Evangelion Rewrite Chapter 6 The Girl and The Past
Shinji rose from his futon and immediately fell back on the floor, his spine felt like a massive, painful, weight on his back and any attempt to rise sent him face first into the floor. In the end, he ended up crawling into the living room and had to pull himself up onto a chair; which sent pain shooting down his back. "What's all of this noise?" Misato asked, waking up from sleep herself. She saw Shinji clenching his teeth and fists as the pain spasmed in his back and smiled mischievously. "I'll consider that your punishment for running off like you did." Misato sat down the chair opposite Shinji, seeing as how Shinji was already in pain, now would be the perfect to interrogate him, she thought.
"So, what did you during those five days where you ran off?"
Shinji, put his clenched fists gently onto the table, turned to Misato and tried to smile. But with his teeth being gritted together so hard, he only served in looking like he was going to have a psychotic breakdown.
"I left because I didn't want to work with Nerv any longer, but then I had a epiphany so I quickly hitchhiked a ride from a truck driver and he took me all the way to Kyoto where upon I got a train to Tokyo-3. The long truck ride, is why my spine is killing me right now."
After finishing his statement, Misato eyed him carefully. "Bullshit." She said and Shinji nodded, causing him to wince, "sometimes life can be pretty bullshit." He declared. Misato laughed, "you know, that statement isn't half wrong." She laughed again and slapped Shinji on the back, causing him to cry out in pain. Misato stopped laughing and said to Shinji, "oh, by the way, I'm going to check up on Nerv's research on the fourth angel. Are you coming?" Shinji shook his head very slowly. "Well you get some rest then." She said and with that she left.
The biggest surprise that Shinji had that day had to be Touji apologizing to Shinji. Shinji brushed off the apology and gave a half-hearted one of his own, but Touji didn't stop there and soon he reintroduced himself and his friend, who's name was Kensuke, and for some reason the two of them just wanted Shinji to be a friend to them. Shinji tried to ignore them, but their persistence made him give in, in the end. Shinji was looking over his new 'friends' in P.E class. They seemed happy and cheerful, compared to how they were earlier. So, Shinji not participating in the actual P.E class, closed his eyes for a small power nap, but was soon woken up by girls shouting.
"Hey, the boys are perving on us." He heard them yell. He looked up at the school rooftop swimming pool in order to shout 'shut up' at them. But then he saw the blue haired girl. She looked better than the last time he saw her, but he noticed something completely obvious. She wasn't part of the group at all. In a group of school girls, this blue haired one didn't fit in, the only explanation for this would be if she purposely alienated herself from everybody. Meaning that people had tried to be friends with her before, but she just ignored them. Which would make sense judging by what Shinji knew of her. "Hey, you're looking at Ayanami pretty intently aren't you, big shot?" Shinji looked back at the other boys in gym class and saw that it was Touji who had asked this question. Shinji delved deep into his own thoughts, but it wasn't long before Kensuke joined in on the one-sided conversation and was praising "Ayanami's" sexuality with Touji. "-Ayanami's thighs, Ayanami's ca-"
"She's dead on the inside." Shinji told them. Touji and Kensuke suddenly stopped praising and stared at Shinji. "Huh?" They sounded together. Shinji sighed and said
"Listen, she's emotionless and does what people say without questioning her. She's perfect for being cannon fodder at Nerv." Touji straightened up and suddenly pulled a serious face. "How can you tell?" He asked Shinji.
Shinji made a fist and gripped it with his other hand to try and stop himself from shaking. He breathed in deeply and finally said "I've seen her type before and trust me. No good ever comes from anybody like her." Touji took this onboard and nodded in an almost sage-like manner.
Shinji rested inside his Eva. But the sound of people's voice blurring on in the background kept him awake. He sighed and began to look around, through his Eva's cameras, and saw the Ayanami girl getting out of her Eva, before being greeted by Shinji's own father. The presence of his father always sent Shinji into a violent burst of anger. But this time he stayed cool, he was too busy analyzing the situation. When he saw his father smiling at her he nodded to himself, 'I knew that keeping away from her was the right thing and now I defiantly have proof as to why. Nothing good ever comes my father or emotionless cannon fodder like her.' Shinji quickly took things into consideration. 'If she has a strong connection with my father, then I may have to kill her as well, if she ever intends to get in my way.'
Shinji stood in Misato's kitchen, cooking an instant curry and holding one hand to block off Misato. "Hey now, I should be cooking; seeing as how I'm your guardian." Shinji kept his ground and sternly told Misato,
"it's because you're my guardian that I'm not letting you cook, how do you think it will go down with Ritsuko if she finds out that you poisoned me?" Misato thought about this question for a while, making the answer seem more complex than it actually was. Then she finally said "I'm sure my cooking isn't that-"
"It is!" Shinji exclaimed, cutting Misato off. So she angrily got out some instant ramen and started to prepare it next to Shinji.
Eventually, Ritsuko did arrive and made her way over to the table where Misato was sitting. Shinji spent a few more minutes trying to think of what to add to make the instant curry seem... less instant and in the end, he decided to pour some beer into it. "Hey now, don't keep us waiting." Misato said. Provoking Shinji into shouting.
"If it was up to me I wouldn't be feeding you two at all. I'm only doing this as an apology for running off." Before long, Shinji came to the table with the curry and started to serve it. Misato smiled as he poured curry into her instant ramen, which made Shinji cringe with fear as the slopping sounds echoed throughout the room. Finally, the food was ready for eating and Shinji decided to test out his food. It wasn't bad, but the beer seemed like the main ingredient in the curry. "You're getting better at cooking Misato." Ritsuko said with a slight smile, obviously relieved by something. "Shinji cooked it." Misato said without looking up from her food. Ritsuko rested her palm against her hand and sighed, after that she decided to follow suit and started eating again. But after awhile she suddenly looked up again. "Shinji?" She asked. Shinji nodded to show that he was listening. "Shinji, can you do me a favour?"
"No." Shinji said immediately. Misato gave him a stern look, which impressed Shinji who had thought her to be completely out of the picture by now, considering the amount of beer cans on her side of the table. "Fine, what is it?" He asked.
"I need you to deliver Rei Ayanami's security card to her." She told him politely. Shinji looked down at the picture of Ayanami on the card that Ritsuko was holding out for him and said "now it's definitely a no." The two women looked at each other, not quite sure what to make of Shinji's fierce reaction. Misato chuckled and asked "what's the matter Shinji? You afraid of her or something?"
"I don't trust her and I don't want anything to do with her." He told them both.
"Hey Shinji, quit being a brat about it." Misato said as if she sobered up and had immediately gone into responsible adult mode. "She will be risking her life with you. I think you owe her that at least." Silence filled the room as everybody waited for Shinji's answer. Shinji racked his brains for a while to go out of the situation at hand, but couldn't find anything. So he took the card out of Ritsuko's hand and left the apartment, leaving his food half finished.
'Idiot, she's going to be my enemy one day. There's tempting fate and then there's asking god to smite you.' Shinji angrily assaulted his own ego and cursed himself for being such an idiot. He had long since faded into a crowd in the street and left it again as he turned down some dingy streets. Along the way, he had used some changed that he had been carrying to call Misato and ask her where Ayanami lived. Misato laughed at him for putting himself into such a helpless situation until Ritsuko came on the phone and gave Shinji directions.
"I thought you didn't want to have anything to do with the Ayanami girl." Shinji heard his own voice speak to him and turned to find where it had come from. He then saw his reflection in a broken window. His reflection stared at him, not quite angry, not quite disgusted. But equally both. "You know what kind of person she is, you know what kind of a relationship she has with father, so why would you approach her?" The reflection said to Shinji. Shinji said nothing and started to walk away. "You can run, but you can never escape yourself Shinji. You must know this by now." Shinji ignored the shouting voice and turned a corner. "You ran away from people like Rei, after completely fucking them over. So what could have possessed you to agree to go to this person?" Shinji started to lose his temper and grinded his palm against the wall as he walked to try and blank out the voice. "Is it because you like being a dog?" The voiced asked, this time from an empty bottle of booze. Shinji growled and stomped on the glass bottle over and over again until it was just fragmented pieces. He then left again, but the voice didn't stop there. "For five years you were their dog and after running off, you threw away your hard earned freedom and became somebody else's dog and the most sickening thing of all is that your new master, the one who owns you like a dog, is your own father. The man you swore to kill is the man who you let wrap another leash around your neck!"
"Shut up and die already!" Shinji screamed at a dingy shop window.
"If you want me to die, then you're going to have to die with me!" The reflection of Shinji yelled and it's hands tore away from the window and wrapped themselves around Shinji's throat. Shinji violently swung at his own clone. But his hands couldn't touch it, no matter how far he reached. His mind went dark as the pain in his throat started to bleed into other parts of his body. "Hey, what the hell are you doing outside my shop you creep!" Someone yelled at Shinji and caused reality to come crashing down on him. As his eyes started to see light again, he saw his own hands wrapped around his throat. He let go and dropped to the floor coughing. The shopkeeper ran up to Shinji and kicked him in the side. Shinji got up, quickly spun around and madly stared threateningly into the shopkeeper's eyes, causing him to run back inside and lock the shop door behind him. Shinji turned around and saw the block of apartments in front of him. So he entered and made his way towards Rei Ayanami.