Chapter 4: The end of innocence

"So what classes do you guys have?" Armin asked, curious to see if he shared any with his friends. "I have English, chemistry, band and P.E" Eren responded, excited to try out band but also worried about taking P.E. "What about you mikasa?" "I got Math, World history, band and P.E." Mikasa muttered in response, clearly not excited about the fact she only got 2 of the same classes with eren. "What about you armin?" mikasa asked wanting to take her mind off things. "I have Chemistry, World history English and P.E. Sorry eren but looks like you'll have to keep yourself out of trouble by yourself." Armin said teasingly. "Yeah, yeah what ever armin" Eren responded sarcastically. "Ereh if you want I can ask my counselor to switch my class up so I can be their for you." Mikasa asked wanting to be close to him. "Mikasa, you need those classes if you want to get that stupid scholarship you keep pinning on about. Don't sabotage your future just because you want to baby me." Eren said irritated, partially because mikasa kept treating him like a sick puppy and partially because he doesn't want to her to lose her chance at a bright future because of him. "O-Oh alright..." mikasa said, slightly down because of eren's rejection to her help, but at least happy to know that eren does care for her future. "We'll we should get going to class! Don't wanna be late so see you guys later at the gym!" Armin said, clearly wanting to make sure he doesn't lose his 10 year perfect attendence record. "Right you should head to your class mikasa, I'll see you in band alright?" eren said, wanting to cheer mikasa up. "Okay, see you later ereh." Mikasa said rushing to get to her math class, meanwhile eren stood there, shocked at mikasa's choice in words. "Why...did that feel so familiar..." Eren asked himself. "Ah i'm sure its nothing" Eren said, getting rid of the feeling of 'deja vu' rather quickly.

To say the day was exciting would be an understatement, with Armin witnessing his chemistry teacher create a giant explosion, Mikasa finding out that she was named after a warship in her world history class and Eren choosing to play a guitar in band to be unique. Totally not because he wanted to impress mikasa. Also to say lunch was any tamer would be as much as a lie as saying levi isn't a clean freak.

The trio of friends got to socialize with more people from their homeroom such as Thomas and mina, or in armin's unfortunate case, sasha after she tried to steal his pack of twinkies. It took the combined strength of levi and mikasa to pry sasha off the poor nerd, With eren being stuck giving motivational words while his arms were healing from all the bite marks, with eren still insisting that sasha bite off part of his flesh. However after all the shenanigans of the day, nothing could prepare the trio for the absolute hell that is...mandatory Physical Education.

"Hello there students! My name is Coach Rico! I will be your gym couch for the rest of the year! Now I want the girls to go change first so get to it!" With that the girls went in to their respective changing room. "Alright boys any questions?" Rico asked, mostly being ignored by the boys as they talked about their day. However eren being the dramatic rage ball that he is, raised his hand while shaking furiously. "Eren what wrong?" Armin asked, worried that eren was about to explode. "I gotta piss." eren responded surprisingly in a monotone voice. Rico finally noticing the the shaking boy, was able to piece down what the young yeager wanted to ask. "The restroom is down the hall to the left. Hurry up and don't make a mess." Rico said with confidence and a small chuckle as the young yeager rushed to the restroom. Unfortunately for him, rico then remembered a very important detail. "Wait... the restroom isn't to the left of the hallway, it's to the right. That means that... uh oh." The sounds of screaming coming from the ladies changing room was enough to make the silver haired coach's stomach drop. Eren then slowly entered the gym, covered head to toe in bruises. Armin then ran up to his friend, worried about all the commotion was about. "Eren what the hell happened!?" Eren hiding his beet red face responded in a weak voice. "Ladies room."

-Meanwhile in the ladies room-

"Ymir I'm sure it was just an accident." Historia told her girlfriend, trying to calm her down. "OF COURSE IT WASN'T AN ACCIDENT! THAT PEEPING TOM PROBABLY WANTED TO TAKE A PEEK AT MY PRECIOUS WAIFU! DON'T WORRY MY LOVELY HISTORIA! I'LL PROTECT YOU FROM THAT CREEP!" Ymir said with a passionate fury. Meanwhile the rest of the girls were debating on why eren even entered the ladies room, With the exception of mikasa, who was muttering to herself, something along the lines of "Ereh if you just wanted to see me change...you could have just asked..." Meanwhile, Ymir being the pragmatic girl she is decided to use this incident to everyone's advantage. "Hey ladies! I have an idea..."

-Meanwhile with the boy's-

"Eren spill the beans?!" "what did you see?!" "Was historia hot!?" "What was annie wearing underneath?" All of these questions were stressing out the poor boy, with armin trying to get everyone to leave eren alone. However despite the blond boys attempt to save his best friend from embarrassment, all it took to break the camels back was one single question. "How nice was mikasa's ass?" With that eren broke out of his trance and lunged himself at the asker like some sort of feral animal. "WHAT'S IT TO YOU HORSE FACE!" Eren was about to unleash his fury onto poor old jean when suddenly he was interrupted by ymir, a smug look on her face as she was about enact her genius plan. "Oi eren! You really are a sick bastard you know that?" Eren, now losing the anger he felt towards jean, was now completely nervous. 'Shit I forgot about that' Eren thought, thinking of ways out of this situation. "You know, you really traumatized my beautiful historia over here." Ymir said, elbowing historia, making the blonde put on a sad traumatized face. "Infact you traumatized all of the girls in the locker room." Ymir said pointing to all the ladies, finally ready to enact her plan. "Infact, they are so shocked, that they won't be able to do their homework for quite while now, and well... its only right that the peeping tom pay for his actions. Am I right? Ymir said. 'This isn't good! I can't do all that homework!!! I would burn out in an instant! B-But... if I don't do this... things could go from bad to worse!' Eren though, still thinking on what he should do, suddenly as if his prayers were answered mikasa appeared. 'Mikasa! thank goodness! she'll be able to clear things up!' "It wasn't ereh's fault!" mikasa said, standing in between eren and the army of mostly confused women. 'You know for once I'm actually grateful that mikasa is saving my ass! Maybe I should take her out to see a movie or something like that as a than-' "He just wanted to see me change! That's all!" Silence once again filled the atmosphere as what mikasa had said started to sink into the rest of the students. With eren himself completely done with the world and ready to pass on to the afterlife. His last thoughts was just his mind repeatedly screaming 'MIKASA NO!' Rico having enough of this bizarre situation decided to step in. "Actually eren was just looking for the restroom. I may have accidently given eren the wrong directions. My bad!" With that the situation was thankfully over. With the girls relieved that eren wasn't trying to peak in on them, the boys still wanting to know the juicy details. Mikasa trying to explain to eren that her idea was to mainly try to shift the attention away from him and totally not because that's how she felt and ymir bummed out that her plan to not have to do homework for the rest of the year, not working at all. Gym then proceeded on as normal. With armin falling down and needing help from Reiner Braun. A friend he had made in chemistry, who was also built like a gorilla. Eren getting his butt owned by Annie Leonhert in a game of dodgeball, much to mikasa's dismay and mikasa out performing just about everyone in the rope climbing competition. After which the bell rang signaling to the students that it was time to go home. Armin had already left with his grandpa due to him not having anything else to do. So it was just eren and mikasa, Waiting for carla to pick them us since zeke still had work and levi still not wanting eren any where near his clean car. Other students had decided to walk home since the day looked peaceful. However the peace would not last long. For it is a fleeting thing.

"I'm telling you Jean that wasn't even half of a potato! It was only a third!" Marco said, clearly offended that sasha wasn't able to do fractions unlike him, the master of being able to cut things in half. "Marco for the last time I-Don't-care. What I do care about is how i'm supposed to get the la-" jean was cut off as the sounds of motorcycles roared in the ears of the two boys. "What the..." was all jean could mutter before him and marco were assaulted by a barrage of eggs.

Connie and Sasha were walking back to their homeroom as they both managed to get detention on the first day of highschool. "Aw man this fucking sucks" Connie said, clearly not happy that he got detention over the fact that he was caught drawing a mustache on the walls of the boys restroom. "Yeah, at least I'm allowed to eat in there so it's not so bad!" Sasha said, Wanting to find a positive to the fact that they already managed to get detention, on the first day no less. When suddenly they heard the sounds of heavy boots on the floor. "Hey you hear something?" Was all connie was able to say before he was shot in the back of his shaved head, the sound of an egg cracking echoing across the hallways as it hit the poor boy. "Connie! are you alri-" unfortunately, sasha was way to focused on her friend to notice someone appear in front of her. She was promptly shot in the chest with an egg as well. Forcing a cry from the glutton as her onigiri was dropped onto the floor, ruined by the fact that raw egg now covered the entirety of the floor.

"Hey its hannes!" Eren said, excited to see his families friend. "Looks like he got a job as security officer." Mikasa said as the two of them approached the older man. "Hey kids how they hell have you've been?" Hannes said has a stumbled towards the duo, clearly intoxicated. Hannes have you been drinking on the job again? I swear you're gonna keep losing your jobs if you keep that stupid habit of yours!" Eren said, not wanting hannes to crash at his place like last time. "Ah don't worry eren. I'll be careful!" Hannes said in blissful ignorance. "But shouldn't you be sober in case of something going wrong?" Mikasa said, worried that hannes wouldn't be able to do anything if eren got into a fight without her by his side. "Aw what's the worst that could happen? Nothing ever happens in this town anyways. Say, looks like your mothers here." hannes said, pointing to carla as she walked toward them. "Hello kids! How was school?" "It was fine." Eren muttered, not wanting to tell her that he almost got into two fights already and that he accidently walked into the girls changing room on day one. Eren your ears are red. Did mikasa already have to bail you out of trouble again? Carla asked, the sound of motorcycles faintly approaching the group from behind. "Look can we talk about this when we get back- hey who are they?" eren asked, noticing the motorcycles approaching them. Carla looked at them in shock remembering that this exact thing happened back in her highschool days as well. "N-No it c-can't be! HANNES GET THE KIDS INSIDE THE SCHOOL! I'LL HOLD THEM OFF!" Carla screamed, much to the confusion of eren and mikasa. H-Hey what's going on!? eren said confused as to why they had to flee. "Don't worry Carla! I'll protect you and the kids from these jerks!" Hannes said, ready to rush towards the bikers. "Hannes no! You don't even have a taser! just get the kids out of here! Please!" Carla begged, wanting him to get the kids to safety. Hannes froze, realizing that he didn't actually have a taser on him at all. 'Shit this isn't good! I can't protect them with nothing on me! That means...don't worry grisha. I'll repay your debt someday.' Hannes then turned around, grabbing eren and mikasa by the arms and rushing them into the building. Hannes! What about my mom! Eren yelled as carla just stood there, arms stretched wide open, accepting her fate. 'Please...not the dress...' These were Carla's last thoughts, before she was bombarded with eggs, hitting her in every part of her body, from her face to her legs. The last thing she heard before she blacked out from all the eggs pelting her, was eren screaming for her.

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MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

It was on that day...that the students of Paradis Highschool, remembered what it was like to be under the oppression...of prankster gangs. Helpless to do anything...

Author's note

Thanks for reading! I decided to upload this one early as a thanks to my 2 first reviews! Glad to see people are enjoying my story! (At the expense of carla's dress. R.I.P) How will such a dark and tragic event affect eren? tune in next time to find out!