Angelic love
By: ninetyninenails
Summary: Originally posted on as a challenge/request. Basically a Shinji x Rei love story. Some OOC.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Evangelion is copyright to Gainax.
Chapter one: Memory
It had only been a few months since third impact had been avoided and Shinji still blushed whenever he was around the pale skinned angel that was Rei Ayanami. He didn't know much about love but he did know he was attracted to Rei Ayanami.
His mind was calm as he sat in the cockpit of his Eva alongside Rei and Asuka as they were completing yet again another sync test. The angels were gone but they still had to do their usual sync and other tests in case new angels came.
"All right you guys can come back now, its over." said Ritsuko. And the children all got out of their Eva's and changed back into their clothes.
"You did really well today Ayanami." said Shinji formally.
"Uh-thank you Ikari." said Rei with slight tones of pinkness in her face.
"Ah, how cute Shinji loves his doll." exclaimed Asuka.
"She's not a doll!" said Shinji in protest.
"Uh–well I guess I'll be seeing you around Rei." said Shinji and he, Asuka and Misato left and returned home.
Shinji began work on dinner as soon as they got home and Asuka took a shower and Misato began her usual drinking binge.
"Hey Shinji you should invite little Rei over for dinner some night." said the almost drunk Major.
"Yeah that would be nice." he said.
"But I think we should do it when Asuka isn't home." said the purple haired drunk. And Shinji laughed a bit.
"So what's for dinner?" asked Misato.
"Ramen and miso soup." said Shinji.
"It smells delicious!" exclaimed Misato. Asuka came out of the bathroom shortly wearing a pair of cut off shorts and a tee shirt.
"Mmmmmm" said Asuka and she sat down at the table.
"So Asuka you have any plans for this weekend?" asked Misato.
"Yep, Hikari wants me to spend the night with her tomorrow." said the redhead.
Shinji smiled inwardly to himself because of his luck. They began eating, but all that Shinji could do was think about how he was going to ask Rei to if she would like to have dinner with him.
"Maybe I'm thinking to far ahead of myself?" he thought. He ate some of the soup. He tried not to think about it for the rest of the night but it kept creeping in and out of his head.
The next day they were in school. Rei was looking out the window as usual. Toji and Kensuke were snickering about something perverted. And Asuka was talking to Hikari. Shinji glanced over at Rei and she looked him dead in the eyes and Shinji quickly turned away in embarrassment.
"Hey Shinji." whispered Toji.
"Yeah?" he whispered back.
"Rei caught you looking at her!" he stated and he began to quietly chuckle. That made Shinji's face turn even redder. Then the bell rang for their next class and Shinji and his friends were playing basket ball while all the girls swam. After fifteen minutes they were finally able to sit down and all the boys began to look up at the girls swimming area and began their usual perverted chat. But Shinji didn't have the heart to look up at Rei, he still felt embarrassed.
"Hey, Shinji" said Toji.
"What?" he asked.
"Looks like someone is watching you!" said the jock in a mocking way. Shinji looked up only to see Rei looking down at him and their eyes met. But Rei quickly looked away, unknown to Shinji she was too blushing.
"So Wondergirl, who were you looking at so inattentively?" asked Asuka.
"I was looking at Ikari." she said in her usual emotionless tone.
"Why?" she asked in a confused state.
"I'm not sure." said Rei and she could feel her cheeks beginning to heat up.
"You like him don't you?" asked the redhead.
"I don't know." said the blue haired girl.
"It's obvious you do." said Asuka and she laughed.
"Perhaps, I do." said the pale skinned girl.
"What, Rei likes Shinji?" asked Hikari.
"Seems that way." said Asuka. And Rei blushed even harder.
"I am...Blushing?" Rei thought to herself.
"Okay, enough picking on Rei." said Hikari.
"So do you like Shinji?" asked Hikari.
"I do not know." said Rei innocently.
"Seems like Rei's not a doll after all!" said Asuka. Rei wanted to say something but she was at a lost for words.
"She's blushing!" she added.
"Stop Asuka, your making her feel bad!" said Hikari. Rei looked away from Shinji as bleak and fuzzy memories came into her mind. She remembered seeing Shinji for the first time and her being hurt from the activation experiment of unit-00. She could also see herself and Shinji up on the mountain top with the sniper trying to take out the fifth angel and how Shinji had saved her and how he cried for her and told her to smile and as he said that an unusual feeling of happiness washed over her. The rest of her memories were choppy and fuzzy. She was hit hard by this sudden realization and felt uneasy about recovering these memories and confused. A feeling that was normally unknown to her.
The rest of the day she pondered these memories and wondered why she had received them when she did. She, Rei Ayanami a girl created to defend the world from the beings known has angels and for Instrumentality was regaining lost memories and was questioning her purpose.
Later that evening, Rei lay on her bed asking herself questions, questions that she did not have an answer for.
"Why do I blush when I'm around him?" She asked herself.
"Why can I remember these things?" she continued on.
"My only purpose was to defeat the angels," she said to herself.
"My life holds no other meaning and because all of the angels are dead my life holds no other value, I live merely to survive and I survive for no reason." she speculated that maybe just because she was made to destroy angels that her life might have a purpose.
"All people have a purpose," she told herself.
"But that purpose is different for everyone," she added.
"What of Ikari's purpose, why does he live?" she wondered.
"And what of Soryu, why does she live, why does anyone live?" She questioned. She got undressed and went to bed with those questions still eating away at her.