In a Name

I know, I suck! Starting this when I have other fanfic's to complete. I can't help it! AoT is my love at the moment. This popped into my head and wouldn't leave, so here you go, my lovelies.

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The Prologue is a new format for me; I am experimenting with it.

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Safe: It was warm and safe. The only sound was a constant thumping, sometimes it sped up, sometimes it slowed. It was constant though. Kathleen loved it.

Voices: another sound was heard. It was the sound of voices. She loved them, especially the child's voice.

(Re)born: Some time later she was ejected from the warm, safe place. She stared blearily up at a person and realized that she had been reborn.

"Congratulations, It's a boy!"

Wait… what?

Discoveries: "This is your new baby brother. Say hello to Nicklas, Levi." Kathleen stared up at the blurry image of 'her' older brother in this life. 'She' now knew where 'she' was.

Acceptance: Kathleen soon accepted the fact that despite the fact that she had been a 29 year old woman in the past life, she was now a he. He refused the name Nicklas, mentally, though. He chose to call himself Nanashi. It was Japanese for 'one without a name. Or no-name.

Brother: Nanashi adored his mother hen of a big brother. It was oddly adorable that Levi, the future Lance Corporal insisted that he feed Nanashi at every meal for the infant. Levi had a brother-complex. Ha!

Loss 1: when Nanashi was one and a half, and Levi was six, almost seven, their parents died in an accident. Nanashi wept for his brothers lost innocence.

"Don't cry, Nicklas. I'll take care of you always. I promise." That promise would be broken viciously.

Thug: By the time he was ten Levi had a reputation of a thug. Nanashi, at age five was called an angel by the old ladies.

Loss 2: When Levi was 15 and Nanashi was 10, Levi was finally arrested. Both brothers wept that night at the loss of the other. Sleep did not come easily for a long time.

Shiganshina: Nanashi liked Shiganshina. He had left Wall Shina a month before and was amazed at how much the poor village felt like home. Levi would have loved it. too bad in five years it would be destroyed.

Bullies: Nanashi hated bullies. So as a kind of service to the doomed village he kept the bullies and thugs in line. At ten, he was good like that.

Brats 1: one day when he was 11 Nanashi was walking along looking at the evacuation boats when he saw a beat up Eren Yeager fall into the water. Nanashi jumped in and saved him without a second thought.

Brats 2: Nanashi carried the shivering six year old back to his home. he had wrapped Eren up in the oversized blue cloak Levi had stolen for him when he was four. His mother and Father were both out, but Mikasa and Armin were both there.

"Eren! Who did this to you, I'll kill them!" the six year old girl growled when she caught sight of Eren.

"Who are you?" Armin asked Nanashi as Mikasa fussed over Eren.

"I'm Nanashi."

"That's a weird name. I'm Eren Yeager. Thanks for saving me." Eren finally found his voice.

"I'm Mikasa Ackerman."

"Armin Arlert. What does Nanashi mean?"

"Nanashi means 'One without a name'. Or literally 'No Name' It's Japanese. Japan is a nation far away from here beyond the ocean." With those word fate and destiny forever changed, for good or ill. The world spun on, and change began.

I hope you like this. Leave a review and let me know what you think!

I got the name Nanashi from a Gundam wing/AC fanfic where Trowa went by that for a while. It just stuck with me.

Levi is five years older than Nanashi and ten years older that Eren.

Ja ne!