NO I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT I'VE JUST HAD WAY TO MUCH FRICKIN SCHOOL WORK AND I KEEP LOTS OF SPARE IDEAS ON MY COMPUTER WHICH I POST WHENEVER I'M IN ONE OF MY MOODS. IF I UPLOADED THEM ALL AT ONCE I WOULD HAVE HALF A DOZEN INCOMPLETE STORIES AND BELIEVE ME A LOT OF THEM ARE REEEEEAAALLLLLY STUPID AND THAT'S COMING FROM THEIR AUTHOR. -cough- Now then to turn the rest over to Rei and Ruri.

-Dual Monotones- 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . Kaboom. Welcome to another volume of Naze Nani Fanfiction.

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Chapter One- Volume 1

"Report." Commander Gendo Ikari said as he gazed upon the ruins of a GeoFront life support module. Pale red coolant was all over the place, dripping from the pressure warped pipes and forming syrupy discolored puddles across the floor. Hazardous material teams were already busy cleaning the mess up but it would be several days before repairs could commence. The system was redundant of course, this was one of many dozens of self contained units responsible for maintaining the environment within the massive subterranean facility.

"The damage was relatively minor." Doctor Ritsuko Akagi said behind him. "But it seems it was meant more as a diversion to allow our attacker to access the MAGI. From what we've been able to put together from footage the Attacker set off a C4 shaped charge on the control system for the life support unit, this overrode the safeties and allowed pressure to build in the heat exchange unit. By the time security got here the system had already burst. Within thirty minutes most of the on station Section Two agents were in this area at which time a second charge was set off on bakelite pump number twenty seven, sealing all of the primary hallways between this sector and the northeast section of NERV. From there the attacker accessed the MAGI and downloaded multiple files."

"What kind of files?" Gendo asked dangerously. There was a great deal of data within the MAGI, must of it was in fact harmless, but a few files were quite secret, buried beneath layers of firewalls and encryption, and needed to remain that way.

"Well. We're . . . Not sure." Ritsuko admitted, it appears that our attacker new exactly what they were dealing with, they had a Command level software override so Casper covered their trail for them. This would have to have been an inside job, only fifty people in all of Japan know those overrides."

"And most of them are accounted for." Sub Commander Fuyutsuki added as he observed the wreckage. "The rest couldn't even be in Tokyo-3. However they got those codes we'll need to find our leak and plug it."

"Yes." Gendo agreed, "Fuyutsuki, have Sections Two and Four increase their patrols, I don't want a repeat of this. We will have to reset the security pass keys as well, inform me when the system is ready to accept a new override, Doctor."

Both of his subordinates nodded in unison. "Should we inform the Major and pilots about this?" Fuyutsuki asked.

Gendo's gaze turned back to the ruins of the life support module. "No, this is not their concern." He said finally, "Whoever our attacker was they most likely were not interested in the pilots."

"Very well Ikari." Fuyutsuki said as he turned to leave.

Gendo meanwhile was deep in thought. If someone else had learnt of Casper's backdoors did that mean that still other's might know? And what if that wasn't the only thing they knew. His discomfort rose as he realized just how vulnerable his position was at that moment. This problem will have to be neutralized. He decided finally, until then he had other matters to attend to.

Rei let out a small groan as she opened her eyes. That was unusual, but then she'd never felt this much pain without being injured before. Her entire body was stiff and soar and she felt exhausted as if she had been up half the night.

Not letting it bother her she rolled out of bed slowly and headed for the shower. The cold water only made her feel worse as muscles knotted painfully but she pushed the pain aside and went through her morning rituals before turning off the shower and drying herself off. Glancing at herself in the mirror, red eyes starred back.

She continued out of her bathroom and dressed quickly in her school uniform, frowning as she noted her spare satchel lying next to her bed. She normally left it by the door, but it wasn't in the way regardless. She disregarded it and continued to get ready.

The walk to school was uneventful as always but she noted curiously that Section Two had agents standing guard at a relay station that was on her route from her apartment to school. That was indeed strange but not overly so. It was most likely none of her business, if it was the Commander would tell her about it.

She got to school early and quietly went about her normal routine, sitting down on a bench and reading from her history book she didn't want to risk brining any of her collection to school for fear of it being damaged or worse stolen. There was also the fact that the other children might start talking if they knew the "Blue haired freak" was doing something out of the ordinary. Rei fully understood how cruel human beings could be.

A shadow passed over her book and Rei looked up irritated before noting who it was. "I've got a hold of a guy who thinks he can get that 'special' item you wanted." Kensuke said.

"The Perfect Works? I was under the impression it was quite rare." Rei said frowning, in fact, trying to find the two hundred plus, highly detailed book hard bound book on the world, history, and characters, of her obsession was the reason she had searched out Mr. Aida in the first place.

"It is, he found it in a used bookstore, the guy at the register seemed to figure out how valuable it was and is charging a pretty yen for it."

"How much?"

"Twenty thousand."

Rei thought for a moment and then nodded, "You will have it, half up front as usual."

"Good, its been a pleasure doing business with you Miss Ayanami." With that Kensuke turned and headed off towards a gathering throng of students. Rei considered the bespectacled boy and then dismissed him, his childish nature could be put up with when he had a clearly defined objective. He was quite enthusiastic and useful. Essentially he possessed all of the characteristics to be a good partner, like Kenji was for Yuki, the reliable best friend met under awkward circumstances who supported the heroin through thick and thin.

She gave a mental shake and went back to her book, none the less in deep thought, and also, deep anticipation of her greatest acquisition to date.

She was not pulled from her book until the bell rang at which point she made her way, unhurried, to class. Sat down, and immediately began to tune the world around her out as she starred out the window.

Unaware of the secrets slowly forming within her own mind.

Shinji Ikari was a boy thoroughly set in depression. Everything about him essentially exposed it to the world. He was weak, and he knew it, he was spineless, and he knew that too, else people would not tell him those things. He blinked as he felt a firm pat on the back and looked up to see Kensuke grinning. "Caught you in the act!'

"Uh, what?'

Kensuke pointed to where Shinji had been starring, his line of sight intersected exactly with Rei's form starring out the window.

"Uh, no I wasn't, its not like that!" Shinji spluttered. Secretly he knew it was true, he had found himself starring at Rei more then once by now. He just couldn't figure out such an enigma, If she would just talk to me . . . He shook the thought off, Rei didn't talk to anyone . . . Accept his father. Save on rare occasions of necessity.

Kensuke grinned, tempted to tell Shinji about Rei's little obsession, but it was his duty as a provider to never reveal his clients, even when Asuka had threatened to beat him up for selling pictures of her. He had never once betrayed a client, and he took a certain, slightly morbid after Asuka's brutal thrashing, pride in it.

"I think you should just talk to her." Kensuke said, "Come on, you gotta take her or leave her." Kensuke said leaning in to whisper in Shinji's ear. "Besides eventually somebody else might get through to her after all of your hard work."

"Gyah! What are you implying by that!" Shinji asked startled.

"Ayanami seems to have taken a shine to you." Kensuke noted.

"What do you mean?" Shinji asked, very happy that Touji had gone to see his sister today, a combined attack from both of his friends would have been too much.

"You haven't noticed?" Kensuke asked, "I thought it was obvious, she's opened up to you more then anyone else at school, she's even walked with you a few times."

"It just because we're both headed the same way." Shinji insisted.

Kensuke shook his head, "I doubt that. Guys have tried to walk along with her but she always just picks up her pace until they're left in the dust. You're the only one she's ever gotten that close to. Do you want somebody else to walk in on your chance!" With that Kensuke grinned and held up his camera. "Its your choice but how could you give up on your big chance so easy?" The sad thing was that if a nerd like Kensuke could figure this out Shinji really was clueless.

Do I even have a chance with Ayanami? No, she only cares about my father . . . So . . . Why don't I ask her, she'll just tell me know and I can stop worrying about it then. Even so he hesitated, Screw this you've killed Angels for crying out loud, you can talk to one little girl!

Shinji steeled himself with that conviction as the lunch bell rang. He hurried quickly to Rei's desk feeling terrified as he approached her. "Ayanami?" He asked voice tight and shaking.

Rei looked up. "Yes Ikari?"

"Uhm, I . . ." His mouth went dry as he tried to think of something to say. "I . . . I . . . I . . . Imgoingtogogetlunchnow!" He blurted as his resolve disintegrated, he made a dash for the door not even looking back.

Rei frowned, she had been expecting . . . More from him than that, but what, she wasn't certain, she just felt deeply disappointed as if she knew what he had been about to say. She blinked a few times thinking about how Shinji made her feel. The small things he did out of kindness, even if that kindness was out of his cowardly nature. None of her class matesnoticed as the crimson pupils of Rei's eyes became tinged withviolet. Finaly satisfying herselfthatthoughts of Ikaricould wait until latershe turned back to her window and blinked once. As hermind drifted back to NERV. Her eyes flowed back to crimson.

Ok, now for a little bit of meaningless psychobabble to explain the situation. Rei essentially has developed the alter persona of Yuki as a way to act out the frustrations caused by the conflicting emotions she feels for both Gendo and Shinji and the injustices that her subconscious perceives. Yuki essentially can assert herself if Rei is unconscious though will not necessarily do so. Yuki may also become the dominant personality if Rei becomes emotionally overwhelmed. Conversely Yuki may change back to Rei if she experiences extreme emotional trauma or is, though clichéd, knocked unconscious herself.

Yuki is essentially a fictional entity that Rei has connected with die to similar circumstances with both being the product of artificial birth. Rei romanticizes her as a heroin and by extension this acts upon Rei's own ego by allowing her deprived imagination a medium through which to express her fantasies. The reason she is addicted to the Manga isn't just because she likes the story, but also because it creates a world with characters similar enough to her own 'real' world for her to easily transpose herself in Yuki's place. (As hinted Messiah being NERV, Commander Ralson being Gendo, Yuki being Rei, and Kensuke being Kenji) The Manga makes Rei feel good by giving her the closest thing she has ever experienced to a dream.

Eventually Rei has come to the point where she has begun to create a second personality based on the Manga character. Unlike normal fantasizing however this persona has a very practical purpose, since Rei at least subconsciously realizes that NERV is the cause of all of her pain, her Yuki persona isa weaponagainst the injustices she feels towardsNERV and is a way for heremotions to strike back at whather Yuki personaperceives as a threat much as she did the organization which created her and she fights against in the Manga.

And yes I know its been done before I can only try to do it good Right? -