A/N: Hey Guys! This is the 1st story in my really long series called The Moments in Our Lives. Each story has a different pairing and none of the stories connect in any way, I think...no wait, all of them (with the exception of two) have some sort of humor in it.
This one is one of my favorite AUs, even though a lot of people have already done this one.
Disclaimer: I don't own SnK/AoT...
Enjoy and review!
Chapter 1
"Eren, was that really necessary?"
"...Yes."
"Like hell it was!"
"Shut the fuck up Horse face!...Ow! God, what the fuck Mikasa?"
"Stop cursing."
Eren rubbed the sore spot on his head as he glared at his adopted sister. His best friend, Jean, was smirking at him before Mikasa smacked him with her kick board. Eren laughed as the brunet rubbed his head and glared at the black haired girl. "Serves you right for making fun of me, Jean."
"You started it you bastar-" Mikasa held up her newest weapon of the day, mentally threatening both boys as they each faked a large grin and put an arm around each other's shoulder. The raven haired girl rolled her eyes and sat down on the bench that she was sitting on before the two idiots in front of her began to argue. All three of them were waiting for their other friends to arrive before going to the first swim practice of the season.
Everyone but Eren that is.
It was the reason why Jean and him were sporting small injuries from Mikasa's board. Jean was trying convince him, for the millionth time since the summer season ended, to join the swim team since he didn't join during his freshmen year, which was last year. Even Marco, Horse Face's adorable boyfriend, begged for him to join; saying that he would really help the team at States this year. Eren tried to ignore both of his close friends' pleas, but it was starting to become difficult now, especially since Armin joined their small campaign. It also didn't help that he was one of the best long distance swimmers in the city; he broke all of the long distance freestyle records only last season.
He really needed to stop trying so hard at practice.
Another silent seven minutes passed, thanks to Mikasa turning her killing glare on and carefully watching both of the teenagers' actions. Eren mentally groaned, just wishing that his friends would just fucking get here so that he could leave and do whatever things, which consisted of eating and playing video games, that he had to do at home. Soft sounds of a bass danced into the green eyed boy's ears, signaling that Jean finally gave up on convincing him (for now unfortunately) and was listening to whatever Pop or Dub Step music he had on his IPhone. Laughter soon echoed throughout the vacant, outdoor basketball court as someone ran and hid behind the bench that Mikasa claimed for her and her stuff.
"SASHA!" The said girl popped out of her hiding spot, only to grin and hide behind Mikasa's head. Eren looked up to see the rest of the 'gang' walking across the blacktop towards them; Connie was speed walking in Mikasa's direction, fuming and angrily muttering something under his breath. Armin and Marco, who was just behind the buzzed cut boy, looked like they were specifically going to him. Eren shrank a little from the spot on the blacktop he was on and looked at Jean, who was resting his head on his swim bag, and now that the green eyed boy realized it, was still dozing off next to him; completely unaware of the others arrival. Marco walked up to his snoozing boyfriend and nudged Jean's side lightly with his foot, only to get an angry groan and a "Leave me alone" from the brunet. The freckled boy rolled his eyes and laid down on the ground, his head rested on Jean's stomach, and smiled at Eren.
"Are you coming today?" Eren groaned again, only to get Armin's small laugh as a response. The brunet glared at his blonde friend as Connie chased Sasha around the basketball court yelling things like, "Never touch my shit again!" and, "It was my food to begin with!". Eren stood up to leave but Armin grabbed his book bag just before he could walk off.
"Can't you come to one practice, please?" Armin pulled out his 'puppy face', while Marco snickered, knowing that the brunet was going to lose the battle. Eren attempted to glare at his blue eyed friend.
"No."
"Please?" Armin yanked on his bag in a really childish way, making Marco laugh even more. Eren tried to keep his face neutral, his eyebrows furrowed in some failed attempt to concentrate. The green eyed boy turned his head to the side and growled loudly. Armin let go and narrowed his eyes, smirking ever so slightly; Marco lightly shivered at the facial expression, hoping that it the blonde would never look at him like that ever. Eren, being the stupid idiotic person that he is, thought that Armin gave up and turned to leave. He literally only walked five steps before something pounced on him, making him fall to the ground. The brunet looked up only to get an eyeful of blonde hair.
"GOD DAMMIT ARMIN! GET OFF ME!" The blue eyed boy didn't budge. Eren pulled off his book bag, throwing it randomly on to the black top, and rolled over. Armin grinned as the brunet gave him a glare that could kill.
"Not until you agree to go to one practice."
"I'm not going to one of your damn practices!"
Armin laughed again, "Then I guess we're staying here until you do." Eren fumed and looked over at Marco, who was now leaning on his side on top of Jean who was still currently dead to the real world. The green eyed boy rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Fine," Armin's eyes widened before grinning obnoxiously, "Only one practice though." The blonde got off of him and helped him up; brushing away any dirt that got on his shirt.
"Sorry for doing that," Armin smiled sheepishly, "It was the only way to get you to agree. Besides, I know you'll love it after one practice. It's just as fun as the summer season!" Eren rolled his eyes and muttered a, "Whatever" before stiffly walking to his other friends.
"Hey Reiner, I need a ride home to get my swim stuff." The said blonde looked at the brunet in slight surprise, before looking at Marco, who just woke up Jean due to the freckled boy accidently falling on his chest pretty hard from laughing too much, and Armin, who was grinning like how the idiotic teenager standing in front of the burly blonde would look after winning a race.
"Sure, practice doesn't start for another thirty minutes."
If Eren could destroy anything at the moment, it would have to be his group of friends in front of him. All of them were in their swim suits (including Eren, but he didn't want anyone to know how he got into it), waiting for the team caption to come out of some meeting that was mandatory to go to. The brunet didn't understand why he had to be here. So what if he was amazing at swimming and could really help the team? That's the reason why he didn't want to join to begin with. Everyone on the summer team at the Maria Country Club expected him to always win, with the exception of other swimmers (mainly his friends who were just as good as himself) and take the team to first place. Eren hated the pressure that the coaches and swimmers gave him, even when his friends tried to take away some of the burden that was always dropped onto his shoulders. Three people came up to Eren and his friends, two older boys and a girl. Some of the other team members that the brunet didn't know came and stood near the three people. One of the three took a step forward; all eyes were on him, except Eren, who was giving the ground another death glare.
"My name's Levi and I'm your team caption this season." Eren glanced up, "I expect all you brats to do as I say or there'll be shit to pay." Levi narrowed his eyes and glared at the crowd of teenagers, pausing, if only for a second, at where Eren was; the brunet looked bored, in the older teen's eyes, and Levi's expression hardened even more. He continued on talking and began a lecture about discipline and cleaning; ignoring the slightly scared looks of the freshman on the team and instead looked at the brunet, in the corner of his eye, who wasn't paying attention. Eren, oblivious to whatever looks that he got from to team caption or his friends, took this slightly wasted time (in his opinion) to 'size' Levi up. The green eyed boy looked up from the concrete ground only to meet gun metal grey eyes. Eren jumped ever so slightly from shock and widened his bright green eyes; Levi smirked at the movement but his lecture never faltered.
Levi, as Eren observed, was short.
That was a known fact.
He probably only reached up to Eren's nose in height (making him around 5' 2''), but the angry and sort of dark aura that seemed to pulse around him made him seem like the tallest person on the pool deck. Levi's raven colored hair was styled in an under cut, giving his face a cutting edge look that was very professional. His muscles were very well defined for someone of his size and Eren might have stared at Levi's body a second too long.
With a slight pink blush powdering his face, Eren grabbed his cap and goggles as everyone went to the starting blocks to receive their assigned lanes. A girl with glasses and long brown hair, which was tied up in a high ponytail, held a list and was telling people where to go. Eren walked next to Jean and Armin as Marco was just assigned to lane five. They stood in the line that was formed in front of the girl and chatted until it was Armin's turn to find out his lane.
"Hey! My name's Hanji! What's yours?" Hanji grinned and held out a hand, in which Armin shook slowly; his smile wavered from the large amount of energy that she put into the supposed simple handshake.
"Armin Alert."
Hanji quickly looked at her list, "You're in lane four, just like Erwin. He's the tall blond over there." Armin looked at the person that was mention and then went to get his swim bag, but not before looking at his friends and shrugging lightly. Jean then received his lane number, he got lucky; he had the same lane as Marco. Jean nodded and gave a small smile to the green eyed brunet behind him before joining his boyfriend at lane five. Eren then looked at Hanji, who was looking at the list intently.
"Name?"
"Eren Jaeger..."
"Hm...Oh! You're in lane one. Good luck, you're going to need it." Eren raised an eyebrow but went to gather his things for practice.
Besides himself and Levi, there were only five other swimmers in Eren's lane; most of them looked like freshmen.
"Alright brats, we're starting off with a four hundred free warm up and after that, we'll be doing whatever fucking workout Eyebrows wrote for us on this paper." Levi held up one of the pool's kick boards with the sheet pasted on it with water. Eren pulled his cap on his head; the others followed his lead, before looking at the raven haired caption. Levi narrowed his steel grey eyes at the brunet and Eren just rolled his own green pair while he pulled his goggles over his eyes and dived into the cold, chlorine filled water.
The caption remained at the edge of the pool as he watched the brunet flip at the other end of the pool. "Shitty brat," Levi mumbled as he leaned against the starting block.
"Why aren't you swimming, Levi?" The said person growled at the familiar voice.
"We're not swimming remember? You specifically told us that yesterday." Levi looked at the blonde who was standing next to him. Erwin looked at the raven haired boy before raising an eyebrow.
"So I have."
"No shit, eyebrows." Erwin lightly laughed at the insult of a nickname before looking at something in his own lane; Levi, of course, stared at the blonde after a minute or so of not hearing any smart comment from one of his closest, and probably best (but he would never admit it), friends.
"What are you looking at? Already picking out the weak brats in your lane?" Erwin looked at Levi and shrugged.
"I guess you can say that, though I'm not picking out the weak, I'm more or less looking at their strengths. Look at this sophomore for example," The blonde pointed at a short skinny looking boy who was sitting on the edge of the pool, drinking from his water bottle while looking at the next set in the work out. Small tuffs of blonde hair peaked out of his solid blue cap, "his name is Armin Alert, he was on the team last year, and he has shown a real improvement in both backstroke and breaststroke."
Levi nodded, "But how do you know that he improved; I've never seen you talk to him before." Erwin blushed lightly at the comment, though Levi could have just imagined it, because the raven haired caption never saw the blonde blush that much before in all of the years that he's known him and the crazy shitty glasses, more commonly known as Hanji.
"We, um, talked before they started warm ups. He's really nice and told me about how summer season went for him and his friends. Did you know that Eren Jaeger, who Armin told me, is like a brother to him, broke all the distance free records last summer season? I was shocked because we're not on the same team as them; they're on the team that goes to the Maria County Club." Levi's eyes widened as he looked at Erwin in slight shock, because Levi never gets shocked or surprised...easily at least. The raven haired teen remembered hearing about Eren when the head coach of the team he was on, which practiced at Rose public pool, told him and his friends that wanted to know if any records were broken during the season. He remembered Petra, who was a diver during the high school season, freaking out because the record times before they were broken were very fast and many swimmers on their team tried to break them but didn't even get ten seconds close to the times.
"That's good; he'll be a great use for the team, especially during States."
"Hopefully, Armin also said that he didn't want join this year. Something about having a ton of pressure and the team relying on him too much." Levi rolled his eyes and crossed his arms as he watched his lane begin the next set.
"Tch. What a wimp, that shitty brat should be thankful for the talent he has and not complain to people." Erwin watched his lane again as the raven haired caption glared at Eren.
"I guess, but sometimes people who are under a ton of stress freak out and have anxiety attacks or things like that." The blonde sighed and looked at his friend, "Don't be cruel to him. The last thing I need is you giving him crap or something just because he's acting like a complete idiot to you."
Levi sent another glare towards Eren, making that the millionth one (maybe) that he sent in only a small period of time, "I can't guaranty that Eyebrows, he looks like a real shitty brat to me and those type of brats need to be carefully watched and disciplined."
A/N: Sorry for the stupid, crappy chapter. I have a "Plot" but I didn't know how to start this...Anyways, I'll have chapter 2 up in about a week at most.
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