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Chapter 3: First day of School
"You know my name?" Armin is dumbstruck to Mikasa's knowledge of his own name. This predicament doesn't surprise her at all. In fact she's starting to get use to this time period now, or at least so far.
"Ugh yes… Armin, this is Mikasa Ackerman. She's an old friend of mine. I've known her since 3rd grade." Eren quickly covers up the truth about Mikasa rather quickly. She just goes with it and nods her head to what he's saying.
"Huh wow, and to think I've known you since 6th grade." Armin smiles to the two.
"Yeah, been a while since I've seen her, so I thought I'd show her around the school." Eren can't seem to stop lying about this, "You know why don't you keep her company in your seat, and I'll sit in this seat next to you guys."
"Oh yeah sure." Armin gladly complies with Eren's proposal.
Mikasa smiles and gently sits on the torn up, and worn out bus seat with his unexpected old friend. It seems fitting to have Armin here, since Eren is alive in this time period then how come Armin can't exist either?
"So I assume Eren told you about me?" Armin scratches the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Ugh yeah, he spoke very highly of you. He tells me you're a good friend." Mikasa assures the blonde headed boy.
"Cool… so… you've known Eren since 3rd grade?"
"Yeah I did." Mikasa carries on Eren's lie.
"Well. Any friend of Eren's is a friend of mine too." Armin boosts up his confidence.
"You have no idea, Armin." Mikasa thinks to herself.
"So what's your last name?" Mikasa keep the flow going.
"Arlert… my last name is Arlert."
"That's a good strong name."
"Well… I wouldn't say strong, but I can be real clever, from time to time."
"You know what, I had a friend just like you before I came here."
"Really?"
"Yeah, he's just as smart as you. I can see that you have the same traits as he does." Mikasa is referring to the Armin Arlert in her time. She misses him, but she doesn't see anything different in this Armin though.
"Really, what was his name?"
Now Mikasa is stuck in shock, she doesn't have an alternate name for the Armin in her time.
"George." Eren suddenly sticks into this conversation, "His name was George."
Mikasa suddenly looks back at him.
"C'mon Mikasa, you don't remember, he was my friend back in 3rd grade too." Eren smiles towards her.
"Right, yeah." Mikasa turns back to Armin, "Yeah I'm better with faces than names."
"Oh yeah, I understand, don't worry Mikasa."
"Good. Hey is this the school up here?"
"Yes… Welcome to LISA Academy." Armin introduces their high school to her.
Eren, Mikasa, and Armin step off the bus with back packs at the ready for learning. Mikasa has to admit this feels a little awkward. She's from the past, and the reincarnated Eren Jaeger is taking her to school with him. The smell of clean grass makes her feel more at peace, but the sights of the tall building makes her feel queasy. She's taken the lives of many tall titans, and endured endless pain from such a cruel world, but something feels weird in her, something internally frightening. This nervousness of this school alone is making her knees rattle. Then with a stroke of luck a pat on the back hits her gently on the shoulders.
It's Eren, "Don't worry Mikasa, I'm gonna help get you through this."
Mikasa has taken notice that this Eren is a lot friendlier than the last one. In a way it feels a little off, but she still feels at home with him. She thinks it's weird, but she doesn't care.
"Okay. So what's first?" Mikasa asks while Eren helps her work the courage inside the building. The interior of this place isn't too bad, nothing worth sightseeing for, but it's nice to see. Some trophies for basketball, quiz bowl, and robotics. The basketball trophies are taking up most of the space, but the robotics trophies are made of these strange building blocks in the shape of odd yellow cubes with the word LEGO written on it.
"Did you achieve any of these trophies Eren?" Mikasa asked.
"Not really, basketball and anything else in that nature isn't my thing." Eren scratches the back of his head.
"So…" Mikasa turns her head back to him, "What is your thing?"
"Oh I'll show you after school, right now just put this on." Eren shows his new friend a visitors pass, "You'll need to put this on if you wanna tag along."
"Okay." Mikasa puts the visitors pass around her neck, and she follows Eren through a maze of kids, and red lockers. There are so many people around Mikasa that she could hardly keep up with Eren, but she always kept her eyes peeled on him, and dashed right through any crease she can find. She follows him up the stairs, and into a room with the number "216". Mikasa and Eren step inside at the same time, and the people she saw is proof that she'll manage.
They're all here; Jean, Armin, Sasha, Connie, Krista or Historia, it depends on what she goes by in this time. Hell even Ymir, Bertolt, Reiner, Annie, Mina and Marco are here.
Before Mikasa could say their names Eren quickly introduces his homeroom class to her, "Everyone, this is a friend of mine, and she'll be visiting us for the day. Her name is Mikasa Ackerman. Everyone say hi."
"Hey!" They all said rather raucously.
"Hi." Mikasa timidly whispered with a faint wave hello.
Eren took notice of Jean, and he can tell that he's swooning over her. Jealously rustles through his veins instantly, but he quickly wipes them away, and shows Mikasa to the teacher.
"Hey Eren, so your name is Mikasa Ackerman?" The female teacher pulls out her hand for Mikasa to shake, "I'm Ms. Ral, but you can call me Petra for now if you want. Oh, and welcome to 10th grade homeroom by the way."
"Hi." Mikasa says rather louder than before, but not enough. Nevertheless she reaches for Ms. Ral's hand for a friendly shake.
"Anyway, why don't you sit here next to Eren, and Armin. Since you're with Eren you should stay near him."
"Okay." Music to Mikasa's ears.
Eren, and Armin sat near the corner while reading their books while Mikasa just sat there as quiet as a doornail. She doesn't know how to deal with all of this, it's all starting to make her feel like an outsider, but she still has Eren, and everyone else from the 104th. Yet something about it feels different, but Eren passes a note to her, and she unfolds it to read what he's written.
"Whatever happens, or whoever asks you anything. Try not to say anything, just agree with whatever I say, and go with it. Got it?"
Mikasa looks back at Eren from beside her, and nods his head to check if she understands what he wrote. She nodded back with a small smile. Over on the other side of the room Jean looks rather disappointed to whatever's going on over there, but he's not giving up just like that. So for that he turns back to his best friend Marco with a little conversation on what to do.
For a while, Eren, and his two friends just sit around in their desks reading their books in silence. They'd socialize but it's not allowed during homeroom, and by the time the bell rang for first period Eren took off with Mikasa falling in from behind.
Every class for the next five hours were fairly interesting. In English they've been reading this play by Shakespeare called "Romeo and Juliet", it's a kind of a shocker to her because it reminds her of what happened to herself before she came to this time period. Dying as star-crossed lovers sounds fairly similar to her own back story. The feeling sends shivers down her spine for a moment.
Next comes math, she didn't get a thing of it, but she actually enjoyed it a lot. She'll need a lot of help in this spot of school, Math looks fairly difficult so far, and she'll gladly conquer it like those titans she slaughtered before all of this.
When lunch came around that's when she forgot about her own lunch, luckily Eren has it taken care of. He packed a second bowl of cereal.
"I like bringing cereal to school for lunch. It's fast and simple. Here, I'll go get some milk." Eren hands her the bowl of dry cereal, and leaves to go reach for the milk.
During his absence someone pays Mikasa a visit, it's not Armin or Jean, it's someone she never thought would ever see her.
"Hey, I'm Annie." She's still as cold sounding as before.
"Ugh…" Mikasa's a little nervous, but not too much, "I'm Mikasa."
"So who are you really?" Annie isn't playing too nice right now, more intimidating than angry at least.
"W-What do you mean?" She tries to keep herself in check right now, and it's not doing so well.
"I was on that bus too, and overheard everything. I've known Eren since we were in 3rd grade too, and he said that he's known you for just as long… The only problem I see in this is that I've never heard of you up till now. So whoever you really are, you should fess up."
Back when Mikasa was in her own time, she would gladly pick a fight with her and feel no remorse, but in this period of time, she's thinking that isn't the way to go. Annie's still staring at her demanding an answer, but nothing so far. Mikasa has to respond.
"Hmm..." Mikasa lets out a long breath, "Okay… let's just say I have a complicated past, and I'm not good at sharing any of it. Eren is the only one who could understand me, so please don't ask me this again."
"…Okay, not the best answer despite that you're lying, but I'll leave it be as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Okay?"
All Mikasa replies with is a nod, yes.
"Annie what are you doing?" Eren shows up behind her with two small cartons of 2% milk.
"Nothing… just thought I'd welcome your friend to LISA."
"Well thanks, let's hope she stays at some point." Eren says while taking his seat.
"Definitely." Annie finally leaves.
As Annie loses herself in the crowd of high school kids, Mikasa can finally release the tension in her, and Eren hands her the milk.
"Thanks." She says while pouring the whole carton in her bowl of Cinnamon life.
"So what was all that about with Annie?" Eren asks
"Tell you when we get home." Mikasa assures while she takes a spoonful of cereal.
"Okay. Well after this we have three more classes, and then we'll head on home."
"Okay good." After Mikasa says that, she just finishes her cereal in silence.
Lunch has finally ended about ten minutes afterwards, and the next class that's to come is art. Of all the people in this class, she didn't expect the teacher to be the one person who was also the strongest soldier in the Survey Corps in her time.
"Hey… Eren who's this?" He says in his bowler haircut.
"Mr. Levi, this is my friend Mikasa Ackerman, she's a visitor, and I'm showing her around." Eren tells the shorty.
"Okay… try not to touch anything, girl."
Even this Levi is a pain in the ass, let's just hope he's not as lethal as she remembers him. Still, it's actually nice to see Levi in such a cleaner hobby, and of course in a super tidy classroom. She can't imagine how much effort he puts into cleaning every dirty spec. Aside from all of this, there current lesson is in Charcoal, and Eren seems to be making a landscape of a mountainous region.
The next class was science, and seeing Hanji Zoe as the chemistry teacher doesn't surprise her, but finding her here in general is a good doozy actually.
"Oh hey Eren, who's this?" Hanji comes closer to Mikasa with her glasses up in her space.
"Ms. Zoe, this is my friend Mikasa Ackerman. She's a visitor not a test subject to dissect."
Hanji said to Eren, "Oh don't worry, Eren I'm not gonna open up your friend." And then looks back to Mikasa, "I'll be doing that next week with Armin."
If Mikasa didn't have Hanji Zoe before she came to this time period than that comment would've been scarier than usual.
"Oh, don't you worry Mika, your not getting dissected." Hanji then turns to Armin, "And neither are you Armin."
Mikasa looks to Armin who is releasing his gasp of breath. She really sold it well just now.
"Anyway class," she speaks to the rest of the class, "Let's get back to page 238 in our text books. Eren, would your friend like to join in on the discussion."
Eren looks to her friend, and Mikasa just nods her head, yes.
"Yeah sure, she wouldn't mind."
"Okay then… Mikasa, here's a question that could put you on track with us; what are the three main elements inside gasoline?"
Mikasa's clueless, "Ugh…" but then she snaps her fingers as a spark catches in her mind, "Wait I know this! UGH…" Mikasa keeps snapping her fingers until she can recall all those maintenance drills with her old 3DMG, those devices run on the stuff. After poking her brain enough, she finally catches the answer, "The answer is Benzene, Xylene, and Ethanol."
Hanji starts out with a disappointing face making Mikasa flushed with embarrassment that she answered wrong. Until her face shows that she was just bluffing the whole time, and she explodes, "CORRECT!" Hanji yells in excitement, "Now then, let's get to learning everyone."
Her class went the slowest, because all of these equations, and what not. This makes no shit to her. To think Math was hard for her, chemistry is harder than killing Titans.
A whole hour of science class finally passed, and now it's time for the final class. History class has finally come.
"Oh hello, Eren, who's your friend?"
"Mikasa this is Dr. Smith. he's the only one with a doctorate degree in this school."
Mikasa isn't surprised to see Erwin here, and now she can breathe with total comfort to have everyone here. Erwin sealed the deal, she'll be getting use to this world soon enough.
"Or you can call Erwin if you find me outside of school." Erwin assures to the young oriental, "Here, take this spare text book if you want to keep up with our current lesson."
Mikasa isn't really sure about learning history right now, but her curiosity is getting the best of her. So she gladly takes the book from him.
"Okay class let's get back to the renaissance." Erwin lectures over the 12th century, and everyone even Eren instantly grew bored, except for Mikasa. She has alot of catching up to do anyway so she needs to be ready.
Finally the day is done, and Mikasa can feel a breath of relief to everything.
"C'mon, let's get home. The bus is waiting for us."
"Great. Hey by the way, you said this morning you'd show me your thing, does that mean your hobby?"
"Yes, actually… I'll show you tonight, I have a session with my taekwondo instructors."
"Taekwondo?"
"It's a form of martial arts. You said my other self was good in close range combat right?"
"Yeah you were." Mikasa looks towards the back of the seat in front of her and twiddles her thumbs.
"Well I still am apparently."
Mikasa smiles a tad to that, last remark, "Hey, Eren."
"Hmm?"
"I had a good time today. I especially had fun in history class. That could really help me out on catching up on things."
That's when an idea struck Eren, "Ooh speaking of which." He rustles through his back pack, and pulls out a super big text book with a golden mask on the cover, "This is my World history textbook, I thought you'd like to read it so you can catch up on other current things."
Eren passes over the text book to Mikasa, and she smiles at him, "Thanks."
"You're welcome, anyway our stop should be here soon. Just skim through it till we get home."
"Got it."