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Day 23: Mikasa

With Christmas only days away, the Survey Corps decided to have a gift exchange. They put everyone's name in a hat and then each person drew one name to get a present for. While everyone could get presents for other friends as well, of course, they had to focus on the gift exchange that day. Everyone was going into a town to buy the gift for the person whose name they had drawn that morning, and everyone had to shop alone and could not tell anyone whose name they drew. It had to be a complete surprise because once each person opened their gift they had to guess who gave it to them.

Mikasa drew a name first, and was surprised and slightly annoyed when she drew Levi's name. She still was not completely over the time Levi had kicked Eren during the trial. However, one of the rules was that everyone had to get a gift the other person would like - no prank gifts allowed.

Eren went next, and was relieved when he drew Mikasa's name. It would be easy to shop for his close friend, plus it meant that Horseface would not be able to draw her name.

Sasha ran over to the hat and grabbed a slip of paper as soon as Eren had walked away. She darted off to a shadowy corner to see whose name she had picked - Connie. Sasha grinned, Connie was her best friend and she already knew exactly what he wanted - some supplies for a prank.

Connie drew Jean's name, and then spent the rest of the time people where drawing names trying to figure out what Jean would want.

Hanji picked Sasha's name, Jean drew Reiner's name, Bertholdt got Armin's name, and Reiner drew Commander Erwin's name.

Ymir reached into the hat hoping to draw her best friend's name, and almost cracked a smile when she saw she had. However, she fought the urge to grin when she realized that would make it too obvious whose name she had drawn. Krista was next and drew Ymir's name.

Armin got Moblit's name, Levi drew Bertholdt's name, Isabel drew Farlan's name, Farlan drew Petra's name, Petra drew Isabel's name, and Moblit drew Hanji's name.

Commander Erwin was last and drew Eren's name.

Now that everyone had drawn a name, they headed to the town and split up. Since most of them still had no idea what to get for the people whose names they had drawn, a few decided to follow others into stores and see what they were buying so they could guess who they were buying presents for. When Sasha found out about that, she headed into a jewlery store and pretended to be looking for girly items.

Connie found Hanji at a market - she was going to get potatoes for Sasha - and the scientist hurriedly pretended to be examining vegetables so she could test if Titans would eat any of them. Connie believed her because he thought Krista had drawn Sasha's name when he saw her examining some jewlery with potato shaped charms on them.

Ymir pretended to have drawn Bertholdt's name when she saw Reiner watching her, trying to figure out who she had drawn. Mikasa, who had no idea what to get for Levi but decided to play along when she saw Jean following her, pretended she had drawn Jean's name and started looking at horse figurines. Jean looked irritated and quit following her after that.

It was late that afternoon when everyone had finally finished shopping, and headed back. They immediately headed to their rooms and wrapped the gifts. After that, Erwin told everyone to stay in their rooms and wait. One at a time, he told each person to put their gift under the tree and then return to their room. Once everyone had put their gifts under the tree, Erwin called everyone out of their rooms and told them to find the present with their name on it. Then everyone unwrapped their gift one at a time and had to guess who got it for them.

Eren opened his present first, which was a large box of small red candies. "Sweet!" Eren said excitedly, he secretly had quite a sweet tooth. Eren put a handful in his mouth and started chewing. "Ah... hot! These are hot!" Everyone laughed, and Eren eventually joined in, after he swallowed the handful and got some water. After he was done laughing, Eren thought for a few minutes about who would have gotten them for him. "Hmm... Was it... Connie?"

"Nope!" Connie replied with a smirk.

Sasha went next, barely containing her excitement. She began squealing happily when she unwrapped a large bag of potatoes. "Thank you!" she said between squeals. Then she glanced around the room, trying to figure out who had given her the potatoes. It was no secret how much she liked potatoes, so it could really have been anyone. "Um..." she muttered, scanning everyone's expressions. "Krista?"

Krista shook her head.

Mikasa went next, unwrapping a silver necklace with a charm of the letter M. "It's beautiful," she whispered as she put it on. Glancing around the room, she saw Jean glaring angrily at Eren, who had a light blush on his cheeks. "Eren? Was it you?"

"Uh... Yeah..." Eren said, sounding embarrassed.

"Thank you." Mikasa said with a smile.

Irritated and eager to move on, Jean opened his present, which was a horse figurine. "Mikasa." Jean said, glancing at said girl.

Mikasa just laughed, "Nope!"

Jean was surprised, he had seen her examining that exact figurine for several minutes.

Bertholdt opened his present, which was a pack of handkerchiefs to use when he was nervous and began sweating. Bertholdt had no idea who had gotten him the present, so he just made a random guess. "Uh... Levi-heichou?"

"Yes." Levi replied.

Krista opened her present, which was a soft blanket. "Aww, it's so fluffy!" she squealed. She remembered admiring the soft blankets in a store a month or so ago. Since Ymir was the only one she had mentioned it to, she turned to her tall friend. "Ymir?"

"Yep." Ymir admitted. She opened her gift next, which was a hat that had obviously been hand-made. "Krista?" she asked with a smile.

"Yeah," replied the blonde.

Hanji was next, and recieved some supplies she needed for her next experiment. "Moblit!" she said immediately.

Moblit just nodded before opening his own present, which was a fire extinguisher. Since Hanji's experiments occasionally exploded or caught fire, he was greatful for the gift. "Um... Commander Erwin?"

"No." Erwin replied. Erwin, Reiner, Isabel, Farlan, and Petra opened their gifts and guessed who had drawn their names.

Connie took one look at the prank supplies and instantly guessed, "Sasha!"

"Hehe yep!"

Armin recieved a book and incorrectly guessed Hanji had drawn his name. Finally, only one person had not yet opened their present. Levi.

Levi unwrapped the gift and found some cleaning supplies. "Who drew my name?"

"You have to guess," Commander Erwin told him.

"I am not going to guess. Who was it?"

Mikasa nervously spoke up, "I did."

Levi nodded. "Thank you."

"Uh... no problem." Mikasa had actually just gotten the cleaning supplies as a joke since Levi was always cleaning.