"Aeris' prayer has been answered!" - FFVII ************************************************************* The Book of Shinji An Evangelion Fic *LIME* By Tuxedo Jack, with creative input from Onsce ************************************************************* DISCLAIMER: All Evangelion elements belong to Anno Hideaki-san. I make no claim on them. ************************************************************* It was a fine day. It was just another one of those post-Second Impact days that didn't seem bad at all, a day that seemed perfect. Maple leaves fell, a bite of winter nipped the air, and if the light glinted _just_ right, you could see your breath swirling in the air. Ikari Shinji walked down the street, hands behind his head, jacket on, and his SDAT on and playing track 25. Something caught his eye as he passed a coffee shop... two men in black... Something seemed odd... But that didn't matter; all that did was that Kaoru Nagisa had collided with him and the impact knocked the wind out of Shinji. He stumbled back, landing on a small wooden table covered with books. Needless to say, it quickly broke under his weight, thus dumping him - and the books - onto the Tokyo-3 concrete below. Shinji stumbled to his feet quickly. "Gomen nasai, Kaoru-san, gomen nasai!" "Don't worry about it, Shinji-kun," Kaoru said to him. He flashed a quick grin. "Just help me pick up these books." "Books?" Shinji thought to himself. "Oh, yes... those books..." _That would explain the woman yelling at me,_ he thought quietly, and began stacking the books and lifting them onto a fresh table. Something fresh caught his eye, and he pulled a book out of the stack to see his face on the cover. "Oh, God, the Commander's going to kill me when he finds out about this..." He turned to the woman, passed her the money for the book, tucked in inside his jacket, - "eew, sticky," he thought to himself as he wiped off the cover - and walked off. The two men at the cafe sat there, watching the whole thing, and sipped at frappuchinos. One wore an ankle-length black coat with gold runes on the lapels, and the other wore a tuxedo... though with a few odd flourishes that were quite out of the ordinary. Meanwhile, back at the bookstand, the bookseller's amber eyes glinted beneath her dark eyebrows as she cackled evilly. The men just sighed and ordered some lunch. ************************************************************* AUTHOR'S NOTES Well, this was my first EVA fic, and it's gonna get worse from here on in. This has no bearing on the MSMT3K series, so no, Shinji doesn't know about the EnS or the Senshi. Anyways, the men... who are they? Guess this and win... Absolutely nothing! Yep, that's right, absolutely nothing! Great prize, eh? Anyway, I'm off to work on Episode 202 of MSMT3K. This should be good... got 2 Blainefics to riff, sanity crystals, and a nice little diamond and emerald ring. Ja ne! Tuxedo Jack