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Rated: T

"Ne."

Cold grey eyes glanced down in a glare to meet the rather emotionless blue that was starting to piss him off, "What, brat?" He snapped, cursing Erwin for even putting him into this situation.

"Why are you still in here?" Kagome asked, breaking off eye contact to look at the small bathtub that was full of warm water.

"To make sure you cleanse yourself properly," Levi snorted, "If I have to look at your filthy self for any longer, I might just put you out of your misery right here and now."

The small girl looked back up at him, giving him a deadpan stare, "Are you a pervert?" She asked, not flinching in the least when his eyes turned icy, "I can take a bath by myself."

"And yet look at you," Levi growled, "You're absolutely disgusting. If I am forced to take you in, then you will look presentable, understand?"

"Why are you angry?" Kagome finally began to strip off her dirty clothes, not caring either way that Levi did have the courtesy to look the other way as she stepped into the warm water, "Do you not know how to be a big brother and taking your frustrations out on me?"

Levi had to bite his tongue from snapping again as her words hit home and pulled up bad memories that he would much rather not think about at all.

After all, it had only been a few months since both Farlan and Isabel were killed out in the field by his own selfish arrogance.

But the brat didn't need to know about that.

"When did your parents die?" Levi asked, taking a quick glance and was satisfied to see that she was scrubbing the caked-on dirt from her skin with the cloth and soap provided.

Her unruly hair was a whole other issue that he might have to deal with himself seeing as it was matted down with mud and blood.

"I was alone from the start," Kagome answered, biting her lip to the point of blood as she remembered waking up in a broken dry well in a child form those few years ago, "I had to take care of myself."

'Impossible,' Levi, however, chose not to say anything more about the subject because he was in no mood to argue, "Where did you get your strange-looking knife?"

"My tantou blade?" Kagome felt her hands begin to tremble at the thought of receiving that gift from her sister-like best friend in the other place before she clenched them to stop the shaking, making sure to dig in her nails to feel the pain. She shoved down any of the raw emotion she felt as her blue eyes dimmed even further into blankness, "I found it. It makes those bad men leave me alone."

'What the hell did you drag me into, Erwin?' The Corporal thought, seeing the dark change in her eyes before he turned back around, 'I will haunt you if this brat manages to slit my throat in my damn sleep.'

Some sister she would be...