vote for your pairing! (:
also, i'm changing levi's age to 18 bc according to the wiki for attack on titan he's 30 like? excuse me?
Kagome Higurashi jiggled her foot nervously, her eyes shifted towards the displeased silver-haired man before her. She was in a thin nightgown with bloody bandages crossing almost every area of her body, but her wounds underneath seemed to be healed.
"Soldier Higurashi, did you or did you not go out at night by yourself without permission to search for your teammates outside of the walls?"
Her mouth was dry and she reluctantly nodded, "Yessir."
A slender silver eyebrow rose up, "And how are their conditions?"
"All are in critical condition."
"Kagome," the Captain lowered his voice, "The fewer people that know what's really outside the walls the better."
"Oh, so I was just supposed to leave my teammates out there to die?" Her breath came out in ragged puffs, "You know I can't do that."
He straightened his back and brushed off the imaginary dust off his shoulder.
"Soldier Higurashi, you do realize what you did was stupid, and incredibly dangerous," His magenta eyes bore into her furious blue ones, "However-it is respectable. I applaud you, but it is only right that we should have a public demonstration to show that what you did was not right for the new recruits."
Silence fell upon the two of them for a few short moments. His face betrayed no emotion, but his eyes bore into hers with slight disappointment. She looked back at him, her breaths coming out in short pants.
The fourteen-year-old girl nervously smiled and twitched, "What if we just pretended-"
His hardened magenta eyes softened, "Sorry, soldier Higurashi."
"But Sesshomaru..."
He sent her a warning glare.
She cursed underneath her breath and bowed her head down reluctantly, "What will the punishment be?"
"Twenty lashes on the back and public humiliation," A deep voice rumbled, "Only, of course, only if Captain Sesshomaru does not object to it."
The two turned their head to face the young Captian at the doorway. He wore a snide smirk and had a black leather whip in his hands. His steel gray eyes pierced into her shining blue ones.
As if the young Captain were issuing a challenge to the silver-haired man, they held each other in an intense gaze.
"Hand it over," Sesshomaru's voice finally rumbled.
Twirling the whip, and careful to not touch the oil shining on it, Levi walked forward and dropped it into Sesshomaru's open hands.
"Captain Levi," She breathed.
"I heard that one of the Survey Corps members are being punished at the training fields!" Armin rushed in, "They're calling upon all members of the Training Corps to participate by watching."
Shock was written on their faces. A Survey Corps member being punished publicly? That was unheard of, the Survey Corps never punished a member of their own.
The sound of people getting out of their benches filled the small area. Feet raced quickly towards the training fields, all in confusion and anticipation.
"I wonder who it could be," Misaka sighed.
"You should be wondering what they did," Jean said, slightly out of breath.
"What if she was eating during a mission or something," Sasha Braus panted as she ate her piece of potato, "Man, I'd feel totally bad for her."
The running group skidded to a halt.
There, in front of them, was a woman tied on a fixed crucifix. Her black tresses were long and smooth, and her face was downcast. A thin tunic and long pants covered her body, and there were no shoes her feet. Bandages peeked through where her skin was supposed to be exposed.
Beside her, was a man with long black hair and dangerous red eyes. He held a whip casually in one hand, and a scroll in another. He cleared his throat, a deep, loud sound that carried through the silent crowd.
"Kagome Higurashi, age fourteen, the youngest member of Survey Corps," Surprise rippled through the small crowd, "Abandoned midnight post to go on a mission by herself at night to retrieve her teammates outside the walls without permission from her superiors. This crime is punishable by twenty hard lashes."
They shifted in angst, watching as the man's black whip was passed from his left to right hand.
"Are there any objections?"
No one said a word. However, some people shifted from foot to foot nervously. Others, like one of the two silver-haired men in the audience, opened and closed his mouth silently in protest.
"Then we shall proceed."
The man held the whip firmly in his hands and brought it down, having no reaction to the sound it made when leather met skin. Immediately, the girl arched her back in pain and but let out no sounds of weakness.
"One," Her voice was firm and stoic.
"Two," This time, the whip fell harder.
"Three," Her face finally lifted up and surprised them all with her oriental features, "Four."
Eren stared in horror as blood blossomed on her back. He watched as her delicate eyebrows pushed themselves together in pain, and her small nose scrunched in agony. Her bright blue, unusual, eyes continued to stare at the ground.
"Five," She hissed.
Humans were only supposed to hunt titans down, so why were humans hurting each other...?
A bandaged woman pushed through the crowd with a yell. Her long brown hair cascaded down her back.
"Naraku, what the hell are you doing to Kagome?"
The whipper paused with his hand in midair with a smirk, "Only doing what captain Sesshomaru asked me to."
Immediately, a man with black hair and violet eyes held her by the scruff and covered her mouth.
"Sorry about that," The man said, rubbing his bandaged head, "She's a little bit emotional."
The commotion only lasted for seconds, but it had the girl thrashing against the wooden post she was tied to. The sound of whip slapping skin immediately quieted her down and her body arched in shock.
"Six," The whipper said for her.
Misaka could only twitch in sympathy as another number slipped out of her mouth. Everyone else shifted uneasily as the crack of the whip grew steadily stronger. Whoever was whipping her had to have something against her, as the whip cut deeper through flesh and each lash drew blood.
"Ten."
A man with cool grey eyes and black hair swept through the crowd, surveying them. The trainees looked at the back of his head in surprise. The Levi Ackerman was watching this punishment? That was strange. He never involved himself with anywhere the trainees where, no matter how important the situation was.
"Twenty," A strangled gasp finally left the Asian girl's mouth and her blue eyes closed in pain.
"Alright, the show's over," Levi said in a stoic voice, "Go back to work."
Several of the trainees quickly followed his orders and ran back to the dining hall. Others shifted from foot to foot nervously and stayed behind.
A silver-haired man swept through the crowd and untied the girl from her post. Her body collapsed in a heap into his muscular arms, staining his pristine white uniform with spots and splashes of dark red blood. He was so gentle with her, it almost seemed like he treated her like a babe.
He swept through the leftover crowd silently with the unconscious girl in his arms.
"Kagome Higurashi huh..."