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Rated: T

She was not happy.

In fact, she was downright infuriated and Souta winced, knowing that was bottling it up all inside as she struggled to keep the impassive expression on her face, "Nee-chan?"

"I'm not blaming you, Souta," Kagome sighed, "I'm not angry with you either. I just... want you to know that we may be on the run for the next while."

Souta slowly looked down at the ground, "I guess this is a really bad time to tell you that I was thinking of joining the military, ne?" His voice almost lowered into a whisper and he winced again when a tense silence followed.

It honestly took a few seconds for the words to actually sink into her mind, "Are you insane?!" Kagome hissed, grabbing onto Souta's shoulders and squeezing tightly, "That's the exact opposite of laying low!"

"It's better than running away all the time!" Souta could not help his frustration from bursting through, "You would be one of the strongest soldiers alive if you did join the military, Nee-chan! We would be guaranteed food every day!"

"I have perfect control over my power," Kagome retorted coldly, "What about you? It would take just one slip-up and you would be hauled away from experiments at best and executed at worst!"

"But we have the ability to help these people from those giant monsters!" Souta's tone grew desperate, "And you heard Levi, didn't you?! He's going to come after you anyways!"

"I'll deal with that when it comes," Kagome rubbed at her temple, "Why can't you see that I'm only trying to protect you?"

"Just give up, Nee-chan!" Souta snapped, "We're stuck here! We aren't ever going home again!" He immediately felt bad when Kagome's expression fell, but the words just kept tumbling from his lips, "The sooner you realise that, the sooner we can have semi-normal lives here!"

"Souta!" Kagome was taken back when her brother quickly took off in his anger, "Come back!" She followed after him, knowing his anger would swiftly burn away.

In the mean time, she cursed Levi.

~00~

"Where have you been?"

The question didn't surprise Levi as he stepped into Erwin's office without even bothering to knock, "I have found something that requires your attention." He smirked when the Commander raised a thick brow.

"Which would be?" Erwin asked, breaking eye contact as he focused on his paperwork once more, "And no, we have used too much of our budget on cleaning supplies already."

"Tch, and that will never be enough," Levi grumbled, "I have found someone worth going after and, much like myself at the time, needs a little... convincing."

Erwin instantly abandoned his paperwork and furrowed his brows, "Are you sure?" He asked, standing up behind his desk, "Is this person worth the effort?"

"Yes," Levi's smirk widened, "I'm sure she would rank high in the Survey Corps once we capture her," He observed the blond, not seeing any shock on the man's face, "And there's an easy way of getting to her."

They had a brother to catch.