Chapter 4

Hari knew that with all the training that they had to do that she would have to cut her hair, and that would probably be a good thing since it was last cut two years before she was through into Azkaban, and sense her hair seemed to retain its length from Azkaban it meant that it had been around nine years sense her hair was last cut.

She had thought of all sorts of different hair styles, ranging from Mikasa's new hair style to Connie's. Though eventually she decided on a variation of a Pixie Cut, the bangs would be long enough to cover her eye patch and the rest of it was mostly the same with some very minor differences to what she had seen on earth.

'Borrowing' a mirror and scissors Hari went to the edge of the training grounds. Resting the mirror on a notch in a tree she got to work. She was rather good at hair, sense she was normally the one that was putting hair into buns and braids back at Hogwarts.

Being careful not to cut herself Hari cut the length of her hair off, as the nine years of hair fell away Hari started to see her end product.

After about thirty minutes of cutting at her hair Hari was satisfied. Sneaking back to the girls cabin Hari deposited the mirror and scissors in the drawer she found them. She was surprised to see that no one was in the cabin then remembered that they had 3DMGear training in ten minutes.

Realizing her mistake Hari sprinted towards the 3DMGear training area.

Hari was by no means the strongest person here but she was defiantly the fastest, "Hari hunting did have its perks then" Hari thought with a grimace.

Hari stopped sprinting when she was a few meters away from the large group that was watching Eren shakily hang upright on the 3DMGear, though after a few seconds he fell over hitting his head on the dirt.

As he was about to go join the crowd Keith stopped him, telling him to use Thomas's 3DMGear, Eren obeyed but the confusion of why was evident on his face.

When Eren got back onto the machine wearing Thomas's gear he sat perfectly balanced, Hari like everyone else was very surprised and confused, till Keith started talking about a part that was broken on Eren's gear and that it wasn't a part of the gear that was normally inspected as that part had never broke before.

And with that statement everyone was even more impressed since Eren was able to stay upright for over ten seconds with broken gear.

Once the commotion was over people started back up trying to balance again, no one seemed to notice Hari and she was very happy because of that, "well they are all going to notice you soon" Hari thought to herself knowing that soon she was going to have to go back up on the machine, and that everyone would be watching her because of how well balanced she was.

After watching a few more go Hari walked up to the machine and strapped in. One Hari was lifted off the ground she crossed her legs again and tried to toon out everyone around her; she sat there for just a minute before Keith decided that she could get off.

Hari once again joined the crowed although this time people did take notice of her, Hari watched as Ymir and Krista walked up to her and smiled.

"Ymir you are pretty good with balancing." Hari said to them as they came over, scoffing Ymir rolled her eyes.

"I am crap at it compared to you." Ymir said leveling her gaze on Hari.

"Yeah, well I bet you that you will be much better at moving around on the gear than I will be able to." Hari said, causing Ymir to smirk.

"From what I know of you, you will be going top speed once we start practicing."

"And then I will crash into a tree, and knowing my luck, lose my other eye." Hari finished getting Ymir to laugh.

"Well we didn't come over here to start arguing; or to complement your hair," Ymir said smirking while looking at Hari's hair.

"No we came over here to apologize for embarrassing you in the bathroom," Ymir said, Krista nodding and apologizing.

Sighing Hari spoke "It's not that, I just, hate it when people pity me, it makes me feel weak and useless and I hate feeling like some damsel in distress waiting to be saved by someone." Hari said.

'Normally I wouldn't be so open but I feel like Ymir and Krista in a way share my feelings' Hari thought as she talked to them more.

She wasn't worried about people overhearing, because even though there were a lot of people around them, the constant buzz of others talking made it impossible to hear any individual conversation, unless you were in it.

Krista later was called up to the 3DMGear balancing, and then after everyone was finished they had their first class on Titans.

Hari was severely underwhelmed with the lack of knowledge people possessed on Titans, really all they seemed to know was that they could regenerate; they ate people even though they didn't need to, and that Titans could be killed by slicing the nape of their necks.

When that was talked about Hari unconsciously rubbed the back of her neck thinking about how close the Scouts had come to killing her when she first arrived in the world.

Hari walked out of class talking with Ymir and Krista. Their conversation was of nothing in particular they were just talking for the pleasure of talking.

They went to the girl's cabin to drop of their stuff before heading to the dining hall. They walked in and saw Annie already in the girl's cabin fidgeting with something, deciding to put her things on her bed first and then talk to Annie. Deciding agents organizing her things Hari threw her books, pens, and notes, onto her bed in a pile. Hearing Ymir snort Hari tuned around to see her looking at the pile on her bed, rolling her eyes Hari walked over to Annie.

"You going to go eat?" Hari asked Annie. Turning around Annie looked at Hari with confusion in her eyes.

"I'm offering if you want to eat with me." Hari said.

"Yeah, I guess" Annie said sticking whatever she was fidgeting with in her pocket. Standing up she followed Hari out the door.

"Why did you ask me to eat with you?" Annie asked as the walked to the dining hall.

"I honestly don't know, it just looked like you could use a friend." Hari said thinking. "Besides Ymir and Krista have abandoned me at the promise of food." Hari finished with a laugh.

Annie snorted as she had noticed that Hari's friends had left Hari with her in the girl's cabin.

The continued their walk to the dining hall in a peaceful silence, the silence was welcoming since they both knew that it would be very loud in the dining hall. They got to the doors but before Hari opened then she asked Annie what she was fidgeting with earlier.

"Umm, it's a ring, a gift from someone I knew." Annie said pulling a plain ring silver ring out of the pocket she had put it in earlier.

"Was it a pretty Boy that gave you that ring?" Hari said her eyebrows moving flirtatiously.

Rolling her eyes Annie shoved the ring into her pocket. "No" was her sort reply.

"I'm teasing" Hari said raping her arm around the girl's shoulder enjoying Annie's embarrassment from her exuberance.

Brushing off Hari's arm Annie opened the doors saying that they better hurry before Sasha eats everything. Laughing Hari followed Annie in.

/Scouts/

The Survey Corp had just returned from another trip outside the walls, while most of the scouts were mourning the loses of their fellow soldiers the higher ups were ecstatic. They had obtained a boon that would further their understanding of Titans but it would also leave them with a thousand more questions.

Ilse's Journal.

Even in Ilse's death she had helped humanity, probably far more than any soldier would. The book was full of her accounts on what she had seen and experienced before her untimely death. The fact the Ilse had found a Titan that spoke in a language that they could understand; words with meaning.

"Ymir's people."

"Lady Ymir"

The fact that a Titan not only spoke but also recognized Ilse even if it thought her to be someone named Ymir.

'The Titan was bowing to her when it thought that she was Ymir, does that mean that this Ymir has some form of authority over the Titans or the one in particular Titan.' Hanji thought as she stared down at the book.

"You have any ideas Hanji?" Levi asked opening the door to her study.

"I'm trying to come up with ideas on who this Ymir person is, and what authority she holds over the Titan, could she be our salvation-

"Or our destruction." Levi finished

"Dose Nike have a connection to any of this?" Levi asked looking down at the open book on Hanji's desk.

"from what I have seen no, she doesn't have any connection to this, but it doesn't mean she doesn't either." Hanji said turning back to look at the book.

Levi could tell that Hanji was now too lost in thought to continue their conversation so he let himself out.

'What's happening, everything is going mad, first Nike, and then The Colossal and Armored Titans, and now this. How much do we not know about our enemy?' Levi thought as he walked down the halls of the Survey Corps base.

/Hari/

Slight Time Jump.

Hari snuck behind Mikasa as she walked back from the dinning hall, she didn't make a sound as she walked in the dark.

'Anyone watching must think that I'm a total creep' Hari thought her face contorting into a look of displeasure. Speeding up so that she was right behind Mikasa she craned her neck to smell Mikasa's neck.

'Good, she doesn't smell like a Titan either' Hari breathed out in relief, and then instantly regretted it at Mikasa's hands shot back at her and flipped her over Mikasa landing on the ground in front of her hard. Looking up at a glaring Mikasa Hari smiled and gave a present greeting looking like she lacked any social awareness.

"What were you doing" Mikasa said crossing her arms and glaring down at her.

"Umm, smelling you." Hari said honestly. Furrowing her brow Mikasa asked why.

"Well knowing my luck I'm going to lose my good eye soon and I have a really good sense of smell so I figured I would learn everyone I knows sent and then when I lose my eye, I won't be entirely helpless." Hari lied.

'it's not like I can tell her "oh I'm just trying to see if anyone else hear can turn into a Titan like I can because I smelled Titan steam a while ago" that would go wrong in so many ways.'

Mikasa didn't seem satisfied with that answer but she wasn't pushing for another so that was good.

"Am I the only one you have, smelled?" Mikasa asked.

"Actually, no you were the last, one of the few people to notice though." Hari said thinking about all her other encounters.

"Wait who else noticed?" Mikasa asked again.

"Well let's see, Armin, Bert, Ymir, Krista, Sasha, and Annie, you were the most aggressive though, the others kind of just looked at me like I was insane." Hari said. "Honestly Sasha kind of surprised me and I thought Reiner would have noticed."

"How long have you been doing this." Mikasa asked surprised by Hari's answers.

"Since the second day of balance training." Hari said.

"That was over two weeks ago!" Mikasa said looking at Hari with wide eyes.

"Yeah, sorry for freaking you out by the way, I'll leave you be." Hari said walking back the way she came.

'Mikasa was the last person to smell, but I didn't find anyone who did smell like a Titan does that mean it was all in my head, no I could have sworn I smelled Titan steam, maybe someone from the Survey Corp was in the dinning room before we were and he had Titan steam trapped in his clothes and the steam then got stuck in the room?' Hari thought as she walked away.

"I hope you don't struggle with the actual using of the 3DMGear." Mikasa called out to Hari startling her.

Hari turned around and laughed "Oh, I'm going to be horrible!"

/

Like Hari expected she was horrible when it came to actually using the 3DMGear, it was so fast that everything was a blur of color; it reminded Hari of not wearing glasses back in her old world, 'thank goodness that being a Titan fixed that problem' Hari luckily did not crash into anything while using the gear but she had come very close.

She knew that only having half her vision was one of the big problems another problem was that her left eye was her dominant eye, so everything was a little off centered, making accuracy near impossible.

Hari figured that over time she would get better with moving with the 3DMGear, but accurately hitting a Titans nape while using the 3DMGear would be something she would never be able to do.

Sighing Hari got up off the ground and tried the course again. The course was a bunch of wooden pillars sticking out of the ground and the goal was to simply use the 3DMGear to go from poll to poll for as long as possible.

Hari shot up to the nearest poll and landed on one of its larger ledges. The polls were all covered in ledges varying in sizes and heights to mimic trees.

Hearing someone land on the same ledge as her Hari tuned around and saw Annie who was ignoring Keith shouting at her that they were not to land on the same poll not wanting anyone to get shot by the harpoons that the 3DMGear used.

"What are you doing over here?" Hari asked Annie.

"You seemed to be struggling with the 3DMGear, need any help?" Annie asked looking at Hari.

"No, my problem isn't that the 3DMGear is confusing me, it's that I can't see well without my dominant eye." Hari said to Annie knowing that they didn't have much time to talk before Keith noticed them and start yelling at them to get back to work.

"Oh" Annie said scrunched her eyes browns deep in thought.

"It's okay, but we should probably get back to work before Keith gets to us." Hari said getting ready to shoot off to the next pillar.

"Yeah, I will tell you if I come up with anything." Annie said activating her 3DMGear and shooting off the pillar and flying off.

Hari also shot off the pillar and started flying from pillar to pillar trying to stay in the air as long as possible as she went through the air.

Hari's relationship with Annie was strange, they weren't really friends, they more of just had a mutual hatred for stupidity, while it first was just them complaining about Jean and Eren being too loud, it later started to because more of a friendship, they would talk about things they enjoyed and things that irritated them (besides Eren and Jean), both of them were more of listeners than speakers so most of the time they just sat or walked together without talking at all.

Annie had a very small friend group and even then, they weren't much of friends and more of people she could stand to be around for a long period of time. Annie's two 'friends' beside Hari were Armin and Marco.

Hari knew Armin well even though they hardly interacted, but she hadn't interacted with Marco at all during there time in the 104th Training Corp, and even after Annie 'introduced' Hari to Marco they still didn't interact much, and Annie already knew Hari's friends as they were all in the girl's cabin, and Annie didn't like any of them.

Quickly pulled out of her thoughts Hari had to make a sharp turn so that she wouldn't crash into a pillar, making a hard left she landed on the ground fast enough that she had to role so that she wouldn't fall over from the momentum.

"Are you okay Cadet?" Keith yelled at her.

"Yeah!" Hari yelled back.

"Than get back to work!" He yelled.

Sighing Hari shot back up and continued her training.

/

While she was bad with the 3DMGear she was great when it came to hand to hand combat, being small made her fellow cadets underestimate her (which was something they learned Not to do very quickly) and her speed made her hard to get a hold of.

Groaning Jean got up from were Hari threw him onto the ground.

"That wasn't fair." Jean said glaring at her.

Shrugging Hari smiled at Jean amused.

"I don't recall Keith saying that acting like you hurt me wasn't aloud." Hari said cheekily.

"I thought I hurt you bad, you're so small and I felt, bad." Jean said gritting his teeth and then sighing in defeat after he admitted that he felt bad.

"That's the good thing with only being 1.6 meters tall" Hari said. "Everyone underestimates you" Hari said clearly annoyed by the fact that she was underestimated.

"Now don't underestimate me." Hari said getting into a fighting stance.

"Don't worry, I won't." Jean said also getting into a fighting stance.

They fought several more times until they were instructed to switch who they were fighting with. Hari ended up with Krista, and no matter how scary Ymir's death glare was Hari had no intention to throw the match in Krista's favor.

Once they were both ready, they charged each other, there height and weight were similar so they couldn't use it to their favor, this match was entirely skill based.

Hari was honestly surprised with how good Krista was at fighting, she had assumed that Krista wouldn't be a good fighter.

They weren't able to figure out who the victor was, because they were interrupted by a flying Reiner.

Both of them jumped back just before Reiner landed, they both stared at him for a second before turning to look at the direction he flew from and standing there was Annie who was looking really pissed, before she turned away from Reiner and them and walked off.

"What did you do?" Hari asked bewildered.

"Eren was up against Annie and then I interrupted them and showed Eren how to beat Annie." Reiner said rubbing the back of his head.

"Well you seem to be doing a good job." Hari said amused.

"Yeah, yeah, you two make fun of me all you want." Reiner said getting up.

"Oi, try fighting Mikasa, I bet you that will go better." Hari said laughing.

Reiner rolled his eyes as he walked back to Armin who he had been fighting before, taking a quick glance to see how Armin was Hari was happy to see that he seemed fine, 'I guess Reiner is going easy on him, or Reiner just sucks at fighting.' Hari thought with a smirk.

After a minute of just standing their Hari and Krista remembered that they were supposed to be fighting each other. They got back into their fighting stances and were about to go at it again when they noticed everyone had turned to look at something. Turning to see what everyone else was looking at Hari and Krista saw Annie and Mikasa facing each other getting ready to fight.

Both of them gave up on fighting and fully turned to watch Annie and Mikasa, the fight of the century was about to begin.

It never happened.

Right before Mikasa and Annie could start Keith had come over and broke them up before they could even start, everyone's groans of disappointment were met with Keith's hard gaze, he told them that all the hand to hand combat was done for the day and that they were to go clean up and then do more classroom work.

/Mikasa/

They all walked to the girl's cabin and then to the wash room, they all started undressing except for Hari, Mikasa didn't like to think about what had happened to Hari but she suspected it was something similar to what she herself would have faced if Eren hadn't saved her all those years ago.

Thinking about that made her unconsciously reach for the scarf but finding nothing she quickly looked around to find in before realizing she had taken it off along with most of her other clothes, sighing at her self Mikasa sat down and started washing herself with a sponge, while watching Hari sigh and then slowly take off her clothes.

First her fingerless gloves which after being taken off revealed scar tissue all around her wrists, that looked like they came from hand cuffs, next she removed her shoes and socks revealing the same scars around her ankles. Hari then took of her training Corp jacket to reveal a long sleeve gray shirt under it.

'doesn't she ever get hot wearing all that' Mikasa thought as she watched Hari.

Hari then removed the gray shirt, revealing her bra and thousands of scars that seemed to come from all manner of things from knives to barbed whips, and then she removed her pants revealing even more scars.

Hari then turned around and Mikasa could see even more scars littering her back, she watched Hari reach for a sponge and start washing herself.

And that is how everyone stood for a time washing themselves with sponges while the dirtiest got into the tubs to bath more effectively.

Mikasa watched closely as Hari reached up and touched her eyepatch, Hari hesitated a moment before reaching around the back of her head and untying it while still facing away from everyone. She then carefully cleaned around her eye.

Mikasa watched Hari hoping to see her eye, and she watched her cringe back for a second presumably from touching her eye with the sponge, and then quickly put down the sponge and grab her eyepatch and retie it.

Hari got up and put the sponge down before going out to the bed room full of bunks to get clean clothes.

Quickly wrapping up Mikasa put down her sponge and left to the bedroom as well, when she got there Hari already had her pants on and was looking for a shirt, quietly walking over to her Mikasa stood by her for a moment before helping her look for a shirt.

When Mikasa bent down to help Hari, Hari jumped back in surprise.

"Umm, what are you doing?" Hari asked looking at Mikasa.

"Helping you find a shirt." Mikasa replied in her usual monotone voice.

"shouldn't you be getting your own close I mean, I have pants, and shoes on and you are still in your underwear." Hari said.

Mikasa ignored her still looking for a shirt.

"I can get my own clothes, go get your own." Hari said getting back to also rummage through her unorganized mess of a drawer.

"Where do you even keep your shirts?" Mikasa asked opening up another one of Hari's drawers this one full of books and paper.

"In the draw you were looking in previously." Hari said still rummaging for a shirt any shirt at this point.

"Are you out of shirts? The laundry hasn't come in a few days." Mikasa asked.

"I'll find a shirt you go get dressed." Hari said waving her hand at Mikasa dismissively.

Getting up Mikasa went to get on her own clothes and then grabbed an extra shirt for Hari.

"You can barrow one of my shirts." Mikasa said holding up one of her own shirts.

"No, I don't need help I- I found one Yes!" Hari said pulling out a very wrinkled white short sleeve shirt, quickly putting it on and then putting a Training Corp coat over it followed by gloves Hari got up.

"I don't need help, bloody hell I'm a year older than you I should be the one helping you not the other way around." Hari said exasperated.

Ignoring Hari's weird slang Mikasa put her shirt she offered back in her own drawer and then grabbed her own books. Turning back to Hari Mikasa saw that she had done the same and that Hari had all the books she would need already in her hands.

They both walked out of the girl's cabin books in hand.

'Might as well be early' Mikasa thought as they walked towards their destination.


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