Disclaimer: I do not own Attack on Titan or the characters of Attack on Titan. But the idea and some of the characters are mine.
Pairing: Levi x Mikasa (I strongly ship them! Hope my readers are in the same boat as me~)
Hi guys! I'm back with another short multi-chapter LeviMika story. Modern AU.
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Chapter 1: Wrong Turn?
"She's like the sunshine, blooming sunflower! I bet you are going to love her at first sight!"
Sunshine my ass. A bloody rose with thorns is all I ever see! Growled the man as he stared across the table, at the woman in a body hugging off shoulder red dress, in front of him.
"He's like the role model of all man! Tall and charming and gentleman and generally equipped with everything a woman wants from a man. You are surely going to fall into his eyes!"
Gentleman? Tall? Bullshit! This shit is nothing but a pain in the ass! And he's shorter than me. Roared the woman as she shot piercing glares at the man in a black blazer, white crisp button shirt tugged neatly in a pair of black pants and a white silk cravat around his neck, in front of her. Who the hell still wear cravat nowadays?
It was a blind date set up by their respective friends, and it was supposed to start smoothly and end romantically. To their dismay, it started rottenly and continued like a train wreck.
"D-Do you want to refill your glasses?" questioned a waiter nervously as he stood beside their table. Luck was definitely not by his side that night when he was assigned to take care of their table. Two ridiculously daunting looking customers – almost like a pair of predators, assassins, serial killers, whatever horrifying word he could think of describing them.
"Yes."
The pair answered with one voice, their glares never broke in the process.
The waiter refilled their wine with shaky hands and left the table in the blink of an eye once he had done his job.
Letting out a depressing sigh, Levi ran his fingers through his raven hair and blurted, "miss, I believe our friends had set us up for this idiotic date for whatever shitty reason their bloody brains could generate. Let's finish this dinner and get our asses out so we don't have to see each other anymore."
"It's good that we're on the same page. But not until I hear a decent apology from you," Mikasa grunted as she tapped the table impatiently, her free hand swiftly grabbed her glass of wine and gulped down in seconds. She then placed the poor glass onto the table with a loud thud, expressing her exasperation aloud. Mikasa turned around and signaled the waiter to refill her glass and it was done in split seconds.
"I will compensate you instead. By the way, you're truly the worst kind of woman I've ever encountered in my whole life," Levi grumbled lowly as he emptied his glass at the drop of a hat.
Mikasa snorted and mocked the man in return, "you're no doubt the nastiest, foulest man I've ever met too. If there's any nomination for the worst man in the world, you will surely knock off all the contestants." Her voice laced with venom.
And so, they continued their glares, unspoken war of spears with their eyes until they guzzled their seventh glass of wine.
"Mikasa, you should be getting yourself a boyfriend. Eren is forever busy with his whatever peculiar excursions with Armin around the world and you're always left alone to take care of the household. You should be occupying your brain with another man," complained Sasha like an annoying mosquito buzzing beside Mikasa's ear.
Mikasa let out a deep sigh and droned in a monotonous voice, "Sasha, please. I'm fine with myself. I don't need a boyfriend. Remember Jean Kirschtein? The weird horse face guy Connie introduced to me? It's nothing but a disastrous date and he almost died from my punches."
"Please, Mikasa. I swear this time this date will work! I heard from my boss that he's like the role model of all man! Tall and charming and gentleman and generally equipped with everything a woman wants from a man. You are surely going to fall into his eyes!" Sasha begged Mikasa with her puppy eyes, a pair of teary eyes could flip Mikasa's decision.
"Sasha… why the hell you set me up on a blind date again, following Connie's footsteps blindly?"
"Because I want you to smile! I want you to be happy, Mikasa. You're the best friend I have since high school, and you even did all you could to make my relationship with Connie work. I want you to be blissful too."
Finally, a small curve swept its way upwards at the raven haired woman's lips. She just could not reject her cute friend's request anymore.
"Fine. Just, one final time, ok?" Mikasa intimated softly.
Sasha blinked several times in disbelief and hugged her friend gingerly, "I'm so sure that it's going to work out fine this round!"
"Erm, sir, miss, we need to close the restaurant in another ten minutes. Do you need us to get a cab for you?" asked the waiter as he attempted to catch Levi and Mikasa's attention after they emptied six bottles of fine wine.
The pair heeded and narrowed their eyes at the waiter before they silently nodded in union. They could not possibly take the wheel after being a helpless drunkard.
"Where do you stay? I can still be gentleman enough to send you back first," mocked the man sarcastically as he struggled to keep his demeanor by pushing himself off the chair and stood by Mikasa's side.
Mikasa rolled her eyes at the short man and helped herself up as well. "I can go back myself, midget," she hissed lowly.
"Fine, make sure you don't puke on the way or lost yourself on the streets. You may need someone to identify your corpse the next morning since you are nothing near sober."
Anger boiled deep in Mikasa's system, as hot as lava, waiting to explode, hungry for destruction. The pressure of the elevating rage almost forced the woman to do things out of her control. Thus, she bolted out from the restaurant, jammed her thoughts with happy memories and shut herself out from the world as she headed down the dim walkway.
Damn that midget. Dammit Sasha. She growled shortly when the wrong memories kicked in again. Her wrath towards Levi was not a simple piece of memory to trash off her mind.
Left alone in the restaurant, Levi patted invisible dust off his blazer lightly and straightened his cravat before the waiter's voice rung behind him.
"Sir, the cab is right by the doorstep. Thank you for dropping by tonight. Goodnight, sir."
Levi merely nodded tediously and strode out of the restaurant towards the cab. Just before he reached the door, several sneaky male voices alarmed him. Out of curiosity, he turned to search the source of the voices. To his annoyance, he found a red dress woman surrounded by four tall machos, drunk muscular men. The man massaged his temple to wane his headache, clicked his tongue irksomely and motioned the driver to stay put.
"Hey, pretty lady. It's quite late to be alone on the streets."
"Yeah, why not come along with us?"
"We can protect you!"
"Come on, let's play!"
Mikasa eyed the four strangers. Her brows knitted in infuriation and lips pursed tightly. Her head was spinning and she was going to puke any second. Still, she tried to keep her stoic poise. In a lethal and deadly voice, Mikasa rebuffed, "Get the hell away from me, if you don't want to suffer a despicable concussion later."
In union, the four men laughed vociferously. One of the men outstretched his hand to capture Mikasa's arm in the process while he snickered, "what can a slender beautiful woman like you do?" Their eyes scanned her body curves from top to bottom hungrily. She felt nothing but sick.
"That was your final warning."
With that, she clutched the hairy hand and twisted it backwards forcefully and he was sent flying to the dumpster. The man cried in pain and bellowed all sorts of foul words at the woman. Her face was still as expressionless as usual. The rest of the men were dumbfounded for a few seconds until one of men screeched ear-piercingly, "you bitch!"
The rest of the men came charging at her. However, like greased lightning, one of them was hit towards the wall, and another was smashed face-flat on the pavement while the last one was crashed against the steel lamp post. She broke them physically, triumphantly.
Levi stood by the pathway, hands tugged in both sides of his pants. His mind went blank and his eyes trailed every move of the woman, pondering how could a woman like her executed such extraordinary techniques slickly, besides himself. He was beginning to brew a temptation to know this stunning, exotic beauty.
He did registered that she carried an exquisiteness in her blood from her appearance but the meet up created nothing but irksome, thus her existence wiped out from his brain. Perhaps destiny was not prepared to abandon either of them yet, by creating another unforeseen incident to bond them. An amused smile played its way across his lips, as a sign that he will not let her slipped through his fingertips, not yet.
Mikasa stood haughtily and stared down the men as if they were nothing but a piece of trash. She lazily adjusted her dress and picked her purse from the street. Just before she started strolling down the pathway, Levi halted her.
"Hey, I have a cab there. It's hard to catch a cab at this hour, at this side of the streets. It's getting too late," he offered with a soft grin.
Mikasa hold her gaze at the man suspiciously. But her eyelids were about to shut and her head will drop any minute as the bitter aftertaste of the alcohol started kicking in. "Alright. No funny moves," she expressed cautiously.
He lightly nodded and helped themselves into the cab, then off they vanished into the city of lights.
"Leviiiiiiiii!"
Levi growled lowly in his office when he heard the voice. It was the same voice that constantly get in his hair and under his skin. "Get the hell out of my room before I pull out your voice cords and throw you into the garbage bin myself, shitty glasses."
The dark brown haired woman paraded into the raven haired man's room and settled across his large desk. She was giggling and scrutinizing the man in detail. "What if, I tell you that I've a perfect choice of woman for you? Will you meet her?" She chirped cheekily.
The man rolled his eyes and threw a stack of papers aggressively towards the woman, causing her to yap defensively, "Levi! Don't be a jerk! It's time for you to hunt down a woman! You're touching thirty-seven by end of this year! I believed that you have not touched a woman in zillions of years."
"Tsk. That has nothing to do with you. Now get out before this room turn into a crime scene," Levi blustered gallingly, his face as fierce as a tiger who is ready to tear down its prey.
"You will not regret! I swear to God! She's like the sunshine, blooming sunflower! I bet you are going to love her at first sight!" the woman continued to sell the unknown woman like a piece of precious treasure.
"I swear to God I will-"
"See her for once! Pleaseeeeeeeeeee!"
"Hanji, I say-"
"Don't be a rock. JUST MEET HER!"
"Tsk, don't cut me-"
"Pleaseeee! If you don't like her, you can cut short and leave before night fall. No harm with just having a dinner with her right?"
"ARGH! FINE! Just once! No more! What an asshole you could be when it comes to idiotic romance and your bizarre experiments?!"
"Ok great! I will arrange and brief you the details later! Ahahahaha!"
Levi let out a long sigh and sipped his black tea warily as he watched the woman tapped her hand phone frantically with a smirk. Never did he imagined that the outcome of this conversation would turned into a nightmare.
The ride back to her apartment was peaceful and silent. Perfect for the woman to rest her aching head. She cursed internally for gulping too much wine that night. Never once was she this drunk in her entire life, twenty five years of age. The alcohol will get the better of her the next morning. Mikasa boasted her carelessness by biting her bottom lip.
Levi rested his elbow by the window of the car, his dark blue eyes caught a glimpse of the exhausting woman and slowly muttered, "Do you have anything to cure your headache tomorrow?"
Mikasa shot her head upright and drifted her focus to the man beside her. "I think I do have some in my first aid box," she responded.
"That's a relive. Do you live alone?" Levi prompted.
"No. But my housemates were away for an elongated expedition. They shouldn't be returning anytime soon, so, I guess I'm as good as living alone though," drawled the woman lazily as she moved her eyes to enjoy the glittering scenery through the murky window.
They remained silence until the car came to a stop in front of her apartment. Just before she broke the ice, Levi blurted softly, voice low as the summer music of a brook.
"I can keep you accompanied until you doze off, if you want."
Mikasa raised her brow cautiously at the statement. Her fists were tightened and without her realizing, her voice came as hard as the blade of a shovel, "I'm fine with myself."
Sensing the woman's defensive barrier, Levi rested his blue orbs on Mikasa's onyx orbs delicately and he placed a small piece of paper into her hand before she got off the cab.
"Call me so we can settle on your car. Goodnight, Petra."
Mikasa stopped dead in her tracks. Petra? Who the hell is Petra?
"A-Are you Eld Jinn?" Mikasa questioned in a shaky voice, her hooded eyes twitched.
Now it was Levi's jaw to drop. He shook his head in disagreement. Eld? Why is the name of my subordinate being brought up?!
They blinked at each other dumbly before they shot another query.
"Aren't you Petra Ral? I'm supposed to meet this woman tonight," Levi barked in disbelief.
"No! I'm supposed to meet Eld Jinn tonight," Mikasa declared startlingly. Her mind could not squeeze in another piece of fact anymore.
"Then who the hell are you?!" They howled in union.
They breathed heavily and stared into each other's eyes. The truth came as a bolt from the blue. It appeared that both of them had met the wrong person. Both of them were only told to head towards the table with a blue rose by their friends, as the only piece of information to identify each other. Awkwardly, their hand phones were confiscated by their friends since they habitually communicate with the gadget more often than the real human being in front of them. And astoundingly, none of them mentioned their names throughout the dinner until now.
Mikasa buried her face in her hands in disgust while Levi massaged his temple agitatedly.
The silence of the car made their blood as cold as the nightly wind that crept through the opened door. The driver peeped the two figures through his rear view mirror vigilantly, and he decided to break the ice, without knowing that he had actually initiated a conversation with the devils.
"Both of you, could you please decide whether you want to leave or stay? I have another errand to run after completing this trip," the driver asked sloppily.
The question snapped both raven heads towards the driver in the blink of an eye. Instead of replying in an apologetic manner, which the driver was hoping, they shot lethal glares to zip his mouth.
"I'm off. Here's the money for our dinner and cab ride of my share." Mikasas retrieved three pieces of hundred dollars note from her purse and stretched her hand towards Levi. Since this man was not supposed to be her blind date, she would be vile to have him paying off all her expenses for the night. Plus, they had half a dozen of luxurious wine, she was nowhere comfortable to have him settle the bill on his own.
Levi snorted and pushed her hand back, together with her money, towards the confused woman. "I trust that I can still be a man of honour to handle tonight's full expenses. I insist."
"How sweet." The woman replied with a soft scoff. Her gaze softened. Despite the implausible events, she still found him, an attractive man.
"Well, it's been ages since I had a date with a woman," Levi hung his arm around the seat. His eyes followed the woman as she stepped out from the car elegantly.
She bent down slightly, tilted her head sideways, allowing her long silky hair to fall off her shoulders smoothly, and found his sharp half lidded sapphire eyes in the dim car light. Levi felt his pulse kicked up and held his breath silently as his orbs settled on the woman's unbearably erogenous motions.
"I'm Mikasa, by the way. Goodnight-"
"Levi."
Mikasa gave him a thin smile and continued, "Goodnight, Levi. Thank you for the treat. Nice meeting you, although our meet up wasn't as pleasant as it should be."
Levi felt his lips curved up a little but he fought to maintain his plain façade, even though he had started to adore how his name was rolled out from her honey-melted mouth. He droned in a modest tone, "Goodnight, Mikasa. Give me a call on your car."
With that, the man left Mikasa's apartment once he watched her entered the lobby.
Chapter 1 end.