A/N: okay this is the last time I speak about Levi's and Eren's ages, I swear. Eren is 24 turning 25, Levi is 28 turning 29! Four year gap! Yaaaayyyy! Read on.

Love Anew

Chapter 1

"What do you mean it will still be a month until I can move in? The last time I called you, you said that it should only take a week" Eren said. He didn't shout, but his anger and irritation could be heard loud and clear. "What is the problem?" he asked, trying not to raise his voice.

"Sir since this is a new apartment's complex some of the houses are still under construction and it's just bad luck that yours is one of them. I can assure you that it will be done in a month, maybe even before that. Please be patient. Rome wasn't built in a day"

Eren grit his teeth, "Fine I'll give you one month and one month only" he said as he sat down on the stairs in front of him. "Thank you sir, I'll see to it that things get done within the time frame you've given, goodbye now"

"Bye" he said before the other hung up. He sighed out and put his phone in his pocket and stared at the garden in front of him. He heard the door behind him open and someone walk out. He didn't turn around to look at the other. He just stared in front of him and stayed silent.

"You've certainly changed a lot, but you're as short tempered as always" Levi commented and Eren felt his irritation build at the males voice. "You haven't changed at all. You're still a short shit" Eren replied, earning a chuckle from the other. "You're only ten centimetres taller than me, don't get cocky, brat"

"I don't want to know how you know that" Eren said, closing his eyes and lacing his chin in his palms and rested his elbows on his knees. There was a soft breeze, but as soft as it was it was icy and made Eren regret coming outside without a jacket on. He was about to get up and go inside but the shock of something being thrown on him stopped him.

He brought the item down to his lap and looked at it. It was a scarf. He turned around and looked at Levi with questioning eyes. "Why did you throw this at me? And if it's a joke I don't find it very funny" he said and the other just stared blankly at him. He took his time replying.

"I never joke. You should know that. You'll catch a cold if you don't put at least something on you that provides warmth" he said and Eren hated how he sounded infuriatingly right. He probably would catch a cold if he didn't put something on. Sure a scarf didn't help much, but it did provide warmth.

He grit his teeth and looked away from the blackette, "Thank you" he mumbled out as he took the scarf, which was white, and wrapped it around his neck. He buried his nose into the soft material to try and warm up his face a little. He took in a deep breath, hating how the scent of the scarf seemed to calm him somewhat.

It smelled just like Levi. Not that Eren knew how Levi smelled. He just remembered how he smelled ten years ago and somehow the scarf smelled exactly like that. It smelt fresh and slightly like coffee. Then there was also the smell of the fabric softener he used, which wasn't the same as ten years ago, but still mixed quite well with the scent that was entirely Levi's.

Not that Eren cared.

He was pulled from his thoughts by the sound of a lighter being used. He turned around to look at the blackette, a mixture of disappointment and loathing in his eyes. "I can't believe you're smoking" he said in disbelief, "That shit is going to kill you. And what the fuck happened to your obsession? Doesn't that require as being dirty?"

"I'm surprised you remembered my 'obsession' seeing as you didn't even know who I was when I stood before you" he said, "And this does count as being filthy, but sometimes it's good to take a break from your obsession and indulge. Who cares if it's going to kill you, we're all going to die anyway"

A moment of silence fell between them after that. Eren gave the male one last dirty look before turning to look in front of him again at the garden. There was snow covering most of the flowers as well as the ground, but there was a rose bush in one of the corners that had one particular rose sticking out with absolutely no snow on it.

Most of the flowers peeked out from the snow, but not as much as that one rose did. It was almost like snow avoided it completely. All in all it was quite a nice garden.

"You have a nice house" Eren commented after a while, "thanks for letting me stay here... I suppose we can talk about rent and stuff later" he said, getting up from the cold steps. "No need. I don't expect you to pay"

"Don't be ridiculous. Of course I'm going to pay. I'm not going to be a freeloader" Eren said, turning around and glaring at the other. "Well I won't be accepting your money" Levi said, shaking his head at the other, "It will be like old times. Me looking after your sorry ass"

Eren's brow twitched in annoyance. He walked over to the other male and glared down at him. "Listen here you old fart, you'll give me an amount to pay or else I'm going to stay at a hotel instead" he threatened. Levi smirked at him before quite boldly grabbing the brunette by the waist and bringing him close enough so that he could whisper into his ear.

"You could always pay me with your body" he whispered lowly, making shivers, unwantedly, trail down the brunettes spine. "You have a death wish, don't you?" Eren asked as he pushed the other off of him and dusted himself off. "Not really. I just like messing with you"

"Well please refrain from doing so. I'm not very pleased with you and I probably won't be for a long time" Eren muttered as he walked past the blackette and into the house. Levi followed after him, closing the front door as he did so. "That's quite understandable. Though I think you're overreacting slightly"

"Overreacting? Do you even remember what you did?" the brunette asked, "Or are you trying to play oblivious here?"

"Of course I know what I did. I could never forget. But what does it matter. It's in the past though so you're definitely overreacting" Levi said.

"You didn't physically say goodbye to me. You left a stupid note. You left me and for what? To go and study at Tokyo when you could have easily studied somewhere close to home" Eren said. "But I kept in contact" Levi protested

"Yes, you did. After a while though you started replying less and less until you just completely stopped. I tried to contact you for six months Levi. Six months. And when you finally answered you told me to stop calling you because I was only hurting myself. Then when my father died you didn't even come to his funeral. Don't you dare tell me that I'm overreacting"

A silence fell between them after Eren spoke. The brunette was breathing heavily as he glared at the blackette, his hands clenched into fists. After trying to calm himself down, the brunette turned around and walked away, but not without saying one last thing.

"I hate you"

Eren silently entered his, temporary, room, closing the door softly behind him before walking over to where the bed was located. His fists were still clenched and his shoulders were tense. He picked up the bags that were on the floor next to the bed and opened them up before throwing their contents onto the blue sheets that were neatly placed on top of the mattress.

He quietly folded the clothes, separating them into different piles of pants, shirts, pajamas, socks, underwear and lastly, coats. Once everything was out and neatly folded, he took the piles and packed, and hung, them neatly into the closet that was in the room.

After he did that he took all his shoes, paired them, and then placed them at the bottom of the closet, under the coats and pants he'd just hung up. While he did all this he soundlessly tried to calm himself down. It was clear that his conversation with Levi had been pretty upsetting.

In fact everything about that day just seemed to upset him. Levi was the main cause to all of it. Eren even blamed him for his house not being ready to move in. He knew that maybe that was over exaggerating but he was upset and needed someone to blame and the blackette seemed like the perfect person to accuse.

He was mainly upset for being upset. And even more so because Levi was the cause to him feeling troubled. He didn't like the man influencing him. Be it in a good way or a bad way.

He felt stupid. He knew that he was maybe being a little bit irrational and childish, but he was just really pissed at Levi. Of course he hadn't exactly known he was this pissed because he had nearly forgotten about the blackette completely. Had he not been the one to provide Eren with temporary residence the brunette was too sure that he probably would have completely erased Levi from his mind.

But Levi was the one providing him with temporary residence and now, after all these years; Eren was finally feeling the weight of his anger, the bulk of his sadness and the burden of disappointment he felt towards the blackette. And it wasn't exactly pleasant.

The heaviness of all these feelings made his head pound. Feeling all the things he kept back for nearly ten years for the first time really sucked, especially since he allowed all those feelings to intensify and simmer. He should've known that one day they would eventually break free, but he didn't think it would be this forceful.

All at once he felt like he wanted to punch Levi in the face, hug him, cry, scream and run away and die in a hole. He definitely wouldn't hug him or cry but he couldn't promise that he wouldn't punch the man in the face and then run away.

He was starting to regret taking that job offer.

After a while of just sitting there in his temporary room he heard a knock at his door. At first he wanted to just stay silent and pretend to be asleep or something, but then his body acted before his mind even had a chance to and got up from the bed and walked over to open the door to reveal Levi.

"I'm going out quickly. Is there anything you want me to get?" he asked. Eren shook his head, "No, there isn't" he said as he closed the door in the others face. He knew that he was maybe being a little too rude considering that Levi was doing a nice thing and allowing him to stay in his home. But Eren could have easily just gone and stayed somewhere else. He didn't need to rely on the other.

"Well if you do need anything I've put my number next to the wall phone" Levi said, his voice being muffled by the door standing between him and Eren. The brunette didn't reply and just waited for the other to leave. Once he did hear the soft creaks of the floor boards echo past the wooden door he let out a sigh.

He sat down on the bed and brought his hands up to his head and raked them through his over grown brown locks. He would have to get his hair cut before school started up. He didn't need to though, but he personally hated it when his hair grew down to his shoulders and made him look like a girl. Not that he looked like a girl. Sort of. He still looked how he did ten years ago. Sure his face was more mature but it still had that boyish look it that made him seem five years younger.

Height wise there wasn't much of a change. He maybe grew a few centimetres and that was it. But his body was more buff, well kinda. He wasn't fat nor was he thin. His body was in proportion. Or so he hoped it was.

The brunette, unconsciously, thought about the changes in Levi. Face wise nothing changed. His eyes did seem to be more hardened by life then they had been ten years ago. Well that was to be expected. Even Erens eyes had a cold hardness to them, but his weren't as intense as Levi's.

The blackette's body hadn't changed much. He did seem a little more buffer then he had. The brunette wondered if he had been working out. He tried working out once. It hadn't ended well. Let's just say that he nearly broke his toes and his lungs almost inflated. He wouldn't say he was unfit, because he wasn't. He kept a balanced diet and always jogged. But when you go straight off the bat and pick up a 10 ton weight you're bound to drop it and almost let it slip onto your toes.

The brunette shook his head and carried on accessing the changes in the other. Levi had grown somewhat taller, but Eren was still taller then him; as he always was. Except when they were younger. Then, somehow, Levi had been taller then him. "Maybe he didn't eat enough vegatables and became short" the brunette said quietly with a soft grunt, "good... Makes it easier to kick him in the nuts" he added with a hint of bitterness in his tone.

He sighed out for the upteenth time that day, "Guess there's no need to be so hostile... For now" he said as he got up from the bed and walked over to the desk that was right across from his bed and taking his laptop off of it before going back to the bed and laying down with the piece of technology on his lap as he did some work for the first day of school.

Both Levi and Eren sat at the dining table that was in the blackettes somewhat large kitchen. Levi had gotten back a few hours before the current moment but Eren hadn't known he was in the house until the man came to his room and informed him about dinner being ready. Eren hadn't even known it had gotten that late but when he checked outside he could see that the sun had started setting, coating the skies in a crimson colour which reflected on the snow and made it appear pinky.

Before the brunette had gone and sat at the dinning table he went into the living room to go and check on Levi #2, who had suspiciously been extremely quiet. He found the dog sleeping quietly, not even bothered by the fact that he was in a different house. Eren blamed the dog's reaction on old age.

Once he was sure that his old friend was okay he went to the kitchen, though very reluctantly, and sat down across from Levi who had waited patiently for the brunette to show up. None of them spoke as the food was dished out. A blanket of silence enveloped them. The air was tense and slightly awkward, making Eren uncomfortable while Levi just seemed to be blank and uncaring.

"What are you qualified to teach?" Levi asked after a while and as much as Eren would like to deny it, he was happy that the blackette had spoken because he sure as hell wasn't going to; which would just make things more awkward. "Biology and business"

"You sucked at both of those" Levi said bluntly, making the stilled irritation in Eren stir. "Well that changed" Eren said, trying to hide the hostility in his voice. "You know I didn't even know you studied to become a teacher. Thought you hated children or something" the brunette said as he took a spoonful of the food in his plate.

"I never said I don't like children. In fact I like children. But I'm not doing this for that. I just love teaching" Levi said as he brought his cup up to his lips, eyes never leaving Eren's, and took a sip of the hot liquid floating inside. "What do you teach?"

"Hmm" he hummed, sounding thoughtful "English Literature" he said and Eren's eyes widened. "English? I mean the literature part is understandable, but English? Why would you want to teach English literature?" he asked, visibly baffled.

"Why not? English is a great subject to teach. And I've always loved all types of literature, but English is by far my favourite. The literature in our country is nice, but it's something we're used to. I like something foreign, something new" he explained.

"I didn't even think they'd offer that as a subject" Eren admitted, "Honestly I didn't think you'd teach it either" he said. Levi just shook his head, "You'll be surprised at how many children take my classes. And it's nothing new. When I looked after you I always read books and they were always something English"

Silence fell between them after that. Eren looked down at the half-eaten food in his plate, contented by the silence that, for the first time that day, was a comfortable one. Of course the like most silences it was broken.

"I'm surprised you're talking to me without any hostility" Levi said, making the brunette look up at him. He stared at the blackette's cold eyes. "Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate you letting me stay here with you… but let us get one thing straight…" he said as his eyes stayed glued on Levi's, whose were slowly becoming more and more attentive yet still held that cold edge.

"I hate you"

"Hate is a very strong word"

"Then that shows you how strongly I resent you"

And there's chapter 1! Hope you liked it! I tried to make it a lil longer but yeah… I failed slightly. Anyway… so I seriously hope ya liked it and I hope you review! Ohhh and about the subjects Eren teaches… well I personally love Biology… business, well I like that to. And Levi just seems like someone that teaches literature. But English literature. Which I also love… anyway…

Now to my reviewers!

Miko Vampire: WHAT'S UP WITH THE UPPERCASE LETTERS!? Haha, I like your reviews. I can almost feel the emotion in them. Thanks for reviewing ! and yes Levi will pull his head out of his ass. But don't just be mad at him. As the story progresses you'll see that Eren's also a culprit here. Maybe.

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