{Kerai's P.O.V}

Six years have gone by since then, and they were probably the best years ever. Levi was everything I could ever want in a guy; strong, fierce, kind, passionate, blunt, caring, cold when needed and most importantly he is always there when I need him. Five years ago we got married, though only Erwin, Mike, Hanji and a few cadets knew about it. Neither of us saw a need or reason to announce it so we kept it to ourselves. Granted there are times when we need to make it known that the other is taken, it's not often.

It was about six in the morning and the sun was peeking through the window. I only noticed because my once cold back was now heated up. I opened my eyes and saw Levi's sleeping face, I also noticed I was still laying on top of him from last night. I couldn't help but laugh quietly at last nights memories. I sat up on his stomach and as soon as I had he pulled me back down to him.

"Where do you think you're going?" He chuckled.

"To get dressed, silly." I giggled.

"But if you get up then I lose my blanket." He complained.

I rolled my eyes. "True, but you're blanket needs to bathe and get dressed. And so do you." I poked his nose gently.

"Can't that wait till later?" He asked.

"Not today. You have to go and choose the new recruits for our squad." I sat back up and placed my hands on his chest.

"Ugh, do we even need recruits getting in our way?" He propped himself up on his elbows.

"No, that's why we have to train them as well. So I'm trusting you'll pick trainee's that won't need a whole lot of training so you and I can focus on more pressing matters." I smiled.

"Has my judgement ever been wrong?" He questioned and sat upright nearly knocking me down.

"Hm, let me think about that." I teased. "Not that I can recall."

"Then don't worry about it." He wrapped his arms around my waist and pressed his lips to mine for a few minutes.

As much as I loved his lips against mine, we still had things that needed to be done. So I broke the kiss, needing air anyways, and got up to go shower. I stopped at the doorway and looked back at Levi watching me.

"Wanna join me? I could use some help washing my back." I offered receiving a smile from my pervert of a husband.

"I'll be there in a sec." He chuckled and I went into the bathroom.

After our 'shower' we got dressed and headed downstairs for breakfast. He grabbed his normal black coffee and I grabbed my Earl Grey tea. With our drinks and hands in hand we walked over to our table with Erwin, Hanji and Mike. The three smiled at us when we sat down and continued their conversations. Erwin was looking of the lists of graduates that we would be choosing from to create our squads or fill in missing members.

"So how many members are you two going to choose?" Hanji asked.

"Four should be more than enough with two corporals." I answered and more or less told Levi to only pick four.

He nodded and Mike laughed. "Don't you have a say in the choice at all Levi? Or does your wife make all the choices for you?"

"I make my own choices, we compromised at four. I wanted none she wanted some." He replied.

"That's not all she wanted." Mike chuckled and I turned slightly red.

Erwin reached over and slapped Mike upside the head. "Don't say things like that about my sister, Mike."

"Hey, not my fault they always come out of their room smelling like each other." He said rubbing the back of his head.

"No one said you had to go around sniffing us." I retorted.

"When have you been sniffing my wife, Sniffer?" Levi asked, seeming slightly angered.

"N-never." Mike inched away nervously and I let out a laugh as did everyone else.

After a few more minutes of conversation we got up to leave. All captains, minus me, were going to head over to the trainee area to select the new recruits. Before Levi left he gave me a quick peck on my cheek and smiled. Once everyone was gone I headed to my office and worked on some paper work due at the end of the week. An hour or so later, I cleaned up my office and laid down on my couch. According to the clock, everyone should be back in a hour which meant I had an hour to rest. So, I closed my eyes and let my mind wander freely.

What seemed like a few minutes later was actually an hour later someone shook my arm. On instinct, I grabbed the person and pinned them to the wall. Of course it turned out to be Levi so I let him go.

"Hey, why the hell would you attack Corporal Levi?" A female voice from behind shouted.

I turned around and was faced with three guys and a girl, the new recruits and cadets. I narrowed my gaze at the girl and she backed up. A smirk made its way to my lips at the sight of her fear. I turned my gaze back to Levi and gave him an apologetic smile.

"Sorry, Levi. But you should have known better than to wake me."

"Tch, you didn't wake up when I called your name so how else was I supposed to wake you?" He smirked and stepped closer to me.

"You could have not waken me." I joked.

"Then you wouldn't have met the new brats." I pouted and tilted my head slightly when he said new brats.

"You're replacing me?" I pretended to act hurt about that and he got concerned.

"No, I could never." He leaned down almost to the point that I could touch his lips with mine.

"Good, just making sure." I chirped and earned a chuckle from him.

I looked over the cadets again, the girl was making a semi-disgusted face at our little display. All of them seemed to have felt uncomfortable, but I didn't care and neither did Levi. I looked to Levi with the face saying 'are you going to introduce me to the cadets or not?' and he simply smiled.

"Alright cadets, line up." They moved slightly to form a line where they stood side by side. "Now in order introduce yourselves." I told them.

The guy on the left had short dirty-blonde hair that was styled almost like Levi's, small hazel eyes, and the uniform on. He appeared a lot older than he probably was and had one the same type of cravat as Levi. I eyed him questioningly but waited for him to speak. He finally noticed I was waiting and saluted before talking.

"My name is Olou Bozado. A pleasure to meet you." He tried to kiss the top of my hand but I growled and he backed off.

"Next." I said and moved on to the one next to him.

"My name is Gunther Schultz" The man was average height, cropped brown hair that came to a point at the top, brown eyes and the full uniform on as if he had just returned from an expedition.

I nodded and moved onto the girl from before and motioned for her to speak. "Petra Ral." She saluted.

She was short, but not as short as Levi and I, short light orange hair, amber eyes and the standard uniform. She made sure to hold eye contact with me until I moved past her. Once I stood in front of the last man I heard her breath a sigh of relief.

"Eld Jinn, a pleasure to meet you Corporal Yana." Eld had brown eyes and blond hair which had a middle parting and a pony tail folded at the back. He also had a small beard.

"Nice to meet you too I expect great things from this squad since you were handpicked by Levi." I smiled, glaring slightly at Petra who was gawking at Levi. "Head out to the training area. I want to personally see your skills." I ordered.

"Yes ma'am." The four of them saluted and headed off to the field.

I watched carefully as the left, I had known them for about ten minutes and already I had strong opinions of them. Olou seemed a bit too full of himself, Gunther was okay, Eld seem to have a sense of respect and then there was Petra. She seemed like a nice enough girl but something about her was rubbing me the wrong way. For now all I can really do is observe them to settle on how I would see them. Before Levi and I left my office I pushed him against the wall gently and place a rough passionate kiss to his lips. He turned his head to deepen the kiss and wrapped his arms around my waist.

After a few minutes we broke for air. "What's brought this on?" Levi asked.

"Nothing, can't I kiss you without a reason?" I asked and gave him a peck on the cheek.

"I guess not." He took my hand in his and we walked out to the training grounds.

Before we reached the cadets we released the others hand and put a half foot of space between us. The four of them were waiting patiently for orders though Olou seemed slightly distracted as did Ral. I kicked a rock towards the two of them and they snapped back into attention.

"Alright, I want to see your skills with the maneuver gear and teamwork. You are to take down four 'titans' in the forest area." I pointed to our little simulator for titan training.

"Yes, ma'am." They saluted and headed off except for cadet Ral.

"Is there a problem cadet?" I asked.

"No, just waiting for captain Levi to give us the formation to use." She smiled towards Levi.

"You don't have a formation. You are to act as if the formation has broken and you are being attacked by abnormals." I narrowed my eyes.

"But there are formations for if the formation breaks right?" She asked.

"No, just go." I barked.

She looked like she wanted to argue but didn't. Levi and I took to a branch to watch their movements. The four 'titans' were positioned in the northeast, southwest and northwest. For the most part, it seemed as if Jinn and Schultz were taking true charge of their makeshift formation. Bozado tried to be in command but he kept biting his tongue while giving orders. Last of all was cadet Ral, after every movement she made she looked to Levi for some form of approval yet he didn't seem to notice. Ten minutes, it took the cadets ten minutes to take down four 'titans'. The cadets spotted us and landed on the branch Levi and I were waiting on.

"How did we do captain Levi?" Cadet Ral asked as soon as her feet touched the bark.

"Tch, you'd all be dead." Levi scoffed.

"H-how? We took down the 'titans' and none of us got hurt." She asked.

"That doesn't matter when it takes ten minutes to take down four titans. In that time more titans would have appeared and you would have been eaten. As far as team work goes, you are fine. Time wise there is room for major improvement before the first expedition." I jumped down and walked over to our sparring area.

The cadets followed close, well almost all the cadets. Once again Ral was waiting for Levi. I growled in frustration and waited where I was for her to get her ass over here. The two of them were in my sight, Ral seemed to be asking questions and Levi looked annoyed with her. After a few minutes Levi and Ral joined us, Levi stopped by my side and Ral finally joined her teammates.

"Now that we know about your titan killing skills, we are going to see how you are at hand to hand combat."

"Bozado and Schultz, you two will spare. Jinn and Ral you two will spare." Levi said.

"Yes sir." The cadets went to their partners and waited for the command to start.

I looked at the partners and started taking mental notes. "Begin." I walked a few feet back and leaned against a crate filled with supplies for the expeditions.

Levi was paying no attention to the sparring, instead he was secretly playing with a strand of my hair. I was half paying attention, taking notes mostly on their stances. Keeping in mind that every person adds their own style to suit how they fight, I still couldn't help but find things about their stances that bothered me. The stance that bothered me the most was cadet Ral's. Her punching arm was supposed to keep at a 90° angle yet she was holding it at a 76° angle. Her footing was also too close together, if Jinn was to leg sweep her she'd go down and have a harder time getting up. I watched her fight for a few more minutes before it had bothered me enough to correct it. I walked up to the cadets and face Ral.

"Your stance is off." I said.

Jinn moved into a more relaxed stance and Ral still stood ready to attack/counter. "No it's not." She said.

"Yes it is." I went to adjust her arm and she pulled away from me.

"I thank you for your concern Vice Captain but if there was truly a problem with my stance Captain Levi would correct it." She turned away from me.

"Excuse me but I am your Captain and I am correcting you on your stance." I said, venom began to coat my words towards the end.

"Ha, no offence but a kid like you could only dream about being a Captain." She laughed again.

"What did you say?" I growled and balled my hands into fists.

"I said there is no way a kid like you could be a Captain." She repeated with that same cocked attitude.

"Listen here you little prick. You will not talk to your Captain like that, now take back your words and correct your stance or run laps around H.Q. for five hours on end with no breaks." I growled at her.

"I'm not talking to my Captain like this. I'm talking to you like this." The prick just dug her own grave.

I grabbed her by her collar and brought her down to my height. "Alright cadet, it appears as though I am going to have to make it clear to you who your captains are. I am this squads first Captain, Levi is this squads second Captain. There is no vice, just co-captains. So when I give you an order or tell you to correct something you do it with no back talk got it?" She nodded and I released her.

"Hmp, you're all bark and no bite. I doubt a kid like you even knows the first thing about fighting." She muttered and unfortunately for her I heard it.

"You think I can't fight eh? Well, I guess I'll have to show you then. Jinn you take a break, I'll spare with her." I smirked knowing how easy it would be to take her down.

"Yes, ma'am." Jinn walked over to where I had been standing as did the other two.

I took a few steps away from Ral and watched her sink into her fighting stance. I stood with my arms crossed over my chest and waited for her to make a move. She didn't even move an inch, she was waiting for me to get in my stance though I never really had one. I had always just stood like normal and waited for the other to attack.

"You going to take this seriously or what Kerai?" She asked.

"I am, just waiting for you to attack." I shrugged.

"Then get into your stance. I won't attack until you are ready."

"You see cadet Ral, I am ready. Just grow a pair and attack me." With that she ran at me.

"Uh, should we stop them?" Schultz asked.

"What if poor little Petra is to get hurt." Boazdo said and bit his tongue.

"Tch, have you tried stopping Kerai from fighting? The brat is getting what was coming to her, now shut up and learn how to spare." Levi said.

She was pretty fast, but was still faster. Once she was a foot away from me she trusted her left arm towards my face. With my right arm I was able to easily block her attack and grab hold of her. She noticed this and tried to land a blow to my stomach which I caught in my other hand. I moved my right foot slightly behind her and threw her backwards. She tripped over my foot and stumbled. I took the chance to attack her. I made it seem as if I was going to attack her torso and she went to block. While she was distracted by that I moved upwards and landed a blow to her lower jaw and sent her a good five feet backwards. Before she could hit the ground I ran up and grabbed her throat. With her in my grasp I slammed her body down onto the ground and pinned her there. Ral struggled to get free, but the more she struggled the tighter grip got on her. After a few minutes of struggling she gave up.

I released her throat, got up and dusted off my pants. Moron made me get my uniform stained with dirt, luckily I have an extra in my wardrobe. Schultz went over and Ral up, she didn't look to happy. I could faintly see a red mark on her neck from where I had been holding her. I smirked at the mark and chuckled. For someone with a big bark you don't have much bite do you Ral?

"The three of you are dismissed. Ral you have laps to run and the stables to tend to afterwards."

"But you-"

"Want me to extend your punishment?" I cocked an eyebrow.

"Punishment for what?" She asked rubbing her back.

"For your arrogance, back talk and utter disrespect for your Captain." I said and walked away.

Ral didn't dare argue though I heard her grumble to herself. I headed back to my office and to my surprise I found Levi waiting for me. He was reading some random book from my shelves and hadn't noticed I walked in. I walked over to him and sat on his lap, he moved the book slightly and wrapped an arm around my waist. I leaned against him and closed my eyes to try to get rid of this headache that started about fifteen minutes or so ago.

"Feel better after beating the shit out of the cadet?" Levi asked.

"Always feel better after beating respect into a bitch who doesn't know better." I muttered into his chest.

He chuckled and kissed the top of my head. I kept thinking back to what I thought initially about the cadets. That Gunther seems alright, not annoying not particularly someone I would become close with. Olou seems to have a thing for that Ral girl and she seems to have a thing for Levi. Eld seems to be alright all around, he could be a good second in command when one of us can't go on an expedition. Soldier wise, the four of them are well off. Person wise, Levi seemed to only pick one and a half with a functioning brain. If Ral keeps up her actions, I may just have to make things known to her. You shouldn't worry, Levi didn't seem to notice. Levi only loves you not some random cadet, don't worry. I kept repeating this thought, though something about her wasn't sitting right in my stomach.