Spirit within part 3: Evangelion.
Ch.3 Shinji's bad mood.

	Shinji smiled his best smile as Misato growled and stared at him
angrily. "You must be cheating!" she declared at last.
	"Misato, how can you say that? It's nearly impossible to cheat at
rock, paper, scissors." he declared triumphantly. The fact was he had
been cheating, he was using the amaguriken technique and making it look
like they were going at the same time. Shinji was waiting until he knew
what she had and put the appropriate hand sign out a split second before
she could see he hadn't gone yet. "It's her fault for trying to throw all
the chores on me this way." he told himself.
	"Fine, we'll just split em' fifty fifty..." muttered Misato
reluctantly.
	"Such an example you set for me Misato-chan. To think, you,
shirking off responsibility like that." said Shinji as he away from her
casually.
	"You watch your mouth! I'm older than you ya know!" cried Misato
in annoyance.
	"I don't do dishes." said Shinji glancing at her with a smug
smile.
	"Fine, but half and half other than that." agreed Misato finally.
	Shinji made a little victory sign as he stood and went into his
room.
	A half hour later Misato stood from her meal and went towards her
own room. She paused by Shinji's room and frowned as she heard heavy
breathing from inside. She stood there for a moment and blushed slightly.
"Maybe he isn't as cool as he thinks. I am an attractive woman after all
and he's here all by himself with me. I guess it's only natural..." she
thought about it for a few moments and a few memories came back to her.
Namely Shinji flashing her in the bathroom to demonstrate his 'change'.
She smiled wickedly and rubbed her hands together. "That little jerk
needs his ego brought down a bit." she thought as she grabbed the door
and pulled it open.
"Shinji are you all right? I heard a noise in he..." she froze and stared
at what she saw in disbelief.

	Shinji was standing in a full vertical splits kick and casually
turned to face her without lowering his leg. He had his shirt off and had
been going through an advanced kata. He was completely buff at the moment
and very sweaty. He smiled and waved at her. "I'm fine Misato, just
practicing." he chimed cheerfully as he finally let his leg down and
stood relaxed in front of her. She just stared at the boy and thought
back to the scrawny kid she had seen earlier. He wasn't really any larger
at the moment, it's just that he was now more...solid. She was having
trouble regaining her senses as she was completely shocked yet again. 
	"Uh, can I help you?" asked Shinji after a few moments. Misato
passed out again.
	"I still got that old Saotome charm I guess." muttered Shinji as
he picked up the poor woman and carried her to her bed.

	Misato woke about twenty minutes later cursed at herself at being
so easily surprised. She had seen much better built men in her time and
with much less clothing. The boy was half her age for god's sake. She
just wasn't expecting it from Shinji. The way he carried himself and
talked was the way much larger boy's acted who weren't afraid of being
hit, she really should have known. But he seemed so, weak and small,
almost casual all the time. It had unnerved her a great deal. Now she had
to go out and deal with him, and hope that his ego hadn't just inflated
ten times. She sighed and stood with a grimace on her face as she went
out to face the monster she no doubt had just created, "He probly thinks
I'm gonna try to jump him tonight or something."

	Shinji was sitting at the table with Pen Pen eating a candy bar
lazily. She emerged and looked at him groggily.
	"If your that tired go back to sleep." he said not even looking
at her.
	"Maybe I should." she said turning back to her room.
	"Hey, Misato?" chimed the boy cheerfully.
	Misato grit her teeth and turned to face him. "Yes?" she mumbled
grumpily.
	"You OK? I didn't mean to surprise you like that." he said
looking at her with what seemed like genuine interest.
	"I'm fine, I just, I shouldn't have barged in like that." she
replied quietly. "I'm goin' ta bed."
	"You do that, you'll feel better in the morning." said Shinji
with what would become a painfully cheerful grin to her in the coming
days. 

	Pen Pen looked at Shinji and he smiled at the animal. "Well, I
happen to think it was a good idea to not tell her she left her shirt
open. It's not my fault she wasn't wearing any underwear." he said
defensively. The Penguin simply snorted and downed a the beer it had been
drinking.

	Misato sighed and lay in her bed with a small smile. "Maybe he
isn't so bad after all." she thought to herself as she rolled onto her
side. Her eyes went wide as she realized that she felt strange. She
glanced down and saw that her shirt had been undone the whole time. She
turned completely red and sat upright suddenly. "Shinji you pervert!"

	It had been a week since his arrival in Tokyo-3 and Shinji was
never so board in all his life. It was his second day of class, he sat
and listened to the teacher drone on and on about the second impact
without even paying attention to the class. Shinji mostly ignored the
senile old man they had as a teacher. He knew most of what he was saying
was a lie anyway. He glanced around the room, besides a few students most
of the students studied or simply suffered through the lecture. He
himself had been rather withdrawn and quiet for his first day in the
class, few students bothered to even try to talk to him. Those who did
were friendly enough but already had their own groups of friends picked
out. Shinji didn't mind though he was enjoying the quiet moment of this
life even with the boredom that came with it.
	He did, however, manage to pick up one conversation in particular
in the room over all his quiet musings. Two girls sitting pretty near to
him were trying to keep quiet and failing miserably.
	"Did ya hear?" said one of them, she had blonde hair that was
tied back in a pony tail.
	"Hmmm?" replied the other girl. She had styled short cut black
hair.
	"All the guys have been talking about it..." 
	Shinji smiled as this conversation became familiar. "So it's time
I decided what I'm going to tell them." he muttered to himself. He didn't
see the boy sitting behind him push his glasses up his nose habitually
and start typing on his laptop. Everyone in the class had one so the
teacher probably assumed he was taking notes and said nothing.
	The conversation continued and Shinji smiled to himself a little.
"You know that boy who transferred in yesterday? They say he's the pilot
of that robot!" said the girl with the pony tail.
	"What? You're kidding! Are you serious?" exclaimed the dark
haired girl earning a glare from the teacher. The two sat in embarrassed
silence for the rest of the class.
	
	Shinji smirked at this and looked across the room at Rei. She was
sitting on the far side of the room and was probably the only person in
the room paying attention. She still had her eye patch and was wearing a
light cast on her arm, she seemed lifeless to him, almost like a statue
or robot. Still, there was no denying how much she looked like his
mother. "So, what am I going to do about you Imoto-chan?" he thought
idly. After a few moments of staring he realized what he was doing and
broke it off to stare at the teacher. Finally the bell rang to end class
and the students all stood and bowed politely.
	"Hey Ikari, got a minute" said one of the girls who had been
talking earlier.
	"Not really, but I can make one." replied Shinji with a small
grin.
	"How come you transferred here just when people are starting to
evacuate?" asked the blonde.
	"Because of my father." replied Shinji.
	"The rumor's true isn't it?" asked the blonde. She was very
forward, the other girl was obviously trying to be polite and not say
much.
	"Rumor?" said Shinji innocently.
	"Don't play dumb. The rumor that you're that robot's pilot!"
blurted the dark haired girl finally.
	"Is it true?" said the blonde.
	Shinji gave a small frown and shook his head. "That is
classified." he replied.
	"Ohmygod! I knew it!" screeched the blonde.
	Almost everyone in the class turned immediately towards him.
Shinji got a sick look on his face and shrunk into his seat as he was
bombarded with questions.
	"How'd they choose you?"
	"Was there a test or something?"
	"Say, weren't you scared?"
	"Does it have a special attack?"
	"What was that monster? Is it some country's secret weapon?" said
one of the girls.
	Shinji turned to face her and frowned again. "That is classified,
all I can tell you is it's called an 'Angel'." he replied. 
	"You think your all that but you don't know nothin'" said a voice
over the crowd. "Are you stupid?"
	Shinji turned to see an athletic looking boy in a jumpsuit
leaning against the doorway. 
	Shinji was about to speak when one of the girls spoke up.
"Suzahara Toji! You missed a whole week of school without permission..."
	"It's none of your business." retorted the boy.
	"You must be this charming gentlemen's girlfriend." snorted
Shinji earning a small collective laugh from the class.
	"We are not dating!" retorted the pair.
	The boy stormed towards Shinji throwing anything in his way to
the side and slammed his hands on Shinji's desk.
	"Yo, new kid. Step out side. Now."

	Shinji stood and cheerfully as ever stood across from Toji. "Okay
new kid...Listen up! My younger sister was hurt bad...she's still in the
hospital. My dad and gramps work in your lab, and I'm da only one who can
stay with her. It ain't the going there that I mind, but supposin she
ends up with some kind of scar or something? She'll never be a babe.
Doncha feel sorry for her?"
	"Misato has a scar and she's a babe." replied Shinji mechanically
pretending he didn't understand.
	"Shut up you! Who's fault do you think it was?" roared Toji.
	"The pilot of Unit 01?" answered Shinji.
	"That's right your fault! She was pinned under rubble because you
had to go crashin around! Don't think your so hot just because they're
all over you!" screamed Toji in his anger.
	"Tell me...what would have happened to your sister if the Eva
Unit wasn't there?" asked Shinji quietly. The class gasped in shock.
	"You tryin to make fun of me?" roared the boy.
	"Toji stop it!" cried the boy with the glasses as he grabbed the
much larger boy and tried to hold him back.
	"Let him go." said Shinji to the smaller boy.
	"Huh?" replied the kid as he let go. 
	Toji glared at Shinji and grit his teeth.
	"You think all this posing and fighting will help your sister? Go
ahead and try to hit me. See what it gets you and maybe you'll learn that
you can't solve problems like this with your fist." said Shinji coldly.
	Toji charged and swung clumsily at Shinji who simply dodged. This
enraged the boy even more and he swung harder and faster. Shinji easily
and fluidly weaved and dodged around Toji's blows never letting the smile
disappear from his face. Toji swung clumsily using only brute force in
his punches. It was allot for someone his age but nothing for someone
like Shinji.
	"Stop your squirming!" cried Toji enraged. Shinji stopped cold
and let Toji hit him dead in the jaw. Shinji didn't even flinch. 
	"Hey, you can't go around decking important pilots!" cried the
kid with the glasses in shock.
	Toji stayed with his arm planted in Shinji's face for a moment
before howling in pain. "You bastard!"
	"You see what your foolish anger gets you? Your weak, try doing
something for her instead of taking it out on other people. Besides, I
never said I was the pilot of Unit one, SHE is a girl." said Shinji as he
walked away calmly.
	Toji about blew a vessel. "What?! You bastard! You mean I did all
that for nothing?!" he roared in his anger. The kid with the glasses
tried to hold him back.
	"Calm down Toji!" he cried.
	"Kensuke, Getoffa me!" he cried and hit him on the head. He
turned and Shinji was gone. 
	"Hey, where did that Ikari kid go?" said one of the class
members.
	
	In the class room the only one who had stayed behind watched from
a window quietly. Rei Ayanami just stood silently as she watched Shinji
leap out of the tree he had vanished in while no one was looking and
sneak away with a grin on his face. He turned and gave her a small salute
before vanishing over the school's outside wall and disappearing into the
streets. "Strange." she murmured simply.

	Shinji sat in the cockpit of Unit one and  watched the screens
with a board expression on her face. She found she hated LCL even more
than water, it smelled like blood. Strangely though she felt completely
comfortable in her surroundings, even with her curse.
	"So peeping tom, how goes it?" said Misato's voice over the comm
system.
	"Misato you are so juvenile. That's first aid and you know it,
besides, you haven't got anything I don't have better." retorted Shinji
as she stuck out her chest with an evil smile.
	Misato growled and said nothing. Ritsuko appeared on a screen
inside the cockpit with a bewildered gaze. "You take pride in that?" she
asked.
	"If you have to live with it, live with it well." was the reply.
	"I understand you got into a fight today." said Misato coldly.
Apparently she decided to be hard on him over the incident because of his
charming wit.
	"Get over it. I'm a martial artist Misato, I get into 'incidents'
all the time. It's what I do." snorted the girl as she checked the
systems inside the Eva casually.
	"Not in school you don't." said the woman angrily.
	"Another time another place Misato. Besides if you read the
report you'd know I was attacked and didn't exchange blows. He couldn't
even hit me until I let him." said Shinji idly as he finished up his
systems check. It was obvious he was mostly ignoring the woman.
	Misato, to say the least, was pissed. "Look here you, I'm your
guardian and you had better start listening to me or..."
	"Or you'll what? I know you were ordered to take me and I like it
about as much as you do. I'm more of an adult than you've ever been Miss
Katsuragi so you'd better stop pretending to be my parent. You seem to
think that because I'm younger than you that I'm some kind of sex crazed
deviant or something and I'm sick of being treated like some kind of
perverted sex fiend just because I've seen you naked once. This
conversation is over." said Shinji bitterly.
	
	Ritsuko turned off the monitor and sat back in her chair. "Where
did that come from?" she muttered to Misato. 
	"We...haven't been getting along well." said the woman sadly.
	"I see, Shinji are you ready for today's training?" she said as
she turned the communication with the Eva back on.
	"Heh, I'm ready for anything." said the girl with a cruel looking
smile.
	Misato piped in a completely professional tone. "Eva's exit
gates, emergency power sources, locations of armored buildings, and
recovery sites. Have you gotten them all memorized?"
	"Sure babe, just let me at those damn Angels." said Shinji
confidently.
	"Start Induction mode." yelled Misato to the technicians on the
other side of the room.
	Shinji laughed a little as the computer generated battle
simulation appeared and the Angel appeared off to his right. She raised
the practice gun and fired off a clean shot that took the target dead in
the center. 
	"Very good Shinji, here comes the next one." praised Ritsuko as
she worked at the computer station.
	"She is good." said Misato reluctantly as she watched the Eva
move fluidly and easily. It was strange to see characteristics in the
movement of the pilots in the Evas as well. Thinking back to Rie's first
tests in Unit one she realized that it was probably not uncommon though.
Rei moved so mechanically that it didn't seem out of place for the
robotic looking Eva's to move that way.
	"Good? She is amazing. I'd almost think she had combat training
of some kind the way she moves." said Ritsuko. The girl still had a long
way to go in basic maneuvering but she was still far more skilled than
Rei or even Asuka if the scores alone were anything to go by. Shinji hit
over ninety percent of his targets dead on in just a week of intensive
training. 
	"How on earth did they get him back in the Eva?" asked Ritsuko as
she looked at the intense gaze Shinji was giving the targets.
	"I thought she would run away crying after what happened before,
but she seems to want to, even though she doesn't seem to enjoy it. I'd
say she almost hates it." said Misato with a strange gaze at Shinji's
image.

	Shinji sat in the cockpit of the Eva and let her reflexes take
over completely. She was almost in a daze of thought.
	"Well, I'm off to an OK start, I guess.	Do I really think
I can help these people? Do I really want to live through this
mess?...That doesn't really matter I suppose since I'm already here.
Still, it takes more than one bad moment to make a Shi shi Houkou dan.
I've got to think this through." she blasted another target to oblivion
and grit her teeth as the next target appeared. "I've got to get away
from all this for a little while or I'll go nuts."

	Shinji walked into the apartment with a bag of groceries and
opened the door. He stood silently as he saw Misato standing in the
shower. A dark smile crossed his lips as he watched for a moment.
	"That's not safe. Why just anyone could walk in..." he muttered
with a sly look on his face. He glanced down to see Pen-pen staring at
him quietly.
	"Your damn right I'm gonna do something. This is too much to pass
up." said the boy as he snuck into the kitchen and placed the bag on the
counter. 
	He glanced around the room and noticed a book labeled 'Project E:
Third Child supervision record.' He frowned a little and flipped through
the pages idly. "Hit on right cheek by much larger student, Suzahara
Toji(age 14). Showed no signs of bruising. Do not regard this as a
problem, he was slugged pretty good though don't understand why he wasn't
hurt, that punch should have sent him to the ground! Will wait for
intelligence report on cause of problem. He is one arrogant bastard
though.
	Shinji frowned and remembered suddenly that Misato was in the
shower.

	Misato stood soaking up the warmth of the shower and sighed in
contentment. The water suddenly became Ice cold. She shrieked and jumped
out of the room quickly grabbing a towel from just outside the shower. A
flash of light blinded her momentarily and she saw Shinji sitting at the
table with a wrench and a huge grin on his face. He was also holding a
camera. She froze.
	"You know, You shouldn't leave the door unlocked like that, just
anyone could walk in!" he said as he snapped another photo. "Gee, barely
a handful my dear. I really am better built than you, a pity really." 
	Misato's face twisted into a mask of pure rage. "You perverted
bastard! Give me that film!" she roared.
	"Catch me first!" said Shinji as he pulled down his eyelid and
stuck his tongue out at her.

	An hour later a heavily panting Misato sat at the table with a
smug grin on her face. Shinji sat opposite her in female guise with a
frown. They had a large meal of instant food sitting between them.
	"It's not my fault you turned the hot water off ya know." said
the woman with an evil grin of her own. 
	"That's OK I don't mind being a girl. I just wish you hadn't sat
on me to get that film back. You weigh a ton on such a delicate young
flower like myself." said Shinji with an evil looking grin.
	Misato got a sour look, "You know you've got a real attitude
problem, you know that?" 
	"Yea, I know but at least I'm working on it Misato-chan." said
Shinji indignantly.
	"Watch your mouth, and what do you mean, you've been a rotten
little bastard ever since I've known you." said Misato grumpily.
	"I'm not used to being around women that's what I mean. It's been
a long time since I'd even seen one before I got here. I guess the monks
weren't much on social skills." said the girl dryly.
	"You sound like you need a drink, if you weren't so young..."
said Misato looking at him calmly.
	"Don't be so naive' Misato. I was in a monastery, I practically
grew up on Sake, I can handle my liquor better than you can." snorted the
girl, "I ought to be able to with my job."
	"You drink?" asked Misato in surprise.
	"Not excessively like -some- people, but yes." said Shinji
calmly.
	"I am not an alcoholic!" said Misato defensively.
	"Who the hell said I was talking about you?" said Shinji with a
small grin. 
	"Any way, most people will let me buy a can of Sake occasionally.
Especially if they know where I used to live." said the girl.
	"Well you do seem to be getting used to operating the Eva which
is good, the only thing I could ask is for you to be quicker to act upon
your orders." said the woman as she took another swig of her can of cheap
beer.
	"Well, I still haven't mastered the controls, I'm still growing
accustomed to operating that thing." snorted Shinji as she picked at her
meal for a moment. "Besides, I'm still not good enough to be in a real
fight."
	"Hey! What kind of thinking is that? You did great against that
angel! Your scores in simulation are exceptional! If you keep piloting
that Eva like you don't care you'll be dead before you know it!" said
Misato in shock.
	"My scores aren't a hundred percent yet. Simulation is not
reality, if I'm not careful someone could end up dead." said Shinji
calmly. "When I die, it won't be at the hands of any angel, I promise you
that. Death does not concern me."
	"If you pilot with that kind of attitude you'll be killed!" cried
Misato angrily as she slammed her can on the table.
	"Think what you like Misato. I don't care anymore." sighed the
girl.
	"Dammit Shinji! Your body doesn't belong to you anymore! You're
an important pilot to us! How can you talk like that?!" said Misato in
anger.
	"Could you stop leaning over the table like that? I'm trying to
eat here." said Shinji as she pointed down Misato's now exposed cleavage.
	"Dammit girl! Is that how you react to any confrontation? No
wonder your so alone in the world, you can't even control your mouth."
said Misato with a dark look on her face as she stared the young girl
down hard.
	"Don't try to intimidate me Misato, you aren't strong enough to
hurt me if I let you. If you ever try to tell me that my body belongs to
anyone but me again I'll walk out that door and I won't look back. I'm
here because I want to be and no other reason. Humanity will survive
without me some how. It always has in the past and it will continue to do
so. I'm not gonna play angst ridden hero for your little play so you can
forget about that okay!?" said Shinji angrily as she returned the gaze
evenly she stood and turned away from the table.
	"Hey! Where are you going?" cried Misato hotly as she watched her
for a moment.
	"To bed...Maybe your right about my mouth. But the alternative is
worse, believe me. Don't worry about me Misato, those angel's 'll never
know what hit 'em." said Shinji with a grin as she flexed her arm and
walked into her room closing the door behind her. Her face changed the
instant she was alone. "I've got to get away for a while." she muttered.

	The next day Shinji stood on the roof of the school building
alone during his lunch period practicing a loose Kata on one of the rails
that ran along the edge. He felt at peace here and smiled lightly as the
movements flowed smoothly. He smiled as he realized that he was not
alone. "Well, are you going to say something or just stand there gawking
all day? I'm a busy man Suzahara, Ida." he said without looking at them.
	Ida started clapping. "Cool!" he cried. Toji hit him on the head
and he stopped.
	"Moron! What makes you think we'd want anything from you?!" cried
Toji angrily. Shinji could tell that he didn't really mean it. "I may not
have a reason for talkin to you...but one thing's for sure. I hate your
guts!" said the boy as he moved directly into Shinji's face.
	"What are you gonna do? Hit me? If you don't want anything leave,
I can't afford to worry about how you'll feel every time I do something."
Said Shinji as he stood unimpressed, he jumped back onto the railing and
started his Kata again. 
	"Hey, you can't ignore me!" roared Toji.
	"Can't I? Try and stop me." said Shinji as he continued
unimpressed. 
	"Fine! Remember you asked for it! Don't go cryin to nobody
afterwards." said Toji as he swung at Shinji who simply moved lightly out
of the way without breaking his kata. This went on for several minutes.
	Toji was pissed. "You show off! I'll get you yet!" he cried as he
grabbed the fence in frustration.
	"Who are you to talk? Besides you're interrupting my practice
with this nonsense." snorted Shinji as he continued.
	Toji tried to jump onto the rail and shove Shinji off it. Shinji
moved out of the way easily and caught the boy by the shirt as he fell
off the edge himself. Toji had a look of complete terror on his face.
"Now, are you going to stop this nonsense or do I have to let you fall
into the pool?" said Shinji calmly as ever.
	Toji only nodded vigorously and Shinji put him back on the roof a
little roughly. 
	Shinji looked at Ida and grinned a little. "This never happened."
he told him. The boy only nodded in amazement.
	"Ikari." said a quiet voice. The three boys turned to see Rei
standing there. "We just received an emergency call. I'll see you there."
said the girl.
	"Sure thing Imoto-chan!" chirped Shinji cheerfully.
	The girl gave him a strange look and turned away. Shinji ran
after her and caught up with her as she reached the door back into the
school. They walked together silently.
	"I-Imoto..." stammered Ida.
	"He's Ayanami's brother? No wonder he's so weird." said Toji as
he huffed for a moment.

	Off over the waters of the pacific ocean the fourth angel
approached...
	TBC...

	Well I finished another Chapter of this, I can't wait until Asuka
meets this Shinji, that's why I've been writing this so often recently.
I'm in no real hurry to finish but I'd like to get to that point in a
month or two. It'll be interesting to see how their relationship goes.
Especially when their ego's clash. I suppose it's good because I haven't
worked out how Asuka will see Shinji's curse, especially since she'll
figure out that he doesn't mind it fairly quickly. But that's still a
while off yet. 
	I think it's kind of ironic that he gets mad about her treating
him like a pervert and then proves her right. I suppose it wasn't really
perverted if you consider the fact that he doesn't really care about her
nudity, Misato won't see it that way. Still, they are starting to warm up
to each other a little.
	BTW, Toji is mad at Shinji for making him look stupid, not
because he still thinks he is the pilot of Unit One.
I should have Spirit within 2 the fourth night out either later today or
Monday. [I can't post on weekends.] Ifurita is finally appearing and
Makoto and Ryo will have their hands full with her, Ryo has his own
problems as well.
	Ranma vs Street fighter: England is in the works as well and
should also be out either today or Monday. I've only got about four or
five chapters left on that one. After England they'll move on to America
and then Tailand for the final battle which may take up a good bit of
story.
	In Heart of flame breath of fire. Ryu makes his move at last and
faces Taro and Cologne. But how can he possibly be strong enough to face
them both when he can't even beat Akane? Ranma and Cartson have troubles
of their own as they meet a real Dragon in the tunnels under Nerima built
by the beast in the storm drain system. It also seems capable of speech.
Where the hell have Mousse and Shampoo been? This question is answered as
well.
	And finally Permanent has a new story line just starting up.
Kodachi finally falls into the story. She seeks out the known 'Sorcerer'
Gosunkugi to discover if there is any merit to magic. She would have been
disappointed if it wasn't for the fact that Ranma has taken him in as an
apprentice. He and Sasuke meet in the first part, that's never happened
in the Anime as far as I know, and Sasuke was never even in the Manga.
Stupid sorcerer vs. Stupid ninja, hmmm, could be interesting. The fate of
Mousse is revealed in this episode as well. 
	All this should be out by Friday next week. It may take a bit
longer but I doubt it.

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