"Eren wants to join the scouts."
The whole room was silent for a moment. Then the woman rushed over to her son and grabbed him.
"No! You will not throw your life away so needlessly!" She shouted.
"Mrs yeager, there is no point trying to dissuade your son. He has made his mind up. And by the smell of it, he will be a very useful soldier."
The whole family turned to the voice. Sitting in the open window frame, was a boy, about a year older than Eren and Mikasa. He was reclining in the empty window sill, looking over the four with a lazy gaze. Mrs Yeager was totally focused on the boy, and Eren took this as a chance to escape. He rushed off with Mikasa in tow. Once mrs Yeager noticed that the two children were gone, she walked towards the boy.
"Please. Eren is hot headed and only a child. Please, keep him safe. Do this for me. I feel like something bad is about to happen. Please keep them safe." She pleaded.
The boy just nodded. "Of course. I would have done so anyway. I'll go now. I'll look after them with my life."
With that, he jumped out of the window and began walking into the city. The bright orange scarf wrapped around his neck flapping gently.
Xxx
Eren, Mikasa and Armen were sitting by the river when they heard it. A loud crash sounded throughout the town, shocking the residents. A large crowd had gathered in the village square, staring at the large hand and giant head that had appeared over the wall. There was a loud crash, and the gate to the outside came crashing inwards, flinging rocks and knocking over houses. Eren, terrified, ran towards his house to find his mother. When he reached his house, he froze. His house was destroyed.
Xxx
The boy was walking towards the gate when he heard the crash. Rocks were flying everywhere and he was hard pushed to dodge them all. Just as he thought he had dodged the last, a second rock came in the shadow of the previous. It slammed into him, pinning him to a wall by his leg. He hefted the rock of quickly, but had to wait for his leg to heal. His healing was amazingly fast, but not instantaneous. I'm all, it took about three minutes for him to get up and running again. As soon as he could, he rushed off towards the Yeager's house. When he turned the corner, his blood began to boil. A Titan was standing over the Yeager household, holding a limp body in his hand. There was also a soldier running away from the beast with two children under his arms. The boy turned to face the Titan and charged, leaping up the Titan and scaling it's back. He jumped into its shoulder and rammed a small knife, which he had pulled from a pouch on his thigh, into the nape of its neck. The Titan froze mid bite and fell straight forwards to the ground, landing on a few crushed houses. As the boy stepped off the decaying corpse of the Titan, he heard a scream. He spun to see another Titan holding up a small girl with a large scarf around her neck. He spotted the soldier running again but with only one child in his arms. The boys eyes widened as he realised who was in the titans grasp. He rushed forwards as the Titan lifted the girl into the air. He was scaling its chest as it dropped the screaming girl into its mouth, and closing its mouth to swallow the girl.
Xxx
Mikasa clung to the tongue of the beast for dear life, and watched as the gap to survival closed as it closed its mouth. She closed her eyes and waited for the final ray of light to disappear. A guttural growl emanated from the beast's mouth and Mikasa slowly opened her eyes. She blinked as she looked out through the titan's mouth; confused as to why it was no longer closing. Suddenly, movement in the edge of her vision caught her attention. She turned to see a head rising up and into view from the outside of the mouth. An arm reached into the mouth and dragged Mikasa from the jaws of death. She was yanked through the small opening and she finally got a glimpse of her saviour. He was a blonde boy wearing a long black cloak. He had an orange scarf wrapped around his neck, covering his face. Under his cloak he wore a black pair of trousers and a black top. Following his arm down, she realised what was stopping the titans mouth from closing. Wedged in between the titan's teeth was the boys arm. Mikasa gasped slightly and blushed as the boy pulled her close to his chest, threw something into the titan's mouth and jumped back; dislodging his arm by pushing the mouth open and pulling his pierced hand and elbow off from around the titan's teeth.
The boy then took off at a pace that took all the breath out of Misaka's lungs. A moment later there was an explosion, scaring Mikasa.
'Is the Titan coming after us? Are we going to die? No... It was... The cannons! It must be the cannons!'
The boy never slowed down, so Misaka's thoughts were put to rest and she could focus on the way the boy's muscles rippled every time he took a pace, making her blush harder. Eventually, still too soon for Misaka, the boy stopped and let the girl down. He stood smiling at her, making Misaka blush.
"What's your name kid?" He asked, shocking Misaka.
"U- u- um... M- Misaka... Mi- Mikasa Ackerman" Misaka said, blushing harder at her difficulty with getting words out. She had never had a problem with words before. But now, in front of this boy, she just couldn't say anything. She unconsciously went to pull up her scarf but, when she got there, she found that she had lost it in the run from the Titan. She was in the middle of thinking of how to get a new one, when something warm wrapped around her neck. Looking down, she saw that the boy had wrapped his scarf around her neck. She looked up at the boy and he grinned down to her.
"My name's Naruto. Keep that safe for me, will you? I'll come back for it. Now go find your brother."
Mikasa nodded and began walking to the boats. About halfway there she realised that Naruto was no longer beside her. She span around and frantically searched for him. She finally caught sight of him and froze. Naruto, the boy that had just saved her, was walking back towards the wall, back towards certain death.
Misaka was about to run back towards Naruto, when she was grabbed from behind, into a bone crushing hug.
"Mikasa! You're Ok! What happened? How did you survive? How did you get away?... What happened to your scarf?"
Mikasa didn't answer. She could only think one thought as she was brought back to Hannes, the guard that saved Eren, and when she was escorted up to and onto the boat.
'He left. He sacrificed himself... For me... He went to die... For me... Naruto...'