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"Eren, there she is!"Mikasa looked over to her left to see a redhead with a readied bow. It was their good friend Sasha Braus.
"Sasha! We're here!" at the moment Eren yelled out to Sasha, a deer popped up from out of the grass and scampered away.
"Goddamnit all!" she bellowed as she watched her prey gracefully flee.
"Oh. Hey Eren." she said quickly, lightening up.
During her off time Sasha would come out here, and hunt with her father, since they had reconciled. Since he was home sick with a fever she had asked her friends to come out and hunt with her. Jean turned it down, having to go see his sickly grandmother. Connie was at some new hangout inside Trost. Historia was off somewhere volunteering, helping displaced people from Stohess whose homes were destroyed during Eren and Annie's fight. So Sasha asked Eren if he wanted to come with, and since he had nothing to do he gladly went along. Mikasa thought Eren couldn't handle himself and went along with him. Eren couldn't help but feel a tiny bit annoyed. But then again, he was completely oblivious to the fact that Mikasa had started to show her true feelings for him. (Chapter 50 ?)
"I hope you don't mind, but Mikasa came along." Eren said to her as he and Mikasa dismounted their horses.
"Oh it's fine, the more the merrier right? And I brought an reserve bow so, I guess that could work." she said as she smiled.
Sasha handed them bows, and then they went out to the archery range.
"I thought we were going to hunt." Eren said.
"Well, you need to learn how to hold a bow first. Then you need to learn how to aim it. And after that you need to know to how to lead your shot when you're aiming at your target." she turned around at Eren with a look that said you got that?
Mikasa was first up. She aimed and almost hit the bullseye.
"Nice! You almost got it dead center. Try to hold your breath a second before releasing the arrow."
Mikasa went over to the other target as Sasha worked with Eren. Unlike his adoptive sister, Eren was a slow learner. Every time he heard a thud to his right, the arrow would've landed in the center or close. Eventually after an hour and half of practicing Sasha determined that it was sufficient enough for them to go hunting.
Eren always felt like that Mikasa was better at him at everything from using the 3DMG to this. He never understood why she was always better at everything and why she was so determined to be.
"Eren, don't move." a voice whispered. Mikasa was looking up at something and Sasha had a terrified look on her face. She slowly raised her hand and pointed to something behind him. He saw the shadow to his right, and slowly turned around. It was taller that he had thought.
The creature pulled its arms high up into the air readying to strike. Eren looked up in horror, becuase at that moment he had realized that his training, and his reflexes had quickly abandoned him.
The creature swung downwards but before it could impact Eren's head, a figure jumped at it and knocked it down on it's back.
"What the hell is that?!" he yelled to a confused Sasha.
"That's a bear! But they're not supposed to be that big..." she trailed off. The bear had thrown something off at incredible speed at the ground. They rushed over to it and it wasn't something. It was Mikasa.
"Mikasa! Mikasa!" Eren shook and shook but she wouldn't wake up. "She's knocked out cold." The bear looked for a new target and charged at Eren and Sasha.
At that moment, adrenaline rushed through Eren's body. He picked up Mikasa, threw her on his shoulder and started running for the horses. He quickly placed her on top and sat himself on the saddle behind her. He spurred the horse and burst it off with speed. Sasha reappeared on her horse with Mikasa's in tow behind him moments later. She had never seen someone run that fast, even without someone on their shoulders.
"Eren? What happened?"
Eren looked down at Mikasa seeing that she had regained consciousness. He was thrilled that she was okay. He finally felt like after all those times that she had saved him, it was now his turn to save her. It made him feel good.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah. I'm okay." Suddenly she was freaking out. "My scarf! It's gone. We have to go back!"
Eren was confused. "Why? It's just a scarf and you're hurt. We have to get back to Dauper." he tried to reason with her but despite this she turned grabbed the reins and turned the horse around.
"Mikasa! What are doing?" Sasha rode up alongside them. "You need to get some help. You're hurt!"
"I need to get something!" she yelled back. After a about a minute they got back and started looking for the scarf. They looked around the woods to see a bear in the distance with something red. The scarf had been pinned on his claws.
Mikasa, without warning jumped off the horse, but becuase if her injury, her legs buckled and she fell to the ground in pain. She pounded the ground her fist and her hair fell, covering her face. Eren and Sasha got off their horses and went up alongside her.
"What's wrong?" he asked. He could see that she was crying.
"I need to get that scarf back." she stifled back a sob. "Please, it means a lot to me."
Eren, not knowing what to do since she was obviously commited to getting that scarf back, held Mikasa by her shoulders. She looked up at him with watery eyes and puffy red cheeks.
"Look, Mikasa. Just stay here. I promise I'll get you your scarfs back." Although he meant it, Eren had no idea how to get the scarf back. He quickly formulated a plan. He and Sasha helped her back up on her own horse, then he went over to talk to Sasha.
"Can you help me get that scarf back Sasha? I can't do it by myself."
"I will, but you don't have a bow. You dropped it somewhere and the bear broke Mikasa's. And I don't have nearly enough arrows becuase I dropped some trying to get away from the bear."
Eren looked down, in defeat. But then, he made a promise. And he was going to keep it. "I have an idea. I go distract the bear and when you have a clear shot, you hit in its weak spot. That'll work right?"
Her face shifted to a worried look. "I'm not sure if that's safe."
"But it'll work right?"
"Yeah. It could, but it's dangerous and..." she trailed off as Eren jumped up on his horse.
"That's all I need to hear. Come on." he motioned to her and Mikasa.
He spurred his horse and it burst off, Mikasa and Sasha trailing behind him. When he spotted the bear he jumped off his horse and tried to get it's attention. When it seemed like it wasn't interested, he picked up a rock and threw it at it's head.
