Chapter 2: Fighting, shoes, and friends

Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion.

A/N: Thanks to you guys who reviewed.

J.G. Gamer: I don't think I said anything about three pilots, if I did sorry about the confusion. There's only Asuka, Shinji, and Jason.

Rahhel: Jason's one of the main characters. I'm trying to develop his character with the first couple of chapters.

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"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

"Another language"

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The Next Day Katsuragi Apartment

Through out the house only three people were asleep. One was on her bed hugging a pillow whispering some name, as two others were cuddled up on a bed. The girl was laying her head on the boy's chest staying very comfortable in the process. The last member of the apartment was just getting up. It was only about 6:30 in the morning. As he stumbled to the kitchen a small growling sound could be heard through out the hall way. The boy looked down at his stomach and sighed. He found his way to the kitchen and found the cereal and bowls. He had stumbled upon them last night as he searched for the pans.

After he found what he wanted, he moved over to the fridge –that didn't have Pen-Pen in it- and pulled out a half empty carton of milk. He took the milk, cereal, and bowl over to the table and got himself his breakfast. After that he sat down and started to make the motions of using a spoon to eat his cereal. 'Why am I not getting any cereal?' he thought drowsily. When he looked down at the bowl, he knew something was missing, but couldn't put a finger on what it was.

Pen-Pen woke up to the boy rummaging around in the kitchen. He got out of his fridge and saw him attempting to eat at the table, but failing miserably. Pen-Pen then walked up to the boy with his bowl in tow and pecked at his leg. Jason looked down at the penguin with tired eyes. "What do you want?" he asked as looked at the penguin.

(A/N: Whenever Pen-Pen talks he just goes "WARK".)

"I'm hungry, duh," was what Pen-Pen said in warkenese as he put his bowl in front of him.

"You hungry?"

"Duh," Pen-Pen said as he nodded. You could tell that Pen-Pen isn't a morning bird.

"Where's your food at?"

Pen-Pen waddled over to the other fridge and pointed. "Here, you idiot."

"Ok," Jason got up, not knowing he was being insulted, and slowly walked over to the fridge and opened the door. He looked around for something the warm water bird would eat. Jason found a package of fish on the bottom of shelf of the fridge. He pulled it out and showed it to Pen-Pen. "Is this it?"

"What's it look like, Shinji's back-scratcher?" Pen-Pen said as he nodded again a little bit of irritation in his eyes.

"You want it cooked?"

"No... I want sushi. Yes, you defuse." Pen-Pen nodded.

"Fried or baked?" Pen-Pen held up one of his 'fingers' to signify the first thing said.

"Fried please," Pen-Pen said with politeness, for once.

"Ok," Jason got out a pan and started to fry up the fish for his little avian companion. When he was done (luckily he didn't get burned), Jason placed the fish in the bowl Pen-Pen was holding. "Here ya go."

"Thanks," Pen-Pen warked raising one fin as he waddled to the other side of the kitchen. When Pen-Pen got to the other side of the room, he opened a drawer and pulled out a spoon. He then whipped it at Jason, hitting him in the head. "You need a spoon idiot."

Jason picked the spoon up from the floor. 'That's what I needed. Duh, anyway I could swear I was being yelled at, and being called names by the penguin.' Jason thought as he walked back to his seat at the kitchen table. He ate his cereal in silence as Pen-Pen had finished his fish and went back to bed, or fridge, for a bit. When he was done he rinsed off the pan he used and his bowl and put them in the sink for later.

'You know, I think I'll do my morning exercises today. I haven't done them in a while.' Jason walked over to the balcony door and opened it. He let out a sigh, when he felt the cool air run across his body. He stepped out and started his exercises for the first time in about a month.

While he was outside Shinji woke up. It was about 7:00. He exited Asuka's room and walked over to his own. He changed out of his sweaty shorts and t-shirt and into a pair of baggy shorts. After Shinji was finished changing he walked out to the kitchen and noticed a pan and a bowl in the sink. 'Jason must have fed himself… and Pen-Pen, by the smell of things.' Shinji started to make breakfast for Misato, Asuka, and himself when his stomach growled.

When the smell of the breakfast Shinji was making drifted into Asuka's room, it immediately woke her up. She noticed the lack of warmth next to her and opened her eyes to find that Shinji wasn't next to her, and figured he was the one making the good smelling breakfast. She walked out to the kitchen in her long shirt, and some short shorts that didn't show under the edge of the shirt.

Asuka walked up to Shinji and hugged him around his shirtless chest from behind. He turned around and gave her a good morning kiss and went back to his cooking. "Good morning Asuka."

"Good morning, baka." She smiled and took a seat at the table. When Shinji was done cooking, he put some of the food on a plate and gave it to her. He put some on a plate for himself and also some on a plate for Misato; he set this on the counter and sat down at the table. "Sleep well?" he said as he broke the silence.

"Yeah, I did. Your chest is so comfortable…" Asuka said very cheerfully for the morning. The name 'baka' had become more of a loving pet name than an insult. It had been that way since after the Third Impact.

After they ate for a while, they got used to the silence and started to hear a soft yelling sound every once in a while. Both teens looked up at each other. "Can you hear that?" they asked each other at the same time.

"Yeah, I can. What is it?" Asuka asked.

"I don't know, but it sounds like it's coming from the balcony." Shinji said as he took Asuka's and his plates to the sink.

"Let's go see what it is." Asuka said as she got up.

"Kay," Both Shinji and Asuka walked up to the door to the balcony, and saw Jason doing some mid-air kicks and other motions. Shinji opened the door when Jason was in the middle of a mid-air kick; Jason fell to the floor of the balcony with a thud. "Good morning Jason. You ok?"

"Ugh, huh... Oh, good morning Shinji," Jason grabbed his head as he got up from the floor.

"Guten Morgan," Asuka said with a little giggle at Jason's fall.

"Guten Morgan, Asuka," Jason replied as he limped toward the door. "How are the love birds doing this morning?" Shinji and Asuka blushed a little at the question.

"Ok," said Shinji as he looked at Jason with a look of confusion. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine, that just hurt a little bit. Hitting concrete isn't the best thing to do to wake you up." Jason walked back into the apartment. He continued back into the kitchen and up to Pen-Pen's fridge. "Ice please," Pen-Pen gave Jason a small bag of ice. Jason walked to the table with the ice on his forehead.

Shinji and Asuka came in and sat down at the table. "How's your head?" Shinji asked as Jason sat down.

"It's been better," just after Jason said that Misato walked in to the kitchen in a definite stupor. "Hello… good morning Misato." Jason turned away as he said this.

"Oh, good MOR… ning… Misato, clothes." Shinji stuttered as he turned around.

"MISATO GO PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!" Asuka yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Huh," Misato looked at herself. She was only in a bra and panties. She immediately woke up, "Oh shit, sorry!" She apologized as she ran back to her room.

When Misato was out of the kitchen, Jason put his head down and rebooted his brain. That was the first time he had seen a girl like that. Sure Jason had seen diagrams, but never the real thing in person. 'What happened? I woke up, fed myself and the penguin. Was that it? No, I was fine after that. I went outside and did my exercises. Then the love birds came out and scared the shit out of me, and I fell on my head, which still hurts. Did that do it? No, well maybe, it just happened a few minutes ago. After I fell I came inside and got an ice pack from the penguin in the fridge. That sounds like it came out of a cartoon or something. Well that didn't disturb me. Disturbed is a cool band…. Down With The Sickness rocks.' His thoughts drifted for a minute. 'Anyway back on topic. After I got the ice pack Misato walked out half naked. That's what did it. She fried my brain. Damn she's hot, but she's too old.' Jason mentally sighed, 'Well I'm fine now, time to rejoin reality.'

A/N: I don't own Disturbed, but they do rock.

While Jason was thinking, Asuka and Shinji had a small argument.

"You looked at her, didn't you!" Asuka was red in the face.

"Only for the bit that I was turning around!" Shinji wasn't too happy either.

"But you looked at her?"

"Yes, but how could I have known that she was going to come out like that?" He almost yelled. He was actually retaliating against Asuka.

A/N: I'll explain later. Please don't flame me for Asuka and Shinji being OOC. (Quivers in corner)

Asuka looked like she was thinking about something. "Well… You're going to have to make it up to me." She grinned.

"What! I… uh…" He sighs. "Fine… what do you want me to do?" He gave up. 'Damn. I hate it when she does this. But if I want to sleep with her I better behave. I love the warmth that she gives off when we lay together.'

Asuka's smile widened with triumph. 'Yes!' "You have to give me a back rub, and you have to take me…" she takes a deep breath, "shopping!"

'Shit!' Shinji went white. Every time he took her shopping she cleaned him out. His bank account was still recovering from the last time. "You're not kidding are you?" She just smiled.

Jason sat back up. "Did I miss something?" He had not heard the argument from earlier. 'Ok, I did miss something? Shinji looks like he saw a ghost and Asuka's smiling very evil-like.'

Misato came back in and took her plate off the counter and began to eat as if nothing had happened. She skipped her morning beer for today because she had to go into NERV here soon.

"Good morning, guys." Misato sat down next to Jason.

"I'd call it that." Jason was still holding the ice pack to his head.

"What happened to you?"

"Shinji scared the shit out of me while I was in the middle of the final jump kick of my morning exercises. I fell on my head."

Misato just shook her head. 'Kids…' "Well, anyway I got some news on your Eva. It's just about done and will be here in about a week. Then you get to do the activation on it. Shinji, all of your sync tests have been pushed back to that day, so you guys are all in sync when you go in for them. Asuka the same goes for you. Oh, before I forget, Jason your Eva will have an S2 engine, unlike what you were told, so you will not need an umbilical cable. Also one will be installed in Unit 02 in about one month, depending on how Jason's activation goes." She glanced at the clock on the wall. 'Shit, it's almost time to go!' She left the table.

Jason lost all color in his face. 'Oh shit… my Eva has an S2 engine. Fuck… not good. The last time they installed one in my Eva it took the second branch of NERV with it.'

'YES! No synch tests for a week' Shinji mentally cheered. 'Thank god I don't have to go into tomorrow.'

'No, synch tests! Wait… did she say I would have an S2 engine, too? YES! My Eva will be as strong as Shinji's. YES!' Asuka cheered too.

Misato walked back out to one kid that was as white as a ghost and two with big smiles on their faces. She had her uniform on, but it now had the badge of vice-commander on the collar where her Major badge used to be. "What's wrong with Jason?"

Shinji spoke up. "I'm guessing he's scared out of his mind because the idiots at NERV think they can try to play God again with installing an S2 engine in his Eva. No offense." His voice rose a little in the end with anger. All Jason did was nod.

"None taken. Oh, well don't worry, Jason. This S2 engine has been copied from the S2 organ in Shinji's Unit 01. It should work just fine."

"Ok, but I still don't like this idea." Jason regained some color. "Well it's better. Most of the people I ever knew were taken by the fuck up back at the second branch. I just don't like the idea of NERV trying to do the same thing that killed a hell of a lot of people over again."

"It's ok. Don't worry about it. Anyway, I gotta head to NERV to do my vice-commander job now, bye guys." She had a slightly cocky voice as she spoke the last part. Misato got up from the table and walked to the door to get her shoes on. "Oh, and Jason, keep an eye on the love birds for me. I don't want to be a grand mother yet. Bye," she slipped out the door before any of the teens could get her.

"Damn it," Jason muttered as he missed her.

"Damn you're fast." Shinji was surprised.

"I can't believe we missed her again. It's no fair. She's always at the door before she says anything." Asuka pouted.

"Well I can fix that tomorrow if you guys are willing to help." Jason had an evil smile.

"What do you have in mind?" Asuka asked as both she and Shinji leaned in with evil smiles to match Jason's.

Jason told them his plan and they got it ready for the next day.

For about five hours the three teens just sat around doing nothing. Shinji was reading a book, while Asuka watched TV. Her head was resting on his lap. Jason was listening to some Adema, Disturbed, Sevendust, Filter, and Rammstein through out the five hours on his MP3 player playing the air guitar.

(A/N: I don't own Filter, Rammstein, Adema, or Sevendust either.)

Around 2:00 Asuka leaned up to Shinji and whispered into his ear. "I think it's time you take me shopping Shinji." Shinji sighed and turned to Jason. He tossed a chip at him.

"What?" Jason took out one of his ear buds.

"How about we go on that walk?" Shinji grunted as he got up with Asuka.

"Sure, better than sitting around here doin' nothin'." Jason got up and went to the door to get his shoes on. Asuka and Shinji got their shoes on and Shinji walked over to the phone. "What's he doin'?"

"He's callin' Section 2 so they know we're goin' out." Asuka stated.

"Really? Hmm… I thought they just followed us where ever we go." Jason was confused.

"MOST of the time they do. But one time Shinji accidentally slipped past them and got mugged. They saved him just before he was killed though. I was so pissed that I talked to Misato about getting one to stay with us all they time. She said she would work on it."

"Oh, really? I wonder if she will come through with it. How bad was Shinji beat up?"

"Pretty bad. He has a scar going down his back to prove it too." Shinji hung up the phone and walked back up to the other two.

"You know I can hear you right?" Shinji sounded a little annoyed.

"I was just telling him why we call Section 2 every time we go out. Is that okay?" Asuka was starting to raise her voice at the end.

Shinji immediately backed off after hearing the agitation on Asuka's voice. "That's fine, that's fine. Let's go." His tone returned to normal.

'Mental note: Never piss Shinji or Asuka off. There's just something about them I've never seen before.' Jason thought.

The couple walked out of the door, with Jason walking just behind them. They got in the elevator and waited patiently for it to reach the ground level. 'How can they be so quite?' After they reached the bottom they walked out and stood on the side walk. "Which way do we go?"

Shinji pointed to the right. 'I hope he doesn't get pissed at me for this, but I got to take Asuka shopping, and I'm not going alone.' They walked in that direction for a bit before the silence got to Jason again.

"Umm… so... how long you two been together?" Both Shinji and Asuka looked at each other and then back at Jason.

"Where did that come from?" Asuka was surprised.

"The silence just got to me." 'Shit! I said something wrong.' Jason slowed down a bit.

"Oh, ok. Umm… I'd say since about a week after the Third Impact."

"Oh, wow. That's awhile." Jason mentally sighed as caught back up with. "Umm… I was wondering if either of you could tell me about your parents. You don't have to. I mean both of you probably had a harder time then I did…" Jason shut up when he noticed both of them stiffened a little.

"Uh, I don't think we should talk about that right now." Asuka gave Shinji a worried look.

"Oh, o…"

"He needs to know about my parents. At least it would be fair." Shinji cut Jason off.

"You don't have to Shinji." Jason was worried about his new friend. He had never seen Shinji serious before.

"It has to do with the Third Impact. So you have a right to know." Shinji was very serious.

"Ok…"

"My father was an uncaring sun-of-a-bitch. After my mom was absorbed by Unit 01 – I'll explain later – he abandoned me so he could find a way to get her back. He had been working with SEELE so he knew that they wanted to speed up the evolution of man with the Third Impact. He took this damned knowledge and bent it so he could be with my mom and me once again, in a world with no sorrow or happiness." Shinji was red in the face and his fists were clenched very tight as he talked. Asuka clamped onto his arm in an attempt to calm him. She had a caring, but stern look on her face.

"Dude, that's bad. Wow, I'm sorry."

"Why are you sorry?"

"I shouldn't have asked you that question. I just pissed you off. This walk is supposed to be fun, not some moping party." 'Damn it! Why did I ask such a sensitive question?'

"It's ok, don't worry about it. You have to know this stuff."

"Ok, if you're sure you're ok with it." Jason nodded.

"Anyway, he then had the balls to call me back to him, but just to pilot the damn Evas. After he abandoned me I never liked him, I hated him even. I don't know why I even came back. But I'm glad I did." He looked at Asuka and gave her a very caring smile; she gave him one right back. "After awhile I found that my mom wasn't dead. She was inside my Eva. Somehow when she activated it back when I was a boy she got sucked into the Eva like I did after I fought the 14th angel." Shinji shivered at the memory. "I found that she was a very caring person, but she would fight to the very end to protect the ones she loved." Shinji relaxed. "She had been the one protecting me. She helped me get back from inside the Eva."

Asuka was surprised. "You never told me this." 'I can't believe Yui brought me back my baka. I'm going to have to thank her somehow.'

"Sorry… back then we weren't on very good terms, remember?"

"Yeah, I know. Sorry about all of that." Asuka looked down at the ground.

"It's ok; it's all in the past." Shinji gave her a caring smile before continuing. "As I was saying; after the Third Impact, my father didn't come back. I was surprised that after I heard that news there was a small hole in my heart. I couldn't believe that he wouldn't come back." Shinji looked to the ground as Asuka had. "I wonder what mom told him…"

Jason walked up on Shinji's left and put a hand on his shoulder. "Hey, don't worry about it. Maybe, he's in the Eva with your mom."

Shinji was very surprised. "I never thought of that." Shinji's mood instantly lifted. 'I'm going to have to try to talk to mom the next time I synch with the Eva. Maybe Jason will be right.'

"It's a possibility, but it seems a little farfetched." Asuka was a little skeptical.

"Think about it. Gendo wanted to be with Yui and Shinji at the same time right? Where else would he go after the Third Impact? If he didn't have a body to return to, the next best place would be the Eva Shinji piloted, right?" The love birds nodded. "He could be with both of his loved ones at the same time."

'Gendo has loved ones?' Asuka and Shinji thought the same thing.

As they finished talking they entered the shopping district. They didn't even notice until Asuka spoke up. "Hey, we're here!"

Jason was confused. "Wait, what do you mean here? I thought we were just going on a walk… Shinji… why are we here…?" He eyed Shinji suspiciously. It hit him before Shinji even responded.

"Well… We were. We walked to the mall. Now I have to take Asuka shopping." Shinji was a little embarrassed. His face was starting to turn a very light shade of pink.

"I see. Misery loves company, eh?"

"Yeah, sorry." Shinji started to turn red.

"Ok, but I'm just staying to keep Asuka from taking you to a lingerie store and giving you a show." Both Asuka and Shinji shot bright red.

'Damn it… I was gonna to do that…'

"Wait, you were actually planning on that!" Jason noticed the look of disappointment on Asuka's face. "Man, Shinji's lucky." He stared up into the sky. He remembered seeing a girl in Germany, a few months before Third Impact.

Flashback

Jason walked down a street in Berlin. He had been there a few times before so he sort of knew where he was going.

He walked down the sidewalk and turned the corner. As he was walking past several people he got a very warm and pleasant feeling. As he stopped and turned to search for the source of the feeling he saw a very beautiful redheaded and emerald eyed girl looking back at him. She looked like she was about 5'8".

She was the one radiating this warm feeling that Jason was having. He stared at her for a moment before noticing that she was staring back. He instantly blushed and smiled at her. She did the same. After that they both turned and went on the paths they were just on.

End Flashback

Neither of the two teens in his flashback knew that they would meet again in Tokyo 3.

As Jason was starting to drool a bit from his memory, Asuka saw this and was instantly disgusted. "Eww… I would never do anything like that for you!" She yelled at him.

This grabbed Shinji's attention and he was about to yell at Jason when Jason spoke up.

"I wasn't even thinking about that. I was remembering another red-headed chick I saw in Berlin." Jason immediately started to blush. 'OH SHIT!' He had just revealed a very big secret, to Asuka none the less.

Asuka gained a wicked smile as Shinji was about to say something, but was cut off when Asuka spoke up. 'God damn it, would they stop that!'

"So you have a crush on another red-headed girl from Germany, huh? What's her name?" Asuka asked.

Jason blushed a very bright red. "I don't know her name. I just saw her as we walked by each other."

"Oh, so you're a stalker?" Asuka was just playing around. She knew that there were a lot of beautiful girls walking around Berlin, heck she used to be one of them.

"NO, I'm not some low-down stalker! I just saw her as I walked by, that's all." Jason was still blushing, but he was also a little pissed off.

"Ok, ok… calm down. I was just playin'." 'I must have struck some sort of nerve or somethin'.' she thought to herself.

When they walked into the nearest store-which happened to be a sports equipment store- Jason's eyes lit up and he took off looking for something, leaving his new-found friends in the dust.

Jason looked around the shelves for a bit before he found what he was looking for: a pair of five wheel roller-blades. He looked for a pair that fit his big size thirteen feet.

Asuka and Shinji were completely caught off guard by Jason's blast off. They had barley stepped into the store before he took off. They never figured him for the sporty type.

"Hey guys, come here," Jason yelled.

Asuka and Shinji walked over to Jason slowly. They were still partially stunned. Jason just gave them a confused look. "What's wrong?" This shook both Asuka and Shinji from their stupors.

"Oh, nothing, just never figured you would be the sporty type." Shinji was the first to speak up.

"What's with the in-line skates?" Asuka was confused.

"I like to skate. I think its fun. Have either of you two gone skating?"

"No, not really. Is it hard?" Shinji was interested in trying this out.

"No, it's not hard. It just takes some practice. Asuka you ever gone skating?"

"Only once, when I was little. I fell a lot so I never did it again." Asuka remembered a time not too long after her mother's death.

Flashback

A chibi Asuka was wearing a pair of small quads (the skates with the wheels next to each other). She was trying to skate but just kept falling down. "I hate this! I don't ever want to do this again.!" The chibi Asuka took off the skates and threw them across the small front yard that she was near.

End Flashback

Asuka was brought back to the present when Jason talked to her 'baka'. "Hey Shinji, go pick out a pair and I'll buy it for you. If you want Asuka I can buy you a pair too."

"I don't want to spend your money Jason. I can buy it myself." Shinji was trying to be kind.

"Don't worry about it. I got plenty of money and you need every bit of Yen that you have to spend on Asuka. And I insist. It'll be fun."

"I'll try it if you're paying." Asuka walked over to the rack that held the skates forgetting the flashback. She looked through the rack as Jason pushed Shinji up to them too.

Shinji found a pair in a few minutes. They were a dark blue with white wheels. Asuka found a pair that were a bright red and had red wheels about the same time as Shinji.

"Is this what you guys want?" Both teens nodded. Jason picked up all three pairs and walked over to the check out area. After he bought all three pairs, he walked out of the store where the two other teens were waiting.

"Here you go." Jason handed the skates to their respective owners. Jason got his out and started to skate around the other two, while Asuka handed hers to Shinji. She spotted the nearest clothing store and she pointed it out to Shinji.

"There is where you are going to take me." she stated as they walked toward the store. Shinji followed with a slight sense of dismay.

"Hey Jason can you reach into my pocket and grab my phone?" Shinji motioned to his pocket.

"Sure, who do you want me to call?"

"Call Section 2. They can take these skates back to the apartment so I don't have to carry them around all day."

"Oh, ok." Jason grabbed Shinji's phone and started to dial. Then he noticed something. "Umm… what's the number?"

"Oh, it's set for the speed dial on number two."

"Okay…" Jason called up Section 2. "Hey I need you to send a man down here and pick up the skates that Shinji is carrying and take them back to the apartment. Ok… alright, thank you." A man in a black suit appeared behind the two boys and took the skates from Shinji's hands.

"Thank you, agent." Shinji bowed slightly to the man.

"You're welcome, pilot."

"Hey, can you take these too?" Jason took his off and handed them to the agent.

"Sure," the agent responded.

"Thanks," Jason bowed.

"You're welcome," he bowed back and left just as quickly as he appeared.

Both of the boys caught up to a slightly peeved Asuka. "Took you long enough. Now let's go."

She grabbed Shinji's arm and dragged him the rest of the way to the store. Jason ran up behind them and followed them inside.

When he got inside he found a pile of women's clothes. "Shinji are you under there?" 'Man, Asuka must've known what she wanted.'

All Jason got in response was a small mumble. He pulled off some off the clothes so Shinji's head shown. "Need something?"

"Yeah, are you ok under all these clothes?" Jason was almost worried for his new friend.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Is Asuka around?" Jason looked around.

"No, where did she go?" He continued to look around.

"I don't know. Help me out of this pile real quick, before she gets back." Jason started to pull clothes off of Shinji.

Shinji was uncovered in about two minutes. They got all the clothes organized so when Asuka returned she would be able to find what she wanted. They walked grabbed the clothes and walked to the women's changing rooms, and put all the clothes there. They walked to where they were and saw a furious Asuka standing there.

"Where the hell were you!" She was fuming.

"We were just putting your clothes over by the changing rooms Asuka. Don't be mad, please." Jason was trying to stop the red head from killing Shinji and himself.

"Yeah, what he said. If you have anymore clothes we would be happy to take them over there for you, love." Asuka's face was still red, but it wasn't from anger, it was from blushing, as she had calmed down. She walked up to them and handed Shinji something that Jason couldn't see. Shinji looked at what was in his hands and immediately blushed. Jason saw this and didn't want to know what was in his hand.

They all walked back to the changing rooms. "Jason, could you go over there?" Asuka was pointing toward the men's clothes.

"Why? Oh… ok… good luck Shinji." 'What in the world did Asuka put in Shinji's hand? Whatever it is I don't want to know,' he thought.

As Jason walked away Shinji turned to his lover. "Why did you put a pair of panties in my hand?" Shinji was confused. Being a guy he didn't have a clue what was going on.

"Since I couldn't get Jason to leave us for a while, I'm only going to give you a small show, ok?" Asuka blushed a little as she said this.

"What? You were actually going to do that! Wow… but aren't we too young for anything like that?" Shinji was blushing furiously.

"Well, we sleep together, don't we? I figure as long as you don't see me naked it's ok. Wouldn't you agree?" She said that last part in a very seductive voice.

"O...o...ok," was all Shinji could get out. After that they both walked back into the changing rooms with their hands intertwined in one another.

Back in the men's section; Jason was going through the men's clothes. He didn't bring too many clothes with him to Japan.

He looked around for some good pants. Most were too short for him, but he eventually found a couple pairs of long cargo pants he could wear. As he picked them up, he looked at the shirts. He found a couple he liked and went to the men's changing rooms. Jason tried on all the clothes and found they all fit quite nicely.

Jason walked out of the changing rooms, just to hear a small smack, like that of lips parting from a kiss. 'I leave those two alone for five minutes and they start making out. Damn I wish I had a girlfriend.' Jason thought as he took his clothes to the check out. He bought his clothes and, as he walked back to the changing rooms he heard more of the smacking he heard just a few moments ago.

"Hey, lovebirds it's time to go." Jason yelled so all the rooms could hear him.

"Who are you talking too, Jason?" Shinji was standing behind Jason holding about ten bags of clothes.

"Wait if you're here… who's in there?" Jason pointed toward the room where the kissing sound came from, just to see a furious brown haired girl. "Oh, shit. Sorry, sorry, I thought you were someone else." Jason was waving his hands in front of him.

"Ikari?" The boy that the girl was supposedly making out with stood up. He was a dark green haired boy who stood a little taller than Shinji.

"Toji? Is that you? Wait, then that's… oh no, Jason run!" Shinji had just yelled that when Jason was taking off.

The brown haired girl picked up a high-healed shoe and threw it as hard as she could at Jason. As heal of the shoe caught Jason in the back of the head, he was knocked out like a light.

"HIKARI! Oh, my god it's good to see you!" Asuka had just spotted her friend after she beamed Jason with the shoe. She ran up to her and gave the fuming girl a hug.

"Asuka? Shinji? What are you guys doing here?" Hikari had just noticed that the two pilots were standing near by when she whacked Jason.

"We're here shopping, duh. What just happened here?" Asuka hadn't seen Hikari throw the shoe. "And why is Jason on the floor?"

"Wait, you know this jerk? He just interrupted me and Toji…" She started to blush.

"You weren't making out with him in the changing rooms again were you?"

"Um… no… anyway how do you know this jerk?" Hikari pointed to Jason with a slight glare on her face. "I thought you were dating Shinji!"

"I wouldn't date Jason!" Asuka shivered. "He's the new pilot of Unit 04. His name is Jason Frost. He's from the States."

"Yeah and he knows a lot of martial arts and swordsmanship skills. I wouldn't want to be the one he gets mad at." Shinji added… bad idea.

Hikari froze when she heard this. She just knocked out a fighter. She was afraid he would get up and kill her.

"Ugh… what the hell hit me?" Jason was starting to come too.

"Eeeek!" Hikari ran behind Toji. Toji got into a fighting stance, ready to protect his girlfriend.

"Don't worry; I don't think Jason would hurt you Hikari. And even if he tried Asuka would take him down quick." Shinji was trying to calm Hikari down, and keep a fight from starting.

"Oww… my head…" Jason stood up holding his head for a second time that day. "What am I, everyone's personal punching bag?"

"I'm sorry… please don't hurt me…" Hikari was still afraid of Jason.

"Huh? Oh, don't worry. I think I disserve what I got." Hikari calmed down quite a bit. "I'm sorry about interrupting you."

"It's ok just don't let it happen again, ok? Anyway I'm Hikari, Hikari Horaki

"Sure, I'm Jason Frost." He stretched his hand out.

"Umm…" Hikari didn't know about American culture too well.

"Oh, sorry. It's habit. Uh… who are you?" Jason asked Toji.

"Oh, I'm Toji Suzahara. I was the pilot…" Jason cut in.

"…pilot of Unit 03. I know all about you, I just didn't have a picture or your name. Anyway, it's nice to meet you two." Jason was being very polite since he interrupted there make out session.

"It's nice to meet you too… I think…" Hikari didn't know how to respond since the first thing she did was hit him with a shoe.

"So, now that you guys know each other, let's get going." Asuka was a little irritated.

"Ok, where to next?" was Shinji's stupid question.

"Another clothes store, duh." All three guys fell down. Hikari was delighted.

"Let's go," Asuka and Hikari grabbed their respective boyfriends and walked off. Leaving Jason behind.

"Hey! Wait up!" Jason was getting up.

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A couple of hours later outside Hikari's place

"Oh, man… I hope I never have to take a girl shopping again..." Since he wasn't the boyfriend of either, he had to carry clothes from both girls. Luckily he was a strong guy.

"Man, I admire you." Toji was impressed that Jason could carry so much.

They all stopped at Hikari's place and dropped off her clothes. Toji was relieved of everything he was carrying.

"You, lucky bastards." Shinji wasn't too happy that Toji lost his load, and that Jason lost half of his load.

"Here, I'll take this, this, this, and that." Jason pulled off four of the ten bags that Shinji was carrying, replacing what he had laid down at Hikari's place.

"Thanks." The girls were off talking about something before they noticed that the guys had put Hikari's clothes down in Hikari's house.

"Hey, we got drop off my stuff now. Let's go." Asuka was in a really good mood since she went shopping and got to hang out with all her friends… and the fact that she got to put on a little show for Shinji didn't exactly count as a downfall…

"Here, Shinji give me this." Jason pulled off one more bag.

"You don't have to do that."

"You should be spending time with Asuka, not carrying her clothes. Ok?" Jason wanted to take as many bags as he could, strangely enough.

"Ok… thanks…" Shinji walked up next to Asuka and grabbed her left hand in his free right hand. She looked at him and smiled.

Toji and Hikari were holding hands walking with Shinji and Asuka. 'Man, I really need to get a girlfriend.' Jason was jealous of Shinji and Toji; they both looked genuinely happy with their girlfriends.

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ed Shinji'd to explain. next to each other). She was trying to skate but juWhen they reached the Katsuragi apartment Jason and Shinji walked into Asuka's room, deposited the clothes, and walked into the TV room. Toji and Hikari were sitting on the floor while Asuka was sitting on the couch.

Shinji sat down with Asuka, while Jason went into his room and got something. "Hey guys, I'm goin' up to the roof. I have some thing to do. Okay?" Jason was holding his sword at his side.

"Ok, what are you going to do?" Shinji looked from his sword to Jason.

"Just some exercises. Don't surprise me this time. This thing is dangerous." Jason held his head from remembering what happened that morning.

"Ok, just be careful." The Toji and Hikari were staring at Jason's sword.

Jason walked out of the apartment and went to the roof. He had his MP3 player with him so he could listen to some music while he calmed himself down. Jason was a little down from feeling alone. 'I have new friends, but I still feel like something is missing. What the hell is it?' He started up his player. It was on Hero, by Sevendust. He started his exercises.

"Why in the world does he have a sword!" Hikari almost yelled back in the apartment.

"He's been trained to fight with one. Supposedly he's excellent with it. That's one reason NERV wanted him." Shinji filled her and Toji in on the rest of the story, the parts after Jason's depression that is.

"Oh, so he's trained to fight in hand to hand and with a sword? Damn, now I really admire the guy. He could probably take you two out in an Eva battle." Toji had stepped over the line with that one little comment.

"Yeah fucking right! I bet I could wipe the ground with him with one hand behind my back!" Asuka's pride got the best of her.

"I doubt Jason could take me out either. I have a lot more experience in an Eva than he does, training or not." Shinji's pride had gotten a hold on him too.

"Ok, let's go up and watch him to see how good he is." Toji had to defend himself some how; he just couldn't let himself lose.

"Ok, let's." Asuka was going to see just how good this new pilot was. Hikari had no idea what it was like to pilot Eva so she just kept quite and followed.

As they quietly climbed the stairs to the roof, soft yelling could be heard. As they opened the door it creaked very loudly, so they stopped and opened it a little slower. When they each made it to the roof, Shinji and Asuka snuck up behind an air conditioner vent, while Toji and Hikari hid behind another one about twenty feet away

What they seen astounded them. Jason was swinging the sword as if it weighted as much as a feather. He combined kicks and punches with his sword attacks. It seemed he was a very acrobatic person.

Shinji had to commend Jason for his skills, he didn't know if either of them could actually beat him in battle. "Wow, he's really good. What do you think?"

Asuka glanced over to Toji and Hikari to see if they could hear her. 'They're too far away.' "I don't know if we could beat him. Look how serious he is." Asuka's confidence had dropped dramatically.

She was right about the serious expression though; Jason was focusing so much on his music and exercises that he didn't even hear them come up on to the roof.

Toji and Hikari were really surprised. It looked like Jason was a pro with a sword and with how much Jason carried earlier Toji admired him even more. Hikari was surprised a shoe could take down someone so combat ready.

Jason was just finishing when they came up. For his finale he ran forward, jumped into the air, flipped and came down with a vertical slash that would cut someone in half. When he landed he rolled forward and stabbed into the air.

'Whew, I feel better.' Jason thought as he finished up. He walked over and picked up his sheath and went back into the apartment complex. He never noticed the four pairs of eyes watching him. Each eye was at least three inches in diameter.

After he left all four teens stood up.

"Holy shit… Remind me to never piss him off." Shinji was still in awe at Jason's abilities.

"Yeah, I know what you mean. Man, he's awesome. I wish I could do that." Toji added.

Both girls were speechless. They didn't know what to think.

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Katsuragi apartment

"Where the hell is everybody? Oh, well. I'll just take this time to acquaint this entire building with Sevendust." Jason laughed as he pulled out his MP3 player and hooked it up to Misato's new stereo system.

Jason turned the music up high and sat down on the couch. He started to bang his head when the song Pieces by Sevendust came on. He could feel the bass course through his body. Misato apparently had a top of the line stereo system.

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Apartment complex roof

"What the…" Asuka said as she felt the rumble of Misato's stereo system.

The four teens could hear people cursing up and down as they walked back to Misato's crib. "WHAT THE FUCK!" came one response from the apartment three doors down from Misasto's.

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Misato's apartment

Jason was rockin' pretty loud as the other four teens walked in.

"Hey, turn that music down!" Shinji had to yell at the top of his lungs just to hear himself.

Jason looked at him and walked over to the stereo. As he turned it down, you could hear some loud knocks at the door. All five teens looked at the door. Jason walked up and opened the door to a middle aged man.

He had ear plugs in his ears and he had his hands there too. "If you don't turn that down soon, I'm calling the cops!" Obviously he couldn't hear that the music was turned down.

Jason motioned for the man to take out his ear plugs. "Hey I already turned it down. Sorry about the distractions." Jason walked back into his room picked up a piece of paper and wrote 'I'm sorry if I caused anyone any trouble. It will never happen again. I apologize, Jason Frost Pilot of Eva Unit 04.'

The man walked away after Jason went back into the apartment. Jason got some tape and taped the paper to the outside of the door. He walked back in to the living room to find Shinji and Asuka sitting on the couch, and Toji and Hikari sitting on the floor. Jason looked at them with a confused expression. "What are you guys doing?"

There was a board with a bottle (empty bear bottle that is) on it. They were spinning it around. Jason walked in as it was still spinning and sat down as it pointed at him. Shinji and the rest of the gang gave Jason a puzzled look. "You have never played Truth or Dare?" Jason shook his head.

"You have got to be kidding me! You lived in the U.S. and never played Truth or Dare?" Jason shook his head again. "Man you're sheltered." Toji said.

"I've never played Truth or Dare, but I know how though." The rest of the gang was relieved that they didn't have to explain the VERY simple rules to Jason.

"Well then, truth or dare?" Asuka had a very evil smile on.

"Umm… hmm… how about… dare." Jason decided.

"Ok, you have to go clean Misato's room." Everyone in the room (besides Jason and Asuka) gasped.

"What's wrong, what could be so bad?" He got up and walked back to Misato's room. "Holy shit! How many cans of beer does this woman go through in one day!" Everyone in the living room busted out laughing.

"Fine… damn it…" Jason was done about ten minutes later. He had five bags of beer cans alone!

"You guys owe me big time." Jason sat back down and spun the bottle quite fast.

The bottle stopped spinning and pointed toward Toji. Jason gained an evil smile. "Truth or Dare?" he said very slowly and evil-like.

"Dare me, sucka," was his brave response. Jason's smile spread from ear to ear.

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A dark place (can't find where the damn place is)

A shady person sits in the middle of room with candles and weird symbols all around. "I have what you want master. I have your challenge. All you have to do is attack. Now give me what I want." It seemed he said this into the empty space in front of him.

"Not until I have checked this challenge for my self." A very dark voice seemed to come from no where until a large image of a man with red skin, large horns coming from his forehead, black hair, and blood red eyes.

"Yes master, but when will you attack? I don't want to wait too before meeting my Sylvia again…" The shady man pleaded to his master.

"I will attack soon. And don't worry, I will give you what you want when I am done. But I must send my warriors first. That way I know what to expect from this challenge."

"Yes, master. I will wait for your arrival." The shady man bowed to the image before it disappeared.

"I will see you again soon, my Sylvia…" With that the room went completely black.

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Katsuragi Apartment

The game of Truth or Dare had turned into poker. The only thing different was that you were out when you were out of beer cans, not money.

The four Eva pilots shivered. They all got really cold feeling from the encounter the shady man had with his master.

"Man did it just get really cold in here or was that just me?" Jason shot out. All he had on was his pants. It was really hot in the living room.

"It wasn't just you, man." Toji just had on his pants like Jason.

"What was that all about? What, did we all feel very cold there for a moment?" Asuka was out.

"I didn't feel cold." Hikari was out too, and she was the only one not to feel cold, since her only connection to Eva was through her friends.

"Well I feel sorry for us. Man that was really cold. I got goose bumps." Shinji was also out. He was dressed similar to the other boys. He looked over at Asuka and was caught in an obvious stare. The two guys looked at Shinji with confused looks. They followed his gaze and immediately looked away, from fear of being pummeled by the German girl.

Asuka had two obvious bumps showing through her bra and shirt. As she took notice of Shinji staring, looked at what he was looking at, and started to blush instantly after noticing that her nipples were hard from the cold rush she had got. When she looked back up she also noticed that the other two boys looking away. Her embarrassment turned to anger in a mille-second and she grabbed the nearest thing to her: Hikari's high heeled shoe. She whipped it at Jason then grabbed the other one and whipped it at Toji. Both boys were knocked out instantly.

'Ok, that was expected, but how come both boys can be knocked out by a pair of shoes!' Hikari wasn't surprised at Asuka's actions, but she was surprised that Jason and Toji were both knocked out by her shoes, Jason especially.

"Ugh… not again…" Jason was holding his head again as he got up a couple of minutes later.

"Oww… what the fuck hit me?" Toji was holding his head too.

"That's what you get for looking at me, perverts!" Asuka was still mad.

"I'm sorry; I didn't know what Shinji was looking at. I don't have a perverted mind like a lot a guys do. I'm more worried about my training than girls at the moment!" Jason was starting to get pissed.

"Damn Jason, relax. Asuka always has out bursts like that." Shinji was trying to calm Jason down, but wasn't fairing to well.

"Whatever, I'm going out for a walk. Tell Section 2 for me." Jason got up, and stormed out the door, he didn't even grab his sword when he left.

The gang was speechless; no one stood up to Asuka like that, not even Shinji.

"Oh, fuck. He's here for two days and I already get him pissed at me… damn it. I'm sorry Shinji." Asuka was a little pissed at herself for pushing another person away.

"It's ok." Shinji said as he got up. "Toji, come on. We got to go find Jason." They both got dressed and ran out the door.

Hikari sat down next to Asuka. "You should have just yelled at them instead of throwing my shoes. The fact that you're mad at yourself is a sign that you're at least trying to change."

Asuka was relieved that Hikari could be so helpful. They continued to talk about this until the boys got back.

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Streets of Tokyo 3

"I shouldn't have blown up like that… damn it. I'm letting my anger get the best of me again!" Jason was still pissed, but not at Asuka anymore. He had become pissed at himself for letting his anger get the best of him. 'Damn it. I trained myself not to let my emotions get the better of me!'

He had some how got past Section 2 like Shinji and was now lost in Tokyo 3. "GOD DAMN IT ALL!"

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Some where else on the Streets of Tokyo 3

"Where the hell is he!" Shinji yelled into the air. Shinji and Toji were worried that Jason was lost. They even had Section 2 looking for him.

"I don't know. Where could he have gone to? Does he know where NERV is?"

"No, he doesn't."

"Damn."

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Somewhere ELSE on the Streets of Tokyo 3

Three men in long coats were walking down the street; everyone who walked by them moved off to the side to avoid the ominous looking men. They had been informed that the Fifth child was out and about… and lost for that matter. They had been ordered to find him and terminate him, and anyone else who got in their way.

The leader was in the middle. He was tall and had black hair. The other two were shorter and had brown hair, so they almost looked like twins. They continued to walk down the street until they heard some yelling. They noticed that the yelling was in English, not Japanese. As they looked for the source of the sound, they found a frustrated American young man who was lost in the city of Tokyo 3. He matched the description of the Fifth child perfectly.

Jason was really pissed now. He had been walked for what seemed like forever. He didn't recognize any thing around him. According to some of the clocks he had seen around him, it was almost 9:00 at night.

"Damn it. I should have at least picked up my cell phone." he fumed.

He then noticed three men in black long coats walking up to him with something in their hands.

"Who the fuck are you?" Jason was in no mood for a fight.

"I'm Eric, an assassin, and I'm here for your head." The man on the right took off toward Jason, revealing what was in his hand to be a knife, and thrust it at Jason.

Jason dodged the stab by jumping to the right of Eric. He then tried to run, but had to duck another attack from the other brown haired man. The leader still hadn't moved yet.

Jason back flipped away from his two attackers and tried to run to a better place to fight. He only got about three steps before being tripped by Eric. He had to roll to the right to keep from being stabbed by the other brown haired man. He kicked himself up and ducked to keep from being sliced open by one of the knives.

Jason took two steps back before going into his fighting stance. When Eric attacked, trying to stab Jason again, he was ready for him. He side stepped and brought his hand down on Eric's wrist, making him drop his weapon. He then brought his other hand up to Eric's shirt collar, grabbed it, pulled his head down while bringing up his knee. Eric's head snapped back as Jason's knee came into contact with it. Eric fell back to the ground dead-as-a-doornail as Jason waited for his other attacker to attack.

When his other attacker came at him, Jason rolled forward, picked up the knife that Eric dropped and used it to block the strike the other man was bringing down on him. After that Jason swiped his foot across the ground and tripped the other man. Jason then jumped on the other man and punched him very hard in the face, instantly knocking him out.

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About 200 yards away

"Hey there's a fight going on over here!" someone in the crowd of people on the streets yelled.

"Wait, Toji. Let's check this out. Jason might be involved." Shinji grabbed Toji's shoulder.

"Ok, but let's make it quick. If this isn't him then he'll be even more lost." Toji and Shinji started to run toward where the yell came from. They rounded the corner to see Jason knock out the second attacker.

"JASON!" Shinji yelled to get his attention. Bad idea. The leader lunged at Jason and planted a hard jump kick on his chest. Jason was knocked down and back hard. Jason used the momentum to roll back and get back up.

"DON'T TALK TO ME WHILE I'M FIGHTING!" Jason was back in his fighting stance, ready for the leader's next attack.

The leader tried another attack, but Jason blocked it and tried to use an uppercut to knock out the leader. The leader had just dodged that attack when Jason came in with a spin kick right into his chest, knocking him back about ten feet. Jason ran up to the man just to be kicked back when he kicked himself up.

As the leader drew out a sword from his discarded coat that lay on the ground next to him, Jason brought up the knife he had picked up from Eric. The leader came in with a vertical slash that Jason easily dodged; Jason got on the other side of the leader, brought the knife up, and stabbed the man in the back.

The leader let out a yell, but stifled it quickly, as Jason held the knife in and held the man in place. "You move and I'll kill you." Jason slowly walked the man toward Shinji and Toji. Both of the boys were completely stunned at Jason's performance.

"Call Section 2." Both boys just stood there, "NOW!" Shinji and Toji were brought out of their stupors to a very pissed off Jason. When Shinji quickly tried to pull out his cell phone, he ended up dropping it and fumbling with it on the ground. Toji brought out his phone and called up Section 2 without error.

"Yeah, get your asses here, now. We have three men who just attacked the pilot of Unit 04. Two are unconscious and one is being held with a knife in his back. Yeah, we're at the corner of 2nd and 8th street." Toji hung up the phone and looked at Jason, who still had the leader of the attackers. "Who the hell are these guys?"

"Don't ask me. I was just walking when they attacked me." 'Let's find out who you are.' "Who are you and who do you work for?" Jason had applied a little pressure to the knife in the back of the leader.

"I don't have to tell you. You can't kill me, you're just a kid." Jason's grip on the knife tightened.

"This knife is less than a half-inch from your heart, one twist and say good-bye to your life." The leader let out a small cry. "Now, who are you, and who do you work for?"

"Ok, ok." Jason let off a little pressure. "My name is… Chris Romonofski. I'm the leader of the assassins you just fought… Me and my team were… hired to kill the Eva pilots. We were hired by some group called… seal or something." He spit out some blood when he was done.

About two seconds later a black car pulled up. Two men in black uniforms got out. One walked over to the unconscious men and one walked up to the boys and the leader known as Chris. "Is this the leader?"

"Yeah… now take them away. Watch the wound in his back." Jason took the knife out of Chris's back. The leader let out a yell as Jason did so.

"Ok," was all the agent said as he took Chris and walked him to the car. The other agent got the other men into the car and the agent that talked to the boys put Chris in the car. They drove off thus leaving the boys all alone, again.

Jason noticed that both boys were staring at his arms, so he looked down to see that both were covered in blood. "Aww man. Damn it!" Just as he finished saying that another car pulled up. All the girls got out of this one.

"Are you guys ok? Are you hurt? What exactly happened?" Misato looked like an old woman. Her hair and makeup were in a mess, and she looked like she had been crying for a while.

"Everything is fine, Misato. Jason just kicked the asses of three assassins hired by some seal group." Toji was trying to calm Misato, but that had back fired when he said seal. She knew what that meant. The three girls walked up to the boys. The younger ones went to their respective boyfriends, while Misato stood about eight feet away from Jason. She noticed a drop of something fall to the ground, just before he turned.

As Jason turned around to walk away he collapsed onto the pavement. Everybody looked at Jason wondering why he fell. As they looked at him, all of their faces changed to that of horror when they saw his back. "Jason! You're hurt!" Shinji stated the obvious. Jason had a huge gash in his back. It went from his left shoulder blade to his right lower back.

"Oh… shi…t…" was all he could muster before he lost consciousness. Shinji and Asuka immediately ran over to Jason; Asuka checking his pulse as Shinji was checking to see if he was still breathing.

"We need to get him to the hospital, NOW! Toji help me get him to Misato's car." Shinji said taking command.

"Right," Toji said as he came over and bent down to grab Jason's legs. Shinji grabbed Jason under the shoulders and they picked him up. Misato was running to her car, with Hikari in tow.

"Get in the front seat and call the number on speed dial one." She said as both got into the car, and she passed Hikari her phone.

"Ok," Hikari was scared for Jason. Just as Asuka was opening the back left door, Toji and Shinji put him in. Asuka moved him to where he was sitting in the middle with him leaning forward, keeping his back exposed. Shinji got in and took the seat to the left of him as Asuka took the right. Toji squeezed tight in next to Shinji.

Misato took off going much faster than normal, but the kids were too worried about Jason to notice. After Shinji had taken Jason's shirt off, he used it as a make-shift bandage until the got to NERV. Asuka and Toji were both making sure that Jason stayed in the same position, which could be very hard with Misato's driving.

About two minutes later they pulled up to an emergency entrance to NERV's hospital wing where Toji and Shinji carried Jason in as quickly as possible.

"We need to take him to the examination room. Maya's waiting there." Hikari was about three steps ahead of them while Misato was guiding them to the examination room. When they got in there they saw Maya waiting.

They placed Jason face down on the examination table.

"What the hell happened?" Maya didn't like the look of Jason's back.

"Jason got into a fight and got injured. We need to stop the bleeding." Misato was almost yelling.

Maya turned to the comm. "Kinori, bring me up a batch of Sapphire Elixir, NOW!"

A young girl's voice came over the comm. "Yes, ma'am." About two seconds later, a young girl that looked like she was only twelve or thirteen years old brought in a metal cylinder that was about a foot long and three inches in diameter. "Here you go." The black haired young girl handed the cylinder to Maya.

"Thank you." Maya opened one end of the cylinder and poured a blue soup like liquid right onto Jason's gash. "Watch this." Maya looked at Jason with a small grin on.

Everyone in the room gasped as they watched Jason's wound heal right before their eyes. About 30 seconds later the wound was completely healed. All that was left was an eight inch scare; even the blue soupy stuff vanished.

"What was that stuff?" Asuka asked. Shinji and Asuka hadn't been keeping up with what was going on in NERV. All they knew was that Maya was the new science division director: Ritsuko's old position.

"That was Sapphire Elixir. It's a new type of LCL that I personally created. As you can probably see, it has extreme healing capabilities."

"Ok, now who are you?" Shinji turned to Kinori as he asked that.

Maya answered. "This is Kinori Kururugi. She's taking my old place at the bridge."

"Hi!" Kinori happily said. Everyone but Misato and Maya were speechless. 'How the hell did someone as younger than us pilots get a job on the bridge?' Toji, Asuka, and Shinji all thought the same thing.

"You're Asuka, right?" Kinori was facing Asuka, as she nodded. "Oh, I've wanted to meet you so bad!" Kinori was acting like a little girl. "I'm a big fan of your's."

"O… k…" Asuka was confused.

"And you're Shinji, right?" She looked at Shinji. He nodded. "You know, you're a lucky man. You got some of the best women kind has to offer over here: strong, smart, beautiful, and proud. You should be grateful." Everyone in the room almost fell over (except Jason, poor guy). Asuka was flattered. No one except Shinji ever complimented her like that.

Before anyone could say anything, Kinori turned to Toji and Hikari and continued her interrogation. "You must be Toji Suzahara." Toji nodded. (Man these people are like bobble head dolls!) "So you must be Hikari Horaki." Hikari nodded. "Does Toji have a nice…"

Kinori was cut off by Maya clearing her voice. "Ahem…"

"Ugh…" Jason stirred on the table. 'God damn it. Why am I the one with all the bad luck?'

"Looks like he's getting up." Misato stated the obvious.

"What the hell happened?" Jason was sitting up. (Not holding his head! It's a miracle!)

"You must have been hurt some how during your fight. There was an eight inch gash on your back. When we got there you were just knocking out the second guy, so you must've got cut before we got there." Toji quickly explained.

"Ok… that sucks… now where am I?" Jason looked around the room.

"You're in examination room, number four to be exact." Asuka piped in.

"Ok, I've finally been to NERV. Now… who are you, and you?" Jason turned to Maya and Kinori.

"Oh… you haven't been into NERV yet have you?" Maya inquired.

"No… this is my first time, and it hasn't been too pleasant." Jason was getting irritated.

"Ok… I'm Maya Ibuki, head of the science division of NERV." Maya introduced herself.

"And I'm Kinori Kururugi. I'm the new tech bunny on the bridge." She giggled a little after she said the name.

"I'm guessing you already know who I am." Jason wasn't in the mood for talking.

"Yep… you're Jason Frost. Pilot of Evangelion Unit 04; which will be here in two days."

"Ok…" 'That's not too strange that she knows who I am. Everyone here at NERV probably knows who I am, and what I look like. But, how in the world could she get into a NERV technician spot. She can't be over twelve or thirteen years old!' "Umm… when can I go home? I think I need some sleep." Jason was really tired from the day's events.

"Anytime, you're completely healed. All you may have is a tight back for the next couple of days." Maya was looking at a computer screen on the wall. "Shit… Kinori get back to the bridge and help them out. Misato I need you to stay here. Kids you can go home when you want."

"Ok… what's wrong?" Asuka wanted to know what was going on.

"Nothing really. Someone is trying to hack into the MAGI again. Talk to you kids later." Maya took off for the bridge with Misato and Kinori in tow.

While they were walking to the bridge Maya had something to say. "Man, that kid is built. Why do I have to be so old?" Maya got an excellent look a Jason's body and liked what she saw.

"I know what you mean. I feel like a college girl looking at a hot guy when I look at him. Damn, I'm way too old." Misato agreed with Maya.

"You know you two have a point. He is really hot. I wish I was about fourteen or fifteen, not thirteen years old. Damn…" Both of her superiors looked at her.

"You can't swear until you see your first battle. Understood young lady?" Maya was glaring at Kinori.

"Yes ma'am." They walked in silence the rest of the way.

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Streets of Tokyo 3 (it seems like a dark place now)

No one was on the street. It seemed like Tokyo 3 had become that of a ghost town. The kids had to walk home, since Misato had to help Maya with the MAGI hack. Being there also gave Misato the chance to bitch out Section 2 for not watching Jason properly, like when Shinji got by them. They didn't want to get yelled at so they were actually in the open, keeping an eye on the pilots.

"Hey, Jason. How's your back?" Both couples were holding hands, walking on either side of Jason. Shinji was the one to ask Jason the question.

"A little tight… but ok." Jason stretched trying to work the new muscle tissue. "What… all happened after I passed out?"

"Well… to make a short story even shorter, we put you in Misato's car, drove you to NERV, had Maya put the Sapphire Elixir on your back, and watched you heal. When you were done, Kinori introduced herself, and then you woke up. You know the rest." Shinji really did make a short story even shorter.

"Ok..." Jason was starting to shiver. 'Brrr… It's really cold out. Damn it. Fucking assassins had to rip my shirt.'

"Hey Shinji," Shinji turned to Toji.

"What's up?" Shinji raised an inquisitive eyebrow toward his friend.

"I got to get Hikari and myself home. It's getting late." Toji looked down at the girl by his side. 'Yeah, and some making out to catch up on.'

"Alright, talk to you later." Shinji waved good bye.

"See ya, and thanks for the help earlier." Jason put his hand out. Toji took it and they shook hands.

"Anytime man." They both let out a good chuckle.

Hikari walked over to Shinji and Asuka. "I guess I'll talk to you guys later." Asuka walked up and gave Hikari a hug.

"Bye, Hikari." Asuka let go of her friend and stepped back to her lover's side.

"See ya later Hikari." Shinji gave her a kind smile.

"Bye guys." She turned and walked over to Jason. "It was nice to meet you Jason."

"Yeah, same here. I just hope the next time we meet you're not wearing high heals." He gave a small chuckle and scratched the back of his head.

What happened next freaked out Jason and infuriated Toji. Hikari lunged forward and wrapped her hands around Jason's waist (she is pretty short compared to the American). "I'm so sorry for that Jason. Please forgive me!" She cried as she said this.

When she lunged forward Jason just froze. When she started to cry, he pried her off of him and pushed her toward the furious Toji. "It's ok, don't worry about it. Just forgive me for interrupting you." He finished pushing her up to Toji. "See ya." He took off and ran about 30 yards up the road.

"Toji relax. It's not his fault." Hikari was pleading for Toji to calm down. "Please!"

Toji looked at her face and relaxed a lot; her eyes always seem to calm him. "Ok… just don't let it happen again." He gave her a smile and they looked up to the other couple. "I guess we'll talk to you guys later."

"Bye," they said at the same time. Toji and Hikari walked off in the other direction holding hands.

Shinji and Asuka walked up to a shivering Jason. "How can you act like that?" Asuka was confused. "You can beat the shit out of an assassin, but you're scared of Toji and Hikari. What's up with tha…" She shut up when Shinji nudged her in the side. She shot a glare at him to see that he was giving her a glare as well. She then realized her mistake. "Sorry, I didn't mean that." She hung her head low in regret. She still had some of the old Asuka in her.

"Don't worry about it. My parents asked me that too. I guess it's just when my life is in danger I become a different person. When I'm around my friends, I guess I'm a normal person like Toji or Hikari." Jason had pondered this before.

"Like me in an Eva." Shinji thought about his fighting experiences.

"You know, I can see a resemblance there. Fighting seems to bring something out in a guy. Is it the same with me?" Asuka made the comparison.

"Yeah… it is. I remember that almost every battle that we were in together you fought like you were a professional." Shinji remembered his battles with Asuka.

"Th-that's all and f-fi-fine and all b-but c-can we ge-get home already? I'm fli-fli-flipping freezing." Jason was shivering in his shoes.

"Hey, we're here." Jason had said that right in front of the apartment complex they live in.

"YAY!" Jason took off and ran up the stairs to the apartment quicker than jack rabbit. He was inside even before the other two took five steps toward the elevator.

In the elevator Shinji and Asuka talked. "It's starting again isn't it?" Asuka was leaning her head on Shinji's shoulder. She also looked sad.

"You feel it too, huh?" Shinji turned his head to look at his girlfriend. She nodded. "I can't tell what it is, but I feel that we will be piloting Eva again soon. I also think that we are going to need Jason's help."

"I know what you mean. Do you think this is coincidence or is this set up like last time?" Asuka looked at Shinji.

Shinji turned and hugged Asuka. She hugged back and held back some small tears when memories of pre-Third Impact and Third Impact came back. They both calmed down after a moment.

Just then they reached their floor of the apartment complex. They walked up to their apartment door to find that the paper Jason had taped on the door had something written on it in English.

They walked into the apartment to find that Jason was in the living room with a sweater and two blankets on him. The both held back laughs when they noticed the beanie on his head. "Hey Jason, what did that paper say on the door? I think it was written in English." Asuka walked into the living room and sat down on the couch. Shinji came in with two drinks. He handed one to Asuka and sat down with her. You could here the squeak of the spring, signifying that Misato needed a new one.

"Yeah, what did that say?" Shinji was curious. He was still bobbing up and down a little bit from sitting down.

"Fuck you," Jason almost spat out.

Both Shinji and Asuka glared at Jason. 'Oh shit.' "I'm serious, that's what it said." He was waving his hands in front of him. He saw the same ferocity in their eyes that he saw last night.

"That better be what it says." Asuka looked at the ceiling. Just then Misato walked in looking a lot better than she did earlier.

Jason looked at her and then other two pilots and whispered to them. "Something looks different about Misato. I just can't put my finger on it." The other two nodded. They all looked at Misato as she took off her shoes.

She was facing toward them and bent over to take off her shoes. Both boys instantly knew what looked different and turned around and stared at the wall. "What? Am I in my underwear again?" Misato watched the two boys turn and sit. Asuka looked at them and saw both of them blushing a very bright red. Asuka looked at Misato again and noticed what looked different.

"Misato… can you come here please?" Asuka had a suspiciously calm voice.

When Misato walked up the pilots she found out why. "Yeah, what's up."

"WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT WEARING A BRA!" Both boys covered their ears just before she yelled. Misato stumbled back. By some way during the day she had taken her bra off and forgot to put it back on. "Just what the hell do you do at NERV!"

"Umm…" Misato ran to her room and locked the door, leaving a fuming Asuka and two very scared boys.

"Oooooh… Shinnnji…" Asuka sang.

"Yes Asuka, the most beautiful and most wonderful person in the entire universe, what do you need?" Shinji laid it on a little thick, obviously trying to stay out of trouble.

"I want my back rub tonight ok?" Asuka was starting to feel tired and the back rub would get rid of the day's stress.

"Ok! I mean ok." Shinji loved to give Asuka back rubs, and she knew it.

"I guess I'll give you two some alone time. Sorry to say this, but try to keep it quiet. I hear that some girls moan quite loud when they get back rubs." Jason tried to back up his request with facts barely escaping with his life.

"Ok… yeah, good idea. Guten nacht Jason." Asuka was eyeing him very suspiciously.

"Ok, but can I talk to you for a minute?" Shinji was getting up from his position on the couch.

"Sure, what ya need?" Shinji lead Jason into his room.

"I noticed something while you fought. You could have killed those men, couldn't you?" Shinji had a serious look on.

"Yeah, I could have. But I was trained to immobilize first, then kill if needed. Why are you asking me this?" Jason was confused at the question.

"Oh, I was just wondering. Good night." Shinji walked out of the room leaving a confused Jason behind.

"What was that all about? Whatever, time for bed." Jason undressed and went to bed. He was asleep in a matter of moments.

In Asuka and Shinji's room a soft moaning could be heard.

"Ohh, Shinji… this feels so… good." Asuka was enjoying her back rub.

"Whatever you say Asuka." Shinji was enjoying it almost as much as Asuka was. 'Here she is, without a shirt on and I'm rubbing her bare back. It's almost a dream come true.' While Shinji was thinking he didn't notice that he stopped.

"Hey, why did you stop?" Asuka looked behind her and noticed Shinji was in deep thought. Unconsciously she rolled over and looked Shinji in the eyes. "What's wrong?" She cocked her head to one side to show her confusion.

Shinji's eyes instantly went wide and his face turned a deep shade of blood red. "A-a-a-Asuka, wh-wh-what are you doing!"

"What?" She then followed Shinji's gaze. She turned the same shade as Shinji when she noticed that she was showing herself to Shinji. Neither of them moved for a moment, giving Shinji enough time to commit the picture in front of him to memory. "Wow…" was all he could get out.

Shinji brought his eyes up Asuka's body to look into her eyes. When he looked into those sapphire orbs he could tell that she was completely ok with him looking at her, it even looked as if she wanted him to go further than to just look. He realized that this would be the first step toward a mature relationship with Asuka. He didn't know what to think. His teenage mind was screaming 'Go for it, go for it!' while the more mature side said 'You aren't ready yet.' With the indecision in his mind he decided to take the way that seemed to have the least regrets. "A-a-a-Asuka, w-w-why don't y-y-you go get a-a-a shirt on s-s-so we can get ready for… bed, ok?" He was still a dark scarlet.

As Shinji was thinking Asuka was too. 'Mine gott. What should I do? Should I smack him for looking at me? I don't feel like this is wrong though. I know it is, but this just feels so right. What should I do? Should I allow him to take the next step? Should I let him touch me? Should I let him feel me? I just don't know…' Just then Shinji spoke up and told her to get a shirt on and get ready for bed. 'Why do I feel let down?' she thought as she got up to get a shirt from her closet.

When she had a long shirt on, she laid back down next to Shinji. They had both calmed down a bit. "Let's not talk about what just happened."

"Sure, let's keep this to ourselves, ok?" Shinji was going to say the same thing to Asuka.

"Ok, good night Shinji… I love you."

"Good night Asuka, I love you too."

Both were asleep in about two minutes, basking in the heat that they now shared.

A/N: Ok second chapter done. What do ya think? Please Review. Keep it frosty people.