DISCLAIMER: I do not own Attack on Titan, nor do I own the characters, all copyrights go to the owners blah blah blah only the ideas I am writing here are mine, nothing else

Hanji was slumped in a chair, passed out, again. She was wearing a long dark green flowing dress, very suitable for this christmas party, sleeveless and strapless, but she had white silk gloves with black threads going up half past her elbows. The dress had a feathery look and feel to it, resembling the emblem of the scouting legion in a bizarre way. I smiled just a tad bit at her sleeping face, then masked it, hoping that nobody at this damned party saw it. It was Hanji's idea to come, and more importantly, drag me here too. That peaceful face of hers was really cute, reminiscent of our innocence, our childhood. Naturally, looking at her, I couldn't help but recall those times…

(A/N: Still Levi's POV, many years ago, there will be many flashbacks in this, in which I set hanji up as transgender, male-to-female)

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"Hanji! Wake up! This is no time to be sleeping in your backyard!" I carelessly disturbed him, ruining his sleeping face.

Hanji rubbed his eyes, under his glasses, and blinked at me. "Why not? I am tired and wanna sleeeeeep. Why are you even in my backyard?"

"Because! I wanted to play with you and your mom said you were back here!" I grinned at him, we had been playmates ever since we met a while back.

"By play do you mean pretending to get into fights and making a lot of ruckus?"

"Of course! It is fun! Besides, you are a good match!"

"You have the advantage though, you are taller than me, and older by a year, you always win!" He sounded rather irritated at this.

Suddenly, he sneezed. Oh god, I thought, he might be coming down with that disease that has been going around everywhere, however he just looked up at me and rolled her eyes.

"I am fine, don't worry Levi, just the common cold," then his voice turned serious. "How are your parents doing?"

"They are managing, though it has been decided that my entire family is being moved to a town in wall Maria, keep the plague out of the higher up walls as much as possible they say, and there is a man there who claims to be able to heal this sickness. We are leaving in a few days… That is why I came to play."

He was silent for a moment, but then grinned. "Okay, I will play then, but I expect you to come back once your parents are okay."

"Of course! This is just a temporary relocation, I will hopefully be back within the month, maybe in time for your 11th birthday." I hoped that was true with all of my heart, but the truth was that I just didn't know, that is what my parents were saying but they could just be trying to keep me happy.

He bought it though. "You had better! Now come on, lets go get the swords from my room."

So I followed her into his house, to his room, and we retrieved the wooden swords from his toy chest. We then went back outside and started to play-fight.

He stuck out to my left for a swing cut, I blocked and tried to jab but missed, he took the chance to attack my legs, I jumped and aimed for his arm. We kept fighting like this, to and fro, for quite some time. A good hour had passed before we quit, and we both had bruises and scrapes, but we were grinning like crazy. Nothing like two boys having a swordfight.

When we were done swordfighting we sat under a big oak tree and talked some more.

"You know, when we are older, I am going to be taller than you!"

"HA! What makes you think that Hanji? Who says I won't get really really tall?"

"I dunno, I just feel like I have a lot more growing than you do left Levi."

"You're only 10, of course you got a lot more growing left, but I am 11 and have much more to grow too."

"We will see about that!" He giggled and looked at me challengingly. But before we could do anything more Hanji's mother called her in for dinner and told me to go home.

That was the last I saw of the boy I knew as Hanji, however I still know him, but that him is now a her.

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…Damn memories, always when you don't want them to surface. Well, I thought, at least it was a happy one. I sighed and went to Hanji, picking her up and walking outside, hitching a ride with a cart returning to the Scouting Legion HQ, instead of taking the horses, so that she could continue to sleep.