Lite Up 4:20 Edition
Chapter 3
By: Midnight Lost
DISCLAIMER: In no way, shape or form do I claim any ownership of Neon Genesis Evangelion or its characters. They are property of Gainax and other related affiliates. Furthermore; in writing this fic I do not promote the use of illegal drugs of any kind. This was purely written for humor.
Authors Notes: This chapter really gave me a hard time, in between writing myself into a corner or over all not being completely satisfied with certain parts. But here it is, though I still think I could do better on it; I believe YOU the readers, have waited long enough for this update. So without further delay; here it is…psst Rei gets into the swing of things in this chapter
!!WARNING!!
This chapter contains suggestive themes that may not be suitable for younger readers, reader discretion is advised.
The soft, warm sunlight filtered through the curtains of Akanes room, showing the three of them sprawled out over her bed. Anyone could have guessed what had happened the night before as both Akane and Asuka clung to Shinji who lay between the two girls. A soft, repeating beep could be heard very faintly somewhere in the room. It wasn't long before this stirred Asuka awake, it took a few moments for Asuka to realize where the beeping was coming from, it was her cell phone. She had turned it off last night so that it wouldn't, interrupt what was going on. Rummaging through the covers she finally found her cell phone and flipped it open. Her eyes widened. Flashing on the screen was a message clearly stating she had over thirty missed calls. Asuka felt her stomach begin to turn, hoping against all odds that perhaps someone had just dialed the wrong number, many times. Letting out a solemn sigh she checked the number of the last number that had called. When the number flashed she yelped as she had leaned too far back and fell off the bed, dragging the covers off with her; waking both Shinji and Akane.
"What is it Asuka?" Shinji asked groggily.
"Baka, we didn't check in with Misato last night." Asuka retorted, rubbing her head a little from where she landed.
"Didn't you have your cell phone?" he asked.
"yes, but I turned it off when we…." she dropped off as she blushed as images from the previous night flooded into her mind.
Shinji and Akane began to chuckle some as Asuka began to fume at her embarrassment.
"Either way third child we're still in deep shit when we get home, providing Misato hasn't already sent out Section 2 agents to look for us." the red head pointed out.
"Fine fine, we should get going so we don't make matters any worse, we don't need Section 2 breaking down Akanes door." Shinji sighed, attempting to make a small joke of the matter.
The three began to rummage through the room, finding their clothing and putting it on. Shinji and Asuka moved slower then usual, not exactly in any hurry to return home, both having a good idea of what was going to happen; aside from Misato yelling. Nearly twenty minutes had passed before they were all dressed.
"Now Asuka" Akane began. "Remember that we have to share him, so try not to wear him out too much" she laughed.
Asuka looked back and forth between the two with an evil grin on her face. "No promises" she replied.
"We'll try to make it back over if Misato don't kill us" Shinji jested as he reached for the door, cracking it open for him and Asuka to leave.
"THERE THEY ARE!" two men dressed in black shouted.
"Ah shit" Shinji cried, retreating back into the apartment and slamming the door shut, locking it. "Section 2 is after us, um is there a back door out of here?" he asked, not really wanting to be caught.
"Yeah, the fire exit in the kitchen." Akane said as she led the two towards the back. Opening the fire escape door, then peering down between the grated stair casings, checking to make sure that their pursuers hadn't circled around to the back already. Seeing that it was clear she motioned for the two to follow and quickly descended along the escape. Shinji and Asuka were the first to hit the ground. By the time Akane had landed, one of the S2 agents had circled around the complex to cut them off, pinning Akane down to the ground.
"LET ME GO!" she screamed, catching Shinji and Asukas attention. Shinji quickly rushed over to try and pull the agent off of her, but was unsuccessful as he was thrown to the ground as well. Asuka took a second to scan her surroundings, running over she picked up a small chunk of cinderblock and hurled it at the agents head. There was an audible crack as it hit its mark, sending the lone agent to the ground holding his head where blood began to run from where he had been hit. Akane took this opportunity to jump to her feet. Two other agents circled around the building as the children took off running.
"SPLIT UP!" Asuka yelled as she grabbed Shinji, pulling him in her direction.
"Hey, I thought you said split up." Akane teased her, but bolted in another direction, easily clearing a small chain link fence, using trash bin next to a larger concrete wall, she bounded over the top and disappeared.
The remaining two wasted no time to break into a full sprint, putting as much distance between the agents and them so as too lose them. They had ran for nearly ten minutes before the two ducked into an abandoned apartment complex. They waited just inside the door way as the two agents ran in, Asuka grabbed Shinjis hand and ducked back outside, shutting and locking the door. Leaving the two agents trapped inside.
"All right, lets get home before Misato has our heads" Asuka sighed, but smiled in triumph as she had out smarted Section 2.….again.
Rei had watched the events unfold with curiosity. She had heard the commotion when it had started and watched on. She was curious as to why her fellow pilots were running for Section 2, and even more; why were they not at the own residence with their guardian. She had remembered that the Major had called her late last night enquiring about her to wards, though at the time Rei had not known where they were. Her cell phone in hand she proceeded to dial the majors number and recount the events to her. Rei was about to inform her that the two appeared to be heading home but was cut off when Misato had hung up the phone in a rush to get the children. Rei stared at the phone for a moment before closing it and setting it back down on the desk next to her window, watching as her two fellow pilots shrink out of view. She had made a mental note to ask Ikari about the events the next day at school.
Shinji and Asuka were stopped suddenly as a blue car screeched to a halt in front of them. The driver threw open the passenger door and immediately demanded the two get in the car without any questions. The two looked at Misato for a second and could see that they were not going to be able to play this one off so easily, reluctantly they both got into the car. Neither of them were brave enough to sit in the front, so both of them sat in the back seat. None of the three spoke a word on the drive home which seemed to take days rather then the few minutes it actually took. Once they returned to the apartment Misato ordered her young wards to take a seat on the couch, her voice this time was more calm. She had used the drive home to calm her nerves, it wasn't that she was angry with the two but more so worried about them.
"You two want to explain your selves?"
"We.. It was getting late so we spent the night at Akanes…" Shinji began but was cut off.
"I'm not talking about that, I mean why you two attacked a section 2 agent, whose job was to make sure nothing happened to you pilots."
"And is it also their job to attack young children!?" Asuka shot back, recounting the events of how the one agent had attacked Akane
"Section 2 had failed to report that…" Misato lied. Section 2 hadn't called her yet, the only information she was given was from what Rei had told her. "However I can not look past this, you two are grounded this week, as soon as school gets out you come straight home. The only exceptions are during Angel attacks. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes ma'am" the two droned.
"Now, I have to report to Nerv, remember what I said." Misato barked and stormed out of the apartment. Shinji and Asuka waited in silence for a few moments as they heard her speed off. Letting out a long sigh, Asuka picked up the remote and flipped on the tv. After flipping through a few channels she tossed the remote down and stood up, making her way around the couch and into the hall.
"Well, I am going to take a shower, and don't you dare try and peek on me" she teased him with a wink and disappeared into the bathroom, shutting the door behind her. Shinji chuckled some and was half tempted to follow her, but picked up the remote instead, last night was enough for him. Browsing through the channel he let it settle on one that was playing older music videos. The one in particular he was watching showed a young man in a red baseball cap, wearing baggy pants and an open shirt. While watching this he got a slight idea and got up and went into his room. He was still in there when Asuka came out of her shower; she was a little disappointed that he had not followed her in.
"Sometimes you are really dense Third Child." Asuka huffed from his doorway, still only wrapped in a towel.
"No, I knew what you wanted." Shinji smirked as he turned around, his clothing now mirroring that which was on the music video. The only exception was he didn't have the baseball cap; though Asuka wasn't about to argue with how much more attractive it made him to her. "I am still worn out from last night."
"Is that so Third Child?" she asked as she approached him, allowing her towel to drop slightly as she leaned over, giving him a good shot all the way down. Of course she did this on purpose to tease the poor boy. Pushing him back towards his bed. As she pushed him back he tripped over the foot of his bed; in a last ditch attempt to hold his balance he reached out and ended up grabbing Asukas towel, put only succeeded in pulling her down on top of him and pulling the towel off of her, causing them both to blush furiously.
"I knew you couldn't resist me" she chuckled, leaning down and kissing him deeply. This mood was short lived however as Misato had returned from the officer earlier then the two had anticipated. Asuka gathered her towel and ducked into her own room, slamming the door shut just before Misato turned into the hall way.
"Where's Asuka?" Misato asked Shinji. If she wasn't too busy looking down a sheet of paper she would have noticed the change in Shinjis attire.
"She's in her room" Shinji answered as he began to take off his shirt to change into his normal house cloths. Normally he would have been shy to do this around Misato, however the past two days being with his two girlfriends had subtly forced that out of him.
"Well, remind her that there is another test tomorrow after school, so don't be late. You know how Akagi is."
"Yes ma'am"
With that Misato turned stepped into her own room for a moment before turning to leave again.
"I am going out with Kaji tonight, so I wont be back until later this evening. There is food in the freezer if you two get hungry. Remember you are not allowed to leave the apartment unless I say so." she reminded him as she walked out the door.
Shinji let out another sigh and finished getting changed and entered the kitchen, picking up the phone he called Akanes cell, hoping that she was alright. The phone rang a few times before a cheery voice answered.
"Hey Shinji, what happened?"
"Well, we're not allowed to leave the apartment until further notice, so I guess other then school we cant really hang out as much." he informed her.
"That's ok, we can party at your place while your guardian is gone" Akane teased.
"Well, she is going to be out most of the night, and she didn't say anything about not having friends over."
"Ok, you want me to come over?"
"That would be great, I still have some left" he hinted, and she knew exactly what he was talking about.
"Ok, be there in a few"
With that the two hung up the phone. At this time Asuka had joined Shinji, she had over heard the last part of the conversation and was a little disappointed as she was hoping to keep him to herself for tonight. She was about to say something when the phone rang. Shinji answered it and then turned, seeing Asuka there he handed it to her.
"Its Hikari" he informed her.
Taking the phone Asuka began talking to her friend. She paused for a moment when the other had asked about coming over for a few hours tonight. Pondering it, she already knew the Akane was coming over and that having the two of them in the same apartment wouldn't be a good idea, not to mention that Hikari would get in the way of any fun she would have if Akane wanted to start anything with Shinji. Shaking her head as though the class rep could see her through the phone she informed her that tonight wasn't a good night. The two continued to talk until the door bell to the apartment rang, signaling that Akane had arrived. Asuka quickly said good bye to her before the class rep could ask any questions and hung up. It was at that time that Akane had entered the room, holding her book bag, which bulged slightly.
"I'm sorry I got you two in trouble. If ther…." Akane began, but was cut off by Asuka.
"Baka, don't worry about it" Asuka smiled and gave her a playful bonk on the head. "I think it was well worth it, besides we're just allowed to leave the apartment; though knowing Misato she'll forget about our punishment by the end of the night."
The three of them laughed at the last part. Asuka lead Akane into her room so she could put her stuff away, they had decided that Akane would sleep in Asukas room so as not to cause another hysterical fit from Misato of having the three of them sleeping in the same bed. Having done that, they opened the windows and sat down to smoke some before having to turn in for the night. Of course this led to other things, but were once again interrupted by the telephone ringing. With a heavy sigh, Shinji got up from his activities with the two girls and walked into the kitchen to answer the phone. It was Kensuke this time.
Some time later, Shinji finally returned to the living room seeing both Akane and Asuka passed out on each side of the couch.. The otaku had kept him on the phone for nearly half an hour, having to recount practically every detail of his and Kensukes trip to an old American military base, now made into a museum of sorts. With another sigh, he walked into Asuka bed room and grabbed her blanket and two pillows and returned to the living room, tucking a pillow under each of their heads and covering them up. He then proceeded to clean up the mess from before, now that the effects of what they were smoking was slowly leaving his system. Giving the room a quick spray with the air freshener he closed the windows and retired to his own bedroom to sleep the remainder of the evening off. Misato arrived home in the early hours of the morning as the sun slowly began to rise over the city; seeing two dark figures on the couch she cringed a little as she assumed one was Shinji, and was dangerously close to Asuka. Though as she moved closer she saw that the other figure was in fact another young girl, but it wasn't Hikari. This hit Misato of being a little strange, mainly because the only other person she could think of it being was Shinjis friend Akane, but her and Asuka didn't get along from what she had gathered from the other days events of what happened after school. She then remembered that the two were in trouble for staying over at Akanes place, perhaps Akane and Asuka patched things up between them. Seeing that it would be soon time for the children to go to school, the purple haired woman moved over to the couch and woke up Asuka first. This wasn't easy as the red haired girl was stubborn and refused to wake up. Finally with a lot of grumbling she got up off the couch, turning she saw Akane still asleep. Much to Misatos dismay, Asuka reached down and grabbed hold of the blanket the girl was sitting on and pulled; sending Akane crashing to the floor.
"Time to get up." Asuka laughed and stuck out her tongue.
"Oh, thanks; you couldn't send Shinji in to wake me up?" the black haired girl jested, unaware Misato was there watching them.
"I don't think Misato would want to see that."
"Who?" Akane looked over at the other woman standing there and covered her mouth in embarrassment of what she had just suggested. It was obvious by the look on Misatos face that she had caught on to what her previous statement had suggested mildly at. Face still burning red, Akane quickly followed Asuka into her room. By this time Shinji had awoken, stepping out into the hall way dressed in the same fashion he was the previous day., though still without the hat. He made a brief mental note to try and pick on up soon.
"I think I need a beer." Misato commented aloud to herself, retiring to her room, taking an entire six pack with her.
It took the three of them another thirty minutes before they finally headed off towards school. Discussing their plans as they walked. Hikari had bugged Asuka to hang out with her today at school, mainly to see if there were any breakthroughs in what Asuka and her had discussed before things had changed between her and Akane. Seeing it was no secret that Hikari didn't like Akane, Shinji invited her to join him with his two friends which had returned yesterday. When they reached the classroom each took their individual seats. It wasn't long before Touji and Kensuke entered the room, followed closely behind by Hikari. The two stopped to chat with Shinji, joking with him about how he had become a delinquent in their absence; while Hikari stopped to talk with Asuka a moment. Soon after the teacher entered the room, prompting the class rep to lead the class in the stand, bow, sit routine. As the class started, Shinji, Asuka, and Akane each opened up a chat room on their desktops; chatting with each other idly as the class dragged on. Rei watched in curiosity at the three. She could see the change her two fellow pilots, how they seemed closer and more relaxed. What had really surprised her this morning was the clothing the Third Child was wearing. When she saw him, she didn't something unexpected; she blushed.
Class went on for what seemed like years. The teacher continued on with how life was before The Second Impact. Finally it was time for lunch. Asuka kept her promise to Hikari and joined with her, looking back at Akane and Shinji as they two walked out of the room, followed by Touji and Kensuke who didn't seem to thrilled with Akane joining them. Asuka had a bad feeling about this, as she sat down at one of the desks with her friend.
"I guess they're still together." Hikari commented. Asuka only nodded in response as she ate her lunch, giving a bitter face as the mouthful reminded her who cooked it; Misato. "Though you seem closer to Akane now."
"Yeah, well I had to stick closer to Shinji this weekend, Misatos orders; and of course he was with her all weekend. So I was forced into a truce with her for the time being." Asuka replied, looking out the window. She wanted to divert her gaze a little, so that the class rep wouldn't see that she wasn't telling her the truth.
"I see, so are you still going to try to…you know?"
Asuka had to think about this for a moment, during the past two days she had forgotten about what her and Hikari planned, and now felt guilty about the whole thing. She didn't have to break them up now; because they both were dating him at the same time. It sounded weird, but she actually didn't mind. Besides her and Shinji shared the same apartment together so that gave her an upper hand. "No," she began, quickly continuing before Hikari could say anything more. "As I said, that would only make things worse and would ruin my chances all together."
Meanwhile, Rei remained seated at her desk, altering her attention to The Second Child, and out the window to where the Third Child sat with his friends. She could see that Aida, and Suzahara still were not happy with Shinjis new friend, as the two seemed to keep there distance from her, as she clung onto Shinji. Rei couldn't help but feel jealous. She was well aware of what the emotion was, but at this time she didn't know why their actions were evoking it. She began to ponder if she was attracted to her fellow pilot. She had noted that his appearance today was rather attractive, not that he wasn't pleasant to look at before. Her cheeks burned again as she blushed at the thoughts. During this time, things seemed to have become derailed between Asuka and Hikari, when Rei looked back to the two she could see that Asuka was fuming and Hikari was shaking her head. Why did the class rep disapprove of Akane? Looking out the window again, similar actions where occurring as well. The First Child could only assume that one of the two "dorks"; as Asuka referred to them; had said something that had upset Shinji and Akane.
"I told you Hikari, I am not going to do it and that's final." Asuka spat, her temper not getting any better as the class rep continued to push that she should try and wedge herself between Shinji and Akane. Asuka was trying to avoid bluntly telling her that both of them were sharing him. For one major reason; Hikari would make a huge scene out of it and it would draw way too much attention. " I don't feel well, I'm going home" Asuka lied as she stood up, grabbing her bag and walking out of the classroom. Rei watched as she left the classroom, then got up; securing her own belongings and followed her. Being sure to keep a safe distance behind her.
Things weren't fairing to well for Shinji and Akane either, as Touji continued to suggest that it was Akane who had made Shinji dress the way he was today, even though the third child denied it, stating he did so on his own accord. Though he was growing severely tired of the jock now. Why didn't anyone approve of his relationship with Akane? It was at this time that the two saw Asuka walking briskly off the campus, turning to each other they shrugged and got up to follow her, not bothering to hear anymore of what Touji had to say, which caught the jock and otaku off guard.
"Yo Shinji where you going?" Touji asked. Shinji paused to turn around, shrugging his shoulders some as he walked backwards next to Akane.
"I decided I don't have to sit and listen to two people who beat off to porno's insult my girlfriend."
The last remark caused an uncomfortable amount of attention focused onto the two boys as Shinji and Akane caught up with Asuka. Rei watched as Kensuke and Touji take off towards the class room to hide from everyone's stares. Shrugging the two off she continued on, watching as the trio disappeared behind a large tree up on the hill just off the school grounds. It took Rei a few minutes before she reached the tree. She could see Asukas leg stretched out. As she approached closer she could smell something she had not smelled before, getting closer she saw the three passing what looked like a cigarette , though she knew it to be something else. It took the three a moment or two before they noticed the blue haired girl watching them. Rei said nothing, but approached closer; she was curious as to what it was the three were smoking. The scent of it was appealing to her. Though she had no idea as to why it attracted her curiosity like it did.
An awkward silence hovered among the four of them before Rei finally spoke up.
"What is that?" she asked, pointing towards the item in Shinji's hand. It took a second before he realized what she was talking about and began to panic. It was Akane who spoke up first.
"Come on, sit down and join us" she smiled, being her cheerful self. Rei was hesitant, but took the invitation, sitting next to Shinji, more so due to lack of space behind the tree. As she sat down; Akane had taken the joint from Shinjis hand and was offering it to Rei. The first child looked at it questioningly, then looked to Asuka and then to Shinji before slowly reaching out and accepting the joint from Akane. She needed no instructions of what to do; having fully observed the others actions before she was invited. Drawing it to her lips she inhaled deeply, mimicking what the other three had done. Holding it in for as long as she could before she started to cough, passing the joint to Shinji next.
"Are you alright Ayanami?" he asked, concerned.
"I am alright Shinji" she replied, unaware that she had called him by his first name rather then his last name like she always had. Shinji didn't seem to notice as he took another drag, however both Asuka and Akane had caught on. Akane leaned over and whispered something into Asukas ear who nodded in reply.
"You like Shinji, don't you Ayanami?" Akane asked bluntly, this caused Shinji to cough violently as the sudden question caught him off guard and caused him to blush profusely .
"I.. that is…" for the first time in her life, Rei didn't know how to respond. She felt embarrassed for being put on the spot so to speak. She looked at Shinji again, course this only caused her to blush; then back to Akane and Asuka. "I do not disagree with his company.." she finally answered, trying to compose herself again. But Akane saw through it.
"That's not what I mean," she began. "I mean, do you like him as if you would like to get intimately involved with him." Akane finished with a smile. This question spawned a hidden fantasy with in Rei that she had hid from everyone; even Commander Ikari.
Images flooded into her mind of her and Shinji alone in her apartment, his hand caressing along her cheek as he leaned in to kiss her, his other moving along her body pulling her closer to him. Breaking the kiss he moved down her neck. She closed her eyes and gasped in pleasure as his hands worked their way under her shirt, fondling her. Moving back up he looked into her eyes and smiled, the smile she had come to adore. Gently he pushed her back onto the bed, hovering over her; he gently began to remove her clothing. It wasn't long before she followed his lead, taking off his shirt exposing his lean, yet well toned figure; probably from piloting Eva as much as he has. Finally both of them were stripped of their clothing, leaving nothing between them, he leaned in again…..
"Rei, wake up." Akane teased her. Rei shot her head up to look at the girl who called her name, snapping out of her day dream and crashing back into reality; realizing what had happened she blushed again. This was a fantasy she only imagined in private. "Well Asuka, I think we have our answer."
Asuka leaned over as if to examine Rei, giving her a good look up and down. Their faces just inches apart, causing Rei to blush in embarrassment even more, if it were even possible. Asuka then looked over at Shinji who was at a loss of words to say. Akane had taken the join for his fingers as was taking her turn on it before passing it to Asuka. Leaning back into a sitting position, she took her turn and handed it to Rei. This time Rei accepted it quickly, repeating what she had done earlier except this time she didn't cough. Turning she leaned in to hand it to Shinji who at the same time also leaned in, causing the two of them to bump heads. Shinji looked up to apologize, but froze as he met eye contact with Rei; only inches apart from each other. He began to open his mouth to speak, but was interrupted as he felt himself get pushed into Rei, their lips making contact. Out of the corner of her eye, Rei saw both Akane and Asuka give each other a high five. It seemed that the two had orchestrated this to happen and now it was her turn; taking the initiative she wrapped her arms around his neck and drew him in closer to deepen the kiss ever more, this being her first kiss, she wanted to savor it. Shinji of course followed suite, something about the foot in his back told him to. Though no words were spoken about it.
After a small awkward silence, Rei spoke up again. "Are you sure it alright?" she inquired.
"Of course Wonder Girl, us Eva Pilots have to stick together." the second child exclaimed with a triumphant smile. This eased the firsts uncertainties. However this moment was short lived as Asukas cell phone rang. Answering it she was greeted with a very upset Misato on the other end.
"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!?" everyone in the circle could hear it, wincing some. Rei looked at her watch and felt a wave of coldness wash over her, they were late for the sync tests that were scheduled for today. The group had spent the entire afternoon under the tree.
"Mein Gott, the tests. "Asuka remembered, she then quickly thought up of an excuse. "We're on our way right now Misato."
"Forget it, Akagi had rescheduled the tests for tomorrow. Be sure to let Rei know." the major replied, this time in a more calm voice. "Don't forget." with that Misato hung up.
"Well I guess we should get home, I don't think we want to make our punishment even worse then it already is." Asuka commented as she closed her phone. Shinji still said nothing, still in shock that somehow he had three really cute girlfriends Asuka looked back and forth between Rei and Shinji, a grin coming across her face.
"Shinji, walk Rei home" she said, it wasn't a request. It was an order. "I'll cover for you." Not sticking around for him to argue both her and Akane walked away from the two, talking between each other. Somehow, Shinji got the idea of what Asuka was hinting at, but was still unsure. Looking to Rei he couldn't help but smile, the same smile she had come to adore before reaching out and taking her hand into his.