Hello, my fellow viewers I don't really know about the currency in Aot but I will make It Work. Its gold pieces btw ^^ also I don't like the word "churning" but that is what sorta happening with these chapters... I want to keep my viewers happy and that is why I'm accepting Forevershine as my editor to make the stories you read better, send her some love and support from TinyPencilOverLord.

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Btw I'm thinking about a Mikasa x Eren Fanfic on da side, tell me what you think.

Stealth is key

As Eren and his "friends" walked through the crawlspace, they heard loud shouts and to their surprise, on the other side of the wall was a market place. Their hole in the wall was thankfully behind some sort of bush so they were concealed. As they stood up, they saw a stand selling clothes. From their position, they could see that there were many articles of neatly folded clothing laying on the stand.

Reiner had been carrying the money at the time, so he pulled out the gold coins and said, "Ok, I think we have fifty gold coins, we'll have to split it."

After splitting into groups of two with twenty five coins each, they headed towards the clothes stand to purchase some cloaks that they had spotted.

"Alright, that will be three gold pieces for each cloak," the shopkeeper said with an arm extended towards them, palm open and facing up, while a grin was plastered on his aged face.

After each group payed for the cloaks, they started to go their own separate ways with the cloaks now on their backs and hoods up to cover their faces. But not even a minute had passed before they were faced with many wanted posters with their name and faces printed on them. Upon seeing them, Eren had the sudden urge to immediately rip them down when Annie's hand landed on his shoulder making him turn around.

Annie lightly jerked her head to her left. Eren looked to where her left was, and all he focused on from then, were the group of soldiers stationed by the gate that allowed entrance and exit to the outside of this town with the emblem of a Trainee Squad on their jackets.

His eyes widened at the sight of them, he was clearly angry but Annie saw a slight sliver of fear in his emerald green eyes.

He remembered of his old days in the 104th Trainee Squad, but it was unwanted. He didn't want to remember, he had just opened an old wound that had been closed for quite some time now.

All of his thoughts were then redirected back to the one question, "Why did I do all this," as he thought of the question, time seemed to stop.

He had been baffled by this same question over and over again ever since he was taken. At first, he had thought it was because he wanted to see his father. But it was something much more than that, he was taking the easy way out.

Eren Jeager doesn't take the easy way out, but this time he did, he tried to think of the answer to this deep-rooted question, but the answer was always out of his grasp.

Then, he had a realization.

It wasn't because of his father.

It wasn't because he wanted answers.

It was because he wanted to leave behind the misery and sorrow that plagued every piece of him while he was still inside the walls. He was guilt ridden and burdened through everything. All the people inside those walls either wanted to use him because he was a titan shifter that fought back, or just simply have him killed.

Eren wasn't fond of having to leave Mikasa and Armin behind, but he couldn't bare to see the darkness that this cruel world possessed claim more and more lives in front of him.

The darkness was everywhere, it consumes all... and Eren was almost destroyed because of it. But when he saw Annie, he could see the light. He had hope for the first time in a long time.

He was suddenly pulled out of his thoughts as Annie yanked on his arm and dragged him along next to her as she went the opposite direction of the Trainee Squad.

It seemed that Annie had somehow swiped a key off of one of the unsuspecting Trainee Squads.

Why do we need a key?

He sighed and just went along with what Annie had done. It wasn't as if he cared at the moment anyways.

Eren and Annie were walking when they heard someone shout at them, "It's... it's YOU!"

The unknown person instantly raised a hand to point at them, and then redirected it towards one of the many wanted posters.

They quickly sprang into a sprint, Eren looked back once and saw the same Trainee Squad following them.

I'm done running.

He turned around and assumed a fighting stance, ready to obliterate his attackers with the moves that he had learned from Annie.

His pursuers stopped dead in their tracks and they came at him one by one.

Their mistake.

The first one came at him swinging, Eren ducked avoiding the attack and struck two jabs to the ribs and finishing by kneeing the man in the face. The second was hesitant at first but soon came charging at Eren, Eren wasn't surprised when he saw Annie tripping the second man and diving into the squad and dismantling the opponents.

The merchants and townspeople watched on, petrafied (Forevershine: LOLOLOL… ok I'll show myself out now) with fear that they were going to be next, but to their surprise, the two just left leaving them with relief... except the man who caused them to get caught, he got a broken nose. (Forevershine: And a broken leg, b/c Annie is not merciful like dat :3 TinyPecilOverLord: I concur :)

Back With The Scouts (Levi)

"Sir, the Trainee Squad stationed in the district of Miyana (Forevershine: it sucks but I had to come up with something . )have reports on Annie Leonhardt and Eren Jeager, they seem to be traveling together," a Survey Corps scout informed Levi.

Levi slammed his fist on the table, "Eren, what are you doing?"

"Alright, send a message to the Military Police. I want permission to have temporary control over the Military Police, I'm gonna get that bastard," Levi said while sending a representative.

Levi pointed his hand to a member in the room and said, "You, I want Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert on this case."

With The Scouts (Mikasa/Armin)

"Soldiers, Captain Levi wants you two to investigate the case of Annie Leonhardt and Eren Jeager, they were last spotted in the Shiganshina district," Mikasa and Armin were utterly stunned to hear this.

Mikasa jumped at the opportunity and ran out of her room, Armin was asking the Scout many questions regarding the two but he kept quiet about it. Armin, after the questions, rushed out to catch up to Mikasa.

"Mikasa, wait!" Armin yelled at Mikasa but having no effect, Armin pushed himself to catch up to Mikasa and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Slow down, I can't run as fast as you," Armin said making Mikasa turn around and come to a complete stop.

"We need to go and save Eren from that messenger of death Annie," Mikasa said with hardened eyes and a disdainful tone. He knew Annie and Mikasa had some bad blood between them even from the 104th Training Squad, but now, it's probably doubled over because of recent events.

They quickly grabbed their 3DMG and headed off to the district, when they finally got there they promptly got to asking questions.

One man finally said that they took down a Trainee Squad and headed North.

The two headed off soon to see two people in hoods buying and stealing things.

They descended down to the ground and confronted them from behind, Mikasa put her hand on the cloak of the taller individual and pulled it away from the back.

Armin did the same with the shorter person only to find himself on the ground at the hand of Annie.

Mikasa was amazed at the cold almost dead look in Eren's eyes before he said, "I'm sorry Mika," before taking her hand and flipping her down.

The two fugitives ran away leaving the Scouts in the dust.

Mikasa was utterly heart broken at the fact that he would pick a murderer over his own family… his only family left.

She quickly got up, walked over to the nearest Trainee Squad, took his musket and shot Annie right in the calf. Annie fell to the ground, Eren went down to help her up to see a sword stabbed right next to him into the ground.

He saw Mikasa's eyes, he knew that look.

It was the look Mikasa had looking at the titan that killed their mother.

She was going to take down Eren one way or another, she was lightning fast when moving to punch Eren's jaw, causing to him spit out blood.

He retaliated by dashing over to her, he quickly jabbed her in the throat making her wheeze, then putting her in a headlock and kicking her in the shin breaking one of her tiny leg bones.

She cried out in pain as realization hit her. Eren was the one who was doing this… he hurt her just because she shot that bitch Annie.

He quickly made his way to Annie and picked her up to run away and regroup with Reiner and Bertholdt.

After his silhouette faded from her sight, Mikasa just layed there, motionless.

Back with the Shifters

"Well... that wasn't easy," Reiner said, disregarding the feel of the room.

"Easy- EASY? I had to look my own sister in the eye and leave her," Eren yelled at him with rage.

"I have sacrificed EVERYTHING for this, I've made my decision, so let's just hurry up and get this shit over with already," Eren said with clear rage in his voice.

"Relax kid at least we got a roof, this building was cleared out because it was once under Military use," Reiner said trying to calm Eren down.

"C'mon let's go to sleep, we got triple locks on the doors so no one is getting in and we can feel safe," Bertholdt just said while pulling out the bullet in Annie's leg causing her to grit her teeth due to the pain.

That night, no one said a word after that.

Ok people that was chapter 5 stealth is key. I hoped you enjoy.

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TinyPencilOverLord

Edit:

Forevershine: This guy went and posted the original version while I didn't even get the chance to open the frickin file yet -_- but it's edited now so enjoy everyone! I wanted to flesh it out a lot more but then again, I don't have full control over this story b/c it ain't mine so yeah.