Eren awoke to a hard-pressed muscle against his backside and he knew it wasn't just Levi's chest. He tried to shuffle away but that only resulted in the other's arm tightening around him. With a small yelp at the sudden sting he felt on his unharmed shoulder, he felt Levi start rutting against his backside groans escaping his mouth. He was slightly grateful that the bite wasn't as painful as the one from yesterday, but that didn't make the situation the slightest bit comfortable. Levi's hand traveled under Eren's shirt, lifting up to his chest, and with a gasp from the boy he started tweaking the nub. He could tell Eren was holding back his sounds, but he didn't say anything about it, just working on finding his own release. It soon came and he felt the warm liquid spurt between them and grimaced when he felt it stick to his skin and pushed himself from Eren before going to a basin full of water and a washcloth at the side and wiped himself clean. Turning back to look at Eren's stiff back, he noticed the cum sliding down to the furs, "Oi, get up and clean yourself off or you'll have to wash the furs or go hunting for new ones." Eren didn't make a move to get up, instead lying on his stomach, his face burying into the furs. Not feeling like dealing with him this early in the morning, Levi just gathered his clothes and put them on before walking out of the cave.
Eren lay there, his eyes wide in shock, not because of what Levi just did, but because of his reaction to it, he had his own hard-on that was painfully straining against the now tighter shorts. He didn't want to touch himself, but it was painful, he didn't think there were any cold showers in this place. Deciding to ignore it as best as he could he stood up and stiff legged went towards the basin that Levi was at earlier and saw another dry washcloth beside the previously used one and dipped it into the water and cleaned himself off. At that moment, Petra walked in, surprising him when she went over to Levi's wardrobe. "P-Petra! When did you get in here?" His reaction caused Petra to laugh softly and she just handed him some clothes, "I just came in here, Eren. Come on, we are going out today." Eren didn't know what to say as he timidly put on the clothes that was handed to him. It was a little bit of a small fit, but it would do.
"Where are we going?" he asked once they started walking.
"Levi wants to go to a nearby village to get some supplies we will need for the next month or so. It's getting colder now."
A nearby village? Could it be his? Eren thought as they walked towards the dining table, Levi standing there with Hanji, Aururo, Erd, and Gunther. When the others spotted him, Hanji was the first to go over to them, taking Eren into a tight hug.
"Good Morning, Sunshine! How did you sleep? Levi let you rest? You know it's not good to use up all his energy Levi! It could be harmful to the pups!" Hanji exclaimed leaving Eren confused once again. Without a response, Levi grabbed Eren's arm and lead him to the table before sitting him down, a plate of food already in front of him. "Eat brat, who knows what time we will get back here." Levi said as he also took a sit. After a while of trying unsuccessfully to get a response out of Levi, Hanji sat down, soon followed by the others as they all ate their breakfast. Other members of the pack were also seated, but it seemed the whole pack did not need to be together for breakfast. As soon as they finished, Levi led them out of the cave, not before grabbing two sleds that were rested by the mouth of it and holding them by his sides as he stopped right outside.
"Aururo, Erd, you two will be in charge of the sleds this time." With nods from the said men, Eren watched as they shifted, amazed, as they didn't rip their clothes off as he thought werewolves would when they shifted. Soon after Levi and Petra strapped the sleds onto them and Eren held the urge to laugh as the both wolves looked more like delivery dogs rather then large scary wolves. Seeing the mirth in Eren's eyes, Erd barked at him before showing a row of white teeth in what would have been a grin, which Eren didn't hold back the laugh that bubbled through him. Everyone towards the laughing boy, and Petra and Hanji smiled at him as he leaned over and petted Erd's blonde fur. He didn't take note of Levi's scowling face since his face was usually like that anyways, but pulled back when Levi stepped away from the wolves once finished. The others took it as a sign to shift as well and once again Eren watched as they did and noticed Hanji didn't shift along with them and he peered curiously at her.
"Aren't you coming with us Hanji-san?" `
"Hm? Yes, I am, Eren. Why do you ask?" She said as she peered at him through her glasses as if knowing what Eren was going to say next.
"Well, you haven't…-"
Eren's sentence was broken off as Hanji laughed throwing her head back, "Oh, Eren, I'm not a werewolf." Eren's eyes widened at this, he had noticed that there were some people that didn't seem like werewolves, but most didn't when they were in human form. "T-then what are you doing here?" Hanji reached out and ruffled his hair and smiled. "Not everyone here is a wolf, Eren," and with that she went over to Aururo's sled and sat crisscrossed, her hands holding onto the ropes. "Come sit with me."
Eren nodded, but before he could take a step, Levi had blocked his bath, "He'll be riding with me, shitty glasses." Hanji's only response was to laugh and Levi stared at Eren, "Get on."
Eren was confused; he didn't see a sled attached to Levi. "But you do-" Once again he was cut off as Levi's stare intensified, "Get on my back, brat." Eren's eyes widened at this and he stared back at Hanji, who gave him an amused look. Looking back at Levi, he gulped before grabbing the fur on the back of his neck before swinging a leg over the wolf. Levi grunted slightly at the added weight, but he didn't seem to be bothered by it nor did it hinder him. "Keep your feet off the ground." Eren wasn't told twice as he bent his legs back on Levi's body, his hands gripping tightly at the midnight fur and his knees pressed tight against his ribs. He could feel Levi's warmth seep in between his legs and he had to hold down a blush as he looked over at Hanji worriedly, "Don't worry Eren, just hold tight and you'll be fine." With a small nod, he looked forward to see Levi staring back at him and then turned forward as well, and with no warning he surged forward causing Eren to yelp and hold his hands tighter on the fur, hearing a small grunt from Levi, which caused a small form of satisfaction bloom within him. Eren looked back when he heard whooping from Hanji and had to smile at her childish antics. Erd and Aururo were both at the center, while Petra and Gunther to the end of it, no doubt as rear guards in case of attacks and he somehow figured for Hanji too, just in case she got too excited and decided to let go of the sled. Looking forward again, he could barely note their location as they swept passed the trees. At the speed they were going, he could almost feel like if he was fly ing, he vaguely felt like letting go of Levi's fur and spread his arms to let the wind travel through him and without a second thought he did. Slowly letting go of the wolf, he lifted his arms and pressed his knees closer to use them as his hold as he felt his fingers brush against the branches of the evergreens and let out his own whooping sounds and could hear Hanji laugh behind him. "That's the spirit, Eren!" she yelled out to him and Eren couldn't help, but grin as he heard small yips from the other wolves behind him, and he also heard a soft chuckle escape from the wolf he was on, before Levi's purposely sped up causing Eren to fall "Enjoying yourself, brat?"
As they left the forest, Erd and Aururo had to stay behind to guard the sleds since no doubt the village market would be crowded by the time they arrived there. As Eren climbed off of Levi, he stumbled off and fell into the snow, his legs stiff with being in the same position for over an hour or so. Petra had offered him a hand, which he took after stretching out his legs. Eren had pushed back the incident caused by Levi, but he couldn't help the blush that had formed back then and the one that would once again if he thought about it, so he didn't. Levi didn't say anything after that, and seemed to be acting his usual grumpy self as they all shifted back into their human forms.
Once they were done, Levi led them through the rest of the forest till they could see the worn-out path that would lead them into the village. As they neared it, Levi stopped them and turned to face them. "Gunther, Hanji, you two go get what we'll be needing for the winter and anything you might need to keep you entertained, shitty glasses, don't come bothering me that you're bored." He handed Gunther a purse of money as he nodded and they both went off to buy what they were told. Levi turned to face Petra and Eren and the boy gulped as he felt the burning eyes on him. "Go with Petra and buy yourself some clothes, both for the winter, spring and summer." He also handed Petra some money.
"Where will you be going, Captain?" Petra asked as she took the purse.
"I have some business to attend to," was all he said before turning on his heel, and walking the opposite direction and Hanji and Gunther had taken.
"Where is he going?" Eren asked, watching as the man walked off, paying for an apple before biting into it.
"The leaders of packs always have a "get together" one day of the every few months." Petra said using quotation marks with her fingers as she started walking towards booths that held clothes in them. Eren vaguely wondered what she meant by that but soon shrugged it off as Petra started presenting him clothes. He noticed that she was only picking girly looking clothes for him or yukatas as they went through the booths; she just giggled and said that they would look cute on him when he asked. He decided to humor her for a while, but suggested a few set of clothes himself, which she relented too. Soon, they had three bags of clothes for him, all of the three seasons Levi had said. They didn't get any fall clothes because fall could practically be winter in the place they lived, Petra also stated that a seamstress back at the cave could also make Eren some clothes out of leather and furs for the winter, but he wasn't to keen on wearing dead animal skins.
When they finished looking at a few more clothes, some that Petra wanted to buy but didn't and others that she said would look on other pack members. They were heading to a small food stand when Levi joined them once again, but even Petra refrained from greeting him when she saw the piss poor mood Levi was in and without warning he only wrapped his arm around Eren's waist and lead them the rest of the way to the stand. Eren only let out a yelp as he was almost dragged towards the stand, and Petra had to jog behind them and once again, Levi pulled Eren down on his lap, which almost made him drop the bags as he struggled to get off. "L-Levi, let go!" he said with a pant clutching Levi's arm to pull it off after setting the bags down. The stand owner was giving them strange looks, but that didn't seem to faze Levi as he suddenly bit down on Eren's shoulder. "Levi! You can't do that in public." Petra reprimanded Levi, pulling at his shoulder as Eren whimpered. Eren took the chance to move away as Petra pulled them apart and stood away from Levi examining his shoulder.
"What's gotten into you?! I tolerated enough with you and what you did a few days ago! I don't really understand why, how, or what is even going on, but I can't keep going like this. I need to get back home, where I belong!" Eren shouted attracting the attention of the surrounding people around them. Levi stood from his seat a dark atmosphere surrounding him, causing a few people to step away. At the same moment Hanji appeared, "Hey, what's going on here? Why does short stack look ready to kill someone?" At the end of her words, Levi surged forward and Petra managed to hold him back despite the obvious power difference. "Hanji, get Eren away from here."
"Eren? What did Eren do?" She looked confused between the fuming Levi and the stubborn Eren glaring daggers back at Levi. Seeing Levi ready to rip Eren apart prompted her to move and she pulled Eren back away from the gathering people, "Come Eren, help me take the things back to the sleds." She said as she pushed her things into Eren's chest and then taking Erd's share. That didn't stop Eren from glaring at the man that was now being backed off by Petra. Soon Hanji was tugging him back towards the forest, an arm looped around his to keep him from bolting back towards Levi and taking him into a fight.
Hanji had at first thought Eren was the docile type, but when she saw the burning emotion shining in his eyes, she knew that Eren was far from submissive. She really didn't understand what was going on, but she knew that if Eren managed to stay a while more, he would put Levi in his place. He wasn't a bad leader, but he was a sucky partner, Levi never lasted more than a few months before either he got bored, or his partner decided to leave for his terrible attitude. She hoped that Eren would be the one to change Levi, but it seemed it wasn't going to be Eren either. With a small sigh, they reached the sled's, both Erd and Gunther looking curiously at the as they were the only two coming and they fixed the stuff onto the sleds tight enough that they wouldn't fall off. "What happened back there, Eren?"
Eren's anger had cooled down during the walk back, only speaking a few insults towards Levi as they went back and with a puff, Eren's spoke, "He bit me again. I don't like when he bites me! Who does he think he is?!" Eren kicked at the snow grumbling under his breath, "When he appeared after wondering off, he just holds me not even thinking if I wanted to held or not and drags me behind him. That's not all, when we went into this food stand; he just pulls me to sit on him! Who even does that in public! I sure as hell know that I don't!" The other three just watched as Eren paced back in forth in snow, they were all surprised about what the boy had said. Levi had never shown such possessiveness towards a partner before, albeit they had never been his mates, but considering it was Levi, it was surprising that he would act like that in public.
Hanji was the first to cut off Eren's pacing, grabbing a hold of his shoulder's, "Listen, Eren. I can't give you an explanation as to why Levi acted like that because we don't know. This is the first he has acted like that to anyone in public. Even when he was with Petra, they didn't even hold hands." Eren stared blankly at Hanji, should he feel honored to be shown off to the public? No! That didn't explain why he was bitten for no reason, it wasn't a show of affection at all, it was more than possessiveness and it was uncalled for. He needed to get back to his home before Levi dared tie him down, he wouldn't be surprised if he has considered it. Eren brushed off Hanji's hands, "No Hanji-san, you may be trying to justify that man, no, that beast's actions, but since the first time he has done nothing but hurt me! Everyone thinks I am his mate, but on what basis? It wasn't voluntary; it was rape! And he should be grateful I hadn't gone to the authorities while I was in town."
Before Hanji could answer, the rest showed up, Petra going towards Eren, handing him the rest of the bags. Levi made no move towards them, but everyone could tell he was upset, not that Eren cared, as he tied the last bags onto the sleds. Levi didn't order him a ride, but that was okay with him and he rode with Erd on way back while making small talk with Hanji. The forest didn't seem as interesting as it was on the way to town, but that didn't bother Eren, he wasn't going to stay any longer than he had to. Arriving at the cave, Levi quickly turned into his human form and strode over to Eren who was untying the ropes from the merchandise. Grabbing onto the boy's arm, Levi pulled him up to his feet and pushed him away back towards the forest. "Leave, Eren" this brought a startled gasp from Petra and Hanji stepped forward to protest, "Levi, you can't do that, what about the p-"
"Shut up, Hanji. If he wants to leave and go back to his home, who are we to stop him. After all, we aren't official mates, like he said, it was just rape." The other four of Levi's hunting group were speechless, they knew what Levi did was more than just rape, it was true that it was a forced mating, but they had completed the first step of their mating. It could end badly for both if they didn't complete the ritual, even if Eren didn't know what was going on. "Levi, you know it isn't that simple!" Hanji said as he pulled Levi away from the group and spoke to him in hushed whispers:
"Levi, he is pregnant, we all know it, even the ones who didn't see what happened. We don't know why you choose him, but the other wolves can smell the difference in a normal and one that can give birth. Don't do be so reckless, if you want to distance yourself than just give him his own room, but don't send him away to fend for himself, he won't even know how to take of the pups when they are born." Levi only stared at Hanji, he knew his decision was rash, but they were most of the time when he was angry, he tend to take it out on others. To say the least, the meeting hadn't gone well, but it was very few times when it did. The other pack leaders had found out about Eren, just like he had, there was a change in the wind, one that hadn't been seen for that last hundred years. It was a miracle that they hadn't found out that Levi was the one who was keeping Eren, but it was just a matter of time before they did, he just hoped that no one from his pack gave any sort of information. Looking away from Hanji, he turned to Petra, "Take his clothes to another room with all the others."
The look of surprise went through the other four and with a hurried nod, Petra grabbed the bags that had Eren's clothes in them and went into the cave. "W-what? I thought I was allowed to leave!" Eren exclaimed, more than a little confused, and deep inside, even if he wouldn't admit it, he felt relieved. "Change of plans, you're staying." Levi said dismissively as he turned his back on the others and went inside. He could only hear Hanji yell at Eren and told him he would show him to his room, but tried blocking it out, going to his own room as well. "We don't know why you choose him," Hanji had said, and honesty, he wasn't sure either anymore. It was true he had smelled something different from that boy and had the urge to mate with him, but that didn't explain the sudden possessiveness he had felt after the meeting had been adjourned. It wasn't only him who noticed after all, the other leaders knew and they wanted the power they felt in the air. The things he heard from them disgusted him, but hadn't he done the same thing? He was the same, forcing this young man to stay with him, and even went as far as not even giving him a choice to leave this upcoming months, his life would never be normal again. And even now, even if the boy deserved to know, Levi couldn't bring himself to tell him, but who would? No one else but pack leaders actually knew what Eren was or had more of an idea than others since it had been a hundred years, and Levi wasn't exactly a "born" pack leader, he had taken over the leadership by force.
In all truth, Levi didn't want to tell Eren why he had done what he did to him, why he was keeping here, he was afraid, not that he would admit it, of what Eren would do once he found out. He would keep the boy oblivious for a while more, it would be easier to protect him that way, he could keep him under his supervision without the questioning of others, using the pretense that Eren was his mate and that's that. Yes, he would do that, he would keep Eren's power at bay within the cave walls, he would protect the pups that were already growing with Eren, after all, they were his. As Levi saw it, Eren did not have to know.
Sorry if this chapter is a bit sucky, I'm going to try to keep the time between the updates shorter than what this one took.