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Thanks for the reviews everyone! Finally, here's chapter two of Evangelion: Rebirth of Genesis.
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Conflicts Arise
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Setting: Hospital in Tokyo-3. Four days after Third Impact
Shinji slowly opened his eyes, awaking for the first time in days. He had been asleep ever since the incident involving Asuka, meaning that he had no idea where he was or why.
He looked around and quickly noticed that he was indeed at the hospital.
Shinji (to himself): well duh. I guess we were riding an ambulance after all.
Shinji scoffed at his own stupidity and looked down at his arm. By the way it was bandaged, he had apparently done quite a number to it. He could've swore he only pulled it by climbing the rubble, but now it looked as bad as the makeshift bandage Shinji put on Asuka's arm.
Shinji (to himself): huh. Guess I can stand more pain than I thought. Speaking of Asuka, where the hell is she?
Shinji jumped out the hospital bed as new energy filled his entire body. He never felt this good since before Third Impact arose. He felt he should take it a little easier though, with his arm being totaled and all.
Voice: So I see you're feeling better Mr. Ikari.
Shinji spun around to the source of the voice. The doctor was standing in the doorway with clipboard in hand. He was a handsome man with dark violet hair and small round spectacles. Shinji could only guess that he wanted to talk to him about his arm.
Doctor: you where out for quite awhile. Probably for the best though, we are very short-handed around here; I wouldn't have been able to get to you if you've gotten up a couple of days earlier.
Shinji: A lot of people are hurt huh?
Doctor: Yeah, there were quite a few in the last couple of days. (chuckles) Ironically, I had to treat a lot of doctors, hence our current situation.
Shinji remains standing as the doctor takes a seat next to his bed.
Doctor: But, now things are getting kind of slow. It's weird though, all the crazy stories I hear about everyone coming back to life.
Shinji felt a sick feeling in his stomach.
Doctor: 'Course I don't believe it.
This statement surprised Shinji.
Shinji: Do you even remember anything that's happened?
The doctor raised an eyebrow.
Doctor: Well...I remember doing some paperwork and then I just passed out or something weird like that. The next I know, I woke up right at my desk, like nothing ever happened. I admit, it is a bit odd that everyone else in the city passed out at the same time, but coming back to life from death is just too damn ridiculous.
Shinji couldn't believe it. They all really DID come to life and not everyone believed it. And apparently, some didn't know that the rest of the world died and resurrected as well.
But perhaps it's for the best that they didn't know for sure. After all, it was his fault that they died; they would be happier without the knowledge of the pain of death...at least, he would feel better.
Shinji decided to change the subject.
Shinji: So, what's up with my arm doctor?
Doctor: Heoken. Just call me Heoken. I hate doctor. Way too formal.
Shinji: Okay, Heoken then.
Heoken (looks down at clipboard): Well, it was a hell of a repair. Your arm was broken in two places among the humorous, and dislocated it at three separate joints. We had to pop the joints back in place and wrap that arm carefully.
Shinji's eyes widened a bit.
Shinji: Damn. I just thought I pulled it.
Heoken: Pulled it?! Shit, you must have some stamina if you think that. Whatever motivated you at that time must have given you some heavy-duty resistance. I wished I had that motivation.
Shinji knew exactly what motivated him to withstand that level of pain: Asuka.
Shinji (surprised): crap I forgot! Hey Heoken, what about Asuka? Where's she?
Heoken: Auska? Oh, you mean the red head you where with. She's a couple of rooms down, but let me tell you, you were better off than she was. Her right arm was completely sliced in half, and her left eye was punctured big time. It was miracle that the operation was complete success.
Shinji (completely ecstatic): you mean she's all right!? Is she feeling better too?!
Heoken: As far as I can tell, she's still asleep. (Looks down at clipboard and looks up again) maybe you should go see her...huh?
He looks up and Shinji was already gone.
Heoken (blinks in amazement): Geez, he's fast.
Asuka lied completely still in bed, undisturbed by the busy environment around her. Shinji just took his time in waking her; he was too busy admiring what she looked like asleep. He stood in the hallway as the daylight dawned down upon his vision of beauty; he was completely enamored with her ever since the night before.
Shinji (to himself): maybe now she will open up at long last. She shown her true self to me once, maybe she is still in there...somewhere.
It had also occurred to Shinji that Asuka had not known about any of last night's events. She still did not know about everyone coming back to life and all that.
Shinji (to himself): I guess I'll have to tell her everything then...
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Asuka was in a dark room with no doors or windows. She looked around her, trying to figure how she got here and why. She looked down and spotted the only piece of furniture in the room: a rag doll.
Asuka (terrified): no.... not you again....
Footsteps were coming from the darkness in the other side of the room.
Asuka: who-who's there?! Answer me!
The figure stepped out of the darkness, revealing the face of Shinji Ikari. Except he didn't have the typical naïve smile anymore; instead he looked at Asuka with a face of pure madness.
Shinji (chuckling): you're still alive huh? I-I guess I'll have to try again.
He walked toward the doll in the middle of the room and picked it up. He put the doll eye level to Asuka and began to strangle it furiously. Asuka couldn't do anything except stare in fright.
Shinji: DIE! DIE! DIE! Nobody loves you anyway. I especially hate you and your little bitchy attitude. Why don't just die like the whore you are Asuka!
Asuka couldn't take much more of this. Bad memories began to fill her head: memories of not being wanted, memories of not being needed, and memories of loneliness. Her mind had reached the breeching point of sanity.
Asuka (screaming): NOOOO!!!! STOP IT!!!DON'T SHOW ME ANYMORE!!!WHY DON'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE YOU BAKA!!!!I HATE YOU!!!!I HATE YOU!!!!
Asuka (jumping straight up out of the bed): I HATE YOU BAKA!!!!!
Asuka was sweating like crazy and was gasping for air. She calms down a little to see where she was. She looked around the room, spotting a nightstand, dinner tray, Shinji, a chair....
She whipped her head back at Shinji who was standing in her doorway. Her eyes widened.
Shinji (concerned): Asuka! Are you all right? What happened?!
He takes a couple of steps towards her bed.
Asuka (yelling): STAY BACK BAKA!
Shinji stopped suddenly. She seemed to be frightened of him, but why? Wasn't it caring and understanding that he saw emerge from her last night? It had to be...
He steps forward cautiously
Asuka: I SAID STAY BACK!
Shinji: Asuka...what's wrong? Please, tell me. I-I want to help....
Asuka: I DON'T NEED YOU BAKA! ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE ARE THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH! JUST LEAVE!
Shinji (still getting closer): Asuka...
Asuka leaps out of bed, terrified by the closing distance between her and Shinji. She shoved past Shinji as hard as he could. Shinji fell on the floor, hard.
Asuka (yelling): IF YOU WON'T LEAVE, I WILL!
Asuka darts for the door and slams it behind her.
Shinji: Wait! ASUKA! There's something you need to know!
Shinji flings open the door and finds Asuka standing in the middle of the hallway, frozen. She looked around her as several other eyes looked back at her. Apparently, everyone in the vicinity heard the little conversation Shinji and her were having. They just stood there and stared back at Asuka
Asuka's brain started going into maximum overdrive.
Asuka (quietly stuttering): w-w-what is go-going on here...why i-is there people here...
Shinji: Asuka...The world came back to us...
Asuka just stood there in disbelief.
Heoken (shoving through crowd of people): pardon me, 'cuse me. ah ha! I see the other patient has woken up!
Asuka did not stand for long though. All of this was too much to handle all at once, causing her to instantly faint to the ground.
Shinji: Asuka!
Heoken (exasperated):'sigh'. Shit.
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In the examining room ten minutes later
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Shinji (blushing like crazy): are you sure its okay if I stay here while you're examining her?!
Heoken (jokingly) : sure. It ain't as bad as you think. Besides, you are her significant other aren't you?
Shinji (whispering): I wish I were...
Heoken: what's that?
Shinji: Nothing important.
Heoken: Well, she'll wake up in an hour at most. She'll be fine. Anyway, why don't you stay here until she wakes up; I got to check on other patients. Later.
Heoken leaves the room, shutting the door quietly behind him. Shinji sat on the chair opposite of the examining table where Asuka was laying.
Shinji: I guess I just wait...
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Asuka was back in the room again, but the doll was not in the middle of the room anymore. The person that stood in front of her now was none another than....herself.
Other Asuka: He lied to us.
Asuka:...baka?
Other Asuka: Yes...he tricked us so he could get all the attention we deserve. He knew that everyone would come back, so tried to push you away to get that praise.
Asuka:...but he would never.....
Other Asuka: What?! He tried to kill us remember?! HE did not want us around to take a piece of the popularity. Why else would he try to kill us?
Asuka:.....
Other Asuka: then he takes us to the hospital to make it appear that he saved you! You know, "The Invincible Shinji saves a poor, poor girl from certain death. Not to mention the rest of the world"
Asuka: He only saved me so he could get the glory? But that's just going too far....not even that baka would do something like that!
Other Asuka: Stupid Bitch! What ever happened to the great Asuka Langley Sohryu? He says he wants to help us, but all he truly desires is to destroy us. All we have to do is keep the baka away...then...he will become the weak little pest he truly is.
Asuka: Does that mean that...people will want me again?
Other Asuka: yes...we have a purpose...as long as we keep the baka away...people will want us. Besides, He doesn't really love us. Why try to love him back?
Asuka (puts on a smug grin): He makes me sick...
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Asuka slowly awoke from her slumber, filled with new revelations. Ones that would affect the course of her, and Shinji's life, as we know it.
Shinji saw Asuka wake up and jumped right out of the seat.
Shinji: Asuka! Are you all right?! Does anything hurt.
Asuka just sat there her head bowed down.
Asuka (quietly): Stop pretending you care you hopeless baka....
Shinji:... what's the matter Asuka...
Asuka: my problem is YOU baka. you lied to me about the others. You knew all along and kept it from me.Her words hit Shinji like a blunt object against the head.
Shinji:...that's not true. I just want too...
Asuka: Go away. I don't need you. I don't want to see your pitiful face anymore.
Shinji heard Asuka and left the room with reluctance. She was completely hysterical now, and she needed to calm down. He did not want to leave her alone, but his typical Shinji logic told him to run away; and so he did.
That was his big mistake.
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Nurse: Doctor! She's gone! She's not in the examining room!
Heoken looked up abruptly from his clipboard.
Heoken: The redhead? But wasn't there a boy in the room also?
Nurse: No, he's in the patient's room, but she's not there either!
Heoken gets up from his office chair and swiftly heads for Asuka's hospital room.
Heoken: grumble...grumble...grumble....
Shinji sat on Asuka's bed pondering on what had occurred. She had never, in their entire time together, treated him like that before. There were times when she would get angry with him, but she seemed to always bounce back every time.
But this time, it sounded like she meant the words she said. It really did sound like that she hated him. Shinji was starting to have his doubts about her feelings towards him.
Shinji (to himself): but...why? What was it that I saw in her four days ago? Was she feigning love? She never really did say she loved me...
These thoughts made Shinji's heart sink to his stomach. If that was true, then nothing has really changed at all between them; and the outcome may be worse, much worse.
Just then, Heoken popped into the doorway, out of breath from running here.
Heoken: Shinji...why did you leave the examining room?
Shinji (confused): I thought she might have needed some time alone. Why?
Heoken: Well...honestly...she isn't there anymore.
Shinji jumped off of Asuka's bed instantly
Shinji (yelling): SHE'S GONE?!
Heoken stood up straight with his wind completely regained.
Heoken: Yeah, and we can't find her anywhere in this damn facility.
Shinji wasn't really surprised about that. If he knew Asuka, she could slip out of this building easily. The problem was where would she go?
The answer hit Shinji like a ton of bricks.
Shinji (whispering): Misato's....
Shinji darted past Heoken and made a run for the main entrance.
Heoken: Hey! We're ya goin?! Ya need to check out first.
But by the time he had said that the boy was already out of the hospital. Heoken laid his arms on the window and put his head on them.
Heoken: man, if only one girl could do that to me too...
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Shinji: Misato's.....she has to be there....
Shinji was running at full speed to what used to be the home of Misato, Asuka, and Shinji. But Misato must have come back to life with the rest of them, so she may be at her apartment. Shinji had completely forgotten about the rest of his friends who resurrected with the rest of the lot, let alone Misato. Seeing Misato would normally be a wonderful reunion for Shinji, but now was not the time to worry about that. Maybe if she was home, she could keep Asuka occupied long enough for Shinji to catch up to her.
Just maybe...
He reached the complex in less than two minutes. It was good to see that a lot of the old buildings still stood after Third Impact. Actually, Shinji thought nothing stood after the impact. Guess he was wrong again.
Shinji jumped into the elevator of the apartment complex and repeatedly pressed the button for the desired floor.
Shinji: Please be there Asuka....
After what seemed like eternity, Shinji finally reached and sprinted towards his old home. But at about ten feet in front of the apartment building, he came to an abrupt stop.
The door was wide open.
Shinji casually walked inside and looked around. The kitchen and living room were completely trashed. That either meant that someone looted the place and ran or Misato came back as well as her destructive living habits.
He walked down the short hallway and looked into his room. Nothing was touched at all. A sigh of relief came over Shinji. Clearly, Misato must just have been home because looters wouldn't miss out on stealing his or Asuka's stuff.
Remembering why he came here in the first place, Shinji turned around and looked at the door which belonged to Asuka.
He gently rapped against the door.
Shinji: Asuka, are you in there?
No answer.
Fearing that Asuka might just be asleep, Shinji hesitantly opened the door. He peeked in and saw no one on the bed. He opened the door completely now, convinced that no one was in here.
Shinji looked at Asuka's dresser and noticed that every article of clothing was missing. He then opened up her closet and saw that all of her clothes and a couple of her duffle bags were missing as well.
He looked at the bed again and saw a note on it. It was addressed to him. Shinji picked it up and read it thoroughly:
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Baka,
I know that you would follow me here, so I left this note. Don't follow me anymore. I'm going somewhere else besides this cursed city. Or....is it you that cursed my life?
Asuka
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Shinji read the note over and over again. He could not believe it, he was too late. She was gone now, out of his life forever...
But something didn't right about Asuka's words. Like it was as if she did not write it herself. Nonetheless, it was her handwriting, but her motives left Shinji in unbearable confusion.
Shinji:...why? Why did you leave Asuka?
Shinji didn't know what to do anymore. He left the apartment quietly and headed back for the hospital, unsure of the life that awaited him.
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End of chapter 2
I hope that was a little more original than the last chapter. Those of you expecting a little more Eva action scenes, don't worry, I've planned some for the next chapter:)
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