Living Between Angels

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Living Between Angels
Chapter 1: Shinji and Asuka


\"The recent wave of Angel attacks seems to have died down recently with the Eva\'s defeat of the eighth Angel to attack Tokyo -3 since the attacks first started. We now go live to...\"

It had been only a couple of months since he had started living in Tokyo-3, but already Shinji Ikari had gotten used to life with Misato and Asuka. It could get hectic at times, but there were a few times when he could relax and not have to think about anything. It was Thursday night, and he was watching the local news about the most recent Angel attack. They tended to focus more on the damage that was done to the city by both the Angels and the Eva\'s, but it helped him remember just why he was fighting.

\"Well, if you can see behind me--*click*--and that was our number 4 video on the countdown!\"

Surprised at the sudden change of the channel, Shinji turned to see Asuka standing over him with a smug look on her face. She looked down at him, rather than at the television. She seemed to enjoy watching him get upset with her more than the music videos that were playing on the TV.

\"What did you do that for?\" asked Shinji, who was more that a little upset. \"I was watching that.\"

\"Why on Earth would you want to watch the news? It\'s boring!\" replied Asuka.

\"Maybe I like the news. Did you ever think of that?\"

\"Yeah, well, I like music videos.\"

\"But I was watching the news already.\"

\"And now I\'m watching music videos.\"

Shinji reached for the remote as Asuka moved to sit down. Unfortunately, he missed entirely, and fell over Asuka, knocking over a lamp.

*CRASH!*

\"What the hell was that?\" cried Misato from her bedroom. She came storming out of her room and saw the broken lamp lying on the floor, Asuka watching music videos like nothing happened, and Shinji boring a hole in the back of her head with his eyes.

\"Well?\" she queried. \"What happened here?\"

\"Shinji knocked over the lamp,\" Asuka replied quickly without turning her head.

\"Because she tripped me,\" Shinji said, trying to defend himself.

\"Only because you were reaching to grab at me.\"

\"I was trying to get the remote from you.\"

\"You don\'t need the remote. We\'re watching this.\"

\"But I was watching the news.\"

As they both began to talk over each other, Misato practically lost it. \"Alright, that\'s it!\" she cried. \"You two have been living together long enough to not be fighting like this. Now, I didn\'t want to do this, but I think it\'s time you two learned something about each other. Go to your rooms. Now!\"

\"But--!\" they both started.

\"No \'buts\',\" Misato replied. \"Go.\"

They both grumbled as Misato turned off the TV and walked into their respective rooms, wondering what sort of punishment Misato had in store for them.


Shinji was lying on his bed staring at the ceiling when his door slid open. He turned his head to see Misato looking at him with a blank look on her face.

\"Shinji,\" she said, \"I want you to write for me your schedule for tomorrow, and bring it to me in the kitchen at 7:30. It\'s 7 now, so you have thirty minutes.\"

Wondering what exactly was going on, Shinji just said \"Okay,\" and started to move over to his desk.

\"Oh, and Shinji,\" Misato said as she was closing the door to his room.

\"Yes?\"

\"I want you to write down everything you were going to do tomorrow.\"

\"Everything?\"

\"Everything.\"

Shinji worried slightly at this because there were some things he didn\'t want Misato to know about that he was supposed to do tomorrow, but resigned himself to his punishment, and began to write down his schedule.

\"Let\'s see. 7 a.m., wake up. She wanted everything? Alright. Everything. 7:03, use the bathroom. 7:05, get dressed...\"

He carried on like this until he had his entire day written down practically to the minute. When he finished, he looked up at the clock and saw that it was almost 7:30, so he went out into the kitchen to find Misato sitting at the table in her uniform, sipping a beer. Shinji tried to hand his schedule to Misato, but she just shook her head and took a sip of beer. Puzzled, Shinji sat down at the table with his schedule. To his surprise, Misato took his schedule and flipped it face down on the table so that neither of them could read it.

It was a few more minutes of silence and sipping until Asuka came out of her room with what looked like a schedule in her hand. She simply sat down at the table across from Shinji and placed her schedule facedown.

Misato looked at them both, and then placed a hand each on their schedules. Looks of puzzlement came to the face of both Shinji and Asuka as she took both schedules and slid them across the table to where the other had been.

\"Now,\" Misato said, standing up, \"I have to go into NERV for a meeting. I won\'t be back until after you go to school tomorrow. In front of you are your schedules for tomorrow. Starting at eight o\'clock tonight, you two are going to learn about each other by becoming each other. You will sleep in each others\' rooms tonight, and tomorrow, you will follow these schedules to the letter.\"

\"What about clothes?\" asked Shinji.

\"Well, Shinji, assuming that the schedule in front of you says to get dressed, you will get dressed in what Asuka would wear to school, assuming that it says to go to school. And you will do anything else that is on that schedule. The same goes for you, Asuka. I will leave you two to hold each other accountable and make sure that the other does what they are supposed to.\"

And with that, Misato stood up and started to walk for the door. When she reached the door, she turned around and said, \"Remember: starting in,\" she looked at her watch, \"15 minutes, you are the person who is sitting across from you for the next twenty-four hours.\" Misato turned and walked out the door.

Shinji just looked at Asuka, who stared back at him. Both were somewhat afraid to turn over the schedule in front of them. Finally, they both flipped over their schedules at the same time and began to read.

\"Well, this doesn\'t seem so bad,\" thought Shinji as he read. \"Wake up, use the bathroom, take a bath.\" Then he read the next line. \"Wait. Do I have to do this?\" he asked.

\"Do what?\" Asuka asked, looking over at the schedule she had written. \"Oh, that. Yes, I was going to do that tomorrow, so now you have to.\"

\"I have to shave my legs?\" Shinji asked, somewhat concerned.

\"Yep,\" she replied. \"Don\'t worry, it gets worse.\"

\"It does?\" Shinji began to fear for his life, and then he remembered some of the things he had written. \"Well, so does mine.\"

Asuka quirked her eyebrow at him, and then went back to reading. Then she found what he was talking about. \"You can\'t be serious,\" she protested.

\"Oh, I am,\" Shinji said without even looking up from his new schedule. \"Rei and I have been doing that every Friday before lunch for the past two months.\"

Asuka read the line again. 11:30 a.m., eat out Rei. She swallowed hard, and tried to wonder what Rei would say when she found out that Asuka was supposed to be Shinji tomorrow.

\"If I\'m really good, she does it back to me,\" said Shinji, trying to offer consolation.

\"Well, that\'s flattering, I suppose,\" Asuka said sullenly as she went back to reading.

\"Yeah, well, I just got to \'4 p.m.\' on here,\" Shinji said unhappily.

Asuka simply giggled at him. \"Oh yeah,\" she said. \"I almost forgot about that one.\"

Shinji looked back down at what was written for 4 p.m.: give Kaji head. He could almost feel himself gagging already.

\"Don\'t worry,\" Asuka said. \"You\'ll get used to it. Just take it slowly at first.\"

Asuka couldn\'t believe she was giving tips to Shinji on how to give good head, but she couldn\'t help giggling at the thought.

\"Well, it looks like tomorrow is going to be quite an adventure,\" observed Shinji.

Asuka simply said \"Yeah.\"

Shinji looked up at the clock and saw that it was a little past eight already. \"Well, Shinji,\" he tried it out, \"it looks like it\'s time to start. I think I\'m going to go to bed early. Um, what do you normally wear to bed?\"

\"Well, Asuka,\" said Asuka, smiling, \"usually just one of my long t-shirts. What about you?\"

\"A t-shirt and some boxers.\"


\"Goodnight, Asuka.\"
\"Goodnight, Shinji.\"