So, since I am not really blessed with much time I still managed to pull off something that could be called a chapter… yeah right. To be completely honest this is filler, best way to describe it. Since it doesn't involve any plot or anything, just my mind going crazy, I just felt like doing something fast and found myself with kind of difficult situation. I still think this is worthwhile, or I don't … you decide and let me know in reviews… hehe. Same procedure people; brace yourself for few (when I say few I mean 100) grammatical mistakes (when I say mistakes I mean abominations), if you can ignore them they there is a slight chance you are enjoying this nonsense of mine… if so I love you very much. Now brace your nipples and on with the chapter *me gusta*. THANK YOU FOR REVIEWS!
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Chapter 4 or 3.5: House or FILLER
Twelve hours passed since Asuka and Shinji ventured into the newly formed desert that crossed their course to Tokyo 3. They traveled by night since they decided that they will rather endure the chill they were already used to than hotness of the desert day, which none of them experienced. Though the idea wasn't nearly as good as it originally seemed to be, since they almost froze to death several times over. They were still oblivious of how they managed to come up with the idea that traveling in pitch black would be better than traveling in the daylight. Not only that they lost their course several times over but they occasionally wandered in the opposite direction. To put it bluntly, it was Asuka's idea. Since Shinji promoted the idea of sharing responsibility, which included making decisions together, she managed to pass some blame onto him.
They were right; animals really were intact, of sorts. It could be that vast majority survived, or at least they hoped so. First animal they saw was a bird second was bloody corpse of something that could've been a dog and the third was a pack of ravens picking on the dog's eyeballs. The scenery convulsed their stomachs but still failed to prevent them to cook what was left. Like ravens, it was their way of staying alive.
It was already dawn, in best case they guessed that they were halfway through. They were both exhausted so they neglected the idea of making any significant progress. For today they were occupied with search for a temporary shelter since the sun was coming up rather fast, sleeping in the open was not an option.
"Third, can you see anything?"
Shinji was tottering slightly ahead. He wasn't paying much attention to the vast horizon; he simply found the ground easier to look at. "Nope, only sand..."
"Have any idea where we might be?"
"Sand Asuka, sand..." Shinji replied weakly, having difficulties with walking straight.
"So what are you going to do?" Asuka asked as she came closer and started to oscillate her hand in front of his eyes. His expression remained unchanged.
"Sand I tell you…"
It irked her to see how much effort he used when their situation was getting critical "Third, either you find a shelter or you make one! I really don't want my skin melted."
"I'm not sure if you noticed but I'm about to collapse. Can you do any of it?"
"Nonsense, what do I look like to you, a boy scout?" She replied crossing her arms. 'But you surely look like shit' she thought as she took a notice of his shaking legs. She started to wonder if he might really collapse if they continued like this. What would she do then?
'Damn I need to do everything around here, oh for fuck's sake' Asuka thought bitterly as she carefully took his arm and steadied his shoulder blade on her own shoulder. "Can you walk like this?"
"Yeah this is much better, thanks." Shinji replied, sly grin on his face.
"Hmph." Asuka pouted at the boy-lump. "Well, just don't get any strange ideas."
"I value my life a lot nowadays" Shinji retorted.
"Cleaver boy," Asuka muttered as she patted his back with slightly more force. "Well yeah, since you didn't grope me in sleep I doubt you'd do it now, it's not like I don't thrust you or anything."
Shinji felt slightly flattered and couldn't help himself not to grin. "I know, I know… you are just being yourself."
"You make it sound like it's a bad thing, Third." She implied, giving him a mean look with her good eye.
Shinji rolled his eyes, playing innocent. "You are imagining things… must be the sun."
"It better be, or I'll hand you your own ass, asshole!" She spat while griping him more forcefully, hoping to inflict some minor damage.
Shinji responded by acting a hurtful laugh. 'When certain someone continuously speaks without break for breathing for about 12 hours about new world order, producing the new race and what not… assholism is commodity."
They continued to stroll under the scorching sun, with Asuka still supporting Shinji's weight, it got harder and harder as they went on. It was getting hotter and hotter and nothing seemed to be in sight, which looked like it was bending from all the sunrays. They were very thirsty and lacked a grave amount of water in their organism but sweat was rather pouring from both, their legs started to feel heavier and hope was crumbling on a weak thread. But they still pressed on.
They were almost ready to give up when they suddenly noticed the black distant silhouette of what could possibly be a roof. As they forced all their energy into their feet they noticed that it was indeed a roof. It was a house half buried in the sand, they both joyfully screamed upon realization.
They hurried up; with dry throats, heads full of imagery of soft beds and functional supply of water. They reached it as fast as possible and settled in its shades. After a brief series of panting from exhaustion they managed to regain their pace and successfully find a potential entrance.
"It seems to be buried," Shinji said in troubled tone. Before them were doors, but they were also half buried in sand, digging through would take a lot of time and effort. "There might be a window or at least a fucking chimney or something."
"Breaking in as Santa, classy." Asuka ironically responded with a raspy, almost breaking, dry voice. She went to look around and managed to find a small window on the back wing.
"Come over, baka Shinji!" She called the boy. Her throat was hurting but the potential glass of water was tempting her to extreme.
Shinji hurried to her side and knelt before the small and rather slim window. "You sure… it looks too slim. We might not fit."
"Just open it! I feel like I could die in any second."
"Fine…" Shinji replied meekly as he pulled out his half black half orange crowbar and forcefully thrust it into the crack in the middle. After applying all the pressure he could manage the wood cracked under the force, making few wooden bits to fly past his face in great speed. He ably ravaged the rest of the remaining wood and carefully broke the glass that was beneath it. When he cleared all the tiny bits the redhead knelt past him.
"I'm going first." Redhead proclaimed getting a hold of the edges of a small entrance.
Shinji took a notice of her strange way of entering." Be careful it looks quite cramped."
"Could it be that you think I'm too fat, huh!?"
Shinji sighted, "No... j-j-just hurry up ok. I really need a drink."
"Hmph." She pouted and started to push her way through. To Shinji it looked really clumsy; first she went in with her feet, the same way they used to enter their entry plugs. Then she started to pull the rest of the body in with her arms. It seemed to go well until her hips seemed to halt. She continued to pull, making quite scary hoarse cries but she was not moving an inch. It took a power of will for Shinji to suppress a laugh or at least say; I told you so.
"Hghhhh.."
"Hghhhhhhhh….."
"Oh fuck my life…" Asuka turned and made a death stare that automatically stiffened the almost giggling Shinji. She continued to inspect him; her expression was starting to slightly change color and becoming somewhat clumsier looking. After a brief moment of silence she nervously gulped.
"Can you please push me…?" She asked with a small yet visible blush.
Shinji smelled victory in the air. "Ha…I told you s-... w-w-wait only thing I can push is… oh god." He finished with even clumsier expression that she currently had, not to mention his face that was now bright red.
"Baka!" She screamed. "Don't you dare blush like that!" By the time she finished their colored changed to crimson read.
"Y-you are also…"
"No, I am NOT!"
"Yes, you ARE!"
"Oh cut the crap! Are you going to push me or what? I don't want to spend the whole day like this." Asuka said in very frustrated tone, enough to throw Shinji out of balance.
Shinji was quite taken aback by her proposal; he never quite touched the female private parts, except for that time at Rei's apartment, which was hardly countable or even memorable. "Um…I-I-I…ummm…sand?"
"Oh for fuck's sake, just push my god damn ass." One-eyed girl spat, blush still visible.
Shinji's arms were shaking quite a bit; the process of realization was constantly reappearing in his head. 'I mustn't run away…I mustn't run away… oh lord…' He chafed his hands enough to warm them completely, almost even irritate his skin from all the rubbing,
Asuka was already losing patience; being stuck was already making her infuriated enough. "What the hell do you think you are doing? You Japanese people have some ass grabbing rituals or something?"
"Just a second, I need some encouragement…"
"Oh do it already or I will seriously rip your damn cape to shreds."
"Ok," He instantly replied, heck if he managed to fight 80 feet tall behemoths then what is one female bottom compared to that. "I'm really; really sorry…umm… here I go!"
The moment he placed both of his palms on her bottom and pushed he felt some of the strangest sensations from it. Not only that he could feel his hands practically being engulfed by the strange almost electric buzz from her plug suit or even her skin he could almost feel under it. He cringed as he pushed, he could almost feel his hands pushing into the soft jelly. It was one of the feels seemed to make his spine tingle, as suggesting that he was maybe in one of the biggest dangers of his life, and other… well…
'No, no, no… don't you dare!' Shinji gave it a one final push and let all the awkwardness to shudder his whole skin. Asuka slipped and went through, Shinji however found himself with his face buried in sand. Silent 'thump' could be heard, followed by even more silent yet placid 'Ouch'.
"It's fine, now you go…" Silent and somewhat confused voice from a certain redhead came from the dark house interiors.
However stunned boy was still having some difficulties with something mesmerized. 'Damn you… I curse you… you betrayed me… you betrayer of humanity!' he scolded inside his head, feeling awkward over the top. Even the situation in Rei's apartment didn't invoke such… reaction.
"Are you coming or not?" More demanding voice came that instantly broke his trance, even though she spent quite a time in entry plugs this gloomy room still made her uneasy.
Shinji obediently did as he was told; he slipped through it from the side and found no problems while doing so. He wanted to proclaim that he was right but felt too anxious to do it. The boy decided that he would rather focus on avoiding eye contact.
"Umm… l-let's search for w-water." Shinji hummed as he started to look for some doors to escape from this situation, since Asuka's cold glares gave him shudders, he was not sure if she wanted to kill him or just kill him.
'God dam it Shinji, grow a fucking spine.' She previously decided not to press on the humanity renewal topic. Since Shinji was completely against it, since she was after all tagging along and ultimately was so on his good will, though she doubted that he knew that he held that much power over her. None the less she decided not to give up.
One-eyed girl face-palmed in frustration. "Mhmm…could you stop acting like a child, doors are here."
"Oh… how convenient" he quavered as he took a notice of the doors.
"How dense can you even get," Asuka snorted as she opened the doors to hallway, only to let through some pretty toxic fumes from inside.
Both of them covered their noses from the choking smell. They almost vomited from disgust when they took notice of the different piles of clothes drenched in goo-like liquids, to them quite familiar LCL. The liquid apparently steamed from the heat and produced all those unpleasant smells. Those were human remains, human goo, left-overs from previous owners of the house, which were now probably trapped inside the instrumentality. It disgusted both of them, yet another scene to haunt them.
Both Asuka and Shinji gulped and then took a deep breath as they started to walk across the steaming liquids, splashing some of it as they stepped over it. The moment they entered another room they instantaneously shut the doors of the boiling hallway.
Shinji took a notice of the situation. They trespassed on another man's property, disrespectfully broke his belongings, not to mention stepped over his corpse and were about to loot his house. It was scaring him how he gave absolutely no fuck about it.
They were now in living room. "How disgusting." Asuka muttered between deep breaths, Shinji equally disgusted collapse on the white couch that was in the middle of the room.
"I feel dead…" He announced as he nuzzled the soft sheets with his cheek.
Asuka face-palmed. "Get up baka, find me something to drink, anything will do."
"Just a second more…" Shinji whined, getting up seemed impossible to him.
"IDIOT! If you fall asleep now you will die from dehydration, come on." She said, pulling him up by his arm. She managed to lift him up and not to fall while doing so.
Shinji was able to achieve some balance so they both searched in separate ways. He was having no luck, he already checked all the pipes in the kitchen and there was also nothing in the fridge, even the ice was long melted. Nothing was working properly. Hearing Aasuka grunting and cursing in German all the time he figured that she had no luck either.
They met back in the living room and collided on the white couch, feeling utter defeat. They wasted all their remaining energy on the scavenging. Unfortunately there were no results. Whole house appeared to be out of any useful resources, including food and water. Shinji barely managed to find some already crunchy spoiled loafs of bread, nothing edible.
In pauses of inhaling-exhaling Shinji managed to form a question. "You think we are done for?"
"Bah," she barked. "It seems so…"
Unpleasant silence of realization came; Asuka noticed that the boy had a miserable look in his eyes. He seemed to distantly stare in the ceiling, like he used every thread of hope and became an empty shell, a mere vessel of what used to be Shinji Ikari. She was as equally depressed, though she really wanted to at least do something to escape this downright pathetic state they were in. It was a pain, she hoped for at least a whole lifetime. There were a lot of things she wanted to do before leaving this world, if she was to die now she would do so with a lot of regrets. There was still a lot she wanted to tell Shinji, maybe it was the right time to do it, maybe it was finally her chance, or her last one.
They remained laying there only centimeter apart, like two planks of wood. Asuka wanted to scream everything she held but found it more difficult than she thought it would be. Little did she now that their feelings were mutual, but to certain degree. Shinji was thinking almost the same thing, though he took an initiative and carefully took her arm and squeezed it gently, as reassuring that everything would be fine.
She was slightly taken aback; she sifted her gaze from the ceiling and found Shinji looking at her with very weak smile on his face, the best one he could manage. She couldn't help but to smile herself or to make a small blush to match his, she was slightly relieved. They continued to exchange smiles like that; the need for words was completely lost.
They remained still for quite some time; Shinji's eyes were long closed. Asuka still observed his face, deep down she feared that Shinji was already gone since his breathing was barely noticeable. She never imagined that they were about to die as old married couple everyone took them for, it was quite an ending if anything. She found dying at the same time the most adequate of all; it was a dream of all lovers, the most romantic ending anyone could hope for. She was at least happy to share it with Shinji.
She was not sure if he was already gone, the sole though made her eyes teary. She decided to spill something just to make sure if he was already asleep or not, if he was, she would also give into the long lasting sleep.
"Japanese houses… only 5 rooms… so shitty." She barely muttered with her crippled voice, still looking at the boys face.
Shinji's eyes wide opened. "6 rooms…"
"Huh?"
Shinji took deep breaths. "Japanese… houses…6 rooms… basement."
"Basement?"
"Basement." He confirmed, giving her an irked look.
They looked at each other and slowly nodded, they carefully started to get up, supporting each other best they could manage. Shinji was familiar with the structure of Japanese countryside houses, since they were all made the same way in Tokyo region and he spent ten years living in one, with his uncle. Basement was situated below the hallways, he would have found it but it was the territory Asuka apparently searched so he figured she already checked it.
Soar throated they slowly bobbed around in tight embrace like two disoriented drunk-heads. The basement was probably the last bit of hope they shared, it sounded like paradise, and they focused all their strength into opening it, hoping that they wouldn't faint from dehydration. They slowly crawled down the stairs, even though they found a last hope they still feared of pathetic ending in cold gloomy room. What if they don't find anything, it would be pathetic outcome but they would still die knowing that they weren't surrendering to their cruel fates.
When they finally entered there was quite a sight to behold. It wasn't as much as basement as it was alcohol storage. Basement was literally filled with vast collections of different kinds of alcohol. There was sake, some other kinds of wine, Shochu, Awamori and kegs of pretty much everything they hardy recognized. For all they cared it was something to drink, they barely glanced at each other before rushing for a closest bottle of anything they could grab.
Shinji grabbed a bottle of sake and used his crowbar to remove its cork. He knew that he was prohibited to drink since he was fifteen, though it hardly mattered in their situation. He drank alcohol only on few occasions, two to be precise, one time when Misato experimented with him and other one long before in his uncle's house. He was never fond of it, it actually disgusted him, why would anyone drink it over cola, tea or equally tasty beverage was out of his comprehension.
He slowly took a small sip just to taste it. It was disgusting; he choked on it, and then coughed a bit, some of it even leaked from his nose. Still it was nothing he couldn't endure; after all he managed to digest ten times more horrible food. His body still required some liquids so he figured that he might just get over with it as soon as possible, he took another sip. It was still as horrible as before though he was in need of more to satisfy his thirst problems. Little did he know that alcohol is not recommended for dehydrations, since it only made him more and more thirsty.
'This tastes like shit…' He concluded after he drank a bit more. It was enough to restore some minor balance and make his throat functional. He cleaned some of drips with his black cape.
He turned around to see how Asuka was dealing with it. His jaws dropped when he saw the redhead swigging the hell out of something. After she was done she produced an equally annoying sound Misato usually did when she was nursing her beer.
"Shinji, you have to try this, it is so damn good!" She said pointing a half empty bottle at his face.
It was a bad situation. It was not hard to notice her groggy pose, her incomprehensible speaking, off balanced behavior. It was clear as day that she was already intoxicated "I'd rather not…" He said waving his hands.
"Oh come on… *hic* don't leave me hanging Third!" She babbled poking his cheeks with the tip of the bottle. "Take some… it's really good."
"Nah, I had enough of my own." He whooped, waving his hands with silly expression.
"But you didn't taste any of this! Shinji… we are surviving and shits… drink it!" She demanded as she slowly started to crawl to him.
Shinji, completely hazed by the turn of events, crawled back from the incoming redhead. No matter how far he slipped she was still onto him like a predator. Furthest he managed was the corner, in just a second Asuka was already pinning him from above, giving him a cunning smile.
"Now, open up…"
"NO! God dam it Asuka stop it. You are completely drunk!" Shinji quavered, while desperately trying to prevent Asuka from thrusting the bottle in his mouth. It was really hard since Asuka was showing no remorse; she fought very eagerly, like her life depended on it.
"I am no fucking way drunk… you! I only drank a bit of it" She muttered as she started to attack even more forcefully.
'I know you drink only a bit, what the hell is your metabolism, a fragile branch or something?' Shinji though as he repelled yet another attack.
Shinji was already sick of this. "Look! Stop this FU- ughh" He was interrupted by the bottle that suddenly found his way directly into his mouth. The lips of the bottle were almost directly in his throat, he could feel the alcohol directly pouring through his throat. He managed to pull it out in a second, though it wasn't fast enough to prevent the bigger amount of it ending in his stomach.
He showed Asuka off and started to writhe. "The *cough* fuc- *cough* were you fuc- *cough* thinking *cough*!" He spoke between coughs in very angry tone.
It was only now that Asuka realized that she practically violated him in a very gruesome way. She quickly rushed to his side and grabbed onto his back. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry… Ok?" She repeated as she tightened her grip. "I'll never do this again… ok… please forgive me… ok… you don't hate me right, right?"
It was quite hard for Shinji to catch some of the words, though he discerned all the apologies and such. He had no idea why but he decided to pardon her, they were both about to die but are still alive, so it was not that bad. 'What's a small violation between friends right?'
Shinji took some time until his lounges calmed down. "I'm not mad," He sighted. "J-just don't repeat that ever again, ok?"
"Ughuh" Was her dull yet cheerful reply. The boy was wondering if anyone could get so drunk after only a humble amount of liquor. The answer was pinned on his back.
"Now please help me get up, I'm sick of this basement."
She slowly detached from him and clumsily helped him. Shinji was starting to feel the effects; his vision seemed to be a bit blurry and a bit shrank, not to mention the back of his head that felt like some wild rave party. Both Shinji and Asuka repeated the same walking procedure but still barely held some balance. It was not much different from previous time, though now they felt disoriented over tired.
On their way Asuka leaned on the side. "I'm taking this for later…"
"We won't need that. " Shinji said with very annoyed expression. He felt like he was dealing with half retarded child. All he wanted was to embrace that beautiful white couch and rest for the rest of the day, babysitting was not an option.
They returned to square one. They were both lying on the white couch, now sitting across each other with their legs tangled. It was normal at first; Asuka was acting like a normal schoolgirl, which scared the shit out of Shinji. The boy tried to fall asleep but it was hard to do so with such an awful taste in his mouth. It was not the only problem; they soon realized that they were getting thirstier and thirstier as they rambled. Before they knew the bottle was almost empty.
Asuka, in her drunken state, recalled some of the questions that remained unanswered among them. She figured that she could ask few of them since they hardy did anything accept trying to fall asleep and occasional babbles.
Asuka was more affected than Shinji, though there was not much difference. "Oy Shinji! You there?" Asuka shouted from the top of her lounges.
"I'm… about… here in front of you!" The boy replied face-palming, though he missed and stroke his nose.
"Can… I ask you someth-h-ng?"
The boy slowly nodded.
Asuka got up from her lying position and looked at him with more serious look. "Why d-do youu… keep me… around?"
"Whoa?" He exclaimed in confusion. "Let me… think…umm… I don't know."
"There-must-be a reason!" Asuka slurred. "I am NOT stupid Third… I can see that yo-ou are always concerned about s-something… "
Shinji barely made off the nonsense but had even more trouble recalling if he really was bothered by something. Since his brain was the second body part that betrayed him today he just decided to state what he already knew. "Nope… d-don't know… maybe something about my cap-?
"-Anyway "Asuka interrupted. "I think can make some assumptions!" She proclaimed, completely ignoring his answer. Shinji took a notice of it, but ignored it.
"I know that I am not… very nice… temper… stuff… s-shit… and I don't have much survival experience… nor do you b-but sin-nce you are sort of… captain thingy'n cape… t-that makes me a drag or something… I dunno."
Asuka took a deep breath. Shinji actually managed to comprehend her words and already formed some sort of speech to stop her monologue, though he never got a chance since Asuka immediately continued with her rant.
"SO! Either you prefer to be lonely, which I doubt since… well Pen- umm I mean … urghh you know. Maybe you just took pity on me… or my most… probable… maybe!" Shinji was again having a hard time deciphering her words. Asuka however clenched her fist as some act of encouragement and leaned nearer with more serious face.
"Shinji… d-do you find me attractive?" She asked with a small blush.
His brain completely halted, it was something he could hardy lie about. Since his brain entered malfunction mode, only product was tomato colored face and awkward grunts.
"Uughmmm"
"I knew it." Asuka responded, lowering her gaze sadly. "Is it because I have only one eye?"
"Uughmmmm"
"I get it…" She said gesturing on her burnt flesh above her eye. "There is no need for words… I understand completely."
Shinji gulped in nervousness. The one-eyed girl was completely intoxicated and she was reaching some pretty wrong conclusions, that much he figured. Since he wasn't going to let it go like this he spoke.
"L-look it's really not the truth… umm, "He gulped, still nervous as before. "You are very pretty... and I-I simply like to have you around… you know I don't want you to think…wrong… our relationship is bit more of that… we are good friends Asuka."
He lelft out a big long sight, misunderstanding was solved, or so he thought. Asuka was looking at him with teary eyes, which confused him a lot. She was looking delighted, too cheerful for her usual self. Was his speech so good he didn't know, because he was almost certain that he confused some words and spoke in splutter, maybe even lisping?
Little did he know that the redhead heard his words a bit different, in her mind it sounded like this; "You are really pretty… like you… you think wrong… relationship more of friends"
"Ha!" She barked with quite radiant expression. "Then it's settled!"
Shinji nodded with a smile. 'Huh my speech really got through; maybe I am really not as drunk as I thought I am!'
"From now on we are dating." She informed with beatific expression.
"Huh?" Shinji stared at her with vacant look, unblinking. He was just starting to realize that there could still be some misunderstanding, or did he miss something of grave importance.
"Yes Shinji darling?" She asked in her standard drunken tone.
'Shinji what now?' He wondered, completely unprepared for sudden twist of events. He was now absolutely sure that alcohol became his biggest enemy. "Asuka… we are dating?"
"Sure… why not… "She answered, quite puzzled. "s-since we settled everything there is no need to pretend otherwise. W-we are the last couple o-of people on the world… we could even say that we were dating from the beginning…"
"Umm… listen Asuka… emm, I am really sor-"
"-happy, I know baka. Now let's kiss!" She interrupted, giving Shinji a mischievous smile.
"W-what? Kiss, but we are dating for only 1 minute…" He protested, waving his hands. 'Datin?! Since when did I accept that… for fuck sake Shinji…!" He thought as he started to think of the possible outcomes.
He could try to reason with her and solve the situation in most adequate manner possible. He would end up resolving their delusions and ultimately breaking up with Asuka, after one minute of dating. But he wondered how she would take it. She seemed to be quite eager and cheerful about the whole thing. Would it break her hear, or not? Maybe she was teasing him like she always used to? When he gave it some thought he realized that he can't remember anything she said to him, or didn't. Did she confess her feelings or something? He couldn't remember a thing, when he tried a bit harder he realized that she didn't, could it be only alcohol, did the liquor cause all their confusion? It was possible that she thinks that she did but didn't, they were both completely drunk after all. Was he really going to exploit a drunken girl? She seemed to be delighted with the idea, yet he was still unsure of what to do. There was only one reasonable answer.
Shinji looked at his side and quickly grabbed a bottle and took a long gulp of what was left. It didn't help him at all but it was still the best thing he could come up with.
"It will ruin our kiss!" Asuka snapped. "Umm, well I did drink a bit myself, both did… well doesn't really matter… now come closer."
She leaned closer but was stopped with his hands on her shoulders. "Now wait a minute… I-I-I-"
"Oh don't worry. I won't hold your nose like the last time." She explained.
"It's NOT that!" Shinji blurt out.
"So what is it?" She asked with pained expression. "Don't you want to kiss me?"
"I-I…" He hesitated; her sullen expression was paining him a lot. He realized that he was completely helpless. "No… you got me w-wrong…"
Smile returned to her face. "Then here I go…" She said as she got closer to his face. They both had a very blurry vision of each other, even from such short distance. "w-we should close our eyes..."
He obeyed. He felt extremely nervous; he was still completely inexperienced with these kinds of situations. The chills tingled his spine; his mind was going numb, either from the nervousness or from the alcohol, he was not sure. But then it happened…
It was if anything weird. He was not sure if he was doing it right or not but he continued the best way he could manage. Asuka was no different, she didn't expect anything like this either. Shinji was considering if opening his eyes would be a good idea, he wanted to peek since something was clearly wrong but he figured that he was probably only drunk. Truth was Shinji and Asuka were not exactly kissing on the lips; Shinji was more or less kissing her chin while she was kissing his nose. They continued to do so for a while; none of them actually realized their mistake. It got messy when Asuka tried to use her tongue. They made quite a mess of each other's faces but for better or worse they didn't realize it since the combination of mixed feelings, exhaustion and alcohol kicked in and sent them both into a blissful sleep.
"Ughhh… fuck, fuck, fuck" Shinji muttered as he woke up, with extreme headache. "Oh god, my skull is splitting open…" His stomach suddenly convulsed. "I think I'm going to throw up."
He quickly rose from the couch and rushed for the bathroom, not even noticing the redhead that was still blissfully sleeping near him.
All the noises disrupter her sleep and she was on her feet very soon, now very much awake and with the same problems as Shinji she repeated the same process he did, only with more curse words on German. After they both finished vomiting they sat on the floor and grabbed their heads.
"God… what the fuck happened." Asuka spat while rubbing her head.
"We apparently got very drunk…" Shinji replied doing the same, they both noticed an empty bottle of liquor.
"Why would we do that?" Asuka asked in confusion.
"We were probably dehydrating or something… I don't really know to be honest." He answered giving her a troubled look.
"Don't look at me the fuck should I know?" She returned, and then something came to her mind. "Say Shinji, do you remember anything from last night."
Shinji sighted. "Umm… well we crashed here... got pretty drunk… in other words absolutely nothing."
"Same here." Asuka added, not even sure how they ended up here in the first place. "Are we even close to Tokyo 3?"
"Probably… I don't really know anything." Shinji replied with painful expression, it was completely obvious that they were experiencing a drunken haze. "Let's just rest for a bit and then move forward, this headache is a complete bitch. "
"Yeah… but hey now we know how Misato felt every morning."
Shinji sighted. "I admire that woman…"
They rested for a bit and then went forward to Tokyo 3. In the same time on the shores of LCL Sea the other new-formed group of people started to move in the same direction.
END OF CHAPTER 4:
A/N: I have to repeat that I don't have much time nowadays… so don't expect me to update that soon. I will try to make something in a week or so. My emotional state is maybe not that prepared for this kind of fiction. Since I have a lot of slacking to do I could make myself do one darkfic… who knows.
I hope you enjoyed. It's still my grammatical abomination, BUT if you DID enjoy you can leave a nice review…
Have a nice day reader.
Cotillon.