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DISCLAIMER~! I DON'T OWN SNK! ONLY MY OC~! NOW GO KILL SOME TITANS~!

Chapter 3: Training 2

Later that night eren asked me for some tips on being able to balance using the harness. We were sitting on his bunk with armin there next to us.

"...Talent?..." I said while tilting my head to the side in thought. I glanced at eren and his face told me that, thats not what he wanted to hear. So seeing his unsatisfied face I thought harder on the matter. Maybe it has something to do with the feeling, because thats how I started to get it. I saw eren looking at me intensely from the corner of my eye, so I decided to do the only logical thing I could. 'it would save eren the heart ache.' so with that I laid down, pulled up the sheets and pretended to sleep.

"AH! HEY! KAZU?!" eren yelled in disbelief to me. Honestly im sorry for doing this but I just didn't have the heart to tell him about how he'll probably wont do it if he can't feel it. He started to shake me "OI! KAZU! DON'T AVOID THE QUESTION!" I kept my eyes shut tightly, 'ugh, sorry about this eren...its to spare you from my harsh words...'

Then eren left to go and bother the others when he couldn't wake me up. I heard both Jean and Connie acting like total jackass's to him when eren asked them for a hint. He reminded me of the guards that I killed two years ago. Looking around for something to throw I found a pencil, not sharp, and picked it up, I glanced over my shoulder and saw them grinning smugly up at where im guessing eren and armin was. Testing the balance of it I then threw it at jean, when it hit him it ricochet off his head and hit connie in the nose. They groaned loudly and looked around until their eyes landed on me, I glared at them, promising them death if they dared to be an ass to eren again, before laying back down. I smirked as I saw them shiver in either fear or of something else, either way it was good enough for me.

The next day eren stood in-front of the instructor with a very nervous face.

"Eren Jager...Are you ready?" he asked looking down at him. "The ability to operate three dimensional maneuver gear is the absolute lowest requirement for a soldier. If you cannot do this, we'll send you back to the landfill." he paused so eren could take in the information "Understand?"

Eren took a deep breath and stood up straight, "YES SIR!" and with that they started to lift eren up off the ground. He looked unsure at the ground beneath his feet, and once in the air he didn't fall. He was balancing, a little unsteady but even so, he did it. I smiled for a second before schooling my features to my impassive one. Then all of a sudden eren flipped backwards and hit his head on the ground. To say we were all shocked was an understatement, eren looked horrified. "...no..." he said shakily as he started to struggle "NOT YET..!" but the instructor came up, making eren struggle more "I-I'M STILL..! I'M NOT..!"

"Put him down. Now." his voice left no room for argument, eren was now on the floor. He seemed on the verge to tears. "Wagner. Exchange your equipment with Jaeger's." he instructed. Moments later with the different equipment they brought eren back up, but this time he did it with no trouble at all. Eren was surprised, he looked towards the instructor for answers, "The metallic fixtures on your belt were damaged." he held up the part he was talking about. "Normally it goes up to the waist, so that even if you're overturned, your head shouldn't hot the ground." he explained. Eren still didn't seem to get it, that or he couldn't believe it. "This is the first time I heard of such a thing. I never knew those bits could be damaged." he looked at the piece examining it " you're gonna have to get yourself some new proper gear." I think eren said something but I couldn't hear it, but by his reaction I could guess that he passed.

"good, now you can do what you set out to do...eren." I mumbled softly under my breath. I saw eren looking at mikasa intently, and I knew the meaning.

"Looks like the miracle happened..." Reiner said with a smile.

"If that look on his face is not triumph, I don't know what is." Armin said while waving at eren.

"It isn't." I commented, they looked at me confused and mikasa took that as her cue.

"He's thinking about how he won't have to stay close to me anymore, and it makes him happy..." she said so sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if she cried right at this moment. '…..having to let go of eren...' I thought with a slight frown. I don't think I'll ever be able to actually do that. Everyone looked shocked about what mikasa had said, they looked back at eren with a confused look as he was brought down again.

-2 years after recruitment-

We were assigned partners to spar with. '...so weak...' I sighed as I looked down at my fallen opponents. I asked the instructor if I could fight more then one opponent, because my partner was sent to the medical wing since I accidentally broke his nose and wrist. So he sent three at me, then five, seven, nine and finally thirteen. 'Ugh, im really holding back here! Why are these humans so weak?!' guess that guy I killed years ago wasn't so weak after all, guess humans really are naturally weak then. But then there was also the fact that my strength seems to be growing fast, not to mention a lot of other ability's, making it a hassle to try and be more...normal. People were gawking at me, the exception of the friends who are helping my opponents up, and I ignored them. Turning to the instructor who had this weird glint in his eyes, as he looked from each beaten up person to the next, while he walked towards me with a satisfied expression. "Hello, instructor shardis..." I nodded my head slightly.

"Strife! That was amazing! I haven't seen fighting like that since Rivaille was here!" he said with a proud smile. My eyes widened slightly but quickly went back to how they were. He knows levi? "You may even be humanity's second strongest soldier! Let's just hope you pass the test-"

"Instructor Shardis," I cut in to his rambling, 'I don't care about humanity...' he stopped mid sentence and regarded me with a curious look, "I am sorry about abruptly interrupting you but, did you just say Rivaille? As in Levi Rivaille?" I asked, his face was a little surprised from what I asked. He then had a knowing look on his face, making me have a confused look. "...Sir?"

"Ah, you must be a fan of his! Well who knew that you looked up to him...or down I should say." He grinned crookedly. "Maybe you can-"

"Sir thats not why im asking." he furrowed his brows, "You see Levi saved me when a 15m class bashed me into the wall-" Any wider and I think the instructors eyes will pop out, he seemed very surprised to hear that I was still alive after being smashed into the wall by a 15m class, 'probably shouldn't have mentioned that then...' "-and then carried me to one of the ships heading for the trost district, reuniting me with Eren. So I wanted to thank him but I could not find him, so in a way, yes, I would like to meet him. But only so I could thank him." I explained. He nodded his head in understading, and was about to say something until he spotted both connie and sasha goofing off. And so he marched off and took care of that.

Looking around I saw Eren sparring with Annie, eren was on his back and Annie was above him with the fake knife to his throat. Seeing as I knew she wouldn't hurt him, I didn't get mad, a little peeved but not mad. Mikasa on the other hand was glaring at her. How do I know this? Well I can FEEL her hatred from behind me. 'I swear she needs to calm down, doesn't she realize that she's just pushing eren away from herself?' so I started to walk over towards him.

"Not in that piece of shit we call a world." annie said as she got up and tossed the fake weapon at reiner who was on the floor, she passed me and I gave her a look that she re-payed. 'wonder what that was about?' I shrugged it off and went up and held a hand down to eren.

"Ah, hey Kazu." he took my hand and I hauled him up, he stumbled a bit but got his bearing. "Thanks." he patted himself off then straighten up and smiled at me. "So? How'd you do? Better then me I hope." he said with a chuckle as he looked around before settling on me. I jerked my thumb behind me to where I was and erens eyes widened in awe. "You did all of that?!" he asked as he looked at me.

"...Would I lie to you eren?" I answered with a small smile. Eren was frozen for a moment then full out grinned at me.

"Of course you wouldn't! Thats really amazing tho." he looked back at the group, he had envious eyes as he sighed. "Wish I could do that..." he mumbled but I heard him.

"...Do you want me to teach you a few moves?" I asked as I looked around, studying the others. Armin was doing pretty well, although he seems to be focusing on his left foot a lot, leaving him with limited moves. Jean seems pretty sleepy, and is only half-assing it, his form was sloppy and his punches were purposely light, 'not to mention theres way too many openings to hit him.'. Marco seemed to be getting into it, but he was putting to much energy in punching, 'hes going to exhaust himself out at this rate.' Connie and sasha were doing push-up's with the instructor yelling at them, 'well they shouldn't have been messing around.' Mikasa seemed-'...Is she glaring at me?' I raised an eyebrow at her and she glanced beside me before looking at me again. Curious I looked beside me as well and saw eren with a childish glee. "...Ere-?"

"REALLY?!" he exclaimed as his eyes sparkled. "You'll teach me a few moves?!"

"...Of course eren. If that's what you really want." I said with a small chuckle. He nodded his head with a smile. So with that I decided to show him some basic easy moves he could use quickly and effectively. Seeing as he's small he can move a lot faster against bigger opponents, and if he encountered a smaller one then I showed him only two...because the rest were all about how to kill them. And I rather not teach him those. Next thing I knew, it was time for dinner, so we all headed towards our barracks and changed into some comfy clothing. Just some plain collared shirts.

Mikasa, sasha and armin were on one side. Me and eren was on the other, jean was at the table next to ours and was talking rather loudly.

"At this point, you breath out forcefully just for a second. Then you use the inertia, and you can get away with a minimal energy expenditure." he was explaining something about the maneuver gear to the guy next to him, "Well...It's not the sort of thing that can be done by just anyone though." I rolled my eyes at him, 'he's too cocky for his own good.' I thought while taking a bite from my bread. Ever since eren found out about my lack of eating habit, he practically ordered me to keep eating until all of its gone, even if I feel like throwing up.

"Eren's right." armin said, I looked up at him, 'ah thats right we were talking about something right?' so I decided to tune back into what ever the topic this time was. "Before the destruction of wall maria, only the scouting legion had any real use for the three dimensional maneuver gear...Small wonder it would decline in such conditions." he took a bite of bread then a sip of soup, "By the same token to increase your chances of making it to the inland, you had no choice but not to neglect your hand to hand skill. As for how this hasn't changed once the wall was destroyed, it's because the folk from the inland call the shots, and..." he looked towards eren, "If that keeps up, someday-Eren are you listening?" he asked as he tried getting erens attention when he was obviously over hearing what jean was saying.

"Okay, I know i'm good at that maneuver thing...but dont go about advertising it too much. I could do without all the extra rivals." He kept blabbing like that with that smug look on his face the whole time. Until eren had enough of his bull-crap.

"Hey...Jean." jean regarded him, "Tell me, don't you find it funny?" he clenched his fist's and I stared at jean, seeing what he would do, "Honing your titan-busting techniques in an effort to get as far away from them as you can, I mean." jean just shrugged it off, telling eren that its just the way it works and he's gotta deal with it. And cue the fighting between the two. Eren called him a slimy piece of shit, and jean said for eren to not get butt-hurt about his lack of talent. '...humans and their prides...'

I saw mikasa starring at eren and sighing, looking worried. Then jean grabbed him by the front of his shirt and called him a little bitch because of his obvious jealousy. Eren didn't know what had happened to make jean so mad. I zoned out after that, 'eren can fight his own battles...' I glanced at mikasa who seemed to be fidgeting, '….but mikasa still can't see that yet it seems.' I heard a loud 'THUD!' and looked over to see Jean getting up from the floor. Eren then started to lecture jean about how easy going he was, and how when he was on his ass, eren was learning some techniques to better himself as a soldier. Just as jean was about to say something, instructor Shardis opened the door, rather creepily might I add, and demanded to know what that noise was. Mikasa raised her hand.

"That was just the sound of sasha farting, sir." she said and sasha looked shocked that mikasa did that. Shardis put a hand up to his nose as if he smelt something foul.

"you again..." he said while looking at sasha. Sasha looked embarrassed and mortified. "Learn some self-restraint, will you." he turned to leave out the door, giving me a nod as he left. After that I sat through sasha complaining to mikasa for what she did and jean and eren talking about steeling the score.

The next day jean seemed to have more motivation in combat training. 'probably from getting his ass handed to him by eren...' I thought with a smile. I looked to see what eren was doing and he was talking to annie. Annie seemed happy about something, and thats actually the first time i've seen her smile...then she kicked eren's ass at sparring. She didn't hold back. 'ouch...' I winced as I saw him land hard on his back.

"...So...The reason I cannot spar is because...?" I drawled out while glancing at instructor Shardis who I was standing next to in the middle of everyone. He gave me a look.

"Because if you did then we would have to send more then half of the cadets to the medical wing, then we wouldn't be on time for graduation because of the amount of people needing to recover." he explained with a small chuckle. '….not my fault their weak...' I thought with a frown. Maybe if they got stronger they wouldn't get many broken bones. We stood there and in silence, watching the others, he then turned to me as if suddenly remembering something. "Ah thats right. Strife."

"...Sir?" I glanced at him.

"About that meeting with Rivaille, I think I can pull some strings to see if you two could meet." he said with a small smirk. Honestly I was surprised, why would he do that? As if sensing my question he explained, "Because your one of the finest cadets I have ever seen in a long time, don't get me wrong, Ackerman is good. But, i've noticed her...slight obsession for jaeger." I quirked a brow at him, he rolled his eyes at me, "It's very obvious strife." I nodded my head, 'and its a big obsession with eren...not slight.'

"so it is because I am the best so far?" I asked as I scanned the area. He 'hm'ed.

"that is slightly part of it, but it also have to do with the fact that maybe Corporal Rivaille and Commander Smith could use you for the better of humanity." apparently he keeps forgetting that I don't give a rats-ass about humanity. I nodded my head and he said he would arrange a meeting of sorts, I sighed in content. 'now i'll finally be able to see levi and thank him' I looked up to the sky and watched as a cloud floated by.

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wait...did he just say Corporal Rivaille?

OH LE GASP! Seems Levi's going to be in the next chapter~! see ya next time~!