An eleven-year-old Naruto slashed with his swords, killing another Titan. He didn't know how many of them he has already destroyed. He propelled himself towards another of those beasts and killed it without any remorse.
The blond landed vertically on a large tree and tried to see what was happening. Everywhere around him the Survey Corps members either killed or were killed by the Titans.
Blood and gore were everywhere around him, the stench causing most of the new recruits to puke and feel bad. The young soldier didn't know how they got to this situation.
The expedition started like every other. They rode from Shiganshina district towards the Forest fo Giant trees. The Corps took a formation created by Erwin, which they have already used on earlier expeditions. The formation was magnificent and it worked like wonder.
This time, however, something went horribly wrong.
The scouts that are taking the point of the formation have the job to alert Keith if any Titans are getting close on them. They then use the flare guns to change the direction of the expedition so the squad with supplies doesn't have to engage Titans.
Today, the Corps didn't see even one Titan, which was shocking, since they were behind the Walls. The scouts entered the forest of giant trees since there was no sign from the forward scouts to change the directions. Yet when they neared their base, which they established on Naruto's very first expedition, they were suddenly attacked by Titans from every direction.
There were so many Titans that when the beasts attacked, they had to fight each other to get someone to eat. During the battle, Naruto was able to find the corpses of the forward scouts and it looked like they were also killed before they knew what happened. That would explain the lack of flare from them.
Naruto was cut out from his thoughts when Levi landed next to him. The black-haired man's body was fully covered in the Titan's blood, exactly like Naruto was. „What's the situation?" Levi asked and Naruto shook his head. With a glare, Levi hit the tree they were standing on. „Damn it! Without Keith or Erwin they are gonna eat us all!" the man stated.
„Or you can get in command and order our next move," Naruto said and without waiting for a reply, he shot his right hook and flew away. The man tsk' ed and took a deep breath to think about what he had to do.
Naruto spun in the air, avoiding getting caught. His hook shot behind a Titan's shoulder and the blond shot towards the other direction, making an arc around the Titan and getting the chance to kill the beast. His right hook shot forward and a smirk came to his face when he heard Levi's voice.
"Everyone! get as high as you can and get out of this forest!" The black-haired man shouted and was surprised when almost all soldiers instantly followed his plan. He himself changed his blades and went to help Naruto who was able to gain the attention of most of the Titans.
Levi killed a Titan and flew next to Naruto. The two started to use teamwork to kill as many Titans as possible, but with every Titan, they killed, three more came. Naruto caught Levi's forearm and threw him high in the air. Naruto Flew in front of a Titan's face, getting its attention, while Levi killed the beast.
Naruto neared Levi and shouted. "Levi! We will get overwhelmed in a few moments! Let's go!" The blond shouted and cut off a Titan's arm. Levi flew under another Titan's feet and cut it's Achilles Tendons, giving Naruto perfect opportunity to kill it.
"Yeah," The black-haired man shouted and the two used their 3DMG to get high into the air. They then shot their hooks and started to fly across the forest, until they found an area where were less Titan's. Naruto whistled with his fingers and Levi mirrored this. They didn't have to wait for too long as their horses came for them.
The two lowered on the ground and mounted their horses. "Let's get out of here!" Levi shouted and the two started to gallop through the forest. Naruto took out a flare gun and shot a green flare into the air, directly in front of them.
Soon, a few flares were shot from a different direction, each pointing to where Naruto had aimed at. "They are here," The blond commented, getting a grunt from his partner. Soon they entered a vast open field on which they saw already some people waiting for them.
When they got closer, they saw that it was Erwin, Keith, Petra, and Oluo. The four of them were bloodied and looked devastated. Soon more people came, Mike and Hange were ones of them. Naruto looked around and saw that there only about thirty people here.
Naruto narrowed his eyes and shot a flare into the air. Everyone waited with the bated breath if someone would reply, but after a few moments, it becomes clear that they were the only survivors.
Most of the Survey Corps, or more exactly what was left of the Corps, looked devastated. Naruto closed his eyes to pay respect to his fallen comrades and then rode to Erwin and Keith. When the blond was close, he looked at the two men, Erwin looked devasted while Keith looked like he wanted it to be a nightmare from which he would wake up soon.
"So, what happened in the forest? I remember Dancho shouting that the base has been destroyed and prepare to fight, but then Titans came out. From there on, it was chaos and no one knew what was happening," the young blond soldier asked and Erwin looked down.
The older blond placed the hood of his cloak and turned his horse toward where to where Shiganshina district was. "Right after the Titans have ambushed us, an abnormal Titan came and started to lead us away. We tried to come back, but more and more Titans shrouded the way towards you. Only when we heard Levi's order, we decided that you have the same problem, so we decided to fall back," He told to his comrades since Keith was still not responding.
Naruto sighed and looked at Mike, who looked down with anger and sadness evident in his eyes. "We did as you ordered, but the Titans were everywhere. We had no chance of escaping. Whethoughthouht that we all gonna die, a few of the rookies panicked and attacked the Titans. We knew that it was futile, so we decided to run away. We are all that's left," The man clenched the leash of his horse.
"I see. So the Survey Corps has been reduced to about thirty members, from which eleven are severely injured, four are Rookies fresh from the training Corps, a cart full of parts of the bodies and only a single supply cart has survived. Well, it could have been better," Naruto commented and Levi elbowed the blond in the ribs.
Erwin sighed when he saw that what Naruto said was completely true. His gaze shifted towards the Commander of the Survey Corps and he saw the man glaring at the ground. "Sir, I think that we should move or Titans are gonna come here soon," The Squad Captain advised.
Keith didn't say anything, he just nodded and started to ride away. They all rode in silence until the gates of Shiganshina district came into view, but even then no one spoke. Almost everyone was having their hoods on, trying to hide their faces in the shadows. The only people who didn't hide their faces were Naruto, Erwin, Levi, and Keith.
They rode through the inner gate and the vast amount of civilians on sides of the road came into view. The hopeful faces of the citizen turned into sadness, disgust, and anger when they saw how little soldiers came from the expedition.
Naruto's gaze shifted to the ground when he heard all the murmurs and whispers of the civilians. He and every solider that survived stopped when they saw a woman get on the road and shout out a name. "Moses! Moses!" The woman shouted. She walked up to Keith and asked. "Um, my son, Moses... I don't see him. Where is he?" She caught Keith by his cloak.
Keith's facial expression didn't change as he looked into the woman's eyes. "This is Moses mother. Bring it," He ordered and a soldier with black hair walked over to the cart. He soon came back with an arm-length cloth stained with blood and placed it in the woman's hands. She looked at it with wide eyes and then back at the cloth. She quickly unwrapped it and gasped when she saw an arm. "This is all we managed to retrieve," The commander stated as the woman fell to her knees and started to cry.
The man crouched in front of the woman who was hugging the arm as tears fell from eyes. "But my son... he helped right?" The woman asked, shocking the Dancho. She looked at him with tearful eyes and asked. "Even if he didn't do anything directly... my son's death helped humanity fight back, didn't it?!" Keith looked at the woman with wide eyes as silence prevailed in the main road.
"Of course!" He shouted with conviction, but suddenly he realized something. "No, our expedition this time didn't... no, we never... never learn a thing!" He shouted as he clenched his eyes closed. "It's all my fault... my own incompetence killed our men!" Every person around listened with wide eyes. "And we still don't even know what they are!" Tears flowed free from his clenched eyes.
Everyone was silent as they watched as the Commander of Survey Corps sobbed quietly and muttered under his breath. no one dared to move or speak as they waited for something to happen and it happened. In the total silence, everyone heard the sound of leather boots hitting the ground.
They listened as the person walked calmly on the road made of dirt and they all heard as he stomped once on the ground in front of Keith. The commander lifted his gaze when he heard the stomp and was surprised to see the youngest soldier in the corps looking at him with an apathetic expression.
"Stop crying and making fools of yourself and the Survey Corps," Naruto said loudly enough for everyone to hear him. "You are the commander of the Survey Corps, you were a person that men and women were willing to believe. They all were prepared to die on your command because they believed that you would bring mankind a step closer to victory. And you want to give up now, after countless people died, placing their hope in you?" He said, shocking Keith, who looked at the blond with wide eyes.
"I know what you are doing, Keith. You think that no matter your actions now, nothing will change because in your opinion this life is meaningless. You think that no matter what dreams we have, no matter our hopes and plans, we will still die. And you are completely right," The blond said, causing the civilians to gasp and the soldiers look at him with wide eyes.
"But does that mean that life is meaningless? Was there even any meaning to us being born? Would you say it to all of our fallen comrades? Their lives... were they meaningless?" Naruto asked and grabbed Keith roughly by his cloak. The blond shocked everyone when he lifted the man to his feet.
"No! they weren't! It's us who gives the meaning to our comrade's lives! The brave fallen! The anguished fallen! The ones who will remember them are us, the living! We die trusting the living who follow to find meaning in our lives! That is the only way we can rebel against this cruel world!" Naruto shouted and shoved Keith back, making the man fall on the ground.
"YEAAAH!" Naruto looked back and saw the remaining Survey Corps cheer while raising their blades! Everyone was shocked when the civilians also started to shout and cheer for the blond, who smiled and mounted his horse again. From his position, he saw that Keith got up and walked up to Erwin who was at the front of the formation.
"Erwin, will you take the position of commander from me?" The brown-haired man requested and everyone was shocked until the older bond nodded with a firm nod.
"I will," When he said those words, the crowd cheered once more. Erwin was stunned because it wasn't every day that the civilians cheered for Survey Corps, but today they did it twice. Once after Naruto's speech and now when he accepted the position of Dancho. "Let's go," He ordered.
What was left from Survey Corps followed Erwin silently until two minutes later when the newly named Commander heard a voice to his left. "Yo, Erwin, I will see you guys later. Congrats on the promotion," The man sighed when he heard Naruto say this. The young soldier was a perfect warrior in every aspect. His strategies were flawless, his skills were only matched by Levi, he was able to inspire his comrades to fight against the biggest odds.
But like every perfect weapon, Naruto had his own drawbacks. First was that the boy was like a raging fire, you could try, but you would never have him under his full control. He could switch from a soldier who listened to orders to a freelancer who would drop from the formation at any moment because he thought it would work better.
With another sigh, Erwin watched as the blond on a horse entered an alley where were standing two children, about the soldier's age.
Naruto grinned and jumped down from his black horse. As soon as he touched the ground, he was hugged by Mikasa and he hugged her back. Eren, meanwhile, was looking at him with admiration in his eyes. Even if they were friends, Naruto could only spend so much time with those two, because he had trained his 3DMG skills almost non-stop when the Survey Corps wasn't on an expedition.
This left a small amount of time for him to meet with Mikasa and Eren. The three had become good friends and when Naruto could, he would always spend time with them, telling them about the outside world, taking them on rides on his horse, or even sometimes taking them on a fly on the 3DMG in a forest.
Sometimes even a blond-haired boy, named Armin Arlert would go with them. Naruto wasn't able to get to know Armin better since when Naruto had time, the other blond couldn't go with them. Naruto smiled when Mikasa pulled back from her hug and the three started to walk towards their usual meeting spot.
"How have you been?" Naruto asked his two friends. Of course, he had more friends in the Corps, like Levi, Erwin, Petra, Mike, and even Olou, but his only friend who was his age was Mikasa and Eren.
"Well, good I guess, nothing new happened. We have been mostly waiting for you to come back and tell us more about the outside world and your expedition," Eren said with a bored tone and suddenly turned to Naruto with stars in his eyes. "So? What happened this time? Did you kill any titans?" The brown-haired boy asked.
Naruto chuckled at his friend's antics but also saw that the black-haired girl was waiting for him to tell them what happened. As he was about to start to tell them, they heard Armins voice and the three sighed. "Well, let's go," Naruto said and the three children and a horse walked through alleys.
Soon they found Armin being bullied by three boys, who were laughing and pushing Armin around. "Oi, you idiots! Leave Armin alone!" Eren shouted, gaining their attention. The boy's eyes widened when they saw Mikasa and Naruto standing there, while Eren ran towards them.
"G-Guys! It's them! Mikasa and Naruto! Runaway!" the obvious leader shouted and the three boys run away, causing Eren to smirk. He pointed his finger at them and shouted at their retreating forms.
"Yeah! Runaway like the cowards you guys are!" The brown-haired boy shouted, making Mikasa sigh and Naruto chuckle. The three walked to where Armin was picking up his book. "Oi, Armin, you should fight back one day," Eren commented. The four of them walked to the river and sat in front of it, while Naruto told them about their recent expedition.
"And that's what happened," Naruto said and sighed. As soon as he ended telling them about the recent expedition, Mikasa turned to him and started inspecting his body for any injuries.
"Are you hurt anywhere? Doesn't anything cause pain to you?" She asked as she looked over his arms. Naruto chuckled when he saw how overprotective the girl was, but he thought it was nice to have someone worry for him like her.
Mikasa pouted when she heard him chuckle and looked away with an embarrassed blush on her cheeks. "Don't worry, Mikasa-chan, I am alright, but thanks for the concern," He said with a smile, which the girl mirrored.
"Ne, Naruto, what abo-" Armin was interrupted by an earthquake, which made the whole district shake. The four children could hear the shouts of fear and confusion on the main street.
"What was that?" Eren asked as he shot on his feet. His friends didn't wait too long and the four were walking towards the main street to see what was happening. Once they were on the road, they saw countless people pointing at the Wall, which confused the four.
Naruto's eyes narrowed when he saw a gigantic hand grab the Wall, causing cracks to appear everywhere. "Stay here!" Naruto ordered and shot towards the Wall, using Chakra to get there as fast as possible.
"Naruto!" Mikasa shouted as she saw her friend fly towards the Wall, where the colossal Titan was. The blond didn't stop, instead, he used his 3DMG to get there. The blond crossed the Shiganshina district in mere seconds, thank to using Chakra, and he started to climb the wall exactly when the Titan's huge face peaked over the Wall.
The blond arrived on the Wall and, he saw the Titan's eye move towards him, but that wasn't what shocked him. What shocked Narurot was the intelligence in the Titans eyes. The blond narrowed his eyes when he saw the Titan swing it's leg backward like it wanted to kick the Wall.
Naruto quickly shot his right hook towards the Titan's neck and propelled himself with gas. The blond saw the Titan's eyes follow him, but the giant didn't move, surprising Naruto.
He shrugged and detached his right hook, which made him fly right behind the Titan's neck. The left hook shot forward and the blond used twice the amount of gas he usually would use. When the blond was close enough, he swung his two blades at the Titan, but before he could connect, steam shot from the Titan's back, shocking Naruto and making him lose balance in the air.
'Hot!' The blond shouted in his mind and let go of his left hook. The blond soon came out of the cloud of steam and saw the Titan's leg shot forward. The soldier could only watch helplessly as the gate burst open, allowing hordes of Titan to enter the Shiganshina District. His eyes widened when he saw the Titan simply disappear like he didn't stand there before.
"Tsk, damn it!" The blond shouted and shot both of his hook towards the Wall. Once he was on it, he saw the Garrison soldiers trying to stop the Titans, but the couldn't kill even one of the beasts.
The blond knew that he had to help to defend the district because this was his job as a soldier, but he really wanted to help his two friends. With a sigh, the blond jumped form the wall and started to maneuver through the air towards Eren's house.
The blond knew that Eren and Mikasa would run there as soon as the gate was breached. Naruto landed on a rooftop and saw Carla, Eren's mother, under a lot of debris, while Eren, Mikasa, and Hisana, Mikasa's mother, were trying to lift it. He was about to jump down but stopped when he heard a 3DMG near him.
He looked to the left and saw a Garrison soldier land next to Hisana. If the blond remembered correctly then this was Hannes a friend of Eren's family. Naruto jumped down from the roof and landed next to Mikasa.
"Naruto!" The girl shouted in relife seeing him alive. The blond gave her a smile, but before he could say anything, everyone heard loud footsteps. When they looked to their right, they saw a five-meter Class Titan with a wide smile, showing its teeth and blond hair.
Naruto could the fear coming from everyone and he looked at the garrison soldier. "Hannes, get Carla out of under it and take them away from here," Naruto ordered and whisted with his fingers. Suddenly his black horse came out from an alley and galloped to the blond. "You will carry Carla while Mikasa, Eren, and Hisana are riding the horse," Without waiting for any longer, the blond shot towards the Titan.
Naruto's right hook attacked on a rooftop and the blond shot forward to it. The Titan tried catching the blond, but he was able to pivot his body in the air and avoid getting caught. When he was close enough to the Titan's face, the blond detached his right hook and his left hook pierced into the Titan's calf.
The gas propelled Naruto forward, making the blond fly a few centimeters above the ground. Once he was close enough, he cut the right Achilles tendon of the Titan, making it kneel. The blond propelled himself into the air, where he attached his left hook o the Titan's shoulder and shot forward its face.
The Titan tried to catch the blond with its maw, but the blond threw one of his blades in the Titan's eye, making it roar in pain and move it's head back. Naruto landed calmly on the Titan's shoulder and cut the nape of its neck. The Titan fell down and Naruto who was still standing on it saw the amazed looks of Eren, Mikasa, and Hisana who were already riding away, with Hannes who was running next to them while carrying Carla bridal style.
The blond gave the three one last grin and shot toward next Titan who was about to devour a family. From there on Naruto was flying around and saving civilians, by killing Titans and giving them time to evacuate to Wall Maria.
Naruto landed on another roof, where another two Garrison soldiers were standing and breathing heavily. The blond sighed in frustration and thought. 'Of course, Levi is not around and the Titan's breach the Wall. With him, we would have cleaned the city already,' The blond lamented and shot forward when he saw another Titan.
Not too long after, a loud bell ringed, loud enough for everyone in Shiganshina to hear it. The blond sighed and started to fly back to towards the Wall. The bell signaled that all civilians have been evacuated and the soldiers are allowed to come back.
On his way back, the blond killed another two Titan who was trying to devour the Garrison soldiers. Once he was on the wall, Naruto was surprised to see a familiar face. "Yo, Pixis, haven't seen you for a while," The blond greeted and walk to the commander of Garrison.
Every Garrison soldier was shocked by how informal the boy was with their Dancho. "Oi, Brat! Show respect to your superiors!" one of the Garrison shouted, but Naruto waved him off, angering the man even further. The solider was about to attack the blond but stopped when he heard the voice of his commander.
"Oh, Naruto, good to see you too. Thank you for helping to defend the civilians," Pixis said, shocking all of his soldiers. The old man took out a flask with alcohol and took a gulp.
"No problem. I should probably inform you that the Survey Corps has changed their commander," Naruto said, surprising Pixis. The man looked at Naruto with a thoughtful expression.
"Who did Keith choose then?" The man asked and Naruto grinned.
"Well, Keith decided that Erwin will be a better choice, so he offered him the position. Of course, Bushy-brows accepted. We would have a celebration today, but you see what the situation here is," Naruto commented and Pixis nodded with a grim expression.
Everything was silent for a few moments before everyone, the people on the walls and even those behind the walls were able to hear the sound of running. The Garrison soldiers and Naruto prepared themselves and their eyes widened when they saw a large Titan, whose body was covered in some kind of armor.
The sound of cannons firing filled the afternoon air, as the Soldiers gave their all to stop the Titan. But no matter how much they shot, he was still running and was nearing the gate. Naruto narrowed his eyes and jumped from the Wall, shocking everyone, even Pixis.
Naruto flew through the air until he was at the Titan's head level. He quickly used his 3DMG and attached his right hook at the Titan's neck. Naruto knew that whatever the Titan had on its skin was an armor, meaning it would be hard to destroy it.
With this in mind, the blond knew that before killing the Titan, he had to stop it before reaching the Gate. The blond circled around the Titan, which even didn't try to swat him away, and searched for a weakness.
On his second circle, he saw it! The blond spotted a small gap in the armor, right on the Achilles tendon, there was no armor. The blond detached his right hook and instead his left hook shot forward in a house. The gas propelled him and true to his calculations, when he arrived at the Achilles level, the Titan was standing mere meter from him.
When the blond's feet touched the wall of the house, the blond pumped Chakra into his legs. He retreated his left hook and then shot both of them on a house on the opposite side of the street. With a maneuver that shocked everyone, Naruto shot forward as the gas made him fly faster.
The blond pivoted his body so it was horizontally and started to spin while his blades were above his head. Naruto cut perfectly through the armored Titan's Achilles tendons, making it fall down as blood sprayed from the wound.
Naruto quickly signaled Pixis to shoot and he himself evacuated on a nearby rooftop. "Fire!' The blond heard the commander's voice and not a moment later, everything was muted by the powerful sounds of cannons shooting.
The projectiles hit the armored Titan head-on, resulting in a huge explosion that created a smokescreen everywhere. Everyone was quiet, waiting for the outcome. Suddenly a large arm shot from the smokescreen, wiping it away. The Titan's hand destroyed all nearby rooftops, hitting a shocked Naruto and causing the blond to sail through the air.
All of the Garrison soldiers looked with fear and astonishment as the Titan swatted Naruto away like a fly. The beast slowly stood up and everyone could see that it's Achilles tendons were already healed. The Titan tensed and then shot forward with his shoulder first.
He hit the gate, causing it to explode and send debris everywhere. The Garrison more solid could only watch with wide eyes, full of fear, as Titans started to enter Wall Maria and kill civilians who didn't get away yet.
The armored Titan vanished suddenly, the same way as the Colossal did, shocking everyone even more. They were brought out of their stupor when the sound of 3DMG was heard on the wall.
They all turned to where it comes from and everyone looked in stunned silence as Naruto limbed to Pixis. The blond was missing his Survey Corps jacket, while his black, button-up shirt was missing the right sleeve and was covered in blood. They all saw that the boy was limbing, his left leg was broken.
He was clutching his right side, probably broken ribs, as blood flowed from the various cuts on his whole body. Nevertheless, he limbed to Pixis and said. "Send you man to inform every Village about the breach, while you go to the Trost district and inform everyone there," Pixis didn't know why, but he simply obeyed and nodded his head.
Turning to his soldiers, he stated. "You heard what he said, divide into your teams and inform the Villages," The soldiers Saluted and did as they were said. Pixis turned back to Naruto and saw the blond changing his gas-tubes. "What will you do?" He asked.
The blond made sure that the tubes with gas were placed right and said. "I will head to the Survey Corps HQ and inform them and the Hati Village," Naruto said and without another word, he jumped from the Wall and started to fly towards his friends.
Naruto sighed as he lied down on a bed in his new house. Since the Wall Maria fell, humanity had to fall back to Wall Rose. The blond bought a house in the Trost District, so he had close to the Survey Corps HQ.
Thank the saved money he had, he was able to afford a one-room house with a kitchen, bathroom and a stable for his horse. While it wasn't big, it was better than what most of the other refugees from Wall Maria could afford.
Most of them were living in slums that were filled to the point that families had no privacy or more than the necessary room for them. They were also fed very poorly each person was getting only enough food and water to be able to barely survive.
Let's not forget that all people who came to Wall Rose had to work the whole days on fields, otherwise they could be thrown out of the slums and not given food.
After Naruto heard about this, he instantly invited Mikasa, Hisana, Eren, Carla, Armin, and his grandfather to live in his house. While it was an only one-room house, the seven people were able to live comfortably in it.
In comparison to the slums, they found this one room a much better place. Of course, with this limited place, there wasn't too much place for them o place too much furniture, especially places where they could sleep on.
Naruto was able to buy two mattresses which were able to fit in the room and leave place for an armchair and a table. It was decided later on, that Carla and Hisana were sleeping on one of the mattresses. Eren and Armin were sleeping on the other one, while Armin's grandfather was sleeping in the armchair.
Naruto and Mikasa were chosen to sleep on the bed since it was Naruto's house and it was thanks to him that they could sleep in a warm house Mikasa was chosen because she was the youngest of the group and was a girl, so they thought that she should be sleeping on the bed. It wasn't a problem for either of the kids, so there was no problem with the sleep arrangement.
Of course, to be able to pay for seven persons, you have to have much money and even Naruto with his salary from Survey Corps didn't have enough money, especially in those hard times.
So they all decided to find a job. Naruto found work at a lumberjack, in which he quickly became the boss favorite, thanks to his inhuman strength and stamina. Eren, Mikasa, and Armin found a job at a field. While it didn't pay too much, it was the only job they could get.
Hisana quickly found a job in a restaurant as a cook, while Carla was hired as a waitress in a bar. Armin's grandfather found a job at some ba as a bartender, since the man was good with drinks.
Sadly, those times didn't last too long, since not three months later, the government had planned an expedition to retake Wall Maria, in which every refugee that has been older than 18 had to attend.
Of course, the whole group knew that the people were simply sent to their deaths because there was not enough food to feed the people inside the Walls. Armin, Mikasa, and Eren were heartbroken when they had heard that their parents had to simply go die.
This even had changed the three children. Naruto saw deep hatred in Eren's eyes, but not for the government, but for the Titans. The boy thought that it was all because of the Titans and he had sworn to kill every last Titan.
Mikasa started to become cold and uncaring on the outside. Naruto knew that the girl was simply putting on this mask to hide her sadness of losing her family.
Armin, on the other hand, had sworn to fulfill his grandfather's dream: to explore the outside world. The boy was probably the one who accepted his grandfather death the easiest since he knew that it comes to something like his.
before the three adults have gone on their suicide mission, Naruto had sworn to them that he would protect the three other children with his life. The adults were relieved when they heard this and thanked the blond.
Naruto looked to his left and his eyes softened when he saw Mikasa looking a the ceiling with an apathetic expression. The blond caught her hand and squeezed it. "How was your day?" he asked and she looked at him. Naruto didn't know why, but the two were still sleeping in one bed, not that it disturbed the blond.
He knew that Mikasa had nightmares after they came here but the stopped about a month later. It seems that now they came back, but this time, they were about her mother getting eaten by Titans.
The blond tried to be there for the girl, trying o help her and listen to her when he could, so she wouldn't close up to the whole world. "Good," She answered and sighed when Naruto squeezed her hand once more. "I had to save Eren from the Military Police Brigade," She said.
Naruto's eyebrow twitched when he heard this. "What did he do this time?" Naruto asked and an annoyed expression came to Mikasa's face. Of course, it wasn't aimed at Naruto.
"She threw a rotted potato at one of the Police Brigade because he heard him say how pathetic we all were," She stated and Naruto smirked when he saw her eyebrow twitch. In Naruto's opinion, she looked cute this way or should he say ' more cute'?
She narrowed her eyes when he saw him smirk. "Why the glare, Mikasa. I am just thinking about how adorable you look when you are annoyed," The blond said and snickered when he saw her head away to hide her blush.
"Shut up," She said, causing him o snicker even more. "I said shut up!" She shouted and looked at the blond, who gained when he saw her pout.
The door of the apartment opened and revealed Armin who looked slightly nervous and Eren who was nursing a bruised cheek. "Eren, I told you that picking on fights with soldiers is a bad idea?" Naruto asked and snickered when he saw his friend glare.
"This one isn't from a solider, but from some bully who said that Eren will never become a soldier," Armin commented, getting a glare from Eren, while Naruto and Mikasa sighed.
"I really think that we should teach you how to control your emotions, Eren," Naruto said and Mikasa nodded. Eren sat in the armchair and pointed at Naruto.
"Don't teach me how to control my emotions! Teach me how to be a solider so I can beat all the Titans!" Eren requested, even if it sounded like an order. Naruto shook his head and Eren shouted. "Why not!" Naruto sighed for the thousandth time this day.
"As I said numerous times before you have to join the military to learn how to kill Titans," Naruto said and Eren grinned while punching the air.
"Then I will join the military and the world will know me as Eren Jeager, the Saviour of this world!" the brown-haired boy exclaimed
"Well, you have to be twelve to be allowed into the military, so you have two years to train your body. Take an example from Mikasa who is always training when you two are goofing around," Naruto said.
Mikasa blushed at the praise from Naruto. 'I didn't know he noticed' She thought. Armin looked at Naruto with a puzzled expression.
"Then how is that you are already a Survey Corps member?" Armin asked and Naruto grinned and put an arm over Mikasa's shoulder.
"I am just this awesome, isn't this right, Mikasa?" The blond asked. The girl didn't know why, but she was unable to respond, while a blush crept on her face again from the closeness the two shared. "Well, I think that we should go sleep, we have to wake up tomorrow morning," Naruto said.
Soon the four children were prepared for sleep, with Armin and Eren sleeping on two different mattresses. As Mikasa placed her head on Naruto's chest and hugged him, she couldn't help but think. 'Why am I always blushing when he compliments me? Whenever someone else does it, I never blush. Never! So why am I always blushing when he is around?' She asked herself.
the third Chapter and the story has already over 20k words count!
Thans for reading, Ja Ne!
