Because I wanted to read some Domestic!AU, I wrote this. It isn't really domestic but it's still an AU. And the pairing is pretty obvious. Also, please forgive my atrocious grammar and enjoy this attempt at humor and fluff.

The rating is pretty much for Levi's potty mouth by the way.

"No."

Erwin Smith, seasoned editor in the weekly anthology Survey Corps, let out an unsettled sigh and he pursed his lips. His blue eyes narrowed as he looked intensively at the dark haired man who was sipping a cup of green tea with a scowl in front of him. Erwin frowned a bit and thrummed lightly his fingers on the greasy table of the fast-food where their "date" had been issued.

As he knew how the other would react if he were to ask him for the reasons behind his vivid negation, the blond editor decided to go for a more sly route.

"Is that so?" he said as he sipped quietly his cup of coffee (dark and with little sugar. Talking with the dark haired man was always hard on his nerves and he needed his fix of caffeine), "How are your personal projects going along?"

The raven's grey eyes narrowed threateningly and he hissed softly through his gritted teeth.

"You already know the answer so why are you asking me that, Erwin," he retorted in a voice laced with annoyance.

The editor raised an amused eyebrow and cocked his head.

"You're a great artist, Levi," he commented calmly while the raven glared daggers at him. "Probably one of the best that I've ever worked with. The backgrounds that you do are always beautiful and artistic. However..."

Erwin's blue eyes met the raven's orbs and the latter shifted on his seat with an annoyed sigh.

"You don't convey enough emotion," the editor added sternly. "And you still haven't found your muse. Levi," he stopped and took a deep breath. What would follow wouldn't be easy. At all. "Be his assistant. He's a newbie so you'll have to teach pretty much everything. But he's a natural, I'd even say a genius. I'm ready to bet my tie that you'll both learn a lot from each other."

"Bet your tie?" Levi raised an interested eyebrow and smirked slightly as he eyed the infamous bolo tie.

Erwin wasn't kidding around if he was ready to bet that. The raven leaned forward and cupped his chin while he smirked at the blond.

"Then," Levi drawled. "I guess that I'll take you on that. He better not be one of those stuck-up brats, Erwin."

The editor laughed faintly and he emptied calmly his cup of coffee.

"Believe me," he answered and his blue eyes twinkled in amusement. Levi made a face, he had a feeling that the blond was actually laughing at his demise. "He'll surprise you."

Levi pursed his lips slightly and rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"So what's the brat's name?"

Erwin chuckled. "My, are you already interested in him?" He teased and immediately hunched over in pain, his forehead hitting harshly the table.

Levi huffed and stretched his legs, ignoring how his left foot was actually hurting from hitting the editor's hard as steel shins.

"Careful there," he retorted lightly. "Wouldn't want you to get back in the hospital..."

Erwin laughed loudly and patted the raven's shoulder before he stood up. He straightened his jacket (they had both kept their winter clothes on in the fastfood) and thinned his lips as he seemed to remember something.

"This is his address," he said as he wrote swiftly a street and a number on a paper serviette. "You begin today and he has an empty room so prepare a suitcase. What else?" Erwin tapped lightly his pen against the serviette, not noticing that the tip was leaking and that there was already an inkblot on the paper. Levi did notice and he tsk-ed. "Ah, yes... Please, Levi, play nice. He's too innocent to understand some of your jokes."

"Jokes?" The raven haired repeated with a raised eyebrow. "When the fuck do I joke around? I'll just do his background sketches and assist him, that's all. Like I'd joke with him..."

"Levi," Erwin raised his voice and pushed the serviette on the table until it was in front of the other man. "I'm serious, play nice."

Levi rolled his eyes and sighed.

"Fine," he accepted. "I'll fucking play nice."

(≖_≖✿)

"Play nice," Levi muttered as he walked swiftly in a suburban street with his duffle bag strap on his shoulder. He had only taken his pencils and tablet along with some clothes with him but that was enough to weigh like a dead man on his poor shoulder.

Thus, Levi was in a terrible mood.

Also, Erwin's serviette had been irremediably blurred by the inkblot and Levi couldn't decipher what was written on it. And that explained why he was pretty lost in this suburban neighbourhood. The sun was already setting and the raven sighed heavily. He was supposed to be working in the brat's house.

Not to be lost somewhere in Japan because Erwin couldn't use proper paper to write something important.

"Play fucking nice," Levi added under his breath as he kicked a pebble and followed it fly away with his tired and angry eyes. The rock hit loudly a window and the raven froze.

The window shattered and he groaned.

'It better not be the brat or some shitty cliché situation like that,' Levi thought angrily as he watched the front door open with a grim creak.

"EREN GRISIA JÄGER," a stern looking matron screeched as her red face appeared through the opening. "WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT YOUR ANGER ISSUES?!"

Levi kept a straight face and stayed still. He didn't want the angry matron to realise that he had been the one to break her window. So he just stood there, unmoving while she screeched to the winds her irritation.

Suddenly, the matron stopped screeching and she scoffed. Levi blankly stared at her and waited.

"Did you see it?" She asked him with a quieter voice. (Levi appreciated it, his eardrums were still hurting after her screeches. She sounded like a pterodactyl when she used her lungs like that...)

"See what?" He asked with his normal voice.

The matron didn't seem to like it because she scrunched her nose and folded her arms on her bosom. Not that Levi cared about that because she looked more and more like a hag to his eyes.

"That little runt," she huffed loudly before going back in her house to put her shoes. She then went out of her house and stomped her way to an apartment complex that was situated down the street.

Levi followed her with his eyes and he sighed heavily. He let his duffle bag on the (dirty) ground and observed the broken window and then the matron's back. She was now knocking harshly on a door. The raven raised his eyebrows when he saw the door open and someone finally answer to the woman's screams.

Levi couldn't see clearly what was going on in the apartment complex but the Eren Jäger guy seemed to appease the matron's desire of blood and she went back to her house. When she passed in front of him, Levi cleared his throat and almost flinched when bloodshot eyes glared at him.

"What?" The matron asked harshly.

"I'm looking for someone but I lost his address," the raven answered calmly.

"And?" the woman dared raise an eyebrow and tilted her head.

Levi sighed heavily and reminded himself that he didn't have to make a scene here. Erwin wouldn't appreciate it if he had to fetch him in a cell again.

"He's a mangaka," he added through his gritted teeth. He could already feel his jaw protest with all the pressure. "And..."

"Ah yeah," the matron nodded and raised a finger to point at the apartment complex. "It's Jeager. You're his assistant, right? Seems like you're late because he's at his end wits."

"Yeah," Levi reluctantly agreed and he glanced at the closed door behind which Jäger was hiding. "Our editor can be air-headed at the worst times."

"Is that so?" The matron commented absentmindedly. "You better go help that runt. He looked like a dead man on his feet."

Levi made a face and quickly erase it. He thanked quietly the woman and took his duffle bag before walking to the apartment complex. After climbing the metallic stairs that were already covered in rust (he grimaced as he noticed it. Someday, it'd break under someone's big ass...), he observed the doors until he found the name tag Jäger. He took a deep breath and rang the bell.

The answer was quick because he immediately heard something fall down behind the door and rushing steps until the door was abruptly open.

Levi widened slightly his eyes and he gaped a bit as he finally saw the mangaka.

Erwin had told him that the brat was young, yes. But Levi had never imagined that Jäger would be that young. He looked like an high schooler! Also, he had a lithe body, wearing an ample T-shirt and big trousers. There were also covered in inkblots and rests of erasers. The brat had long brown hair, it didn't look dyed and as Levi noticed his eyes, the raven understood that it was probably his foreign (German?) heritage.

Boy sure had strange eyes. They were so bloodshot and heavy lidded that Levi couldn't clearly see their colour. But from what he could see, it wasn't the habitual Japanese's dark brown or black.

To put it succinctly, Jäger looked like shit.

"Are you the new assistant?" The brat asked with a breathy voice.

Levi sneered and prepared a witty retort before he remembered Erwin's order. He quickly closed his mouth and sighed heavily, his breath fanning over the mangaka's face and making the latter grimace a bit.

"Are you?" Jäger insisted.

"Yeah," Levi simply answered as he got into the apartment. He put his duffle bag on the floor and took off his shoes before he took his bag strap and walked into the mangaka's house. "Where is my room?"

"Huh..." the brat blinked owlishly and finally reacted. He pointed at a closed door and then at another one, this time creaked open. "That one is empty, you can use it. And that one is my room. It's where I work."

"Great," Levi groaned as he opened abruptly his room door and dropped his bag on the dusty floor. His eyebrow twitched as he realised how dirty the bedroom was and he made a quick prayer for the brat's life.

'Play nice,' he reminded himself. 'Fucking play nice.'

He took out his pencils and drawing tablet before he went into the brat's bedroom. The latter was already in it, sitting in front of his desk and hunched over his tablet. Levi raised his eyebrows, impressed by the boy's professionalism. He was so concentrated on his drawings that he hadn't even realised that his assistant was there.

"What do you want me to do?" Levi asked as he sat in front of the empty desk behind the mangaka.

The brat cursed loudly and stomped his foot. "Fuck! I fucked that face! Now I have to draw it from the beginning!"

"You really are a newbie," the assistant commented as he stood behind the mangaka. "You can always use that feature in the tablet." He showed it, his tablet pen clicking on the tablet, and he leaned a bit forward so he could see better the brat's drawing.

He had indeed been drawing a face and Levi chuckled darkly when he saw those sparkly eyes and long hair.

"So you draw Shoujo," he commented. "How fitting..."

Jäger didn't react and frowned, his bloodshot eyes blinked slowly as he observed the foreign pen and then the chuckling man behind him.

"The background in page fifteen," he said breathily.

"Got it," Levi checked the pages that had been carefully put on his desk and he whistled softly when he noticed how many details had been imbedded in every scene.

Even if the faces belonged to a Shoujo manga, the details put looked more like a seinen. The raven shrugged and he began to work on the background of the fifteenth page.

It was supposed to be in a forest at night but the brat hadn't inked it correctly and looked more like a park than a forest. Levi nodded to himself. A newbie, it was as plain as day.

But still, those details...

He shook his head and began to ink the leaves.

(≖_≖✿)

"Good work today," Erwin said warmly as he took the heavy load of pages from the mangaka's desk.

Levi stretched his arms behind him and groaned when he heard his articulations creak loudly. They had pulled an allnighter and he could already feel himself doze off. But they had finished the chapter right on the deadline and that was all that mattered.

Jäger moaned pitifully and stood on his shivering legs before he stumbled until he fell on his bed. His head hadn't even touched his pillow and he was already out like a light.

Levi rolled his eyes and rubbed his eyelids, almost moaning at the heavenly feeling.

"So, what did you think of him?" Erwin asked him as they both got out of the sleeping boy's bedroom.

Levi ignored the editor's question and stumbled into his room before scoffing with an hateful grimace. All that dust...

"He stinks," he finally answered as he barged into the living room/kitchen and searched around for some cleaning tools and Windex. "And he lives in a pigsty."

"Every mangaka is like that," Erwin placated with a small shrug. "I was talking about his art. What do you think of it?"

This time, Levi took his time to think of his answer. He cleaned his bedroom meticulously, swiping away the dust and cleaning the windows almost angrily before he suddenly stopped. The room was now sparkling and he nodded to himself. Now, he could live there. Then, he remembered that his editor and best friend was still waiting for his answer and he shrugged.

"I've never seen it before so I don't really know about his manga. But he puts a lot of shits in every page. If he mastered better the backgrounds, he'd be good."

"That's why you're here," Erwin smiled at him and patted softly his shoulder before he went to the door. "I left some food in the fridge, please indulge yourself. And don't forget to tell Eren, he tends to forget about his body needs during the deadline..."

"Who do you take me for?" Levi grumbled. "His fucking babysitter?"

Erwin chuckled and left the apartment. The raven rolled his eyes and took out his futon before he scrunched his nose. Had it been correctly washed? And if the answer was positive, since when?

"Whatever," he muttered as he changed into his sleep wear and got into the futon. "I'm too tired for this shit."

(≖_≖✿)

When he woke up, it was still night and it confused him. Levi glanced at his phone and cursed under his breath as he realised that he had slept during the whole day.

"Hope that whatever shit left Erwin is still edible," he muttered as he stumbled in the kitchen.

He froze.

What about the brat? Had he also slept during the whole day? Levi remembered how much Jäger stank and imagined the bed sheets impregnated with that heavy and atrocious scent. He almost gagged and shook widely his head. Now wasn't the moment to pity the brat about his hygiene. He needed to eat and drink, his throat was parched. The raven opened the drawers, checking what was in them and cursed under his breath.

The brat didn't have anything edible. His only hope left was whatever Erwin had left. He opened the fridge and blinked.

Two bento from a convenience store.

Levi blinked again.

Yes, there was still two bento box covered in plastic.

He gritted his teeth and cursed the blond loudly. Levi downright hated eating bento from the convenience store, they tasted like shit. But he still took one of them and opened it harshly. He began to eat his eyebrows furrowed as he glanced around him.

From what he could see, Jäger lived alone and didn't have a family that visited often. He was also dirt poor because he didn't have shit in his drawers and fridge and there wasn't a television anywhere. There wasn't any decorations on the walls and the only picture that Levi had seen was in the brat's room. Yet, there were a lot of books in the whole apartment. They were disseminated everywhere, on the floors and sometimes even laying flat open.

Also, the brat couldn't clean for shit because Levi was pretty sure that he had seen a cockroach in the fridge. And there was a 5cm of dust everywhere.

Levi finished eating, feeling almost faint, and he swiftly put the bento box in the dustbin. It was when he saw the bin that he snapped.

There were worms in there!

"This. Is," he hissed angrily as he stomped in his room and took a clean chiffon in duffle bag. He put it around his face to protect it from any flying dirt and frowned heavily. He was back in his battle mode now that he had his stomach full and was well rested. "War!"

(≖_≖✿)

The cleaning of the whole apartment had taken a day and a half. When Levi finished oiling the doors, he straightened his back and looked at his phone clock. It was only then that he realised how long it had taken him. And that he was hungry as hell. His cleaning frenzy had been so intense that he had forgotten to eat.

He went into the kitchen and opened the fridge. Still as empty as before except for that hated bento box. Levi glared at it and then at his phone.

He could always go to the convenience store (they never closed) but it would mean that he would have to use his money.

And Levi was pretty much poor right now.

But still, that didn't mean that he had to eat bento from convenience stores for two days.

Decisions, decisions.

He sighed heavily and went back in his bedroom to take his wallet. But, as he put it in his pant pocket and took his jacket, he realised something.

He didn't have the keys to the apartment. And only the brat knew where they were.

Levi groaned heavily and glanced at Jäger's door. The boy was still sleeping (or dead. He hadn't showed during Levi's cleaning frenzy and it had been really loud with the vacuum cleaner going on, so he could pretty much be dead)

'And don't forget to tell Eren, he tends to forget about his body needs during the deadline...' Erwin's voice echoed in his mind and Levi scowled.

He wasn't the brat's babysitter.

Yet... He was supposed to be the one to teach him all the ropes. And if the brat ended being dead, he wouldn't be payed. Levi needed that money so...

He sighed heavily and made his way to the boy's room. The door opened without a creak (he had oiled it too now that he thought about it) and he entered the bedroom quietly. To his relief, he heard the brat's faint breathing and Levi scowled when he saw that heap of ruffled brown hair peeking through an heavy blanket. Also, the room stank of sweat and filth.

Levi's eyebrow twitched and he snarled.

"Jäger!" he roared as he kicked the mangaka's head with his knee. "Get up!"

The brat moaned and burrowed his head in his pillow. Levi felt his left eyelid twitch.

"I said," he whispered sweetly. "GET UP, YOU LITTLE SHIT!"

Jäger let out a shrilly squeak as he fell from his bed and he gulped loudly when he saw his new assistant glare at him.

"Go take a shower!" Levi barked as he ripped the bed sheets to shreds. The brown haired male nodded nervously and scram away without saying anything. But the raven wasn't finished with him. "But before that, where the fuck do you put your clean sheets? And I need your keys."

"First drawer to the left," the brat answered with a raspy voice still laced with sleep. His eyes were also heavy lidded and Levi briefly wondered if they were always like that after all those all nighters. "Keys are next to the eggs in the fridge."

"Why the fuck you'd put the keys there?" Levi scowled but the mangaka didn't answer him, he was already showering. "Shitty brat."

He went to the nearest convenience store and bought the cleanest shit that he could find. His mouth was still remembering the shitty taste of that damned bento box. So that meant that he'd have to eat extra fine dishes tonight.

'Well,' Levi shrugged as he took a bottle of wine and put it in his trolley. 'Once in a while is fine.'

When he got back in the apartment, he immediately got to work and cut precisely the carrots while he poured water in a pot. He always wanted a pot-au-feu after a long day of cleaning and he didn't see why he shouldn't indulge in that little pleasure. The brat wasn't in the living room/kitchen so he didn't disturb him while he cooked his meal. Or was it their meal? Jäger hadn't eaten in two days and Levi had eaten his bento. Right, now he was feeling sorry for that stinky brat. Or it could be his empty stomach.

The assistant sighed heavily and walked until he was in front of the bathroom door. It was closed and if he strained his ears, he could hear the water running and someone singing softly.

"Hey, brat!" He called loudly.

He immediately heard someone slipping and something ripping. Levi chuckled and he face palmed.

"Did you break your shower curtain?" he asked mockingly.

"Why do you ask if you already know?" the brat retorted angrily from behind the door.

Levi shook his head and chuckled another time before he recomposed himself.

"I made something to eat, want some?" he proposed to appease the already riled up boy.

"Really?" was his immediate answer. "I'm in! Just wait a second, I need to shave."

"Shave?" Levi repeated as he raised a perplexed brow. "Why? You're a brat, you don't need to shave."

"Haha, very funny," Jäger deadpanned.

(≖_≖✿)

"Finally here, I see," Levi said as he heard steps in the kitchen.

He was still brewing the pot and was turning his back on the brat. The latter hummed a vague answer and walked to the fridge while the assistant took the maniples to transport the pot to the tiny table.

"Hey, you went shopping?" Jäger commented as he leaned forward, his eyes looking over everything new in the fridge (pretty much everything). "That's a really nice wine, can I open it?"

"You're too young for that, brat," Levi retorted easily as he put the pot on the table and turned to fetch a ladle.

His eyes went to the brat and he froze. The ladle fell from his hands and he felt his mouth dry while he just couldn't get his eyes away from the brat's body.

He was just so very fucking naked.

'Brat isn't entirely a brat,' he thought idly as he continued watching gobsmacked the oh so very naked man take out the bottle of wine and put it on the table.

Where the fuck had he ended? Also, were those a four-pack? How did he have one?! He was a mangaka, for Pete's sake! He didn't have the time to work-out!

(◡‿◡✿)

"E-RU-WI-N," Levi hissed to his phone after the excruciatingly long dinner with the so very fucking naked and young Jäger. "Why. Just tell me fucking why."

"I see that you've found his little habit," the editor chuckled and the assistant bristled like an angry cat.

"Oh yes, I found it," he whispered deadly at the blond. "And you're a fucking dead man, Smith! Once I get my hands around your neck, you'll be dead..."

"Come on," Erwin laughed happily. "It isn't so bad!"

"Try eating in front of a stark naked brat, you shit-face!" Levi barked. "And that brat dared ask me what was wrong?! Is he that stupid?"

"Didn't I tell you?" the blond retorted with a more serious voice. "Eren is too innocent for his own good sometimes. So, Levi, play nice."

The raven blinked and he glanced at his closed door. He had gone in his bedroom (or rather ran) once he had finished eating and he was pretty sure that the brat had been surprised by his behaviour.

"Levi?" Erwin's voice was heavy laced with a warning tone and the other man sighed heavily.

"Fine," he groaned. "I'll play nice with the shitty brat..."

Next chapter is on the way. I'll probably post it tomorrow or Friday night. But until then, how about telling me what you thought of this first chapter?