ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T GOLD
Why am I going up to the head office, I mean we had to cut out training just to be here for whatever this is? Nothing about it makes me happy Gendo doesn’t even like me, why would he even call up on me? Why bring Rei it makes no verfickte sense at all maybe it’s like Shinji says he’s going to be creepy and ask leading questions to the both of us. I hate being here, I’ve never liked the head office and I never been in here other than to be told off or shouted down to.
The only difference is this is the first time I doubt it’s about some threat to throw me off the program for misconduct which has happened twice before when she’d been much younger, she eyed the large door as they came to stand in front of them. “What do you think your father wants with me?”
Rei took in a deep breath she was as nervous about this as she was she hated Nerv’s head office and she wasn’t interested in her father’s games. “I have no idea Asuka if I did you and my brother would be first to know.” She eyed the older woman who looked deeply un-amused by the whole thing. Last night though she’d been much more clingy in that she hadn’t wanted to let go off her while they’d slept and she tended to do that a lot more when something was really bothering her. She knew why though the only reason she’d ever been sent up here was to be shouted at for breaking the rules by Ritsuko.
Ritsuko was not here though today she was flying over to Cape Town in Africa to have a look at a new weapons technology they were working on over there. She looked at the guard who spoke quietly. “You are both free to enter at any time miss Ayanami.” Rei took in a deep breath eyeing Asuka. “Let’s just get this over with.” She opened the doors slowly stepping inside the office where he father was seated at one side of the large joint desk Ritsuko normally took the other side.
She took up her standing position in the centre watching as Asuka remained on one side and behind her as she knew she wasn’t allowed in the central spot only herself and Shinji were. She could see her father sitting as his desk the light reflecting of his glasses though he had his hands down for a change so she could see his face with its dark hair and thick black beard which wasn’t under his nose only his chin along with his dark black suit.
He wasn’t smiling though as normal his face was unreadable. He looked down shifting through his papers as he spoke darkly and with little emotion. “You have been causing a stir at late.” Rei eyed him was that a reference to her or Asuka because she couldn’t tell? She took in a deep breath speaking evenly. “I didn’t think you cared to notice.”
Gendo eyed her that was surprising he was used to the quite subdued tone in his office unlike her brother she didn’t normally show anger to him in these meetings. “Maybe you’re just becoming more interesting.” His eyes shifted to Asuka. “As for you, well I thought you wouldn’t last much longer on this program but here you are evidently full of surprises.” He looked up seeing that she wasn’t making any comment she had remained completely quite. “You can speak.”
He watched as she remained quite he turned eyeing his daughter. “How did you do it?” Rei breathed in deeply great this was like her brother had said weird questions. “Do what?” Gendo raised a white gloved hand. “How did you tame her?” Rei blinked oh really so this is where he was going with this? How strange and messed up. “Are we really going to have this conversation?” Gendo looked up sharply. “Yes we are because I would really like to know how you pulled off keeping an apex predator like her in line.”
Asuka felt her good eye narrow she really hated being called that Ritsuko called her that as well and it made her uncomfortable as it made her feel like she was some kind of monster. Rei turned seeing the hurt appear in Asuka’s good eye for moment before it turned ice cold. “I don’t approve of you referring to her that way.”
Gendo put his hands together. “Why?” Rei took in a deep breath. “Because she’s not a predator she’s a person.” Gendo eased up his device pressing it bringing up an image of Asuka face with all the razor sharp teeth on display and showing and the left eye on fire with white and blue light. “So you’re not afraid of this I have heard that this happens outside the entry plug not just in it?”
Rei breathed in deeply. “No why would I be?” Gendo eyed the image. “I had a few scientists analyse these teeth they tell me that they could probably rip your flesh off and bite right down to the bone and they theorize that her bite force is probably twice what’s normal of the average human bite during aggression and rage.” He turned back. “A very dangerous thing to play with some might say and something to be feared.” Rei felt a cold smile form. “You once said that humanity fears the darkness that’s why we scrape away at the edges with fire.”
She folded her arms. “Unlike you I’m not afraid of the dark and I personally welcome the fire since humanity created it to keep our selves warm.” She looked down. “You’re just doing what everyone does to someone they don’t understand or fear you give that person a label to suit your unfounded prejudice.” She looked up punctuating her next words as sharply as possible. “I also know all about that since I look like mom and you can’t stand the sight of me, even though I’m not her and we are two very different people.”
She watched him seeing no emotion in his face as he looked down turning a page on his document as he eyed Asuka. “Do you talk at all or did she tell you to be quite before you entered?” Asuka looked up keeping her voice even. “She doesn’t tell me to do anything director.” Gendo looked up that was the first time she’d ever used his title in this room. “So you don’t get sexual treats for good behaviour?” Asuka breathed in deeply. “No I don’t.”
Gendo looked at his notes. “We’ve been here before you and I first it was with my son some years back and now my daughter I do hope this isn’t a play on your part to make your division more powerful and gain access to Nerv’s thrones of power.” Asuka looked up. “Please, I have no interest in making my division more powerful and I don’t care about those thrones of power both of which belong to Shinji and Rei not me, I also have no interest in Nerv politics.” Gendo looked up ignoring his daughter’s ice cold gaze. “What kind of power does interest you?” Asuka blinked in confusion she really didn’t understand this at all. “I’m not interested in power.”
Gendo leaned forward. “Come now everyone interested in something and we both know that you like owning things, you’re like my son your value possessions they give you comfort maybe that’s what you see my daughter as a possession.” Asuka looked at him for a long moment he was trying to piss her off that was clearly his game here and she had no interest in rising to the bait. “I don’t own Rei she’s not mine she belongs to herself.”
Gendo eyed her why couldn’t he get her angry it had been so easy to do in the past? He wanted to see her rage but not to punish her for it but purely to see it up close and how his daughter reacted he wanted to watch her tame her because he’d always been told by Ritsuko it could never be done and that Asuka was a lost cause and should always be kept underfoot. “You’re a worthless underling with delusions of grandeur, just like Kaworu you are just trying to climb a ladder you can never scale.”
Rei turned sharply not holding any of her anger back. “How dare you say that to her she deserves better than this! She killed Bardiel and she created two spears out of nothing but his churned parts?” Gendo pushed up his glasses how strange he had not expected anger from his daughter at all and he still wasn’t getting the anger he desired from Asuka it was like some strange role reverse.
Asuka breathed ignoring how much that comment stung as she spoke coldly. “Think off me what you will but I don’t have to justify myself to you, I barely know you and you barely know me and the only opinions that matter to me is your daughters yours means nothing to me.”
She looked down. “I’m not a bad person but I still get branded as one from time to time for no more reason than existing and being different.” She looked up. “If you think I would ever use my so called teeth to threaten or scare your daughter I wouldn’t and I have never laid a finger on her during our whole relationship, the only people who should fear me are those who would try and harm her, because then I’ll happily become the monster your claiming me to be and see them punished.”
Gendo looked up how fascinating that was the tone of deep seated loyalty he knew it very well, it was what he expected from everyone at Nerv. Though this was the first time he was hearing it from her and it was so interesting clearly her loyalty was different in that she liked to attach it to a person. That in its self-explained a lot maybe that loyal attachment was what allowed the taming of her nature through his daughter.
It was clear though that he wasn’t going to get her to get angry this time around but no matter he could patient and he wasn’t done with these two nor had he finished with his son or Kaworu either. These meetings were tests of character granted both his children were lined up to take his throne should he die that was in his will but now as adults he wanted to see if both were even worthy of it, they had finally both come of age and where they were starting to make their true desires known.
Granted there choice in lovers couldn’t be more different but that in itself was also interesting, Shinji had chosen a quite natured individual and his relationship with him was very open he’d seen the footage of kissing full on in lifts among other things. His daughter on the other hand had chosen the one person who by most was considered moody, turbulent and extremely dangerous yet she could clearly tame her somehow and their relationship was much more subdued and private.
He understood his son picking Kaworu because of they shared many common interests along with the close friendship they’d had before they’d become lovers. On the other hand he had no idea why his daughter had picked Asuka he couldn’t see the appeal the only real thing he knew about the German was she could draw like his son and he knew Rei had always liked art but beyond that it was a completely mystery to him.
If she were a lesser person he would say that she would be playing with fire because it was part of a joy ride but he knew she wasn’t that stupid she was a very methodical thinker just like mother, she also knew how to stay out of trouble and make herself invisible. Or at least up until recently as he heard that her voice was suddenly getting much louder and more vocalized on her wants and desires and for the first time ever she was throwing comments back in people’s faces which she’d also done to him today.
This was where her character and personality was separating from her mothers and that was also fascinating and unexpected. He’d always assumed that she would never fight that she would remain in Shinji’s shadow but she was now clearly drifting out of it and going in her own direction and she had even moved in with the woman opposite and sold her old small apartment off. She knew full well that he could punish her for his comment over him not liking her because she looked like her mother. She’d tried to say it before once many years ago and he’d cut her down part way through and told her to be quite and to remember her place maybe finally like his son her true face was finally being revealed. “You’re both dismissed.”
Rei eyed him typical she should have known he’d punish her speaking out he did it every time. “Are you dismissing us from the program?!” Gendo looked up speaking coldly. “No you are dismissed from this office for today you can return to your duties.” Rei turned taking hold of Asuka’s arm not thinking as she moved her towards the door she wasn’t interested in this twisted game! It was just like Shinji had said weird behaviour and strange questions. Asuka turned watching as the doors were shut behind them that was just outright strange and nothing about it had made her feel good, she now just felt even more nervous.
8
“So why do we have to do this shit again? I mean we’ve been doing this since Bardiel got eaten.”
The woman turned eyeing the man opposite who was pulling out the recording device of a scarecrow which was sitting in the rice fields some distance from them as Asuka’s Langley’s home where Gendo’s daughter now lived. “Quit complaining will you Orino, I don’t like dressing up as a dirty farmer and changing the camera’s card ether but what Pharaoh wants she gets.” Orino folded her arms. “This is bullshit Hachiro I don’t know why we can’t just break in there and bug the place also we are trained to kill people not do this kind of shit.”
Hachiro breathed in pulling out another memory card slotting in a new one. “Yeah that would be stupid, if anything we were told that Asuka will shoot you before you get inside she’s always carries around a Korth combat revolver and is a superb shot with it and she has no issue with shooting people. Someone did try after she moved in years ago a stupid overzealous stalker and she had no issue knee capping him in fact they said he was lucky to survive because she very nearly blew his brains out.”
Orino looked up. “Yeah right we could still take her.” Hachiro laughed as he looked up pretending to fix the scare crow. “Have you not seen the footage our spies got out of Nerv before they were captured? There’s hospital footage of her throwing a fucking hospital bed through the hospitals plate glass in a fit of rage.” He shook his head. “Oh yeah and almost all her teeth minus the front ones turn to fucking razor blades and she can change them back and forth unlike the other pilots, they say the insane strength only comes out during intense rage.”
He eyed the farm house. “Pharaoh said that the last thing we want to do is piss her off or make any threat towards her girlfriend, because she will just fucking kill anyone who crosses that line.” He eyed the scare crow adjusting its hat. “So her house is off limits we are just here to track her behaviour and patterns and report them back right down to what she eats and drinks how much she fucks that kind of crap since we get footage from the front window when the blinds are up.” Orino looked up. “Well she has sex with Gendo’s daughter a lot less than I would have thought which surprises me.”
She looked up eyeing the house. “I thought she used to have a ravenous sexual appetite and screw anything with a heartbeat yet she is really content to fuck this woman only now and again it’s really weird.” She wiped down her clothes adjusting the sun hat. “I still don’t get why this stuff is important though.” Hachiro looked up. “Don’t ask me I don’t know what our leader has planned but I’m not going to question her, she doesn’t like questions and the last idiot woman to over question her got shot in the office though I heard there was more to that story.”
Orino looked up. “I heard that her son was Asuka’s step father and Mari’s dad and he was obsessed with the Evangelion program he even slept with both Asuka’s mom Kyoko and Mari’s mother Lydia because they both were affiliated with Nerv and he wanted the information on them from the German division and he later divorced Asuka mother. He had no interest in ether of the girls he saw them as nothing but by-products to obtain his goals. Asuka he viewed as a bastard child because he wasn’t her real father and she was from a birth chamber and Mari he saw as weak and pathetic.”
He took in a deep breath as he lit a thin cigar. “He also didn’t like children with gay tendencies he was a real old world thinker, in that homosexuality makes a boy or girl weak and unfit to be warriors and soldiers and would make them weak emotionally which is totally crap and everyone knows it.” He looked up. “Asuka’s grandmother later took Asuka away a few years after her mother’s death and brought her up while he took Mari’s British mother Lydia for a ride and took all her money than ran once he had the remaining information he needed.”
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He eyed the house. “Then one of our rivals stepped in and killed him along with Mari’s mother Lydia but his mother was adamant that she would complete his life’s work which at the time he was so close to completing.” He breathed in cigar before breathing out the smoke. “Which she finally has now and it’s only a matter of time before her oldest grandchildren from her son’s first marriage both have Evangelion’s Christopher now has his and Achika’s is a day away from completion.”
He eyed the scarecrow. “We also have the Lance of Longinus the first one which is currently dead all we need now is its forma owner to breath back life in to it and call up on its twin who is still hidden.” Orino folded her arms. “Yeah but Asuka created those two spears of destiny shouldn’t that be of concern?” Hachiro felt a cold smile form. “Hardly word has it she can’t get them to work there meant to create life, yet in her units hands they do nothing and to me that makes sense she was not born to be a creator she was born to be a destroyer it is her natural calling and now she is finally ready to give that power to us. She doesn’t need it in this life and she being deeply selfish keeping it all to herself...”
8
Maya breathed in deeply as she looked up from her desk in her office where she was typing up another report while looking at the holographic projection opposite which was showing Rei and Asuka’s over lapping bran waves. She was surprised that Ritsuko wasn’t in her office right now banging on about what had happened since it had been recorded by the press and media who also wanted answers.
She took a sip of her Latte not that she really had anything worthwhile to give her in her report and she was wondering if she even should because this whole thing seemed very intimate and deeply personal since it was about sharing thoughts and minds. She was perplexed she knew that all the Evangelion’s had human souls inside them some were now awakened that was Yui who was in 01, Kiko her sister was in 00 and Kyoko was in 02 while Lydia was in Mari’s unit which was 04 so why had they done this?
What was there whole thinking behind having interconnecting tails on 00, 02 and 04? Granted those units had all lost their humanity they’d all become primal more powerful forms accept 01 it was some middle transformation and she knew this wasn’t the end 01 could fully change and Kaworu’s 03 and Toji’s 05 could very well be next. Granted 01 already had an crest horn with that opened in to two sections and claws on its hands but her gut was telling her that maybe years ago it had started its transformation but then stopped because maybe Shinji just wasn’t ready.
That also made sense as the transformation took a massive strain on the pilot and in both Mari and Asuka’s cases there had been a massive energy realise before both had passed out. Rei had not passed out but physically she’d been exhaustion and had, had difficulty standing it was also clear that eating an angel’s S² Engine could trigger it which what happened in both Rei and Shinji’s cases. All of the Evangelion’s had a working set of guts with stomach acid so caustic it could burn people to a crisp but it meant whatever they eat they turned to energy and it passed through their bodies enhancing them.
Asuka though had eaten almost two thirds of Bardiel while Rei had eaten his S² Engine and the two spears had been created by Asuka because her Evangelion just couldn’t take in all that energy so she had forced it out and the two spears of destiny had been created. She looked at her holographic document as she deleted a line only to hear a tapping on the glass she looked up catching sight of Mari who was grinning at her through the glass.
She pushed her short tailed hair back as she eyed her, she really couldn’t figure Mari out, she understood Asuka and there were a hell of a lot of similarities between them but there was a complete separation in how they acted on a private level. Asuka was always serious whereas Mari could be like a big kid and be extremely crude at times unlike Asuka she had no filter she said what she felt but it was more comments about sex where as Asuka comments were more about her voicing her annoyance.
She turned in her chair knowing this was going to be yet another attempt to chat her up, she signalled watching as Mari came in through the door though she clearly had gifts she put her hand on her temples, it wasn’t that she didn’t like Mari, she just didn’t think this was about love she’d only recently come out publicly though she’d been in the closet privately and hiding her life style for over a year and possibly longer from what the British division had said.
She felt though that this was not really about any kind of love but more infatuation and maybe uncertainty because the people around her were going in to relationships and she wasn’t. There was also the added difficulty that like Asuka she was coming in for therapy though her therapy was to do with over drinking and a lot of bottled up feeling regarding the murder of her mother and her sexuality and maybe it was better that she got that worked out first. She looked up as the tall woman who gave her wide smile. “You know your therapy session isn’t until tomorrow.” Mari moved closer to her desk. “But I come bearing gifts.”
She put the wrapped package down. “You know since you’re now Major Rank.” Maya took in a deep breath as Mari she sat down folding her legs as she gave her, her sweetest smile possible speaking softly. “I wanted to give you my congratulations.” Maya eyed her for a long moment as she took hold of the package. “Okay.” She slowly opened it watching as a large fluffy cushion came in to view with a smiling cats face on it, she felt a smile form. “This is really nice I used to have one like this years ago but it was very different in its colours.”
Mari looked up turning serious. “What happened to it?” Maya eyed the cushion truth was she’d thrown it away because after Ritsuko’s rejection and after her promotion she had seen it as a childish thing to have and that she should just grow up as she was taking more responsibility plus it just gave her bad memories of Ritsuko.” She eyed Mari she knew the younger woman wasn’t stupid she was sharp as hell and the only way she could know about this was if Misato had told her. “I lost it.” She put the cushion down eyeing Mari. “Why are you really here Mari?” Mari pushed up her glasses. “Maybe I just like visiting you and I like your company.”
Maya looked up slightly. “You know Nerv has plenty of other women you can visit I believe they have meet ups every Friday night.” Mari raised her hand. “Yeah you know I’m really not interested in that, plus I’m not in to that kind of clubbing. I used to do that back in Britain I used to bullshit the soldiers at the base back in London so they’d let me leave and I’d go and meet girls in gay clubs it got boring after a while.” She laughed slightly. “I’m not really interested in that right now I mean the last time I did it was three months ago and it wasn’t the same as before and I stressed about not being out and thinking that I never would be.”
She breathed in deeply. “Plus I don’t know any of those people at Nerv and it’s not like I can drag Asuka down there she hates loud blearing music and from what I’ve heard she’s still really sore over the fact that they all banned because of the whole thing with Hikari. Even though she was innocent and didn’t physically dominate or beat her in the bedroom and that ban was on her for three years solid.”
Maya looked up. “They did lift the ban on her a week ago and they’ve been sending her gifts as an apology from what I’ve heard.” Mari laughed. “Yeah if only they knew that she’s been bringing them in to work and leaving them in random places with post it notes saying free stuff so Nerv staff can have them.”
Maya looked up sharply. “Really?” Mari smirked. “Really plus Rei kind of talked to her in to it, because her first idea was to amuse herself by putting them on the rail tracks near their home and watch the trains drive over them.” Maya breathed in deeply somehow that first option didn’t really surprise her. “Yes well your younger sister does have a flair for doing the crazy and sometimes rash things when her temper gets the better of her.” Mari looked up. “You misunderstand she wasn’t angry this time Rei told me she saw the whole thing as amusing and rail road thing was purely for her own personal amusement.”
Maya raised her hand. “Yeah accept putting things on the rails in dangerous and might damage the trains or the rails there high speed magnet trains after all.” Mari leaned on her elbow. “What so you don’t find it just a tiny bit funny?” Maya looked up slightly. “Not really.” Mari felt a wide smile form. “Seriously you need to get out more have some fun.” Maya eyed her seeing just where the next line was going before Mari even spoke it. “Well I have work to do, so I won’t be going anywhere with you Mari.” Mari blinked okay that was just not great at all. “Why what’s wrong with going anywhere with me we could have a great time together and have some fun?”
Maya put a hand on her face. “Look I get it Mari, your life has become more open you’re not hiding your sexuality anymore and you are looking for someone to fill the emotional gap in your life but I am not that person plus you’re younger than me it would be inappropriate.” Mari leaned forward. “Oh come on that’s not fair! Plus Ritsuko was much older than you when you tried to pursue her.” Maya looked up sharply. “I would respect that you don’t bring that up! I know Misato loves to run her mouth off about my past history with her but it does not give you a reason to bring it up with me.” Mari felt her eyes dart. “Look I get it that woman hurt you but you shouldn’t let what she did to you rule your life.”
Maya closed her hologram desk down as she folded her arms. “It doesn’t rule me, you just can’t seem to take the hint that I’m not up for a relationship with you.” She breathed in deeply. “Plus your just not in that place emotionally and I think deep down you know that.” Mari eyed her in annoyance. “That’s nice thanks for judging me there but if you haven’t noticed most people aren’t always there as you put it when it comes to relationships because people are never perfect every ones flawed, so how’s about you tell me the truth.”
Maya put a hand through her hair in frustration. “It’s because you’re childish Mari! Everything to you can be a joke sometimes and I doubt you’d take a real relationship seriously.” She breathed in deeply. “On top of that I don’t have those kinds of feelings for you and up till now I’ve been nice about this but for you I think this is childish infatuations not real love and you told me about the women you bring home its always one night stands.” Mari breathed in trying to ignore the pain in her chest over those words. “I am not childish and this isn’t infatuation!”
She raised her hands. “If you want to see a fully grown woman child in action watch Misato off duty!” Maya looked up sharply. “Yes and I’ve had to work with that for over ten years, granted she’s my friend but I sometimes I get very sick of the hand holding and the fact that I have to point her in the right direction because she utterly fails to understand people at times.” She raised her hand. “I don’t want that in home life and that’s why it wouldn’t work out Mari!”
Mari stood up breathing in painfully, okay she had the right to say no but this could have been said so much better and she wasn’t even being honest she was just throwing these comments at her to get rid of her because she just didn’t want to take a chance. Not just on her but anyone because she just didn’t want to be hurt again clearly Ritsuko’s actions had screwed her up really badly all those year ago and more than anyone realized.
Now she was afraid to take a chance on anyone and deep down inside she probably didn’t know what her feelings were because she didn’t want to reconnect with them on any level her mother had, had that same issue after her father had walked out so she’d just filled the gap with alcohol. “Well this has been a bunch of one sided bullshit maybe we’ll talk again when you’re not in such a mean as fuck mood.”
She took in a deep breath before speaking trying to keep a hold on the anger that was building up. “Excuse me.” Maya watched her go only to hear the sudden scream of rage as the metal bin outside was suddenly kicked only for the crash to follow as it hit the floor someway down the corridor. She could see some of the general staff and hospital staff looking deeply confused through the glass on the other side.
She breathed in deeply she should have known that was coming and it was now going to bring up questions, though it wouldn’t be the first time this had happened. It had happened with Shinji who had punched a wall, Rei had shoved everything of a desk once and Asuka who had punched in and cracked the glass of a vending machine.” Mari was just trying to fill that gap in her life with other things and she wasn’t ready for a relationship of that kind.
She breathed in mildly hating that a part of her did find Mari very attractive but she knew it was just her sexual drive talking and not her heart and it didn’t equate to love. It was just lusting longings and she knew better than to trust her instincts on that, plus she just wasn’t up to any more childish crap with Misato it was annoying and she just didn’t want that in her life twenty four seven Mari would also get over this it was just a lusting phase and unlike Asuka she probably wasn’t at that point of her life where she could settle.
8
Misato breathed in deeply as she put the wiped the sweat from her brow as her gaze shifted to Kaji’s house he was another person who preferred the rural side of Tokyo Three though he loved on the complete opposite side to Asuka and Rei, but the train near their home could take you all the way to his home as he also had a train station opposite. Though his house was not a farm house it was a medium sized apartment inside one of the refurbished old Tokyo buildings and each person had a piece of land and they were very big areas.
She pulled the spade out this wasn’t as bad as she though it was going to be yes it was hard but somehow it felt rewarding to plant the seeds and crops while pulling up others. She turned watching as he finished throwing more corn cobs in the basket. “So when Shinji comes up here to help you what do you guys talk about?”
Kaji looked up as he finished his ice cream. “He just asks life questions it’s mostly about money and things like that, it’s normally house related.” He stood up from his kneeling position. “He did ask about Kaworu and liking him a few times but it was very awkward for him. Personally I didn’t mind just tried to help him as best I could but it was hard because it’s not a topic I know everything about so I couldn’t fill in the gaps in places.”
He eyed one of the planted rows. “He’s very good at planting though and moving the earth.” He turned eyeing one area that needed pulling as its harvest was almost ready. “Asuka is much better at harvesting it’s also the job she prefers and she loves getting messy.” Misato leaned on the spade. “Do any of the others come here?” Kaji raised his hand. “Apart from Rei no and she just came up with Asuka last week but they couldn’t stay long because Asuka tried to dig up some earth but she wasn’t up for it and the medication was making her tired. So I just sat them both down and gave them a drink instead and we just small talked.”
He looked up putting his hands in his pockets. “I know Kaworu has growing experience and his apartment has a roof top garden but he grows herbs in his patch not vegetables and I don’t think he likes being in gardens like this it reminds him to much of the war and his mother who he really misses. Shinji told me they used to spend a lot of time in the vegetable garden with her.” He breathed in deeply. “As for Toji and Mari I think it would take miracle to get ether of them here, they don’t seem to like manual labour and there both at difficult stages in their life.”
Misato eyed his apartment which was surrounded by green. “Why do you live here? I mean you could easily afford a place like mine.” Kaji looked up. “I like it here it’s quite gives me reflection to think and these apartments are all new inside it’s only the outer shell that looks a little worn.” He tapped the earth with his foot. “Ten years ago this was all red lake and destroyed second impact buildings now it’s green grass blue lakes and now it’s breathing and living thanks to the Oculus project.”
He looked around him. “If there’s ever proof that humanity can rebuild and try again it’s here.” Misato turned slightly. “Did you have those discs sent the ones that will tell the pilots the truth about their mothers being in the Evangelion’s?” Kaji turned. “Yes…it was delayed because the Seele six opposed the idea but they soon realized that it was in there favour and that Asuka could reveal the truth anyway as she was stuck in 02’s core for a long time.”
He looked up slightly. “Granted though they might not like Seele’s methods because they’ve sent the black guard to all their homes and they’ve all hacked the doors and then left the discs inside their homes. They’ll be here when they all get home tonight and it might cause a stir come tomorrow though I doubt any of them will say what’s on the disc they might talk about the fact that someone got in to their homes didn’t touch anything and dropped something on their kitchen table and they only sent them to those who have awakened units. They will send out the last two when the units awaken fully but not until.”
He breathed in deeply. “Oh and tomorrow should be interesting because the counter name for Toji’s unit 05 has finally come through.” Misato felt a smile form. “What is it?” Kaji smirked. “You’re going to like this one, its Karasu Tengu you know after the Crow demon.” Misato felt a smile form. “That’s quite fitting and the Chinese division will really like it I mean it seems that Toji is a very good flyer granted he’s not as perfect as Kaworu who is a real master but he has real talent and flair for it and it would be great to get another Evangelion who is really good at air combat.”
Kaji turned slightly. “The only thing I don’t like is how quite Cerberus, Ouroboros and Ankh have been since Bardiel’s death I mean it’s like they’ve gone in to silent mode, granted I know the spears of destiny are probably scaring them off but the whole thing makes me nervous because Nerv’s black guard who control the spy division which I used to be part of told me that they are not operating even in the undergrounds it’s weird.”
Misato adjusted her jacket. “I don’t like it ether it’s like that long silence you get before something bad happens and I know Bukavac has probably had all its repairs done by now but we know there are two more not just that one angel creation, so why not send in the others to attack us or the Evangelion’s?”
Kaji felt himself tense. “It turns my stomach to I think there waiting for something what that is though I don’t know.” Misato walked up him putting her arms around him pulling him close. “You know maybe we shouldn’t trouble ourselves with it and just enjoy the peace and quiet while it lasts.” Kaji wrapped his arms around her. “Yeah I guess we should enjoy it while it lasts.”
End of part 11
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