Love Anew

Chapter 2


"So, do you like it there in Tokyo? How is your host? Is he treating you well?" the voice of Mikasa echoed out of the speaker of Eren's phone, the sound reverberating around the room. Eren sighed out. Although a week had passed since he arrived in Tokyo, he had yet to tell all his friends about the person he was staying with.

"It's really nice here but still exceptionally cold. Even colder than Osaka. My host… well about that…" he trailed off, feeling silly all of a sudden. He knew that he would have to tell Mikasa about who he was staying with sooner or later, and since the woman was asking he thought now would be a good time.

"What's wrong? Is he not treating you well? if so I'll fly over right now and kick his ass" the female threatened and Eren almost wanted to tell her that Levi was mistreating him so that the female could come over and beat the shit out of him, but the thing was that the blackette wasn't mistreating him and that was what pissed him off.

"Not at all… it's just… I haven't yet told you who he is yet have I?" he asked even though he knew the answer to the question. "No you haven't. Who is it? Some old pervert" Mikasa asked and Eren almost laughed at that 'indeed' he was going to say but instead said "No… it's not that… Mikasa the person that I'm temporarily staying at… it's Levi"

Silence followed after that. Eren could tell that the woman was probably both shocked and confused. He had to admit that even he had trouble dealing with the fact that, after all these years, he would have to stay with Levi, the person who left him for something trivial such as university.

"I'm relocating to Tokyo" Mikasa said suddenly, her words making the brunette's eyes widen. "M-mikasa! You can't do that!" the brunette said, his voice sounding more alert and urgent. "I'm fine. I promise" he tried

"I don't trust that" she said, "I'm relocating to Tokyo" she said one more time. "Mikas-" Eren tried but before he could finish his sentence the line went dead.

Mikasa hung up on him.

The brunette brought his hands up to pull at his hair while letting out a number of indecent words. He knew he shouldn't have told Mikasa anything. Knowing her she would really relocate to Tokyo and that was something Eren didn't want.

Mikasa and Eren had somehow, over the years, formed a strange bond. He didn't know how it had happened. His memory of them becoming close was faded, a blurry mess. They'd always kept in contact. The only thing he did remember was that they started speaking sometime after his father had died.

Mikasa had somehow become protective over him, unbelievably so. He didn't mind, but sometimes she could get a little… drastic when it came to protecting him or making sure that nobody hurt him. when she visited once a few years ago Armin and Jean had been there and Jean, being the genius that he was, decided to call Eren something very ugly.

Eren hadn't really cared about what he'd said but Mikasa on the other hand had taken offence by the others words on his behalf. Jean had been knocked out by her and ever since then he has had to watch what he says to Eren while in the presence of the mad woman.

That wasn't why he didn't want her to come to Tokyo though. He would love it if she beat her brother senseless, but that wasn't going to happen because Levi was probably stronger than her, despite the fact that he looked like a little dwarf. He didn't want her there because she would take him away and as much as he would just love to be taken away he needed to man up and face the reality he'd been ignoring for almost ten years.

Now he wouldn't exactly call Levi his reality, but Eren needed to face him. That didn't mean he was going to start loving him again. Not at all. When he said he hated Levi he had meant it. By facing him he just meant that he would accept the fact that the blackette would probably be a part of his life again, whether he wanted him to be or not.

And that's why Mikasa needed to stay away. It was time he got up and did things himself. Sure he had been pretty independent since his dad had died, financially yes, but emotionally he still relied on others. He would deal with Levi and maybe, just maybe, he would forgive the other. It was even possible for him to love him once he forgave him.

"No!" the brunette shouted to himself as he pulled his hair, "There's no way I'll ever love that asshole again!" he bellowed, shaking his head at the thought of loving Levi again all the while pulling his over grown locks out of his skull.

"Oi… could you not make such a noise" he heard someone say, "some people are trying to sleep"

"Who the hell sleeps at 2 in the afternoon!?" the brunette yelled as he turned around to face the other. "You'd be surprised at how many sleep at this time" the blackette said, "And I'm trying to get some work done. So please. Be quiet" he said and Eren had to force down a sudden growl.

He just stayed quiet, not liking the smug look that Levi gave him. "Thank you" the blackette said as he turned around and was about to start walking away but Eren stopped him. "Why didn't you tell Mikasa about this?"

"About what?" Levi asked as he turned to face the brunette. "About me staying here with you temporarily" Eren said and for a split second Levi looked genuinly confused. "Why would I need to tell her that? You aren't exactly something we talk about together" he said and Eren scowled.

It wasn't like he was what Mikasa and him spoke about was a subject untouched between them. "I just thought that you would... I myself only told her today and she seemed to be really shocked... Then again I don't blame her. I was shocked myself"

"Why would you feel the need to tell her that?" Levi asked, "Why are you even speaking to her? I thought you two despised each other?" Eren sighed out. Levi and Mikasa really didn't talk about him.

"Levi... Mikasa and I are close friends now. You would have known that if you maybe tried to show some interest in my life and ask her about that" the brunette said, glaring accusingly at the blackette. "I didn't think that you two would even be friends"

"Well we are. One thing troubles me though... I'm sure you did inform her about someone moving in with you for a short while and I myself told her that I'm relocating to Tokyo and living by someone temporarily... I think that if she put two and two together she would have easily figured out who it is that you'd be allowing to stay with you and who it is that I'll be staying with"

"Mikasa and I haven't spoken to each other in over two years"

Silence followed after that was said. Eren stared at the other, shock evident on his face. Mikasa had never told him about her and Levi not speaking to each other, so hearing about it now from none other then Levi was quite shocking.

"Why?" The brunette asked, feeling stupid for not knowing about such a thing. "That, my dear, is non of your business" Levi said, his sickly sweet voice making the brunette twitch in annoyance. "I'll just ask her then" he said as he got up and walked past the blackette, "oh and by the way, she's relocating to Tokyo"

"What?" Levi asked as he followed after the brunette, "why would she relocate here? She doesn't even like Tokyo" he said and Eren looked back at him with a smirk. "That's none of your business, dear" he said, making his voice sound as sweet as he possibly could just to spite the other. Levi just stared at him blankly, completely unaffected.

It pissed Eren off knowing that he had absolutely no effect on him whatsoever, whereas Levi could just blink his lashes and Eren would feel like mutilating someone. Being around the blackette was surely unhealthy. Eren feared that he would develop an ulcer or a hernia. Sure that was a little bit of an over exaggeration but when it came to Levi it was necessary.

"Don't say that if you don't mean it" Levi said. "Oh so you can say it but I can't?" Eren asked, feeling childish for even asking something as childish as that. "There's a major difference between why I say it and why you say it" Levi said as he walked past the brunette and down to the kitchen. Eren grit his teeth but followed after the blackette anyway. It wasn't like he had much to do anyway.

"And what would this "major difference" be?" he asked, a hint of sarcasm in his voice. Levi stayed silent. He just leaned against one of the counters in his kitchen, arms crossed. Eren stood in the doorway, leaning on the wooden frame as he watched the other, waiting for Levi to reply.

"What is it?" he asked after a long moment of silence passed between them. Levi looked up at him, his eyes serious. "When you say it, it's meaningless tou you, but when I say it I actually mean it" he said as he looked directly into the brunette's eyes. Eren thought that he should feel shocked and surprised by the others proclamation, but instead he felt angered by it.

"You know you seriously have some nerve. After all these years… after ignoring my existence entirely you want to come here and act as if you care about me. Please jump down from that high horse of yours. Honestly, maybe I would have believed that you still cared about me if you actually made an effort to be a part of my life. But you didn't, and nothing will change that. You pushed me away… tossed me aside like a pebble. We're both adults here. Pretending to love someone is child's play"

"You're right… nothing will change the fact that I tossed you aside and that I made no effort to be in your life. That may be true but never once have I stopped caring for you. Do you not remember what I told you? "I'll never stop loving you, even when you start hating me" I'm not asking for forgiveness or anything. I'm not even going to apologize. I did what I felt was right and I made the choice which I have yet to regret. After all look at you. You took my advice and made something out of yourself"

Silence fell between them, one that was short lived. "So you still don't regret it? You know what don't answer that. I don't care. And I never took your advice. I just opened my eyes up to reality" he started as he glared at the other, "You know I may have been a young brat back then but I truly devoted myself to caring about you and I may be repeating myself the whole time by saying this, but all my efforts were shoved in my face and completely ignored"

"But I'm going to be an adult here and just move on. There's nothing we can do about the past. That doesn't mean I'll willingly let you back into my life. You've completely lost all my trust as well as my faith, and getting it back won't be so easy… but since I am a nice guy I'll give you a chance to build it up again. It won't be simple. I'm not going to start loving you just like that. I'm not some hormonal 15 years old anymore that is easily impressed. " Eren said.

Levi stared at him for a few seconds, shock passing through his eyes. Eren himself was shocked. He'd resolved to not even think about giving Levi a chance and here he was, telling said person that he would allow him to win him over. He might have been going crazy.

"Just remember that this is the last chance you'll ever get from me. You mess it up and you'll lose me completely. Call it fate that brought us together yet again, but if you break me like you had before… I'll fucking kill you" the brunette said. His tone was serious and the look he directed at the blackette stated he was dead serious.

The blackette said something inaudible ad when Eren asked him what he'd said, he just shook his head and gave the brunette a very charming smile.

"I don't doubt that you will. But I don't think it will ever come to that. I'll gladly accept this challenge. And just so you know, I never once thought it would be easy gaining your trust, let alone your love. The first will be easy to achieve, but the second might be tough… but I'll never back down from an opportunity. Just you wait, shitty brat, you'll be mine. You may have wrapped me around your pinky last time but this time you'll be the one wrapped around mine."

"Oi… don't go and make these false declarations. And I'm not a brat so stop calling me that" Eren said as he directed a glare at the blackette.

"You'll always be my shitty brat"


Well helllooooo there! I'm sorry for taking so long to update! I have a valid excuse…. Kinda…

I have been sick lately… very sick actually. But on the bright side I managed to start a new story! If you want to you can go check it out. I've suddenly become really interested in guns, knives, crime and violence- well I guess I've always been interested in violence- and I just got inspired to write a story involving all of that! I would actually love it if you went and checked it out *nervous laughter*

I bet you're probably thinking "If you can write a new story why you didn't write for this one either?" well it's simple… I simply lost interest for a while. But I'll never fully lose interest in writing for this story! I have sooooo much planned for it. This one will probably, hopefully, be longer than TC. I just hope no one gets bored from it!

I know this chapter was short… oh well… as for the next chapter… well Eren finally gets to start working at this troublesome school! He also gets to meet his new classes! Wonder how that turns out…

Obviously Levi works with him. Can't wait to write the interaction between them while at school!

Song of the Black Wolf: Thank you dearie! I hope this one is as good as TC was as well, but I'm not the one that decides that! you and all the other readers do! I'm just the writer! I may like the story myself but I don't decide if it's good or not! Thanks for reviewing! You're awesome!

Farmer Jac: Eren does hate Levi, but as you can see he's giving him a chance! Eren doesn't really hate him, but let's just say he hasn't fully moved on from the past, even though he says he has. Hope you enjoyed! Stay amazing!

Miko Vampire: Aw that sucks. I haven't been in the same boat as you, but I myself have gone through many heartaches so I can somewhat relate to you. Hope ya don't have to experience something like that again! Keep reviewing my wonderful vampire!

Woooooah. Made that lengthy.

Ciao~