Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction ❯ Lurking within the soul ❯ After 10 years ( Chapter 2 )

Hi I’m back shinji meets misato in this one oh and he’s not wearing his lame old school uniform he wore in the series instead he wears a long sleeved black dress shirt with a white shirt underneath and black jeans. He occasionally wears a long black leather coat. I own nothing.
Chapter 2

Shinji decided to go to NERV and see why his father asked to see him. His teacher wanted to say something before he went off though. “Well Shinji you are not a dumb or ignorant child so I am pretty sure you know at least the basics of your past” he said as he gave Shinji a distressed looking medium sized box. “The people that left you in my care after the organization that …. changed you were discovered said that they wanted me to give you this box when they felt like you could handle the truth”. He finished by saying “ Remember that no matter what you past encountered you are have to move forward and you are still a human being”. Shinji was surprised at his teacher’s small speech. ‘I am still human’ Shinji thought as he said his goodbyes and left.
AT THE STATION
“She is late” Shinji said while he once again called his late escort only to hear that the phone was out of service. For the second time Shinji pulled out the picture that held his escort on it. “Very ...promiscuous” shinji thought to himself as he scanned the picture following the red arrow to the woman’s breasts. To any other boy the picture would have been the ultimate stimulant to their now raging hormones but to Shinji the picture just portrayed a woman. Shinji put the picture back in his duffel bag before his mind wondered to the old box that was engraved with his name. "I wonder..." Shinji said as he looked at the box intently on the bench beside him. As curiosity took the best of him, Shinji slowly began to open the box. When the first centimeter was up he felt a strange feeling “Someone is watching me” he thought as he quickly closed the box and scanned his surrounding area. What he saw was very strange; a young girl in a school uniform with red eyes and blue hair, shinji was a little startled by her steady gaze but he did not show it. Instead he gave her an icy pericing glare. “Who is she and why -” BOOM! Shinji’s train of thought was muddled with loud clamor of broken debris and flying planes.
Shinji’s head snapped up as he looked at the source of all this commotion then he took a quick glance back at the spot the girl was to find that she was gone. Shinji didn’t keep his eyes on the missing girl's spot for very long because the huge creature had just swatted a plane towards him. While the careening plane flew towards him he continued to stare at it with mild disinterest before he quickly leaped back to let the metal pile of debris land on the concrete.
Shinji was then met with the sound of tires screeching; burnt rubber and a feminine voice yelling “Get in now”. Shinji’s eyes slowly opened, he looked at the car and then at the plane. “Die another day, I guess” he mumbled as he grabbed his things and jumped into the car. Before he even put his seatbelt on the car took off going at least about 90mph.
“Sorry it took me so long” the driver said “I'm Misato Katsuragi, nice to meet you” she said while scanning the young boy.
“Likewise” Shinji responded while looked over his driver with cold, calculating eyes before he decided the scenery looked better out the window. He turned and stared out of it, determined to discourage all and any conversation.
Misato a little shaken up by his cold glare turned back to the road “He’s so cold and lifeless but he is in pretty good shape. I wonder why he’s wearing that a long sleeve shirt in this heat? Misato wondered.“Um, shinji” She started an innocent interrogation of her young passenger's unusual habits and life experience. "Yes?" Shinji said while he continued to look at the scenery. Misato paused trying to think of a nice way to phrase the question, "Why do you act so emotionless?" When she suddenly saw something out the window and screamed “N2 mine, get down!”
Suddenly Shinji’s head was down between his legs while pressure was exerted heavily on his shoulders and a huge boom echoed through his skull. What startled Shinji a little was the car being turned over like a toy car being thrown.
He heard Misato gasp a little though he only caught it faintly when the window burst open on his side. He felt a sticky, warm liquid slide down his face and run into his hair; he instantly knew it was blood from the flying glass. Finally the car stopped turning and sound slowly returned to his eyes. Shinji felt distinctly sick though it soon passed. He turned around, intending to ask Misato whether she needed any assistance and saw the woman in question sprawled half in half out of the driver's seat. She wasn't moving and Shinji soon saw the reason; Misato had a piece of glass stuck in her side from his window. Shinji slowly put the now immobile Misato in an upright position in the driver’s seat then. He forced the door open and crawled out. As quickly as he crawled out, he felt the car slowly turn over, Misato scooted a little bit until she was in the driver's seat in the car. While trying to attend to her wound Misato slowly watch Shinji lift up the sweater and undo his white shirt. Shinji then entered the car again and without either saying a word (Shinji just didn’t care and Misato was too startled to say or do anything other than sit) Shinji pulled his shirt up around her small waist, and then tied it to halt the flow of blood. After tending to her wound, Shinji sat in his own seat and stared at Misato until she regained her bearings and asked “What is that giant out there” Misato blinked out of her stupor and replied “ It’s an angel”. Shinji replied with just a nod and returned to the scenery.
“O-Kay, uh, lets get going” Misato said while she attempted to regain her senses before she realised where she was supposed to be going. She put the car into first and sped off into the fading dust cloud to NERV.

“Do you have your ID card, Shinji?” Misato asked, her manner once again business-like.
“Yes” Shinji replied before pulling it out it out of his pocket. The white card bore a passport picture of him and a barcode along with the traditional information. Shinji wondered where they had got the picture from.
"Slide it through the reader." Shinji did as he was told and before they knew where they were, they were looking at the Geofront. Misato took the elevator to the medical facility to patch up her side. “This has to be pretty amazing to”- Misato said before Shinji interrupted her train of thought and said “A Geofront.” His tone sounded like he had seen something better and his eyes still held no emotions. Misato made a mental note to ask him about it later but for now they needed to get to the command center.

“Are we lost” Shinji said with a small amount of annoyance.
“No, I just can’t remember where the command center is” Misato said sheepishly before she decided to divert attention away from her embarrassing lack of directional skills, “Shinji, why do you here that long sleeved shirt on when it's so hot in here?”. She was truly intrigued by the mystery before her in the form of Shinji Ikari.
“Is that really any of your business” he replied with no hint of sarcasm or anger but it still made Misato a little angry for the firm rebuttal. Actually Shinji wore the long sleeved shirt to hide his arm. He did not want to draw attention to himself or his scars.
Misato was about to press the issue further but another voice caught her attention “Misato are you lost again?” said an annoyed but beautiful lady in a long lab coat and a swimming suit. Misato only smiled sheepishly and nodded, before remembering her charge “Oh, Shinji this is Dr. Ritsuko Akagi. Ritsuko this is the Third Child” Misato said. Shinji raised an eyebrow when he heard the name Third Child but said nothing of it.
“Hello, Shinji. It's a pleasure to meet you” Dr. Akagi greeted with her hand outstretched. However Shinji did not shake her hand but instead bowed and said “It is a pleasure to meet you, Dr. Akagi” with an emotionless voice and stone cold eyes. Dr. Akagi was sort of taken back by his reaction and thought “His life with his teacher should not had made him this way, he should be weak”. She decided to investigate the matter further later but now she had a task to do. “Both of you come with me, we need to get to the command center quickly” Ritsuko said, her tone brooking no argument.
As the three walked to the command center, Shinji decided to read the booklet that came with the package his father sent him while the ladies talked about their week. Suddenly they walked into a room that was pitch black. “Where are the lights” Shinji thought to himself but no sooner then he thought it, the lights came on and he was face to face with a huge purple demonic face. “Interesting” shinji all but whispered to himself. “Yes, it is very interesting,” Ritsuko cut in “This is an Evangelion”.
“So this is what my father has been working on” he said. He remembered his teacher telling him that his father had left him to save mankind. Shinji knew that his father abandoned him because he didn’t want him, he even remembered his father walking away from him as he stood crying on the concrete. The more he thought about that image the more the feeling of hate brewed within his heart.
“Correct!” bellowed a booming voice above the three people. Shinji quickly turned around to look at the source of the voice to look into the face of his father.
“Father.” Shinji said as he slightly stiffened trying to control his rage. Shinji was suddenly bombarded with a memory that seemed so real but did not fit into his past his teacher told him about.

A dark cold cell without a window. In the far left corner was an old bed with bloodied bed sheets and in the middle of that bed was a small boy with a silver collar on. The boy held numerous scars, old and new. His eyes were lifeless but he still held tears.
The blood on the sheets was from his body, days old. His body was covered with blood and he was bruised and battered. He was not alone though. There was another man towering over him. The man had brown hair with silver eyes and he stood almost six feet tall. By his bloodied knuckles you could infer that he added the new cuts to the small boy
“Worthless child, no wonder your father left you” the man said in a gruff low voice as he raked his bloodied fingers over an open wound on the boy face.
As soon as the large hand left the boy’s face the door opened and a bright light was shown caressed around another tall figure.

“Prep the Evangelion to fight” Shinji heard his father shout to someone he could not see. Shinji could hear the annoyance his father felt to his son’s quietness and cold glaring eyes in those simple five words.
“But Commander Ikari, we do not have a pilot!” Misato shouted. She was confused and did not relish the feeling.
The commander turned around and gestured to Shinji before saying “We do now.”
After his father’s blatant disregard about his son’s opinion Shinji began to chuckle sadistically earning some of his father’s attention. “You know its funny” Shinji began “You abandoned me for ten years to a place that hell would spit out and now you want me to just mindlessly do you bidding, Wow, you are a killing joke dad,” Shinji ended his little laps from reality dripping with sarcasm.
“I left you because I had no use for you, third child.” Gendo started slightly flustered with his son’s irritable behavior.
“Oh, Goodness,” Shinji said while his eyes grew deadly and a huge grin began to spread across his face. “The Great Gendo Ikari has finally found a use for ME, gee my day just got a little brighter!” he said laughing but he soon ended his insane streak and quickly replaced his smile with a tight frown “However, I don’t care about your uses for me so you can just shove your plans right up your ass and have a nice day”.
“Shinji” Ristuko yelled slightly unnderved by the boy’s quickly changing demeanor “The EVA is the last hope for mankind, YOU have to pilot it”, she finished slightly out of breath. Misato just stood stunned staring at the whole spectacle while trying to figure about Shinji’s mental stability.
Before Shinji could respond Gendo frowned from his son’s strong personality and said, “Fuyustki. Prep Rei for piloting. Dr. Akagi, re-configure the First Child's data in Unit One. The Third Child is unusable."
Soon a stretcher was wheeled out. On it was a young girl with red eyes and blue hair. Shinji would not have cared about her until the stretcher hit an uneven tile and toppled over sending the young girl to the floor. Shinji, acting on impulse, caught the girl before she hit the floor and quietly stared at her. Rei’s face was contorted to an expression of pain and Shinji could feel the familiar liquid of blood but still he looked at her with unemotional eyes.
As Shinji put the girl back on the stretcher he thought about what his teacher had told him before he left ‘You are human…. share some sympathy’ he thought as he finally laid Rei on the stretcher. He turned to look into the dark orbs of the purple Evangelion and said in a cold, low tone “I will pilot the Eva”.
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