Sasha was really quiet... It had been going on for almost the entire day even the day before. She had been so quiet that most of the time they forgot she was there, even during dinner. People had tried to ask her what was wrong and why she was so quiet but whenever they did she would avoid the question.

They also started to notice that recently Sasha has been avoiding everyone. Whenever someone would try to talk to her she would either go the other way or ignore them and continue on her way. She looks slightly nervous and slightly sad and she was also very distracted at the same time but whenever somebody asked her if they can help she would just tell them that she was fine and that she was just tired or hungry.

It got so bad that when she got distracted during training Levi started to yell at her.

During training Eld was sparring with Sasha, Sasha got distracted and did not see when Eld was about to punch her. She only saw it when it was too late and by that time the punch was already in her face.

Eld didn't punch her that hard but the shock made her fall backward making her scrape her arm. Levi saw this and since he was already mad, started to yell at her, he asked her why she was so careless and why she didn't have her head on straight. Sasha didn't say anything not even something funny like she normally would when he was mad and just apologized. Levi irritated already, sent her to the nurse's office where she would take a look at the bruise that was forming on her face and at the scrape of her arm.

Sasha just nodded her head and left, the rest of the Levi Squad watched her leave and start whispering to themselves wondering what was wrong with her and that they would have a talk with her later. Levi angrily told them to get back to training and not get distracted.


After Levi dismissed Sasha she went to the nurse's office and the nurse told her she was fine and wrapped up her arm. Sasha looks at her arm before looking down the hallway where she knew Erwin's office was. She contemplated for a moment before slowly starting to walk towards the room.

When she was in front of the room she hesitated for a moment before knocking.

" come in" Erwin called out. Sasha paused and then slowly open the door and found him doing paperwork. He looked up to her and gave her a confused glance." Cadet, is there something I can help you with" he asked her kindly

" yes sir..." Sasha started." I was wondering if I could have this afternoon off so I can go into the village," she asked him. Erwin looks more confused than before and set his paperwork aside.

" may I ask why," he asked her

" I have some personal matters to take care of and I was hoping you would give me permission to go out," she asked him kindly " I know we're about to go out on an expedition soon and I was hoping I could do this before we go," she told him kindly. She looked kind of uncomfortable and Irwin can see that she kept fidgeting. He paused for a moment before slowly nodding his head.

" very well I will give you permission to go out to the Village but you must be accompanied by either a squad leader Commander or captain." he told her. " you understand why don't you"

" of course Commander Erwin... I must be kept under constant watch for my safety and the futures safety" she explained to him. Erwin just nodded and told her she was dismissed and that he will decide who she will be going with later. " if I maybe am able to make a request" Sasha started

" go ahead"

" I would like to go with either Commander Hanji or squad leader Mike... I talked to Captain Levi and he looks really mad today and I don't want to disturb him" she told him

" I'll take it into consideration... Go tell Levi that you will not be here for the rest of training" he told her after dismissing her finally. she just nodded and bowed before leaving the room and closing the door gently. She made her way to the training grounds where she knew that Levi along with the rest of the squad was still training.

when she got to the training grounds Levi was standing to the side watching as the rest of Levi Squad trained. He looks angry actually he looked beyond angry, and she knew that he would get angrier when she told him that she will be leaving for the day.

She approached him slowly and look to the ground and when she was in front of him she looked at him.

" what do you want," he asked her angrily " get back to training," he told her

" I just came back from Commander Erwin's office and he gave me permission to go into the village..." she told him. Levi didn't say anything but she knew that he was irritated by the look on his face. He rolled his eyes before nodding his head and telling her to leave.

" fine get going," he told her angrily " but you're going to be training like hell tomorrow do you understand me," he told her. She looked at him and fear before nodding her head. " I said do you understand me"

" Sir yes sir," she told him as she realized that they now had eyes on them.

" you're dismissed," he told her allowing her to leave. Sasha turned around and found the rest of the Levi Squad was watching her. Eren send her a worried glance as he watched her leave while the rest of the Levi Squad just looked at her confused and slight worry. "Who told you guys to stop" Sasha heard from behind him as the rest of the Levi's Squad started to train again.


After Sasha got her horse ready she went to the front of the castle where an informant had told her that Hanji would be waiting. She waited for a couple of minutes before Hanji excitedly walked up to her holding the reins of her horse.

" Erwin told me that you personally requested me to come with you to the Village," Hanji told her. Sasha just smiled and nodded her head " I'm so excited, we never get to hang out and you never get to tell me anything about the future so while we're on our way there why don't you start talking about it get things off your chest... How about you tell me why we're going there" Hanji starting to ramble

" oh... um..." so she couldn't find the words to tell her... " I just need to get something from the village... I don't think you should take long"

" oh, all right... So why don't you tell me a little bit about the future... why don't you tell me about the outside world," hanji ask her

" well... Around this time of year... The people from the outside world had a holiday..."


The road there was close to an hour before they finally reached the village. When they got to the Village Hanji allowed Sasha to take a look around. It was the first time in the Village apparently and that came as a surprise to her considering that Sasha was going to pick up something from here.

" so what are you picking up," she asked her Sasha's face became bright red before she slowly mumbled something under her breath " what was that I can't hear you" Hanji teased her.

" I came to get someone a gift..." she told her finally. Hanji instantly started screaming her lungs out getting the attention of all the villagers there. The villagers looked at them confused but they don't say anything other than just glare or stare at them. " Commander Hanji please come down..." Sasha desperately trying to calm her down

" A GIFT... A GIFT FOR WHOOOOO" Hanji yelled.

" Please come down Commander you're making a scene," Sasha said shyly. It took a couple of minutes before Hanji finally calm down and agreed to help Sasha find the person a good gift. Sasha didn't tell her who the gift was for and just told her that the person was male and that the person was not her Distant Lover who she was hiding from everyone and would meet up in the middle of the night to 'cuddle'.

Hanji tried her best to Guess Who the gift was for but she became unsuccessful, Sasha continue to ignore her and walked down the street through the market area on her horse. Hanji was going to almost every shop and asking her what her person would like the object that she was holding. Some of the things that she was holding were expensive or cheap.

" Hanji please stop grabbing things you might break them," Sasha told her " I only have enough savings to buy one gift, not the entire Market"

" how much money do you have so I can limit myself," Hanji asked once she calmed down. Sasha look down at her little bag and found that she only had around 70 coins (imma go by American dollars since I do not know any of the currency and AOT so basically what that means is 70 coins is $70).

" just enough for one expensive gift", she smiled at her. Hanji gave her a confused look before looking down at the small, basically tiny pouch that Sasha had. She gave her a sad smile realizing that she probably didn't have much.


They walked around for several hours until it was close to being sundown, Sasha really couldn't find anything that caught her attention and liked. Hanji tried her best to give her ideas but nothing caught her eye,

They were actually about to leave the village when Sasha decided to look into one of the shops before they left. She saw something in the back. She told Hanji to wait for her outside in the shop and has found the perfect gift and ran into the shop.

Hanji was confused decided to stay outside to watch the horses and make sure that nobody stole them or that they wandered off. She looked into the shop where Sasha went and found that it was an old shop that almost had no one around it or inside. She waited patiently until Sasha came out with a huge smile on her face along with a big box in her arms.

" so what you end up getting" Hanji ask her hoping that you would give her a hint as to who the gift was for. Sasha just smiled and mounted her horse. The hour-long ride was relaxing less stressful than the first ride over to the Village. Hanji of course did not let it go and wanted to know who the gift was for. Sasha of course did not let her know and told her that if she wanted to know she will tell her the next day after she gave the person the gift.

" Why don't you trust me not to tell them," hanji asked

"... Hanji I don't want to be rude or anything... I know you're my higher up but... You do realize I know you from the future right." Sasha mocked her. Hanji let out A gasp so loud Sasha was shocked she could still breathe right after.

" what has my future self done to Warrant this type of just distrust towards me about a gift."

" well, you remember that holiday I told you about right..." Sasha asked her, Hanji just nodded her head and waited for her to continue with a smile on her face " you told Connie what I got him... And Jean... And Eren... And Mikasa... And basically, you ruined all the surprises because you told everyone what they were getting." Sasha laughed as Hanji started laughing as well.

They talked the rest of the way and when they got back Sasha place the gift in their room after placing her horse back in the barn. She went back to training and for the rest of the afternoon, she looked happier, and more herself.


It was dinner time by the time that everyone was gathered together. The commanders along with every other higher up were at the table They normally sat in the back, making sure that none of the cadets became Rowdy or in case something happened. Sasha was sitting with her friends with a box blocking the seat next to her. Many of her friends asked her what was in the box but she refused to tell them until everyone was there. they all waited patiently until finally, it was close to dinner ending. Sasha had eaten her portion of the food along with most of the people on her table even though they got mad (it truly did not matter knowing how she was).

The commanders had already told everyone to get ready to go to bed and that they would be expected to train tomorrow morning early once the sun came out. But just before everyone left Sasha and got up with the Box in her hands.

She slowly approached the Commander's table and shyly tapped Levi on the shoulder.

Levi was angry almost the entire day and nobody knew why so when he turned around to look at Sasha he sent her a glare.

" what do you want Cadet," he asked her angrily.

" well... I know you've been having a really bad day... and I was hoping I could catch you before you left for your quarters... And I... Was hoping you were not mad... But seeing you now, I can see that you're upset and well I don't want to bother you that much so I decided to just get it over with and-"

" get to the point" he got annoyed with her rambling and started to rub his eyes. When he removed his fingers from his eyes he was shocked. A box is right in front of his face, the same boxer that Sasha was carrying over.

" I'm sorry to bother you, Captain Levi I just wanted to give you your birthday present..." she told him. " happy birthday captain," she said and handed him the gift. Her face was bright red as everyone stared at her either confused or in shock that she knew Commander Levi's birthday.

Levi can only stare at the gift in shock as Sasha continues to bow. He slowly raise his hands and took the box from her arms and placed it on his lap. He looked around and expected the rest of the Commanders, Squad leaders, and captains to be smirking at him or at least looking at him funny having told the girl, but now they all look shocked as well seeing as they had also forgotten that it was his birthday.

It was quiet in the mess hall as everyone just stared at both Levi and Sasha. No one knew Commander Levi's birthday other than the higher-ups.

Is it quiet for a little bit longer until Sasha broke the silence again.

" I'm sorry I didn't want to make a scene I just wanted to give it to you before tomorrow," she said shyly. " if I may be excused I would like to go get ready for bed," she said before quickly straightening up from her bow and walking outside of the room more like running if anything else. Everything was so quiet around the room as Levi look down at the Box.

Of course, Levi knew it was his birthday, and honestly, he did not expect anything from anyone. He knew that the higher-ups were busy with the upcoming Expedition and didn't have time to remember his birthday and honestly he didn't care and preferred it that way. But this is the first time on his actual birthday other than when he was with Farlan and Isabella, that someone got him a gift. Something meaningful.

He looked at the gift before getting up. Everyone watched him leave the room with the gift in his hands and just stared at the door that he went through...


Levi ended up going to his bedroom to be alone. He placed a gift on his desk and just started it. He wondered what was in it but at the same time, he couldn't bring himself to open the gift. He kept remembering back when his friends were alive.

He could still remember the first gift he ever got and all the other gifts after. Usually at this point after being given a gift Farlan and Isabel would be bothering him to open the gift and tell him how much they appreciate him and all the things that he has done for them.

Levi looks at it again before fully straightening himself up on his seat and reaching for the gift once more. He slowly lifted the box lid and looked inside. He gave a slight smile as he reached inside and picked up the object


Sasha was inside the girl's bathroom taking a shower so she can head to bed. Her face had gone back to normal and now she looks slightly upset. She can only hope that Levi would at least like the gift. She knew that today they were going to go through extensive training and she blew it off just so she can go shopping. And she knew that he was probably mad at her for ditching just to get him a gift.

Some girls came in and complimented her for being so nice and asked her how she knew about Levi's birthday. She avoided the question and told them that she was really tired and that she was about to head to bed. The girls of course let her get away not wanting to bother her and knowing that it was probably stressful enough trying to give Levi a gift.

When Sasha got to her room she saw that Hanji was not there and had not been there for a while. She threw herself at her pillow and let out a sigh. She closed her eyes and waited for sleep to come.

It was around sunrise when she woke up again. By that time Hanji with already in her room sleeping in her bed knocked out completely. The reason she woke up was because someone was knocking at the door lightly. They must have known that she was a light sleeper and that Hanji was the real deep seeker.

She got out of her bed and asked who was there quietly in order not to wake up the deep sleeper on the other side of the room. The person didn't respond on the other side of the door so she decided to open it slowly.

She was shocked to find Levi standing there. She looked at him shocked for a moment before he gestured for her to follow him. She stayed quiet and just lowered her head and slowly left the room. They walked down to the kitchen.

" Captain I-" Sasha started but Levi interrupted her once they made it inside the kitchen. Sasha saw that there were many ingredients on the table along with many pots and pans.

" I appreciated the gift," he told her once he sat down. " you didn't have to get me anything," he told her quietly. He didn't look her in the eye. " I'm surprised you even remember it after all this time"

" How can I forget sir..." she told him this kind of confused him but he allowed her to finish talking " you never forgot our birthdays and you even let us slack off sometimes on our birthdays..." she explained to him

" When did I tell you about my birthday," he asked her Sasha, and stared at him for a moment before she sat down in front of him she thought back to the time where Levi personally told everyone his birthday after celebrating Erens.

" you told us after celebrating Erens birthday after we got the walls back," Sasha said telling him with a smile " we would always have the competition, about who can get you the best gift and make you smile" Levi rolled his eyes at that. After all the stories he has heard it does sound like something they would do.

" I only won once... Mikasa usually knew what to get you... If not her Armin."

Levi rolled his eyes again and smile slightly. He honestly never thought he would have this again. A peaceful moment.

They talked for several hours and it's some point Levi told her the reason that he called her down there.

Apparently, Sasha had been talking to Hanji about the foods from the outside world and even told her about a food that was used during breakfast.

Levi had asked her if she would teach him how to make it. Sasha was shocked that the Great and Powerful Levi would ask anything out of her but agreed anyways (after getting hit repeatedly after repeating those words) they had made breakfast for everyone and when the cooks came in they were confused but Levi told them to follow all of Sasha's instructions.

During breakfast, everyone was confused as to what was in front of them and waited until the first person to try it. of course, the first person was Sasha. Once they saw that Sasha like the food they instantly dug in.

And during breakfast, they also started questioning Sasha about the present that she got Levi and about how she knew about Levi's birthday. she said that she overheard a conversation and that she got him something that he would most likely like.

From the other side of the room, Levi was sitting at the Commander's table with an annoyed look on his face as Hanji was bothering him. She had apologized profoundly after realizing that she had forgotten his birthday and was bothering him about Sasha and how rude he was yesterday.

He just rolled his eyes and continue sipping the tea.

He looked over at Sasha and smiled slightly at her while no one was looking. She was smiling with her friends as they teased her about the gift and her reaction after she gave it to him.

Levi then turned back to his tea grabbing the new teapot and pouring some into his new cup. Hanji notices and also noticed how brand new and shiny they were before quietly settling down and smiling. She didn't say anything and just let things be as they were and hopefully next year she would get a chance to compete in the little competition that she overheard and in the morning.