CHAPTER 7: BETRAYAL AND CONFLICT
[Continuation of Day 3]

What would happen when Mikasa would know about the alliance's "plan" which they executed on her and Eren just earlier? Will she just let it slide or will she get mad about it? Also, what would Eren do?


"Ahh…Mikasa, I should head back now…You know, the Special Ops squad might kill me when they knew that I ditched them...AGAIN…I'm really frightened of how Petra-san and worse, Levi-heichou would stare at me like death is going to befall me soon. I hope you FINALLY have peace of mind, you innocent idiot!" Eren fidgeted and paced away from his companion, leaving her staring blankly at the opposite direction.

Eren continued to walk away with a clouded mind...he should not be thinking about it...he should even be happy but..."It's a surprise she did not say something like 'I won't let Petra-san or that midget do anything to you, Eren!'" he muttered...He felt guilty. He felt ashamed of himself. He felt disgusted of himself, "Tsk! Why do I even care!?"

As Eren went out of sight, Mikasa's attention was quickly caught as she heard the sound of someone stumbling on the ground, she turned her back and soon discovered that it was actually Sasha and worse, with the rest of the "alliance."

"Ughh! Dang it, Sasha! Now Mika-" Ymir stopped talking as she realized that Mikasa already noticed them, "Uh oh…"

"Ehh…Mikasa…uhmm…" Krista began to stutter while not knowing what excuse to tell her so-called "sort-of-betrayed" friend.

Hanji and Sasha exchanged looks which said, "Now what!?"

"Have you been following me…no, us…?" it wasn't unusual to see an expressionless face when it regarded Mikasa but this time, she was really making a great deal of an obvious effort to keep it up. Her eyes narrowed all the more for hopes to have an intimidating effect as the other girls just stared at her with faces that dripped with sweat. Mikasa began to suspect something fishy…

Ymir cleared her throat. She felt like the responsibility for apologizing to Mikasa rested on her shoulders since it was all originally her plan, "Sorry Mikasa, we took advantage of your innocence…and kidded around…AND OUR PLAN WORKED!"

"DAMN YOU YMIR!" It was Krista's first time to curse.

"Oh, you could curse!?" Ymir was caught in surprise as well as all the girls.

Sasha, Krista and Hanji's eyes widened but theirs were not even close to how Mikasa's eyeballs seemed to pop out due to shock…and the feeling of slight anger. Mikasa drew the attention back to Ymir's confession, "You…what…?"


Eren tried to get back to work without getting noticed by his higher-ups but it was too late, Gunther, Eldo and Auruo were already staring at him. The only thing he could mutter to himself was "It's better this way...better than if Levi-heichou or Petra-san were the ones who caught me sneaking out instead!"

His classmates looked at him while continuing cleaning the cannons, their surprised expression remained the same as before he and Mikasa left to go to the hospital and have her checked up.

"What the hell are you staring for!?" he burst out, getting irritated as they still continued to eye him.

"Eren...I'll kill you!" Jean 'gently' rampaged and punched him on the face.

"Damn you! What's you're problem!?" The punched guy stumbled on the floor while massaging his cheek.

The other guys restrained Jean as he was about to hit Eren again.

Gunther, Eldo and Auruo stared at them laughingly even though it was getting a little bit of a dire situation. A realization hit the three at exactly the same time, "THIS IS BAD! Levi heichou might notice the commotion and witness us not trying to fix it!"

"Oi children! Stop fighting your asses off!" Auruo said in a manner similar to Levi's though it wasn't much of a success.

Everyone froze when they saw an orange-haired girl walking to towards them...Petra.

"Auruo, you really aren't like Levi heichou...not in the slightest!" she stared at him sharply. She really hated it when he acted like the captain.

Eren looked at all the guys one after another as Petra's appearance kind of caught him off guard, "Don't say anything that could lead to my doom!" he seemed to say.

"Oh Eren...it's good to see you here instead of suddenly disappearing without permission!" she went towards the teenager and pinched his ear. It reminded Eren of how his mom always teased him when he worked hard, always stating that it was a miracle or something unusual.

"...Tsk! You're just like my mother...Petra-san..." Eren clutched his ear.

"Well, I bet she's going to practice to become a mother for our future chi-" Auruo bit his tongue.

"Shut up Auruo!" Petra yelled at him.

"Duh Auruo...We all know who's the only man in this world she would gladly marry, right?" Eldo blurted.

"What was that supposed to mean, huh Eldo!?" Petra was getting all flustered, all the more because their juniors finally saw how childish they, their higher ups could get despite their age.

Thanks to the rest of the Special Ops friendly argument, Eren was dismissed of being under suspicion of ditching work by Petra.

"Everyone! Let's celebrate! By the way, why didn't you bring Mikasa here?" Armin raised his clutched fist in the air.

"For what?" Eren asked out of curiosity

"You can be very dumb..." Connie joined the conversation.

"What else for...?" Reiner answered Eren with another question

"You seriously don't know?" Bertholdt asked Eren too.

"Oi! I'm the one who asked first! Don't answer me with another question!" Eren was getting pissed as they did not answer his one goddamn question yet.

Jean gathered all the breath he can to yell as loud as possible on his confused rival, "YOU MORON! FOR THE BABY OF COURSE, YOU LUCKY BASTARD!"

"Baby? What baby? Whose baby?" Petra was shaking her head due to confusion.

"We and the youngsters here have been discussing all about it for a while now but you, Petra, just stuck yourself to your Levi heichou like glue. TOO BAD!" Eldo teased her.

Eren's memory of what happened just moments earlier backfired at him, he's face started heating up, which can be comparable to the warmness of titan flesh, "Are you dumb, Mikasa is not pr-" his words went back as he got startled of hearing the loud sound of a cannon mounted on the walls being fired.

"Shit! Everything got clouded in this stupid brain of mine...I wasn't thinking and fired a cannon for a kind of 'fireworks effect' for the celebration of Eren's parenthood..." Gunther told them horrifyingly as everyone looked at him with eyes filled with terror.

Silence came..all of them were expecting sermons to come as soon as possible. Many of the garrison soldiers soon appeared.

"What happened?"

"Was that a canon being fired!?"

"OI! Don't fire when you aren't ordered to!"

"We aren't in battle!"

Yeah, they knew that those words would come soon after but those weren't really what they expected...those really weren't what they feared the most. And it came...

"What the hell did you just do?" Levi's piercing eyes shifted from one of them to another.

"Ehh...heichou..." Auruo tried to reason out but he really did not know what to say.

"It's my fault, heichou! I accidentally dropped the cannon shell! You see, Eren here..." Gunther unhesitatingly told the furious captain.

"Tsk! Leave the newbies here! Follow me!" Levi ordered his handpicked soldiers and Eren.

The Special Ops were about to leave when a teary eyed Krista suddenly appeared and launched herself with open arms towards Petra, "Petra-san...!"

"Ahh...why are you crying, Krista?" she replied

"We have just done something terrible..." Hanji told the uninvolved Petra.

"She said 'You have angered me' to us and walked away in an instant! Can you believe that!?" Sasha began to sob as well.

"...And it was all my plan...and mostly my fault..." Ymir sighed.

Petra noticed that Mikasa was the only one missing from the group, "What did you do to Mikasa, guys...?"

A spark occurred on Eren. He suddenly got angry, "You fooled her, right? You took advantage of her innocence! How fucking can you!?"

"That's what I've been telling everyone, Eren...but I'm to be blamed as well..." Krista responded.

"Hey, what did you exactly just do to Mikasa? What's this innocence you're talking about?" Petra still remained confused. She felt being left out, thanks to being a part of the Special Ops squad.

"It was just a silly joke...I did not know that she would really feel angry once she learned we were just fooling around with her..." Ymir tried to argue.

"What should we do!?" Sasha was now pulling the locks of hair that framed the sides of her face because of the tension.

"Oh god, just tell me what you did or told her already!" the left out Petra demanded.

The 104th trainees squad boys and the rest of the Special Ops squad stared awkwardly at each other. It was weird but they seemed to get curious of what the women were talking about and not knowing that they have already actually listened to every word they had to say. Even Levi did and unconsciously, he was trying to assess the situation in his mind.

"We made her think that she was pregnant even though nothing really happened between her and Eren and got her to go and have a check up. I did not expect her to be so dumb about it...Haha-" Even though she tried so hard to contain her laughter, Ymir just can't, resulting to Krista smacking her.

"You should feel guilty instead of just laughing like you've not done anything wrong!" the flow of the tears on Krista's eyes became stronger and faster.

"It was just a joke..." Ymir kept on emphasizing.

The men did not know how to react...except for Gunther, "Now the cannon shell I just fired to signify Eren's parenthood came to a waste..."

"Gunther-san, that's your concern!?" Eren's eyes widened.

"I did not know that Ackerman was the innocent type..." Auruo stated.

"Gaah...a genius can be dumb too..." Gunther remarked

Eren's guy classmates shook their heads, "tsk tsk tsk tsk"

"You're all...mea-" Petra was about to scold the "alliance" when Levi cut her off.

"You're all stupid women. Special Ops, let's go! Getting involved on unworthy matters aren't our jobs. Hanji, don't you have work to do? You aren't some new member, you're a squad leader! Get your face out of here and back to your experiments! Eren, you're coming with us as well."

"SO MEAN AND COLD!" the girls muttered to themselves.

Everyone stared at where Eren was standing...supposedly standing...He was no longer there! Levi's eyebrow twitched due to irritation, "That idiot could really find himself locked on a prison cell sooner or later, not that we care."

"He's gone to see how Mikasa's doing, I guess..." Armin suddenly talked after being quiet for a long time.

"Damn, not again!" The Special Ops squad said in unison.

"Pffft! It's not like Eren's your baby..." Connie was trying to contain his laughter as he embraced his stomach.

"What. Did. You. Say?" They all stared at Connie as if he was a roasted turkey they were ready to gobble.


"Sheez! What the hell was I thinking!? Putting that kind of emo drama in front of Krista and the rest. I'm like a child!" Mikasa was muttering to herself until she realized that she had already gone on one of the forests inside Wall Rose which means she was very far away from everyone.

The inside of her head had a swaying motion, she was feeling dizzy. Soon, her stomach growled. She completely forgot to fill her stomach again since she vomited everything she ate for breakfast earlier, "Damn! I'm hungry and I've gone far away from town! I hope there's some fruits or vegetables or anything in this forest just to fill my stomach" she was talking all alone but in a loud manner.

Mikasa heard something. It was like there was something beating hard, something beating a tree. She slightly shivered in fear of the possibility that it was a titan, even though she was inside Wall Rose, then after a second, she reached for her blades...which weren't there at all! "First, it was breakfast and now it's my gear!?" this day can give her the worst.

It was stupid of her but she found a little bit of a huge twig and grabbed hold of it. "Better something than nothing..." she tried to be optimistic.

A figure appeared right in front of her and with instinct, she launched it while aiming to injure it with her found twig. Everything happened so fast, she was kicked right on the leg which caught her off balance. Before she knew it, she was lying on the floor but she remained to shut her eyes.
She was surprised that after a few moments, she still wasn't attacked again so she decided to open her eyes only to be greeted with a familiar small stature, blond hair and half lidded blue eyes.

"Annie?" Mikasa was 'half-relieved' and began to get back up on her feet.

"What are you doing here, Mikasa?" Annie questioned.

"No! What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in Wall Sina already?"

"Just doing some training. Tsk! I'm hurt. Why do you really want me to rush back to that rotten place?"

"Rotten?"

"Those scum military police soldiers make us newbies do all the work. It was better for me to do this"

"Are you crazy? You ditched your job? So you were actually not doing any business here in Wall Rose!?"

"You don't care about it. Here!" Annie tossed Mikasa a loaf of bread she brought along with her, "I heard you mumbling to yourself earlier...about not eating breakfast"

Mikasa was surprised. She always thought that Annie hated her so much for unknown reasons, "...Thanks, Annie" she sat on the ground and took a bite. Annie sat beside her.

"Why could you have ended up in this forest of all the places?" Annie began to wonder.

"Hmmm...It's a long story...Anyway, wouldn't you get in trouble if you don't go back to work, Annie?"

"I don't really care."

Mikasa swallowed and smiled at Annie, "You know what, you're just...like Eren"

Annie's heart beat faster upon hearing Eren's name even though she really did not know why. Her face started to heat up, "Huh?"

"You're both rebellious...and tend to hate me at times..." Mikasa smiled again but for this moment, it seemed like it needed more effort.

"What are you talking about? Me? Eren? Hate you?" Annie felt awkward. She really did not know why Mikasa brought up this kind of conversation with her of all people.

Going back to her senses, Mikasa stuttered and began to blush, "Ahh! Never mind what I just said!"

There was awkward silence for a few moments then Annie gave a 'rare giggle,' "Pfft! You're weird!"

"Yes...I think I am!" Mikasa giggled as well.

Mikasa has finally finished her meal. Annie stood up from where she was sitting, "Okay, I'd better go back to training. You'd better be on your way."

"Hmmm...Since I'm already here, can I join you?" Mikasa pressed her chin with her finger.

"...I don't mind..." but Annie did mind. She just really wanted to see how good Mikasa was.


After hours of searching and searching, it was finally sundown and Eren finally gave up but he remembered that he have not checked the scouting legion's quarters yet so he quickly headed there.

Upon arriving, he quickly went to Mikasa's bedroom door and knocked, "Oi Mikasa! See? I ditched the Special Ops again all because you're being such a baby!"

Hanji went out of her room after hearing Eren...talking to himself, "Eren, Mikasa isn't inside"

Then as if on cue, the other girls slammed their doors open and spoke to Eren in unison, "She has not returned ever since..."

Eren felt his insides rage. He was angry, very angry. He hated how the girls made fun of her, how they weren't looking for her, how they apologized to her but not that sincere...it seemed.

"If anything happens to Mikasa, I don't know what I can do to all of you!" Eren burst out in anger.

"Please don't give me a dishonorable death Eren! Anything as long as it's honorable!" Krista cried in fear.

"Gaaah! Eren! Don't feed me to the titans!" Sasha exclaimed.

"Don't kill Krista!" Ymir was crying as well.

"Don't kill my darling babies" Hanji feared for her test subjects.

They all bent and bowed in front of Eren, "Sorry Eren!"

Eren was about to blurt harsh words again when someone placed a hand on his shoulder, "Fool! Do you really want to get locked up on jail?" It was Levi and stood with him was the rest of his squad.

"Levi heichou...if you'll just give me more time to look for Mi-" Eren was panicking.

"For your girlfriend? Not again! It's not like she's five!" Auruo joined the conversation.

"But-"

"Eren...let's head back" Petra glared at him. As much as she cared about Mikasa, she knew that the girl could handle herself and job comes first.

"Bu- Okay..." Eren finally gave in. He knew Mikasa was tough so she could take care of herself.

The Special Ops Squad walked away from the girls who still remained guilty of what they did to Mikasa.

Krista glared at Ymir again, "So much for a step towards achieving our 'alliance's' goal, huh?"

"Oi, did you even see Eren's face?" Ymir tried to toss away Krista's 'kind-of-a-blame'

"You mean...the angry...ready-to-devour look...?" Sasha's knees began to weaken.

"Yes!" Ymir responded.

"So!? What's so good about that!?" Krista continued to eye Ymir with eyebrows furrowed.

"Well-" Ymir was cut off when Hanji began to speak.

"Ughhaahh! I see...before, Eren used that face towards Mikasa but now, he used it on us...because we hurt Mikasa!"

"Yes! Exactly!" Ymir snapped her fingers.

"Come to think of- But still we hurt Mika-" Krista was cut off as everybody stared towards the hallway where two other women were standing. The taller woman's arm was wrapped around the shorter woman's shoulders, it was Annie with a passed out Mikasa.

"We trained together for a couple of hours..." Annie remarked, obviously having a hard time on retaining standing position due to Mikasa's weight.

The girls looked at the two with horror as blood trickled down from a quite deep wound on Mikasa's forehead.

"Was your training that harsh that Mikasa could have gotten this injured?" Krista shivered.


Author's notes:

I finally updated! There were so many requirements in school, I have not even finished doing some of them yet! Hahaha!

Finally, Annie gets back in the picture. I kind of felt sad of not joining her with the alliance so I decided to make her appear in this chapter. Hope you liked it!

For wrong typos, sorry!

Thank you for reading this chapter and I hope you stay tuned! :)))