Born of Conflict

AN: Am trying to revive the bunny, so let's see where this takes us. No promises as to how badly this is going to go…

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"That was mean, Misato," Shinji said with a grin on his face while Misato celebrated with her 'victory' with a beer.

Misato finished chugging her beverage of choice and let out a belch before she grinned at Shinji, "You can't tell me you were not thinking about it ever since you chose your name at the school."

Shinji shrugged, sitting back against the couch, "Of course I was thinking about it, but… I just didn't think you actually HAD the cosplay outfit to go with it."

Misato grinned again and pulled off her cyan wig, "Hey, I said I had it… though it would have been more convincing if Pen-Pen had played along."

Kensuke and Touji had shown up at their apartment looking for 'Shinji the younger', as Shinji had taken to calling his former self, and had walked in on 'Ryoko' molesting 'Tenchi'. Both boys had, thankfully, taken things better than Shinji would have thought they would have, but that was mostly due to Hikari showing up and beating them both into submission. Shinji had a theory that she somehow got off on the power she had over her classmates, but he had no real proof… aside from the satisfied look in her eyes when both of the boys had been properly cowed.

The meeting had gone well enough, though the trio appeared to not believe the 'Shinji has been moved away from Tokyo-3 for his continued rehabilitation' story that Misato had given them after she had stopped playing around, nor did they truly believe Shinji's story of being 'Shinji's uncle' when Kensuke had asked why he looked so much like his younger self. Shinji had wanted to say, 'Because I am him,', but he figured that they wouldn't have taken that well at all.

Misato stretched back for a moment and Shinji enjoyed the view of her in Ryoko's rather form-fitting outfit before she stopped stretching, "Now, what are we going to do about your in the Eva, Shinji? We need to see if you can still run it."

Shinji sighed, "I don't want to run it, Misato. If I offered to take you away to a tropical island, marry you and supply all of the beer you could drink, would that get me out of these tests?"

Misato blinked and looked at him for a moment before her eyes narrowed, "ALL of the beer I could drink?"

Shinji nodded, "Yes."

"And a free liver transplant?"

"Of course."

She shook her head, "No dice, Shinji."

Shinji sighed, "Damn." He looked back at her, "How about for hours upon hours of great, not-strings sex?"

Misato blinked several times at Shinji before she managed to get out, "Since when did you become so bold, Shinji?"

"Desperation can cause a man to do many things, Misato," he said somewhat sagely. "If it keeps me out of that plugsuit, I'll do whatever I have to do."

(NERV)

Rei pressed the pressure button on her wrist and smiled slightly as the thin, white material conformed to her body in a way that could be considered… pleasing. She briefly wondered how Aida-kun would react to her in her plugsuit but Rei banished the thought almost immediately – her research told her that pushing things too far at such an early stage could possibly cause her subject to 'rabbit'. That would be… bad… to say the least. Aida-kun had attracted her attention for some reason and she did not want to do anything that would remove that attention.

The door to the locker room opened and Rei growled slightly under her breath for at her thoughts being disturbed. Looking up she saw that it was Lieutenant Ibuki and the woman was looking down at her clipboard, "First Child?"

"Yes, Lieutenant?"

"Doctor Akagi asked me to inform you that you and Shinji will not be testing together today. He apparently had 'problems' with his plugsuit and it will be several more hours before said problems are remedied."

A pale blue eyebrow arched in Maya's direction, "'Problems', Lieutenant?"

Maya's cheek flushed slightly as she stared down at her clipboard a little bit harder and continued to doodle on the paper there, "Apparently he feels that his uniform should not be as… revealing… as it is."

Rei arched her eyebrow a little higher, "Revealing. I was unaware that Ikari-kun was so modest."

"He's always been modest."

"Not when he was on top of me in my apartment with his hand on my breast," Rei pointed out before walking by Maya. Once past Maya, Rei smiled a little and, had anyone been around to see it, they would have described the smile as slightly devious. Good. Let the woman draw from that was she would…

In the changing room, Maya's eyes were wide and the pencil in her hand had snapped from the pressure. Shinji? Rei? Naked? Since when?

AN: Well, alright, here we go. A little bit of fun, a little bit of insanity… though the pair are not mutually exclusive at times. Who knew Rei was such a devious creature?

Will hopefully finish this one day…

Maybe.

Hopefully.

Reviews, please.