma, he is such a loser spineless wimp, but when he's in Eva it's like he a different person. He strong and ferocious and brave, fearless against the threat of the angels, how does he do it?' She loved that side of him when he got like that. She had been secretly vying to pull out that side of him into the open. 'But why is he such a wimp outside of Eva, always apologizing for things that aren't even his fault. It pisses me off! Its almost like breathing is a crime for that idiot. But he almost never at fault, it usually me to blame, yet all he wants is my forgiveness. He must be doing some secret hentai things behind my back though. He's probably at school thinking about my gorgeous body right now, Baka hentai. But no matter how much I yell at him or hit him all he is nice to me afterwards.' She drifted away from Misato's room and back to the kitchen in her thinking. And before she knew it she had an ice-cold beer in her hand. 'Whoa, how did that happen?' She shrugged and looked at the can. ' Yebisu Beer.' She pooped the tab and heard the crisp open and poured it passed her lips. 'It's not like I mean to be mean to him.' She brought the can back up to her mouth for another drink. She starts drinking it like a fish and water.

The day for Shinji at school was boring, eventless as usual, like everyday. Toji was asleep and Kensuke was too involved in something on his computer. And the sensei was rambling on about the post-second impact economic collapse. Rei was stoic as usual as well, just looking outside the window. Nothing he really cared about except for the Rei thing. He just spent the day staring out the window searching for the answer to the question that plagued him since he got to Tokyo-3. 'Just what the hell is Rei staring at?' But his thinking was cut short as a chime was heard, signaling the end of school. "Stand up, bow, dismissed!" promptly followed it and people starting shuffled out of the room. He shambled to his feet with books in hand. Toji stirred and woke up from Kensuke pushing. Shinji himself was pretty tired and was going straight home. He would've slipped away unnoticed but Toji did a quick scan of the room and caught him before he could get away.

"Hey Shin-man where ya going?"

Shinji gulped. 'Crap, thought too soon.'" I was just gonna go home."

"Why we were gonna go to arcade!"

"I'm just kinda tired, must sleep."

"So, just get a caffeine fix while we're there man! Come on. You don't wanna go home to that devil do ya?"

'Hmm, is that where Asuka has been? She definitely didn't come here. I wonder.' "Nah, I'm just gonna home, and besides I doubt she's there anyways."

" Ahhh, fine have it your way." He finally gave up. " See ya later Shin-man."

" Ya see ya later Shinji," muttered Kensuke who was once again absorbed on his computer.
P.3 " Bye then." Shinji said tiredly and then yawned. He finally could get out of this place and get home. He proceeded to move out of the room, leaving his friends behind. Being clear of any obstacles he started getting back to thinking while making his way home. ' I wonder why Asuka ran away from me today. She didn't show up for class either. Maybe I should find her or something and see if something is wrong. Nothing really seemed off this morning with her when it happened.'" Ooof." He had accidentally walked into a heavy trash can. " Urg, must walk in straight line." His thinking was getting him off track, like not to walk into things. Although his curiosity to Asuka's behavior today may be answered soon. As he came up the his apartment's door he remembered something, " Oh crap! I forgot my keycard!" Oh crap!" Although he remembered, 'Hey maybe Asuka is home, she could open the door for me.' So he knocked on the door. There was no answer. 'Crap.' Though he felt like there was still a chance she was there. He put his ear up to the door to listen in for any signs of activity. He could definitely hear the TV was on. So he knocked on the door again, abit more loudly though. He waited patiently for about twenty seconds when he heard the latch unlock and the door opened. He immediately started walking inside. " I knew you were here Asuka, look where were you ahhh ooof." He tripped, over something furry, moving and very upset.

" WARK!!" A very angry penguin roared as it was being smashed.

" Oh, Pen-Pen I'm so sorry I thought you were Asuka! Forgive me"

" Wark! Not accepting his apology. He waddled madly off to his personal refrigerator. He slapped the button and the door opened with a whoosh and he disappeared inside of it.

Shinji took a look around the apartment, particularly the table. 'Wow, I didn't think Misato drank THAT much beer in the morning.' There were at least 13 empty cans scattered about the tan table, jeez. How does she go to work like that?' He sighed, he had given up trying to understand her drinking habits all long time ago. 'She drinks that stuff like people drink water.' And for the most part he was right. He moved across the room to turn off the television Pen-Pen left on in his anger. 'Well, I guess I'd might get angry like that too if someone walked right on and over me like that too. He picked the room off the couch and hit the power button. 'I wonder though if Asuka is here still.'

He quietly tip-toed over to her room. 'Why am I tip-toeing? If anything she would have already heard me and Pen-Pen. I'm such an idiot sometimes.' He gently cracked her door open and checked to see if she was in there, she wasn't. 'Hmmm, I wonder where she could be then. Ah well so much for talking to her.' He turned around from her door and immediately encountered his. For a fleeting moment he smiled,' Sleep, good.' He opened his door and step inside sliding the door shut behind him. He stumbled over to his bed, in truth he wasn't really tired, just stressed. Life as an Eva pilot wasn't a peaceful one in the least. There was always the looming threat and the burden of the survival of the human race on his shoulders. Plus the people that surrounded him and his past didn't help either. Sleep was kind of a way to help him get away from it. It helped him regulate his stress.

He drifted over to his bed and collapsed on his bed not caring to take anything off. He gave a deep sigh, that pain in his neck was coming back again. But it went away as fast as it came. He rubbed his eyes and turned over. But now that his hand had been thrown over his body he could feel something warm in his palm. It was pretty big and soft too. He grasped it in his hand trying to figure out what it was without opening his eyes. But he was failing. It flexed and expanded and quickly contracted letting off a gentle coo. It contorted and it was now half-draped over his body, it was warm and heavy. His curiosity got the better of him. He opened his eyes and saw the last thing he'd ever expected. And if his mind was correct on its thinking, probably the last thing he'd ever see as well.

She felt something attach itself to her. But it was warm and without even thinking she tried to get closer to the source, it felt good. She twisted her body sideway so that she could hopefully feel it better. But it had made her alert though. She wasn't asleep just drowsy and a bit tipsy. She opened her eyes and saw blue. Blue around black. White around blue around black. It was really blurry, she tried to make it out. She pressed her eyes together to clear up the fog in her eyes. They were. eyes. "Shinji?" he gulped. He was wide awake now.

"Asuka," he said nervously, he knew he was trekking on dangerous territory now even though it was his room, "what are you doing in my bed?"

"." In her mind she didn't even hear him. "Shinji!" she grabbed him and embraced him, hard. But she was so drunk that she accidentaly hit him in the face. twice before being able to lift her arm over his neck and hold him. She held onto him very tightly not wanting him to leave. "Thank goodness you're here Pen-Pen , ah, I mean Shinji. *Hiccup*." As she was holding on to him, his mind was in overdrive and overheating fast. He was going insane with fear and showed it. Although he started to get his shaking body under control.

'Please don't kill me, please don't kill me, please don't kill me!' his mind schrieked.

"Shinji."

'I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die.'
"I'm so sorry!"

'Wait, what?' his mind froze.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!" Usually in this kind of situation Shinji would be the one apologizing, or at least definitely not Asuka. His fear was becoming laced with confusion. He was still extremely nervous at the fact that she who could beat him within an inch of his life on a whim was clinging to him. She started to cry on him. 'This has got to be a trick.' She shaked against him abit. "Eeeep!" he shrieked.

"Shinji, I'm so sorry. Please forgive me!"

"What?"

"Don't what!"

"No, what did you do?"

A snap happened in her mind. 'He doesn't know! Doesn't he mind how I treat him all the time!' "For I treated you dummkopf!"

"Um, oh ya I forgive you." He said confused but understanding a bit better. He tried to smiled face struck with fear to a contorted smile.

'Just like that, I've done way too much for that!' "That's not enough! What can I do for your forgiveness?"

P.5 "You don't have to do anything!" He smiled, a true bright smile, he was beginning to forget the very delicate situation he was in. What with the two teens being in his room. On his bed, one of them in a little less than what would be appropriate and probably wasted. In a very compromising position.

"No, no I have to do something! Please tell me!" He was getting confused again. What could he possibly tell her? The perverted side of his brain decided to make its entrance at this point. His eyes strayed down ward, he could see her breasts pushing out of her shirt. He gulped and quickly averted his eyes to where they were supposed to be. No way, he knew he didn't want that and would never try to take advantage of her so he quickly dropped that line of thinking no how tempting it was. "Shinji I've done so much to you that you didn't deserve, please let me make it up to you!" He thought of something. It didn't really ask of anything from her that would be he wouldn't feel bad about and it wasn't unreasonable at all.

"Well Asuka there isn't much I'd want from you so. I'll forgive if you if your just nicer from now on okay?"

She looked up at him speechless. "Um, Okay." 'He's so nice, I treat him like shit and he just smiles back and says that everything is alright. I don't deserve this!' She releases fresh tears but Shinji wipes them away for her. She just buries her head on his chest. He finally returns the embrace without fear that it's a trick.

"Have you been here all day Asuka?"

" *Sniffle*, yah."

"Do you want something to eat?" She raises her head near his.

"No, let's just stay like this for a while," she says delicately. Although Shinji couldn't determine whether it was a request or demand but he was fine with it all the same.

"Ah, okay." She puts her head back down.

'Whoa, her breath is pretty deadly right now. Though its smells familiar like, like. alcohol.' He froze, he was getting very nervous, very fast. 'Oh my God what is she going to do to me when she sobers up? Holy crap! Will she even remember?' Here he was in bed with Asuka. a drunk Asuka. 'If I move away she'll pissed and sad, If I don't away she just be plain pissed. This can't get any worse. A door shut.

"Oh kids I'm home!"

"Oh God, its Misato. He bit his bottom lip and shed a single tear. "I'm so fucked."