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Ikari Lee: The Green Beast

Chapter 1

Who am I?

Rock Lee, the Handsome Green Beast, has been many things during his 11 years in the village of Konoha, he has been called weak, weird, eccentric; he has been injured, healed, crippled, rejected an inhuman number of times by the girl he loved; but in the end, he was part of the village, he knew he was an orphan, who knows from where, they found him at the age of 3, without memory, he always knew that he didn’t belonged to that village, he wasn’t able to mold chakra, God knows why, he wasn’t born to be a ninja at all, but after 11 years, no one was able to deny that he was one of the most powerful genins, and maybe more powerful than most chunins, by now his speed, brute strength, and accuracy were more than enough to compensate the lack of ninjutsus and genjutsus, up today, is common to say that Rock Lee, wasn’t accepted by the village, HE made them accept HIM, up to the point of forcing all the other ninjas to respect him, and this, made him to never doubt about himself, to never doubt who he was... until today.

It was a pretty normal morning for Lee, he just woke up before the sun, made his warming exercises (which consists in an inhuman number of flexions and push ups), and then made his usual inhuman number of running laps around the village, all before the sun fully showed itself, he was in his last lap when Gai-sensei called him, this was not unusual, from time to time Gai gave him an extra training or teach him a new move, but what was unusual today was the sad face he made, as if someone important to him just died, “Lee, I have something important to show you”, Lee nodded and followed his sensei to an old cabin, deep into the forest of Konoha, the walk was silent, and this was unnerving, because we are talking about the most loudly people of Konoha, suddenly, Lee couldn’t resist it anymore, Gai-sensei never spent that much time in silence (His last record of not talking is of 2.3 minutes), “Gai-sensei, is something wrong?”, by now, they were just outside the cabin, “I’m sorry Lee, but after all this time, I think is just time for you to know about your past, I was too selfish for not telling you the truth, is just that we didn’t knew what to do when we found you 11 years ago, please, come inside, and take a look at who you are...”

One week later...

"All normal lines are out of order due to the state of special emergency.", at the sound of the recorded machine, the young boy hung up the phone, he was awestruck at his arrival, he never had been in a city so big and complex like this, so much was his awe, that he took a lot of time to realise that the city was empty, and now, the person who was supposed to take him to his father was late, and how much he hates to be late!, reaching for the photo that was in his belt, he took a glance of the person who was appointed to pick him up, a young woman, maybe in her late 20’s, beautiful, but the way she was posing in the image was somewhat startling for him, ‘Just what kind of people live in this city?’, while thinking in all the possibilities, he caught something with the corner of the eye, it was a girl, a young and pretty girl, she was wearing an school uniform, her skin was pale, her hair blue, and her eyes were red, he stared at her, not as much as he wanted, because the sound of scared birds made him turn, and when he turned to stare at her again, she was no longer there, and then the hell broke loose.

The inhuman roar made him turn to the outskirts of the city, were he saw something born from the nightmares, a giant monster, with pitch black skin and bone like armor, but the boy didn’t cowered, his training kicked in, and then tried to study the monster, at least until he heard the sounds of the helicopters, which distracted him, “What the... did I entered a war zone by accident?!”, then 2 missiles flew just by his side, in direction to the monster, he followed the path of the missiles until they exploded before getting to the monster, “What was that?, a barrier?”, he spoke to himself, then the giant slashed toward an helicopter, using some kind of energy spike that came out of it’s hand, destroying the helicopter and sending it towards the place where he was, landing by a few hundred meters of his current position, at first he thought on helping the pilots of the helicopter, but after seeing the giant landing over the machine he decided that giant monsters were out of his league, however, before he could start to run to a better spot, a blue sports car was already stopping in front of him, then the door opened, revealing the driver.

“Shinji Ikari?!”, the woman shouted, she was the one from the photo, ‘I guess I have to stick to that name for the time begin’, the boy thought, “Yes, are you Captain Katsuragi?”, the boy replied both calm a polite, “That’s me, now hop in, we have to get out of here now”, she was in such a hurry that she didn’t notice the speed that the boy used to get into the car, she only raised the speed of the car and started to drive like maniac, the boy decided that it was due the giant monster in the nearby, now, somewhat away from the monster, the woman started to talk to the boy, "Sorry that I'm late! I had some... problems getting through. Why today of all day had this to happen?", then she tried to take a better look of the boy, he was much more taller than expected, he looked more like a 16 years old teenager than a 14 one, he was wearing a green spandex outfit that was showing his well developed and athletic body, however, she also noticed his bandaged arms and hands, this made her not to say that he looked weird, because if he was a boxer, she wasn’t in position to made him angry, not right now, suddenly, the boy replied.

“Captain Katsuragi, care to explain what is happening, because I’m sure that giant monsters are not a common sight here”, ‘Not that I never saw one before’, he added mentally, “Well, don’t laugh at this, but we call it Angel, in fact...”, Misato was cut by the boy, “Strange, why would the army stop the attack, did they gave up?”, at his remark, Misato stopped the car, and used her binoculars to take a look at the battle field, then she gasped, “OH NO!, they are dropping a N2 mine!”, before the boy had a chance to ask, a massive explosion happened, the light was intense, and the sound deafening, Misato was about to pin down the boy, when she felt a pair of very strong arms holding her, the shockwave hit the car, making it roll up to the edge of the way, but the interior of the car was empty, Misato was still wondering what did just happened, one moment she was about to shield the boy from the impact, and after blinking once, she was being hold bridal style by the boy, just behind a big rock, just big enough to shield them both from the shockwave, after a few seconds of staring at her savior, the mouth of Misato started to move, “What?... When?...How?”, not coherently of course, then the boy turned to face her, with concern on his face, “Are you ok, Captain Katsuragi?”, after a few more seconds of being mesmerised, she replied, “Misato...”, “Huh?”, the boy was a little puzzled, “Just call me Misato, and I’m fine... I think... thank you”, Misato continued, now, seeing that she was fine, he let her stand, then Misato started to see her surroundings, and noticed some startling facts, like the distance between the rock and the car, ‘Those are more than 50 meters, how could he took me here before the shockwave could hit us?’, “Oh well (sigh), now we need to put the car on the road to continue”, Misato stated, knowing the trial to put the car on its wheels, but before she could ask the boy to lend a hand in the process, he walked to the car, and, to add more uneasiness to her damaged nerves, he made the car roll without much effort, then he turned to look at her, “Shall we go now?”, he asked, with the most cute and goofy smile she had ever seen.

Back on the road and some time later...

“Misato-san”, the boy, who was now eye twitching, tried to make his presence acknowledgeable, “Yes?”, was the reply of a smiling Misato, “I Understand that we are on an emergency state, I understand that you have some military rank, and I understand that we were in need of a spare battery to keep moving... what I don’t understand is why did you took enough batteries to lit up a light house!”, Misato groaned, she never liked to be lectured, and being lectured by a 14 years old smart-mouth-dressed-in-green-spandex kid, was much more worst, so, she decided to avoid the topic by picking the car phone, after a few greetings, the conversation seemed to come to an end, "Sure. Don't worry. He is under my protection at top priority. Prepare a car train for us. An express one, please. Yes. I'll bear the full responsibility for him because it was my idea to meet him in the first place, bye", Misato was smiling again, unknown to her, this particular boy wasn’t one to let slip things, “Misato-san, ignoring a person to avoid a conversation is impolite, but doing it to avoid responsibility is very unyouthful!”, Misato pondered at this statement as hard as her brain allowed her, she blinked once, twice, thrice..., ‘Unyouthful?, doesn’t that means not young?... did he called me old?...DID HE CALLED ME OLD?!’, at this point, a vein popped in Misato’s forehead, “DID YOU JUST CALLED ME OLD?! NOW YOU ARE GONNA HAVE IT!”, and then she got to the top speed of her car, going from one side to another of the road in a way that the boy decided was unsafe and unhealthy, “Misato-san!, please control yourself!”.

After some more of Misato’s madness, they arrived alive and in one piece to the train, and now were descending into a tunnel toward their destination, the NERV HQ, “So, this NERV thing, is were my father works, right?”, the boy asked, “Yes, NERV is a secret organization directly attached to the UN, the Commander has a very important project under his wing, remember the Angel, well, we have the only thing that can battle it... nervous to meet your father?”, at the that question, the always happy face of the boy dropped a little, “Not really, is just that I don’t remember him, I don’t know anything about him”, Misato was taken aback and tried to symphatize, “Sorry, didn’t mean to make you feel uncomfortable Shinji, I guess that 11 years of not seeing someone have that effect, but, I’m sure you have to have some memories”, the boy turned to face her, and smiled again before explaining, “Misato-san, I didn’t knew that my name was Shinji until one week ago, let alone knew that I had some family left”, at this statement, Misato froze, in front of her, was a boy who was striped from his identity, and in top of that, he seemed happy, she hopped that whatever spectative he had of his father, wouldn’t put him under heavy depression, then she decided to change the topic, “Did you got your ID-Card?”...

Some time later, and a few wrong turns...

Misato and the boy were already in the elevator, and Misato didn’t knew what to think, in one hand, the boy was annoying to no end, nothing escaped from his sight, and he remarked it, her driving skills, her greed, and now, her sense of direction, and to add the cherry of the cake, he also took the freedom of remarking that she was holding the map upside-down; in the other hand, he was so polite and gentle, during all his remarks, he never took the chance to mock at her, even now he was silent, without any need to remark the fact that she was lost, this was giving her a hard time, until the doors of the elevator opened, showing a female blonde, with a very annoyed face, she was wearing a one-piece swimsuit and a lab coat, "You have to tell me how you do it, Misato! We are short of hands and time! Don't tell me you got lost again...", the blonde woman was obviously angry at Misato, and Misato culdn’t help but to feel the weight of being lectured again and again, “ARGH!, SORRY!”, Misato finally shouted, unable to take the lecturing anymore, this made the blonde woman feel more relaxed, “It can’t be helped..., so, is this the boy we were looking for?”, the blonde asked, and now, Misato felt more comfortable with the change of topic, "Yes, the ‘Third Child' according to Marduck's report", the boy couldn’t make sense of the title, but besides his bad feeling about all of this, he decided to be polite and introduce himself, “I’m Ro... er... Shinji Ikari, pleased to meet you”, the blonde turned to face him, noticing the stuttering, and after a second of thinking, she replied, “Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, pleased to meet you too, and don’t worry that much about your name, I already have your profile, and I’m aware of the fact that you barely discovered your true identity, you’ll get used to it with the time”.

Silently, he followed the bickering between the two women, while walking through the corridors, trying to memorize the layout. It was a real emergency as it sounded, and they talked about a Unit-01 with a minimal chance of activating it at all. There were a lot of technical terms he didn't understood, mixed in with some barbs. Finally they reached a pitch-black room. Since he was trained in the ways of the ninja, he didn’t need any light to notice his surroundings, the liquid that was below the catwalk, he knew it was not water, it had a smell like the one of the blood mixed with something else, he also noticed another presence, something big, he tried to fix his sight on the direction of the presence, just then, the lights went on, and he saw it, "This is the Multi-purpose Humanoid Fighting Machine EVANGELION, developed in secret to fight the menace of the Angels, the last hope of mankind!”, Ritsuko explained, with no little pride in her voice, but the boy was just staring, until he made his mind verbal, “Is a demon... and is purple...”, at his statement, a vein in the forehead of Ritsuko popped out, but before she could made her point, another voice interrupted them.

“It’s been a while”, the voice felt like icy water to the boy, then he turned his face to take a look at the man, and when his eyes fell on their target, his mind was flooded by the lost memories of his identity, long forgotten memories from the days when he was 3 years old, before start living in Konoha, he saw himself, sobbing, and his father going away, telling him that he was useless, and blaming him for the death of his mother, that memory took only half second to be processed, and then, something on him awakened, a feeling that he thought he’ll never have, ‘HATE’, his eyes hardened, his muscles tensed, his jaw clinched, and he lowly growled, unknown to him, he was deploying a killer intent that was almost as strong as the one of Orochimaru, Misato and Ritsuko were paralyzed, unable to think, only the self-control of Gendo allowed him to keep facing the now angry boy, “Why?”, the boy asked, “Why did you called me?”, he asked again, “Because now I have an use for you, to pilot the EVA and to fight the Angels”, Gendo replied, for a few seconds, the ambient tensed, until the boy come back in control, decreasing the killer intent, then he decided to talk, “Only for that?!... you know, for a moment, I really thought that after 11 years of being lost, you’ll feel sorry for dumping me, but you haven’t changed a bit!, so, forget it, I’ll return to my home, to my family, where I’m important, you stay here and root or go outside and tell that demon that I’m not going to go outside to play with it”, “SHINJI!!!”, Misato shouted, only to get interrupted by Gendo.

“Very well”, Gendo said, he wasn’t expecting to see his son so strong minded, his plan to breaking him didn’t work, but everyone is manipulable (at least in his mind), it was only a matter of find the correct incentive, so, he turned to the intercom, and started to speak loud enough to be heard by the people in the EVA cage, "Fuyutsuki, bring in Rei...she is still alive... the spare proved to be useless", the boy was about to leave when the doors opened, and a grunery was brought, the girl that was being carried on it, was badly injured, so badly that the boy’s heart broke in that moment, and a new wave of hate took over him, and a word that he thought he’ll never say came out of his mouth in the form of a savage yell, “b*****d!!!!, HOW YOU DARE TO DO THIS TO HER?!, I WON’T ALLOW YOU!!!”, he moved with unholy speed to the grunery, knocking away the people that was moving it, he recognized her, she was the same girl he saw before meeting Misato, but that wasn’t important right now, “Ssshhh, everything will be allright, I won’t let anyone harm you”, he reassured her, it was his duty as a gentleman, but to Rei, it was something more, even when she was stripped of all emotion, she felt her heart pounding faster, this boy was emanating an aura of affection that was unleashing a brutal attack to the ice walls of her soul, but to Gendo, this sight was a signal of his victory, he just needed another little push, “Is either her or you”.

Before the boy could reply, the Angel made its opinion heard, there was the sound of an explosion, the room was shaken, trying to prevent further damage to Rei, the boy took hold of the grunery, then the sound of debris falling made everyone in the cage gasp, it was falling directly on the kids, the boy turned to look up, and made the calculations to intercept the debris, but never got the chance, a purple blurr came between them and the debris, it was the hand of the EVA protecting them, and upon seeing this, he made his choise, “Fine, I’ll do it, but this girl will be properly attended, and if upon my return she is not in bed and well treated, not only I will leave, but I’ll also have your head, understood?”

A few minutes latter...

The boy, now inside the entry plug, was being grateful for not being claustrophobic, ‘Ok... now, how does this diabolic thing works?, geez, I bet I will do better alone than in this thing’, during this train of thoughts, he heard something he didn’t liked, it was the sound of his space being filled with the liquid he saw outside, “Excuse me, Dr. Akagi, but is this your idea of how to get rid of me?”, the boy asked annoyed, if he needed to escape, the plug will show little resistance against him, "Don't worry. After your lungs fill with LCL, it'll directly supply you with oxygen. You'll get used to it soon," Ritsuko tried to reassure him over the comm, but she was lousy with it. He tried to hold his breath for a while, but finally he had to give in and the LCL filled his lungs. To his surprise, he really was able to breathe, but... “Ugh!, this is horrible!”, he complained, "Stand it! You are a boy, aren't you?" Misato tried to reprimand him, “Misato-san, this smell like blood, so, don’t tell me that is not disgusting, by the way, Dr. Akagi, I think is time for you to tell me how this thing works, it would be very bad if I engage the monster without knowing what to do”, the boy was right, up to now he wasn’t being explained the functions of the Unit-01, “Do not worry too much on the controls, you are synchronized with the EVA, so, try to think your movements”, Ritsuko explained, and now the boy was smirking, “So, basically this thing is going to do what I think?”, the boy asked, “That is just what I said, Shinji”, Ritsuko replied, at this, the boy closed his eyes, and tried to focus, ‘To master a weapon, a shinobi needs to use it as an extension of his body, and this, is just that, a weapon’.

"Success! The EVA-01 has went online for the first time ever!" Maya Ibuki, Ritsuko's assistant, reported, reading the data from the screen, but gasped afterwards, “Sempai!, the synch rate is of 65.8 percent!”, “WHAT?!, that’s impossible!”, Ritsuko was awestruck, she was spectating a high synch ratio, due to the secret inside the EVA, but this was beyond her reasoning, "All values of the harmonics are normal. Everything is under control. We are ready to launch," Maya concluded her report, and at once, the EVA was being readied in the catapult, and Misato decided to say some last words, “Shinji, are you ready?”, the boy turned to see the monitor, still unused to that name, “As ready as I can be, Misato-san”, he replied, “Ok, please, comeback in one piece”, at Misato’s concern, the boy gave her a goofy smile, “Ok, LAUNCH!”, Misato finally commanded.

At the superfice...

Several things were spected from the EVA and the boy, like a first step, or an stumble, but what they saw was clearly not expected, the first second the EVA got free of the restrains, it took something like a battle stance, it was standing completely straight, it’s left leg was in front, making it to be side standing, it’s right hand closed was behind it’s back, it’s left hand was being held in front of the EVA in an open like fashion, with the palm facing the face of the EVA, in the bridge only one person was able to barely recognize the stance, “It looks like the strong fist style”, Maya said, it was no secret that she was a fan of the martial arts, the other personnel of the bridge didn’t say anything, until the EVA started the attack, it ran toward the Angel, but it didn’t ran as anyone would spected, it ran diabolically fast, in a low stance fashion, the right hand still on the back, the lef one was being held to the side, almost touching the ground, the Angel may have being scared, because instead of waiting for him, it decided to shoot it’s eye beam, but the EVA evaded it by changing course to the side, only a little, and then kept running to the Angel, this move was enough to surprise everyone on the bridge, not only he was able to dodge the attack, he didn’t lose the momentum, speed or coordination, the word ‘impossible’ was sounding with much more frequency, and then, they heard a battle cry comming from the EVA, thanks to the open commlink, “KONOHA SENPU!!!” (Leaf Whirlwind), the EVA leaped, and made a spinning action that ended in a kick, the kick was less impressive than effect it had on the Angel, because instead of only being knocked out, it was projected with such potence that everyone in NERV got their jaws dropped to the floor, then to add much more surprise, the EVA not only ran after the Angel, it passed the Angel by some kilometers, it came to a sudden stop, changed to a lower stance, the right fist was now visible, he was ready to receive the incoming Angel, and then, another war cry.

“KONOHA GORIKI GOKEN!!!” (Leaf Powerful Strong Fist), the fist of the EVA connected with core of the Angel, with such violence that the core not only broke, but the sound produced by that was like the one of a thunder, and then the Angel exploded, it selfdestructed, unable to do anything against the might of the boy and the EVA, in the bridge, no one was able to believe what they saw, “This... was not as planned... do you think this will change the scenario”, Fuyutsuki, the vice commander, questioned to Gendo, “This is not as expected, but, there will be many other chances for the EVA to be awaken, for now we’ll have to be patient, and wait”. Now, on the screen in the bridge, the image of the EVA, walking triumphant, was being seen, suddenly, the image of the face of the boy appeared in the screen, smiling, “WOW!, at first it was hard to move, but then it became faster and easier to move, by the way, how is Rei-san?”, the boy talked without any trace of fear or agitation, the brain of Ritsuko was still trying to process the event, ‘From where did this boy came from?’, but she wasn’t able to say what she had in mind, because Misato took the word, “She is being well treated in the medical wing, thank you Shinji, for saving us all”, then the boy spoke once more, but this time without his goofy smile, “Lee, just call me Lee, I haven’t been called Shinji in 11 years, and I prefer the name that my people gave me, however I’ll take my family name, in memory of my mother”, Misato was surprised, as well as Ritsuko and Maya, to Gendo this was an insult, but Misato decided to accept the will of Lee, “Very well, thank you and welcome, Ikari Lee”

Wow Ariel. Since when are you the one pointing out grammatical errors?

Please tell me when you are ready for the second chapter, it is ready, and I'm working on the third chapter now

Since you asked for it, here is the second chapter

Ikari Lee: The Green Beast

Chapter 2

A Familiar ceiling?

In the commander office, Gendo and Fuyutsuki were discussing their current situation, “It seems that losing contact with him had a VERY DISTURBING effect, what are we going to do?, he doesn’t seem controllable”, Fuyutsuki made his point, with that kind of performance, Lee could be sure that he can’t be replaced, and with that kind of spirit, he’ll be a hell to manage, “Don’t give him that much credit yet, everyone is controllable, and once we understand how he managed to use the EVA like that, he’ll be replaceable, if he keeps his strong spirit, we’ll only have to hire some thugs to make his live a hell, and then he’ll be broken, the scenario will prevail, at any cost”, Gendo replied, fully convinced of his victory.

Next morning...

“A familiar ceiling?, I guess hospitals are all the same”, Lee was thinking in the medical wing, not because he was injured, but because Ritsuko wanted to analyze every part of his body and his functions, she tried on him every test that crossed her mind, and the fact that his spandex suit got soaked in LCL was the worst, because he was tested while being naked, this wasn’t his first time, in Konoha he was examined like this very often, the problem was the fact that Ritsuko was eyeing him with no little lust, the test took almost all night, until he broke every machine used to measure his physical capabilities, at the end, they allowed him to have a quick rest before his clothes were washed, of course he asked about the state of Rei, as well as the room were she was resting, he also took a peek about some info about this girl, now he knows that she is vegetarian, so, the idea of giving her chocolates and flowers was very attractive, ‘She needs to know that someone care for her’, he was thinking still on this when the door of his room opened.

“Hello!, I got your clothes Lee, how did Ritsuko treated you yesterday?”, Misato entered, holding a plastic bag with the spandex suit, orange leg warmers and blue sandals (but not his training weights), she noticed upon entering, that his arms and hands were already bandaged in the same fashion they were when they meet, “Morning, Misato-san, you mean Dr. Akagi?, well, I guess those were routine tests, is just that, I’m not used to being ‘SEEN’ naked like that”, Lee replied in his usual polite way, as well as his usual goofy smile, “I... see..., well, at least you came unharmed from the battle, you really surprised us all, I don’t know where’d you been, but if you keep fighting like that, is a fact that we’ll win!”, Misato squeaked, while thinking on how fun will be to blackmail Ritsuko with the info she got from Lee, suddenly, Lee frowned and crossed his arms, “I’m sorry Misato-san, but I will not keep that level of fighting!”, Misato was taken aback, ‘What?!, why did he got discouraged?!, he was just so powerful yesterday!’, then Lee continued, “Because I’m going to become stronger!, I will become stronger every day!, tomorrow I’ll be stronger than today!, the next demon will face a fighter much more powerful than the fighter that killed the last one!, BECAUSE I’M IKARI LEE!, THE HANDSOME GREEN BEAST!!!”, Lee boomed in a outburst of youthfulness, and Misato shivered, she didn’t knew what was more terrifying, the fact that he was overwhelming cheerful, or the idea of him becoming more powerful, she decided to not to think about it, “Ok, ok, I get it, you are cleared to go now, so, get dressed, we still need to report at the office of the commander... and get you a residence”.

Lee (now dressed in his spandex outfit), and Misato were heading out of the medical wing, when Lee suddenly stopped, “Forgive me, Misato-san, but I have something to do before heading out, I promise it will be only a few minutes!” and then he ran to the stairs, becoming a green blur after getting away from Misato’s eyesight, in less than 6 seconds, he was already at the door of the room where Rei was sleeping, her injured and bandaged body gave a big heartache to Lee, he also noticed that nobody was there watching her, so, she may just be stable, he decided to enter and look at her for an entire minute, familiarising with her features, then he decided to not make Misato wait for long, so, he put a box of chocolate and a single rose in the table at the side of her bed (getting those items is the reason he took that much time to reach her room, think of it, 6 seconds is all the time of the world without his weights!), before departing, he decided to write something in the card of the chocolate box, and taking his chances, he leaned to kiss the girl on the forehead, “Please, get better soon, it would be nice if we could talk”, said this, he departed from the room, after hear him depart, Rei opened her good eye, and touched her forehead, trying to bare the tempest of warm and affection that this boy represented, suddenly she decided to reach for the card in the chocolate box (she heard him writing), and her eye widened when she read the content:

‘Rei-san, there is no need for you to fake your sleeping, when you feel like sharing some time to get to know each other let me know, BUT YOU CAN’T STOP ME FOR CARING FOR YOU AND GO TO VISIT YOU OFTEN TO SEE IF YOU ARE ALLRIGHT!’.

NERV, Commander office...

“What are the results of the tests?”, Gendo asked to Ritsuko, who was not happy, in all her life she had come across with weird things, but Lee was out of the chart, she wasn’t able to elaborate a proper report about his capabilities, and Gendo wasn’t a person to make waiting, “He can’t be measured...”, Ritsuko replied, and noticed the frown of Gendo, “Explain yourself”, Fuyutsuki asked, knowing that Gendo was very unpleased with the answer, “We tried to measure his speed and stamina, but the machine broke at his speed and resistance, and he didn’t started to sweat, we tried to measure his strength, but he broke that machine too, using very little effort, resuming it, he can run at speeds higher than 60 Km/h for long periods of time before getting tired, and can lift over 120kg with each hand without effort, as for the reason of his high synch rate, which raised to 80% during the battle, the only possible explanation is that he has a kind of Iron Will, for the battle performance, Maya is still working on the report”, Ritsuko exposed the crude facts of her tests, but held back the little detail of the training weights she found among the clothes of Lee, the idea of requiring over 10 men to move one of the weights was really startling.

“So, basically, you say that he was trained as a Olympic sportsman?”, Fuyutsuki asked, impressed with the report, “In a way of speaking...”, Ritsuko replied, while thinking that not even the combined might of all the Olympic sportsmen could compete against this boy, “I’m more interested on his boost of the synch ratio, I’ll go to check on the performance report, Fuyutsuki, you will attend the Third Child, he is about to come”, Gendo stated, to him, the EVA was more important, and if the battle results were reproducible for the other EVAs, then he could focus on breaking the boy, “Very well, Commander, what about his request for the change of name?”, Fuyutsuki asked, “Denied, no official document will be changed”, Gendo replied, trying to hold as much control as possible, then turned to left his office to go to the bridge, and Ritsuko made a last request before departing, “Vice-commander, please, tell to Lee to come to the lab for an item we ‘forgot’ to send to him along with his clothes”, “Of course, Dr. Akagi”.

In the bridge, Maya was watching the recorded battle over and over, doing nothing to conceal her amazement, her shouts were things like ‘WOW!’, ‘Awesome!’, and ‘I want to do that!’, the battle lasted no more than a few seconds, but she was taking extensive notes about the battle stance, the moves, and the name of the attacks, unknown to her, she was being watched by the Commander himself, fortunately, he was more concerned in the battle report than her childish behavior, “Lt. Ibuki”, Gendo spoke, scaring the crap out of the poor Maya, “COMMANDER!!!”, she stud up and salute him, he walked at her station and took the notebook that Maya was using, “Is this the report?”, he asked while opening it and read the contents, in that moment Maya almost died, she forgot the report completely and decided to gave in in her fan mode, she was so sure that the Commander would be mad after reading the silly contents, and she waited for her punishment, and waited, and waited, and waited...

Gendo had to admit it, for a fight that only took a few seconds, Maya was able to took very detailed notes, some of the ones that caught his eye, were the description of the style, Maya stated in her notes that the ‘Strong Fist’ style can’t be used untrained, also, the visual skill and body coordination to evade the beam pointed to a seasoned martial artist, and while he ignored the names of the techniques, he noticed that the first attack must have caught the Angel with the guard down, “Impressive, Lt. Ibuki, wasn’t the Angel able to deploy it’s AT Field?”, Maya snapped at the comment and question of Gendo, “I was about to write that sir!, after receiving the first attack the Angel effectively deployed it, it took me a little work, but I was able to check the deployment of the EVA’s own AT Field, the EVA deployed it in the moment of the last hit, it was 50 times stronger than the one of the Angel, but it only lasted during the attack and covering only the fist of the EVA”, Maya concluded verbally, “I see, this is interesting, prepare an special archive for the battles to come, I expect you to keep making these ‘detailed’ reports, they may come in handy for the other pilots”, at Gendo request, Maya smiled, she just got clearance to be in fan mode for the battles to come!, “YES SIR!, I WON’T DISAPPOINT YOU!”, at Maya’s reply, Gendo turned to leave, ‘Excellent, now I only need to look for a weakness, and then this will turn for the better’, he thought while making his way to the medical wing.

All what happened from the point of getting into the Commander’s Office, up to now, being in Ritsuko’s lab, didn’t made sense to Lee, first, they said that he was now the official pilot of Unit-01, fortunately, the vice-commander accepted to pay him a good amount of money, then he was arranged to have some private quarters inside the geofront, to live alone, however, before he could argue, Misato came into the ‘rescue’, appointing herself as his new guardian, and claiming him as her new roommate, Lee could argue about it, but it was better than living underground, of course, Ritsuko wasn’t so sure about this, “Misato!, what were you thinking?!, taking care of him is a lot of responsibility!”, however, she was referring more about the physical power of the boy, “Come on, is not like I’m going to take advantage of him!”, Misato whined, but instead of getting a shout from Ritsuko, she only shook her head, “What?”, Misato asked at this reaction, “Nothing, Misato, nothing. Hey, Lee, your weights are there on the floor, is just that they are too heavy for me to carry them”, Lee happily went to get his missing training weights, and put them on his legs, where they belong, Ritsuko watched with awe how he lifted them so easily, and wrapped them on his legs, “Misato, I’m more worried that he could abuse you”, Ritsuko whispered at her friend, while watching Lee made some kicks to ensure that the weight was right, “Why?, because he uses weights, is ok if you are such a wimp, but I have military training”, Misato replied with a grin, Ritsuko was about to warn her about the possible superstrength of the boy, but decided against it, hoping to have some fun later.

Meanwhile, in the hospital room where Rei was being attended, Gendo was eyeing the chocolate box and the rose, a symptom of change, of chaos, fortunately, Rei hide the card below her pillow, otherwise Gendo could have gone nuts, she wasn’t sure why she hide it, but she had done it after eating one of the small chocolates, she ate one just for the curiosity, and found it ‘pleasurable’, and decided to save the rest to eat them at home, Gendo could have asked for the person who got those things to her, but he already knew the answer, “Rei, I have a mission for you, you are to befriend the Third Child, and look for any weakness that will allow me to control him, check for friends, important people, and where he had been the last 11 years, I want reports on every new finding, start this mission the next time he comes to see you, I must have total control over him, otherwise the scenario would be jeopardized”, Rei nodded on understanding, she was about to mention what happened in his recent visit, when Gendo grabbed the chocolates and the flower, and dumped them in the basket, this made her to reconsider about some hints of information, and decided to keep some things for herself, at least for the time begin.

On the way to Misato’s apartment...

Now on the car, Misato decided hat it was a good time to tease the boy, “So, back then in the medical wing, you went to visit Rei, didn’t you?”, Misato started the conversation, “Yup!, I was in need to know about her wellbeing, and needed to made sure she was well attended”, Lee nodded, not hiding anything, at this Misato gave him a sly look, “Oh, don’t you think that you are caring too much for her?, you barely know her”, she exposed, trying to make him feel uneasy, “Nope, her name is Ayanami Rei, 14 years old, her height is 156.2cm, blood type A, she is vegetarian, her red eyes are natural, as well as the color of her hair, blue”, Lee explained almost as if he were reading a card with the info, Misato’s eyes almost dropped for the shock, then she decided another approach, “Wow!, already stalking her eh?, so, love at first sight?”, she tried her attack again, “YOSSSSHH!!!, IT CAN’T BE HELPED! SHE IS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL AND IN NEED OF A CARING MAN!!!”, only to fail miserably, “Aren’t you ashamed?, not even a little?, most boys turn red at this!”, Lee turned to face her with his goofy smile, “Why should I be ashamed?, love is a wonderful thing, is true it can hurt some times, but it also brings the greatest of joys!”, while Misato was speechless, her mind was racing with the memories of her wild young days, and couldn’t help but to wonder, ‘Kaji, if you had been like this boy...'.

During their travel, they came to two stops before getting to the apartment, the first was in the supermarket, where they bought some food, because Misato stated that they’ll celebrate both his arrival and the fact that they will be roommates, of course, they picked different type of foods, while Misato picked mostly instant food, beer, junk food, and more beer, Lee, picked some vegetables, mushrooms, rice , soja milk and orange juice, if she was planning on making a party with only junk food, he’ll save the night with at least one filling dish, the second stop was on a cliff that overlooked the city, “What are we doing here, Misato-san?”, Lee asked curious, since the city looked so little and deserted, he wasn’t guessing that they were there to enjoy the view, “Just wait and see”, Misato replied with a smile, so, Lee decided to not complain, suddenly, the sound of sirens was heard, and in front of the eyes of Lee, the city raised from below the earth, Lee was awestruck, the city already looked big to him, and now, it looked almost magical, “This is the fortress city of Tokyo-3, the city you protected, this is your city now, your home”, Lee felt nostalgic at the words of Misato, he just couldn’t wait for Gai-sensei to come and then tell him everything that had happened, and then an idea popped up into his head, and as he do with any idea that come into his head, he put it into action, he walked to the edge of of the cliff, and then shouted with ALL his strength, “I’M IKARI LEE, THE GREEN BEAST OF TOKYO-3, AND I WILL PROTECT THIS CITY WITH THE POWER OF YOUTH!!!!”, his voice boomed with such power that Misato couldn’t help bu to stare in awe, yes, he looked funny, yes, the message was hilarious, but the power he put into this little eccentricity told a lot of him, that he has no restrains, that he is free to do whatever he thinks is correct or necessary, and this, both marveled and scared Misato, ‘Living with this boy is going to be a hell of a ride’.

Now, on Misato’s apartment, Lee’s eye was twitching, he suspected some things about the living habits of Misato, all the houses or rooms of his fellow shinobies were a mess, even the room of Neji, heck, even Hinata’s room was not in order, so, the militia people outside the elemental nations had no need to be different, but a mess of a house is one thing, and the state of Misato’s apartment was what could be defined as ‘Not suitable for living, not even animals’, it became worst when Misato asked him to store the food, the refrigerator was filled almost by Yebisu beer, as well as some junk food, ‘No wonder she needed a roommate!’, he was about to start cleaning when Misato called him for dinner, meaning the instant food, and as polite as it was possible, he rejected the instant food and began to cook a mushroom soup, and Misato decided to start a conversation, “Lee, I was wondering, where are your things?, I mean, you agreed to move here, but, I do not see any boxes with your belongings”, Lee pondered how to answer that, and then replied, “Don’t worry about it Misato-san, when I travel, I travel without extra weight, in a few days some of my things will arrive, until then I will manage myself with what I have”, Misato didn’t liked the idea, but didn’t wanted to dig more about it, then another question came to her mind, “Lee, in all the reports, there are no reference from were’d you been, so, where did you came from?”, she asked truly interested, at this Lee turned to face her with a cute smile, while lifting his index finger to the corner of his lips, while making a wink, “That is, classified”, Misato’s eyes bulged at this action, “Damn you!, don’t be THAT cute!”, the rest of the dinner was uneventful, until Misato decided to make use of her skills on the rock-paper-scissors game to decide about the chores.

The plan backfired, Misato lose all and every single game, Lee had beaten her in her own game, she decided that if she don’t start asking for mercy, she will be the maiden of this boy, but such request wasn’t needed, “Don’t worry Misato-san, I will not make you to do all the chores, that would be very unyouthful of my part, so, I’ll do the most troublesome ones, cooking and cleaning, you’ll do laundry as well as cleaning your own room, there is no way I would invade your privacy!”, Lee stated cheerfully, and Misato was rolling tears of gratefulness, after a little more conversation (which included the topic ‘why green?’), Misato told Lee to take a shower and then go to the bed (his own of course), so, he went to the bathroom as told, once inside and naked, he opened the panel door of the shower, just to meet the third inhabitant of the apartment, “Wark!”, it was Pen-pen, Lee looked at him for a second before giving him a smile, “Hi, can you please step out?, is my turn to use the shower”, and as if the penguin understood him clearly, he stepped out and headed to his own refrigerator, after he took a very relaxing shower, and started to unfold a futon, Misato decided to gave him some advice of the next day, “Hey Lee, tomorrow we’ll go shopping”, he turned to face her with a questioning face, “Shopping?”, the last time he heard that, it was from the lips of Tenten, who was talking to Neji, who of course ran away from there in that instant, “Yes, you need more clothes, I mean, you look good into that suit, but you’ll need a uniform for the school”, now Lee was really puzzled, “School?”.

Here is the third chapter, hope you keep liking it

Ikari Lee: The Gren Beast

Chapter 3

Breaking the Ice

The first night that Misato had with Lee as roommate will be forever hunt her memory, it was 4:00 AM, she was in the middle of a peaceful dream, gift of having drink 4 cans of Yebisu Beer before going to bed, when the sounds of activity awakened her, her mind at first remembered her that she has a new roommate that probably was looking for a night time snack, but the intensity of the noise was freaking her, she tried to pay attention before jumping to conclusions, then she heard something like a fast counting, “384, 385, 386, 387...”, Misato got out of the bed, she just had to check what was going on, she opened the door of her room, but there was nobody on the living room, and yet, the noise and the voice were louder, “472, 473, 474...”, now, more awake than asleep, Misato recognized the voice, it was Lee, ‘What is he counting?, money?, porn?’, now filled with curiosity, she decided to surprise him, she opened the door of his room, just to turn red at the sight, Lee was wearing only his boxers (as well as his bandages and weights), and he was on the floor doing push ups, suddenly, at the count of 500, he stopped and stud up with great agility, to finally notice that Misato was there.

“Good morning Misato-san, I hope I didn’t wake you up”, Lee greeted with his goofy smile, trying not to say nothing about the ‘zombie’ look she had, Misato for her part, decided that the spandex was covering too much of the real Lee, and it took all her willpower to turn from his body to the digital clock, “Don’t you think is a little too early for early exercise?”, Misato asked, half expecting to hear him to say that he couldn’t sleep, “Nope!, I always awake at this hour to make my warming exercises, now if you excuse me, I have to run a little before making breakfast, I think there is a park nearby, right?”, Lee replied with his usual youthfulness, at this, Misato only nodded, not really caring about it, then she returned to her bed while Lee went out to the park (now dressed) to run a ‘little’, it wasn’t until she was already comfy in her bed when the information got processed in her mind, “Wait a second!, did he just done 500 push ups?!... nah, it can’t be”, and then, she fell asleep again.

6:00 AM, the moment of the day when Misato cursed and slammed her digital clock, just part of her normal awakening ritual, as usual she got up from bed, and went to her door, there were sounds of someone in the kitchen, but she paid no attention, when she opened her door, she was greeted by the sight of a clean and tidy apartment, this of course startled her, she turned to see her room, which was a true mess, ‘Ok... this is still my apartment’, she thought, and then went to the kitchen, where Lee was already cooking the breakfast, “Morning again, Misato-san, sorry for awakening you early, care to join me for breakfast?”, and there he was smiling and full of energy, then Misato’s brain started to work, “Errr... I thought you went to run at the park... you didn’t needed to clean all by yourself, you know?”, Misato wasn’t really feeling bad for letting all the work to Lee, but seeing the quality of his cleaning work made her feel a little useless, then Lee replied, “Of course I went to run a few laps at the park, but I decided to return early to clean this place, no offence Misato-san, but I prefer a clean place to come back after a mission, than the previous state of this place”, if Misato felt offended, she didn’t showed it, “Ok... what is for breakfast then?”.

3 hours later, in the commercial area of Tokyo-3...

Misato was happy, for all she could care, she won the lottery, her roommate had excellent cooking skills, proof of that were the miso soup and the rice she had for breakfast, he was a fast cleaner, and a early bird, so, she will not be late for work, and to repay that, she was going to buy a full set of clothes for him, not that she minded his green spandex, but he needed normal clothes for the school, and now, she was waiting for him to change on the clothes of choice for the school, “Misato-san, does I really need to wear this?, I don’t feel comfortable at all...”, Lee finally came out of the small changing room, dressed on black dress pants, white short sleeved shirt, and white tennis shoes, “But you look so handsome!”, at Misato’s reply, Lee groaned, he has dressed with spandex for just so long that anything else wasn’t just right, “Now, now, Lee, is not as if you have to wear that always, is just for the school, look, now that we saw that those clothes fit you well, let’s buy something you like ok?”, Lee nodded happily, he eyed an orange vest he saw in that same store, and now he was going to grab it as soon as he get out of those clothes and get back in his comfy spandex, however, before he could get to the dresser, Misato stopped him, “Lee, come here please”, Lee did as told, there was nothing that was telling him to not do so, until she started to undo his bandages, he didn’t stopped her, but he knew that this was about to get uncomfortable.

“I just noticed that you don’t stop wearing this, I know you like to train, but is a little ridiculous to make these a part of your outfit...”, she stopped her babbling when she uncovered his left hand, it was so filled with scars, that she froze for a second, her face contorted with pain, then, faster than the uncovering action, she bandaged the hand and arm again, mumbling some apologizes, she told to herself to never try to take away those bandages again, she wanted to think that those scars were no longer painful, but how a boy with the knuckles of a brawler who only know a life of fighting could be so cheerful was beyond her comprehension, so, in the end, she ended purchasing a few sets of school clothes, and 2 orange vests, one of them was already being wearing by Lee, she also purchased a pair of orange tennis shoes, Lee stated that the orange color had a good contrast with his green spandex, Misato laughed a bit at this, but didn’t complain, if the greatest hero of mankind wanted to be dressed on green and orange, so be it, “Well, now that we are finished here, let’s get going to the geofront, training awaits you”, at this, Lee was about to shout his usual affirmation, but stopped, “Just another more thing before we go!, I need something for her!”, Misato smiled at this, and thought that either Rei was a lucky girl for having someone like him, or very unlucky if she was against the eccentric ones.

2 hours later in the simulation room...

“Now remember, Lee, center the target in the aim circle, then pull the trigger”, Ritsuko was giving the instructions to Lee, who seemed to be unhappy with the training, “Dr. Akagi...”, Lee called with not much cheerfulness on his voice, “Call me Ritsuko, you don’t need to be that formal”, “Ok..., Ritsuko-san, why can’t I just go and kill the ’target’ like I did last time?”, Lee replied, and Ritsuko sweat dropped, the main reason was that the simulation software was unable to track the actions and speed of Lee, which rendered it useless for actual training for him, but she decided to use another excuse, “Lee, you can’t always use a close combat style, you need to adapt to any possible treat, like for example a flying unit, you can’t fly, right?”, at Ritsuko’s explanation, he wanted to say that he could jump and change the direction of his fall with the ‘Darting Sparrow’ technique, but decided that she was right, he needed to adapt to any situation possible, as well as learning to use every weapon and tool he could lay his hands on.

After a few burst of the flechete rifle, Lee decided that it was a waste, just too much bullets threw away with ‘little’ accuracy, but when he travelled with his eyes from one side to another of his entry plug system, he noticed some buttons, “Ritsuko-san, what are those buttons for?”, Lee asked, just on the middle of the training, “Those buttons turn on or off the automatic systems of the EVA, they are there in case of the automatic aim systems could get jammed”, Ritsuko explained, intrigued by the curiosity of Lee, “Oh, and what does this switch on the rifle do?”, Lee asked again, “It turns the full auto mode from the rifle to a single shot mode, it is there to be used on sniping situations”, she explained again, of course this explanation was stupid in the ears of Misato, the idea of sniping with giant mechas was far ridiculous, “Thank you for the info!”, Lee suddenly shouted with his usual youthfulness.

Lee relaxed in the plug, and then carried his little experiment, ‘Just why does everything have to be so complicated?, let’s make everything simple!’, he reached for the buttons of the automatic systems turning them all off, “Ok Lee, that is how you can deactivate the automatic systems in case of a jamming, now turn them on and continue the training”, Ritsuko was getting a weird feeling about this, Lee only grinned, he liked how it felt, he was more in touch with the EVA systems, so, he preceded with the next part, he turned the rifle into a single shot, “Lee?”, Ritsuko just didn’t caught what was he doing, until he shot to the target, “3 shots on the core!, target down!”, Maya shouted, now Misato was impressed, “So, who said that the former configuration was the best one?”, Misato mocked, Ritsuko knew that she set that configuration to maximize the results, but this boy just threw everything she knew about performance to the trash can.

Now, after the gun training was over, Lee had to let some things out of his chest, “Ritsuko-san..., can you do something about this outfit?”, Ritsuko shook her head, “I can’t believe that you feel awkward in the plug suit after seeing you wearing spandex..”, Lee blinked at this, but corrected her fast, “No, is not that, is just that I was thinking if you could change the color to green, you know, blue and white is just not my style”, Lee stated with a smile, Ritsuko sweat dropped, “Sure, why not, but it will take some time, so, you’ll have to use that one for a little time”, Lee smiled much more, “Thank you, Ritsuko-san”, now, Misato decided to interrupt, “Ok Lee, now go to the showers, and get dressed, we have to go now if you want to pay a visit to your little ‘LOVE’, understood?”, Lee nodded and darted happily to the shower room, and Ritsuko felt the unbearable need to ask, “Little love?, Misato, can you explain?”, Misato grinned, is not everyday that she picked the interest of the scientist, “Well, I know he just arrived yesterday, but he suffers a severe case of love at first sight”, Ritsuko was now interested to the point of a mental breakdown, and made a face that screamed ‘with who?’, “With no other than our Ayanami Rei, funny, don’t you think?”, Misato answered the unspoken question of Ritsuko, who of course, started to react in a disturbing way, first smiling, while starting to think, ‘So, you want that doll?, fine, you want her for yourself?, no problem, you want to take her away from the clutches of your father, annoying him in the process?, excellent, YOU want to break HER shell and mold HER at YOUR image to utterly annoy Gendo all the way to the sun and back?!, HELL YEAH!, I’LL HELP YOU IN ALL THE POSSIBLE WAYS YOU MAY NEED!!!’, by the time she finished this thought, she was grinning like a maniac, up to the point that Misato was taking some steps back, “Shall we go, Misato-san?”, Lee returned, dressed again, saving Misato from whatever was happening to Ritsuko.

Medical wing, Rei’s room...

Rei was still eyeing the small card where Lee wrote his little message, still unsure how he noticed, she had the order of befriend him, in order to discover a weakness, but right now, she was more focused on discover what to do with the message he wrote, could he really care for her?, she wasn’t a real human, she was a mere tool for the scenario that Gendo has planed, she had no more propose than accomplish her function, and then she will be discarded, and even if he could care for her right now, Gendo could tell him the truth and then he will not be willing to look at her anymore, yes, she was thinking a lot, it was the only thing she was able to do in the hospital bed, she knew she had to make a plan to get the required information from his lips, but she thought that she had enough time before his next visit, because no normal boy will be visiting her daily, unfortunately (or not) for her, Lee was anything but normal in the measurements of society...

“Hello!, Rei-san, I’m so glad that you are ‘awake’ now!, do you mind if I make you some company?”, and there he was, already at her side, with his goofy smile, radiating a warm aura of affection, and while this startled her the first time (in the EVA cage), the second time (when she faked her sleep) was something not unpleasant, and this time, she almost enjoyed it, but she still had a mission to do, however she wished to had more time before starting it, “Hi, pilot Ikari, thank you for visiting me”, she said with a monotone icy voice that could have chilled the good intentions of any normal boy... but since we are talking about Lee, “Rei-san, you don’t have to call me like that, I mean, I don’t call you Pilot Ayanami, don’t I?”, Lee replied with his usual cheerfulness, if Gaara didn’t intimidated him, this girl stand no chance of doing so, “Understood, Ikari-san”, Rei insisted on using his family name, but Lee wanted to go further, “Please, you can call me for my name, I will like if you use it”, he continued with his affectionate assault, at this Rei pondered on the possibilities, maybe befriending him won’t be as hard as she was thought, “Understood, Shinji-san”, after saying this, she noticed a change on Lee’s face, there was no longer a goofy smile, not even the warm feeling, he suddenly seemed to be made of rock, but this didn’t lasted long enough to be studied, “Lee, call me Lee, please, I haven’t used the name ‘Shinji’ in 11 years, and I will not start using it any time soon”, he stated, slowly returning to his cheerful state, this puzzled her a little, and not knowing about how hard can be the past for some people, she asked, “Why don’t you want to use your true name?, isn’t it more suitable now that you are here with the Commander Ikari, your father?”.

Lee froze for a second, he could have reacted angry at those words, right now he wouldn’t mind taking his father’s head, but he decided to swallow his anger, it was obvious that she was unaware of his troubled past with Gendo, and badmouthing the Commander may not be taken kindly, “Well, I could tell you the whole story, but the visit time is pretty short, but I’ll tell you this, while the Commander Ikari dumped me, saying that I was useless, and that the death of my mother was my fault, there were people that were kind to me, they gave me this name, I grew among them with this name, I love them, and they love me for what I am, LEE, THE HANDSOME GREEN BEAST!”, Lee finished with an outburst of youthfulness, he always liked his title, but to Rei, it made no sense, “Green Beast?”, she asked, but had no time to get the answer, “Ok, Lee, is time to go home, give her a kiss already and say good bye!”, Misato entered the room, not losing a minute to tease the kids, “Will you came to visit me tomorrow?”, Rei asked immediately, acknowledging that the visit was over, at this, Lee leaned to kiss her forehead (again), “Of course, I will come daily until the day of your release”, and then he handed her a small box of chocolates before taking his leave, short after he left, she noticed that the room was much more cold than before, but couldn’t tell the reason to this, she turned to the chocolate box, it was small and had the kanji of health in the top and sides, she decided to eat some of them before the Commander could show again, if Lee came the day after his first visit, maybe the Commander will do so, upon eating one, she noticed 2 things, first, there was something different on these chocolates, and second, they were far more delicious than the first ones.

And this was the beginning of the period of adaptation (and I mean, people adapting to Lee, because we all know that Lee will just never change), this period was as long as 2 and half weeks, during this time, Misato noticed a few things, like his training habits, yes, she discovered that Lee not only made 500 push ups as a morning warming session, he also made 500 flexions as well, she also decided one morning to follow him to the park, where he was doing 2 things, feed a little squirrel that he named Mr. Nut, and running 25 laps to the ENTIRE park, which makes a morning run of 120km, this made her to rethink the meaning of a healthy life, during this time, Ritsuko barked a lot to get an upgraded version of the simulator system, in order to study Lee’s natural performance, she also made adjustments to the entry plug, to suit Lee’s tastes, if he was going to save the world, better to let him do things his own way, Maya on her part did everything in her power to imitate the moves that Lee showed, so far, she has fallen on her butt over 147 times trying to do the Konoha Senpu, and almost broke her hand while doing the Konoha Goriki Goken, and during this time, Rei has been visited daily by Lee, and while he shared some aspects of his life to her, he kept everything about Konoha and the shinobi techniques at bay, Rei for her part wanted to share some things, unfortunately, she had not much to share, all the little things she was, Lee already knew them, and she had no likes or dislikes about hobbies or other teenager things, so Lee decided to bring to her every little piece of the world (at least what he knew), to find what could she like or dislike, so far, he discovered that she loved the chocolates, she liked the color blue, she preferred the tulips over the roses, and classic music over pop.

And today, one day before her release, Gendo showed himself at her room, his visit was not only unexpected, but his existence and the existence of the mission almost forgotten, “What is the meaning of this?!”, Gendo was really surprised, he found that Rei was in a room that any little girl could have wished for, globes, plushies, little cards with wishes on her healing, and the cherry of the cake was to see her, being very comfy, listening to something in a SDAT, while eating a little chocolate, that day Rei learned what was to be afraid of the rage of someone, Gendo showed an angry face, for someone that hides his facial expression so well, this was a BAD sign, “Lee insisted that this will help me to heal faster and...”, she tried to explain, in the past she always had an explanation that could help, but Gendo didn’t liked how the explanation started, “WHO?!”, his anger was horribly obvious, and Rei flinched at his voice, “I mean, Pilot Ikari...”, Rei rectified, but somehow didn’t liked the title anymore, “That’s better, now, since is obvious that he visited you more than once, I’m expecting to have a good report”, what he asked was very difficult, so, she decided to be technical.

“I succesfully have become friends with L... Pilot Ikari, he seems to show a lot of trust towards me, the location of his previous living states are still unclear, but it could be a poor place of China, since some of the names of his friends sounded chinesse”, this picked the interest of Gendo, if he could locate these friends, he could take them as hostages to make a tool of his son, “Good work Rei, now tell me the name of his closest friends”, Gendo commanded, to him, it was only a matter of typeing the names on the database, and they will be his, Rei of course did as she was told, unaware of the pain in the a** she was about to give him, “Of course Commander, the ones that growed with him are Neji and Tenten, and his 2 closest friends are one Uzumaki Naruto and one called Sabaku no Gaara, all of them are like family to him”, Gendo didn’t knew what to think about those names, 2 were like chinesse, one of them was japanese, but that Gaara was somewhat weird for a human name, in the end, he asked her to repeat the names twice to write them correctly.

“What about his most important person?”, he asked now, half expecting to hear that he wasn’t that open, little he knew that that person was mentioned every day by Lee, “That will be his sensei, Maito Gai, he was the one that gave him the name of Lee at the orphanage where he lived, and Lee sees him as his beloved father...”, Rei stated the last part with a very small voice, noticing too late that she mentioned 2 things that Gendo didn’t wanted to hear about, one, his son being acknowledged by that name, and the other, that some idiot may have ruined his plan of breaking him by being a model father, the teacher that he hired was supposed to make sure that his son had the harshest life possible, not allowing him to have friends, and making him an obedient tool, instead of that, his son ended with some kind of freak that molded him like a tornado!, and to make it worst, HE WAS SPOILING HIS PERFECT TOOL!.

“Your release will be tomorrow early, you are not to contact the third child until further advice, if this information proves to be enough, you will require no more contact with him”, Rei was about to protest, to tell him that she could get much more information if she were allowed to stay at his side, but stopped herself when Gendo made use of his authority by crushing every ‘alien’ item that Lee has brought to his tool, he decided that she will not be corrupted by this boy, and when he had the chance, he will make his son suffer for everything he has done, when he finished his task, he left without a word, leaving a scared Rei to ponder on the current situation and turn of events, if she could chose, she will choose Lee without hesitation, he was kind and sincere, but it was not her choice, and by thinking that, a tear rolled from her eye to her cheek.

Next morning...

Rei, now having a slight idea of what means to be happy (or at least the idea she got by observing Lee), concluded that she wasn’t happy of leaving the medical wing to go to her apartment, true, she was almost completely healed, with only a few bandages, even Ritsuko was amazed with her recovery, but the reaction of Gendo made her feel sick, all the way from her room to the lobby, she was lamenting the losing of the little and pretty gifts she got from Lee, Gendo told her that these were of not use for her propose, but, she liked them, she didn’t saw any menace to her propose by keeping them, but thinking about that was useless now, she will not get them back, and to make it worse, her release was too early, so, Lee will not be anywhere near to say good bye to him, even if it only lasted 2 weeks, she enjoyed being under his care, and she will miss that, of course not everything was lost, if Gendo acted slow enough, she could see him at school before the breaking treatment that Gendo has planned for him, and maybe, if miracles does exist, she could see him at a random place before that.

“Hello Rei-san!”, Lee suddenly greeted with all his youthfulness, Rei’s eyes widened for the surprise, and her brain didn’t processed the event fast enough, “But, but... how did you know?”, Lee gave her a WIDE smile before answering, “Well, Ritsuko-san just told me a little early that you will be released today, and since she told me to take the day free, I thought on walking you home!”, even if the reason was somewhat weird, she was grateful for that, she was granted another day with him, and if this worked well, Gendo will not have to know about something with no importance, “Thank you, Lee-san”, she finally replied, her lips curving without her knowledge, rewarding Lee with her first smile (she softened her face a lot with all the gifts, but today it was a true smile, very little, but hey!,that's a start!), “OK!, now let’s go to package all your things!”, Lee offered, but this reminded her that she was sad for the losing of her new belongings, “Lee-san, I’m afraid to tell you...”, and then she proceed to tell him what the Commander did to the pretty gifts that he brought her, now, she was expecting either a rampaging reaction or some dramatic speech, but the only thing she got was a reduction of his smile (later she will learn that a big smile Lee is safe, a not big smile Lee is not safe, a no smile Lee is a good signal to run away, and a frowning Lee means that you are ******** dead).

“Don’t worry about that, I’ll get you better things, just don’t let him to do that to you, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL BLOSSOMING FLOWER THAT NEED LOVE AND CARE!, YOU ARE NOT SOME KIND OF TOOL!!!”, Lee boomed, like only he knows how to do, Rei was grateful for that, she felt much better whenever he does that, all the way from the geofront to her apartment they talked about nonsense and stuff related to the gifts she wanted back, of course Lee noticed the area of the city where her apartment was, he didn’t liked how the place looked, but maybe there was a lot of security in her house to make it up for insecurity of the street, this idea was losing strength as they entered the building, it grew weaker when they were standing in front of the door, and then she opened the door, inviting him to enter to the place she called home...

Apartment of Misato, noon...

Misato, by this day, had resigned herself to life of weirdness and cheerfulness by taking Lee to live with her, not that she minded, as a matter of a fact, she was enjoying it, if she had a child, she wished him/her to be as cheerful as Lee, but that was that, and this was..., well...., “What do you mean that she is going to live here now?”, yes, Lee returned sooner than expected, but not alone, he brought with him the first child, Ayanami Rei, who also looked lost on this sea of reactions from Lee, “Misato-san!, you should have seen her apartment, it looked worst than yours before my arrival!”, Lee was somewhat angry, Misato knew that enraging the happy people was a bad idea, and enraging a happy-martial-artist-who-train-like-a-madman-with-heavy-as-a-car-training-weights was in the list of ‘For God Sake don't do!’, “Ok..., do you agree with this Rei?”, Misato asked to the blue haired girl, up to now, Rei was grateful to be only carried away, she liked being dragged by Lee, it was more enjoyable than being dragged by Gendo or Ritsuko, and being asked her own opinion was new to her.

“I don’t mind...”, she replied, it wasn’t the truth, but neither it was a lie, the idea of being surrounded by the warmth that Lee was radiating was very appalling, “Ok..., I just hope that the Commander will take this kindly, you know you will need his permission”, Misato stated, not unpleasd at all, this was weird, but it could be real fun to tease the blue haired girl (since teasing Lee was completely ineffective...), however, this statement startled the poor Rei a lot, since Lee appeared, she started to disobey the Commander orders, by not using the name the commander gave him, by seeing him again when he ordered that she must not came in contact with him again, and now, by changing her living quarters without notifying or getting any permission from the commander, and to make it worse, it was all at the same time, she was about to say something about this when Lee took the word.

“LIKE I COULD CARE!, SHE IS GOING TO STAY HERE UNDER MY CARE, BECAUSE I WILL NOT LET HIM TO PUT HER ON A PLACE THAT COULD BE CONFUSED FOR A TRASH CAN!, SHE WILL HAVE THE LIFE SHE DESERVES FOR BEING SUCH A PRETTY GIRL!!!”, and there he was, a little piece of his mind, and tons of his guts, Misato could argue or tease him for this, but since it was as useful as teasing Ritsuko with science..., “Ok, but you 2 aren’t going to sleep together, I don’t want to answer for something like that!”, at Misato’s comment, Lee snapped back to reality, “Don’t worry, Misato-san, I will never think on doing something like that without first putting a marriage ring on her hand”, Misato’s eyes bulged out, her mind turned blank from the impression of such a thing, while Rei’s mind started to race, trying to figure the meanings of everything they talked about, she turned to face Lee, who gave her one of his blinking smiles, and she liked it, as if it said that he really meant every word he said, even if she didn’t understand, then Misato returned to her senses, and upon seeing the events of this day, she decided that this particular day couldn’t be more weird (Poor Misato, she does not know what is prepared for her).

In less than 30 minutes, the room arrangements were done, Lee took the smallest room, giving his previous room to Rei, he also helped her to set the room, there was just too little to set, but he helped anyway, he promised her that tomorrow they will go shopping some more items for her, and insisted on giving her his pillow, which was a big turtle plushie, only by seeing it, Rei smiled, it was utterly cute, and she couldn’t resist the need of hugging the eccentric item, this was the sight that Ritsuko witnessed when she entered the apartment, she entered without knocking up because Misato was her best friend, and she thought that noting she may do will ever surprise her, but she forgot Lee, who she pointed as responsible for this scene, she almost had mental overload, she would never imagined Ayanami Rei, the handmade tool that Gendo and her mother created to be emotionless and obedient, would one day be hugging a turtle plushie with so much joy, or any level of joy, “Incredible, isn’t it?, how Lee can change someone life in such a short time”, Misato brought back the mind blown Ritsuko, who also took the time to see the now clean and tidy apartment, “Yeah, right, next time I will hear you using his trade mark set of expressions”, Ritsuko replied, and then mentally added, ‘Gendo, you are so screwed up’, short after her time getting to know what happened and why Rei was there, a knock was heard at the door, at this, Lee went to see who was the one visiting, since they weren’t expecting anyone else.

Thx for reviewing, I promise that the chapter 4, which is already under work, will be really funny and awesome, I'm even tempted on using the Suiken

I know that Asuka will take some time to appear in this fanfic, but I need ideas for her pairing, who should him be?

1. Gaara
2. Kiba
3. A mecha pilot from another anime
4. An Original Character
5. Someone you might like?

Here is chapter 4, enjoy it

Ikari Lee: The Green Beast

Chapter 4

DYNAMIC ENTRY!!!!

The door was barely touched when it suddenly opened with immense strength, and a voice boomed from the green blur that entered the place attacking Lee with a flying kick, “DYNAMIC ENTRY!!!!!!”, Lee evaded the kick, by doing some back flips, the whole action scared the crap out of the women inside the apartment, Misato even forgot that she had a pistol ready for a situation like this, but before anyone could make sense of the motives of the attack, the attacker started to speak, “LEE!, IS GOOD TO SEE THAT YOU ARE STILL ON GOOD SHAPE!, FOR A MOMENT I THOUGHT YOU MAY HAD STOPPED YOUR TRAINING!”, suddenly, the women noticed how similar they looked, green spandex suit, bowl haircut, green spandex, bushy eyebrows, GREEN SPANDEX!, then Lee replied to the man, “NEVER THAT WILL HAPPEN!, THE WAYS OF THE YOUTHFULNESS WILL PREVAIL!!!”, and then, out of nowhere, a sunset appeared, and the man and Lee were at a cliff with the sea clashing against it, “LEE!!!”, “GAI-SENSEI!!!”, “LEE!!!”, “GAI-SENSEI!!!”, Misato and Ritsuko were totally shocked by this scene, Rei was solving the puzzle in her mind, obviously, this man was Maito Gai, the martial artist that raised Lee into the unstoppable teenager that she has gotten to know, that makes the other 2 teenagers the ones that grew with him, Neji and Tenten, which hasn’t been acknowledged by Misato and Ritsuko due to the scene made by Lee and his previous guardian.

After 15 minutes of the scene described above, the introductions were made, the Team Gai was shocked to know that their Lee was now branded as the protector of mankind, let alone living now with one girl about his age, who wickedly seemed to be comfy with all the eccentricity of Lee, and a mature woman, with the natural behavior of a wild girl, the people of NERV, in this case Misato, Ritsuko, and Rei, were filled with a fake background, they were told that Lee and Tenten came from an orphanage from a very poor part of China, while Neji (who was wearing blue contact lens), came from a rich family who wished for him to become the strongest of his village, this of course was well made, and helped Ritsuko to fill the holes on the background of Lee. Now, Neji was carrying some backpacks with some of the belongings of Lee, which included more spandex suits, and some random items, like music sheets, and while unpacking some of these items, a new conversation started, “So, Lee, do you play an instrument?”, Ritsuko asked, she was curious how a war beast like Lee could play some kind of instrument, “Yes, Ritsuko-san, is one of my favorite hobbies, I play, to a certain degree, the piano, too bad my Gran Baby couldn’t be transported!”, Ritsuko’s eyes bulged, even if he wasn’t so good, she wanted to listen to him playing some music, just to test his skills on coordination, then, the long haired boy spoke, “True, but, since you seem to want to stay here, can I keep your Gran Baby?”.

Neji only said that to tease Lee, trying to see if he would return back home later, but Tenten didn’t liked the comment, “NEJI!!!!!, he isn’t dieing, if he want to stay we only have to find a way to get him his piano!”, as a matter of a fact, Tenten was holding some scrolls with the others belongings of Lee, like more sets of his training weights, training dummies, and of course, his beloved piano, but since Lee was already living with some people, they just couldn’t summon the items freely, however, Lee smiled to them, “No, Neji, you can’t keep it, but not because I don’t want to share it, I promised to Gaara that he will have it if for some reason I would never play it again”, Neji and Tenten froze at the comment, not only they couldn’t believe that Lee was best friend with that monster, but he also was leaving him his piano!.

“This Sabaku no Gaara has to be a very important person for you to leaving him something that your acquaintance here will be willing to have”, Rei suddenly spoke, she seemed to be fascinated with all the interaction between these people, she noticed that, this Neji was not as friendly as the girl named Tenten, he looked more like a rival, just as Lee explained to her during his visit at the hospital, also, the girl, Tenten, seemed to have some degree of control over Neji, she knew by Lee, that there was some attraction between the two of them, but both were clumsy about how to tell that to each other, another interesting thing, was the fear they showed at the very mention of the name of one of Lee’s best friends, Lee told her that he ‘was’ the terror of the place, but in the end, he only needed good friends to hang around, instead of people rejecting him at every corner.

Neji could had said tons of bad things about Gaara, but it would made no sense to these women, but before a conversation about that character could be made, Gai made an announcement that Neji would have loved to not to hear until he was far away, “LEE, WE HAVE BROUGHT YOU A GIFT FROM SANSHO-SAN, KARASHI-KUN AND RANMARU-CHAN!, THEY WISH YOU TO BE HEALTHY AND YOUTHFUL!”, Gai boomed while pointing to the packaged BIG thermos that Tenten had very well secured on her back, Lee didn’t made them wait for his reaction, “COULD IT BE?!, YAY!!!, THE CURRY OF LIFE!!!!”, Lee boomed while taking away the thermos from Tenten, who retreated as if Lee were handling a nuclear war head, Misato’s eyes became bright, she was planning on having curry for dinner, and the idea of having a special curry was very appealing to her.

“YAY!, CURRY!, and by the name of it, it should be delicious!”, Misato squeaked, and Lee liked the idea of sharing, “It is!, now let’s make some rice to put it into and let’s have a youthful dinner!”, Lee was more than willing to share his precious Curry, after all, food tastes better when is shared, however, the other 2 gennins were more than against the idea of dinning such thing, so Tenten was the first to speak, “Err..., Lee, don’t you think you should save it for yourself, I mean, you are not going to have another plate of it anytime soon, right Neji?... Neji?... NEJI?!”, to her surprise, Neji was nowhere to be seen, she deducted that Neji was smart enough to flee from the place at the idea of having to taste the hazard food again, by the time she started to look for her companion, Lee, being followed by Rei, went to the kitchen to make some rice for the curry, and Gai-sensei was chatting with the 2 older women.

“So, Maito-san, do you train all the kids of the orphanage?, and how does take Mrs. Maito the fact that you are so far away from home?”, Misato gave him her best shot, Ritsuko eyed her, she couldn’t understand why she has done that kind of move, as far as they know, Maito Gai was more or less a grown up version of Lee, instead of the Kaji type that Misato fell for, “Hehe, no Katsuragi-san, there are other senseis that train the other kids, and there is not a Mrs. Maito, I’m single, oh, by the way, you can address me by my first name, since Lee trust you, I’ll trust you too!”, Misato nodded, she liked how easy was to deal with him, so, she continued, “Ok, then you can address me by my name too, I like when manly guys use it, so, how much are you going to stay?”, Gai sighed, he knew that Lee was overhearing them, and the answer was difficult, “Well, not much, you’ll see, this visit was meant to be a pick up for Lee, in case things weren’t fine for him, but, since he seems to like his new responsibility, well, at most 6 to 7 days, just to make sure he really wants to stay, after that we have to return to the orphanage”.

Misato nodded in understanding, a little disappointed, since she wanted to get to know the man that made Lee the promising man she was beginning to like, Ritsuko for her part, felt the colossal wight of stress, because there was a chance of losing not only the greatest hero of mankind, but the greatest annoyance of Gendo too. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Lee’s face turned serious, he heard the conversation, the idea oh having to choose was hard, but such was the path of the shinobi, however, Rei, not liking another Lee’s face that wasn’t the happy one, decided to imitate his actions at the hospital, and started for a question, “Something wrong, Lee-san?”, Lee always asked her this whenever she fell on her thoughts, and now it was the turn of Lee to answer, “Oh, sorry, I was just thinking on how to choose between this life, and the life in the ‘orphanage’, while here is important that I fight, the people back home still loves me, so, is hard...”, Rei pondered on her options, true, if lee leaves, she will return to her old life, being only a tool, but she didn’t wanted that anymore, “Lee-san, personally, I would like if you stay with me”, Rei may not had understood the weight of her words, or the meaning they took for Lee, but they had the desired effect, Lee smile widely again, and hugged her afterwards, at this, she decided to hug back, not that she really knew that was to be done, but if she liked the feeling, he may like it too, for hence, helping him in the decision.

Meanwhile, in the park nearby to Misato’s appartment...

Tenten was grateful for many things, some of them had effect today, like how her sensei forgot about her existence, not noticing that she left, and probably, still not noticing that she was no longer there, saving her from having to taste the curry of life again, but it was thanks to Neji that this escapade was successful, he was the excuse to get out of that dangerous situation, if the women and the girl wanted to die, she had no remorse on letting them be, however, right now, she was focused on finding Neji, the Hyuga genious with a superiority complex, and an intense ‘curryphobia’, she hadn’t had to search too much, she found him sitting in the fountain, with the biggest vase of soda she ever had seen in her life (if you want a reference, is the same size that Coop, the pilot of Megas XLR, uses to drink), she couldn’t help but to giggle, he looked so small and uncaring, effect of not being watched by his clan, or any other shinobi, she proceed to sit at his side, Neji eyed her, probably making sure she didn’t had any of the ‘curry of the hell’, once he felt safe, he showed her a plate with 2 hot dogs jumbo size, offering her a ‘safe’ dinner, “Awww, you are such a gentleman”, she praised him, and kissed his cheek, she wondered if they could pass the next days like this, in such a comfy way...

Back on Misato’s apartment...

The adults (Gai, Misato and Ritsuko) were sat at the table, the dinner was ready, to the surprise of them, Rei was the one serving the rice plates, and in top of that, she looked happy, Lee was carefully opening the big thermos, where the curry was being contained, once all the plates were served, Lee proceed to add the curry, directly from the thermos, at this Ritsuko spoke, “Cold?, I think it would be better if you heat it firs...”, Ritsuko couldn’t finish the sentence, because when he put the curry on her rice, this was bubbling, and looked HOT, “Never mind..., Maito-san, didn’t you said that you brought this from China?, how could it be still hot?, or did you just heated it Lee?”, Ritsuko asked, but got no answer, Misato didn’t seem to mind it, but Ritsuko knew that if she could eat what she cooks, then nothing was wrong for her, now, all plates ready, and all the people (without the unnoticed Neji and Tenten) sat at the table, they proceed to eat, allowing Lee to have the first spoon of it, as if they wanted to see if it was safe to eat.

Lee took the first spoon of the curry, his face turned red, he started to sweat and his eyes became wet, “YOOOSSSSHH!!!, THIS IS AS DELICIOUS AS I REMEMBER IT!!!”, Lee boomed, and started to eat the rice and curry with furious speed, the others decided that it was only spicy curry, and it was safe to eat, only Gai knew what was about to eat, but he considered it like training, and so, every one took a full spoon of the curry into their mouths, the reaction was instantaneous, their faces turned purple, they were sweating bullets, and then proceed to add their own extra reaction, Gai spat a small flame, and after drinking a small glass of water, he said, “YOOSSHH!, STRONG AS EVER!, STRONG AS THE POWER OF YOUTH!”, and then kept eating at a slow pace, the next was Misato, who had steam at her ears, and with a deep drink of her cold beer she said, “OH MY GOD!, THIS IS HARDCORE STUFF!”, and continued eating it, with very slow pace, Ritsuko for her part, didn’t stud a chance, she weaved her hands with despair, her face turned even more purple, and then fainted, unable to take it anymore, the last one was Rei, who turned to a bright shade of red, unable to think what to do with her situation, she only opened her mouth to hyperventilate, waving her hands to try to make the air flow into her mouth, Lee saw this and decided to help her a little, holding a glass filled with water, and helping her to drink the liquid.

When Neji and Tenten returned, they found a shocking scene, ONLY ONE PERSON KNOCKED OUT!, they fully expected to find only Lee standing up, and Gai evading the second plate, instead of that, they found that Gai was still eating the deadly food, Misato eating it too with enough happiness to compete with Lee, even the blue haired girl was eating it, slowly of course, and Lee, well, eating a lot as usual, this made them to wonder if only they were weak enough to not eat that thing. When the dinner was finished, and Ritsuko was gently awakened (Misato dropping a bucket of water on her face), the time for good byes came, “Well, is time to go and get a room at an hotel, but tomorrow we’ll have a heavy training!”, Gai proposed, at this Lee jumped with happiness, he missed to train with his former mentor, and if he has to return to Konoha so soon, he’ll enjoy him to the maximum, that night, Rei had the best sleep time of all her life, the room kept the warmth of Lee,and if this was the feeling of sleeping with the remains of his warmth, she wondered how much better could it be to sleep with Lee, she smiled at the thought, and then fell on a deep slumber.

Next morning, 4:00 AM...

As usual, Rei woke up at 4:00 AM, she always woke up at that hour without nothing to do than looking at the ceiling of her silent apartment, however, there were several things that remembered her that this was not her silent and dusty apartment, first, the room was clean and tidy, second, she wasn’t in only her undies, she was wearing some loose pajamas that were comfy and cozy, third, there was a voice of someone doing a fast counting from outside her room, yes, this was not her apartment, little by little, the memories of the day before this morning returned to her, she found herself smiling, and then decided to check what kind of interest things could await her today.

Meanwhile, NERV HQ, Commander’s office...

Gendo was annoyed, so annoyed that he wanted some blood to run, he typed all the names in the data base, but couldn’t found any match, he thought that either he was feed with lies, or they came from a REALLY poor part of China, after all, the elemental countries weren’t hiden for nothing, however, he decided that he was feed with lies, only because that gave him an excuse for a bloodbath, and then, “Sir, Pilot Ayanami is not in her apartment, some of her belongings are missing too”, section 2 report was building more stress on his nerves, “Was her kidnapped?”, Gendo asked, hopping that it was only that, a kidnapping, “No, Sir, she left yesterday with Pilot Ikari, it just seems that she hasn’t returned”, Gendo’s blood started to boil, “WHERE IS SHE NOW?!”, the fury of Gendo was really evident, and this time, only with blood his rage will be satisfied, “She has been seen in the shopping area of the city, she is not alone, Pilot Ikari and Captain Katsuragi are with her”, Gendo made his calculations, he was going to have all the blood he wanted, and maybe, he could break his son in the way, “There is something more, there is other people with them, one mature man and two kids, they seem very close to Pilot Ikari”, Gendo smiled wickedly, he may had everything to break the boy, to have a bloodbath, and some stress relieving, all at the same time.

Commercial area, few hours later...

Rei was happy, it seemed the Lee was focusing on bring to her all the missing happiness she didn’t had in all these years, she also felt incredibly lively today, Misato felt the same way too, and Rei attributed this to the curry of life, not only because Lee told them about it’s mythic properties, but because she felt them short after eating them, she enjoyed this day from the beginning, she found that watching Lee train, was very invigorating. It was lunch time, the entire group was having a nice meat in one of the restaurants, Misato was making a recount of all the items that they already bought, some plushies, some clothes, and some random items, Neji and Tenten also purchased a few souvenirs for their fellow shinobies, overall, it was a perfect day, until Gendo showed up..., with all the section 2 force with him.

“Rei!, what the hell are you doing here?!, WITH HIM!!!”, Rei yelped at the angry voice of Gendo, once again she forgot her orders, “I... I was having a nice day with Lee...”, Rei answered, full of fear, “WITH WHO?!”, Rei flinched at the angry reply of Gendo, but some kind of new force took over her, “With Lee”, she answered, Gendo’s face returned to his usual stoic state, he had enough, and everyone shall pay, “You have defied me for last time. Gentlemen, you already know what to do”, he was about to leave, when Gai decided to make his presence acknowledgeable, “I DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE, NEITHER I CARE, BUT I, MAITO GAI, THE BEAUTIFUL AZURE BEAST, FORBID YOU TO TREAT THESE YOUTHFUL KIDS THAT WAY!!!”, Gendo turned to face the older shinobi, he was surprised, the man that he didn’t found in the database was in front of him, “I’m Ikari Gendo, Commander of NERV, the ‘father’ of this rebellious and worthless weirdo who goes by the name of Shinji, I’m the last person you want to make angry”, Gendo spat the word ‘father’ with so much poison, that both, Misato and Neji, flinched.

Lee was actually boiling in anger, his father, has done just too much in a few minutes, screwing up the beautiful day, scaring Rei, and threatening his beloved sensei, but before he could yell at Gendo, Rei made what everyone in NERV never thought could be possible, “HE IS NOT WORTHLESS, AND IF HE IS A WEIRDO, THEN ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD SHOULD BE LIKE HIM, AND HIS NAME ISN’T SHINJI, IS LEE!!!”, everyone was speechless, even Rei found hard to believe her words and actions, she almost expected that Gendo will take out his gun and shot her in the head, but instead of that, he only gave orders, “Gentlemen, when you finish with them, take Rei to her apartment, and bring Pilot Ikari to my office, you can leave the rest of them to root in the street”, said this, he left to the HQ, leaving behind a speechless Misato, an scared Rei, a confused Team Gai, and an enraged Lee.

“Gai-sensei, Neji, Tenten, please, take care of my beloved Rei-san and Misato-san, I have to go after the Commander, he want a word with me, and he’ll have much more than that”, Lee stated in a startling calm voice, even Rei shivered at anger of the usually cheerful boy. In a swift move, Lee jumped behind the lines of the section 2 forces, and darted to the geofront, faster than any motorcycle they could have seen, a few men from section 2 ran after Lee, but almost everyone stayed to beat the beloved people of the boy, “Curse fate, luck, or the gods, because only the Commander’s doll will leave walking”, one of the men spoke menacingly, unaware of the true danger they were in, Misato cursed herself, she forgot her gun at home, and even if Lee had great faith in his former guardian, she was sure everyone will end badly injured by the end of this, until she saw Tenten holding some blades, and Neji standing up, with a deadly cold aura.

NERV HQ, Commander’s office, 15 minutes later...

Gendo felt his victory at hand, in a few more minutes, section 2 will drop the beaten body of the rebellious boy, just to be beaten again by a group of thugs he just hired for this particular moment, suddenly, the doors of his office opened, but instead of a beaten Lee, he saw a healthy and angry Lee, “I thought you wanted a word with me, Commander”, for a moment, Gendo felt fear eating his guts, if he was here without a scratch, it means that section 2 was beaten, he tried to think fast, then he remembered something, a weakness that Yui had, and if this boy had the same genes, he would have him in his hand, “It seems that I underestimated you, very well, let’s talk like gentlemen, what are your demands?”, Lee, being the good natured person he was, believed in Gendo’s change of attitude, so, he told him his demands, “The freedom of Ayanami Rei to do as she pleases, and the official acknowledgement of my identity, as ‘Ikari Lee’, I’m sure you’ll find this very easy to do and of little consequence”, Gendo growled, if he accepted this to save himself from a beating, he’ll be losing all control not only over him, but of Rei too, so, he decided to play his last card, “I’ll agree, if you accept one challenge”, Lee didn’t had any trust in the Commander, but he never said no to a challenge, and if that challenge was the key to the freedom of Rei, he’ll do it, not caring how hard or risky could it be, “Fine, I’ll do it, but you’ll better stay true to your word, because I will not lose!”

Meanwhile, NERV HQ entrace...

Misato and Gai were entering the frontal doors of the base, usually she would have forbidden him to enter, but after seeing him kicking the sorry asses of 50 men from section 2, she just didn’t wanted to argue, besides, Gai offered his aid to prevent Lee from doing something regreteable, while Neji and Tenten escorted Rei to Misato’s apartment, suddenly, Ritsuko came running, “Misato, Gai!, follow me!, quickly!”, Gai and Misato did as told, and followed the scientist to the bridge, where Maya was watching a monitor that was displaying an image with Gendo and Lee, “WHAT’S GOING ON?!”, Gai asked/shouted, startling the bridge bunnies, “W-who is he?!”, Maya stuttered, “He is Lee’s former guardian and sensei, now tell us what is happening”, Ritsuko scolded her, but Maya was excited, she was in the same room where a true martial artist master was, but this was not the moment to ask for training, so, she proceed to tell them about the challenge that Gendo proposed, “The Commander has challenged Lee, if Lee can accomplish the challenge, the Commander will accept his demand on his identity, and keeping Rei”, Gai was about to ask about this challenge, when he saw that Gendo was taking out a bottle.

Back in Gendo’s office...

Lee was eyeing the bottle, “Drink it all and you’ll have all what you want”, Gendo said, Lee, believing in his words, and having no memory of his previous drunk states, took the bottle, with not so much confidence, “Of course, if you feel like a weakling or are scared of it, you can always walk thru the door, and I’ll send some of my men to take Rei to her apartment”, Gendo pushed a little further, knowing that he liked the girl, Lee frowned, this time not only his honor was at stake, but the happiness of his little love, so, ‘remembering’ that Tsunade once said that in a drinking contest the best thing to do is to swallow fast (Don’t do that, really, don’t do it), he turned the bottle upside down on his mouth, swallowing it as fast as he could...

NERV bridge...

Everyone in the bridge was freaking out, the NERV people thought that this was a low blow from Gendo to his own son, even Ritsuko remembered that Yui wasn’t able to hold her liquor, despite how little it was, suddenly, Gai spoke, “OH MY GOD!, PLEASE TELL ME THAT HE DIDN’T GAVE SAKE TO MY LEE!!!”, his concern as noted, but no one wanted to answer, but Misato decided to tell him the truth, “That is not sake”, at this answer, Gai gave a sigh of relief, “That is vodka, Russian liquor, and that brand is 10 times stronger than sake”, Misato continued, with grief in her voice, for giving him the bad news, Gai got petrified, his mind started to calculate the outcome of this, it was bad, too bad, “MISATO-SAN!, CALL TO YOUR HOME!, MAKE REI-CHAN AND MY KIDS TO COME HERE!, NOW!”, Misato did as told, thinking on saving Lee, not knowing that Gai wanted to save Gendo instead.

Gendo’s office...

Gendo had to admit it, the boy has guts, he took the entire bottle in one swallow, but it was enough alcohol to render him harmless, with not much care, he pushed a button on his desk, opening some doors on the walls of the enormous office, allowing many thugs to fill the place, “Gentlemen, the only thing you aren’t allowed to do, is to kill him, other than that, he is yours to have fun”, Gendo explained to the thugs, they laughed at the sight, the boy was weaving from one side to the other, until he fell on his butt, the thugs encircled him ready to beat him and worse, until the boy shouted, “DON’TCHA STARE PEOPLE LIKE THAT!!!”, Lee leaped to the closest thug, giving him a kick on the chest, breaking his rib cage, and sending him almost dead to be plastered against one of the reinforced walls of the room, then he punched another one in the face, cracking his skull and neck, “I’M... I’M... IN THE SPRING OF YOUTH!!!”, Lee punched and kicked in all directions, every attack finding its mark with a sickening sound of bones being broken, suddenly, only Gendo was left, and Lee’s stupor was no where near to end.

Bridge...

Everyone was awestruck, even when Gai told them about the suiken, they were unable to believe that Lee, being the eccentric gentleman he was, could have unleashed such slaughter while being drunk, this made Misato to picture his stack of beer as if it were a bunch of N2 mines, Maya decided that this was an style she didn’t want to see in action again, while Ritsuko was deleighted with the face of terror that Gendo was showing, “I hope that your kids get here soon enough”, Ritsuko said sarcastically, hoping that they arrive late enough to see Gendo being beaten, suddenly, Maya shouted, really scared, “The Commander has a gun!”, everyone returned their attention to the screen, now terrorized by this turn of events.

Gendo’s office...

Gendo was pointing his gun against Lee, in hopes that even in that state, the boy will recognize the danger of a fire weapon, “YOU b*****d!!, YOU MESSED THE YOUTHFUL DAY OF REI-CHAN!!!”, Gendo was now on full panic mode, Lee was approaching to him, and had no trace of fear, Gendo’s hands were trembling, this was not as planned, he coursed himself for locking the doors, preventing him from escaping, his mind was clouded with fear, and then, Lee shouted his drunk warcry, “ACHOOOOOOO!!!”, then the sound of a gun shot filled the room, in his despair, Gendo shot his own son in the head, in the bridge, everyone gasped, the idea of losing Lee was unbearable, thankfully, Rei was not there to see that, Lee was falling backwards, and Gendo’s mind was racing with thoughts about his wife, and how he screwed up her return to life, the time seemed to stop, freezing the scene of Lee falling backwards, telling him that he just lost everything by his own hand, suddenly, Gendo noticed that the time hasn’t stopped, only Lee’s fall, but before he could wonder why, Lee moved to a straight stance, “SOMETHING GOT BETWEEN MY TEETH!”, and there he was, smiling, with the bullet trapped between his frontal teethes, Gendo let his gun slip from his hands, he no longer wished to be saved, but for a fast and painless death...

15 minutes later...

Rei, Neji, and Tenten arrived to the bridge, all of them worried sick about the eccentric youngster, “Where is him?, where is Lee?, is he ok?”, Rei asked, knowing how ruthless Gendo can be, “Gai-sensei, what is the emergency?”, Neji asked, knowing that outside the elemental countries, Lee was nearly as unstoppable as a tsunami, Gai stiffened, he knew that he needed to tell them the current danger without allowing the genins to run away scared, suddenly, the door to the bridge opened, revealing Lee, totally drunk, holding a bottle of liquor in one hand, and dragging the unconscious body of his own father, Neji and Tenten hugged each other, screaming like scared girls, while Rei’s eyes bulged out, the scene was too abstract for her to believe it, then Lee acknowledged her, “YOOSSSHH!, MY PRETTY REI-CHAN!, I REALLY WANTED TO SEE YOU!”, Lee dropped both the bottle and the body of his father, an hugged Rei, then he lost his balance, and fell to the floor with Rei in arms, “Lee, are you ok?”, Rei asked him, ignoring the strong smell of alcohol, “I’D NEVER HAVE BEEN BETTER!, I WUV YOU!, REI-CHAN!!”, Lee stated just to fall asleep, trapping Rei in his hug, who didn’t seemed to mind about that.