Chapter 6 – Confrontation

"Levi!" the word felt foreign to her, she couldn't remember the last time she actually called him by his name. Sasha had followed the enraged boy to the front lobby of the orphanage; her legs were weak from the countless attacks on her body so she was holding herself up on the stair banisters. "Talk to me! You can't just leave me like this!"

"Stop shouting, you'll wake everyone up…" the dark haired boy glared at her for a moment, threatening her with only his eyes, telling her to stop following him. "You need to return to your bed… now!"

The look in his eyes, so cold… Sasha could no longer tell if her legs where shaking from the pain… or the fear, she was scared of him. This was not her kind and caring older Brother, this was him in a darker light and she hated it. She froze to a tranquil state when the older and now much more impatient boy began storming his way towards her. He thrusted his hand out to grab her arm. "guh!"

huh? She… she flinched…

Levi took a step away from the girl who still had her eyes closed as if she was preparing for an attack. He looked down at his bloody hands… what… what the fuck? Am I doing!?

"Please… Please don't be so… so selfish" her eyes were still closed, clearly still too scared to look at the boy. Levi's heart shattered, she's right… I'm- a terrible Big Brother! I should have been comforting her! But I used her as an excuse to pursue other matters!

Levi wanted to hug the girl, he was close to doing so but realized, not only did he feel it was inappropriate after he made her flinch, His family blood would only add to her hurt if he came into contact with her. I'm useless! The boy's fury was replaced with frustration as he brought himself to his knees.

Sasha slowly re-opened her eyes, slightly shocked to find the boy on the floor; his hair concealed the front of his face so she couldn't see his eyes. She worked up the courage to talk to him.

"You-…" her voice broke, she coughed and swiftly corrected herself "You and Mika, you both need to explain yourselves" especially Mika after that K-Kiss… she could feel herself blushing "What I mean is… I don't remember everything, there's this empty void-"

"It's better that way" the boy was still motionless "Sasha… I'm so sorry I couldn't protect you from the past." He slowly looked up at her; his eyes were glassy; close to tears. Sasha hated seeing Levi cry, it was like someone had hurt a puppy. She could feel her own eyes starting to water but held them back with all her might, determined to get her answers she carried on despite the boy's wishes.

"The past is present now Big Brother! If we're in danger, wouldn't it be better if I knew beforehand!" she realized she had raised her voice again so she began to soften it. "Won't you help me? Not even a little?"

"The children of Ackerman" he began, his voice a little shaky "Their a family that's worse than the yakuza, me and Mikasa, we are from a distant branch of the family, our blood is not as pure as the main branch. Because of this, we we're treated like expendable servants of the pure bloods." Anger had managed to hitch its way back into his voice. "You, I am unsure why or how, but you had powers that caught the eye of The children of Ackerman, they… butchered your family to get you." Sasha was hit with a flood of memories, blurred but still salvageable.

…Mama? She was a beautiful dark blonde with green eyes, always smiling; she was trying to say something but no sound came out. Oh… I guess I can't remember what your voice was like Mama…

Sasha was young in her memories, around the age of 7 or 8. A tall man picked her up and put her on his shoulders, he had long brunette hair for a man that he wore in a pony tail it matched with his coffee eyes. Hehe… Papa, guess I took after you. Again she couldn't remember her father's voice.

Her eyes sadden to forget them… without warning a small hand held onto her own; she looked down to see a small girl very similar to herself, younger with a lighter shade of hair. Mila! My little sister… how could I… her sister gave her a cheeky grin "your turn to be the Scout big sister! Hehe"

Scout!? Oh… that's right, it was the name we gave the seeker for hiding in the dark. Levi had taken note in the girl's sudden change of body language.

"Maybe we should stop-"

"NO!" Levi was cut off by the girl "I need this… I can take it! Please!" she gestured to the boy that she wanted him to continue.

He was uneasy at first, wondering to himself if he should miss out the details. He looked into her eyes; she had such a strong expression. He sighed, knowing that it could only get worse from this point.

"Eight men, eight men went to abduct you and deal with your family, only one returned… Kenny Ackerman" Sasha mind took control again, she pictured the younger member of the group… grinning, there was blood everywhere, most of it was on them, but none of it was theirs… it was unfair!

"He was the only pure blood in the group, and he claimed that you massacred the seven men after watching your family die." Still in her mind Sasha opened her eyes, there was more blood, this time on everyone, including her… but that boy was still standing, his eyes empty almost like he was expecting it, she passed out moments later.

"I don't remember what happened" she interrupted Levi "I opened my eyes and those men fell down, all but him" Levi thought as much, he didn't see the girl as much of a killer even in those circumstances, he always believed that the Mark took control.

He hesitated for a second but continued "Kenny brought you to the research facility that me and Mikasa where based at. I, being close to your age and…" he faded off a little "and an excellent and obedient member of the family, was assigned as your guardian. However my duties were mainly to keep others safe from you, I had no authority to stop them from hurting you." His voice was upsetting, Sasha could tell that he wanted to stop, he was practically begging her.

"They would perform horrifying experiments on you, stripping you down! Strapping you onto tables! Injecting you with the family blood, touching you in grotesque ways watching how your body and mark reacted! I-I couldn't stand it anymore."

Levi looked up at the girl, her eyes were still strong but the tears had found their way down her face, clearly she remembered what he was saying. "Please…" it was not much louder than a whisper, but she begged the boy to continue.

"No matter what they did your wings only inflicted pain upon yourself, they wanted to see the power that was demonstrated in Kenny's report. Not long after you were introduced to Mikasa, she would get into trouble a lot for her rebellious attitude and they would throw her in the holding cells next to you as some kind of punishment." The boy produced a small smile. "You two quickly became good friends, being your guardian I had to stay down there with you both and listen to your stupid girly talk, before I knew it we all became really close." His smile turned sour again "then the lead researchers began to notice a change in the Marks behavior when you were around Mikasa, they took samples of her blood and began the experiments again… the results were terrifying, you displayed so much uncontrollable power that it started to tear away at your body almost killing you." Sasha looked at her hands; she could remember something like that vaguely happening, but it all seemed unreal, like she was watching someone else.

"So Mika was some kind of reactor?" the boy nodded in response to her question. Sasha thought to herself for a moment. The silence felt weird, it almost hurt her ears. "So how... did we end up here without Mika?"

Levi snarled, he clearly hated her for whatever she did. "We both disapproved with what was happening to you… and that opinion would get you killed among The children of Ackerman. So we had to plan in secrecy for the three of us to escape, we were at the last hurdle so close to freedom that you could smell it. Then we were suddenly surrounded, it was ambush… someonehad to have tipped them off, our plan was flawless!"

"But how do you know it was Mika? Why were you so quick to judge?!" Sasha found herself defending the absent girl.

"It was almost like she expected it, she pulled out a stolen sample of her blood and injected it into you, and of course you went crazy with power, but it was very much controlled this time as you managed to push everyone aside, then you collapsed. Afterward Mikasa just smiled at me and walked calmly back into the facility. She was never coming with us! She left me with you dying in my arms!" the boy became frustrated again but kept his voice low, still aware of the sleeping orphanage.

"There must have been a reason! Why won't you give her a chance?

"Because she never left them Sasha! She went back to them and has been there ever since; don't you think I haven't been watching her? She can't be trusted!"

"NO! There must be a reason! We're free because of her!" she had begun shouting, not caring to keep her voice low anymore.

"Because she was willing risk your life for her freedom! Then she got cold feet and run back to them!" Levi had equaled the level of shouting.

Hannah, Sasha's number one hater stormed out her room with a face like thunder. She glared at them both. Levi just let out a frustrated groan and stormed off outside. Hannah averted her attention to Sasha.

"What the actual fuck Potato girl!? How fucking inconsiderate of you both! Wait till' Madam Wall hears all about this!" she had a slightly smug look on her face pleased by the fact that out of all the people it was Sasha.

"Oh Fuck off Spanner!" Sasha ignored the girl and started walking by her, but was rudely pulled by her arm to face the girl.

"You will hear about this complaint you little bitch!"

"Ohhh please, no one complains when we hear you and Franz Fucking all night long." Sasha noticed the shock in the girl's face and grinned slightly. "awh Franz~ Yes Franz! Harder Franz! Don't tell anyone how fucking ugly I really am Franz!"

The girl let out an aggravated screech and launched herself at Sasha, it turned into a catfight which wasn't to Sasha taste as she would rather throw punches, but Hannah had full grasp of her hair. Their fighting had caught the attention of both the boys and girls wing, all crowding around like kids in the playground none stepping in to stop the fighting.

Finally the beast emerged, wearing a cosmetic face mask and hair rollers; the overweight women pushed her way through the crowd of cheering teenagers.

"BRAUS!"

Levi heard it from outside and shivered, he allowed himself some time to cool off after their 'talk' and decided not to act on anything just yet. I'm glad I left when I did, trust Sasha to wake up the entire orphanage.

However, I still don't trust you Mikasa Ackerman.

Authors 'notes

Awh that was intense! Maybe a little too much, definitely gotta put some sugar and spice in the next chapter me thinks XD I just noticed that I forgot to put any of my notes at the end of chapter 5! And that was the kissing scene (trust me eh?) but yeah, as predicted… Yuri!

Also I have been going back and updating earlier chapters, typos and such so if there are still some after this chapter… shameful! -_-

I did also noticed that I LIED to you guys… (Me so sorry) Chapter 1 I mentioned that this was set in a "realistic 21st century" well unless I'm a late bloomer waiting for my deathly painful golden wings I'm sure that was a lie… sooo beside the odd super power here and there let's just pretend this is all totally expectable! (heh… who am I kidding)

Lastly! College finished for me! Yayyyy went clubbing to celebrate as you do… (shifty eyes) but that's beside the point, this could mean for any of you crazy enough to be following this, that there could be more chapters out faster than before. (Until I go Uni that is… then I must starve you again muhahahaha)

Toodles! (^_^)