Kenji Ryoji Katsuragi

by erkman3

3I never happened, but sadly Kaji was still killed by unknown persons from NERV or SEELE. But before leaving this world, he left behind a little something for Misato. And this is his story.

7. Chapter 7

Disclaimer: okay you guys know the drill. I don't own a thing.

Arriving home, Kenji found that his mom was again doing paper work; Kenji had figured that it was more then likely about the Ferrum Ferus.

"Hay you didn't show up at NERV to day." Misato said. "What happened?"

Setting his shoes by the door, Kenji looked up at his mother. "Huh… oh something came up." He replied. "I should have called, sorry."

Misato put her work away. "It's okay; it was pretty hectic around NERV."

Misato then walked from the living room over to the hall where Kenji was hanging up his coat." And the school called today."

Kenji shook his head.

"They said that you didn't show for you classes during the afternoon." She then crossed her arms across her chest. "Care to explain?"

"It's no big deal, Natsuki is going out of town for a couple days and the three of us hung out before she left." Kenji said then he turned for the stairs.

"Shinji called too." Misato added.

"Yeah we stopped by there too." Kenji said as he started up the stairs.

"Hay what's going on?" Misato asked as she reached for her son's arm stopping him. "Is everything alright?"

"Yeah mom. Things are alright." Kenji removed his mothers hand and again started up the stairs.

"Bull shit."

Kenji stopped about half way up the stairs; then turned to face his mother. "Natsuki found out about Aya and me. It wasn't how I wanted her to find out."

Misato stood there thinking about what her son had just said. "When did this start up?" she asked now leaning up against the front door facing the stairs.

Kenji shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, things just started to happen." Kenji replied. "And mom I know you mean well, but I really don't want to talk about things right now…" Kenji turned and started to head for his room. "… Maybe in the morning."

Misato didn't know what to say. "That's good, I'm off too so we can go and do something?"

Reaching the top of the stairs; Kenji said back. "Yeah… I need to water dad's melons."

Else where deep with in the Geo Front and the NERV compound. Natsuki laid on a bed out cold from the shock she got from the stun gun. Chairmen Krefta walked in to the medical like room with her head gear. Placing the device on to the girls head, Krefta made sure that it was secure. When he was sure that everything was in place he went about waking Natsuki.

"Natsuki?" he said, but there wasn't a response.

"Natsuki." He said this time a bit louder. A moment or two passed and Natsuki slowly opened her eyes.

"Chairmen Krefta?" she said softly; then she sat up slowly.

Natsuki then swung her legs over to the edge of the bed. Sitting there on its edge. She had found that she was already in her tight battle suit, its armor plating placed through out it.

"I have an other mission for you." Krefta said then Gendo Ikari walked in to the room with the two other children dressed in the same fashions as Natsuki. "You and your siblings are to silence key members of the UN."

Natsuki looked over at the other two teens. "Brother. Sister."

The other two nodded.

"And the details of the mission?" Natsuki asked.

Gendo then stepped forward. "The details will be given to you when you approach the target location, but before hand you and the other are to report to the equipment room."

Sliding off the hospital bed, Natsuki walked the other two teens that where standing there at the door. And the three left. When they where gone Krefta turned to Ikari.

"Any words?"

"For you sake I hope this mission is a success." Gendo said then he too turned and left the room.

Making their way down the hall to the equipment room, the female; other then Natsuki stepped up closer to Natsuki. "Chairmen Krefta said that you have been on another mission before this, is that true?"

Natsuki nodded. "It is."

"What do you believe the mission will require us to do?" the male asked.

"I do not know Brother." Natsuki replied. "So I would take equipment that will best for multiple uses."

The two siblings nodded, and then the three stopped. Natsuki then opened the door. Stepping in side and turning on the lights in side on racks where several types of guns, explosives, and other devices with various different types use. Then the three went about getting their things.

The next day Kenji had the rare chance to sleep in. there wasn't any school because it's Sunday. But as he laid there in his bed half asleep Kenji could swear that something smelled great… something smelled like food, really good food. Opening his eyes and sitting up in his bed Kenji took in a deep breath.

"Pan cakes?" Kenji thought out loud to him self. Then he shook his head. "Can't be mom can't cook, hell she can hardly make instant curry." Flopping back down, Kenji tried to go back to sleep. But the smell still lingered in the air. There was no mistake; there was the smell of pan cakes in the air. Wanting to know for sure and the fact that Kenji was getting quite hungry.

"Kenji I've got pan cakes on the table!"

Kenji remained still in his bed unsure if he was dreaming or if his mother; his mother of all people had just cooked something. And the fact that it smelled really good.

"Kenji you hear me!"

Now he knows he's not dreaming.

"Yeah I'm coming mom!"

Practically jumping out of bed Kenji grabbed a pair of pants and a shirt. And quickly put them on.

Down at the kitchen, Misato had just sat a jug of orange juice down on the table then took a seat there at the table her self. Hearing Kenji run down the stairs, Misato waited. Then her son appeared at the door to the kitchen.

"About time you got up." Misato said. "Have some breakfast."

Kenji stood there. It was almost unreal; there on the kitchen sat a stack of pan cakes. Perfect pan cakes. And to add to it all; the kitchen was clean, sparkling clean. Kenji put his hands on his hips. "Okay level with me mom Uncle Shinji was here this morning was he?"

Misato squinted her eyes at her son. "No."

"Microwave?" Kenji asked.

"Eat you pan cakes."

Kenji sat down at the empty seat across from his mother and with a started to place a couple pan cakes on the plate that sat in front of him. As he ate Misato sat there watching him eat.

"So what do you wanna do today?" She asked. "Movie…. Shopping…. Come on anything?"

Kenji looked up from his plate and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know…. I still want to water the water melon patch some time."

Misato nodded. "Okay, we can do that. And that will give me that chance to drop off some things at my office" Misato said then she took a bit of her own breakfast. "Sound good?"

At the other end of the world deep in the waist lands of Nevada, a massive barrel peered from an out cropping of rocks. Fallowing the barrel its full fifteen feet; it's operator looked out to the small and modest NERV out post built out in quite literary in the middle of know where.

"Sisters, I see one parked Ferrum Ferus just to the east of the main building, ten guards at the main gate. I'll keep you posted."

Several hundred yards in front ahead and extremely close to the NERV outpost acting as a UN meeting place. Natsuki and her other sibling peeked their heads up over the massive rock they where hiding behind.

"I see the guards, but I don't have a visual on the Ferrum Ferus."

Natsuki crawled back behind the huge rock, and patted her sister on the back telling her to do the same. "Sister, you are to go up the left flank I'll go up the center. Brother, on my mark take out the Ferrum Ferus, then the bunker at the gate. Then provide suppuration fire."

"Yes sister." Their male sibling replied over the radio.

Natsuki then crawled back up over the rock. "Brother… do you have the Ferrum Ferus targeted?"

"Yes sister."

Taking a deep breath, Natsuki looked one last time at the compound. "fire!"

Just then a bright beam of energy shot past their heads striking its target and sending a ball of flame and smoke up in to the night sky.

Mean while back at Tokyo-3, Kenji watered the melon patch. Even though it was near freezing up on the surface. The sunlight beaming through the massive solar collectors provided an ample amount of heat keeping the whole Geo Front a comfortable seventy two degrees year round.

Kenji took great pride in the watermelon patch. He also felt that his dad would be proud that he has such the green thumb.

Pulling the last of the weeds, Kenji whipped the sweat from his forehead. Then he walked over to the edge of the patch where he kept a roll of hose. Unrolling it, Kenji took one end over to a near by water valve. Turning the water on Kenji went back to water the melon patch. When that was done he bent over and picked one of the melons.

"Munchies for Aya and me later on." Kenji said to himself.

Putting the hose away, Kenji happened to look up at the path that past just in front of the melon patch. Just in time to see Commander Ikari walk by.

"Good morning Commander Ikari!" Kenji called out then shut the water off. "What brings you out to this end of the Geo Front?"

Looking up from a recent report from Kenji's mother; Gendo saw that the Katsuragi boy was alone. "Short cut." He replied. "Why are you here unattended?"

"Oh my mom is at her office filing some papers so I'm just watering the melons here and we're heading out for the day and find something to do." Kenji replied.

Gendo nodded and started to go about what he was doing. Then Kenji called out again.

"Commander Ikari can I ask you something?"

Gendo stopped and looked over at Kenji, telling him to ask his question.

"You knew my dad didn't you?" Asked Kenji. "Would you know anything about his death? I've asked my mom but she said that he was found shot to death and leaves it at that."

"You father was found in an air shaft." Ikari replied. "It was believed by authorities that a drifter found his way in to an unused section of the NERV compound and mugged your father. But there are those that believe that he met his end from playing both sides and his luck had run out."

Kenji stood there just looking at the Commander. Before this time that man has never set right with Kenji, but now after asking that question Kenji knew that commander Gendo Ikari was some how involved in his father's death.

"Okay thank you Commander…. Would you like a melon?" Kenji asked, offering one of the two he had picked from the patch.

"Thank but no." Ikari replied. "I must return to my work."

Kenji watched as the elder Ikari as he walked away. Then at that moment, Kenji knew that he had to read the information that was stored on the computer chip that was hidden among his mother's things.

An explosion rocked the UN building to its foundation. Guards scatter though out the hall; searching for any form of cover as the death squad marched their way deeper and deeper in to the building.

"Their monsters!" One guard yelled, his rifle raised and pointed down the hall.

Around the corner the three children looked and each other and nodded. "Brother, grenade." Natsuki ordered

"Yes sister." He replied, reaching for the three grenades he carried and tossed them to Natsuki.

Pulling the pens she tossed each one down the hall, where more explosions rocked the building. Then while the dust still lingered in the air the three children walked in to the cover. Each with a weapon drawn and ready.

Shots rang out, confusion spread through out the guards. Their attackers never stopped. Then as the gun fire started to become less and less, the dust settled and there stood the three children, each covered with blood from the guards.

"Spread out, find the members of the UN. Silence them." Natsuki ordered.

"Yes sister." Her two siblings replied and the two went off in different directions of the complex. As for Natsuki she stepped for the door that the guards where died protecting. And opened it where she found on one the UN members.

"W-Who sent you!" a man in a suit yelled. "Was it Ikari?"

Natsuki didn't say a thing; she just brought up her gun and pointed it at the man. The several shots rang out, the flashes light up the dark room showing Natsuki's form in each of the flashes. Then she took a step from the door, reaching for the Com device that was around her ear. "One of the members have been silenced, there are four more. Find them. Kill them."

"Yes sister."

"Yes sister."

Natsuki was about to continue the search for the other UN members, but she started to feel a slight vibration through out the ground and up her feet. Looking out the hall way windows she saw a transport landing just out side the Complex perimeter.

"Brother." She said over the com device. "Take down that transport."

"Yes."

Natsuki watched as the craft hovered as it searched for a good landing spot then seconds later a beam fired from another hall window. The transport burst in to flames as it crashed for the earth. "Continue the search."

Sitting there in the passenger seat of his mother's car, Kenji was in deep thought; he didn't hear a word from his mother as she talked on about something dealing with her run in with Major Ibuki.

"So Maya had the great idea of refilling my files…. I have them just the way I like them." Misato said. "That's the way I've had them for years, sure they don't look like they are in any form of order but at least I can find something when I need to."

"You don't say…." Kenji said his thoughts miles away.

"So the whole time you where off working on you garden I was working on getting my files back how they where." Misato said then she let out a sigh when she looked over at her son. Kenji just sat there looking out the window. "Kenji?"

"You don't say…." He said again miles away.

Slowing down for a red light, Misato tapped her son's shoulder, making him look over at her. "Yeah mom?" he said.

"You didn't hear a word I said did you?"

Kenji sunk in his seat. "Sorry mom…. I was just thinking."

The traffic light turned green and Misato pulled from the line. "Care to talk about it?"

Kenji shrugged his shoulders.

"You know I may not look like it, but I can help with lots of things." Misato said. "So if you want I might be able to help you."

Kenji thought about it for a second or two, and then he turned to face his mother. "Mom… I don't know if it was a bright idea to choose between Aya and Natsuki."

Misato then knew that she was about to get in over head in the world of teenage drama.

"I mean they both have their good point and I like them both." Kenji said, sounding more the a little frustrated. "I just think that it's a little unfair for Natsuki. I want them both as friends."

Misato continued driving, processing the problem as she did. "Well…" She paused to make sure that she was going to use the right words. "… I would say that you should just go with things. If things work out then great, I'm happy for you."

Kenji sat there surprised that his mother words.

"And if they don't…. well I hope that you don't live with regret." Misato said.

"Wow mom, that's pretty deep." Kenji said. "Who'd you learn that one from?"

Misato squinted her eyes. "That's just something I've learned over the years."

Just then Misato's cell phone went off and she pulled it from her jacket pocket. "Hello Sub-Commander Katsuragi speaking."

Kenji then redirected him self back to the window. Then a couple seconds passed then he heard his mother hang up her cell phone. "Sorry Kiddo, but I've got to take you home and go to work."

"What happened?" Kenji asked, a little disappointed that his day with his mom was cut short.

"Some one had attacked a UN compound in the States…." Misato replied. "So I'm being sent out to see what had happened."

Kenji let out a heavy sigh knowing where this was going. "So who am I staying with?"

"Well I think you're old enough to stay home.. I'll just have Shinji or someone stop by and check up on you."

Kenji sat there giving his mother a strange look. "Are you feeling alright?"

Misato shrugged her shoulders. "Well if you want to I can call Shinji and Asuka and see if you can stay there?"

Kenji quickly shook his head. "No that's fine, I'll stay home."

It wasn't long before Kenji and his mother returned home. Where Misato quickly packed some cloths and other work things she'll need while she's gone. Down in the living room, Kenji flipped through channels; Kenji tried to see if there was anything on the news about what had happened.

"You won't find anything." Misato said as she came down the stairs. "NERV blocked any info about it from the public more then likely."

"Oh…" Said Kenji, then he started to find something more interesting.

Misato then sat her bag down and walked over in front of the TV, blocking Kenji's view.

"Now I'm trusting you Kenji." She said, her hands resting on her hips.

"Yeah okay mom."

"I mean it Kenji, no parties, no girls over… Do you get me Kenji?" Misato asked. "I mean it mister."

"Yes mom. I know." Kenji replied. "I won't screw up."

Hearing a car horn, Misato looked out the window to see Maya waving from a NERV owned car. "There's my ride. Give me a hug and kiss before I go."

Doing so, Kenji said his good bye. And watched his mother as she and Maya drove off down the road.

In the car Maya looked over at Misato. "Who's watching Kenji?"

"I'm letting him stay alone." Misato replied as she fixed her make up. "I told him the do's and don'ts…."

"You know…" Maya started to say. "Since you said not to do things, he's going to do them right."

Misato sat there thinking about what Maya had just said. "I so just screwed my self didn't I?"

Maya shook her head. "I'd say so."

Kenji sat there on the couch for several minutes watching TV. He wasn't really watching anything; there wasn't anything that really cough his interest. Then it hit him, the fact of having the whole house to him self, pure freedom, free rain of the whole place. No curfew, no checking in.

"I can do just about anything I want….." Kenji said to him self to make sure that the idea was valid and to see if there was really anyone there to say other wise… No one was there. Standing up Kenji walked over to the phone and picked it up; as he dialed a number he walked over to the huge window that was in the living room.

"Hi Aya…. You want to come over?" Kenji asked. "Why? Well…. I'll explain when you get here."

It was some hour and a half later while Kenji and Aya where on their backs on the floor of the living room high as a kite and listening to classical music, neither of the two knew who composed the music, but that didn't matter to them.

"Wow… You're right Kenji…. Classical music is pretty cool." Aya stated.

"Isn't?" Kenji said.

"Kenji, I've got the munchies… Do you got anything?" the blond asked as she sat up from the floor. As she did a head rush came over her making Aya grab her forehead. "Oi… Head rush…."

"You alright?" Kenji asked also sitting up.

Aya shook her head. "I'll be fine…. You know Kenji, I've got an idea."

"What's that?"

Aya then slowly turned to Kenji; he noticed the smirk on her face just before she pounced. Pinning him to the floor.

Kenji then replayed his mother's advice in his head. "Don't hesitate, just go with things…"

At the other end of the world a much different story was taking place, Natsuki and her siblings where being pursued by US forces as they made their escape from the UN compound.

"Sister their forces are barring down on us!"

Natsuki peeked over a huge rock to see troops, tanks and six Ferrum Ferus. Looking back at the other two, Natsuki quickly made a plane.

"Do we have any personal N2 bombs?"

The two shook their heads.

"We do not….. The recovery craft will be here in fifteen minutes." Her brother replied. "Sister give me your rifle."

Doing as she was told the other sibling handed him the rifle. "Chairmen Krefta gave me a direct order to ensure that the two of you return unharmed."

Natsuki looked at him slightly confused. "What are you saying?"

"You two are to continue to the extraction point… " He then pulled the massive energy rifle that was strapped to his back the drove it in to the hard sand... "… I will hold them here."

Natsuki didn't like the idea. "No, we all return."

He drew his side arm and pointed it at Natsuki's head. Right in between the eyes. "Krefta ordered me if you refuse I am to ensure that you not fall in their hands." He then looked over at the other sibling who watched this all take place. "Sister… make sure that she and you get to the extraction point."

She nodded. "Y-Yes Brother."

Watching the two run off to the recovery point some three miles north from where they where located. The male sibling the looked back at the energy rifle that he had driven in to the ground; he opened it exposing its energy source. Then he went several hundred feet away giving him self a clear line of sight of the weapon he had left behind. There he sat and waited…

Once he was set up at the top of another rock, he sighted the other rifle on the core of the energy weapon. Through the sight of the rifle he watched as troops and tanks started to flood the area around his position. He waited for the Ferrum Ferus as well to come in to the area, but they never came. Not willing to let them get past him, he pulled the trigger.

The shot rang out and the bullet traveled to the core of the energy rifle, cracking its core, causing it to rupture.

Being knocked to the ground from the explosion the two sisters look back to see the pillar of light towering to the night sky. They had known what had happened. Turning back to where they had left their brother, Natsuki tried to run to his aid but was stopped by her sister.

"Sister, we are to get to the extraction point." She said then she looked to the ground. "You know as good as I that there is nothing left…. All we can do is to get out of here. Like he wanted us to."

Turning back around the two where about to start for the extraction point when an other shot rang out. Natsuki's sibling dropped to her knees. Natsuki turned around facing the direction the shot came from and activating her personal AT field device. Swinging her right arm at the general direction the orange glow of he AT field ripping at the earth and shattering the standing rocks; killing the shooter.

"Sister!"

A second shot rang out, this one striking the device that was around Natsuki's head. The vary one that suppresses the terrible memories of the missions. The vary device that separates the two different sides of Natsuki. Grabbing her head, Natsuki fell to the ground face first and rolled on to her back.

"Sister….."

Hearing her other sibling, Natsuki turned to face her as she laid there besides her dying. "Sister… you must get to the extracting….. Point…."

Taking Natsuki's second hand gun, she gave her sister a kick in the side; motivating Natsuki to move.

"Go… Run!"

Natsuki, not sure what was going started to run in a stagger heading north. She didn't know haw far she ran, nor did she really know why. Nothing really was making any since to her. Things where blurry, sights, sounds and smells seemed to mix in to one. Then she tripped over something making her go again face first in to the sand of the Nevada desert. Looking up she cleared her face of from the sand and that's when she felt it. Blood trickling down the side of her face. Screaming she shot up and ran again, frightened by the sight of blood. The barriers between Natsuki the high school student and Natsuki a child of SEELE where breaking down.

Dropping to her knees she broke down and started to cry. That's when a massive spot light shined down from the heavens. The light burned her eyes for a second; the she realized what it was. It was the recovery craft. She watched as it circled once then its massive wings tilted up ward allowing its equally massive engines to rotate and point down to the earth, letting it hover there in the air for a second before started its decent to the ground. Getting up she staggered for the landed craft and watched as one of its' side hatches open up letting several other people all the same age as she was climb out of it.

"Sister, Chairmen Krefta sent us for you." A pail looking young man said.

"Two other… behind me…" was all Natsuki can say as several other children of SEELE took her to the craft. Then when she realized that they where not going to help the other two, she snapped; in one instant all her rage, fear, hate all erupted in one violent out burst.

Grabbing the side arm of the one who was helping her to the craft, Natsuki charged for the troops that where just over the sand dune. When she crested the dune she came face to face with ten of the troops. Then pointed her gun at them and fired six times before the weapon jammed. Throwing it down, she ran at the remaining four. Jumpinginto the air she landed on the chest of one; knocking him to the ground then she ripped his neck wide open with her bare hands. Hardly feeling the pain that was in her arm she had found that there was a knife sticking out of it and turned using her AT field generator she swung at the second man, the field ripped him apart. Splattering him across the desert sands. Getting up she turned to face the remaining two she ran at them. One had gotten his neck broken and the other had his head ripped clean off his shoulders…

Before the remaining troops where able to reach the others The Children of SEELE had withdrawn and their craft had disappeared in to the night sky. All that remained was the death and carnage that was left in their wake.

In Tokyo-3 Kenji sat at his computer waiting for Aya to get out of the shower. He sat there looking at the folder that had had kept the information from the computer ship. He didn't know if he should read it, or if it would even change anything. He looked over his shoulder and listened to make sure the water was still running. Satisfied that it was still running he doubled clicked on the folder. There before him the data about the Evangelion and all projects linked to it was right there in front of him. The truth about Second Impact and the Katsuragi expedition, the Giant, Adam, Lilith, even Instrumentality and the prophecies of the Dead Sea scrolls. It was all there. Kenji tried to read all that he could but it was all too unreal. The history of the mankind was spilled out right there in front of him.

This was the truth his father was killed over, this was the truth he knowingly risked his life to get it to him mother, so she could make sure that man made Third Impact never took place. Then he realized it; his hands where shaking as he has them resting there on the keyboard. Quickly removing his hands from the keyboard, then he pushed him self away from the desk.

"Kenji-kun… I forgot to get a towel. Can you get me one?" Aya called out from the bathroom.

"What.. Uh… Yeah, I'll be there in a second." Kenji replied, closed the folder and shut off the computer screen.

Walking out of his room, Kenji found that Aya sticking her head out of a partly opened bathroom door.

"You guys got a great shower head." Aya commented. "It's way better then the one I've got at home."

Kenji opened a closet that was next to the bathroom and pulled out a towel and handed it to Aya. "Hay can you hand my red hair tie?" Kenji asked. As he started to pull his hair back.

"You wanna come in? Aya asked.

Kenji shook his head. "Nah, I don't want to spoil the view." Kenji replied. "That was it makes seeing you far much better later on."

Aya smiled. "You've got a way with words Kenji… Okay here you go." She said then she handed the red hair tie. "What do you want to do when I get done?"

"Yeah let's get something to eat… and maybe we can get hold of Natsuki and see how her trip is going." Kenji replied.

"Okay just give me a couple more minutes then I'll be ready." Said Aya then she disappeared back in to the bathroom.

Deep with in the NERV compound Gendo sat as his desk. Not doing any paperwork or reading any book. He was just sitting there, contemplating his and Krefta's actions. They have opened the stables for the four horsemen. He leaned forward going in to his ever famous pose, his glasses catching what little light was in the office. Then hearing the phone that sits within his desk ring. Gendo sat back up and pushed himself away from the massive oak desk. Opening the spot where he keeps the phone he answered it.

"Yes… vary good….. Vary well have them set down in Barstow, California. Where they will catch an orbital flight back to Japan….. Vary well." Hanging up the phone, Gendo returned to his pose.