hey there! Sorry about the late chapter~ i had a lot of shit going on in school, (most of that had to do with ROTC, the parade, and SCL's) and i was working on my KHR fanfic: Passing days. i'll try to moderate more between the two, so one story will be updated one week and then the other the next.

so without further-ado~ HERE YOU GO~!

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Disclaimer~ i don't own SNK!...if i did then...well if you read the latest chapter i would not have had that happen! (cry cry cry)

Chapter 4: Corporal Levi

I sighed, today was the day that instructor shardis arranged the meeting, not to mention today's also a day that we're suppose to train with our gear which is my favorite type of training (I even had my full gear on), with levi. Who, un-bestowed to my knowledge, was a corporal. I was sitting in a comfy room, the chairs and couches were very comfy. I looked around and saw a clock on the wall, it showed that i've been sitting here for a good 10-20 minutes, I sighed again as I took up the cup of tea provided and sipped it. '…...He's taking a while...' I laid back into the couch while setting my tea-cup on my lap. Closing my eyes I thought about what I was going to do after this meeting, after all, I did spent a few years just looking for him. So what would I do after this whole thing when I spent my free time searching for him. '...i guess I could help train eren in my free time?...' then I heard some muffled voices from the other side of the door and footsteps. I sat up straight and looked towards the door with curiosity.

The door opened and the first person to come in, was instructor shardis, then came in a tall man with neat blond hair, blues eyes, and a strong jawline. 'Ah, this must be commander erwen.' I thought as he went and sat on the chair to me left while shardis sat on the chair opposite to him, one more person came in through the door. He had short black hair, sliver sharp eyes that had an irritated look to them, a frown set in place with a loom that said 'i-don't-want-to-be-here' and full gear on as well, the most noticeable thing was...his short stature. He walked over to sit across from me on the other couch across the table. I stared at him, and I just knew that was levi, but I had to be certain. He didn't seemed to have noticed me, Until he looked up and saw me, his eyes seemed to flicker recognition and his jaw slacked a bit.

"Commander," shardis said while looking at him, "This is Cadet Kazu Strife. The one I talked to you about." Erwen hummed in response as he looked at me...or more specificity my weird hair color and eyes. "As I have said in an earlier talk with you, I asked for this meeting with The corporal here as per requested by Strife." I poured a cup of tea for shardis, which he gladly took and sipped before continuing. "But thats not the only reason I came here with Strife today, it is also because I wanted to know if he was good enough to join the corporals team." Erwen 'hmm'ed then turned to me.

"Hello there, I'm commander Erwen of the recon corps. And this," he gestures to levi who still seemed pretty dazed, "Is Corporal Rivaille, as im sure you know since you've requested to talk with us." he then held out his hand, I stared down at it.

"Hello commander." I said with no interest as I ignored the hand offered, 'what is it with humans and physical contact?' I thought with a slight frown, because honestly there shouldn't be so much touching when humans decide to greet or introduce themselves to another. The commander seemed confused as to why I ignored his hand and slowly lowered it back to his side, while picking up a cup of tea and drinking from it. I regarded him for a few more seconds then looked at levi. He seemed to be out of his dazed state and took notice of me. "...Hello...Levi..." I said slowly and softly.

"...Never thought i'd see you again shitty brat." he said with a raised eyebrow. He seemed uninterested at the moment, although he seems to be concerned about something, then again I can't really tell with his grouchy face. 'it's on par with being unreadable eith my own stoic one...' I thought in amusement. He looked down as I handed him his own tea, he took it and stared at it in thought before speaking again, "What the hell are you doing here anyway, brat?" he glanced up at me.

I quirked an eyebrow, was levi concerned about me? I dismissed it, thinking that maybe he just wanted to know why I was wasting his time."Levi...ah, wait it should be corporal rivaille now shouldn't it?" I chuckled, all three of them, ok so levi seemed to be a little angered at my laughing at his title, gave me looks. "I came here today because I was looking for you, for the past few years might I add." Erwen's eyebrow's shot up in surprise of what I said, he looked at him then back to me.

"...Levi, you know cadet Strife?" he asked as he looked at me like I was strange. Levi looked to the side for a while, avoiding anyone's gaze. When it was clear that he wasn't going to say anything erwen sighed then turned to me, "Cadet strife do you care to explain as to how you know levi?" I was silent for a while, decided whether or not to tell him, then after a minute or two I thought why the hell not? 'Besides Instructor Shardis would probably tell him later on or something...' so I told him. All about how Levi saved me and about the 15m titan, and he seemed rather surprised when he heard my survival. 'looks like I should really stop telling people this.' levi even looked surprised. 'oh, right I didn't have the time to tell him about that...'

It was silent for a few moments until I decided to break it, "So, that's the whole reason as to why i'm here." I stated while getting up and going around to stand next to where levi was sitting, I bowed "Thank you for Saving me Levi Rivaille, and for letting me reunite with Eren." I then straightened up to find that levi had also stood up. I looked down at him and stared... "huh...I remember you being so much taller then this Levi..." I wondered out loud as I examined him. 'maybe it was because I had a smaller body that he seemed fairly tall?' I mused, not noticing the furious look on levi's face or the groaning of both the commander and shardis. I looked at them when I heard their groans and sighs of pain. I raised a brow at them, "Whats the matter?" I asked. They both pointed at levi, who seemed to be livid and glaring at me.

"What the hell did you say brat?!" he growled at me. Confused at his sudden anger I replayed what I said.

"I was commenting on how short you are, levi." I said while shrugging. Then levi tried to make me fall by swiping at my feet, I jumped back before he could and he started to march towards me, well it was more like sprinting with murderous intent, and pulled out the swords from his gear. "Levi you shouldn't be using those inside!" I yelled at him while jumping out the window, did I mention we were on the third floor?, and landed on my feet. I looked up and saw levi also jumping out and aiming his gear at the ground and shooting. "...maybe I shouldn't have mentioned his height?" I mumbled as I rolled out of the way and used my own gear, aiming at a building and successfully hooking, and getting away.

I heard his wires shooting behind me as I chanced a glance back and there he was. Wow was he angry. "Is There a reason as to why your chasing me?" I yelled back at him while hooking to another building, using the momentum I made a turn and headed for the tree area that we usually use for training with our gear.

"Get back here brat!" he yelled out as he started to gain on me. '…..well he isn't called humanity's strongest for nothing I guess...' and with that I sped up my speed, exhausting my gas at a very quick rate. But that didn't really matter at the moment, seeing as I had a trump card and the fact that levi seemed intent on maiming me...or trying to at least.

I saw a group of cadets up ahead and got an idea, I glanced back at levi who was almost in range with his blades, then shot my wires out at a tree to my left then quickly let go and fell a few feet then shot back out to another tree, going under the cadets.

"UWA?!"

"THE HELL?"

"AH! HEY KAZU!"

"OI! KAZU WHAT WAS THAT-?!"

I saw levi just go straight through them, not caring that he just knocked out a few cadets, and charge right towards me. I sighed and turned back around and increased my speed, maneuvering around and under branches trying to lose levi. 'how ironic, i've been trying to find levi for the past few years, and I found him only to run from him like my life depended on it.' I chuckled under my breath. I started to slow down, I guess my gas is about done, and glanced back towards levi. He was also slowing down but was a lot closer now, his swords were put away. 'I see that he realized that pulling his swords out were a bit drastic.' good, now I don't have to deal with that, I made a mental note to not bring up his height anymore incase I see him often.

-A few minuets later-

I had to land on a tree branch because I was officially out of gas, levi landed right next to me, he didn't seem to want to kill me right now.

"calmed down have you?" I asked while crossing my arms and looking down at him. He huffed in annoyance then sat down. I sat down next to him, and it was silent for a moment or two.

"...shouldn't you get going? You've already said your thanks." he said while staring straight ahead at him, did he seem to forget that the only reason we stopped was because we were both out of gas? I hummed in response and laid down on my back. 'well...now what?' I thought as I followed a cloud traveling across the sky. "well? You going to answer me strife?"

"Kazu."

"what?" he asked as he looked at me. I met his eyes and we held that stare for a while.

"Call me by first name, after all, I call you 'Levi' instead of corporal." I said with a shrug, he stared at me like I was an idiot. I quirked an eyebrow at him. He huffed and looked back ahead, not before hitting me in the stomach though. "...ow..." I said. Didn't hurt, but thought I should just humor him.

"...whatever...kazu..." he mumbled my name but I heard it. I didn't actually expect him to call me by name. I smiled slightly and sat up right.

"you know, im surprised..." I started and he glanced at me, he had a questioning look at my sudden statement, "...well...i never would have expected you to remember me after all..." I said in a sigh. I saw him roll his eyes and scoff. "What?"

"How could I not remember a brat that was still near the destroyed wall, almost eaten by a 15m titan, and have white hair and eyes?" he stated with a smirk. I nodded my head, 'well, who actually sees a kid survive by themselves and have white hair?' I thought. We sat there for a while longer until the sun started to set.

"...we should probably get back, should we not?" I said.

"hm." levi responded in agreement, but we didn't really move, we just sat there. I must say, levi is pleasant company. He doesn't make me want to kill him, and he doesn't make me think that he's a stupid self centered scrawny human that can't do anything. 'And that's usually impossible with humans...' I saw levi looking at me from the side of my eye. "so, brat." he started as he shifted to face me, "Are you going to actually try and join the recon corps?" he asked.

"well..." I started and thought about it, that would mean fighting for humans. And that didn't really sit well with me, why should I fight for those pieces of shit's? 'but then again Eren wants to join it...' I reasoned out. There was no way I was going to let eren go alone into it, no doubt mikasa will go as well and maybe even armin. If so then I would have to join either way. I looked at levi, he waited for my answer, and nodded. "Well, if I get to kill titans then...yes. I'll join. But why are you asking? I still have training to do."

"true, but from what I saw from your files you are ahead of everyone in your squadron." he said while getting up and dusting himself off, 'well thats because im not human.' "And at the rate you're going, then you'll practically have already graduated in a few weeks. So i'll just pull you out earlier then others, it'd be a waste to both yours and humanity's time if you stayed in there for the remainder of the training period." he stated.

"oh..." but that would mean I'd have to separate from eren. I furrowed my brows, "I don't want to leave eren." I mumbled, and I thought I saw levi's eye twitch? Probably not.

"That and apparently the other copr's have their eyes on you as well." he said with an irritated tone. Wait what? I looked at him as I got up, he sighed "It seems someone has leaked your file to the other corp factions. And if we don't recruit you then they'll most likely pull some strings to get you there. Even if you don't want to go." he informed me with a frown, no doubt he thinks that the other corp's are scum for doing such underhanded tactics, because I know I was.

I thought about refusing, But if eren found out that I had a chance to get into the recon corps, or any other ones, and didn't take it he'd yell at me and tell me to go and pick. Sighing I scratched the back off my head. 'well looks like im leaving earlier then expected.' I thought. "Alright, when will I leave and move to the recon corp's?" I asked.

"In a few days, we have to get your paperwork filed out and get you a room." he said then turned around and looked down, "We need to inform Erwen...but before that we need to figure out how to get the hell down from here." he said while glaring at the ground, as if that would magically help us, and sighed in irritation. I got an idea, I went up to levi and sighed. No doubt he'll hate me for doing this. "? What? Do you have an i-?!" he was interrupted when I picked him up and carried him bridal style, just as he did when I was little. "HEY! PUT ME THE FU-!"

I jumped off the tree branch using all of my strength, was that the sound of the branch breaking?, and landed on the branch a few 20m ahead of us, then did it again. The whole way levi was fuming for suddenly doing that. I snickered or openly laughed at him, it was pretty funny to see him like this. 'this is going to be interesting.'

When we got back, through the window we first jumped out of, erwen and shardis was still there. They looked at us and snickered, shardis had to turn away to hide his laughing face, while erwen just openly laughed at levi. After calming levi down we sat down and discussed my transfer into the corps, shardis congratulated me and said that I could still attend the next few days until I was gone. I was to be in levi's group, seeing as he's already acquainted with me, and would share rooms with the other members until I got my own. Levi's room was included, much to his fury, and was to be the first room I was going to be in. then I took my leave back to the mens barracks where armin and eren was waiting for me with a worried look.

"KAZU!" he yelled and sprinted up towards me, he checked me from top to bottom. "Where were you!? I couldn't find you at all!" he looked up at me with a frown and slight tears in his eyes, "I thought you had disappeared!" I sighed. 'I need to tell him.'

"Eren, im leaving the training." and once I said that the whole barracks got quiet. They all stopped talking and looked at me with wide eyes. Eren's eyes were of horror, armins was of disbelief. I held up my hand before eren and armin could say anything. "No. im not leaving because im incompetent or am tired of it-" 'even if I am tired of the training...' " nor did i get kicked out of it." I explained, eren's face went from horror to confusion.

"Then why are you leaving?" Armin said with just as a confused face.

"Yeah! If you weren't kicked out and you're not leaving because of the training, then why are you leaving?" connie asked as he stepped towards us. Jean and marco was coming up to me as well, reiner and bertholdt were up on their bunks listening to the conversation.

'I was only going to tell eren, ugh, nosy humans.' I sighed as I passed them and went towards erens and my bunk, that I occupied because I couldn't sleep without eren by my side, then sat down with a yawn getting out of my uniform.

"Kazu?" Eren asked as he sat next to me. He really wanted to know why I was leaving, and it made me happy that eren cared.

"I was recruited by Corporal Rivaille to join the recon corp's." I said and everyone's eyes widened in shock. Eren was taken aback as was armin by the news. I looked at eren with a slight sad smile, "...I took it and now I will leave within a few days...Are you mad, eren?" I asked as he seemed to have frozen. Maybe he'll think I abandoned him. Maybe he'll be mad at me for leaving and going into his dream corp's. I'm not sure how i'll react to erens anger towards me, the only time he ever been angry at me was when he punched me on the boat. Eren hadn't said anything, and I was growing concerned. "...Eren?"

"...T-Thats..." he started as he looked down, he was trembling. "...THATS GREAT!" he said loudly and excitedly with admiration in his eyes. Now I was taken aback. He leaned forward in childish glee, the others also yelled out how great it was for me, "I KNEW YOU WERE INCREADIBLE KAZU!" he yelled as he practically jumped up and down.

"...you're...not...mad?" I said slowly while raising a cautious eyebrow. Eren was shocked.

"Eh? Why would I be mad?" he asked while tilting his head. I stared at him, and decided that eren wasn't like that so of course he wouldn't be mad. I told him to forget about it, the whole barrack went back to what they were doing with the new topic of me leaving fairly earlier then the rest. Me, armin and eren sat and talked, first about their gear training and all the mistakes that some of the cadets made. Then about how two people zoomed past a group of them and was knocked over by a blur of black hair, 'oops' and how mikasa fretted over eren and how annoyed said boy was about it. Then finally to my graduating early. We then went to sleep, and I felt sad that I wasn't going to be near eren for a while. Since I know he'll enlist for the recon corp's, then im sure we'll see each-other again. Hopefully he'll be in levis squad, if not then i'll be able to see him around. I felt eren snuggle into me some more because tonight was pretty cold, I wrapped my arms around him and thought about how many more nights i'll get to sleep next to eren...oh god was that a mikasa thought?

'…..five days...' I thought and sighed while burying my head in erens hair, '…..maybe I should have re thought this.'

BYE~! 0 w0