Somehow, she ended up in a part of NERV she'd never seen before. It looked like it hadn't been used in years. Confused, she wandered a little further.
Ahead of her, there was a heavy metal door, dusty and rusted at the hinges. For some reason, she felt like she had to look through that door. But she wasn't sure, given its condition, if it would open. The surprise came when she gave just a light tug at the heavy door and it swung open.
The room was dark...but she had no problem making out the lab equipment inside.
Or the shattered tube in the center large enough for a human.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 341 of 341He nods and walks out of the apartment.
Kira heard his door open and his footsteps recede down the hall. A moment later, the front door opened and shut.
She stepped out of the room. She couldn't imagine he'd want to stay.
There was a quiet noise from his room.
She frowned. It couldn't hurt. It certainly couldn't make things worse... She slid the door open.
Narikage turned around quickly, his eyes a little wide at the sudden intrusion. He was naked from the waist up.
"Oh! I'm sorry...I thought you had left..." She blushed and turned away. She was wearing only a long t-shirt.
"Didn't your mother ever teach you to knock before entering a room?"
"I-I thought you were gone. Gomen."
Narikage quickly grabbed a t-shirt, yanking it over his head to cover his torso.
"I'm sorry..." She turns to go.
"Are you ready?"
"What?" She looks back at him.
"It won't be long now...until the angel DNA takes over. Are you ready for what has to be done?"
"I have to be, don't I?"
"That's not what I asked."
"No. I'm not. But if I have to be the one to kill you, I will."
"It has to be you."
"Why?"
"I can't tell you that. But you have to be the one to kill me."
She stares at him. "Why??"
"I told you: I can't tell you."
"Why can't you tell me?"
"I just can't."
She stares at him for a moment.
He stares back at her with those piercing blue eyes, his expression completely unreadable.
"It isn't fair."
"Life rarely is."
She looks away from him, tears slipping down her face. "I-I'm in love with you..."
He started at that. "What?"
She closes her eyes. "You heard me."
"You barely know me."
"I know...but...I still feel how I feel."
"You dont' love me, Nar-san."
"Yes, I do."
"Trust me. You don't."
"Yes, I do."
"Naru-san--"
"Narikage-san... Please...I feel how I feel."
He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. "Naru-san..."
"Hai?"
"I cannot love you back. I can't feel anything for you."
"I know..." She looks down.
"It's going to hurt you more in the end if I say I do."
"I know...You don't have to love me back..."
"I was trying to avoid something like this happening."
"You tried to keep something like this from happening? You have no control over how I feel!"
"This is why I didn't want a damn roommate! Especially not you!"
She looks at him, anger and sorrow warring on her face. Then she slapped him.
He made no move to stop her, wincing only slightly as pain shot across his face.
She burst into tears and ran out of the room.
He let her go.
He knew he shouldn't have said something so harsh, but it would be easier this way.
He could hear her sobs coming from her bedroom.
Guilt wrenched at him. He closed his eyes for a long moment, trying to focus on something else other than her sobs.
They stayed fairly loud before quieting down.
He waited until they had stopped before going to her room and peeking inside.
She was sitting with her back to the door, arms around her knees.
He closed his eyes and turned away. He couldn't comfort her...not now...not ever.
********
Kira sat waiting, wearing her plug suit. They'd had word of Narikage and were just waiting to send her and Shinji out.
When the angel's true name had been announced, there was a moment of panic in everyone and disbelief in all of the pilots. They had been expecting this, of course...but so soon?
She'd been fighting back tears the entire time.
"Kira-san?" Shinji's voice came over her intercom. "Are you going to be alright doing this? Asuka-san can step in."
"I'll be fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Hai."
"Alright." The com went silent. There was a whoosh of air as the units were loaded into their release bay.
She moved hers out quickly.
"We have your weapons ready for you on the surface. there's no sign of the core," Misato said as they entered Tokyo 3.
"Roger that." Kira continued on, grabbing her weapons once they reached the surface.
The city was deathly silent.
Then, suddenly, a building to her left exploded, sending rocks and debris everywhere.
She turned that way, trying to find him.
There was nothing there. Another building exploded, this one almost right atop of Shinji. He yelled and his unit went flying.
"Shinji-kun!"
"I'm okay! Go left!"
She did, looking for him. "Narikage-kun..." Her voice was soft.
Another building in front of them exploded in a column of fire. A shadow appeared on the other side of it.
She moved forward.
The fire parted like water as a huge humanoid figure appeared. He was covered in a shining silver armor that dripped blood. His silver wings that stretched out on either side of him also dripped blood and whenever the feathers brushed against a building, they left deep cuts in their wake. In his hand, he held a sword, covered in blue fire.
Kira's breath caught. "Narikage-kun..." She raised her gun and then dropped it. She couldn't do this.
"Oh my god..." she heard Shinji breathe over the intercom. "It...doesn't even look like him..."
Tears slipped down her face. "Narikage-kun."
"Who is that?" The figure spoke in a voice that made her very bones hurt.
"Its Kira..." She shivers a little at his voice.
"I know no one by that name." She could almost hear Shinji cringe at the tone as well.
"Yes, you do...Its me...Naru Kirameiki..." Tears are pouring down her face now.
"I know nothing of this!" The angel swung the sword and another building exploded into debris.
"Please! You have to remember me!"
"Die!" The angel leapt at her but Unit 01 shoved her away at the last moment. The two huge figures slammed together and rolled, digging a huge crater in the streets.
"YAMATE!!!"
The angel roared and tried to grapple the purple being but Shinji managed to throw him away and fired off a couple shots that bounced harmlessly off of his wings.
"YAMATE, NARIKAGE! YAMATE!"
"Do not call me such a name! I am Death and Destruction!"
"NO! You're not! Please...please..."
"Kira! We have to kill him!" Shinji bellowed over the intercom. "That's not Narikage anymore!"
She sobbed. "Please... Don't make me do this, Narikage..."
The angel was on his feet and swung his sword in a wide, flaming arc at Unit 01. Shinji didn't have time to react; The sword glanced him and he went flying, smashing at least four building as he went. Kira could hear him screaming as he smashed into the rubble then silence as he came to a stop.
"YAMATE!!!!" She drops her gun and picks up her knife, running towards him.
The angel turned on her, swingin his sword.
"Onegai! Yamate!" She swings her knife.
A silver wing starts to jerk to defend his torso but something stops it. For just a moment, its as if something is holding Narikage, preventing him from moving. Then the knife bites into his flesh, past the armor. She feels something hard in his stomach and there is an ear-splitting CRACK! as the core breaks.
She lets out a sob as she pushes harder, making sure the core is destroyed.
Deep blood, black as pitch, spurts from the wound, covering her and the ground under them.
She sobs. "G-gomen...Gomenasai..."
Silence pulses around her and she hears a voice in her ear. "It's alright, Kira-san..."
She sobs. "No...No its not..."
"You did what had to be done. I don't hate you...and you cannot hate yourself. You've freed me..."
She continues to sob. "Am I supposed to be happy?"
"No. I expect you to mourne...but I want you to understand..." Some of the black blood spurted over the face plate of her unit and for a moment, everything went black. She felt like she was falling and as she fell, colors and voice swirled around her.
She gasped through her tears. "Understand what?"
The colors stopped swirling and suddenly, she was in a white room.
A lab.
Three people in white coats and surgical masks were trying to wrestle a screaming six-year-old onto the table.
She blinks. "What...?"
"Gendo! Stop!" A woman with short brown hair threw herself at the table but was stopped short by two more people. Gendo stepped out of a shadow, fixing his glasses.
"He's the perfect test subject."
"He's our SON!"
She gasps. "OH...Oh...no..."
"Daddy! Please!" The young boy cries out for help as he's strapped down. A muscle in Gendo's jaw twitches and he reaches out, slapping him across the face.
Kira lets out a choked sob. How could he...his own father...
"Yoshiko..." The woman fell to her knees, sobbing her son's name.
A realization snapped into place. "Narikage...you-you're Yoshiko...You're Shinji's brother..."
"Yes..." The image went black again.
More tears slid down her face.
She landed on a ground she could not see and Narikage stood in front of her, dressed in his uniform.
She looks up at him, her face streaked with tears. "Gomen. Gomenasai."
"It was not your fault, Kira."
She continued sobbing. "I killed you..."
"I was in so much pain, Kira...I hated not feeling any more...I hated missing my mother...my brother..."
She drops her face to her hands.
"...and...I did love you."
She gasps and looks up. "Nani?"
"I couldn't feel it, I couldn't tell you...but I did feel love for you. You were the first one to get close to me...since I left Shinji behind."
Tears roll down her face. "Aishiteru..."
"And now you have to let me go."
"How? I never...I wanted..."
"You have to let me go so I can move on, Kira."
She looks up at him. "I don't know how..."
"Forgive yourself for what you did today."
She sobs harder. "How? I KILLED you!"
"No, you didn't. I died yesterday, Kira, when that angel destroyed me and took my body. You killed the thing that killed me."
She continues crying. "I wish I could have saved you..."
"I was doomed the moment I was strapped down to that table."
"Still... I hope you have peace now..."
"Arigatou." He bows to her with a little smile and then, everything fades to black.
She closes her eyes for a moment, then opens them again.
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