Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction ❯ Problem Child ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

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"So, why isn't your daughter enjoying the finer living quarters of the brig right now?"

Gendo gave Fuyutsuki an annoyed glare as he adjusted the cold compress that was on his lap. The swelling had gone down somewhat, but the ache was still pretty bad.

"Because it wouldn't solve the problem we have currently with the girl. She is head strong and rebellious which won't work with the scenario we have set up. Until we can find our controlling factor I need to keep a distance from her. The pay demands she made are not unreasonable." Smirking he added, "I'm also pretty impressed she made it. Most kids her age wouldn't even think of asking for pay."

"The Section 2 report was an…. interesting read. The girl seemed to want to defy all authority that is tried to put forth on her." Kozo frowned. "It will not be easy to get her under control when she has been out of it for so long."

"Have Section 2 step up their observation of the 3rd. I want an investigator with every assigned shift. Given time we will find out what we need." Looking up at the meeting table, Gendo saw the different holo generators activate in the room. "Guess it is time." Around the table holo monoliths appeared of the different SEELE members and at the head of the table a holo of SEELE 1, Keel Loranz.

"We see the Evangelions worked well, Gendo."

Ah, the praises first. "Of course. NERV was created to defeat the angels."

"There is the question of expenses used during the battle though. Do you have a plan in the making to keep within budget?" SEELE 2 asked.

"You would agree that cost shouldn't be a concern when we are talking about the destruction of our own world."

Keel eyed Gendo from across the table. "That won't help us if we drain the world of resources in the saving of it. There is also the matter of the amount of destruction caused by that battle. There is also the question of your choice of pilot."

SEELE 3 spoke up. "The girl is not only your own daughter, but she was never fully vetted by the Marduk Institute. Some would think you have an ulterior motive, Gendo."

"She synced higher than any of the other pilot's we have tried before on her first try. Her value of a pilot is readily seen." Plus Gendo knew that the Marduk Institute had already approved of her. Her link to EVA-01 was indisputable and it would be hard to find a pilot that could link as well as she will as she gets use to piloting the monster.

"We will leave it alone for now. Defeating the angels is paramount, but don't forget that the Human Instrumentality Project is your primary goal. We will expect an update on that soon." With that all the monoliths shut off ending the meeting.

Fuyutsuki looked at Gendo. "That could have gone better."

"Much better." Gendo added as he turned over his cold compress with a sigh. "Now help me up and back to my office."
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"Class, please welcome our new student, Ikari Yuko. She just transferred from London, England and hasn't lived in Japan very long so please help her out in adjusting." Yuko turned around after writing her name down on the blackboard in poor kanji. "Yo." Turning back to the teacher she added, "Where is my seat?"

"Because of recent evacuations seating is left to the choice of the student until class size improves. Take any seat you want." The older man turned back to the black board dismissing Yuko to find her new seat.

Hikari Horaki looked in horror at the new student. The only thing the girl had going for her was the fact that she was wearing the school uniform. The mass amount of piercings was shocking, her hair color was obviously dyed because blue with red highlights was not natural (Rei Ayanami notwithstanding), but the real frosting on the cake was the full body dragon tattoo she had going from her left leg all the way down her right arm. Even though the uniform hid most of it everyone could tell that it ran complete up the girl's torso. Toji was a saint compared to the trouble this girl looked like she could because by the way she dressed alone.

Nope, Hikari knew how to deal with an issue like this. Seeing as the teacher had no backbone to speak up about the new girl's obvious disrespect of the schools dress code then she, as class rep, must make it known. "Sensei! Miss Yuko's personal appearance is way beyond the rules of the student dress code! Are we to let that stand?"

The older gentleman cast the class rep a nervous glance. He was hoping to avoid having this confrontation and just run a peaceful class for the day. Yuko had just sat down right next to Rei Ayanami and barely had time to put her book bag down before Hikari spoke up. Maybe if he dodged the question. "Well, she is from a foreign nation so their culture might be different from us."

Yuko looked at the brown haired girl with a blank stare. "Drop it, Tails. My looks, my business. Stay out of my way and the school year will go a lot more smoothly for you."

The pigtailed girl whirled on the pierced girl. "The school has a dress code for a reason! You should respect it and take out all those 'things' from your face."

Yuko ignored the girl as she continued on with her rant and started to dig around in her book bag.

"Furthermore, a full body tattoo at your age demonstrated that you have no care for your personal appearance which will demoralize school spirit."

Finally pulling out a billfold, Yuko walked toward the class rep.

"Plus there is no way you can convince anyone that that is your hair-" Hikari stopped her rant as Yuko calmly opens the billfold and shows the class rep the laminated card within. Hikari looks at the card in shock, then looks back at Yuko who was smiling smugly at her, then back at the card. "What the hell?"

"Been a member for the last 2 years now." Yuko closed the billfold. "Told you Tails just let it be."

Hikari gapped for a moment, then sputtered a bit trying to find a retort to what she had seen. Finally the words came to her. "There is no way you can convince me that there is a Church of Body Modification!"

Yuko grabbed a computer in the desk next to her, opened up the web browser and typed in an address then turned the computer back toward the rep. "Read um and weep. Now if you're done discriminating against my religion then I'm off to my seat." On the screen was the webpage to said church including how to join and mission statement. Yuko started to walk away as the class rep tried catching flies with her mouth.

This was her worse nightmare. As class rep she was expecting one day to meet a truly bad student, like in those mangas when the gang member joins the class and disrupts the order of the school until the hero class rep can bring the delinquent to heel. But this was not how it was supposed to work. The delinquent walked all over the rules and, as the class rep, Hikari was unable to stop her.

Hikari stared at the back of the girl's head as she walked back to her desk when it came to her. "You hair! Dyeing your hair can't be part of some perverted religion!"

Yuko gave a flat look as her head turned around. "This is my natural color."

By now most of the class was watching the drama unfold before them between the new girl and the class rep. Kensuke had his camera out filming the altercation for a later showing to Koji when he got back. Even Rei was paying attention instead of looking out the window like she normally does through most of the class. The statement about her hair color though had the audience snickering and Rei raising an eyebrow. It didn't take two brain cells rubbed together to know that hair, except Rei's, did not grow that color.

"That hair is an unnatural color! Teacher, I demand you give her a mark and send her to the office so they can have her fix her hair to its natural color." The smug look on Hikari was one of a girl that had victory in hand. The teacher had a look of trying to ignore the suddenly insane antics of his formally very quiet class. Never dismiss the powers of escapism.

Yuko turned around and walked back to the class rep. She stopped within an inch of the other girl's face, staring right into her eyes. She leaned toward the class reps face making the poor girl back off until she unexpectedly sat down on her desk chair.

She looked down at Hikari with the same flat expression. "You want proof that this is my hair is naturally this color?" Yuko gave the sitting girl a smirk. "Then here you go, Tails, check yourself."

With that Yuko pulled her skirt up and pulled the blue side tie panties down just enough to show a small strip of pubic hair… red with blue edges pubic hair. "Can't complain if the carpets match the drapes, right Tails?" Hikari was stunned in her seat. The new girl just nearly flashed her genitalia at her, in front of the entire class!

Kensuke passed out with his camera still stuck to his eye and a slight trail of blood running down his nose. Rei's other eyebrow raised up at the actions of her fellow pilot. Most of the girls in the class cried out in shock at the action and most of the boys turned red, looking away or pulled the same reality escape maneuver that Kensuke did.

Hikari stuttered out a few incoherent words before finally just yelling, "Teacher!" Turning around toward where the class teacher was she noticed the older man staring at what just happen with a shocked look on his face. The silence was finally broken as he dropped the chalk that was still upraised to the board on the floor. Right after that, the teacher followed his chalk in a dead faint.
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To say that Misato's day was not going well would be an understatement. Right now she was one step away from the 9th level of Hell.

First, she wakes up after apparently sleeping with her under-aged female roommate who she has guardianship over. Second, said girl didn't seem to mind at all how she was taken advantage of by an older drunk woman and even made breakfast for them after she finished her jog. It wasn't a bad breakfast because Yuko did some shopping after her jog, but it was not something Misato was used to. The girl had made a strange breakfast of hash browns, poached eggs, some type of fried spam meat, fried tomatoes, fried bread and something she called 'black pudding', a sort of thick cut round sausage that was lightly grilled. Her normal pot of green tea was missing and the girl had made a pot of Ceylon tea instead.

All in all, the breakfast was ok, if a bit awkward sitting at the same table as the girl you can't remember molesting the night before. The only hiccup during the meal was when she asked what the 'black pudding' was made of. The older woman made a vow to ask Yuko about all foods the girl cooks in the house from now on.

Now she was at work, still brooding over what happen the night before and her failure on her first day as a guardian with a stack of complain forms from the last battle covering her desk and a pounding headache because there was no beer left in the fridge for a bit of hair of the dog. Yes, Misato's life was sucking pretty badly right now and it wasn't even 10 a.m. in the morning yet. Then the phone rang. Misato didn't even bother lifting her head off the desk, just turned it to the side to stare at the offending object that was ringing loudly. Sighing, she picked up the receiver and laid it on her ear, too tired to hold it in place.

"Captain Katsuragi, NERV Operations. How can I help you?"

Slowly her hand came up to the phone as she listened to the other voice on the line. Raising her head off the desk she got a more serious look on her face before she placed it in her palm.

"Let me get this straight, she flashed her entire class and gave her homeroom teacher a heart attack not even 30 minutes into the school day?"

Misato started a low growl in her throat as the person on the other provided more details.

"Ok, my day as gone to shit even before I woke up this morning. Give her an extra assignment or some crap and send her back to class."

The voice on the other end started yelling now and Misato was forced to hold the phone away from her ear, her eyes squeezed shut as her headache increased tenfold from the noise.

"Listen, I'm at work right now! Give her the damn assignment and maybe some clean up duty. Do not hold her after school because she has training later today. NERV will take care of your missing teacher." Her voice dropped down to a more menacing tone. "Next time you call me about her, it better be to tell me she was severely injured or dead. Anything less and I will personally shoot you."

She gave a slight smile at the sound of the very loud click at the end of the line.

"Now I just need to finish these complaint forms from that last battle…"

Right after she said that First Lieutenant Maya Ibuki walked in with another stack of complains. "Captain, we got some more this morning so I'll just leave the pile here." The overly cheerful young woman set down the large pile of papers on the already overflowing desk and bounced out of the room.

Misato's eye twitched some more as the younger woman left the room, then let her head fall back onto the desk with a thump.
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Rei Ayanami had been trying to read a book seeing as the class was delegated to a study period after the medical emergency for their teacher. This had been complicated by the return of Yuko Ikari from the principal's office. Yuko's arrival was heralded by said girl's smiling face appearing in front of her book inches away from her face. The blue haired girl blinked her un-bandaged eye twice at the interruption.

"Hiya Kitten. What are you reading?"

Rei thought hard on this. No one in the class every talked to her about anything but duties in school and to give her assignments. Why would pilot Ikari wish to speak with her about her book? "The Hobbit."

Yuko seemed to spin around and wind up sitting on Rei's desk, leaning back in a sort of lounging stretch. Noticing that Rei had gone back to reading her book she looked down at the blue haired girl. She was holding the book in her one good hand and was turning the pages in obvious pain with her bandaged arm. "Going to read the rest of the series?"

"If they are in the library and don't interrupt my duties, yes." Rei reached up with her bad arm to turn the page when a small hand appeared from behind the book and turned the page for her. Glancing over the book she saw Yuko's grinning face. Rei went back to reading her book, every time she was just about to turn the page, Yuko's hand would be there turning it for her. Yuko just leaned against the window, humming a song softly to herself ignoring the rest of the class as the room was filled with light gossip. She briefly glanced over at the Class Rep only to match eyes with the girl catching her staring. Yuko waved at Hikari and drew her skirt up her leg, showing a fair amount of thigh. She smirked when the Class Rep turned back to her studying with a huff of indignation.

"Are you sexual attracted to Class Representative Horaki, Pilot Ikari?" Yuko turned with surprise at the question to Rei.

"Wow, you asked me a question on your own." She grinned at the blue haired girl. "Nah, but I've dealt with people like her before. Great fun teasing them because they are so set on following the rules for their own benefit."

"Understood." Rei turned back to her book.

Yuko frowned at the girl. She seemed to be one of those short answer types. It would take a bit of work to have her start opening up to her, but if Yuko was one thing it was persistent.

"Hey, school is getting out early for lunch and I don't have to be at NERV until later in the afternoon. Let's go do something." She flipped the next page of the book for Rei waiting for an answer.

"Why?" Although it was worded as a question it sounded like Rei used it as an answer for most things asked of her.

"Because it would be fun and what would you do if you didn't come with me?" Yuko could get use to this game of answering questions with questions.

"I must see Dr. Akagi after school for a medical exam and checkup." Rei stated without looking from her book.

Yuko turned another page for her. "Yes, but Kitten, we get out of school at lunch so you have a few hours free and you don't have anything planned before Dr. Akagi. So, hanging out with a fellow pilot wouldn't be bad at all."

"Pilot Ikari, why do you wish to 'hang out' with me?" Yuko took it as a personal victory when Rei closed the book she was reading to focus more on her.

"Blatant sexual attraction and I find you interesting." It was sort of unnerving how Rei didn't even flinch or make a facial reaction to the statement Yuko had said as if she was telling the other girl 'The sky is blue.' or 'Breakfast is ready.'

There was a reaction from Kensuke, who was half listening in on the conversation as he furiously typed on the desk computer before him. As soon as Rei had called the new girl 'Pilot Ikari' things clicked in the bespectacled boy's brain. The attack by what the news called an 'Angel' and how it was stopped by a giant robot the government had made to fight them. The military otaku was in seventh heaven at the thoughts of what sort of awesome tech was put in to making a machine of war like that. Even more now that it sounded like a person his age might be the pilot of it. He was having trouble keeping up with what they were talking about as he typed as fast as he could in his personal blog. He thought about asking the girl personally about the chance she was a giant robot pilot, but from what happen with the class rep and the very suggestive conversation she was having with the classroom ice girl he figured the odds of living through the conversation would be short indeed. The last statement made his eyes bug out. 'The new girl was hitting on Rei!'

"So is that why you kissed me before the last battle? I don't understand." Yuko figured that when Rei tilted her head to the side like that was her way of showing confusion.

"Well, that was what we would call a 'Now or Never Kiss'." The pierced girl grinned sheepishly.

"Explain."

"You see, it was the first time in that thing so I didn't know if I would end up dead. Plus, the only other two pretty girls were almost old enough to be my mom. Finally, I never could resist helping a cute, wounded Kitten. So, if I was going out to die for said kitten, then I was going to show the kitten why I was fighting for her in the best way possible and maybe if I live the kitten would return the favor." If the smoky look Yuko was giving the blue haired girl was working, she gave no indication.

"Pilot Ikari, do you wish to have sexual relations with me, even though I'm female like you?" There was a spray of blood as Kensuke passed out on his desk.

Yuko tapped her finger against her chin lightly. "Hmm… how would I phrase this…?" She looked deeply Rei's single eye. "Fuck yes, but not now. One, I like to get to know the girl I'm trying to get into the panties of, and two, your wounded still and I don't want to aggravate your injuries any more than they already are."

"I have not been ordered to have sexual relations with you."

Blinking, Yuko asked, "Do you have to be ordered for something like that? What about free will?"

"I do not know. I would have to ask Commander Ikari." This had Yuko huff in annoyance.

"Ok, let's try this then. How bout I help you walk to NERV seeing as you're still looking like you could use a hand, and during the trip we check out the shopping arcade I found this morning, maybe get something to eat?"

Rei stared at the other girl for what seemed like an eternity before finally answering. "That would be acceptable."
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"Ok, so you don't like meat, but does that make you vegan or vegetarian?"

Currently the two girls were standing in line for crepes in the food court of the shopping arcade. The current conversation was started when Yuko spotted the eatery and dragged the blue haired girl to grab some sweets. The issue was that the shop had plenty of different type of stuff crepes including most of them not having meat products in it but the crepes themselves were made of egg. Yuko was having trouble trying to find an alternative for her reluctant date. That was when the question of what she could eat came up.

"I dislike meat." Yuko was starting to understand why this girl was alone in class a lot. There were certain eye movements you had to catch when she wanted something and her facial expressions were extremely subtle.

"Ok, I got that you're a vegetarian, but what else besides meat do you not eat? Do you eat eggs? Can you drink milk?" You would think that if a girl makes a life decision to change her diet she would have an idea on how she was changing it.

"I do not enjoy the taste of milk. I eat noodles which have egg so egg is acceptable."

"Ah, good, that narrows it down. How about you get the banana strawberry with chocolate syrup and raspberry sorbet?" Yup, seems like she is going to have to be the decision maker in this relationship.

"That would be acceptable." The blue hair girl said dully.

"Then let's get two."

As Yuko devoured her egg pastry filled with fruit and sugary goodness she marveled at how Rei was eating. She spent almost a minute examining the dessert before she took a tentative bite of chocolate covered banana. Yuko paused in her eating at the sight. Rei's face seemed to change with that one bite. Her eyes widened and her mouth hung open slightly after she swallowed. Each bite after the first was followed by an almost inaudible sigh and a closing of the eyes. She seemed to favor small bites that only included one or two of the ingredients and would spend time between each one contemplating where she would take the next morsel from. It caught the pierced girl a little off guard how cute it was watching the red eyed girl lick the chocolate off her lips as she finished the crepe.

"Are you not going to eat yours?" Yuko blinked at the question then yelped as the sorbet in her crepe started to melt out of the paper.

A few frantic moments of eating frozen food way too fast, followed by the ice cream headache and hiccups from said activity and her crepe was finished. As she rubbed her forehead trying to kill the sharp pain she had going and voicing her pain with a quiet 'ow ow ow' she felt a hand land on her shoulder and pat it. Looking up she came inches away from Rei's single eye as the other girl patted her almost robot like in comfort. That was it, she started to laugh.

"Is something wrong, Pilot Ikari?" Rei asked with her head tilled to the side.

"Haha! No, it's just… 'snicker'… are you comforting me?" She couldn't help it; this had to be one of the strangest things that had happen as of recent (minus fighting giant monsters that are the servants of Heaven).

Rei frowned. "Am I not doing this right, Pilot Ikari?"

Yuko smiled warmly at the girl. "No, you're doing it perfectly. Thank you."

"Very well then." She stood up and looked expectantly down at Yuko.

Yuko stood up and grabbed her and Rei's school bags. "Kitten, do you like music?"

The red eyed girl blinked at the change of topic. "Um, yes."

Wrapping an arm around Rei's waist she guided the girl away from the food court. "Good, I want to see if that music store me and Misato visited when I got here is still standing. I saw a classic Fleabass there that I didn't have a chance to try out due to a monster trashing the city. They haven't made those guitars after Second Impact so they've become a sort of rarity. I hear they are really good for slapping."

"Fleabass? Slapping?" There was that head tilling thing again.

The pierced girl grinned. "Oh… let me show you."
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"God, it's finally over!" Misato grabbed her lukewarm coffee that had been slowly drained during the day to keep her coherent and downed the dredges in the cup giving a slight shiver at the slimy feeling that slid down her throat. It had taking most of the morning, but the complaint forms had finally been filled out and filed. It was surprising she got anything done with all the crap that was on her mind.

As she got up to refill her mug she thought about what had kept her from finishing this job much earlier this morning. Waking up next to her new younger roommate was a shock, but the implied actions she took on the young girl shocked her to her core. Until last night if someone was to ask if she would ever sleep with another woman, she would have laughed in their face. Now though, Misato was stuck in a state of confusion. Did she secretly like other girls? Was it just an experiment done from too much to drink? And what about Yuko's age? Was she in to (extremely) young girls? Would there be legal repercussions for her unremembered night of lesbian fun? She didn't even want to think of Commander Gendo's reaction to her indiscretions with his daughter.

"Misato, your burning your hand with hot coffee."

The Captain was brought out of her musings by the other woman's voice. Looking up she saw Ritsuko walking in her office and leaning against her desk. Looking down she saw her coffee cup was overfilled and hot coffee running over her hand and on to the floor.

"Shit!" The cup dropped out of her slightly boiled hand and crashed on the floor, splashing hot coffee all over her shoes and leggings. "FUCK!" The coffee pot dropped and was spilled all over the refreshment table in her office, soaking the packets of sugar and creamers as Misato danced around on her burned toes, trying desperately to cool off her feet. Stopping her dance, she looked dejectedly at the mess around her and slumped her shoulders.

"I take it the day hasn't been well for you?" The doctor said with a raised eyebrow at the chaos.

Misato huffed and reached under her skirt stripping her pantyhose off and started to wring the delicate material out. "Worst ever Rits. The complaint forms were just the icing on the cake of crap I was served this morning."

The blond walked over and grabbed a roll of paper towels, dabbing at the mess on the table. "Oh really now? What started this chain of self-destruction?"

Misato turned around after hanging her wet pantyhose over the back of her chair to dry. "Ok, first promise me that everything I am going to say does not leave this office." Ritsuko stopped her cleaning and stared at purple haired woman with a 'are you serious?' look. "Promise me." The look on Misato's face gave no question on it being optional.

"Fine then, I promise that no words spoken in this office shall be repeated outside of it. What's the big secret?"

Twitting her fingers, Misato gave the doctor a sheepish look. "isleptwithyukolastnight."

Ritsuko slipped off the table she was leaning against and landed on her butt on the floor. "What!"

"I FUCKED YUKO LAST NIGHT!" Misato screamed, red faced at her friend.

The doctor was up in a flash, putting her hand over Misato's mouth. "Shhh! You want the whole base to know that?" She let go of her friend and quickly walked over to the open office door and shut it. "Ok, what happen last night?"

Over the next ten minutes Misato gave out all the sordid details of what happen the night before and her very strange morning.

"So now I'm stuck wondering if I might be a lesbian and how much legal trouble I will be in for this." Misato hung her head in shame. "I'm a failure as a guardian. I couldn't even protect my ward from myself."

Ritsuko walked over and put her hand on her friends shoulder. "Ok, first, Yuko might be 14, but if the Section Two file is correct she is no stranger to sexual activities. Second, you were drunk. People do stupid things when they have too much to drink. One night of sexual experimentation is no confirmation of you sexuality. Third, the legal age of consent in Japan is 14 years old. That use to be made higher in different provinces, but after the 2nd Impact and the decline of births, the government dissolved all those laws and made 14 years universal for all of Japan. The worse possibility is if the Commander finds out, but even then the man barely acknowledged his daughter before this, so he might not care."

Looking softly at her friend Misato felt a bit better hearing those words. "I understand that I had a moment of weakness, but the one that I'm having the most trouble is the fact I slept with a girl when you of all people know I turned down the chance before."

"One time in college when Kaji suggest a threesome between all of us doesn't count. Your reply for him to 'jerk to some hot girl on girl porn and leave me out of it' pretty much confirms that you're not going gay on us."

"But the fact I did it last night shows that I had the interest in it. What if I do it again? What if Yuko wants to do it again? How do I let the girl know I'm too old for her and—" Misato's words were cut off by Ritsuko putting her hand over her mouth.

"If you're so worried about your sexuality, then do something about it. Take a boy on a date or something. Hell, take a girl out when your sober and to prove you don't have an interest." Ritsuko let go of her friend's mouth and stepped back.

The purple haired woman gave her friend a strange look. "Ritsuko, you trust me, don't you?"

"Of course, you're my friend. I know you didn't mean what happen last night." The blond smiled warmly at her.

Misato let her breath out that she was holding. "Then I'm sorry for this. Don't be mad."

"What do you mea—" it was Ritsuko's turn to be shut up as Misato stepped forward and promptly kissed her friend. The blonde's mouth opened on reflex with the shock of it then her eyes went wide as the Captain stuck her tongue inside her mouth. Clinically, the doctor noted that Misato's style of kissing was strong, but a bit forced. The signs of Misato's incisive talking made for a very strong tongue that was currently wrestling with hers. When her butt hit the back of the table Ritsuko dimly noted the sounds of papers falling on the floor. 'There were no papers on the refreshment table..' Raising her eyes up she noted where the sound came from. Maya Ibuki had come back with some missed complain forms for the Captain to fill out. The young woman was currently staring slack jawed and wide eyed at passionate kiss currently going on between Misato and her sempai. Ritsuko quickly pushed Misato off her when the Lieutenant's eyes rolled to the back of her head and she promptly fainted.

As the blond doctor rushed passed Misato to check on her comatose assistant, Misato stood there contemplating the kiss she just had. After a moment she turned around with a big smile on her face. "Hey, I think I might be ok! Only thing I was thinking about in that kiss was you taste like old cigarettes!" She took notice of all the paper scattered on her floor and how Ritsuko seemed to be checking Maya, who was dead out on the office floor. "What the hell happen to Maya?"

Ritsuko's eye twitched at the cigarette comment but as she looked down on the young Lieutenant she realized there were more pressing concerns. "She passed out when she walked in on you trying to give me intimate CPR. Help me carry her to medical; I'm not sure if she injured herself when she fell.

The purple haired woman blinked for a moment then stepped forward to help Ritsuko lift Maya between the two of them. As the trio left the office Misato had to know. "So, how was my kiss for you?"

"You taste like stale beer and old coffee." Ritsuko smiled at the glare Misato shot her way.
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As Rei sat on the examine bed waiting for Dr. Akagi her mind wandered toward the 'date' Yuko took her on. The younger Ikari was so much different from her father. Impulsive, brash, and dangerously flirtatious, she was the opposite of her father. There were signs that she had the same skill of plotting out her actions just as her father does, but it was still unrefined. She didn't really understand the girl's attraction to herself. Her life had always been one of service. Pilot the EVA because she was needed for it. Do what the Commander says because there was no one else to tell her not to. End the end, the only thing she came to expect was praise from Commander Ikari

Yet, here was his daughter willing to fight to keep her from suffering more injuries. The whole time on their trip in the shopping arcade, Yuko carried both of their school bags and would almost instinctively grab something that Rei might be interested in. The music store was where the girl truly came to life. The store owner was shocked to see a girl playing a bass guitar almost as big as she was like she owned the instrument all her life. Rei was entranced watching her tune the instrument by ear then start what she called a 'bad ass bass line' to demonstrate how a Fleabass worked. She was unfamiliar with the song 'Suck My Kiss' but the energy Yuko displayed playing the song was something Rei had never seen in the school's classical orchestra class. It took her a minute or two watching her play the guitar to see the difference between what she had that most of the students in the class lacked, passion.

Even more, Rei could sense that same passion being sent out from the girl to the people around her. She seemed to draw people in to the store with the way she played. Unlike the few concerts the school held for parents where the audience was quiet until the musical score was over, these people actively cheered her on as she played and a few of them joined in. The impromptu concert she was preforming came to a halt though when as she started out with a new song there came a loud twang from the guitar she was using. The crowd stopped as Yuko sighed sadly at the bass. One of the strings had broken during her playing. Bowing slightly to the crowd and thanking them for joining in her playing she headed to the counter with the instrument and paid the man for the string she broke.

Now the blue haired girl had a quandary. Yuko offered to take her out again when she recovered on what she called 'a proper date'. The issue was what the commander would say about the idea. Would he order her not to 'hang out' with his daughter or would he not give any notice? A small part of her feared that he would tell her not to fraternize with his daughter. Why this gave her worry was strange as well.

Rei would have spent more time on her internal musings if she wasn't interrupted by Dr. Akagi and Major Katsuragi rushing into medical with Lt. Ibuki between them. The two older women had pensive looks on their faces as they carried the young bridge bunny and laid her down on the cot next to where Rei was waiting. The shock of the action left Rei blinking in wonder.

"Dr. Akagi, is there something wrong with Lt. Ibuki? If needed we can move my check up to a different day if you wish."

Ritsuko looked up from where she was checking Maya's vitals at the red eyed girl. "Oh Ayanami! I'm sorry, you are right. Let me finish here and I can at lease change your bandages. We can do the full exam tomorrow. As for Maya, she just saw something that shocked her. It didn't help that she is a bit tired from over work."

"Well, if you don't need me anymore Rits I'm off to clean up my office. Stop by after you're done and we can go out drinking tonight." Misato said from the doorway, heading out of the room.

"Just as long as you don't get so drunk that you end up doing more than kissing me I'm game." Rei noted the sound of the Captain tripping out in the hall in response to the Doctor's reply.

There was very little conversation between the 1st child and the doctor as her bandages were changed. The two of them unconsciously knew that the less they talked to each other the better their relationship would be. Rei understood that Dr. Akagi liked it like that for some reason which worked well for her too. Most people tried constantly to get some sort of conversation out of the red eyed girl, much to her annoyance. Really, the only thing that annoyed the girl about Dr. Akagi was the woman seemed to wrap her bandages a bit too tight making them uncomfortable. Rei would have to redo the bandages later at her apartment because of this action. You would almost think the doctor did it on purpose, but that would be directly against everything a doctor stands for, right?

There was one thing that was itching at the back of Rei's mind during the procedure. "Dr. Akagi, from your statement to the Captain, I assume you and her kissed in a less then platonic matter?" The blue haired girl winced slightly as Ritsuko tightened the bandage on her arm a bit harder than normal.

"You could say that Ayanami. Captain Katsuragi was having a dilemma and used me as a test subject. I'm not at liberty to say more. You can ask the Captain if you want more details."

At this point was when consciousness came back to our poor Maya. Funny thing about waking up after passing out, the body likes to do a slow restart. Even the ever dreaded morning person cannot avoid this one fact of life from fainting. First system that starts back up is usually the hearing. This doesn't help much do to the fact that the brain is usually the last to start back up. Every sound heard during this time is usually forgotten or misinterpreted when the brain finally processes it later. The issue at hand was that Maya was only getting the end of the conversation between Rei and her Sempai.

Rei cocked her head to the side as the doctor was doing the finishing touches on her arm bandages. "So, if the Captain got her answer from the kiss, what about your reaction to it?"

Ritsuko paused in her bandage wrapping at the question. It was a strange day for her, first her best friend initiated a game of tonsil hockey with her and now the Commander's doll was asking questions about her sex life. That might explain why she answered with almost complete honesty. "Misato could bring the dead back to life with her kiss. I'm almost tempted to ask for a repeat performance."

"So, if a kiss feels good, one should try for another or join in a relationship with the person?"

Something about this line of questions was sending small warning signs in the doctor's head, but for the life of her she couldn't figure out why. "Well, I wouldn't put the foundation of the relationship on it, but it's a good start."

Both of them were interrupted from their conversation by the sounds of quiet sobbing coming from Maya as she heard the last statement of her Sempai. How was she to compete against Misato? The woman practically oozed sex and was now setting her sights on her Sempai. The world was a cruel place.
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"What do you call a lead guitarist girlfriend?"

Shigeru Aoba struggled with this one. "Damnit, I don't know."

"The girl the bassist fucked last week."

"Ya know, you're a bit of a bitch, right?"

Yuko pulled the trigger on the control couch she was currently sitting on in the entry plug, obliterating another target. "Years and years of practice."

"Fuck that, your only 14 years old! Oh, behind you, cop pig."

With almost flawless precision, Yuko spun around and unloaded hot death into the alien pig man in a police uniform. "Got him. Oooo… shotgun! Heading for the strip club now."

"Good. Oh, what do you call a bass guitar solo?" Aoba grinned waiting for the reply.

Yuko thought for a moment before answering. "Epic?"

"No, when the lead guitar stops playing."

"Ooo.. burn there. Hey, check this out. Gonna give geek boy there a nose bleed!"

Makoto Hyuga snorted at the statement from the young pilot. "Some violent game from pre impact is not going to impress me. I only installed this game in the Magi because you said I couldn't do it. The only real issue was replacing the weapon training sim with your low graphics game of death." Hyuga looked up from the screen he was working on just in time to see a purple hand pass some currency to one of the strippers dancing in the club. A deep bass voice rumbled from the speakers in the room as the stripper pulled off her top and shook her heavy breasts in the EVAs face. *Shake it Baby.*

Aoba stared at his coworker's reaction to the image. "I think ya broke his brain Yuko. No nose bleed, but his eye is twitching."

"Damnit. Maybe if the graphics were better. Hey, what to do you call a guitarist with no rhythm?" Room filled with more sounds of shotgun blasts as the strip club was flooded with more pig cops.

"Too easy. A guitarist without a bassist." Aoba grinned as he recorded the targeting averages for the pilot. "Had that one done to me when I was in my first band in high school."

Ritsuko stared in horror at what she was seeing when she walked in the EVA observation room. Her two other assistants from the looks of it had replaced her current weapons training program with some bad first person shooter. On the positive side, she should be impressed with the fact that they could adapt the Magi for such a crude program, but there was protocol to think about.

"What the fuck do you people think you're doing?"

Aoba froze at the shout from his boss. "Umm…" Looking toward his other partner in crime who was like him frozen in his chair too afraid to look behind them for some advice all he got was a shrug and his eyes drifting over to the monitor in front of him. "It was Yuko's idea!"

From the in room speakers came an indignant shout. "You dirty traitors!"

Ritsuko pinched the bridge of her nose in annoyance. "Ok, seeing as both of you are so easy to listen to orders from our pilots, then you both will have no problem reformatting all the data from your little experiment into a readable report to give the Commander. It should only take you all night, right?"

Aoba gave his superior a shaky look. "Umm, Lt. Ibuki helping us should cut down a lot of the work so it shouldn't be too bad."

"Lt. Ibuki is currently recovering in medical and I've placed her on limited duty. She is a bit over worked. Maybe if her co-workers weren't playing around as amateur programmers with billion yen equipment she would have less burdens on her."

Both the men looked down sheepishly at the floor. "Hai Ma'am." They said in unison.

The doctor turned back to the monitor currently showing a pouting Yuko. "As for you, Pilot Ikari, testing is over. Hit the showers and Misato can take you home." A dull 'hai' came through the speakers as a reply.
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"Stupid bottle blond bitch… Crap sim she had was stupid as hell." Yuko grumbled as she stripped out of the plug suit. The blue and black of her plug suit really wasn't her style. Granted, it was sort of cool how it could shrink wrap around her body, really kinky idea that was, but the color didn't suit her very much. Maybe something more blue with a red combo. Tossing the dirty plug suit into a receptacle to be cleaned later, she made her way to the showers.

Yuko paused at the door to the shower room. One thing she was sure of was that she and Rei were the only two pilots around right now. So, if the sound of water was coming from the shower room then that could mean one of two things. One, the showers were used by all the personal on the base, which was unlikely seeing as the locker room only had two of the many lockers there with locks on them. Two, Rei was in the showers. A Cheshire like grin grew across Yuko's face as she carefully pulled open the shower door.

It seems that number two was the answer to the question of who was in the showers. Rei's nude form was currently enjoying the pleasure of water washing away the troubles of the day. Her light blue hair matted against her head as it tilled into the stream of steaming water. The grin grew at the sight of the alabaster back with water cascading down it, running between the smooth cheeks of the girl's tight butt.

Quickly wiping the drool from the edge of her mouth, Yuko silently stalked toward the albino girl only to stop frozen at the next sight. Rei, having trouble trying to wash herself with only one good arm had dropped the wash loofah on the floor trying to wash her injured side. With a huff of frustration the girl bent over at the waist to retrieve the errant loofah. In doing so she unwittingly provided Yuko with a perfect view of her well-formed ass thrust out and the full cleft of the young girl's sex just peeking out between the two perfect globes. As Yuko's brain started to reboot, she noted that Rei's hair was her natural color from the shade of the well-trimmed down like hair that framed the slit before her. This was about the time Yuko noticed that Rei had spotted her and was looking at her from between her legs, stopping her from picking up the loofah at her feet.

"Pilot Ikari?" The blue haired girl's seemed wide eyed with surprise at the look Yuko was giving her. The feeling might be akin to what a mouse feels when a snake spots it.

Swallowing a bit to get some moisture back into her throat, Yuko slowly walked toward the other girl as she stood back up. "Hello Kitten. Why don't you have anyone helping you out in here?"

Rei turned fully around gracing Yuko with a nice view of her pert breasts, topped by cute, candy like pink nipples. The water from the shower was running down both of the beautiful orbs and making small rivers down the flat of Rei's belly drawing the eyes with the flow of water to the tiny navel. Following the water further brought the roving eyes of the young girl to her fellow pilot's pubic hair, matted down by the flow of water as droplets fell from the strands. Yuko blinked twice when she finally realized that Rei was saying something to her. "Normally Dr. Akagi would have someone to help me, but because of an incident with Lt. Ibuki she was unable to assign someone today."

"Really now…" Yuko slinked up right to Rei, her nose almost touching the other girl's. "Well then, as a fellow pilot it would be my duty and 'pleasure' to assist you."

Rei shivered slightly at the husky tone the tattooed girl just whispered to her. Yuko bent at the knees and keeping her face less than a quarter inch away from Rei's body, slowly lowered herself down and grabbed the loofah on the floor. Rei could feel the other girl's warm breath teased her skin, bringing strange sensations to the young albino's body she had rarely felt before. The same treatment followed as Yuko rose back up, lightly brushing her pierced nipples barely over Rei's nubs that were now slightly puffy from a sudden inflow of blood making them warm and tingly from the sensation.

"I am not sure that it would be proper for us to do what your actions are suggesting on base, Pilot Ikari." Yuko paused slightly at the tone Rei had given her. "No, nothing like what you're thinking. For now, we will stick with a wash." Soaping up the loofah, Yuko nudged Rei to turn back around and started a slow scrub of her back. "When you're healed up we can talk about other 'activities' I can show you."

For some strange reason, the implied 'activities' had a slight shiver run down Rei's spine. Leaning against the wall as the firm scrubbing her eyes drifted downward. She noted that there was a stream of purple colored water going down the drain between her legs. Following the stream of water she turned back around, interrupting the back scrub. The stream of colored water was flowing down from the strip of pubic hair above Yuko's pierced sex. Yuko grinned up at Rei's somewhat surprised look. "The school rules were no secret. I read the handbook on the plane flight and that really annoying strict dress code. I really wasn't expecting someone to get that bent over my sense of fashion, but I'm glad I took the time to use some temp hair dye." Yuko gave a burning stare into Rei's eyes. "Seeing as you're facing forward now I guess I can wash your front too."

"I should be fine doing-" Whatever Rei was going to say was cut off from the feeling of two soapy hands sliding up her belly and cupping her breasts. "P-Pilot Ik-ari, what… are you doing?" She gasped out.

"Loofah is too rough to use on these. They require a bit more of a delicate touch." The blue haired girl pondered that as Yuko dragged her thumbs across her now nearly painfully erect nipples causing a startled gasp from her throat. "See, very sensitive." Yuko leaned forward and whispered in her ear. "Don't worry, if I'm good at one thing is being careful with the things I like, Kitten."

It was now Yuko's turn to be surprised when Rei suddenly turned her head, capturing her lips in a searing kiss. Not one to be left out of such a situation, Yuko circled her arms around the blue haired girl and pressed herself closer in a tight embrace. Time seem to stop as the two girls held each other under the stream of water. When they finally parted Yuko was left panting for breath against Rei's neck, feeling the albino's quick pulse against her cheek. "Not that I'm complaining, but I was serious about not doing anything until you're healed up Kitten." She breathed into Rei's ear.

"I had an enlightening conversation earlier with Dr. Akagi. It has prompted me to examine this course of action as long as it does not interfere with our duties as pilots." Rei pulled back a bit and looked into Yuko's eyes with an unreadable expression on her face. "I expect you will help me with this endeavor, Pilot Ikari?"

Yuko grinned and planted a kiss on Rei's nose. "Kitten that I can promise."
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Author Notes:

Ok, this took a lot longer than I thought due to several factors. One, Rei has the character depth of a dry pond in this stage of the series providing me with my first ever argument with a fictional character as I was trying to write. Second, a minor case of writers block that needed some time to work out. I think I re-wrote this chapter about five or more times, then edited another 20 times and it still doesn't feel right. But that feeling goes for most of my writing so I'm not too worried.

Finally, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came out. Damn them addictive RPGs that are set up like a giant sand box. I still haven't worked on the main storyline of the game yet and have dumped weeks of my life into it. As of right now though I'm taking a break so writing will be on the forefront for a bit.