I'm back with chapter three. I've been wanting to write this one since the first chapter. It's just a simple chapter where they play a game. Please enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Shingeki No Kyojin or the characters.
"So Mikasa, do you remember that game I told you about?" The brunette asked. Eren, Mikasa and Armin were currently standing next to the oak tree that sat in the field that was their regular spot to play. "Um...hide and seek tag?" Mikasa answered, unsure if that was the game he was talking about. "Yep, that's the one." Eren replied, glad that she remembered. "Well do you guys want to play?"
Mikasa and Armin both nodded their heads, then Mikasa asked. "How do you play?"
"Good question, well normally tag and hide and seek are played separately, but being the smart cocoanut that he is." Eren grinned while gesturing to Armin. "Armin here combined the two. So what you do is somebody closes their eyes and counts to 20 or 30, while the other people hide. Then the seeker seeks the hiders and when they find them, they need to also tag them to win. Understand?"
Mikasa nodded but also asked. "Why did you combine them?" "Well Armin giggled and fidgeted around too much when we used to just play hide and seek." Armin flushed red from embarrassment and sputtered out. "S-sorry, I get too nervous from all the pressure of being found." Mikasa just nodded.
"So combining them gives you more chances of winning and besides, it's twice as much fun this way!" Eren shouted happily and continued. "So, now that the rules are down, let's play. I'll count first, you two can go hide." Eren began to count while Mikasa and Armin looked at each other.
Armin nodded to her, then took off towards the edge of the field in search of a place to hide. Mikasa on the other hand, shrugged her shoulders. She didn't really know why Eren and Armin found this game fun, but she decided to be nice and play along. She eventually ran to a bush, located on the opposite side of the field that Armin ran towards, and hunkered down behind it.
Eren then exclaimed loudly. "Ready or not here I come! " He began to look around, eventually noticing the sound of giggling coming from behind a pine tree. "Yep, it's the tell tale sign of Armin." He chuckled to himself before sprinting straight for Armin's hiding spot.
Armin, realizing he had been found, started to run from Eren in the opposite direction. It didn't take long for the brunette to catch up and tag him, after that Mikasa came out of hiding and the game restarted.
They played a couple more times until it was back to Eren being the seeker. The boy started to count, while Armin and Mikasa looked for a spot they haven't yet hidden behind. Mikasa found her spot when she looked to the giant oak. Since she was adept at climbing many trees at her parents home in the mountains, this was no problem for her.
She quickly shimmied up the trunk and sat on a sturdy branch. Eren finished counting and found her very easily. However it wasn't Mikasa plan to exactly hide instead of just find a place where Eren couldn't reach her.
However, she never expected the boy to be so determined. Eren looked up to her and chuckled. "Ha, you think just cause your up there then that means I can't get you, you wait and see Mikasa, I'm gonna get ya!" Eren yelled with a determined look while he smiled from the excitement of the challenge.
He started shimming up the trunk, holding onto the bark, but he quickly lost his grip and slid back down. He tried again and again with no luck. Eventually, Mikasa became worried that Eren might slip and fall.
"Eren, maybe you should stop before you get hurt." However the brunette wouldn't listen and shouted back. "No, I can do it!" So he kept on climbing until one of his attempts, he reached half way up the tree, but to Mikasa's horror, he slipped and fell, landing in the grass on his back.
"Eren!" She yelled as she quickly shimmied down the tree and ran to Eren's side. Armin saw him fall too and was currently running across the felid to his aid also.
"Eren! Please, wake up Eren!" Mikasa cried out with tears welling in the corners of her eyes as she shook the brunette. She was terrified, so much so that she thought she had lost a part of her new family, even though he only fell a distance of five feet. She began to cry as Armin ran up behind her, stopping in his tracks as he stared at Eren laying lifeless on the ground.
Finally Eren awoke, without opening his eyes, he whispered. "Mikasa?" She was happy that he was still alive, with tears streaking down her face, she and asked. "Yes Eren, what is it?"
"Come closer." Mikasa did as he asked and leaned her head close to Eren's. He then raised his hand up and touched her nose with his index finger and said.
"Tag your it." Eren smiled, thinking his prank was funny. Mikasa on the other hand became really angry that he would worry her so much and without another word, stood up and began to walk back home.
Eren sat up with a confused look and asked Armin. "What I do?" The blond boy just shook his head disappointingly at Eren and replied. "Not cool man." Mikasa didn't speak to Eren for the rest of the day. But eventually, she forgave him the next morning and both of them were fine and all was forgiven.
End note-well there it is. Hope you enjoyed. Sorry about the ending, I really didn't know how to end it so I figured I would write something I thought was realistic. I thought that since Eren worries Mikasa have to death in the military(in the anime and manga) that he would do the same as a kid. Anyway, thanks for reading and a review would be greatly appreciated. Well until we meet again.
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