With many apologies to OneShot....  GOMEN NASAI!!!!!!!  PLEASE FORGIVE 
ME!!!!  I COULDN'T RESIST!!!!!!!

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	Asuka opened her mouth but her words failed her. She had never 
said those words before. But somehow, she knew she had to say them...

	"I’m sorry"

	Shinji's door opened slowly at the sound of her words.  "Yes.  
You are sorry.  A sorry excuse for an Eva pilot, a sorry excuse for a 
student, and a sorry excuse for a human being.  It's all fun and games 
for you, until someone dies, and then it's even more fun.  Of course, it 
doesn't matter, because the High and Mighty Asuka Langley Soryuu says it 
doesn't matter, and we know that Gods and their angels are always 
right."

	Asuka backed away in fright at the demon that approached her.  
This wasn't Shinji, this was Lucifer in his form.  The Fallen One 
grabbed Asuka by the bow on her uniform and spun around, slamming her 
into a wall.  Asuka tried to escape, but Shinji slammed his palm into 
the wall by her head.  *Scars* Asuka noted.  *Why are there scars along 
his wrists?*  The line of thought was broken as Shinji's knee made 
itself known in her stomache.

	"You will look at me, bitch, when I am talking to you.  Do you 
understand?"  Asuka was too busy clutching herself in pain to answer, 
and this served to only anger Shinji more.  "You, you, you.  It's always 
about you, isn't it?  You can't answer me right now, because you hurt 
too much, right?"  Again Asuka didn't answer.  "I understand." Shinji 
said meekly as he released his grip on her bow.  Asuka sighed in relief, 
thinking that the nightmare was over when she heard a resounding crack, 
like a bone breaking.  A sudden pain flared up her arm, sending her to 
her knees.  She looked down to see her forearm bent at an unnatural 
angle, with blood pooling on the floor beneath it.

	"I think the bone jutting through the skin was a rather nice 
touch, don't you, Asuka?  Oh I forgot, you're probably in too much pain 
to answer me at the moment."  Shinji squatted down next to Asuka, and 
yanked her head back by the hair.  Frightend, tear filled eyes met with 
icy steel ones.  "Something you should know.  When I first came here, I 
was given a choice.  I could either get in the Eva, and kill.  Or I 
could not get in the Eva, go back home, and kill.  So no matter what I 
once was, you should know this.  I _AM_ a killer."  Shinji curled his 
middle finger under his thumb, and sent a hard flick against the shard 
of bone, sending waves of pain through the girl, and then left back into 
his den.

	Asuka crawled over to the telephone.

	"Tokyo-3 Emergency Line.  What is the nature of your emergency?"

	Asuka sighed, and gathered what little strength she had left.

	"I'd like to report a missing person.  His name is Shinji 
Ikari."  She gasped in pain as her arm bumped into the wall.

	"Miss?  Are you alright?"

	"I just want him to know that I'm so sorry I was ever mean to 
him."  Asuka said as the world faded from veiw.

	"Miss?  MISS?"

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Heh heh heh!!!!  Did she die?  I ain't telling!

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