Power Of The Heart

A/N: Giving a thanks to gunman for giving me some rather interesting ideas. I plan to incorporate most of them into the story as best I can as well. Well back to the story, Im hoping that you guys can enjoy this chapter a little bit more than the last as i hope to dive deeper into the relationships a bit more as well. Tell me what you think...

Chapter 2- Final Decision

After reorienting himself and with the help of Asuka and Rei, Shinji was able to get Misato off of him and stood himself up.

"Oh hey guys!" noticing she had fallen ontop of Shinji a moment ago, "Sorry bout that Shinji, I was in a bit of a hurry. Do you guys need anything?"

Asuka then took charge of the situation by speak up "Yeah Misato, we were wondering if you could sign our permission slips and allow us to go on the school trip to Lake Hironas." and giving her most pitiful looking face," We have after all, defeated all those Angels, I believe we deserve the break, Isn't that right you two?"

"Yeah Misato please..."

"This is true Major"

Misato stood there a moment contemplating this, "Well you all do have a point, you have been working hard lately." thinking once more she added "But I will have to confirm this with NERV if this is acceptable, though I see no reason for them to disapprove it."

At this point all of the children's faces lit up instantly, including Rei's. Each person's mind filling up.

'Finally a quiet place in which to rest, and maybe, just maybe I can have a chance to talk with Ikari of these feelings I seem to be having around him lately' Rei thought to herself.

'Great now maybe I can talk with Rei to find out if she really likes me or not' Shinji contemplated.

'Finally a break, a place to rest, and most importantly too humiliate that baka' Asuka schemed

'I wonder if I fed Pen-Pen this morning?' Misato inquired

"Thanks Misato!" The 3 children said simultaneously. Each giving their guardian a hearty farewell before receeding into the apartment as Misato head off to NERV.

As they walked in, taking off their shoes, the 3 decided to watch the TV together and plopped down on the couch, Shinji trying to sit as close to Rei as possible without worrying of freaking her out, though in Rei's mind she would have preferred to be even closer to the boy.

While they sat there watchin random shows on the TV, Shinji and Rei would steal glances at the other while they weren't looking. But, while the 2 of them didn't notice the constant glances at one another, a certain red-haired girl did, and she didn't like it.

She decided to try and end this before it could begin to blossom into something more serious. True she found Shinji to be a spineless, wimpy person, she also saw him as a charming and caring individual, though she would never admit this.

And so she began to make her first strike. Slowly she crept across the couch and laid her self in Shinji's lap, which caught him completely by surprise causing him to gulp slightly. Rei on the other hand had noticed this and suddenly was overcome with a strange emotion that screamed for her to Bitch-Slap the redhead back to Germany. After contemplating what to do next she decided not to attack her physically but to attack her pride by doing the last thing anyone would ever expect her to.

She slowly came closer to the confused young boy and wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him into a deep passionate kiss.

Shinji on one hand was extremely confused yet was stimulated by the kiss and decided to return it by deepening it even more. On the other hand there was Asuka, who became so outraged by this show of affection, she quickly got up and stomped off to her room in defeat.

As the 2 broke off their kiss, they slowly looked at each other, mesmerized by each others eyes.

Suddenly the door flew open revealing an exhausted Misato. Quickly the 2 separated as to not be seen by Misato and have to endure endless joking.

"Hey you two, where's Asuka?" Misato asked.

"Umm... I think she went to her room. Why do you ask?" Shinji inquired

"Because I have good news, NERV has allowed you 3 to go on the trip on one condition..."

"I will be joining you"

To be continued...

A/N: Bum Bum Bum...well I think I like this chapter a bit more than the first. May not have gotten too far but I mainly wanted to get a little bit of a relationship going between Shinji and Rei. Trust me though I intend to move on and get them to Lake Hironas, where I intend to really spice things up a bit. Well thats it for me tonight. I'll try to throw out a new chapter or so on Sunday seeing as I'll be busy working this weekend. Till then review and tell me what you think, and remember the more you review and tell me what you think and give your suggestions, the sooner I'll try to spit out more chapters nnd the better they'll be. Till the next chapter; Arrival;