OK chap 2. I'm trying to upload these when I had some free time.

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The trainees were told to practice their skills with the 3DMG in a forest.

There were huge cardboards formed like titans, as for the kids to practice.

"That cut is not deep enough!"- A shout from Shadis.

He had been yelling like that for the whole time. It seemed like no trainee met his expectation.

Except for her.

Mikasa swung around the cardboard titans' necks, as she cut three of them in a flash.

Her movement and her cut were both perfect.

The trainees even saw a slight satisfaction on Shadis' face.

"Damn." - Connie said, standing next to Jean. "Where did she learn all of those moves?"

"Who knows." - Jean admired the girl.

Mikasa then saw a huge cardboard deeper in the forest, probably a mimic of a 15-meter titan.

This should be a teamwork. But Mikasa sighed, thinking there was no one here that could keep up with her, and having someone around was just a obstacle.

She hated teamwork, as she trusted no one.

She shot the hook to a nearby tree, flew like a wind to the cardboard.

She attempted to cut its neck, but it moved. She looked down and found some people controlling it underneath.

This definitely was a hard-level one.

She didn't care, decided to shoot the hook lower and cut at its waist.

The figure trembled and leaned down a little bit. She took this chance to jump up and gave it a final attack.

A triangle shape fell from the figure's neck.

"Where's the next one?" - She quickly looked for the next victim.

Then she found a 10-meter one not so far away.

She shot a gear towards. When she jumped up, her foot touched the defeated cardboard.

Because of the cut at its waist, it lost balance and began to fall down.

And it would fall down on her.

She looked up only to find a shadow overlasping the sun.

She widened her eyes. It was too sudden, and she just hooked her gear a second ago, so she couldn't move right away. She instinctively closed her eyes.

"Watch out!"

A scream from her right, as she felt her waist grabbed by someone.

She opened her eyes, finding out she was a few inches away from the falling cardboard.

An arm was still around her torso.

"Are you alright?"

She looked up and saw a beautiful, yet full of worry eyes.

The dazzling sunlight shone down, as she felt his eyes sparkled.

Such beautiful green.

"The fuck am I thinking about." - She thought, quickly snapped herself out of her daydreaming.

It was Eren.

"That was close." - He said, gently put her down onto a big tree branch.

"Thank you." - She said.

"Was it a 15-meter? Why you fought it alone?"

"Why shouldn't I?"

"You saw how dangerous it is! " - He yelled at her.

He was right. She couldn't deny it. But still...

"I don't -" - She decided to explain.

"You don't trust anyone? Right?" - He cut in, already knew what she wanted to say.

"Then you should understand why I fought alone."

"It's not that bad trusting people, you know? We are now, maybe not friends yet, but at least co-trainees. You can trust me, as well as the others."

"I don't need to."

"Come on. I just saved your life."

"And I already thanked you. Now stop wasting my time."

She turned around, heading to the target she had aimed before.

But he grabbed her arm.

"What now!" - She shouted in annoyance.

"You weren't planning to get that one alone too, were you?"

"What if I was?"

"Sheesh, you never learnt your lesson. I'll help you."

"What can you do to help me?"

"I don't know, but two is better than one, right?"

"Whatever. Just don't mess things up." - She gave up. He wouldn't listen to her anyway.

Then they both headed to the 10-meter cardboard.

She quickly gave its neck a deep cut. What she didn't know was another 10-meter one was hiding.

This cardboard was certainly a trap, since its hand was placed next to the neck of the one she just defeated, hidden behind some leaves. It could hit her like hitting a fly.

She raised her blades up, ready to face it, but the brunette boy, came from nowhere, cut the hand down before she could.

"See! I said I could be a great help." - The boy said happily.

She wanted to punch that cheerful face. She didn't want to admit he was right.

"I could do it myself." - She mumbled.

"You're so stubborn, you know?"

He said, then swung up and cut the cardboard neck.

They heard a bell ring.

"It's already over? Damn, I haven't killed as many as I hoped too." - The boy said in disappointment.

"Then next time don't stick your nose in someone else's business." - She said.

"Let's just head back." - He shot his gear, and she followed.

Not so long after that, on the training ground, Mikasa saw Annie kicked Eren's ass.

She found this so amusing.

"That should make him learn his lessons." - She thought.

But things weren't like that.

After his defeat, he even became more enthusiastic. He decided to learn martial arts from Annie, and somehow she agreed to teach him.

He practiced with Annie almost everyday.

One day, his body couldn't take it anymore. He felt exhausted, sitting under a tree, breathless.

Mikasa walked by, stopped in front of him.

His defeated figure, she liked it.

"Finally." - She thought.

She leaned down to check if he was still awake.

He suddenly raised his head up and looked at her. She was surprised and lost her balance. She felt down onto his body.

"Hey Mikasa!" - Eren himself didn't know what just happened, started to panic as seeing Mikasa lying on him.

Mikasa quickly moved out.

"Don't get anything wrong!" - She was slightly embarrassed. "I only wanted to check out if you were death or something."

"I'm only a little bit tired." - He said.

"A little bit? You looked like crap."

"Oh, so you do care about me." - He teased.

Then a fist landed on his stomach.

"Hey! That hurts!" - He shouted.

"Don't get ahead of yourself."

"You don't have to punch me like that. I'm already got beaten up by Annie."

"You're close to her now, don't you?"

"Probably." - He answered.

She paused to think about something.

"Good, you've made friends with quite few people. So don't annoy me anymore." - She said.

"You're different."

She stopped and looked at him in silence.

"That day, if the incident didn't happen, we would be really close friends now, don't you think?" - He explained. "I felt that it was a huge loss not being able to meet you back then. So now I wanted to make up our lost time."

"You know we come here to train, to kill the titans, right? It's not time to make memories."

"We are more than soliders, Mikasa."

"Didn't you say you want to avenge your mother? If so, you should focus on training."

"I do want to avenge her, but it's not like I have nothing left to live for. You should think like that."

She gave it a thought. After her parents died, she came to think emotions and relationships only existed to hurt her. So she put all of her effort, time and soul into fighting. Did she make the right choice? She started asking herself.

But she reminded herself, life was cruel. She should stay as she was now, if she didn't want to get hurt again.

What was the point of getting attached to someone, only to lose them the day after?

She decided.

"I'm sorry, but your words won't affect me. Fighting is my way of life. I don't need friends." - She said, then walked away.

He sighed. He was hoping his words could touch her heart, but she acted like she didn't have a heart in the first place.

Somehow he could fell that the person he saw, was just a cover, an armor that she wore, to hide her true self.

He didn't know why, but he wanted to rip it off, to find the real Mikasa, and to be there for her.

He couldn't save her back then.

But he could save her now.

And he wouldn't give up this time.