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Levi POV

I sighed, watching her pirouette. How had it turned into this? Her skirts nearly slid down her legs, and a man honestly shivered, his shaven head jerking as he whispered to his friend. Why? I leaned back against the tree, and massaged my temples. She was giving me a headache.

Her creamy skin shone in the sunlight, and for no reason whatsoever the men had all turned into slavering idiots. One of them muttered something to another, and he nodded, laughing together. I narrowed my eyes. He was saying something about her.

We were all practising, and I told Akiko to show her ability. She had nodded, tucking the edge of her skirt into her underwear so it got very short. At the moment, we were still waiting on her uniform, so she wore a just past the knee skirt and a long-sleeved shirt. At the time, she had been in my room.

I slammed my fist against the tree at the memory.

I took my shoes off, pulling at my socks. My shirt unbuttoned, and I lay back on my bed. All I thought about these days was Akiko. Her skin, her face…

And how IRRITATING she was! She kept calling me Isadora just to piss me off, and honestly even if she was beautiful her personality was frankly disgusting. She kept stealing from the kitchen, and when I caught her and slammed her against the wall she said 'force of habit, Isadora'.

And do you know why she calls me Isadora? Because when I insulted her, she said-

"Aw, it's adorable how you hate me. Wait… It's adorable… It's adora… Isadora… ISADORABLE!" I restrained myself from punching her. But…

She was good at killing Titans. And she shared my dish duties with me, even if it was just to piss me off some more. Well, maybe she isn't so-

"Hey, Isadora!" Akiko beat her fist against the door, and she then walked in without asking permission. "I'm sleeping with you tonight." She said, without offering any explanation. I bolted up in my bed, shocked. She wanted to sleep with me? But she was young! I was her captain! Well, I'd just tell her to go away.

My tongue didn't want to for some reason. She was wearing a white dress, and I suddenly shut the hell up, like an idiot. She pulled a blanket in with her and wrapped it around her, sitting on the edge of my bed. There was a crack of thunder outside my window, and a flash of lightning, but she only buried herself in her blanket.

"Why?" I said, rolling over to make room for her. "Aren't you a bit young to be sleeping with your Captain? It won't push you up the ranks, I can tell you that now." She looked confused.

"Why would sleeping with you push me up the ranks?" Wow, Akiko, thanks. What, me fucking her wasn't good enough or something?

I gritted my teeth at that, and unbuttoned the last few buttons on my shirt. "Hmph. Well, come here." She again, looked put out, but came towards me, perching near my knees. Sighing, I pulled her blanket off of her. She shivered, and I smiled. The first sign of weakness. Good.

"Um, Isadora? I like that blanket." She looked irritated, and it was my turn to be confused. I ignored it, though, and grabbed her by the shoulder. Well, it wasn't as if things weren't already awkward between us. "Hey-" I pulled her down beneath me, and her eyes were wide.

I began to slide her dress up, trailing my hand across her thigh, and she went a rather pretty shade of pink. Her thigh was soft but firm, and the smooth skin was like silk underneath my fingers. Damn, she was beautiful. Maybe she and I would get along just fine. Or maybe not.

Akiko POV

He was right on top of me! I wanted to scream, but I couldn't. It was Levi… He was just checking me over or something stupid like that! No way had he wanted to… No, that was unthinkable. His dark eyes loomed above me, and I noticed how even he could show emotion sometimes-

Nah, just kidding. He always had a poker face, but I never figured out why. His cold fingers clasped around my underwear, and he spread his hands across my waist. I cringed against the mattress, and I heard his harsh voice just inches above my face.

"Akiko, if this is some elaborate plan to distract me you're doing pretty well." His lips brushed my collarbone, as he was unbuttoning my shirt, and I put my hands up to stop him. But his hard, smooth skin stretched tight over muscles stopped me. Scarred skin. Marred with brawls long forgotten. He must be in a lot of pain every day.

Maybe men like him just needed relaxation sometimes, and they turned to their underlings… for it? So Levi had chosen me as his… relaxing person? Um... Wow. Naturally he wouldn't have… anyway… with me, so maybe he just wanted me to hug him. Yeah! Everyone loves hugs.

(You know, I had completely forgotten how much I hated his rotten guts at this point. The lightning had just scared me and all. I guess I turned to him for comfort! But… we definitely got close that night)

I reached up and linked my arms around his shoulders, pulling him close. As I pulled him back, I expected him to hold me or hug me or something, but he pulled the strings on my skirt to open it. I froze in terror. He was unbuckling his belt now. Oh, dear god why. What have I DONE to deserve this? WHY WAS HE GETTIMG UNDRESSED?

But I had only asked him to sleep with me, I was just-

SHIT! HE THOUGHT I MEANT SLEEP WITH HIM! I was FUCKED! He'd be so pissed off, oh man oh man… No! Akiko, you're cool! I'm cool! I'll just gently push him away, nicely and softly, and smoothly tell him what I meant. No embarrassment. No humiliation. Just… honesty! Yeah! I'll do that. Nice and softly, so that he doesn't get humiliated or ashamed.

With my fists jerking, I shoved him onto the floor and hit his head on the way. He looked at me, looking irritated, and I noted his trousers were at this point on the floor. He was- He was- I dared to look, and sighed in relief as I realized he would be wearing underwear. Of course! What else? Thanks be to the bearded dude in the clouds!

"Akiko? What the hell?" He scowled. I found myself staring at his pale, beautiful body. It was practically glowing. He swiftly got up, grabbed a pillow and shoved it in my face. "If you're not buying, don't touch." He said angrily. He… he was…

An asshole.

Levi POV

Her skirt was bunched at her waist and her eyes wide. Her pretty large breasts were being covered by her hands, and I felt something in me shiver. Pale white underwear lay on top of her lean legs.

I felt bare and naked in front of her, probably because I was. She peeked at me, and I decided to leave the questions for morning. There was a crack of lightning, and she flinched, grabbing me around my neck. Jesus wept. Was she teasing me?

I realized her eyes were shiny with previous tears. What? Was she scared of the storm or something? And Akiko, crying? Seriously? I was pretty sure the 'adorable' façade she put on with Hange was just that- a façade. She was stone cold.

"Captain." She said quietly, her voice soft. "I didn't mean you to misunderstand. I meant literally sleep with me." Suddenly, I collapsed on the other side of the bed, my head in my hands.

"Jesus Christ, Akiko, you might want to specify that in the future. I'm thirty-four, remember, 'Will you sleep with me?" means something else!" I snapped. Another crack of lightning lit up the room. I couldn't see her from the end of the bed, but there were tears streaming down her face when I saw her. I was absolutely horrified.

"Akiko, why the fuck are you crying?" Harshly, I leaned over and wiped her face. She sniffed.

"I'm not. It's… allergies, you know."

"Are you stupid? You're crying, and I want to know why."

"Well, I don't like lightning."

"How old are you, six?" Another crack of light, illuminating the room. She had sunk into the duvet, looking miserable. I sighed. I wasn't good at comforting people, especially girls. Did she really count, though? She was pretty manly, when it came to her emotions. Except the fact that she was crying.

Eh, I wouldn't count it.

"Akiko…" I said quietly. "I think it's stupid you're afraid of lightning. It's not like you."

"Well, you don't know me that well actually." Came her muffled voice, and I sighed.

"I meant that you are a strong fighter. You shouldn't be afraid of anything." I sat, tortured with what I was saying. It sounded like something you would say to comfort someone. Was it? Yeah, maybe. I mean, I was complimenting her.

Silence. She wasn't going to talk to me? She was probably thinking it over. Good. I don't say things for them to be forgotten.

Another minute passed, and I started to become impatient for an answer. Eventually, she made a snuffling sound. Trying to muffle her tears, probably. Maybe I was too harsh. Jesus Christ, I was sentimental today. Probably just because I'd been woken up in the middle of the damned night. Oh, well, if she was back to normal I could count on her in a fight. It was worth it.

Suddenly, there was a slight snore from beneath the blanket. I turned my head, amazed for the first time in a while. "Akiko?" I pulled her blanket back, and she lay there. She was asleep. "Akiko, you fucking moron-!" She stirred slightly, and as I shut up. As I was so close to her, I could make out the dark circles beneath her eyes.

Well, sleeping in a dungeon can't be too good for you. Oh.

Her mouth was slightly open, revealing the hint of white, clean teeth. Good dental hygiene, I noted. Possessing skin slightly like a petal, pale and soft, her cheeks were flushed with anger or embarrassment, one of the two. When I reached down and opened one of her eyes, I noted how the right was darker than the other. A lot darker.

Almost inky blue, whereas the left was pretty sky blue. Both wide and spikily lashed. Oh. I had just realized I was barely an inch from Akiko's face, having leaned down whilst I was looking at her. Her eyelashes fluttered, and then she sighed and didn't move. I breathed out.

Well. She had invited me, and then decided to tempt me. I wasn't convinced she was as pure as all that to not know that 'sleeping with someone' means fucking them, not playing fucking Sleeping Beauty like she was now.

Irony hit me, in the position I was in. Sleeping beauty, eh? Hmph. Well, she asked for it. I leant down, pulling her hair back and pushing her arms above her head-

"SHIT!" Akiko's screams interrupted my thoughts. "I'm so sorry, Petra!" I snapped my head towards her, and the sight that greeted me was an odd mix of pleasant and horrible.

Petra was on the floor beneath Akiko, her honey eyes wide with shock. Akiko's long hair trailed in Petra's mouth, and Akiko was bright red. She flopped down, her head next to Petra's. Petra smiled nervously.

"It's fine, Akiko- are you hurt?" Akiko smiled at her. Oh, yeah. Petra and Hange were pretty much the only people who were nice to her. She had an incredible soft spot for them both. In fact, it had crossed my mind if Akiko was the other way inclined, and there had been no evidence to disprove it. In fact, I remembered hearing about how Gavaldon encouraged female homosexuality, because if someone got pregnant then it rendered them unable to fight.

And the males were left without any option than to turn to each other. Sounds great, no? I wasn't gay, but I guess whether someone was male or female never really mattered to me, as love could never be an option for me anyway. If I could choose someone to love, I'd love Petra. She's so kind, fresh and unencumbered, with her life ahead of her. But then, is that not the problem? She's got nothing that I could ever relate to.

Well, there was always Hange. But she was slightly creepy. I mean, she'd dissect me in the middle of the night or something. Ugh.

So that leaves Akiko. She's beautiful, not cute like Petra or pretty like Hange. She wasn't kind like Petra or even clever like Hange, though. The only thing she's got going for her is her wisdom and her skill on the battlefield. But she was healthy. And probably gay.

Akiko POV

I stepped up, apologizing endlessly as I assessed our injuries. I had been balancing on the pole on one foot, laughing, when the memory forced itself into my head and I fell off. Shrieking, I'd crashed into Petrushka and she had looked up. My elbow had smashed into her face. Also, I'd hit my head and was slightly woozy.

"Dear god, Petrushka, I am so freaking sorry. Holy shit! You have a nosebleed! I'll get an ice pack, come on!" I grabbed her shoulders and began to walk to the makeshift infirmary. Where our medical supplies were. Maybe I could use some too.

"Akiko..." She rubbed her nose. "I'm fine. Don't worry about me."

"No, no! It's fine, Petrushka." She gave me an odd look.

"You do know it's just Petra, right?"

"Oh... I assumed it was short for Petrushka."

"No, it's just Petra. Anyway-" She smiled at me. "I'm fine. It's stopped already, so I'll just get in the shower and wash it off. Thanks, though, and see you at dinner."

"If you're sure..." I let go of her arm, and she smiled and walked away. She was kind. I decided to walk to Levi's room and lie down, as he wouldn't be there.

I had been thinking about Levi and how much he had pissed me off this morning. After I woke up, I felt a pressure lifting off of the bed I was on and I rolled over to see Levi, unshaven and slightly unkempt. When he saw me looking at him, he scowled and threw the duvet over me so that I didn't see him half-naked.

Understandable. That is, until he decided to be stupid.

He had gotten into the shower, so I figured I had maybe ten minutes. Yawning, I had stripped off and was clipping my bra into place, and struggling a lot with it considering I'd grown at least another cup size. Fuck. How was I supposed to get another one? Give Levi a shopping list?

"Jeez." I muttered, unable to clip it closed and cursing these tools of torture. What kind of sadistic fuck makes a bra? It's useless; you might as well tie fucking chainmail around your breasts, it's the same shitty concept.

Why was I so angry? Oh, yeah, I'd slept with Levi last night and had come this close to sleeping with Levi last night. And he hadn't even remembered or been embarrassed about it.

I didn't hear the bathroom door open, and merely decided to loosen the straps as much as possible and just deal with it later on. Maybe I could ask Petrushka- no, wait, she was pretty much flat. Damn. Well, it'd flatter her anyway.

I removed the bra, preparing to loosen it. I struggled with the clips, and a voice came from behind me. "You're doing it wrong." Whilst I was turning pale, Levi walked in front of me; shoving the towel he had been drying his hair with into my chest and taking the bra. With two fluid motions, he loosened the straps.

"Fuck." He said, quietly. "Your bra is way too small for you." He wasn't looking at me, but if he had he would have seen a red-faced idiot, who was stuttering and mumbling. "Listen, Akiko, maybe you can borrow Hange's or something. A bra that is undersized can lead to breast cancer. You should be more careful." I looked to the floor, plotting ways to murder him.

"Um... why the hell didn't you have a shower?" I could feel his glare on me, and he put his hand on my head. Damn, my head hurts...

"I did." Scowling, I slipped the bra around my back.

"Tie this for me."

"No. It's too small for you." He grabbed me by the two straps of my bra and held onto my neck. "Come here before I break the damned thing."

"Tie it, dammit!" I struggled out of his arms. "Or get the fuck off of me! Die! Burn in hell!"

"Fuck you. Come here." I obliged, and he pulled me towards him. He fiddled around with something, and there was a tearing sound. Staring at my bra, I looked at how he had torn it in half. Covering my chest, I went claret and kicked him in the balls, and then cursed as I hurt my foot.

"Bastard. Balls of fucking steel."

"Better than having breast cancer." He said, and took his clothes into the bathroom. I screamed at him.

"DAMMIT, CAPTAIN!"

I redyed my hair to brown. The brown had gone to halfway through the blue, but I decided I just couldn't leave it. Blue hair was natural for me, so when I got some blue dye I'd be putting that in.

"Jeez." I said quietly, hurrying through the quiet hall. "I'm exhausted." I walked into Levi's room, scowling at how I'd had to fucking sew it back together.

Fucking Levi Ackerman. He's such a bastard.

Yawning, I stripped off my clothes and stepped into the shower, sighing as the hot water hit my skin. Luckily we- I mean, he- has a bath and shower combo, so I could maybe lie down for a second. I allowed the water to wash over my head, and winced in pain as nausea hit me in waves. I'd more than hit my head. I'd properly grazed it. I put the plug in the bath, then let the shower water run the bath. I barely had time to get back from bending down to get the taps when unconsciousness hit me in a head rush.

Levi POV

"Kuranaya?" I called, hanging up my jacket. "Akiko. Dinner is ready." I could hear the bath running, and I knocked on the door. "Akiko!" I banged on the door.

"Jesus, ignore me then." I scowled. Leaning back onto the bed, I looked at the bathroom door. Akiko had very quickly become a central part of my life, and not a fond one. Her awkwardness and stubbornness, and most of all her haste to be kind, but the time she took to truly trust people, and the person she still didn't trust-herself.

I sighed. Her scent was still on my pillow, and she had made the bed this morning before leaving. Without being asked to. Taking the flower charm-bag out of my top pocket, I stared at it. She smelled the same as the flower charm did. Shit.

Suddenly, a connection formed in my mind.

Flower Girl. Akiko. That day... It all came clear.

Annie. Her sister. She must have been Flower Girl. The age fit! The description fit! Now, if we helped Akiko to find her sister then I could find Flower Girl. Shit.

But if we let Akiko anywhere near her sister, who was in Gavaldon, she'd go back to her old ways. So we'd need an escort. Anyway, Akiko was new. We could afford a trade of another Gavaldon soldier, for a reasonable price- with a sibling discount. Annie would listen to her big sister, we'd get another soldier and I'd- I'd meet-

My head span. God, this was too much to think about. I'd sleep on it. I noticed a glimmer in the corner of my eye, and my head snapped to the bathroom. Water was flooding out from the bathroom.

All thought of Flower Girl was wiped out as I sped to the door. "Akiko! Akiko!" I yelled, hitting the door. There was no answer. "Answer it, Akiko, you fucking idiot!" Leaning back, I slammed my shoulder into the door. It didn't budge, and water flowed beneath my feet.

There was a bubbling sound in the bathroom. "AKIKO KURANAYA!" I roared. I threw my entire body into the door, but it would not give way. "AKIKO!" It'd be too damned late!

I went back a few meters, put one foot on the bed and took a running leap, jumping forwards and landing feet first. The door didn't even budge, and I smashed into the floor. "Fucking hell!" I muttered, knowing that I had no damned time. I looked at the window and ran to it, diving out of the window.

I bounced back onto the wall and looked across to the bathroom window. I then propelled myself out, and spun back into the window. I smashed the entire thing, and managed to dive inside. Akiko was lying underneath the hot water, her skin bright red and her hair spinning around her. She wasn't breathing.

Striding to her, I slid my hands underneath her and pulled her out. "Akiko, you're so damned clumsy." Softly, I laid her onto my back and unlocked the door, walking into the bedroom. She had started to breathe. "You've wrecked this room completely, I'll have to get a new one." I laid her down on the bed, and watched as she slept. I hadn't noticed the dark circles below her eyes.

I wondered if her dream was pleasant.

Akiko POV

"Annie..." I smiled, as she played on the tree. "Suza's getting older." Annie nodded.

"Yeah, she is. Can't believe my father kicked you two out, though. Will you be alright?" Her blonde hair was cut beautifully.

"Yup. I'll be fine.

"Hey, did he give you that weird injection already? The one that hurts?" I shook my head

"Oh. I already had mine." She smiled, holding out her hand. "Look what I can do!" She bit her finger so hard little drops of blood came from it. Automatically, it steamed up, and I grinned as her blood evaporated.

"Hey!" Someone yelled. "What the hell?!" I looked around to see a man running towards me. "Kid, your blood just did exactly what a Titan's would! Come with me now, we need to-" Blood spurted from his mouth as I stabbed him in the back. His face twisted and melted, and his eyes were glowing dark holes.

"AKIKO, WHERE ARE YOU?" Someone was calling my name. Who was it? "OH, A LITTLE GIRL. SHE KILLED PEOPLE FOR NO REASON. SHE'S SAD NOW, SO SHE KILLS GIANTS INSTEAD. BUT HER TRUE BLOODLUST NEVER CHANGES. DEEP INSIDE HER, SHE'S ALWAYS WANTED TO FEEL THE INCREDIBLE SENSATION OF KNIFE INTO FLESH, THE BRILLIANT BITE OF STEEL INTO BODY AND THE ECSTATIC FEELING OF COLD-BLOODED MURDER."

"T-That's not true!" I cried, suddenly in my adult form. His twisted face grew into Levi's looming above me like a distorted clown.

"Akiko, you killed people. You disgust me. Get out of my sight." I stared at him in surprise.

"Levi... I don't really care what you think about me killing people. I'm not in love with you yet." He jerked back, surprised, and then seemed to be contemplating something.

"Oh. This dream is a few chapters early, then."

"Huh?" I said, incredibly confused, and Levi smiled embarrassedly.

"It's nothing, I- uh? Akiko?" I stared at his smile. God. It was weird! It looked like he was plotting world domination.

"Jesus wept, this is a weird foreshadowing scene." I stretched out. "Now I think about it, we've probably stretched into the author's note, and that's why we're breaking the fourth wall. Great. Oh, and it'd help if the author could put up a bloody SIGN!"

(A/N)

"Wh-What?" I rocketed out of the bed wildly, and then hit my head on the bedpost. There was an explosion of pain in my head, and I shouted out some choice swearing. "BALLS! FUCK! OW!" As I recovered, I turned to the post. "Well, what are you looking at?" Only after I had said it did I realize just how stupid I sounded.

"Don't worry, I do that all the time." Levi said, faced away from me.

"Oh. Um. Okay. Hey, is there supposed to be a unicorn over there?"

"Akiko, I think you're delirious." Levi said, turning to look at me. "And you're going to want to be, because when I'm done with you you're going to regret the day your mother met your father and decided to fuck him."

I stared at him, now slightly worried. "What did I do...?"

"You trashed this place. Not only is it covered in water, broken glass is everywhere and you ripped my motherfucking uniform. My motherfucking uniform."

"Oh, shit." He grabbed me by the hair, glaring.

"Exactly the words I would use."


"The Gavaldon girl, then." The leader, Erwin, turned to look at me. "And you say she's caused nothing but trouble since she came here?"

Levi nodded, scowling at me. "Yes. She's knocked two guards unconscious, injured a scout, generally been a disruption and decided to randomly trash my room."

Erwin was a tall, imposing man. He looked strong and stoic, and he made me automatically want to trust him. Unlike the short, dark-haired little goblin who was behind me right now.

"Well. What do you have to say for yourself, ah...?"

"Akiko, sir. And I'd like to say since the captain beat the shit out of me on my first day I have a little right to being clumsy and pissed off."

"Yeah, sure." Said Levi sarcastically. "Because everyone in the Survey Corps bases their first move on emotions, like a teenager."

"I'm twenty-five, Grandpa, you probably wouldn't understand as you were a teenager in the stone ages."

"Ha." Said Levi moodily. "At least I don't think getting myself half-drowned is a good way to end the day."

"Well, do you know what? Maybe I was taking the example of my elders, as that is what you taught me to do. Remember the water-torture?"

"You didn't have to ask me to remember, as I took so much pleasure out of making you shut the fuck up for once I could never have forgotten it."

"Oh, good. Another example of the oh-so-great-and-powerful-Captain stepping up to what he really think is pleasure. Drowning girls. Good one, Captain, that's what we look for!"

"We? Last time I checked you didn't even want to be here."

"I don't."

"That's great! Why don't you back to letting little girls die, then?"

"Fuck you, you sadistic prick!"

"I said not to call me that, you bitch."

"Die in a fire!"

"Burn in hell."

"I already did when I met you!"

"Kill yourself."

"Again, I pretty much want to do that every time I see your FACE, Captain!"

"Well save me the bother of getting out my swords and go jump off of Wall Rose! Heck, you'd be doing me a damned favour."

"Stop." The words were Erwin's, this time, and we both turned to look at him. He was restraining something.

"What is it, Erwin?" Said Levi, straight to his side. Erwin gazed at him and his clenched fists, the angry blaze of colour in my cheeks and eventually shook his head.

"The way I see it, you're crazy if you think I'm going to let her go. She's valuable."

"Sir-"

"That's it. Dismissed." Levi looked incredibly angry, but he recognized the end of the conversation. He strode out of the office. As I watched him go, I felt a twinge of something soft in the core of my heart. Could... Could this be...? That's it. It was! How could I not have known, how could I have denied my true feelings all this time? I felt it in my heart...

Deep, deep hatred for Captain Levi.

"Sir, may I follow?" Erwin looked at me.

"Not yet. Listen, soldier. You're not only valuable in your fighting skills. You have other assets."

"Um, no, actually that's pretty much it."

"You are the first person- including Hange- that can piss Levi off that much without him beating them."

"That's because the bastard already did when I met him. Anyway, sir, may I go?"

He stared at me, and muttered something under his breath. What was he thinking? "Alright, soldier, you can go. But I have an order for you."

"Oh?"

Erwin POV

Her long hair cascaded down her back, and I wondered when Levi was going to tell her to cut it. "Yes. I want you to do whatever you can to stay near Levi. He needs a bodyguard, but is way too proud to admit it. I'm nominating you."

"No."

"What?"

"There is no way I'm working for such a spineless, boring, irritating prick like the Captain."

"Well, it's an order. Do it."

"But sir-"

I interrupted. "If this has to come down to you disobeying orders, then it will. And it's straight back into the dungeon, being tied to the post, and having Levi beating you. And this time, it'd be more of a torture line we'll be taking." I hated pushing her into the corner like this, especially as it looked like she trusted me.

"Sir." She said, nodding. Something cold and icy glazed over her eyes. She hated him, that was clear. As she left, I stared at the scar which just showed over the casual dress she was wearing.

"Oh, Akiko!" I called. She looked back in. "I have your uniform here. Change into it tomorrow. Also, your room has been assigned." I stared at her room assignment, six doors away from Levi. Then I scribbled it out. "You can stay in my room for the moment." I wasn't trying to matchmake her and Levi or anything like that (My room was opposite Levi's) but I did think it was adorable how they fought.

Funny, it had been a long time since I'd found anything adorable.

"Um. Sir." She nodded slightly, going slightly pink. I realized my error.

She left again, clutching her uniform. She thought I was trying to hit on her. No, no, no, she was meant to be with Levi. Shit, how do I explain this to him?


"Erwin." Said Levi as I walked down the hall to my bedroom. He grabbed my arm."Can you explain to me why a few minutes ago I caught Akiko trying to go into your room and then she said you had told her to?" I sighed. His face was completely in shadow.

"Levi, I think she should be near you in case she gets out of control. Her original room assignment is on the other side of the house." I lied casually.

"Well, then, tell her to swap with someone in the next room!"

"Like she needs to be any more hated."

"I guess that's true." He turned away from me, released my arm. "I'm sorry for doubting you." His face was completely in shadow, and I sighed.

"You love her, don't you?" He jolted.

"Sir. I don't love her, but she's... different."

"Levi. You're not a child. If you love her, tell her."

"I can't. She hates me."

"I've seen a lot of things in my time, Levi, and I can tell you what she feels isn't hate."

"Disagreed." He looked at the floor. "And I don't love her. I just care about her more than I thought I would, in a surprisingly short amount of time."

"Well, Levi, you've come a long way. I've known you for many years. But I've never seen you so emotional. It's both a flaw and an incredibly beautiful advantage. Don't lose it."

He didn't even react, only stared at the floor.

Akiko POV

I stared as Erwin spoke boldly to Levi, and Levi looked ashamed. His eyes were downcast, and I was willing to bet he was scowling. My hair was wet and sopping, my uniform damp from the rain outside.

Levi didn't move as Erwin shook his arm free and walked into his bedroom. The one I was assigned to. Levi visually shook himself, leaned against the door and put his hand against his head. He looked exhausted.

I walked down the hall, sighing. His eyes slid towards me, and he looked extremely tortured. "Your room is there." He said, pointing to the room I was supposed to have. "Erwin's orders."

I ignored him, and I looked at the fact I was exactly the same height as Levi with these boots. With all the muscle he had, he'd be difficult to carry, but oh well. I leaned forwards, put my hand around his knees and the other on his back. I then pushed, and Levi gasped as I carried him into the room, kicking the door open. "Fuck Erwin's orders." Levi stared at me.

"Drop me and you die." He said coldly, and I sighed. He linked his arms around my neck.

"Isn't this the wrong order?" I muttered.

"Hmph. You're so manly it might work." I walked in, wincing at the broken glass and the wet floor. "Oh, Akiko, tomorrow you're cleaning this up."

"Very well." I heaved him onto the bed, and he looked very young as he dropped, his hair bouncing. His cravat was loose, and I pulled at it. It came off.

"What are you doing, Akiko?" Levi's voice rang out, and I smiled at him.

"Listen, Isadora, you need to calm down." His brow furrowed. "You only sleep for three hours. That's not enough to function on."

"I beg to differ." As I looked at him, lying on the bed below me, I reached out and tucked a strand of hair behind his ear. As I withdrew my hand, his hand closed around my arm and pulled me down on top of him. Then he rolled over and was above me.

"Wow, deja vu."

"Yeah. Anyway-" He lowered himself so he was lying with his head on my heart. "You need to stop getting excited." My heart beated faster, and I gulped.

"Good night." I still hated him, but oh well. As his eyes closed, and he fell asleep listening to the beat of my heart, I rubbed his head and stared at the ceiling.

"Come on, Captain." I said, wishing for the man who had saved me. "Help me with this man. He's such a freaking weirdo."

And that's the end of that. Byeeeeee~