Chapter twooooooooo~ = 3=~*
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DISCLAIMER!...i don't own SnK~! or the song used in here~! only my oc~!
Chapter 2: Training 1
'It's been a couple of days now...' I thought as I waited in line with Armin to get our piece of bread that the military was giving out to the refugees of shinganshina and rose district. As couple of hundreds of human were killed, and those that were safe were now taking refuge in the Trost district. Armin was standing and talking about something to me, I half listened to him as I thought about the man who saved me from that titan. '….I wonder if Levi died?' he seemed like a pretty interesting human. I hope that he didn't, I would have like to see him again and thank him. When it was our turn we got bread for all four of us and walked back to where Mikasa and Eren were waiting for us. Ever since that day Eren has been...different.
"...Eren..." I said as I held a piece of bread to him. Eren looked at it for a while before finally taking it, there was a scoff behind us and we looked to see a military personnel seeming to be glaring at us.
"What the matter with him" Eren growled out as he glared at the military personnel when he turned his back. I also looked at him, '….he's wearing the same uniform as levi, but the symbol is wrong...' I thought while starring at the two red roses on the shield.
"Thats how it goes." Armin said as he looked back at us. "Theres probably not enough food for everyone." he then looked down at his small loaf of bread, "This is an entire day's worth. Theres just too many refugees." then we all looked down at our own. I thought about telling them that this could actually be a months worth, because I have gotten less from my parents, but decided against it.
"...And you know...how humans always look down on those who live in...the outskirts." I pipped in softly, but loud enough so they heard me. Armin nodded in agreement, thats when we heard the guy who was glaring at us earlier say something.
"Hmp. Why do we have to give our food to these outsiders?" he said in disgust, then smirked as he took his eyes off of a few men fighting over bread. "I mean, the titans broke through the wall anyway. They should have eaten more of them." he stated with a smug face. Needless to say we were shocked that he said that, after all how could you want to wish that on your own kin? 'then again, these are humans...it's in their nature.'
That's when Eren marched up to them, I was a little surprise when he kicked the guy who was complaining in the shin. The man didn't seem to like that and had an angered face on as he raised his fist up and struck Eren. A wave of anger went through me, and I know Mikasa was also angry because you could just practically FEEL her anger rolling off of her. It got worse when the mans buddy came and kneed Eren down. We were marching up to them when Eren turned to face them from the floor with fury in his eyes.
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT!" he yelled out at the two men, "YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT HAPPEN WITH YOUR OWN EYES!" tears were forming at the edge of his eyes, as he continued in a quieter voice but still loud. "How the titans eat people..." The man flinched with a drop of sweat going down his head, knowing that Eren was right. He started to march up to Eren and seemed intent on punching him again, before Armin intervened.
"WE'RE SORRY!" he spouted quickly. "He's just ticked off because hes hungry! Thats why hes acting like a brat." he said with a nervous look. Meanwhile Mikasa and me went up to Eren to help him up, the men seemed to want to say more but the looks they were getting from the refugees seemed to shut them up, and they left. I watched them leave, mesmerizing their faces so I could find them later. 'I shall need to talk to them later...' and with that thought I turned back to my three friends.
"Come on, Eren." I heard Mikasa say as she lead both Armin and him back to under the covers of the building. She stopped when she noticed that I hadn't followed them. "Kazu?" she said in a question, causing both Eren and Armin to look at me with a confused look. I stared at her, then briefly glanced behind me where the men had left, to Eren's wounds, then to her. She seemed to understand and gave me a determined look, me and mikasa has had a mutual understanding when it came to Eren. He practically saved both of us in a sense, Mikasa who was orphaned, and me...who longed to be accepted and not be both physically and mentally scarred because of my odd looks. But where Mikasa would coddle him and treat him like a frail object that always needed to be protected from harm, I treated him exactly how he wanted to be treated. Like a capable person who isn't frail glass to be hidden from the world.
"...I'll be right...back..." I said as I looked behind me to see if I could spot those two men, they were nowhere to be seen. '….dammit...' I sighed mentally and looked back at my friends who were still looking at me like I was crazy. "I...have someone...to find." it was the truth, because after I deal with those two i'm going to see if I could find levi.
"Oh," it was Eren who said it "...Alright, but remember what I said on the ship, Kazu." he held up his fist with a hard stare at me "You better come back here before noon!" he declared, I nodded my head and went to find the men that had dared to harm Eren. I weaved through the crowds, searching, calling a few crows on some building to help me until I found them. They were lounging on some barrels sneering at people, they acted like they were Superior in every way. 'Disgusting...' so I went into an ally that was near them, finding a few pebbles I tossed them up and down to test their weight, then tossed the rocks hard at them. I nailed them in their heads. They looked around to see who did that until their eyes landed on me, then they yelled at me and strode to me as I back up farther into the ally.
"HEY!" the first one said as he managed to catch up. By now we were a good distance away from prying eyes and ears. The second one was no where to be seen yet, 'good.' I looked at the man in front of me. "What the fuck do you think your doing you shitty-?!" he didn't get to finish as I punched his stomach, knocking the air out of him and sending him into the wall, then to his knees wheezing. '…..Its hard holding back...' after all I didn't want his blood all over my sleeve now did I? 'I'm actually holding back a considerable amount...humans are pretty weak...or maybe its just this man from lazying around all day?' Not really letting him catch his breath I went up and kicked him hard in his face, hearing his nose break. I felt a smile tug at the edge of my mouth but resisted the urge to actually smile. Continuing I sent a punch at him, making his head collide with the ground, a large gash appeared where his forehead made contact. I went to the other side of him where he was trying to support himself with his arm, 'ah, that part is so frail...' I kicked his arm down then harshly stomped on it electing a scream from him when his arm seemed to have broken, I did the same with his legs so he couldn't just get up and retaliate.
After a bit his friend seemed to join us, he took one look at the man and then to me. I saw him reach for his sword, 'can't have that...' I ran up to him using my abnormal speed, his shocked face quickly became a horror stricken one as I bent his arm the wrong way. Making him drop his sword and kneel down yelling. Once he seemed to get a grip on himself both he ans his partner looked at me, "W-Why?" they asked. I stared at them coldly.
"Because you," I pointed to the first one "Punched Eren, and you" I pointed to the second "Kicked him down. And you also wished death upon your fellow kin, by wanting Titans to eat them." I said as I kicked the second one down to his side then stomped on his chest, cracking a fair amount of ribs in the process. They whimpered and begged, but I didn't listen to them as I glanced up to the sky and saw that the sun was already starting to go towards the horizon. 'ah, I should stop playing around with them and see if I could find any info on Levi.' and with that thought I sent a quick kick to the second guy, snapping his neck. I then walked towards the sniveling man, who's eyes widen in terror at me, and gripped the back of his neck also snapping it.
"...Now I must find Levi Rivaille." I thought out loud while washing my hands in a near by puddle. 'I should dispose of the body's...' I whistled and waited, then some dogs came out who all seemed to be starved. I knelt down to one of them and pet it lovingly "...Eat..." I said while pointing to the two body's, the dogs then started to look more feral and lunged at the two dead corpses. "...Alright then" I yawned out as I got back up and patted some imaginary dirt off of me then headed out to the streets.
While walking down a street I realized something, "Ah. Maybe I should have asked those two to see if they knew about Levi?" sighing I scolded myself for not thinking of that earlier before I killed them. Seeing as I couldn't really undo that I decided to ask the next military personnel that I see. I spent two hours looking around and every person I asked looked at me with a shocked and confused face and asked me why in the world would I be asking for him. That or they didn't know where he was. 'time to go back before Eren decides to punch me...'
A few days later, the refugees were all sent to cultivate land and secure food. But it seems that wasn't enough for the food shortage, the following year of 846 the central government launched a campaign to retake wall maria using refugees. There were 250 thousand of them sent, Armins grandfather included. But only a hundred survived, with their sacrifice the food shortage was better, even if it was only a little, for those who had survived.
Armin was holding the hat his grandfather gave him before he left, looking at it with tears streaming down his eyes. He hiccuped before he started to cry as he clutched the hat to himself.
"...The titans are to blame." Eren said as he looked down at Armin. He clutched his hands "If only we could defeat them, we would regain out place in this world." he slid down and sat next to armin as me and mikasa stood, he was silent for a moment. "Armin, I'm applying for military training next year." I heard mikasa sigh, we both knew this would happen sooner or later. I accepted the fact that eren wanted to be in the military, mikasa it seems hasn't yet. "I'll become strong enough to fight them." he said determined as he looked at the floor.
"Me too." armin said unexpectedly. We looked at him in shock, eren looked REALLY shocked which is understandable seeing as this is armin. "Me too!" he said louder and more confident.
"I'll join you too." mikasa said, 'of course you would...'
Eren tried to talk her out of it, but mikasa being mikasa refused and said it was to ensure eren's safety. 'such a mikasa answer...' I thought with a smile. After eren seemed to run out of ideas to try and talk mikasa out of it they all turned to me. "What about you Kazu?" eren asked.
"...Of course...Where Eren goes...i go." I said with a nod, and did I just see eren flush? And just get a small glare from mikasa because of eren's flush? '….ah so possessive...' I thought as I took a step towards eren and sat next to him, 'then again I am too..' and so it was decided that we would all join.
-Time skip-
"You are all now officially Members of the training unit no.104!" yelled the instructor, who had bags under his eyes and a bald head, to us as we stood in formation. "Unfortunately for you, I, Keith Shardis, will be in charge." he yelled out so everyone could hear. He continued with his speech, which had so much insults towards us, until he finished and went up and started to yell at people. He landed on Armin "Who the hell are you?!" he yelled.
"I'M ARMIN ARLART, SIR! I'M FROM SHIGANSHINA, SIR!" he said while saluting.
"Sure you are! Good name for a retard!" he retorted back. "Your parents call you that?!"
"My grandfather, sir!"
he then leaned down to armin, he seemed so unimpressed. "Arlart! Why are you here?" he asked with a fierce look.
"To contribute to mankind's victory, sir!" he answered back, the instructor proceeded to tell armin that he'll make fine feed for the titans and told his whole line to about face. He then went to torture a few more cadets. Yelling at them for not doing something right, insulting them, and grabbing them by the head for some reason.
'….This man curses just like levi...although he didn't curse that much to me...' I thought as I kept my usual blank face, and yes, I was still looking for him but I couldn't find him. He asked a man name Jean, tall, lower half of his hair shaved with the rest of the top cut short, about why he was here and the guy answered that he wanted to live in the interior, 'Isn't that the aim of practically everyone here?' I thought in disdain as I saw the instructor head but jean. Then another, named marco. He has short black hair and freckles. Marco said that he wanted to give his body up to the king. 'he's one of those happy people isn't he?' then the instructor got really close to his face and insulted him by calling him a talking sack of shit. The cadet paled so much I thought he was going to faint, he didn't but he seemed really close to doing it. Ah, and then it was my turn.
"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" he said while looking at me in the eyes. Over the two years since the incident I've grown to be 178cm, my hair got longer, which is why its in a pony tail, the top half of it is noticeably cut short, my bangs also got longer as it now fully covered my right eye. Growth spurt gone right I guess, well thats what eren told me. I saluted with a small sigh.
"Kazu Stife, sir." I answered, he seemed to study me up and down. He frowned when he saw my hair.
"WHAT ARE YOU HERE FOR?!"
'honestly im here just for eren and to see if I can find levi...' but I'm not going to tell him that. So I went with a semi truth answer, "I'm here to kill titans and to protect someone, sir." I said calmly, the instructor seemed angry by my response and I saw a few cadets look at me.
"PRIVATE!" he yelled really loudly as he got up into my face, "THIS IS NOT A PLACE FOR YOU TO BE IF THAT IS YOUR FUCKING REASON YOU PIECE OF SHIT-!"
"Does it matter sir?" I interrupted, he seemed shocked that I did. I looked at him with an icy stare, "Does it really matter as to why my reason for being here is? Should it not be enough that I kill titans and satisfy my need to kill on them and not on a human?" he was taken aback , as were a lot of people around me as they shifted nervously, and I continued. "I am not here for humanity sir, I am here for one simple goal that I have told you." I saw him shiver as he looked into my eyes, "And I will destroy anything that gets in the way of that goal, even if I have to give up my sanity to do it...Sir." I finished and went back to looking in front of me. The instructor stood there for a few moments with wide eyes before he turned and left to find someone else to torture with his words.
He then went to a male named connie,who had a shaved head and was pretty small, who saluted the wrong way and got his head grabbed by the instructor, lifting him off the ground and looked like he was crushing it. But before he could continue he saw a girl, red-brown hair in a ponytail who seemed very nervous, that was eating a potato. 'what the hell?' I thought with a quirked eyebrow. He started to talk to her but she didn't seem to notice that it was her that he was talking to. Until he got up in her face and full out yelled at her, which caused her to eat faster (she reminded me of a squirrel that I once saw), she then saluted with the potato still In her hand. Her name was sasha, and when the instructor asked what was in her hand she looked at him with pity and said that she couldn't believe that he didn't know what a potato was, 'this girl is an idiot.' and with great reluctance she tore the potato in half and gave it to the instructor saying that he should try it. That got her to run laps until she dropped.
"still running?" I asked Eren as he nodded while he looked at her still running. Thats kinda impressive, it's been five hours since she's been told to run, and shes still going...although she looks ready to drop at any minute. Eren and a few of the other people who were around started to talk about her, then eren saw a carriage and asked what it was. "...Dropouts" I answered and he looked at me with a disbelief face. "...They asked to be transferred to the landfills."
"Seriously? But it's only the first day!" connie said looking at it leaving.
"It's only natural." eren said, "Those without strength have no place here." then everyone looked at him, eren never took his eyes off of the carriage "But still, wanting to pick up rocks and pull weeds..." he trailed off with a slightly disappointed look.
"That reminds me," the male-marco?-said as he got up from leaning on the railing and turning towards me, armin and eren, "You weren't asked where you were from and all that."
eren smiled a bit and patted armins and my shoulder, though he had to reach up to do mine, and answered "All three of us are from Shiganshina." everyone was shocked.
"oh...so..." marco began with a sad face
"Does that mean you guy's were there in that day?" connie asked, marco looked shocked by connies bluntness then connie continued with a hint of excitement "Did you see it? The Behemoth Eoten?"
Eren seemed uncomfortable with answering, but he did so anyway. "yeah.." then we went to the dinning hall, and everyone somehow found out where we were from so they surrounded me and eren, because Armin didn't want to be involved with this and mikasa was somewhere else, and started to ask questions. Eren mostly answered, he know how I am when it comes to people besides him, armin, or mikasa. "Like I said, I've seen it." eren said in a little irritation as he tried to eat. They proceeded to ask questions, like how big it was, what it looked like, etc. "Big enough for the head to peak over the wall." he answered with a sigh.
"What?"
"But I heard it could step over the wall!"
"Me too!"
"The people in my village said that too!"
"...It wasn't that big..." I pipped in with furrow brows, 'humans and their imaginations I swear...' I thought with a sigh, before I went back to eating my soup.
"What did it look like?" a girl ask, and eren told them about how it had no skin and how big it's mouth was.
"What about the Armored Eoten that smashed through wall maria?" another asked.
"Thats what tgeir calling it, but to me it looked like a normal Eoten." eren said.
"T-Then," a man stuttered who was right in front of us. "What are the normal ones like" and with that question eren froze up, he started to shake a bit and dropped his spoon as he covered his mouth as if he was to hurl. I scowled at that, 'these fucking humans made him remember about what happened to his mother!'
"That enough!" I yelled at them while I patted erens back, they all flinched and stared at me. I gave them a glare and they all backed away a step. That was when marco told them to stop questioning us. I sent a nod to marco for that before turning back to eren.
"...Sorry about all the que-" connie started but was interrupted by eren.
"Thats not it!" he said then took a bite from his bread. "Eotenas are really just a bunch of pussies." he said with a sweat drop. He started to go on about how he could beat them if he masters the maneuver gear, and now that hes a cadet he can fight them. I lifted my arms from erens back and stood up. "Kazu? Where you going? You barley ate anything!" he said while pointing at my barely touched food.
I stopped mid step and glanced at him then to the food before walking again "...Fine, use to not eating much." I said softly and walked out. The girl was still running when I saw her. I walked around for a while, not really going anywhere specific, as I hummed a song that I remember hearing a while ago, before unconsciously singing it out loud.
Come little children,
I'll take thee away~,
Into the land of Encha~ntment~.
Come little children,
the times come to play~,
here in my garden of,
Sha~aaaaaa~dows~.
Follow sweet children,
I'll show thee the way,
Through all the pain and the so~rrows,
Weep not poor children,
for life is this way~,
Murdering beauty and passions~.
Hush now dear children,
It must be this way,
To weary of life and deceptions.
Rest now my children,
For soon we'll away,
Into the calm and quiet~.
-vocal 'wooos' of the instrument part-
Come little children,
I'll take thee away~,
Into the land of Encha~ntment~.
Come little children,
the times come to play~,
here in my garden of,
Sha~aaaaaa~dows~.
I heard clapping from behind me and so I turned to find Eren, mikasa and armin. Along with a few other cadets looking at me with awe. '…..i was singing out loud again wasn't I?' I thought and sighed. They all approached me and praised me for my voice.
"It's been a while since we heard you sing Kazu!" Armin chirped with a small smile. "I haven't heard it since, what, since Eren had trouble sleeping when we first arrived in the trost district?" he asked mikasa as she nodded.
"H-HEY!" Eren yelled in embarrassment as he looked at armin, "YOU DIDN'T NEED TO SAY THAT OUT LOUD!" he said frantically as he blushed. I rolled my eyes at them as I walked up to eren and grabbed him by the back of his shirt and started to drag him to the mens barracks. "O-OI! KAZU-! HEY! STOP I CAN WALK-OI! IM TALKING TO YOU! KAAAAAAZZZUUUU!" he protested all the way until we arrived and went to our beds.
I looked at my bed that was one of the top bunks across from eren's who's a bit lower then mine. '…..This is to far apart...' I thought with a frown, so I climbed down to where eren's was, with my pillow, and laid down next to him to sleep. He flinched when he felt the bed move and he looked at me with a confused expression.
"Kazu what are you doing?!" he whisper-yelled at me as I started to get comfortable.
"...Eren is to far..." was all I said while curling up. I heard him sigh before he also laid back down and went to bed.
The next morning we were doing the aptitude test. Which is being able to balance while being strung up. Me, mikasa, jean, connie and sasha were up first and the only ones who seemed to struggle a bit out of us were connie and jean. Sasha was just swinging without a care in the world, mikasa...well mikasa was being her usual self, not really looking like she had any troubles at all, and me...well I guess it was just like mikasa. '…..this is actually relaxing.' I sighed as the air picked up a bit, so I closed my eyes to enjoy the feeling of it. That was until I heard the instructor yelling at Eren. Looking over I could see a huge crowd gathering around where eren was, I couldn't see so I turned to the man next to the lever. "Pull me up more." he raised an eyebrow at me but did it anyway, sending me higher up and I could now see that eren was upside down. With the instructor yelling and insulting him. Eren was in shock as he swung there, I frowned as I saw a few people snickering at him.
After that whole incident we decided to try and help eren with his problem. "you should be able o do it if you stick to the basics." mikasa said as me and armin strapped eren in. "You needn't try anything fancy. And gently put your weight on your waist and hip harnesses." she explained.
"Relax, you can do this." Armin pipped in. eren looked pretty doubtful, he turned to me with a face asking if he could really do it. I nodded and he took a deep breath and told armin he was ready. And as soon as his feet were off the ground, he swayed then flipped forward hitting his head pretty hard on the ground.
"EREN!" mikasa and armin yelled in alarm as we rushed up to him. I unhooked him and armin went to keep him steady, he was bleeding slightly. But mikasa went full out protector mode and picked him up then rushed to the medical tent. Leaving me and armin behind.
"...so then..." I started making armin look towards me, "Lets go to the cafeteria. We can save them a seat for when they get back." I said with a shrug and started to walk. I saw armin slump his shoulders then nod and started to walk with me. When we arrived all eyes were on us, well more like the female eyes were on me, sending a shiver up my spine in disgust. '….i don't see why females seem to project there hormones for everyone to see.' I thought in distaste as I saw some of them blushing and sneaking glances at me. After a while of waiting mikasa and eren came in, but it seems eren was still in shock as he sat down with his food.
"Wasn't that guy bragging about killing all the Eotenas last night?" I heard a man at a table not far from ours say, I looked over to see him and two others looking over at eren with smug expressions. "looks like he'll be on his way to the landfills tomorrow. We can't afford to feed good-for-nothings around here." I narrowed my eyes at him and made for my spoon, intent to throw it very hard at his eye.
"Eren" mikasa said before I heard a small crack from where she grabbed erens shoulder. He snapped out of it then looked down at his food.
"Don't let it get you down." armin started from across mikasa. "You can do it tomorrow." he encouraged with a small smile, but it seems that eren didn't exactly agree.
"pathetic." he said to himself, I furrowed my brows in concern at him "I can't hope to exterminate them. Not like this." he seemed really down about it, he didn't even lift his eyes up. Mikasa told him to just give up in it, startling all three of us. "what'd you just say?" eren asked in slight anger.
"I'm saying you should give up on being a soldier." she wasn't even looking at him, "Throwing your life away is not the only way to fight." she concluded.
"Oh, come on." he said angrily "I've seen what they could do! You think i'll be content not facing them directly?"
Mikasa's eyebrow furrowed, "Your feelings are irrelevant." she said a little louder. 'uh-oh, they both seem to be getting angry.'
"What? Why?!" eren demanded.
She finally looked at him "Because you're not the only one who gets to decide whether you can be a soldier." eren flinched at that. Then the bell rang, making everyone get up and leave. "...i' not saying you have to go back to the landfills by yourself." she said softly. But me, eren and armin already got up and left, leaving her alone with sasha who seemed to be eyeing mikasa's food.
BYE~ BYE~! xD
songs called come little children by the way~! = w=