Evangelion Rewrite: Chapter 18 Adolescence
After returning home, Shinji found himself compelled to eat, devour and gormandise all food on sight. The long day had kept him away from food and coming home had brought his hunger back, akin to a prisoner of war released from a concentration camp. In no time at all, Shinji soon found himself eating straight out of the fridge. Emptying out the contents of the fridge in barely any time and moving onto the fruit bowl and then whatever he could scavenge in the cupboards.
Eventually, Asuka came home to Shinji sitting on top of the table, eating radishes and breakfast cereal. "Ha! I didn't know that eating like a pig was in your limited bag of skills." Asuka said with arrogance and contempt.
"Apparently, it is." Shinji spoke softly. Allowing himself a small break, before wolfing down a radish. "My, my, you haven't even got an excuse for this kind of behaviour." Asuka let the scorn shine through on her voice. But this quickly elevated to anger when she opened the empty. "Shinji!" She cried. "You're such a pig that you've gone and eaten everything! What am I supposed to have?" Shinji finished off the breakfast cereal before speaking. "Misato's beer? I didn't touch any of that." Asuka looked ready to pull her out. But she must have thought better off it, because she suddenly yelled. "Shinji you're a stupid brat!" Then stormed off, presumably back to her room. Shinji ate the last radish and got up, a quick survey of the kitchen showed that beer truly was the only consumable item left. At least until PenPen showed up. Standing just a little bit in front of Shinji. The hungry eva pilot stared down at the little penguin and whispered "boiled penguin" and reached down for the creature, causing it to slowly back away until a sharp smack of a hand shook Shinji out of his delirious state. "Shinji~" The voice of Misato growled. "If you're not causing trouble in some shape or form then it's safe to assume that the devil's taken a day off."
Shinji turned round to see Misato scowling down at him. But her face reflected dismay when she saw him wearing the bomb collar. Shinji followed her eyesight down to his new collar and gave a weak smile in response. " Don't worry. Honestly, I'm the idiot for thinking that I could get away with putting Rei out of action the night of the fifth angel." Shinji spoke with soft reassurance in his voice and Misato noted it as the first time he had done so, so she eased up slightly. "Just follow every command from now on Shinji. If you don't like it, deal with it. At least that way, you might be able to stay out of trouble and not get hurt." Despite these words having come from Misato, Shinji had no intention of keeping his nose clean. But lying low was defiantly a must, until he found himself in a better position, so he nodded silently. Misato breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that this flagged a change for Shinji. But, as Misato made her way towards the fridge, Shinji snook off back to his room.
"Chalk it up to teenage cravings." Shinji stated plainly. But Misato wasn't amused. Even after he had eaten everything in the fridge, every day since Shinji kept insisting that he was hungry. Misato found herself getting tired of it and unlike the fridge, her bank account couldn't be refilled so easily. "Okay fine. This is something that I should have expected when I took you in. But just try, it shouldn't be to hard, but try and cut down on what you're eating. You may be a bottomless stomach, but my pay check isn't blank." Shinji nodded and got up, announcing that he was going for a bath, taking PenPen with him on the way.
Shinji lay in the bath, soaking up the warmth and letting his worriment float away. He knew that his complications still lie in wait, just outside of the bathroom. Nerv's dog collar, that Shinji had left in the corner of the room, was evidence enough of that. But for these few short moments, Shinji really believed that it was just himself and PenPen, lying in a hot bath, that was suspended in mid-air. Unfortunately for Shinji, the voice of Asuka started yelling and reality bit him on the heel. Looking over at PenPen, he saw the normally docile creature begin to look a little agitated, which felt like the deciding factor on whether or not it was possible to sink back into the bath. But Asuka's loud shouting and screeching kept PenPen agitated, so he decided to jump out of the bath and investigate.
Shinji entered the moment that Asuka slammed her hands down onto the table with the fury of a women's scorn wailing to Misato. "Well why not!?" Who, in turn, took a swig of beer. "Excuse me." Shinji said quietly. Asuka spurn on him, only to turn bright red, Misato didn't so much as turn her head and instead scolds Shinji, saying "I would prefer it, if you didn't handle my pet in such a manner." Shinji stood completely, with PenPen struggling for dear life as Shinji used the poor animal as a guard to hide his genitals. "Asuka." Shinji stated calmly, before continuing with "your banshee voice is disturbing PenPen." Asuka growled and started banging her hands against the table. "If there's any reason as to why he's agitated, it's you Shinji!"
Misato calmly got herself another beer as the argument continued. "So what's the excuse for you opening your mouth this time?" Shinji asked dryly, despite PenPen's desperate struggle to escape. "Luckily, the subject matter at hand is easy even for you to understand Shinji. Misato's not allowing us to go to Okinawa!" Shinji nodded sagely as he listened to Asuka's moans and rants. After Asuka finally became silent, Shinji said "Okinawa's an island, right?"
"Of course it is, have you not been listening in class?"
"Nope." Shinji replied to Asuka. Letting go of PenPen, though still holding him in place with one hand, in order to scratch behind the ear.
"Well then, I guess that explains these school reports." Misato said in cheerful, but soul piercing tone and held up three flash drives. "I guess this means we won't be going to an island?" Shinji asked Misato.
"No, you're both going to be on standby."
"On an island?" Shinji asked.
"In Tokyo-3" Misato replied.
"Which will be near an island."
"But you won't be going."
"Then we'll be going to a island simulation park instead?" asked Shinji, continuing the onslaught of questions.
"For god's sake Shinji." Misato said, finally getting annoyed, "the most you and Asuka will be doing will be using the swimming pool at the Nerv fitness centre.
Droplets of water spat at Shinji, after Rei dived into the swimming pool, irritating Shinji enough to make him slump his head down, in defeat, against a laptop he was using. "Hmm, what have you got there Shinji?" The voice of Asuka asked.
"Lesbian porn." Shinji sleepily replied.
"What!?" Asuka took the laptop from Shinji, before crying out "You liar! This is just basic psychics!"
"Can never be too hopeful." Shinji replied. Finally lifting his head up, he rubbed the sand out of his eyes, only to have them readjust to the sight of Asuka in a red and white stripped two piece swim-suit; which put an impressive amount of emphasis on her bust, underlined her sensational curves and featured a tantalizing zipper on the upper piece, allowing for the imagination to wander, despite the design of the swimsuit having not left much to imagination at all.
"Well~, if I can't go diving in Okinawa. Let's do it here." Asuka voice seemed keen for a change, instead of just blatantly enthusiastic. But this wasn't what had caused Shinji to become so silent, the reason for Shinji's silence dangled just below the centre of Asuka's bust, begging to be zipped down. "Hmm, er what? I'm sorry what?" Shinji muttered absentmindedly, staring at Asuka, until common sense sort out dominance in Shinji's mind. "Diving of course" Asuka kept her upbeat tone as she said this and leaned in to scroll down through Shinji's work, allowing Shinji to have a better look at her young, but ripened and ready for action pair of breasts. The zipper was so close to Shinji's face that he could almost feel himself going in to bite it with his teeth. "Let's see" Asuka said, waking Shinji back up from his land of daydreams, which had been slowly filling up with vices. "You can't solve an easy problem like this?" Asuka asked. Joyfully trying to put Shinji beneath her. "There, all done." She finished with after completing an answer.. "Huh, oh, you did a question. Sorry, I was miles away."
"Oh?" Asuka questioned Shinji. "Well what you thinking of, Shinji?"
"The colours of the Japanese flag." Shinji replied rapidly, hoping that this would be a passable excuse. "Well isn't that a weird thought, although, it's fitting for a child like you to be thinking of boys toys." Asuka stretched her back as she said this and Shinji's body almost followed. Waking himself up, Shinji asked "hey, what about this question about thermal expansion?"
"That's kid's stuff, but to put it into terms that even you'd understand, when things get hot they expand and when things get cold they contract." Shinji nodded at Asuka's answer, but didn't type anything down. So she continued, "look, if I were to warm up my breasts, with my hands, do you think they'd grew bigger or smaller?"
"In science terms?" Shinji asked.
"Go on." Asuka replied, egging him on.
"I figure they'd have a reaction parallel to MY sexual organ." Said Shinji clearly amused as he typed his answer down on the laptop. Asuka, however, wasn't as amused as he was.
"Hmph, so boring, you're just like any other boy." After saying this, Asuka turned her back on Shinji and walked away. 'She thinks she's looking down on me? She's the one whose trying to play adult.' Thought to himself. But a splash brought him out of the depths of his mind, causing him to up to look up at Rei, who had been making the noise as she got out of the pool. But he was again distracted, this time by Asuka calling out. "Hey Shinji, lookie, lookie." Shinji looked across to see Asuka in diving gear. She continued to shout out to him, but Shinji wandered back to his own thoughts. 'Doesn't she realise that acting like a six-year old girl contradicts her act of being a eighteen year old girl...' Something occurred to Shinji as he connected the two behaviours. 'Maybe she just wants my attention and can't make her mind up. Maybe Maya looks at me the same way.' As Asuka swam past, Shinji came to his conclusion. 'Okay, I'll try to be a little more friendly to Asuka from now on. At least until this third impact stuff is far behind us.' Standing up, Shinji saw Asuka swimming close to where he had been sitting and decided to jump into the pool, still wearing his clothes, yelling "Second Impact!" Earning a full berating from the German vixen.