Yo, everyone! Okay, so. I know it's a pretty regular thing by now for me to be really slow at getting chapters out. And, I am legit sorry about that! LMAO, I just finished my new chicken coop a few days ago and had some free time, so I was able to get around to writing this. FINALLY. But, uh... lemme tell you real quick, hehe... we're getting real close to some good stuff with this story. Some crazy stuff too, but definitely some good stuff. So, I'm pretty excited. I can't say exactly when it'll be coming up. But... I hope you all look forward to it, cause this story is gonna start getting a bit crazy soon. I don't like saying that because, I know everyone has different standards for crazy but... I think you'll all like it if you've stuck with the story this long.

Anyhow, lets see about review responses.

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Huagh: Yes. Misato will be apart of the romance. But, I have some work to do with her that also ties in with Asuka. So, she's not gonna be with the pilots just yet.

Anime555Kicker: Yeah, actually, Shinji's room is a pretty small room. I actually looked up the floorplan of Misato's apartment much earlier on when I was writing this and, yeah... Shinji's room is basically just like a fucking closet. It's small as fuck. I was real surprised, but yeah, it's really fucking small, lmao. Like, maybe a little bigger than a king sized Mattress. Shit's crazy. I dunno how he slept in such a small ass room.

Tellemicus Sundance: Oh gosh. Lmao. I guess I'm doing my job if I made you hate Asuka even more (Because admittedly, I was trying to make people hate her even more at first). But, don't worry. She'll be changing pretty soon here. Just uh... y'know... keep going straight down this road here. *points towards my future chapters* I promise, a brand new Asuka is just around the corner. There's still gonna be some ups and downs along the way. But, I think we're gonna see her start changing here real soon.

rtdeal: Yeah, that's understandable. I was tryna make Ritsuko a little more naïve in the first college flashback chapter. I was tryna make her seem like she still had a lot to learn about stuff, especially relationships. Maybe I played it a bit too hard though.

Hellsink Bathhall: Yeah, man. That last chapter. I just... I dunno man. I almost feel like I went a bit too crazy with it. Like, I been waiting for years now to really start getting to the lemony parts of this fic. And holy shit, this is just the beginning of the lemony stuff. Agh! We're getting so close now to even more. We have a just a couple more hoops to jump through, but, people, stick with me! We're close now! SHIT'S ABOUT TO GET SO LIT IN THIS STORY! There is gonna be lemon juice in everyone's eyes!

Repost: Ah gosh. Oooh, yeah. I was really considering if I should or shouldn't have gone a bit further with the sex scene stuff last chapter. I ultimately decided against it because... I feel like I have a pretty good line up of sex scenes in the future. I mean, damn, some of these things I've been brainstorming for years now. I might have mentioned it before, but my first idea that popped up for this story was actually a sex scene with Asuka and Shinji. And, at the time, I wasn't even considering writing a fanfic. But, it was so vivid in my head and it just worked so well that I started building up a whole little scenario about how Shinji and Asuka got into that situation. And, then it just turned into a whole story. So, I was all like, "Well, I guess I gotta do what I gotta do. And what I gotta do is write this out because for some reason, I'm not gonna be satisfied if I don't." So, yeah. Here we are. In 2020. And we're finally starting to get to the good shit.

Useful76: Useful, good to see you back, friend! I'm so happy you came back at this particular point in time because we are starting to get to the good stuff now. And I am so excited for everyone who's stuck with me so far. I promise, I will try my best to make the wait pay off.

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And, once again, thank you to everyone who's stuck around for this story even with how slow my updates have gotten! And, with that said, let's get into the story.

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Italicized text, however it is used, is nonstandard and is often used for, but not limited to, emphasized or stressed dialogue, phone texts, and contextual references either through dialogue or narration or exposition among other things.

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Disclaimer: I do not own or profit off of Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion, or the Rebuilds of Evangelion. I do not own Shinji Ikari, Rei Ayanami, Asuka Langley Sohryu, or any of the other characters/ideas from the Evangelion intellectual property collective. All licenses remain with the proper license holders. If asked to, I will formally remove this story from the hosting website.

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*Cruel Angel's Thesis and Eva intro starts playing*


Neon Genesis Evangelion

A Journey of Hate, Power, and Love

The Post Impact Scholasticate

Conclusions In All Their Forms

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2006 : Japan : Tokyo-2

The Japanese Scholasticate of Renewal for the Displaced

5:20 PM Japanese Standard Time

73 Degrees Fahrenheit | 23 Degrees Celsius

Partly Cloudy : 12% Chance for Rain

"Ah, shit!" Ritsuko hissed to herself as she almost dropped some of her schoolwork in the hallway of building R.

She quickly leaned over and managed to catch the paperwork between her forearm and her thigh before awkwardly twisting her wrist around to grab the papers.

After resecuring her particle physics homework and her world history essays she straightened out her frilly beige camisole and her white polka-dotted red skirt. She then continued on to her room, R-12.

'Ugh, god. I hope they're not in there again tonight,' Ritsuko internally groaned to herself, feeling a headache coming on.

Recently, for the whole past week in fact, Misato and Kaji had been having a… variety of unmentionable escapades in her room. And, though Misato was also assigned to the same room, Ritsuko really wished the girl would take her deviance elsewhere.

Ritsuko's crimson red heels clacked up to the door of her room. And, much to her dismay, she could her all kinds of lewd sounds coming through her door. Moaning, grunting, whimpering, gasping, squelching, fapping, and what almost sounded like furniture being tossed across the room and into a wall.

Ritsuko blushed and then gulped.

Admittedly, she did want to join in on what she was hearing. But, she was falling behind on her schoolwork. And, even if she hadn't been, she didn't have quite the voracious sexual appetite that the succubus, Misato, had.

So, Ritsuko just sighed and turned her back on the room, hoping to find some place more quiet and noticeably less likely to deposit stray lewd-scented liquids on her papers that she had to hand into her teachers.

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-Displaced by Degeneracy-

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Ritsuko's first instinct after was to head to the library. Though, she generally found it to be too cold in there for her liking and preferred her own room where she could set the temperature to her liking. But, given that her room was occupied at the moment…

However, Ritsuko soon found that the library was not going to work for her purposes as the science fair was being held there and the projects were on display. Normally, this would not be a problem, but apparently, one of the chemistry student's displays had failed to adequately separate a few chemicals, an upon combining, they produced a smell akin to a spray-can full of liquid ass. Consequently, the entire library had been evacuated and the college administrators were still trying to deduce if the event was an honest mistake or a disgusting prank.

Ritsuko cringed as she saw the librarian gagging as she tried a rescue a few books from the cloud of olfactory offense.

Ritsuko backed away from the library while considering her options.

Part of her thought the cafeteria might be a reasonable option. But, another part of her knew she would be too distracted by chatter and the scent of food.

So, unless she were to leave the campus entirely, her choices were either the student assistance center or the courtyard.

She ultimately deduced the courtyard would be the best place as the assistance center was generally full of patronizing professors and other students who, while not exactly loud, where not always quiet either.

Though, as she opened the door to the courtyard, she wondered if she made the right choice. It was a bit windy and she'd already been having trouble keeping all her papers in order. Perhaps she could just rest her legs on any papers she wasn't working on though and that would be a viable solution to keep them in place.

Ritsuko made her way to the front gate of the courtyard, where there was a small engraved stone bench sitting beneath a heavily genetically modified banana tree. The banana tree in question, was a collaboration project between the agriculture and genetic-engineering classes. With food shortages around the world and massive environmental changes propagating around every place on the globe, it was quite obvious that agriculture needed to come to the rescue. And the was exactly what the School's "Project Nectar" intended to achieve.

Glancing up at the leaves of the banana tree, Ritsuko smiled seeing how fast humanity was recovering. Even though she herself had not worked on the first generation of plants produced by Project Nectar, she was in the genetic-engineering class and had been working on several new next-gen plants that grew faster, matured sooner, and produced more fruit.

They were excellent plants. Really, they were. But, Ritsuko and her colleagues still had several kinks to work out for such fast growing plants. The plants themselves grew fast and produced lot of fruit, but also needed lots of nutrients to sustain themselves. Unfortunately, Ritsuko wasn't sure if anyone would ever come up with a solution to that. If that plant was going to produce a lot, it needed fuel to turn into biomass. There was simply not much of a way around it.

Even so, the plants had proven useful in the years following second impact, and Ritsuko was proud to be taking part in bettering the world. And she was even happier she'd have an accomplishment like this under her belt when she finally left college and went looking for a nice high paying job; preferably one that was stress free.

Shaking herself out of her daydreams of a perfect job where she could just lounge around all day, she sat down on the bench beneath the banana tree and began trying to focus on her work. If she was ever going to get an easy going job, she was going to have to work for it.

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After having done a decent amount of her schoolwork, Ritsuko decided it was time to head back to her room. She hadn't completely finished, and given that she had been falling behind, she considered working a little longer. But, she'd already been sitting on the bench beneath the banana tree for over two hours now and her ass was starting to get numb. She dearly wanted to rest in her bed and was really hoping Kaji and Misato would not be preforming lewd acts.

Hell, Kaji shouldn't even be in her and Misato's room given that the R building was supposed to be a girls only dormitory. But, Kaji was the kind of man who thought that rules were made to be broken, especially when said rules involved separating the female sex from him, and even moreso now that those rules tried to remove him from the proximity of his little, previously mute, sex-fueled demoness.

Upon reaching her room, she put her ear to the door and was thankful to find that the room did not sound like it was being disturbed.

She undid the lock on the door and found before her a pair of people in the kitchen. Kaji, topless, and Misato, who seemed to be bottomless, though Ritsuko couldn't see under the girl's just barely over-sized shirt enough to be sure.

"Oh, Ritsuko! You're just in time to try my cooking! I'm making chum!," Misato said as she stood over a steaming pot of… something.

"Uh, what? Chum? Like fish? Like, chum made of fish? That kind of chum?" Ritsuko asked with a somewhat nervous cringe.

"Eh.. not really. It's just a thematic dish. It's supposed to be just shark fin soup, but with a couple extra things added to it to give it some theatrical flair. I found it on a cooking website."

"So... to be clear… you're just making shark fin soup?" Ritsuko asked, almost sounding relieved.

"Uh… not really. I didn't have money for shark fin. The prices sure have gone up a lot since second impact. So, I just substituted the shark fin with pork."

Ritsuko's feelings of disgust immediately returned. This wasn't the first time Misato had tried her hand at cooking up something that sounded completely unappetizing.

Ritsuko just groaned and threw her paperwork at the foot of her bed before collapsing on her sheets face first.

"Uh, Ritsuko? Is something wrong?" Misato asked.

There was no response except for soft snoring muffled by the covers of Ritsuko's bed.

"She's probably tired," Kaji said reassuringly, "She's always been a bit of a workaholic. Though I thought she might've been loosening up a bit recently. ...Hmm, maybe it was just my imagination."

Kaji leaned into Misato's back and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Hmm, hmm, hmm," Misato chuckled through her pursed but smiling lips, "Are you already hard again?"

Kaji huffed out a laugh into Misato's hair.

"It doesn't help that you aren't wearing any panties. But, that can wait until after dinner."

"Well… Maybe I want an appetizer… We could do it now," Misato seductively said as she pushed her butt into Kaji's groin.

"But, you could get burned if we aren't careful."

"It's okay. I'm a good wifey. I can cook and fuck at the same time."

Kaji groaned in defeat, finding it rather hard to argue with that logic.

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Ritsuko groaned as she awoke. It was still dark. She couldn't tell for sure, but it was probably two or three in the morning. Though, the time didn't concern her so much as what she was hearing. She wasn't fully awake yet, but consciousness was quickly finding her as she listened to what sounded like some kind of rhythmic squelching and throaty gagging sound.

'Oh god, they're doing it again. Do they ever stop?' Ritsuko thought to herself.

She turned over in her bed, realizing that she actually was in her bed. Kaji must've properly put her to bed after she passed out earlier.

After rolling over, Ritsuko looked at the other side of the room, where Misato's bed was. It sat right in front of a window, and moonlight was shinning through the closed curtains. She could see the silhouette of Kaji thrusting into Misato. Ritsuko couldn't see very well, but from what little she could make out visually and from what she heard, she assumed her was throatfucking the girl rather violently as she laid with her back down on the bed. Though, Misato had proven she was quite masterful at taking a throbbing cock down her throat.

Ritsuko couldn't even begin to imagine how the girl suppressed her gag reflex so effectively. If Ritsuko tried to take a large cock down her throat like that, and she had several times since she'd first had her threesome with Misato and Kaji, she'd start chocking. But Misato could sit there, suck that dick deep down her throat, and keep it there till her face turned red from a lack of oxygen and her eyes rolled back in her head. And then she wouldn't even gag after Kaji pulled his cock out. And then not even a split second later, not even enough time to catch her breath, Misato would grab Kaji by his hips and force him to shove it right back down her throat. And to top it off, Kaji often times came so far down the girl's throat that cum would spray out of her nostrils and drip onto her eyelashes.

Misato was like a high performance sports car that ran off cum. Ritsuko thought that analogy was rather fitting herself. Misato had both the raw power and the sensual curves of an expensive car after all. She was a complete cum addict; a succubus princess. She was a sexual engine that ran at a hundred and ten percent efficiency. And Ritsuko was somewhat jealous of Kaji because of that.

Ritsuko had never had that much experience in romance. And for the first time of her life, she was envious of someone because of their relationship. It was only mild envy, or course. But, envy nonetheless.

For now, occasionally taking part in Misato and Kaji's wildly filthy nights was enough to satiate and stave off Ritsuko's fantasies. But it did irk her a bit that Kaji basically had free access to Misato's expertise while Ritsuko herself, despite being given the offer to join in, almost always felt like a third wheel. Sometimes, Ritsuko just wanted Misato all to herself.

Though, simultaneously, Ritsuko wasn't even sure if she could keep up with Misato. She just didn't have the time. She had to work. She had to learn so that she could get a good job one day. She didn't come to college to just fool around with people all the time. And, despite the fact that she found herself developing some mild feelings for Misato, she didn't know if she could justify it to herself to sacrifice her knowledge seeking to have Misato fuck her twenty-four seven.

Ritsuko continued to stare into the darkness, trying to empty her mind so she could go back to sleep. But, hearing the squelching sound of Kaji's cock separating the tight walls of Misato's throat and seeing Misato's breasts lurch with each of Kaji's thrusts was intoxicating.

The moonlight shined through the curtains and made the sweat on Misato's tits and Kaji's chest start shimmering. Ritsuko could feel herself becoming light headed, though she wasn't sure if it was from a rush of blood or the fact she was still groggy.

Ritsuko reached her hand further down the covers and towards her pussy. She moved the fabric of her skirt and then her panties before she started fingering herself. She'd just woken up and she couldn't believe how wet she already was.

She continued watching Misato have her throat ravaged by Kaji. It was difficult to keep her breathing under control, but she stayed quiet anyways as she wasn't sure she wanted to reveal that she was awake yet.

She heard a loud popping sound as Kaji yanked his cock out of Misato's still sucking mouth so she could breathe. Ritsuko could see Misato's own glistening spit strands streaming down from Kaji's shaft all over Misato's cheeks and chin. And Kaji's dick itself looked like it was covered in quicksilver with how thick the layer of saliva that coated it was.

Then, after what seemed like only half a second, Misato grabbed Kaji's dick and directed it back down into her mouth. Ritsuko bit her lip hearing what sounded like a boot stepping into a mud pit a foot deep. In fact, if she hadn't seen Kaji shove his cock right back down the girl's throat, Ritsuko probably would have thought she had just set foot in a swamp with how loud the lewd sounds of spit being slung out of Misato's mouth were.

Ritsuko could feel the blush on her face starting to make her cheeks burn. She felt like a furnace radiating heat into a cold winter's wind as she continued to watch the man thrust his dick down the girls mouth, causing her throat to bulge.

"Misato! Fuck!" Kaji groaned quietly.

Once again, she saw Kaji yank his cock out of Misato's throat before he grabbed it and furiously gripped it. Ritsuko, still quietly watching, saw Misato's mouth lunge from the shadows and immediately start sucking on Kaji's nuts. Ritsuko then saw silver spurts of liquid jump several feet in the air before falling back down and splattering all over Misato's tits and neck.

Ritsuko had to put her free hand over her mouth to stop herself from gasping.

"Ugh, that's a good girl, Misato," the man breathed heavily as he reached down and caressed the girl's cheek as she continued to maintain her vacuum seal on his nuts.

'Fuck it. It's not like I'm going to get any sleep anyways,' Ritsuko thought to herself as she quietly got out of bed started gingerly slipping out of her camisole.

She then ran her fingers, still slick with pussy juice, under the waste of her skirt and slid it past her thighs before letting it drop to the ground with a soft pat. It seemed like Misato and Kaji still hadn't noticed her, so she unclasped her bra and tossed it on her bed before also letting her panties drop straight to the ground.

As quietly as she could, she stepped closer and closer to the pair. As she got closer, she could clearly see Kaji's thick heavy strand of cum laying strewn across Misato's perfectly round tits. Ritsuko found herself getting lightheaded again and, without warning, she leaned forward and started kissing the cum off of Misato's tits.

This earned a surprised gasp from Misato, who hadn't noticed Ritsuko until she felt the blonde girl's hot lips start sucking the cum off of her soft doughy tits. Ritsuko slowly moved up the girl's body to her neck, kissing the cum off of her all along the way until she finally reached Misato's lips.

Now, Ritsuko's smaller boobs pressed against Misato tits. She could feel Kaji's thick sticky cum smearing all over tiny breasts. She could also feel Misato's warm breath on her cheeks. It smelled so lewd, probably because she had likely swallowed a load earlier. The scent only made Ritsuko more disoriented and aroused.

In another moment, Ritsuko's lips clashed with Misato's. She still couldn't believe how soft the purple haired girl's lips really where. They were like delicate rose petals. So easy to tear. This girl really was like some succubus goddess. That was the only word that that was in Ritsuko's mind when she saw Misato. Succubus. Pure temptation that resided inside an immaculate human body. Who could resist? How could anyone turn her down? Succubus. That word kept running through her mind until it was the only thing that existed; until Misato was the only thing that existed.

Her soft malleable lips. Her sharp eyes that could take you over with just a glance. Her skin was like newly grown spring grass or putty that felt like it could be infinitely compressed but would always return to it's shape. The sensation of her touch was unbelievable and indescribably satisfying. Running you fingers through her hair was like dipping your hand into a cloud. Her breasts, Ritsuko couldn't even begin to think of a way to quantify the alluring shapes. But, she found it enchanting to place her hand between the girl's breasts and feel her heartbeat between her cleavage. Her wide, child-bearing hips; Ritsuko imagined she could rest her head on her womb forever. And her thighs. So toned but at the same time, a pleasure to squeeze and pinch, like a stress ball.

It wasn't possible. No one could resist the succubus. How could anyone blame Ritsuko for succumbing?

Misato's tongue shot into Ritsuko's mouth. She could taste Kaji's cum as she sucked on Misato's tongue. The two girls moaned while Kaji repositioned himself. Misato grabbed Ritsuko's hands and intertwined her fingers with them. Ritsuko felt a hand touch her head on the opposite side of her that Kaji was on. The man had ran his hand over her back and around to the other side of the girl's face so her could brace her head.

Misato peeked her eye open and saw Kaji's cock hovering just besides her and Ritsuko's lips. This put a smile on Misato's face. She knew that with the show she and Ritsuko were putting on, he'd be hard again in a few moments.

"Ritsuko, hmm, hmm!" Misato chuckled lightly before the faux blonde smashed her lips back into her to shut her up.

Ritsuko kept kissing Misato until her heart felt like it was going to burst. After she finally broke the kiss, she took a few deep breathes before turning her attention to Kaji. She leaned her face forward and started sucking on his cock to finish getting it hard.

Misato seductively laughed as she watched Ritsuko stuff her face with Kaji's dick.

"Heheheh. You think we finally turned her into a cockslut, Kaji?"

"Jesus fuck," was all he could manage to get out.

In another few moments, Kaji's cock was hard again. Ritsuko was honestly impressed with his stamina. She couldn't possibly imagine how he'd kept up with Misato for an entire week now.

"Come here," Misato said as she pulled Ritsuko's face back to look at her.

Misato then grabbed Kaji's cock and positioned it so that his dickhead was in between her and Ritsuko's lips. Misato then pulled Ritsuko into kiss with Kaji's cock right between their lips.

Kaji shuddered from the pleasure and almost collapsed as he felt the bi-directional sucking sensation applied to the tip of his overly sensitive cock. He swore, even in the darkness of the room, that the edges of his vision were going black.

The girls stared moaning as they kissed now and the vibrations made by their voices gently rumbled up his shaft. Kaji began attempting to thrust, but the pleasure was almost too great. Barely managing to compose himself between the two hot slick tongues flicking over his cock, he was finally able to start up a rhythm and began sliding his cock back and forth between the two girls' mouths.

Every now and then, the girls would break the kiss to giggle a bit. Kaji was thankful for this, as it stalled his climax, even if it was only for a few seconds at a time.

Even with Kaji's resilience, he could feel his legs occasionally starting to buckle from the pleasure of the two girls sucking on him. He couldn't help now but to thrust faster between the girl's lips, which caused the spit from the girls' mouths to get slung all over their bodies.

Kaji could feel his nuts starting to tingle. He was close. He shoved forward one last time before pulling his cock out of the girl's lips and spraying both of them with thick strands of cum.

"Oh, shit!" Ritsuko gasped.

"Ooooh, yeah!" Misato moaned.

Kaji collapsed on the side of the bed and flung his arm over his eyes, trying to catch his breath.

Misato quickly climbed on top of Kaji and sucked him off, trying to power through his refractory period and get him hard again.

"Ugh," Kaji growled as his dick inevitably got hard at Misato's touch, "You're going again already?"

"I'm still hungry," Misato purred seductively.

After Misato was satisfied with Kaji's erection, she repositioned herself so that her pussy was right above Kaji's cock. She then grabbed him by his shaft. Her nails gently scraping across the skin of his cock made him gasp which elicited a devilish laugh from Misato. She lined him up with her pussy and then let her hips drop into freefall, smashing down on him and forcing his dick to penetrate deep inside her.

Ritsuko could see, even in the darkness, that Kaji's erection was large enough to cause Misato's uterus to bulge.

"You still have enough cum left to fill me and Ritsuko up, right? Because I'm gonna make sure to drain you dry," Misato said.

"Oh, lord," was all Kaji could get out before Misato began ravaging the man.

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-The Well Wishing Woman-

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Ritsuko groaned in annoyance as she tried to shut off her blaring alarm clock and became even more irritated when she couldn't find it.

She felt a warm protrusion wrapping under her back and around shoulder. It was then that she remembered she was not in her bed, but in Misato's and that Kaji had his arm around her.

"Ugh, geez," Ritsuko groaned again as she crawled out of the bed to shut off her alarm, which was on the complete opposite side of the room.

As she walked across the room she could feel cum seeping out of her and dripping down her inner thighs. She was having a hard time remember what had happened last night, but she knew Kaji must've done a number on her.

"Hey, Ritsu. You up?" Kaji yawned, just waking up himself as Ritsuko shut off the infernal alarm.

"Yup," she lazily replied back as she threw a white button up shirt on, though she left it unbuttoned for the time being.

"You should get rid of that alarm."

"Yeah? Well, I think you should get one. Might help you get to class on time," she said, heading over to the kitchen to make some coffee.

"Agh, don't gimme that. It won't hurt to skip class for a few days," the man said as he tried to pull his arm out from under Misato, who was still sleeping.

"A few day's huh? You haven't skipped just a few days. You've skipped an entire week. And that's not including the weekend. You've been hanging out here for like 9 days now. And this isn't even your dorm."

Sitting on the edge of Misato's bed, Kaji looked a bit surprised.

"Wait, for real? ...Damn. What day is it?"

"Thursday. And you came here and haven't left since the Tuesday before last Tuesday."

"Damn!" Kaji said again as he stood up and scratched the back of his head.

"Yeah. Damn is right. Your roommate filed a missing person report or something similar to one I think. You've been gone that long."

"Shiiiiiiiit," Kaji groaned.

Ritsuko looked at Kaji and her expression softened a bit.

"Kaji… you should probably do something today… I mean.. you know… beside fucking her."

"Yeah… Yeah, I guess you're right. I'll just… wait for her to wake up so I can tell her we should probably get our asses in gear."

Ritsuko put a comforting hand on Kaji's shoulder.

"I'm gonna get dressed. We can talk later. ...That is to say, we should talk later. Meet me under the banana tree in the courtyard after class today, yeah? Think you can do that?"

"Uh… sure, Ritsu. I'm not sure what this is about, but yeah. I can."

"Good," Ritsuko said with a smile before letting go of Kaji's shoulder.

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"Akagi! Hey! Akagi, are you awake!?"

Ritsuko felt someone poke her in her cheek.

"Shit. Yeah, yeah! Sorry, Renka! Thanks."

Ritsuko tried to shake herself awake.

Renka Tanaka, one of Ritsuko's classmates, occasional lab partner, and the girl who had just woken her up, seemed to have a concerned look on her face, which didn't go unnoticed by Ritsuko.

For the first time, Ritsuko noticed just how nice she looked. After having spent so much intimate time with Misato, Ritsuko had started to be a bit more open about the idea of dating other girls and had started to look at them differently now.

Ritsuko found herself staring into Renka's grey eyes. Ritsuko supposed that, even if she might not quite have been on Misato's league, she was still a pretty girl. And kind too… though maybe she was just shy.

Like Ritsuko, Renka had also dyed her hair blonde, though Renka's hair dye was more muted than Ritsuko's, leading to a sort of dark sandy blonde color in contrast to Ritsuko's more yellowy bleach blonde color. Her skin was also a bit darker than Ritsuko's, taking on a sandy color as well. The girl didn't have the largest breasts, but they were shapely and she did have quite the ass and hips to make up for what she didn't have on top. Ritsuko supposed you could say she was like a pear. Yes, a pear girl; someone who was a bit bottom heavy, but nonetheless was delicious all the way through.

With her grey eyes, she had to say it really was a winning combination. And, for a moment, she found herself caught up in the girl's beauty.

"Hey, seriously. Are you okay? You haven't been acting like yourself recently. It's not like you to fall asleep in class, Akagi," Renka said, even more concerned now that Ritsuko seemed to be spacing out with a resting bitch face.

"Yeah! Yeah, I'm fine. Of course I'm fine!"

"Are you sure? This is the third time I've seen you nodding off and we've only been in class for forty minutes."

"Yeah! I said I'm fine. I'm perfectly okay."

Ritsuko had lied. She was not okay. She dearly needed sleep that she hadn't been able to get because of hearing Misato's throat being fucked or her pussy being ravaged as she moaned way too loud. And all of it happened in the same room that she slept in.

This had been going on for more than a week now and it was certainly beginning to wear on Ritsuko despite the fact she'd occasionally join in on Misato and Kaji's more risque nighttime activities. Though, for them, she imagined it was more of a twenty-four seven type thing and that she just wasn't there to witness any of the degeneracy during the day.

Ritsuko could already feel herself starting to nod off again.

"Okay Well, Rit-, -'re wo-ing with dange-s -cals toda-. So just - sure you'r- - -ay."

And that was the last thing Ritsuko heard before once again loosing consciousness. She knew she was being spoken to, but she was so tired, she just couldn't find it in her to care.

/

"Ritsuko!"

Ritsuko suddenly jolted up. She was standing in front of her lab table and was holding a flask of liquid. For the life of her though, she couldn't remember what the professor had said was in it.

"Hey! Quit passing out! I told you we're working with dangerous chemicals today!" Renka said, sounding flustered and worried.

"I know! Geez! I'm fine!"

"You're not fine! Please, just let me and Shiro handle this! I don't know what's with you, but you're not fit to be in the lab right now."

Ritsuko tried not to scowl as she glanced at her Rival, Shiro Tokita, standing on the other side of the table from her.

"Yeah, Ritsuko. Why don't you just, uh… leave it to us, huh?" Shiro said, probably trying to impress Ritsuko.

"I'm fine!" Ritsuko affirmed yet again.

"Ritsuko, please… just sit this one out," Renka said.

"Just let your trusty lab partners handle it," Shiro added.

Ritsuko averagely was way too prideful to hand off work to someone else. But… she had to admit, maybe this time, she just wasn't up to the task. She could barely keep her eyes open even with two people conversing with her.

"Fine..." Ritsuko groaned.

/

Finally, Ritsuko's classes had ended for the day. She was exhausted and embarrassed and she wanted nothing more than to go back to her dorm room, take some sleep meds, and go straight to bed.

But, she couldn't do that. Not yet. She had to get sort out this whole deal with Kaji and Misato constantly fucking while she was trying to sleep. As she'd experienced today, this was not something she'd be able to continue to allow. If this kept up, it would massively affect her performance.

Finally, she saw Kaji exit one of the classroom buildings and head over to the banana tree she said she would be sitting under. As he got closer though, she could see he was on the phone with someone, probably Misato.

"Yeah, babe! I'm almost at the gate now. I'll be back as soon as I can with the pizza," Kaji said into the phone.

Ritsuko smirked, knowing she was right about it being Misato on the phone.

"Okay, I gotta hang up now, babe. I don't wanna be driving while I'm distracted. I love you," Kaji said into the phone.

He waited a moment, presumably for Misato to say her goodbyes, and then he hung up.

"So, what was it you wanted to talk about? And, do try to make it quick, because I really am gonna go pick up pizza." Kaji said as he sat down next to Ritsuko on the bench beneath the banana tree.

"Well, okay then. If it's gotta be fast… I've been having a really hard time staying awake in class..." Ritsuko said, twiddling her thumbs. She really didn't want to say these things.

"Yeah, I think I know where this is going. I figured it would be something like that."

Ritsuko blushed and rubbed her arm.

"But, Kaji. It's not just about me! I mean… like.. you and Misato both haven't been going to class. I'm worried for both of you."

"Yeah, I know. It's probably not the greatest thing to do… just staying locked up in a room for a week and a half."

Ritsuko tried to sort through her thoughts while Kaji pulled out a cigarette.

"Hey… Kaji… Uh, are you serious about Misato?"

"Huh? What!? Where's this coming from?" Kaji asked, looking a little surprised by the inquiry.

"Just answer the question!"

Kaji scratched the back of his head, not entirely sure how he wanted to answer.

"Agh, geez. I dunno, Ritsuko. I think so. It's been like four months. Since we got together. I guess we're going pretty strong."

"Yeah?"

"And… I guess… all that shit she said about Antarctica. I mean, what happened with second impact and all. I can't just like leave her. Shit's gotta be rough on her. It was rough on me," Kaji said as he exhaled a cloud of smoke.

"Hey, you mind if I have one of those. I'll pay you back," Ritsuko said as she gestured toward Kaji's cigarette.

"Yeah, sure," He said as he pulled out a cigarette for Ritsuko and lit it.

"So… you are serious about her?" Ritsuko said after taking a long drag and exhaling.

"I mean… I'm more serious about her than any other girl I've been with besides maybe Ryobi. I know it sounds sorta lame and shit, but I told her I'd like… you know… protect her and all. I know that sounds really stupid, but I've never told any girl that before besides Ryobi. ...And I really feel like I meant it and I really feel like I meant it this time like I did the first time. Like, I really do want to protect her. And I just… I wanna watch her grow and flourish. I don't want her to be hurt anymore."

"Huh… That's not what I expected from you. I'd have though you'd have moved on to some other girl by now. Figured you'd have cheated on her."

"Ah, common, Ritsu. How many times do I gotta tell you!? I'm a player, but I'm not a cheater."

"Yeah… I guess I should have believed you sooner. ...Its okay, though. I believe you now."

"So… is that all? I do still gotta go pick up that pizza."

"No. There's still some stuff I wanna talk to you about."

"Like?" Kaji asked, scratching the back of his head again.

"Look, Kaji. I like you. And, I like Misato. And… if you're really serious about her, I want you to start acting like it. That doesn't mean just going to class today. You need to keep doing it. Tomorrow. And the day after that!"

Kaji didn't say anything but exhaled a cloud of smoke.

"You are listening to me, aren't you?" Ritsuko asked sharply as she leaned forward and glared at the man.

"Look, Ritsuko. It's been… real hard. Coming out of second impact and all. I mean, I know it was hard on everyone. But… I mean, I wasn't like most of the people here. You know? Most of everyone here, they had something to fall back on. Some societal safety net or something, even during that apocalypse, they had that. I didn't have that, Ritsuko."

"Yeah. I know, Kaji," Ritsuko said, sounding a little dejected at the subject of conversation.

"You know, loosing my brother. Loosing my parents. ...Loosing Ryobi."

Ritsuko remembered Kaji mentioning Ryobi a few times before. She knew she was Kaji's girlfriend during the chaos that followed second impact, but she also knew it was a major sore spot for the man and Ritsuko actively avoided bring her up.

"It wasn't easy," Kaji continued, "But it helped me become the person I am today. I do want to protect Misato. I was… so scared of saying it again after what happened to Ryobi… I couldn't protect her. I was worried I wouldn't be able to protect Misato either. Especially since this just… everything is so different now. This isn't the same as when I grew up and I've had a hard time trying to fit into society after spending so long in the wild. This world… it's changing quickly. And I'm just trying to keep myself from being swept under. I just… I dunno how to do this stuff. I don't know how to work for pay. Living on a schedule. Having people heap their expectations on you. It's just… not the same as being out there. Everyone just killed each other and took what they wanted. ...Learning these new rules… It's been so hard."

"I know, Kaji. I know."

"But, you're right Ritsu. I need to get my act together… for Misato. I didn't survive all that shit to just give up now."

"That's good to hear, Kaji." Ritsuko said as she put a comforting hand on his shoulder.

/

-Raining Glass-

/

Several Months Later

2007 : Japan : Tokyo-2

The Japanese Scholasticate of Renewal for the Displaced

7:40 PM Japanese Standard Time

87 Degrees Fahrenheit | 30 Degrees Celsius

Partly Cloudy : 16% Chance for Rain

"Hey, you doing okay, Misato?" Ritsuko asked.

Ritsuko had been trying to work on one of several of her current projects, but it was getting increasingly hard to ignore Misato, who seemed to be moping on her bed and sighing as though she were bothered by something.

"Yeah, I'm fine, Ritsu."

"You don't seem fine," Ritsuko said as she closed her notebook and went to go sit next to Misato on her bed.

Misato didn't say anything, but did sigh again.

"Misato, come on. Just tell me. I can't focus on my work when I'm worried about you."

Misato groaned and brushed her hair out of her face.

"It's Kaji… I don't think he loves me anymore."

"What!? Why would you say that?" Ritsuko asked in utter surprise.

"I think he's cheating on me."

"Why? Wh- Wait! What?"

"I dunno… he just… doesn't seem to have time for me anymore. He's always… doing stuff."

"Doing stuff?" Ritsuko asked.

"Yeah... like… his classwork… and his part time job."

Ritsuko gave Misato a questioning look, though she didn't seem to take notice.

"Misato… I… I don't think Kaji's the kind of guy to cheat."

Misato perked up a bit hearing that, but not much.

"What makes you think that?" Misato mumbled.

"I've known him for longer than you… he's just not the kind of guy to cheat. I mean, I used to think he was the kind of guy who would but… he told me some stuff once that made me change my mind."

"Hmm… What'd he say?"

"W-well… Misato, listen. He wouldn't cheat on you! And he does love you. He loves you a lot from what I can tell. Like, trust me. I know him. He's been through some stuff and you're really special to him. He's told me just how much he cares about you and how much you've changed his life."

"Oh… Well… it doesn't feel like I can change anything."

Ritsuko sighed.

"Look, Misato. Try not to be angry about this, but I think you're the reason he's probably been busy recently."

Misato glanced up at Ritsuko with a doubtful but unsure expression.

"What makes you say that?"

"Well, Misato… he's trying to take care of you. ...at least, I think."

"Well… he did buy me some stuff recently..."

"You know what else he might buy you?"

"What?" Misato asked, though she didn't seem to show much interest.

"Okay, don't overthink this, because I dunno exactly what his plans are, but what if he's actually trying to save up to buy you a wedding ring!? How exciting would that be, right?"

Misato's eyes widened immensely at that.

"Well… that would make me a gigantic bitch I guess since I was fighting with him earlier."

"Aww. Why were you fighting with him?"

"Because… It just gets under my skin, Ritsu. I hate it when he's working so much. It reminds me of how my dad treated my mom. He spent all his time on some fucking frozen rock and all she wanted was for him to come home."

Ritsuko was reminded of Misato's rather fucked up past. Misato had told Ritsuko how her mother had raped her when she was younger and that it had mostly been brought on by the fact her mother was lonely. Ritsuko decided it was probably better to not bring that up again, but she could see how this would be frustrating for Misato.

"Listen, Misato… you should really try talking to him. I'm sure he only means well and it would be stupid to end your relationship with him over some misunderstanding."

"Yeah… I guess… but I'm not gonna stay with a guy who doesn't show me he loves me."

'You should be careful, Misato,' Ritsuko thought to herself while also being reminded of her own mother, 'you're potentially heading down a very lonely road.'

Ritsuko suddenly noticed that tears were dripping from Misato's cheeks and onto her white skirt.

"Hey! Hey, Misato! What's wrong?"

"He doesn't love me!" Misato sniffled.

"Hey, I just got finished telling you how he does!" Ritsuko asserted as she put her arm around Misato's shoulder.

"He's gonna leave just like dad did!" Misato cried as she dropped her head into Ritsuko's lap and began soaking her skirt with tears.

"Misato, he would never do that!" Ritsuko said as she stroked the girl's hair.

"You act like break ups don't exist!" Misato shouted into Ritsuko's thighs.

"Misato, you and Kaji are not like most other people. He's not going to leave you. I see him hanging out with you all the time. I don't want to be rude, but honestly, you're just being clingy. And, I understand why. But, you need to get control of yourself. He's trying to make a happy life for you."

"You sound like my father!" Misato cried, "But he didn't bring my mom any happiness by leaving her so he could go die in some frozen fucking shithole."

/

2007 : Japan : Tokyo-2

The Japanese Scholasticate of Renewal for the Displaced

9:40 PM Japanese Standard Time

82 Degrees Fahrenheit | 28 Degrees Celsius

Clear Skies : 3% Chance for Rain

It was a hot night, and, if it weren't for an absurdly loud party being thrown on the campus grounds, more than a few people would have overhead a couple arguing under a streetlamp in the parking lot of the campus.

"I have had it up to here with you, Kaji! I'm done with this! You didn't pick up any of my calls!"

"Misato! I was- I was working, Misato. I can't just be on the phone with you all the time when I'm at work!"

Apparently, this line of reasoning didn't impress Misato as her arms were still crossed and she was angrily tapping her foot on the ground.

She was deadly silent and Kaji didn't know what to say to appease her.

"Do you want me to quit the job? I can quit the job if you want," Kaji suggested.

Misato still didn't say anything an all she did was continue to glare at him.

"Misato, come on! Why are we fighting over this? I'm hear now, aren't I?"

"That doesn't mean much when you could have been here earlier..."

Kaji simply made a gesture of exasperation with his hands. Words could not begin to explain his bewilderment.

"Misato, what… exactly… do you want me to do? Nothing's going to get solved if you don't talk to me!"

"I'm sick of feeling like I'm on the back burner. I don't want you to do anything anymore, Kaji..."

"Wait! What the hell, Misato!? You're just… you're just gonna leave!? Just like that?"

"Goodbye, Kaji," Misato whispered as she turned and walked away.

"Wait, Misato!" Kaji shouted as he started to go after her.

"Don't… follow me!" Misato warned, "You had your chance."

Kaji stopped in his tracks and sighed.

"Won't you at least tell me why you're doing this."

Misato stopped looked over her shoulder.

"You… You're too much like… I just… I can't take it."

"That… doesn't tell me anything, Misato!"

"I'm sorry, Kaji..." Misato mumbled before leaving the man behind.

Kaji didn't know how long he stood there… Long enough to watch her disappear.

The man sighed.

"I need… I need a smoke."

/

2015 : Japan : Tokyo-3

Ritsuko Akagi's Luxury Home

11:10 PM Japanese Standard Time

78 Degrees Fahrenheit | 25 Degrees Celsius

Clear Skies : 6% Chance for Rain

Ritsuko had just finished taking a shower and changing into her nightgown.

She'd been thinking a lot while she was in the shower, as many people are prone to doing. She had to admit to herself, she felt guilty about destroying the Jet Alone. And even worse about what had happened to her old rival, Shiro, after he'd thrown himself on the Jet Alone's core to commit suicide.

She wondered just when she'd started to become so… ruthless. The more she'd though about it, the more she figured she'd helped kill the guy.

Was it because of the Angels? Or was it because the Evangelions were created by her own hands and she needed to see them succeed?

Her emotionless eyes looked down at her hand, still soft and moisturized from her variety of bath soaps.

"What… am I doing?" she spoke to herself in a rare moment of self-reflection.

Usually, Ritsuko didn't think of the consequences of her actions. She just focused on getting the job done.

She wondered if she'd lost sight of something important somewhere along the way down this road.

After she finally tore her eyes away from her hand, she looked up and noticed a picture frame sitting on the dresser next to her bed.

She approached her dresser slowly. The picture became clearer and Ritsuko recognized it. It was an old one; one she'd forgotten she'd still had.

She picked up the picture so she could get a better look at it.

"Heheh," Ritsuko laughed, though it sounded more like she was choking up, "This was from back in college."

The picture was of her, Misato, and Kaji. Kaji in the center, Misato on the left, and herself on the right.

"I can't believe they got back together… after all this time."

She put the picture frame back on the dresser. Her knees felt weak, and Ritsuko let herself fall onto her carpet floor as she put a hand over her mouth and began sobbing.

"Were the hell did I go wrong?"

/

2015 : Japan : Tokyo-3

The Katsuragi Residence

11:10 PM Japanese Standard Time

78 Degrees Fahrenheit | 25 Degrees Celsius

Clear Skies : 6% Chance for Rain

"You seem to be pretty happy, Misato!" Shinji said from the kitchen as the woman sat on the living room couch.

"Oh, do I?" Misato asked, spilling some beer on the collar of her shirt as she leaned her head back on the couch and tilted it so she could look at Shinji.

"Yeah, you've been smiling ever since you walked in the door!"

"Well, I guess things are just going our way," Misato said as she sat back up in her seat.

"Yeah!? Well, I think it's suspicious!" Asuka said accusingly as she sat at the kitchen table.

"You should be more trusting of your friends, Asuka." Rei suggested gently.

"No way! You can't trust anyone these days! Not even the birds!"

"Wark!" Pen Pen said as he rubbed up against and nibbled on Asuka's calf, seemingly asking for some of her food.

"Get your own damn food, bird! This is mine!"

"Brrbrrbrrbrrbrrbrrbrr!" Pen Pen protested as he furiously shook his head back and forth.

As the children and the penguin continued to bicker in the kitchen, a slight feeling of foreboding came over Misato. Of course, she had been in high spirits the past few days as she'd reunited with Kaji. But, when Shinji had actually pointed out how happy Misato seemed, it made her wonder if she should actually be that happy.

She had practically just taken part in assassination plot. Of course, no one had intended it to end that way. But, the fact that Shiro had killed himself remained.

A slight scowl formed on Misato's face.

'Something… Something isn't right here. And I don't like it,' Misato thought to herself.

"Hey, Misato!" Asuka called out.

"Yes!?" Misato said, her smile instantly returning to her face.

/

2015 : Japan : Tokyo-3

Ryoji Kaji's House

11:10 PM Japanese Standard Time

78 Degrees Fahrenheit | 25 Degrees Celsius

Clear Skies : 6% Chance for Rain

Kaji sat on a wooden chair on the front porch of his house. It was dark. He didn't even have his front porch light on. The only things glowing were the city skyline of Tokyo-3 that was nestled in the valley beneath the hill his house was on and his cigarette.

"Mrrrrreow!" His cat meowed as it rubbed up against the leg of his pants.

"Hey, boy. You can't be getting your hair all over my pants. I have to wear these to work."

The cat's heterochromatic amber and blue eyes looked up at him as if to say he probably should have changed out of his work clothes hours ago.

"Ahh, I guess it's okay," Kaji said as he reached down and began scratching the cat's head, causing it to purr inordinately loudly.

"Yeah, you're just waiting for me feed you. That's what you want."

Kaji stood up from his rickety wooden chair. He then stretched and took a drag from his cigarette.

"Mreeeeeeeooooowwww! Mreow! Mrrrreow!" The cat meowed out, some of the meows being extra long and loud to tell Kaji that the he was happy he was about to be fed.

"Alright, get on in, cat," Kaji said as he turned around and opened the front door, letting the cat inside of the house where the food bowl was.

Before Kaji walked in though, he looked back over his shoulder.

Despite not being all that far from the city proper, he did live pretty near the city limits. As such, there was a bit of forested area directly outside his house past the driveway.

He checked the shadows of the forest, unable to shake the uneasy feeling he had.

Nothing.

There was no movement. It was a still night after all.

Kaji then glanced over his other shoulder, looking back towards downtown Tokyo-3. For such a militarized city, it had just as many colors at night as old Tokyo used to have… back when old Tokyo was still a thing. Now it was sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Maybe one day, it would be covered in color again as bright corals and neon fish began to inhabit it and reclaim the city under the banner of nature.

"Mreooow!" The cat whined, trying to get Kaji's attention so he'd fill his food bowl.

"Hmph… still feels like a storm's comin'..."

.


*Eva credits roll and Fly Me to the Moon plays*

.

"Well, that sucked, didn't it?

That's right everyone! It's... well... okay, well, you already know its me... Misato.

And you wanna know something else you probably already know?

I really, really, hate it when everyone comes digging into my past like this! Like, how many chapters are we gonna have to have before everyone knows that, yes... I'm kinda fucked up and very mentally scarred."

*Misato sighs*

"Ah, hell. I have the script here in front of me and there's at least several more chapters down the line that explore my past. I really wish they wouldn't do that...

But, speaking of the script... I guess I should probably give you peeps the chapter preview, huh?

Yeah, I figured.

So, in the next chapter, it looks like Shinji, Rei, and Asuka all spend some time together yet again. And I hear you all asking, will Asuka finally fall for Shinji, or will it all come down in flames?

Well, I'm not gonna tell you. You'll have to read the next chapter to find out. But, I will say, there is a reason they call it falling in love. And that's because there's always a little bit of pain along the way... and sometimes there's a lot.

Make sure to find the answers to all your burning questions by reading the next chapter of Neon Genesis Evangelion: A Journey of Hate, Power, and Love; When Truth Is Brought To Light.

Oh, and... there... there could be some fanservice next time. You'll have to wait and see."