“It’s okay, just stay out of Shinji and Asuka’s marital disputes,” she extorted him, causing Toji, Kensuke and Misato to burst out laughing and Shinji to work his jaw several times, not daring to speak as Asuka’s betrayed expression at her friend turned from shocked, to sly.
“Thanks for the advice. I’m guess you two are becoming increasingly experienced in playing the married couple, I mean what I heard happened behind the school gym-”
“Asuka!” Hikari hissed in embarrassment, her face flushing furiously as Misato, Rei, Kensuke and Shinji suddenly perked up in interest.
Asuka actually had it on good advice they had done nothing more then kiss, but Hikari flushed as if Asuka had accused her of filming hardcore pornography videos, her conservative nature once again coming to the front.
“Toji, you sly devil” Kensuke smirked across the table. “So that’s where you vanished to when-”
“What precisely would they be doing behind the Gym, Asuka?” Rei asked in an all too innocent tone, with a perfectly curious expression on her face…
“Well um…you know…stuff” Asuka lamely replied, suddenly flushing asRei put her on the spot, to a general snickering.
“Stuff…” Rei echoed as Shinji took a sip of his apple juice, Rei turning to face Kensuke. “Should we also partake in this…stuff?”
Apple juice shot from Shinji’s nose.
“Is something wrong, Ikari?” Rei asked, glancing across at him with that all too innocent tone as Shinji started coughing furiously, Toji and Hikari stared at her in amazement, Asuka’s jaw just dropped and Kensuke looked like he was about to faint…
“No…” he coughed, working to clear his throat and stop coughing as two parts of his mind simultaneously tried to laugh and swallow.
“Let me go and get you a towel,” Misato put in, the Captain getting up and walking out of the room, at which point gales of laughter came back from the hallway, along with the ‘thump’ of Misato sliding down the wall onto the floor, desperately gasping for air as she wondered how the hell she had ever survived without these kids in her life…
Once More With Feeling, Chapter 14