Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction ❯ Evangelion: Tribulations After ❯ Welcome Home ( Chapter 10 )

"Come on Misato, we need to talk!" Tzadkiel says.

Tzadkiel had just walked into Misato's office, facing the guards that had usually hung around her door. After he knocked them unconscious with a simple command to their minds, he had walked right in; walking in to see Misato's chair turned around. He walked up to the desk, reached over with his hand and turned the chair around. Misato was not in the chair.

"Misato, I'm really not in the mood for games right now!" he shouted.

"Neither am I."

Tzadkiel didn't even see the electrical net that dropped from the ceiling onto him, it just hit him unexpectedly and he had collapsed onto the ground. The electricity flashed on immediately, sending over 4,000 watts into the Second Angel. It hurt for only a moment, but his arm suddenly fashioned into an energy tentacle, and he sliced through the net and lept out.

"I don't appreciate almost being captured, Katsuragi. Especially by such primitive technology."

"Deal with it, I wanted to get your attention, and it seemed the best way to get it." Misato replied, walking out from behind a hidden wall.

"You have my attention. Now, what is it that you have to talk to me about that involves using such... Interesting techniques." Asked Tzadkiel, who referred to the net.

Misato looked out the nearby window. "I look around me, and I see happy faces. Asuka and Shinji have been dating for months, Toji's asked that girl from his school out, Rei's even started to consider asking Shigeru out. I feel like I'm the only person in the world who's without someone to love!"

"Sorry babe, but Angels aren't allowed to date ordinary humans. I know it's a shame, but people don't receive Divine Justice just anytime."

"I'm not talking about you, you idiot!"

Misato walked over to Tzadkiel and grabbed onto him by the collar. She was obviously enraged. "You're an Angel, right?"

"Well, yes."

"You talk to OTHER Angels, right?"

"Yeah."

"That means you talk to dead people, right?"

"What are you getting at?"

"I want to see Kaji. I want you to talk to him, I want you to bring him down here, I want him to see me."

"But-"

"No buts, JUST DO WHAT I SAY!"

"Misato, I'd like to help you-"

"THEN GET ME KAJI!"

Tzadkiel shoved Misato away from him. "Misato, it's sort of hard to get in contact with an Angel when they're not an Angel!"

"Oh, don't tell me he got sent to Hell!"

"No, I mean how can I talk to a dead person when they're not dead?!"

Misato blinked. "Excuse me?"

"Kaji is not dead. I came here today to tell you that he is right outside, and he'd like to talk to you."

"He's... Alive?" Misato asked, still not believing what Tzadkiel was telling her.

"Yes, he still talks about you. In fact, Hey Kaji, you can come in now!"

The door opened, and low and behold, Kaji walked in. He still had the stubble of a beard; he was smiling the same smile. He had practically the same looking clothes he had been wearing when anyone had last seen him alive. Misato gaped as her eyes went wide with surprise.

"Well, you two love birds have a lot to talk about. I'll be off." Tzadkiel says, floating up through the ceiling.

Kaji and Misato just stared at each other for about twenty seconds until finally Kaji held out his arms and said, "Give me a kiss."

Misato promptly punched him in the jaw.

In the place above the Earth, a place beyond the comprehension of mortal beings, Tzadkiel floated up. To most human beings the only term that could be used to describe it would be "Heaven."

And inside this glorious place of good souls and Angels, there was a washroom. Kaoru Nagisa placed his hands over the large, gold, oval-shaped bowl and sighed. He then heard footsteps behind him, and he turned around. Tzadkiel was walking towards him, smiling.

"Hey, Tabris man!" he said, holding his hand up.

Kaoru returned the gesture, and made a high five with Tzadkiel. "Hey, Tzadkiel."

"What are you doing here, dude? You never come to the washrooms." Tzadkiel asks, putting his hands over the bowl, and sighing as well.

"Well, ever since I heard about them finding that Celestial spring on that planet called Cephiros, I had to try it. The stimuli are incredible! I've never felt these kinds of emissions before." Kaoru replied.

"Yeah, you should come here more often. This is the place where someone can relax, feel total peace of mind and soul, it's great. Especially when dealing with those mortals, Tabris." Tzadkiel says.

"How are they, anyway? I haven't really checked up much on them ever since Shinji killed me."

"Ah, they're trying to date anyone they can find. I had to pull that "Angels can't date" line on Misato. Luckily, Kaji came by to save the day."

"Now we just need to know if they're having sex on Misato's desk or killing each other."

"Either way would be typical of them. Speaking of Angels and relationships, are the rumors I've been hearing about Tyrael true?"

"About him dating a mortal girl? Yep."

"No way!"

"Yes way."

"This is the same Tyrael we are talking about, all work and no play Tyrael?"

"Yep. He's had a change of heart about relationships. I even heard some wedding bells coming soon."

"Man, everybody's getting laid these days. Maybe I should try to appear in a vision in one of Maya's dreams…"

Kaoru slapped his own head, and pulled out a note. "I almost forgot, this came for you from the Seraphims."

Tzadkiel took the note and said, "Hey, maybe that promotion I've been trying for finally came through! `The Archangel Tzadkiel.' I like the sound of it."

Tzadkiel took out his flaming sword and sliced the opening of the envelope for the note off. He pulled out the note and slowly read it. Quickly, his smile faded into a gape.

"Excuse me, Tabris. I have to take care of something."

Tzadkiel stormed out of the washroom. Arael, the fifteenth Angel, flew into the washroom, passing a very peeved Tzadkiel.

"What's his problem?" he asks.

"I don't know. He should really try these Celestial Springs." Kaoru says, putting his hands over the bowl again.

"Oh sweet, they came in!" Arael says, putting one of his wings over the bowl.

Kaji slowly got up to face a fuming Misato. Her fists were clenched in anger, and her right eye was twitching as her teeth were gritting. Kaji winced at seeing her like this, and slowly backed up, putting his hands up.

"Look, I know you're angry right now-" he said.

"I shot you. I snuck into that place and SHOT you, and then I wept for days over what I had done! It took me a little bit to get over my grief, but I accepted it. How did you survive?! Why didn't you contact me, tell me you were alive?!" Misato demanded.

"If I had, SEELE would've grabbed me and done the same thing you tried to do to me. And as for how I survived, an Angel found me." Kaji explained.

"Tzadkiel was watching. He saw me attack you, and then, while you were dying, he healed your wounds, and brought you someplace safe until the coast was clear." Misato suggested.

Kaji nodded, confirming what she had said.

"You used me. Used my feelings for you to get information on SEELE and the Angels. You USED ME!" Misato shouted.

"You used me." Kaji said, pointing at her.

"Excuse me?" Misato asked.

"You were doing exactly the same as I was doing to you. You used my resources and my love for you to get information on Lillith and the Angels that I had." Kaji replied.

"I was trying to save humanity, I still don't know what your motives were, and I probably never will." Misato says.

"Well, if it's any consolation, my intentions were good." Kaji says.

"That I can believe. You may be a manipulative, lying, cheating, horrible person, but you've got a good soul."

"I'm flattered."

"I'm not. You still faked your own death."

"After you shot me."

"Point taken."

"So what are we going to do now?"

"We could probably just talk. Talk about what's happened, about old times. Just, talk."

"I agree."

Three minutes later, they were both naked and having sex on Misato's office couch.

Kaji felt as if he weren't going to be able to breathe much longer. It was now several hours later, and now Asuka was hugging him with all her might, ever since Misato had brought him back to the apartment.

"YOU'RE ALIVE! YOU'RE ALIVE! YOU'RE ALIVE!" Asuka shouted.

"Please let go of me... Can't breathe..." Kaji gasps.

Asuka slowly let him go. Shinji walked up. "How? How is it possible?" he asks.

"Tzadkiel. Shortly after Kaji was shot, he healed him and brought him to a safe house." Misato explained.

"But what about the body in the morgue?" Asuka asks.

"Did you know that among Tzadkiel's many talents, including divine justice, singing, and story telling, he's also a skilled plastic surgeon? He can make any corpse just put into a grave look like anyone he wants!" Kaji replies.

"Well, this is great! All in favor of celebrating?"

Before anyone could say anything after that, the doorbell for the apartment rang. Misato rolled her eyes in disappointment, and walked over to the door. She opened it, and standing there, looking quite sad, was Tzadkiel.

"Um, hi Misato. Could I come in?" he asks.

"Sure, hey what's with the suitcases?" Misato queries.

"Um, er... We need to talk." Tzadkiel says, passing her and placing the suitcases down. Everyone in the room puts their eyes on him. "Hey, is that beer? I haven't had beer since... Never!" he exclaims, running over and grabbing a can. Everyone continues to stare at him.

"What are you doing here, trying to teach another little lesson about our lives?" Shinji asks.

"Um, well, actually... I need a place to stay." He says.

Misato was the only one who understood. She slowly began to giggle, and then broke into a hysterical laughter. "THEY KICKED YOU OUT!" she shouts.

"NO! No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" Tzadkiel shouts. He pauses for a moment, and then says, "Well, yes."

"Who kicked you out of what?" Rei asks.

"Heaven. The Seraphs have decided that I have not been doing as good a job as I should `judging' you people and delivering Divine Justice onto others. They kicked me out of Heaven!" he exclaims, drinking the beer.

"Really? So you're not an Angel anymore, Tzadkiel?" Shinji asks.

"Yeah, pretty much. After a long argument, I convinced them to let me keep SOME of my powers. I have limited flight, tactile psychic abilities, and I can set my synchronization ratio manually." He explains.

"How is setting your synchronization ratio supposed to help you?" Misato asks.

"That's the other thing I need to talk to you about: I need a job." He says.

"Let me guess: Evangelion pilot, Tzadkiel?" Misato queries.

"Well, my name isn't exactly Tzadkiel anymore, either. They've separated my soul from the Angel of Divine Justice. And I'm not really the American boy who died at Second Impact. I'm still working on a permanent name, but until the day I get put back in heaven, you can all call me `Tenshi.'"

"Oh yeah, `Tenshi.' Thaaat's original." Asuka rolls her eyes.

"Criticize all you want, it's the only thing I could come up with!" Tzadkiel, now known as Tenshi, exclaims.

"So, you don't have your powers anymore?" Shinji asks, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, not the big-ass judgment ones, no." Tenshi sighs.

Shinji punches Tenshi right in the face, sending him into the ground. "That's for being there all the time and not openly helping us!"

Tenshi slowly begins to get up, but Shinji kicks him in the stomach. "That's for letting me nearly bleed to death."

"You are SO dead, Ikari..." Tenshi squeals.

Tenshi gets kicked again, this time in the shins. "That's for almost killing Misato, Asuka, and Ritsuko!"

"Now this is a nice welcome home." Kaji states as Shinji continues to beat up Tenshi.

To be Continued...