DISCLAIMER: I do not own, nor have I ever owned and am unlikely to ever own Evangelion, it is the property of the legitimate and lawful copyright holders. This story is solely for my own personal pleasure.
This story is a Lemon which means that it is filled to the brim with adult content not suitable for people that aren't adults, but I guess that's why you're here. You have been warned.
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"This" is speech.
'This' is thoughts.
"This" is memories
An Open Door
Asuka Langley Sohryu, Second Child, and pilot of NERVs Evangelion Unit 02, stood under the shower head in the Katsuragi apartment. For the fifth time that day she lathered her strawberry scented shower gel over skin. Her body becoming covered in fragrant pink bubbles until the beads of water swept them away. She took her arm and held it to her nose as she stood under the stream of water from.
"Still smells like blood." She said to herself as her nose picked up the persistent odor.
Ever since she and Shinji had returned from the shadow of the 12th Angel she had felt the faint smell of blood permeating her skin. Whether that had always been the case due to her heavy and lifelong exposure to LCL and she had only noticed just now or due to her recent experience inside the hazy dreamworld of the Dirac sea she didn't know.
It had also affected her synch rate, and Shinji's as well. They had only been conscious for several days when NERV hauled them in to see how being stuck in an infinite sea of nothingness had affected their ability to pilot. And surprise surprise both their synch rates were down, not catastrophically, but enough. Asuka had regained the top spot, but she was sure everyone could tell her boasts had been hollow. And if that hadn't been bad enough they also had to go back to school THAT SAME DAY! Maybe they thought forcing them back into their daily routine would improve their scores? Either that or NERV is even more moronic than she thought.
One small consolation in all this had been that after she had picked them up from school Misato had rushed off, only walking them to the door of the apartment before sheepishly saying:
"Alright kids I've got to go! Lots of work and meetings so I'll be back late!" She finished as the door hissed shut. Later Shinji noticed a red blinking light on the answering machine and hit the playback button which made Misato a liar.
"Hey Katsuragi!" Kaji's charming voice began. "I got your message. Come on by my place, we should talk."
"She just got us back and she's already off to her lover!" Asuka said indignantly as the message ended.
"Are you complaining?" Shinji asked, his eyebrow raised.
"No." Asuka had said closing the distance between them, inserting her hands under his shirt to run her hands over his bare chest and back as they embraced each other tightly.
"Go take a shower. I'll get dinner started." Shinji said after some time of happy silence.
"Oh are you saying I smell Third!" Asuka pounced on her lover's poor choice of words.
"No, just…isn't that what you usually do?" Shinji said squirming a little but otherwise holding his own.
Asuka hadn't really answered Shinji merely kissed him tenderly on the lips as she extracted her hands from under his shirt and giving her ass a little extra shake as she walked toward the shower to give the baka something to think about.
Which brought her to where she is now, standing under the shower head letting her thoughts turn toward introspection.
Who was Misato to her?
A big sister? An Aunt? A friend? A guardian? A mother?
That last one made Asuka shiver despite the steam that surrounded her in the shower.
She had known the beer-loving purple-head back in Germany. They'd been reasonably friendly to each other, though she hadn't known she was Kaji's ex at the time. And since she had come to Tokyo-3, especially in the beginning, she had grated under the favoritism she had shown Shinji.
Misato knew about her past, about her mother, and her resulting constant need for attention and validation and somehow thought doting on her other ward would be healthy for Asuka's psychology. Maybe it was her trying to help in her own way. Maybe she had favored Shinji because she had believed Asuka's outward act of self-confidence to be evidence she had overcome her past ordeals. Either way Asuka concluded Misato should never ever be a psychologist.
But Asuka was grateful to Misato. She had given her a home, a pseudo-family, and, if even unknowingly, her lover.
Speaking of lovers…
She wasn't sure about Kaji's past, she had been too enamored with the idea ofhim to actually know him, and whether it was filled with trauma like Misato's. But given the fact he lived through Second Impact…well very few people didn't lose someone.
So it made sense that she was seeking his comfort. After all isn't that what she and Shinji were doing? Finding solace and affection in each other.
"Is that all this world is? Broken people stumbling through the dark looking for a bit of light, a bit of warmth?"
"Scheisse!" The sudden twinge of cold impacting on her skin coming from the shower head told her that that was enough brooding for now and Asuka quickly shut the water off and found a towel.
Wrapping her red towel around her body after she had mostly dried herself off she went out into the kitchen where she heard the tell-tale sizzle of something being fried in a pan and the heavenly smell it was filling the apartment with, instantly bringing Asuka out of her earlier ruminations.
"Smells good lover." Asuka said draping her still damp body across Shinji's back in a much more relaxed and natural way than she ever did with Kaji.
"Thanks." Shinji said not nearly as distracted or speechless as he would have been in the same situation just a few months ago in what surely would make any observer seriously consider if they were in fact a married couple with how calm and comfortable they were in each other's presence.
"Teriyaki?" Asuka asked as her mind found the word that matched the smell her nostrils were sending her brain.
"Yellowtail teriyaki with steamed rice and vegetables along with miso soup." Shinji said giving a rundown of their evening's menu.
"I'd never knew fish could be so good before coming here." Asuka remarked as her hands made small circles on Shinji's back as she watched him work. She'd never known how good a lot of things could be before she met Shinji. The pleasant smile on Asuka's face soon turned to a frown as she remembered, despite her best efforts, her earlier musings and the thing she wanted to ask Shinji about the next time they were alone. Well no time like the present.
"Did she say anything? When you were in there?" She felt Shinji tense at the words but he quickly recovered and without taking his eyes of his cooking answered:
"No, I didn't really feel anything different during the synch test today, though I wasn't really looking for her." He paused before continuing. "When we were inside the angel and she came, she never said anything, it was just a presence but one I knew was mother."
"Same here. I knew it was Mama, but I don't think we should go looking for her in the Evas now when we don't have any information to go on, especially since it might be our mothers causing the berserk states and contacting them might be the trigger for that." Asuka said trying to use her genius brain to analyze all the data they had.
"But why is she there in the first place?" Shinji asked puzzled as he flipped over the fish in the pan. Then the coin dropped.
"Wait. Both our mothers worked for NERV."
"And both had accidents about the same time."
"And we both were chosen as pilots."
"And we both can feel our mothers inside the Evas."
"There's got to be a connection there." Asuka said bringing her hands up to her head and trying to make sense of all this. "And why was the Angel so concerned with our relationship?"
"You're sure it was the Angel?"
"Who else would it have been baka!" Asuka said briefly losing her temper as Shinji placed the ready fish on plates and got the serving bowls for the rice and miso.
"Maybe they want to understand people, 'Know yourself and your enemy' or something like that" Shinji said paraphrasing The Art of War.
"Maybe" Asuka said sullenly and looking down at her toes passed her crossed arms. The growling of her stomach told her to stop thinking and eat.
So she sat down, still in her towel and dug in to the dinner that Shinji had made, while Pen Pen emerged from his freezer, grabbed a beer from the fridge and ate the sardines Shinji had thoughtfully laid out for him. But he smelt there was more fish to be had and went up next to the table and let out a "Wark!" Asuka who had been about to take another bite of the fish was not having any of the warm-water penguin's whining and turned to face the bird.
"What do you want, you already had yours!" Though as she was berating the penguin the slippery teriyaki sauce caused the fish to fall from her chopsticks, and hit her towel before finally landing on the floor where a lucky penguin grabbed it in his beak and quickly retreated back to his freezer with his prize. "You damn bird!" Asuka said as she looked at the splotch of sauce staining her favorite towel.
"Damn it." Asuka said as she pushed her chair back and took off her towel.
"Give it to me. You finish eating and I'll rinse it." Shinji said as he got up from the table and his empty plate.
She handed the towel off and watched him go, her eyes glued to his backside, flat and clothed though it was.
Asuka ate absently as her mind raced and hormones flooded her bloodstream. She crossed her legs consciously, worried that dampness emanating from the building arousal would wet the chair she sat on. 'What the hell is with the teenage hormones? Am I really just an animal going through a checklist? Evolutionary it makes sense for a full belly to initiate a sex drive but still did it have to be so overwhelming?'
After some time Shinji came back into the kitchen.
"Köstlich, Shinji." Asuka said as she patted her belly at the table as she saw him. "But I'm still hungry." She continued as she got up from the table and went towards her roommate having decided it's easier to go with the flow of the neurons in her brain telling herself that it was because she wanted to do it before Misato might come back.
"Well there's some more rice and vegeta-…" He began before he saw the look on her grinning face "Oh" he said as the realization hit him.
"I want something meatier." Asuka answered with an innuendo. "You wouldn't happen to have something else tucked away would you?" Asuka asked in her sultry voice.
'Why does she always have to be this teasing? Why?' Shinji thought as he felt her hands through the fabric of his school trousers and boxers.
Shinji looked at the devilish grin that was the only thing Asuka was wearing, she didn't even have her neural adapters. Her hair was in that nebulous region between being dry and wet, where it was soft but not airy, and damp but not soaked, flowing around her shoulders onto her chest and bust. He noticed her nipples were fully erect in all their glory. Whether that was due to Asuka being horny or the chill of the apartment he did not know. Though given where her hand was he could make an educated guess.
She pressed her nude body against him, wrapping her arms around him as she nibbled at his earlobe and whispered into his ear:
"Sorry." The sensation gave him goosebumps across his body. Only too late did his brain process Asuka's solitary word and what it might mean.
'Wait why is she so-' Shinji began thinking before he got his answer. She swiped his legs out from under him, but cradled his body in her arms so he didn't fall onto the linoleum, just a gentle thud as Shinji's body hit the floor as Asuka straddled him.
"But I can't really wait." Asuka said as she grabbed his shirt collar with both hands and in one motion ripped open his school shirt. Buttons went flying across the kitchen, he could hear the distinct impact of one of them hitting something made of glass but he couldn't tell exactly where it was.
'Really the kitchen floor?' Shinji thought as Asuka furiously undid the belt to his pants, he lifted up his ass to help her as she pulled his pants and boxers off in one motion. They'd done it basically everywhere else in the apartment except for the balcony and Misato's room for obvious reasons.
Asuka grabbed at Shinji's semi-hard member, it wasn't flaccid but neither was it ready for her waiting pussy. So she took it in her mouth. She tasted the salty skin from leftover sweat as her mouth worked up and down his shaft and his musky odor filled her nostrils. Usually they both showered before sex but right now Asuka was far too horny for that.
She feverishly bobbed her head up and down, going so quickly she even began to gag a bit as the member in her mouth quickly became rock hard.
Once Asuka thought his cock was ready she sat up and lifted her hips up above Shinji's groin taking his cock in one hand and guiding it to her waiting entrance. She brushed the head between her labia, her wetness mixing with the saliva as she positioned the cock and slowly lowered herself onto it. She felt his balls brush against the curve of her ass-cheeks as his shaft was fully hilted into her. She paused for a moment savoring the feeling of fullness, she brought her face down to his and they shared a kiss that conveyed so much, passion lust, love, understanding, acceptance. Their entire relationship and being conveyed in a simple action. The kiss ended and the tiny pop of their lips separating filled the silence of the apartment.
Asuka put her hands on Shinji's chest to brace herself as she shifted around her legs so her feet were flat on the ground and she was more squatting on rather than straddling Shinji's crotch. Slowly she began pumping her body up and down on his rock hard erection, the muscles in her lithe legs bulging and compressing as she sped up her movements and her hips smacked against his. Her lower lips spreading glossy juices all over his cock as her insides tightened at the stimulation they were receiving while her mouth let out groans at the exertion and Shinji's eyes were glued to the look on her face. Lips spread open and panting, eyes struggling to stay open as the effort and pleasure nearly overwhelmed them.
After several more thrusts Asuka brought her legs down so her knees were again on the kitchen floor and she slowed down her movements. Shinji lifted his hands up to Asuka's thighs to guide her movements. He didn't want to remain passive and he used this pause in their love-making to try and get some say in what came next.
"Oh no you don't." Asuka said forcefully as she grabbed Shinji's hands and pinned them to the floor with hers. "Not this time." Asuka wanted to be in full control. Not just because she derived more pleasure when she was on top and could direct where, when, and how hard Shinji's shaft could strike at her insides. Well that wasn't the only reason. It was also her pride. She knew that Shinji could make himself cum when he thrust his member into her, but she wanted to prove to herself that she could make him cum just by riding him. So in pursuit of that goal she renewed the gyrating motion of her hips, grinding their pelvises together even more.
Asuka then moved her ass up and down quickly, each time she went down half or two-thirds of his length, taking a pause every now and then to slowly take in his whole shaft and hilt down to his ever-tightening balls. Not much longer now. She bit her lip as her walls tightened around Shinji's member and the slapping of their hips together echoed in the kitchen. A little moan managed to escape her mouth and she saw Shinji's glazed eyes looking up at her chest as her breast bounced in tandem with her riding motions.
Soon enough her efforts were rewarded as she felt Shinji's cock jolt inside of her before a spreading warmness filled her. 'I did it.' Asuka thought in satisfaction as her body shook as she crossed the crest of her own orgasm.
She finally let Shinji's hands go and he brought his arms up around her back and brought her down, so that her heaving chest was lying on top of him and their heads were next to each other. After a few small thrusts to help Asuka come down from her high Shinji removed his cock from her. It was sticky, covered in a mix of their love juices and his cock had been so deep that barely a trickle of the cum he had shot into her poured out.
"Did you get the pills from Hikari?" Shinji asked as his brain began to function again. Asuka had restarted her regimen but had been near the end of 'her' prescription just before the last angel attack and had been meaning to get the next batch.
"Yeah, that was probably the only good thing that came out of NERV making us go to school today." Asuka remarked bitterly.
"We got to see our friends." Shinji said.
"You mean our friends got to tease us and bombard us with questions…again." Asuka said as she remembered the unbridled stupidity she had had to deal with today.
"I'm surprised no one is beginning to suspect something" Shinji said as he remembered classmates asking how the honeymoon was.
"Even if they suspect something they can't possibly know the details, otherwise we'd not have been able to do what we just did."Asuka said her reasoning sound, before she changed the subject to something else she had noticed today "Did you see how Hikari looked at your jock-stooge?"
"You think she likes him?"
"Oh I know it."
"Girl stuff?" Shinji asked with a raised eyebrow. He really didn't understand the inner workings of women's mind.
"Yeah…she keeps asking about our relationship when the two of us are alone and secluded. What it's like, what we do, how it feels." Asuka said as she remembered how red Hikari's face was when asking that last question. "We should get them to talk before she pins him down in a supply closet." Asuka finished with a giggle.
"You think she'd do that?" Shinji asked with genuine doubt.
"It's always the quiet ones that snap the hardest."
The Next Morning: Kaji's Place
Misato woke to streams of sunlight coming through the half closed blinds of a bedroom she had never spent a night in before. Her eyes slowly focused in on a face gazing at her own with a light smile.
"First time in eight years I get to wake up and see your face." Her lover said with his standard charm.
Misato reached out her hand from under the blanket and caressed the unshaven face of Ryoji Kaji with her soft hand. His beard prickly to her fingers but not unpleasant.
The previous night had been…cathartic. Especially after the recent news that the 2nd Branch had just vanished which was just the cherry on top of all the shit these last few weeks. They had been tough for Misato, between her emotional breakdown after the wedding, her drunken confession to Kaji, uncovering a white crucified monster in Terminal Dogma shattering her trust in NERV, having both her wards be swallowed by an angel…wait…
"THE KIDS!" Misato said remembering that she was supposed to be a responsible guardian as she bolted up from the bed and let the covers fall off exposing her bare chest.
"Calm down Katsuragi" Kaji said as grabbed Misato in a tight embrace "I'm sure they're alright."
"Yeah" Misato said after calming down and placing her head on Kaji's shoulder before continuing "…and besides it's not like they're ever really unsupervised."
Now despite what Shinji and Asuka both thought Section 2 WERE really good at their jobs, it's just that the pilots were wrong about Section 2's objective. The cordon of agents that surrounded them at a distance wasn't faced inward but outward. Especially since Shinji running away became an anachronism Section 2 has put much less focus on monitoring the movements and actions of the pilots. Simply knowing what building they are in is enough in case they need to quickly gather them for an Angel attack. The goal is more to establish a perimeter around the pilots and control what comes within that perimeter. Just this month they had stopped two would-be assassins, one lone-wolf out for everlasting infamy and the other a crazed nut from some apocalyptic cult that felt the Eva pilots were halting mankind's well-deserved demise. To say nothing of the never-ending stream of paparazzi out to get photos of humanity's saviors. Hell Section 2 didn't even know Shinji had even bought condoms because they had been tracking a group of three tattooed men approaching the security perimeter.
"Get dressed, I want to show you something." Kaji said after gently kissing her forehead.
They quickly got ready and into Misato's Alpine for a quick drive to Kaji's little patch of heaven in the Geofront.
"Melons? Really?" Misato asked surprised as she got out of the car and walked towards the garden plot with Kaji.
"Everyone needs a hobby. And besides there's something beautiful about helping something grow that reminds me of you." Kaji said as he got his watering can for his melons.
"Jackass." Misato said with snorting laughter as she got Kaji's innuendo.
"I want to bring Shinji here sometime, maybe Asuka too." Kaji said as Misato came up next to him and rested her head on his shoulders.
"Yeah, I think it might help." She said softly as her eyes watched the drops of water fall from the spout of the watering can and onto leaves, rinds and pool into puddles on the ground.
"They like each other don't they?" Kaji remarked as his watering can ran empty and he held the empty container at his side, just enjoying the moment with Katsuragi.
"I keep noticing the furtive glances they give each other when the other isn't looking and they think I won't notice. They keep fighting and arguing but I can tell their hearts aren't in it" Misato said thinking that was the limit of their relationship.
"They'd be good for each other."
"After all the shit they've been through, not just fighting the Angels for us, the least they deserve is happiness. Especially since their piloting days may very well be over." Misato said ruefully. NERV had benched the children but was keeping them around just in case there were no other options.
"Asuka's taken that better than I would have thought." Kaji commented genuinely surprised at how the redhead was coping with her entire life being turned upside down.
"She might still be in denial, that or maybe our messed up little family is helping her cope." Misato looked down sullenly after she finished that sentence as she thought of how she had chosen her lover over her wards the night before.
"You heard about Unit-04?" Kaji said trying to change the subject from Misato's own dark introspections as to how fit of a guardian she was.
"Yeah, the Americans are terrified and rushing Unit-03 over as fast as they can." Misato remarked bitterly remembering her earlier conversation with Ritsuko about this.
"Can you blame them? If the same thing happens at 1st Branch they might lose most of the remaining East Coast." Kaji said injecting a bit of logic and context into the decision.
"Still seems like they dumping their problems on us." Misato said wrapping her arms fully around Kaji "We haven't even found a pilot yet." Kaji tensed at the words. He leaned close and in a very serious tone very few people knew he was capable of revealed what he had discovered to his renewed flame:
"The Marduk Institute is just a front. It's NERV pulling all the strings." Misato was shocked at the words but smartly didn't outwardly show it before Kaji continued. "Look at code 2-A."
"That's Shinji's and Asuka's class number." Misato whispered recognizing the alphanumeric code. "What the hell is going on?"
Later
The bell ending the school day sounded and class 2-A began to file out of the classroom and fill the halls with gripping, laughing and discussions of future plans. Amid all the commotion a shy girl with pigtails went up to her crush in a black track suit.
"Don't forget you have the bulletin duty this week Suzahara." Hikari said in her most official tone of voice as she handed Toji the thick stack of papers, trying to hide her feelings behind the façade of her responsibilities.
"I've got what?" Toji the basketball loving jock responded to class 2-A's representative in his most dumbfounded tone.
"The class bulletin remember. You're supposed to deliver this to Miss Ayanami." She said holding the printouts up to his face.
"Oh come on. Who else has duty?" An exasperated Toji pleaded.
"It's you and Ayanami this week." Hikari said matter-of-factly.
"It's Ayanami and me. Well I guess I gotta." Toji said resigning himself to his fate. "But I can't go to some girl's place by myself!" Toji said exasperatedly twisting his body with hands holding the sheets of paper up at his head as if hoping the knowledge contained within could by osmosis enter his brain to help him solve the absurdity of what this world asked of him.
"Well I…" Hikari began too quietly for Toji to hear.
"Hey Shinji! Walk home with me would you, you know where Ayanami lives right?" Toji called out across the room at his friend. As he made his way toward the door holding the bound pages in front of him.
"Sure." Shinji answered in his normal nervous and unsure tone, especially considering what had happened the last time he went to Ayanami's apartment.
Now Asuka had been listening intently to the exchange. She'd been waiting in the hall so she could walk home with Shinji. She hadn't heard the offer of Hikari to go with Toji but she had seen the dejected look on her friend and confidante's face when she looked into the classroom as she heard the jock say her lover's name.
Asuka also remembers what happened the last time Shinji had been alone with wondergirl. The German redhead was insanely, unbelievably jealous. When she had found out that hers was not the first naked body or breast that Shinji had seen and felt, and that that honor belonged to Rei it had nearly ended their budding relationship.
"If you cannot be mine and mine only, I don't even want you."
"Just let me explain! It was an accident! You wanted us to be honest with each other!"
"How do you accidently end up on top of a naked girl! I bet you fucked her too, right then and there you pervert!"
"Like you wanted to on Over the Rainbow with Kaji!?"
She slapped him. Harder than she had slapped anyone ever in her life. He had brought his head back up clenched and unclenched his hand before embracing her tightly, she hit him hard several more times disgusted by his presence until finally her rage dissipated and they rocked back and forth in each other's arms saying volumes with their silence.
She shuddered at how it had all almost come crashing down. It had been that day that they both fully realized people aren't your perfect dolls that you use when you want and then forget about, they are imperfect creatures themselves with their own needs and desires. Finding love is only the first step. Keeping it is the hard part.
Then she snorted at all the "creative" explanations they had given Misato later for all of Shinji's bruises. Frightened penguins and open doors had been her favorite.
"Two boys, especially perverts like you two, can't just go to a girl's home." Asuka interjected into Toji and Shinji's conversation deciding that she would help Hikari get what she wanted. "Especially when she lives alone!" Asuka paused a moment and raised a pointed finger at Shinji before continuing "And besides, this baka forgot our lunches today and he owes me food!" Asuka loudly proclaimed despite knowing full well the reason Shinji forgot to make their lunches was at least half her fault.
"Does the demon want to tag along?" Toji asked unenthusiastically with a scowl on his face as he looked at the redhead.
"I don't want to go with you two alone either, it'd be sooo boring." Asuka said in her trademark superior tone of voice "Hikari wanna keep me company?" She said as she looked across the room at her best friend.
"Sure." The class representative said a smile spread across her face.
The group of four made their way across the city under the sweltering Tokyo-3 sun. During this escapade, Asuka "remembered' she had "important pilot business" to discuss with Shinji and the two of them went ahead and left Toji and Hikari alone with each other. When they rejoined the jock and class representative just before climbing the stairs both were blushing a bit and Asuka had a small grin on her face: 'Mission accomplished Sohryu.' She thought.
"Are you sure this is the right place?" Toji asked Shinji as they looked at a rusted door with piles of mail and magazines stuffed in its mail slot.
"It's the address listed in the school records." Hikari said as she looked with dismay at the pile of untouched correspondence, including quite a few older bulletins and printouts. Hikari stepped forward: "Miss Ayanami are you in there?" she asked as she knocked on the door only for it to slide open and stand slightly agape.
"There's not even a lock?" Asuka asked genuinely dumbfounded as she had assumed that part of Shinji's story about Rei's apartment could not possibly have been true. How does a young girl live all alone in a place with a door that can't be locked?
"Well she's not here so let's leave the bulletin and get out of here." Toji said seeing no other path forward.
"She'll never see it if we leave it here." Shinji said as he pushed open the slightly ajar door and went into Ayanami's apartment.
"Wait baka!" Asuka said taking off her shoes as she followed him in. Toji and Hikari looked at each other for a moment before sighing and following their pilot friends into Rei's place.
"When you said it was run-down this is not what I thought you meant." Asuka said in visible shock at how the First Child lived. The group of four wandered a bit, taking in the grimy and decrepit apartment. Toji and Shinji walked up to Rei's small cot. Dirty bandages and trash lying exactly where they had been the last time Shinji had been here. Just as Toji set the class bulletin on Rei's bed he heard scratching and shuffling to his left.
"What are you doing?" Toji asked as he saw Shinji knelt on the floor.
"Cleaning." Shinji said briefly as he got a bag.
"Well I won't help. It's just not manly!" Toji said as he saw Shinji clean up the discarded bandages and wrappers from the floor into a trash bag.
"Suzuhara!" Hikari began in her most commanding voice, "We can't just leave her living like this! She obviously needs help. Now take this broom, I'll take the dustpan." Hikari said holding the cleaning tools she had found, somewhere, up to his sweat-dropping face.
"Yes…" Toji said and grabbed the proffered broom and they began to work in tandem while Asuka went to the kitchen and washed the pile of dirty dishes that lay in the sink, peculiarly it was just one set of table and silverware:
"Almost like she only uses this when she needs to." Asuka said to herself. Before she had thought that Rei Ayanami had just been stuck-up, the favorite who knew it, but after seeing this Asuka wasn't sure. She told herself the shaking in her limbs was from the cold water and not the implication that Rei really was like a doll. A perfect little soldier that didn't even think or breath unless she was ordered to, 'Is that what they want for all their pilots?'
"We'll talk later." Shinji whispered in her ear, breaking her out of her brooding, while a reassuring hand squeezed her arm as he came to the kitchen to look for another trash bag and correctly surmised the unsettling thoughts going through her mind.
Just then they heard the door open and went out to see the First child as she was taking off her shoes in the hallway.
"Hi Rei, we did some cleaning, I hope that's okay." Shinji said in his not-quite nervous, not-quite confident tone of voice he was known for as the group gathered around and put the last finishing touches on their, for lack of a better word, Spring cleaning, despite Japan no longer having seasons.
"Miss Ayanami pardon me but isn't living in this place just a bit… uncomfortable?" Hikari said trying to be tactful as Toji put away the broom Rei had never used.
"It's the accommodation provided for me by NERV. It is sufficient." Rei said plainly.
"If you say so." Hikari said being not quite convinced. Before Asuka stepped into the conversation:
"Shinji forgot our lunches today so we're going to a burger joint and he's buying. Want to come wondergirl?" Asuka offered. She should have been hostile to the most serious threat to her relationship with Shinji but strangely she wasn't. Maybe it was the fact Rei was her fellow pilot, maybe it was seeing the squalor in which she lived, or maybe Asuka was just outgrowing her teenage angst.
"No I have already eaten. Thank you." Rei replied, her standard noncommittal tone just a touch bright as she uttered her thanks to the group of four for their kindness and invitation.
"Well suit yourself." Asuka said in her usual tone of voice before continuing, "Take care Ayanami." Asuka said in a soft tone that genuinely surprised everyone present, even Shinji. The group of four filed out of her apartment taking the filled bags of trash to be dropped in a waiting dumpster and leaving the blue-haired girl to lie on her small cot holding an old pair of cracked glasses alone with her own thoughts.
"I've never said thank you before." Rei said as she pondered the words she had used today. What they had meant, who she had said them to, and why. "Not even to him." She said as she squeezed the glasses in her hand and the first twinges of what humans call doubt crept into her psyche.
Some Days Later
A Major Katsuragi in full uniform, complete with a beret and a jacket that was actually buttoned up, stood in the doorway to her apartment with the setting sun behind her and a few bags next to her legs. She looked back into the hallway where her two wards were standing to wish her goodbye.
"Alright kids I'm going to Matsushiro, if all goes well I'll be back in a few days." Misato said desperately hoping in vain she hadn't jinxed it. "Kaji said he'll be here by seven."
"Why do we need a babysitter? We got through one night alone, I think we could survive three or four by ourselves. We're not little kids you know!" Asuka complained and reminded Misato of her borderline negligence, causing her to wince before smiling and counter Asuka's barbs with some of her own.
"I thought you be thrilled to be spending three days with Kaji?" Misato responded in her most teasing voice.
"Yes, but it's the principle of the matter Misato! And besides nothing interesting will happen with this baka here!" Asuka said harrumphing and bushing at her guardian's jibes.
"Be careful Misato." Shinji said interposing himself into the war of words between his secret lover and commanding officer.
"Did you guys find a pilot yet? I want some fresh competition." Asuka said excitedly as she balled her hand up into a fist.
"We have…but we'll be using the dummy plug for the initial activation." Misato said clearly in some disquiet as her mind raced with questions about why, just why the pilots were chosen, and how? If only she had more info to go on.
"Because of what happened at 2nd Branch?" Shinji asked sullenly.
"Yeah." Misato said remembering after the previous synch-test when Shinji and Asuka had both come to her and to tell her about Rei's living conditions. She told them there wasn't much she could do at the time since getting Unit-03 operational was the absolute priority but she promised she'd raise their concerns with Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki after the initial activation. Neither were happy with that response but they accepted it, especially after Misato told them what had happened in Nevada. Why had she been forthcoming with her wards? Usually she tried to keep them, especially Shinji, out of the more gritty realities of NERV, maybe it was the fact that she had almost lost both of them and wanted to be a better surrogate mother to them?
"Who's the new pilot?" Asuka asked trying to change the grim subject matter.
"He'll tell you himself, after the activation tests and when Unit-03 is added to the force." Misato said, that had been one of the few things he had requested, aside from the help for his sister.
"OOOHHH IT'S a HE I wonder if he's cute, he can't possibly be as boring as this baka!" Shinji bristled at Asuka's words while Misato couldn't resist laughing out loud, now she was really looking forward to when Asuka figured out who the pilot was and what her reaction would be. Wiping a tear from her eye she continued:
"Goodbye kids don't kill each other before Kaji gets here." Misato said as she grabbed the bags and the door to the apartment hissed closed.
"I'm boring?" Shinji said as he turned his head to look at Asuka.
"Gotta keep up the ruse leibling." She said as she turned her whole body and put her hands on her hips in a dramatic, confident pose.
"I know, but that doesn't make the words any easier to hear." Shinji said with a dejected tone.
Asuka sighed.
"Let me show you what you mean to me." Asuka said as she pressed her body up against his and pushed his back to the wall. Both of them were still in their school clothes and Shinji felt his lower head start to grow at Asuka being so close and so obviously in I-want-sex mode. He still thought she was sexy in their uniforms even though it didn't accentuate her figure much. "After all aren't actions better than words." She said as she knelt down in front of him and undid the belt to his pants.
His cock popped out as she brought his boxers to the floor. Though it wasn't at attention as much as Asuka wanted so she undid the clasps and pulled down the front of uniform along with her bra to expose her breasts.
"Look at me Shinji." Asuka said as she wiggled her chest back and forth causing her breasts to jiggle. This had the desired effect and Shinji's member was now as hard as it could be.
Asuka took his dick in her hands and began softly kissing the cockhead, before moving her kisses down the bottom of his shaft to his balls, sucking on each in turn while her hand softly stroked his shaft. The stimulation caused Shinji's cock to start leaking precum. Asuka noticed the shiny liquid and shifted her attention from Shinji's balls to his cock. She took the head into her mouth and swirled her tongue around it, tasting the saltiness and sweat of his unwashed cock mixing with the particular taste of his precum.
Asuka soon moved her lips past Shinji's cockhead and her head went up and down on his shaft as she sucked. Shinji brought his hands up to Asuka's head to guide her and absently play with the bright hair he loved. Her eyes were closed as she concentrated on her task. Each time her mouth got closer and closer to the base of his shaft, until finally in one swift motion she brought her lips to the end of his cock, taking the entire member into her mouth.
She held her head there for several moments, gagging on his cock, her throat and lips vibrating against his shaft while her lips dripped saliva across his crotch and the wrinkles of his balls, leaving a noticeable pool on the floor between them. Finally she came up for air though as she did so she kept gently stroking his cock and balls with her hands as she looked up into his eyes, the question written plainly on her face:
'Do you believe me now that my heart is yours and yours alone?'
Shinji looked down at her shimmering eyes and nodded in response to her wordless question. Asuka smiled, a genuine smile, no one since her mother had seen besides Shinji.
Asuka returned her mouth to Shinji's cock sucking slowly and sensually while her hand cupped at his balls. It wasn't the most intense fellatio he had ever experienced from Asuka but there was something about the emotional weight and understanding behind it that made him feel like he was in heaven. Shinji didn't want it to end but soon enough he spoke his warning:
"Asuka I'm…" Shinji began as he felt the pressure in his balls grow to quickly for him to hold back any longer.
Asuka removed her mouth from Shinji's shaft and stroke his cock furiously as he shot his load onto her waiting breasts. Five or six thick spurts landed on the German redhead's bust. Most on her left and with the rest on her right. The splotches of cum soon became streams as they flowed down her breasts, most flowing towards the crevasse in her bosom while one made it's way to her left nipple, covering it in the gooey stickiness of his seed.
"Let's go to the bed now." Asuka said as she got up from her knees and led him down the halls.
Soon both were cleaned up and in their birthday suits and Asuka placed her ass on a pillow to give Shinji better access to her most private place. His fingers and lips started out slowly and softly, probing her inner thighs and hairless outer lips. Eventually his index finger made it inside her pussy, followed soon after by his middle finger while his tongue danced around her opening teasing her clit and folds.
His fingers softly stroking at her insides, finding wrinkly and curved flesh covered in sticky substances as his touch aroused her ravenous sex drive. Only for his digits to leave. She was about to ask what was wrong when she felt his tongue enter her and ferociously lap at her insides while his hands went to breasts and pinched at her nipples. It was just too much, her building crescendo washed over her as she came, causing her thighs to grip Shinji's head like it was in a vise while her entire body shook in several moments of pure bliss.
She was still coming down from her orgasm when Shinji released himself from her grip and placed his member at her opening. It had stiffened during his bout of cunnilingus but seeing her response to his actions had made it rock hard and the head glisten with precum. He brought her hips back up onto the pillow and slid his cock into her wet and waiting pussy.
He grabbed Asuka's legs and brought them up to his chest so that her flexible limbs were straight up and down and her body made a right angle as the bottom of her feet saw the ceiling. Shinji stroked into her gently with his stiff member. As he did so he brought his left hand to their connected groins and gently played with Asuka's pussy where her labia split, where her clitoris was. He wasn't sure whether Asuka's legs were trembling from the strain of being up in the air or his ministrations. But Asuka's hand gripping his right thigh seemed like a good indication of the latter.
Shinji began gently moving his cock in and out of her while his hand continued to play with her most sensitive area. His thumb brushed against his own shaft as it went in and out of his lover and he was shocked at how hard it was, covered in her sticky juices and briefly thought how it must feel to be in Asuka's position.
She felt his balls tightening as they brushed her thighs with each thrust, getting closer and closer to releasing their load into her, the anticipation of feeling the cum shoot into her, impact her walls was intoxicating, she wanted it so bad…
Just then she felt Shinji increase his speed and then suddenly stop as she felt ropey strands of his seed shoot into her filling her up the sensation sending her over the edge as she brought her shaking legs down and grabbed at Shinji's back bringing him down to her and into a passionate kiss as she felt the last of Shinji's cum spurt into her.
They stayed kissing for a moment, Shinji's still hard cock gently moving out of her and letting the cum pour out. The viscous white stream slowing moving from Asuka's pussy and onto the pillow beneath her. Staining the case with a tell-tale dark patch of drying liquid.
They then moved so they were lying down next to each other, hands intertwined between them. Both sure the love between them was genuine, the anxiety and angst that had permeated and suffocated most of their lives melting away into the fog of their afterglow.
But it was not to last, a shrill noise announced their return to reality and its never-ending problems.
"We better get dressed unless we want Kaji to see us like this." Shinji said as he silenced the alarm they had set in case they lost track of time, which happened frequently during their bouts of passion.
"What do you think they'd do if they found out?" Asuka said as she brought her legs up to her chest in a fetal position. Ever since their relationship started that thought had permeated her mind. 'Probably separate us.' Asuka thought darkly. In the back of her mind she had always believed they had a trump card that would allow them to stay together, by refusing to pilot and presenting NERV with a fait accompli if worse came to worse. Her conscious mind had always doubted if that plan would work, NERV might call their bluff, replace them, and send Asuka back to Germany and keep Shinji in Japan. Especially now since they were grounded their worth was at an all-time low to the organization.
"They won't, not if we're careful." Shinji said as he put his hand on her knee and squeezed.
"Baka, hand me my panties." She said after giving him a warm kiss on the lips.
"The red ones?" Shinji asked as he crossed the room to open her drawer.
"Yeah. Do you know what your jock-stooge did to be called in to the principal's office two days in a row?" Asuka said changing the subject as she caught the panties Shinji tossed to her.
"No. He wouldn't say." Shinji said as he put on his own boxers "Kensuke kept asking if I knew any more about 2nd Branch or Unit-03's transfer and if they had a pilot yet." Shinji continued as he handed Asuka the matching bra for her panties.
"He really is a hopeless otaku, I'm surprised he didn't come and beg Misato to make him a pilot." Asuka said as she placed the cups around her mounds and straps on her should before reaching around her back to clasp the garment in place.
Little did the lovers know Kensuke had come to try and beg Major Katsuragi to be a pilot, only to be nearly run over by Misato's Alpine as it rounded a corner near their apartment, leaving the Eva fanatic in tears as his chance sped off into the sunset.
In a little under thirty minutes Kaji arrived to be treated to an evening of fawning, arguments, and cold shoulders, only temporarily paused by some delicious stir-fry. Later "UN Inspector" Ryoji Kaji sat in the bathtub thinking about what he had seen transpire.
"The gulf between those two is deeper and wider than any ocean. Were we wrong about them?" Damn it Kaji you're supposed to be a spy.
Outside the walls of the bathroom Shinji lay with his head in Asuka's lap as she absently stroked his hair while they looked out at the rising moon and twinkling stars from a darkened living room, enjoying their brief moment of comfort in each other's company.
A/N: So here we are. The next chapter. Let me know what you think. I tried to fit all the filler and development between the 12th and 13th Angels into this chapter and I hope it worked.
Quick note as we go forward the timeline of events might get strange and if it doesn't match the show or your head canon I apologize. Any mistake made is mine and mine alone, though even the EVA wiki which I have open as I'm writing this fic to be sure of everything says that the timeline of events, i.e. how much time passes between the different scenes, or even if they are in chronological order, gets really fuzzy in the last half of the episodes so I've got to do a bit of guesswork as to how much time has passed. Which is one of the reasons why this update took longer than I expected.
Next time Bardiel will be making an appearance but this battle will be much less traumatic than the canon one. To give you an idea this watch?v=ZpPKllWtF6Y is basically the tone most of the fights are going to be, i.e. smackdowns.