Chapter 1: The Rebirth
MERCY'S P.O.V.
"Mercy? What are you doing up there?" I heard someone ask.
Not many in the Shinigami realm would speak to me, due to the fact I was interested in humans.
I always killed them to increase my life span but they were the worst humans there was, but still the human worlds interested me.
There was several portals to various human worlds, one where science is used to fight in the military, another one where magical cards fight games in the shadows, and a third where magic is taught and used with wands.
Many worlds exist, but two interested me the most.
The first was nothing special to most, it was advanced in technology and motion toward a brighter tomorrow, but it was riddled with crime and deceit. The Yami World, as many of us called it, is where most Shinigami drop their Death Notes, it causes some entertainment but nothing really changes.
The other world was called Shingeki no Kyojin, and it one of the worlds, that the Shinigami King has forbidden the dropping of Death Notes in.
It was a dying world...
The humans there were slowly dying out, due to the monsters known as Titans.
I looked down from my perch and saw Ryuk looking up at me.
I replied, "What I always do Ryuk. I'm watching the human worlds."
He flew up to me and said, "This place is rotting even more than usual Mercy... I was thinking about 'accidentally' dropping my second note in the Yami World."
I continued to look at the worlds and said, "You know... We could do more that just that Ryuk."
He looked at me and asked, "What do you mean?"
I pointed at Shingeki no Kyojin world and said, "You know as Shinigami we have the ability to move human beings from one world to another as long as we put someone in their place."
He gawked and said, "Where did you learn that from?!"
I stood up and replied, "I read the notes of my predecessor, Toshu. He was able to move a human from a vanishing world to a safe one... At the cost of his life for he loved the girl he saved."
I looked at the worlds and said, "Simply I choose a human from each world and write both their names in the Death Note backwards and afterwards write down the word 'exchange'. Then they are taken from their worlds and thrown into the new ones. Only disadvantage is that they remember everything from their original worlds..."
Ryuk laughed and said, "Clever Mercy... This should make things much more interesting."
I opened my Death Note and said, "I already know which person I want to bring from the Shingeki no Kyojin world..."
I waved my hand and an image of my lovely prize appeared, showing he was laying asleep in bed.
He had been worn out from the fight and would be left alone to sleep for a long time.
Eren Yeager was perfect for this.
Ryuk laughed and said, "What so special about him Mercy? He so puny..."
I then said, "Do not be deceived Ryuk..."
I waved my hand and showed the ruined city from his fight with Annie.
"He and one other person did all this."
Ryuk smile widen and he said, "He's tough for a 15 year old kid."
I nodded and turned to the Yami world.
I gazed into the world to see a young woman gagged and bound on the brink of death.
I let a small smirk escape my lips.
She's perfect... As soon as she gets to the Shingeki no Kyojin world she'll be dead and that means Eren can't come back.
Ryuk laughed and said, "So then your switching Eren Yeager for this Runa Izumaki? Sounds like fun!"
I nodded and said, "Yes, but after I switch them we wait one year to drop our notes, then the real fun begins."
I held up my purple wax-like pen and wrote down;
R-E-G-A-E-Y N-E-R-E
I-K-A-M-U-Z-I A-N-U-R
~EXCHANGE~
"Now all we do is wait."
MIKASA P.O.V.
"Eren? Are you awake?" I walked into the room quietly.
Eren had dealt with so much the last few days, and he was recovering quite nicely.
I looked at the bed and saw the blood spots...
Oh no! Eren! He can't be hurt or he might...
Wait... If Eren was hurt like this...
He'd already be a Titan...
I pulled off the covers to reveal a girl around our age beaten and bleeding to death...
I yelled, "Some one get a doctor and the Commander! We have a high risk situation here!"
Some of the military police ran off and I turned to the girl.
She was wearing filthy rags and had blood all over her body.
She had open wounds and bruises surrounding her entire body.
I looked at her and said, "Hey I need to ask you some things..."
She opened her eyes slightly and said, "No... No more... Please... stop the pain... Stop killing me..."
I looked at her in horror...
Someone was doing this to her?!
And who ever was doing this to her... Has Eren!
I looked at her and said, "Hey you're safe! I need your name... Okay?"
She whispered, "Ru-Runa... Runa Izumaki... Please help me... I hurt... I hurt a lot..."
I nodded and said, "I'm Mikasa... Runa who did this to you?"
She cried out in a whisper, "He did it... He said he protect me... He said he loved me... But why did Daddy hurt me...?"
Her father...?!
I'm going to find this sicko and carve him up myself.
A Doctor ran in and said, "Oh sweet lord! What happened?"
I replied, "I'm not sure... But she needs medical attention now!"
He nodded and I left her to be treated.
I turned to see Erwin, Levi, Hange, and Armin hurrying down the hall.
Erwin looked at me and asked, "What happened?"
I replied, "Someone got into Eren's room while we were at the meeting and stuck a girl in his place."
They all gasped and Levi asked, "How the hell did that happen?! This room is two stories up and guards were posted at the doors."
I shook my head and said, "I'm not sure, but who ever this was is a sick son of a bitch."
I motioned them to look in the room at Runa.
They looked at the girl that was bearly alive.
I then said, "She said her name is Runa Izumaki, and the one to do this to her was her father."
The group stared in shock and Hange said, "The bastard... I swear that is bastard going to get torn apart!"
I nodded and said, "I was going to ask her more questions but she needs to know she's safe first."
Erwin nodded and said, "We'll send out an alert for Eren and this mad man."
Levi nodded and said, "Right but the real question is, where is Yeager and how did the bastard get in?"
EREN'S P.O.V.
"Wake up!"
I felt a sharp kick to my stomach.
I open my eyes expecting to see Levi trying to get me up, only to see a man with a dark black hair, cut short, scars on his cheek, and a cigarette burning bright between his lips.
I looked at him and notice my hands and feet were tied together and a stream of blood was coming from my mouth and forehead.
He yelled, "Where is the little bitch?! Where did you put her?!"
I yelled, "What the hell are you talking about?! I was in a hospital last I knew! Where the hell did you take me?!"
He took his cigarette out of his mouth and said, "You're lying! Where did you take my daughter?"
His daughter?!
He tied up his daughter like this?!
He's a monster! A freaking monster!
I yelled, "For the last time, I have no idea what you're talking about! Besides if you do this to your daughter... It's just sick!"
The man scowled at me and said, "I'm sick?! Here, let me show you who really is sick!"
He took the burning cigarette and placed on my cheek sending a searing pain though my body...
Oh no!
I can't turn in the walls... I can't...!
He dragged in down my cheek burning my flesh further causing more agony on to me.
I yelled out in pain...
I can't hold it...
Here it comes the change...
Nothing...
I-I'm not turning into a Titan...
What the hell going is on?!
The man laughed and said, "There boy... Now your the one who looks sick! But I don't think that's enough."
The man pulled out a small knive and said, "Don't worry... I'm not going to kill you boy... Old Izumaki is going to have some fun with you."
He took the knive and said, "Lets see how many cuts you can stand... Runa could only take 32 before she pass out. Let see if you can beat the record..."
This Izumaki man... He's insane!
When the MP finally find me, I'm going to make sure this psycho gets the death penalty.
Then the slicing began, each one deep and painful...
It seemed to go on for hours, he taking at least 10 minutes to make sure the cuts were deep enough.
He would stop for a while and smoke another cigarette, before returning to slicing up my flesh.
I was begining to feel dizzy when the door bust open, letting in a blinding light, and someone yelled, "Kato Izumaki! Drop the weapon and put your hands up in the air!"
He began to run when I saw the fire of a gun... But guns don't look like that...
They're bigger than that, and only fire one shot...
Izumaki lied dead on the floor and I was getting more woozy by the moment.
A man in a suit and glasses ran down to me and said, "Call 9-1-1! We have a captive..."
The other man yelled, "Alright Chief! They're on their way!"
He looked at me and said, "What's your name son?"
I replied, "Eren... Eren... "
I couldn't talk anymore...
The dizzyness finally took over and I fell to the ground in a deep sleep, not sure if I wojuld be alive when I woke up.
ARMIN'S P.O.V.
"Well Armin, what's the news about the girl?" Erwin asked as I came back from the hosptial.
I replied softly, "Runa Izumaki's wounds were too severe... She died one hour ago."
A silence rolled through the room and I said, "Before she died, she told the doctors that her father locked her in the basement since she was 6... according the doctors she was 15. That's 9 years deprived of sunlight and free movement. She also said her father always smoked and kept his hair very short... As for Eren... When I asked her, now this is where I believe she began to get delusional... She said an 'Angel' took her away from there and a 'Devil' place him with her father."
Hange nodded and said, "Well as hurt as she was I understand the delusions. Anything else?"
I replied, "Well there was her last words, which still make no sence to me..."
Mikasa asked, "What did she say?"
I then said, "She said, 'He will have them... He will have the eyes of a Shinigami... He will change the world... He will stop the rotting of our worlds...' I'm not sure what she ment at all."
Mikasa looked at them and said, "The rest is gibrish to me, but the word, Shinigami, I am fimilar with that."
We all look at her as she said, "My mother used to tell me tells of our anestors... One of which was about the Shinigami, about the Death Gods... These things reap the souls of the living and know when everyone is going to die..."
I looked at her and said, "Well then, when she said, 'he will have the eyes of a Shinigami', must mean this person will be able to see how long someone has to live... But still why say that?"
Erwin shook his head and said, "I'm not sure, but we need to put our focus back on finding Eren. The MP's are sending out teams to investigate all single fathers with daughters in the city, more than likely he used an alias, or gave her a fake name. Once those people are investigated and if no evidence is found, we'll begin searching buildings outside of the inner working, and so on."
I looked at him and said, "I don't understand why this guy would take Eren. His profile makes me believe he wouldn't even realese his daughter from captivity... Why would he take in one of the most dangerous people within the walls?"
Levi sat back and said, "He may see Eren as a Titan, planning on killing everyone, or he may just want to piss off the military by taking him away. In any case, he be stupid to hurt him unless he wants him to transform."
Hange nodded and said, "True, but there's his profile again. This man is very aggresive, higly abusive, and an all around dick. He has been taking his slow time in murdering his own daughter over a period of 9 years, this man is a cerified psychopath. I wouldn't run it past him trying to hurt Eren."
Mikasa stood up and said, "And that will work to our advantage."
We all looked at her as she said, "If Eren transforms... Then we'll know where he's at and know exactly who the hell this monster is."
Levi sat back and said, "Not bad... But still, this guy maybe smarter than he looks...I mean he made it past all the guards and switched two people out."
Erwin nodded and said, "Right, so our top protity is to find Eren Yeager and the murderous man that we'll call Izumaki."
We all saluted and said, "Sir!"
Eren... Where the hell are you?!
SOICHIRO'S P.O.V.
"Huh? Where... Where am I?" Eren asked as he stirred from his sleep.
The boy sat up with a pain rolling though his face, and I wouldn't blame him.
The boy had severe cuts and burns, and many old scars telling me he had been in that basement for a long time.
I looked at the battered youth replied, "You are in Kimyoto General Hospital."
He looked at me from underneath the bandages covering his face and asked quietly, "Who are you?"
I replied, "I am Detective Superintendent Soichiro Yagami. You told us your first name Eren... Mind telling us your last name as well?"
He softly nodded and said, "I'm Eren Yeager..."
He looked at the medical machines surrounding him and asked, "What is all this stuff?"
I looked at him and asked, "Haven't you seen any type of electronic or computer device?"
He looked at me and asked, "Um... What are those things?"
Dammit... I knew the man kept him in the dark, but this was insane!
The boy knows nothing of technology...
But what about his mental skills? Did he have any schooling?
I looked at him and then said, "Alright Eren, you had some damage to your head and we would like you to answer some school questions, alright?"
He nodded and said, "Okay."
I read over the questions to him, on math, science, and spelling, from Pre-School all the way up to a high school senior.
He was answering them correctly with out a doubt, only getting stuck on history, and technology.
The young man had the tale tell signs of a genius in the making, with a bit of work.
I looked at him and said, "Very good. Now I'd like to ask you some personal questions Eren."
He nodded and said, "Go ahead Mr. Yagami...Although my memory is a bit fuzzy at the moment."
I nodded and said, "Do you know who your parents are Eren and where they are at?"
He looked down and said solemly, "My Mother, Kalura Yeager was crushed to death when I was 10... My Father has been missing ever since..."
He has no parents! Where has been living all this time?!
Maybe Izumaki had captured the entire family when he was young and Eren's father escaped.
If so then the man is a horrible human being.
I then asked, "Eren, how long were you there for?"
He replied, "I honestly don't know... It was dark... No light shined in or out... And with the constant cutting on me... It felt like forever..."
I nodded and said, "I understand... Now Eren, once you are relesed from the hosipital you more than likely sent to a foster home, or an orphanage. But..."
He looked at me as I said, "Since my wife and my children have grown quite fond of you after visiting you while you slept, how who you consider living with us? The only thing would be is that we would have to change you last name."
He looked at me with the brillant green orbs ablaize with a new spark.
He smiled softly and said, "Al-Alright... Thank you... Mr. Yagami..."
I nodded and said, "Go ahead and get some rest Eren. Will have the paperwork done before you're realesed, and will have a place set up to where you can sleep, ok?"
He nodded and closed his eyes once again.
I walked outside the room and sighed with relief.
Sachiko and the kids have been coming here ever since I found the boy a month ago.
Sachi somehow convinced me, that we should adopt him if he had no family or that man was his family, which is why we had the papers set out ahead of time.
Now we just need to send these in and wait for Eren's wounds to heal...
I can have Light and Sayu show him the technology, and tell him more about history, but I have a feeling he'll catch on fast.
He answers questions a lot like Light, I'm sure the two will get along perfectly.
Soon all the papers will be accepted and Eren Yeager will become Eren Yagami, and to be honest, I'm a bit glad...
Our home will be a great way to introduce him to the world, from the darkness he was confined in.
Hopefully he'll be able to live a normal life, after all his hardships.
EREN'S P.O.V.
Alright... I think the doctor is gone...
I laid back in the bed feeling every little cut on my body singe and tinkle with pain, the same feeling I have felt since I first woke up a week ago.
I hate lying... I really do, but what I've seen so far tells me that, I am no where near home...
This technology...
The history questions...
And the weapons...
It's clear that one of two things happened when I fell asleep back in Stonhess hospital.
Somehow or another, I either traveled forward in time, or even more unlikely to another place all together...
Like the alternate dimention thing Hange metioned to me.
Maybe if I talk about the Titans and the walls like they are dreams, maybe I can find out more about this place.
I looked up at the ceiling and sighed. Well at least something good has come out of this.
I'm getting a actual family...
All I had was Mikasa and Armin, and when we joined the cadet core 3 years ago..
Then I had the Scouts...
I love being with them and all, but...
Sometimes, I wish I had Mom here to comfort me, and Dad to push me towards my goals...
To be perfectly honest with myself...
I held back...
I held back a lot, due to the fact of my hatred for the Titans...
My emotions caused me to mess up, to lead to many of my follies...
When I get back, I'll work on keeping a clear head in the field.
Logic before love...
That's the key.
A knock came at my door and it opened.
Mr. Yagami and three other people entered the room.
The first was a woman with shoulder lenght brown hair and light hazel eyes.
The second was a teen girl with same hair and eye color as the woman behind her, only her hair was longer and pulled back in a ponytail like Hange's.
Finally there was the teenage guy, who looked around my age.
He had redish-brown hair and eyes that match, he himself seemed to stand out of the group.
Mr. Yagami looked at me and said, "Eren, I'd like you to meet your new family. This is Sachiko, my wife, Sayu my youngest, and Light, my oldest."
He looked at his family and said, "Everyone this is Eren Yeager... Or since the paperwork has been sent though, this is Eren Yagami."
Sayu smiled and said, "Welcome to the family Big Bro!"
Light nodded and said, "It wil be great to have a brother for once."
Sachiko smiled and said, "Glad to have you in the family Eren.
" I smiled and said, "Thank you... I haven't had a family... In a long time... Thank you... Th-Thank y-you..."
That's when I relized, I had begun to cry.
Sachiko walked up and wiped my eyes and said, "It's alright... We understand... It an emotional and physical ordeal you've endured, it bound to be rough on anyone."
I smiled while wiping away the tears, and I said, "Thank you... I can never say that enough."
Light looked at me and said, "From what Dad has told us, you knowlegde of history and modern technology is majory lacking, correct?"
I nodded and said, "To be honest... It was strange to me. Some of it still is, but I had some of the doctors and nurses explain the medical machines... Although I doubt that will be useful to you."
Light smiled and said, "No, it actually helps a bit. It tells me your naturaly inquisative, this also means you pick things up fast. So once I start teaching you the basics, you be able to further your studies on the tech yourself. As for the history... I have plenty of books back home, and since we're bunking together it should be easy to learn what you missed."
I nodded and said, "Thanks. Um... Did the doctors say when I'll be able to get released? I know I'm not fully healed yet, but sitting in a bed all day isn't ideal."
Sayu laughed and said, "Just wait until you go to school, you be wishing to go back to bed."
Mr. Yagami looked at me and said, "Two weeks or so. They say the cuts will heal nicely and if there are scars, they will be fairly unnoticeable, but as for the burn in your left cheek..."
I placed my hand over it and felt the burning sensation was still there. "The burn will leave a more permanent scar, but will a little bit of cover up it will appear like it was never there."
I nodded and said, "Right..."
Light smiled at me and said, "I'll also teach you the manors of Japanese society a bit, that way you fit in a bit more, if you'd like?"
Manors?
Oh I get it... This country has a set rules of manors presented in society, meaning if I do something wrong or forget something, I'll be labeled an outsider.
I replied, "Yeah, that probably be for the best."
I looked up and said, "Um before I forget... Did you find an old key on a necklace?"
Mr. Yagami nodded, pulled it out of his jacket, and said, "I had it cleaned for you, considering it was covered in blood. May I ask what is so important about that key?"
I grabbed it in my hands and said, "It was the last thing my Father gave to me before he disappeared... Told me it was a linchpin... A literal key to everything."
He nodded and said, "Then it's good I held on to it, as for the rest of your clothes, they were unsalvageable. Luckily, we have some of Light's old clothes for you until we can get you some of your own."
I nodded and said, "Thank you, I am very grateful for all that you're doing."
Sachiko smiled and said, "Oh come now, we're family now. It what families do."
Family...
This is... my family...
My Father and Mother...
My brother and sister...
They're here for me...
And when I'm well again...
I'll be there for them too.
LIGHT'S P.O.V.
"Alright, what's an email?" I asked Eren as we rode home.
Eren was really sceptical about getting in the car at first but somehow or another we corehesed him into it.
After about 10 minutes in the car he seemed a bit more at ease and began asking me about the computer I lent him.
That lead me to test his knowlegde he had aquired in the three day period.
He replied, "A message sent over the internet, but you also can instant message or I.M., video chat, or post to covey a message over the internet."
I smiled and said, "I see lending you my laptop for your last three days was a good idea. I didn't even tell you about the search bar and you seem to have discovered it on your own."
He smiled and said, "Give me some credit, I found it on your computer really fast and began typing in my questions about the computer and the system. I got the answers and picked up a few things as well. I'd really like to look at it some more, maybe learn about them."
Sayu laughed and said, "You only had it three days and you're already a computer nerd Eren! Looks like we have another genius Mom!"
I laughed and said, "Sayu, I'm not a genius..."
Sayu looked at me and said, "Oh yeah scores, your good grades and many awards say otherwise."
Eren looked at me and said, "So your the top of your class?"
I nodded and said, "Yeah, I'm stil a sophmore though, they wanted to move up grade levels but I just want to be a teenager while it last."
Eren smiled and asked, "How old are you Light?"
I smiled and said, "16. What about you Eren?"
He replied, "I'm 15. I think my birthday is sometime in July... Oh now I remember! July 13th. That's my birthday... I think..."
I smiled and said, "Well we'll be in the same grade then, but I'm still older than you. My birthday is May 7th."
"Alright, here we are."
Eren looked out the car window at our house.
I saw his green eyes look in wonder of our simple little house.
To us it's just our house, but to him... It now his home too...
Something he was lacking before
. We all opened the car door and got out.
Eren walked slowly and a bit anxiously as Mom opened the front door.
I stepped up to Eren and said, "Take off you shoes before you fully enter a building. I'll explain it a bit later."
He nodded and once he enter the doorway he slipped off his shoes and placed them neatly next all the others.
He looked at the house in delight, taking in every small detail in.
I nudged him and said, "Come on Eren, I'll show you our room."
He followed me up the stairwell and into the room.
I've always had a big room to begin with, so it was no problem setting up another bed and desk.
As for the closet all my clothes on one side and Eren's on the other.
Against the free wall was the bookshelves stocked with textbooks, magazines, and various other learning resources.
I smiled and said, "The bed on the left is yours, and so is the desk and computer across from it. The books and resources are here if you need them. Once you're fimilar with the things your lacking, I'll see about signing you up for cram school."
Eren looked at the books and said, "So, what are planning to do once your done with your schooling completely?"
I replied, "Well I was going to follow in Dad's footsteps and become a police detective. You know, solve crimes and bring the bad guys to justice."
Eren looked up and said, "Wow Light... That's a really cool... It actually sounds like something I would do."
I laughed and said, "Alright then, how about this. We both become police detectives and become the best crime fighters in all of Japan. Deal?"
Eren smiled and said, "Deal."
He went to his bed and said, "You know... I've always wondered what having a brother would be like... It's strange but in a good way..."
I nodded said, "I know what you mean."
Eren looked at the small mirror in the back of the room at the pink burn mark running down his cheek.
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot!"
I went to Eren's desk and pulled out the bottle of foundation.
I handed to him and said, "It may not be the most masculine thing to do, but it will cover the burn and may take some of the heat out of it."
Eren looked at the bottle slightly and poured a bit on his fingertips. He ran it over the burn and in mear seconds, it looked like the burn was never there in the first place.
Eren smiled and said, "At least now everyone won't stare at me and you were right. A lot of the heat has cooled a bit."
Eren looked at me and said, "Hey Light... If I told you a story... Something I dreamed... Would you tell me your honest take on it?"
I smiled and said, "Sure Eren, go ahead."
He nodded and said, "Well, to begin with it a takes place where humanity is on siege."
ONE STORY LATER
"And that's as far as I got before I woke up in the hospitial." Eren said as he finished his tale.
He looked at me and said, "So..."
I looked at him and said, "Eren, that story is too vivid to be a dream or a simple story... You tell it with emotions that don't resinate with fictional tales and you are clearly not insane, so that leaves one option."
I smiled and said, "It's real, you really fought Titans. But a question first, why didn't you turn into a Titan when the guy hurt you?"
He replied, "In this world... I don't think I can, which is good. Can't imagine what your military would do to me, if they found out about it."
I looked at him and asked, "So other than your lizard and fire powers, any other?"
Eren smiled a bit and said, "Well when Hange was running test on me, she discovered my ability would allow me to live longer than most everyone. A basic lifespan for a person living inside the walls is about 60-100... Hange expects my lifespand to ecipse their lifespands by a huge magin. She estimated my lifespand to be 120- 200 years old. If that's still working here, I'm going to live a very long life."
I smirked and said, "Well that's cool. Plus the fact you take on monsters for the betterment of mankind is epic!"
Eren smiled and laid flat on his bed. "Hey Light... Thanks for listening..."
He yawned and said, "I couldn't ask for a better brother."
I smiled and said, "Nor could I, Little Brother. Nor could I."