Hi everyone! I was overwhelmed by how quickly I gained followers and reviews for this fanfic, so I've decided to post the second chapter ahead of schedule! I hope you guys enjoy. :)

Special shout-out to Swanfrost15, Narutopokefan, and Inkweaver12 for being the first ones to review! I'm really glad you guys like it so far.

Disclaimer: I don't own Shingeki no Kyojin, blah blah blahhhhh (can I at least have Levi)?


Chapter 2

Our R.A. is a Wrestling Champion?

That's Reiner Braun! Eren thought, panic slowly settling in his stomach, No wonder I recognized the name…He quickly ran though the list of unsettling facts he knew about the junior in his head: Reiner Braun. 21. 6'1". 209 pounds. Hometown unknown. Graduate of Shingeki High School…

INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING CHAMPION AT AGE 15.

Oh. So that's why he remembered him.

Gulp.

He felt Armin start to tremble next to him while the adrenaline rush slowly began ebbing into nothingness, leaving behind a painful throbbing in his gut. Even Jean looked uneasy as Marco halted from fussing over his face. The R.A. standing in the doorway looked back and forth between Eren and Jean, and sighed, placing a hand on his hip. Armin and Eren glanced at each other.

"Honestly, getting into fights already?" Reiner asked, exasperated, "The semester hasn't even started yet…"

He was met with an awkward silence.

Maybe I'll live to see another day after all, thought Eren. Meanwhile the R.A. had walked into the room, surveying the damage as well as the two freshmen on the floor. He clicked his tongue, sighing again.

"Guys, I don't want to remind you that you aren't in high school anymore," he continued, his expression stone cold. "You're adults. Act like it. Capish?"

Everyone in the room nodded vigorously, and to everyone's shock, Reiner let out a chuckle and grinned, dropping the serious act completely.

"Well that settles that!" he exclaimed, clapping his hands together, "Now I'm Reiner Braun, by the way. I'm your R.A. I'll give you the formal speech later once everyone has moved in, but for now, would you mind telling me your names?"

Another awkward silence as the five boys gaped at the R.A.

"Alright then. Let's start with you!" he finished, pointing a finger at Armin, who blanched.

"Y-Yes! I'm Armin Arlert, uh, sir!" Armin cried, standing up quickly to extend a hand (and dropping Eren in the process), "It's very nice to meet you! I'm afraid I don't live on this floor, though…"

"No need for the 'sir,' Armin," Reiner said, shaking his hand, "You must be the honor student I've heard so much about right? This school needs more people like you."

"Um…I guess so," answered the blonde, flushing slightly.

"Great. Is that your stuff outside?" the taller male asked, gesturing to Eren's luggage that was still sitting outside of the room. At this Eren yelped, and rose to his feet gingerly.

"Uh, no, that stuff is mine!" he said nervously, "I still haven't moved in, you see…"

"Ah, so you must be Eren Jeager right? Or is it Thomas Wagner?"

"Uh…Eren."

"Well, then we have you get you moved in, don't we? I'll talk to the rest of you later. You, on the floor," Reiner said, pointing to Jean, "Make sure you get some ice for that sucker. We still have to get your pictures for your student ID cards. And these pictures stay on your card for all four years."

As Reiner led Eren out of the room to help him move in, Eren immediately imagined Jean having to carry around an ID card with a picture of his bruised face for his college career and stifled a giggle.

When the two arrived at Eren's room and unlocked the door, Eren gasped. The dorm rooms here were…small. Two beds, two desks, two dressers, and a single closet. A window with bars. This had to be some sort of prison room…

"I know it's not much, but once you're done with freshman year you get the opportunity to move to better dorms like Rose Hall," Reiner said, scratching the back of his head, "And it looks like your roommate already moved in, from what I can tell."

Clothes were strewn all over the floor, school supplies seemed to have been hastily dumped on the desk, and…were those dirty magazines? Apparently Jean was a pervert on top of being an asshole and a slob. Reiner saw the haunted expression on Eren's face, and laughed nervously.

"If you ever need anything, you can come find me," he offered, "Your roommate is Jean Kirstein, right? …Did he happen to be that other guy who was on the floor?"

Eren nodded guiltily.

"Ah…well, I'll have a word with you two later. I hope you can get settled as best as you can. We start orientation activities tonight! For now, I have to find that other student, Thomas Wagner…I'll catch you later, Eren!"

And with that, the International High School Wrestling Champion R.A. left, leaving Eren in a small dorm room feeling completely and utterly overwhelmed.


Once Eren had time to recollect his thoughts and unpack, he immediately began looking for Mikasa. He mentally slapped himself for forgetting to help her move in—he had driven her to the university in the morning, but had lost her amongst the mix-up of students while he tried to get his move-in time fixed.

Armin had mentioned that Mikasa lived one floor up (the floors were arranged so that boys lived on odd-numbered floors while girls lived on the even-numbered ones), so Eren took the stairs (not like he would be able to catch the elevator anyway), and opened the door to girls' floor.

Almost immediately he was tackled to the ground by a girl with black pigtails.

"We have our first guy visitor!" the girl shrieked, shaking a dazed Eren for emphasis, "He was brave enough to take the stairs, this one!" Eren could hear murmuring and hushed voices as he struggled to register what was going on. He vaguely realized that he was now surrounded by a group of girls, and he could feel the heat rising in his face. To his surprise, he heard rapid footsteps approaching the mass of people.

"Mina, get OFF of him!" came Mikasa's voice, to his relief. His adopted sister pushed through the crowd and tugged on Mina's arm. "That's my friend!"

Eren sighed in relief, feeling Mina's hands release his shirt as Mikasa knelt beside him. She glared at the rest of the girls around them and they all took a step back.

"So, Eren, were you able to move in alright?" she asked, as if they weren't having a conversation on the floor with about 20 girls watching them.

"Y-Yeah," Eren answered, seeing Mikasa's forced smile as he nodded. He didn't want to make the situation any more awkward than it already was. "I ran into a little bit of trouble with my roommate, though…we kind of got into a fight and-"

"Eren did he hurt you?" Mikasa demanded sharply, frowning, "I told you not to get into any fights! Who is he?"

"Um…his name is Jean," answered the brunette, "And it wasn't anything, really, he just sort of punched me in the gut-"

"If he lays a finger on you I will destroy him," Mikasa muttered menacingly, clenching her fists. She was about to go on until she was interrupted by squeals from the girls around them.

"You don't mean the Jean Kirstein, do you?" cried the girl named Mina. When Eren nodded she succumbed to more squealing as a blonde girl beside her gushed, "Oh my gosh, he used to be the star of the football team at my high school! Eren, you must introduce me to him sometime-!"

"Just what is all this noise for!?" shouted a female voice that sliced through the air. All of the girls quieted as a girl with blonde hair tied up in a bun made her way through to the center of the crowd. She had an icy gaze with piercing blue eyes.

"Krista," the girl said, focusing her glare on the wide-eyed blonde, "Do I need to remind you that we have quiet hours here? Or do I need to tell everyone your real name in order to make you understand?"

The girl named Krista shook her head, suddenly fearful. A tall girl with black hair tied in a ponytail put a comforting hand on her shoulder

"But Annie," said Mina beside her, "She was only freaking out because we found out from Eren here that Jean Kirstein goes here, and—"

"Eren?" asked Annie. Mina nodded and pointed to the boy on the floor, who flinched when the piercing gaze landed on him.

"There are no boys allowed on this floor during quiet hours," she said curtly. Mikasa clenched her teeth, but didn't say a word.

"But Annie, classes haven't even started yet! Can't you give him a break? Besides, it's not even official dorm rules," scoffed the girl who had put her hand on Krista's shoulder. Annie turned to face her, saying, "They aren't the official dorm rules, Ymir, but as the R.A. of this floor, I have a certain responsibility to make sure that you all buckle down to survive your first year here, and that means no distractions, which means…no boys."

"You know, there are such things as same-sex relationships," the girl named Ymir muttered, but Annie had refocused her attention to Eren.

"Eren, was it? I'll let things slide this time, since you're new and it's still orientation and all that. But for future reference, there is a time of the day for quiet hours, and during that time no boys from the other floors can come here. I don't care what other girls' floors say, but on my floor, there is no exception. Please make sure to pass that along to your floor. Now please leave…you've already caused enough of a distraction."

"I'll take him back to his floor," said Mikasa, finally speaking up. When the R.A. nodded, Mikasa swiftly pulled Eren to his feet and dragged him out the door that led to the stairs.

"Wow…your R.A. sure is a…a…" started Eren, trying to find the right words to describe the scary woman.

"Hard-ass?" Mikasa suggested in a completely monotone voice. The two glanced at each other before bursting into laughter, stopping in the middle of the staircase as they shared the laugh that both of them had missed hearing after all of the stress that came with preparing for college.

"Mikasa, I don't know what I'd do without you," Eren said, placing his hand on the staircase rail, "I'm so glad you came here in the end."

"Wherever you go, I go," Mikasa answered as-a-matter-of-factly, her softened expression betraying the hardness in her voice. Eren smiled at her, and clapped a hand on her back as they reached the door of Eren's floor.

"I'll see you and Armin during orientation, alright?" he asked, his smile breaking into a grin.

Mikasa nodded, a small smile finally gracing her features. It was one of the true, genuine smiles that both Eren and Armin yearned to see on her face more often

"By the way," Eren added, his hand on the door handle to the 7th floor, "Did you know that my R.A. is an international wrestling champion?"

He savored the wide-eyed look of shock on Mikasa's face as he finally opened the door to re-enter the living hell he was now forced to call home.


There you have it! I hope you guys liked it. Also, please let me know if you like the length of these chapters...I was thinking of making them longer, but if you guys are comfortable with how they are now, then I'll keep them around this length.

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-Jay