This is just a story I've had in my mind for a while. It all started completely clean, but now it will change from a T rating to an M for chapters in the near future.
Rating: T (currently for language)
Ship: Aruani
Genre: Romance
Summary: four years after Annie concealed herself inside her crystal, she finally broke out creating a commotion aamongst the scouting legion. Armin (being now involved with Hanji in the survey corps' highest tactician in the highest branch) found out about her breaking free.
Author's note: I'm just going to type as I think. Only a few things are actually planned, so I hope it will be an okay story and that you'll all enjoy it.
Annie Leonhardt had concealed herself in a crystal nobody could break after her fight with Eren so Hanji ordered her squad to take the crystal deep underground for surveillance. Her squad followed her orders without a second thought and Annie was tied up underground while still in the crystal.
As the years went on, Eren continued his testing and experiments while working with Levi to overpower the government, only to fail and remained in the Survey Corps as normal. Mikasa resumed to protect Eren at all costs and became the leader of her own squad within three years as her skills, agility, and strategy made her a perfect leader. Armin never gained any real physical strength aside from his muscles becoming only slightly larger to fit a masculine figure shared by all the boys of the 104th class, although they can't really be called boys now that they were twenty and are men. Armin never stopped his studies and continued his strategic thinking, soon being accepted to work alongside Hanji and the tacticians of the scouts.
One day, Eren was finally finished his day's experiments and he walked up to his and Armin's dorm. The brunette opened the door and walked inside to see Armin sitting at his desk, going over a chart that Eren could never seem to understand. Armin was currently too focused to notice Eren coming inside, which is something the brunette came to expect from his childhood friend. Eren found himself chuckling softly to himself and sat down on the bottom bunk bed that belonged to the blond. Armin's focus broke as he heard the light chuckle of the brunette and he looked up, turning his head to Eren as he smiled from the knowledge that he survived today's testing. "Hey, Eren. How was the experiments today?" The blond spoke up while looking at the brunette as Eren had both wrists wrapped in gauze and a light blood stain smeared across the right of his chest and lead up to the corner of his mouth. Eren simply glanced up at Armin, who was wearing his training uniform (excluding his jacket), his red reading glasses, and the front portions of his shoulder-length hair pulled back into a loose ponytail. He stayed silent for several seconds before giving a reply. "It was really the same as usual..." The brunette layed back with his hands behind his head, staring at the bottom of his bunk. "I did four transformations and did various strength tests and self-control experiments... That's about it for today." Armin kept his small grin and started talking again. "That's good. I'm glad you didn't need to do any major experiments." Eren smiled and sat up soon after hearing Armin finish his sentence and looked at him. "And what about you, mister 'Top Tactician'? What's that chart for?" Armin quickly responded as he looked back at his chart. "This is just a plan for the formations of each squad for the next expedition. My job is to just look over the plan and fix any possible errors." Eren continued so stare then stood, walking a few steps to the desk where Armin was sitting to look at the map. "Where are the elites suppose to b-" Eren was interrupted by a group of soldiers running past the room, yelling. The two men quickly went to open the door and heard one of the running men yell to his squad "Leonhardt is out! Restrain her at all costs!" These words struck Armin's heart like a million lightening bolts as his eyes widened and he grabbed Eren's arm, starting to run in the direction of the other group while dragging Eren with him.
