Chapter 2: The Dejavu

Surprisingly, it wasn't Eren who made the first move. Instead, the Female Titan reached forward with her skinless hand, tried to grasp him. To survive her attack from above, Eren fired his gear's hooks to the nearest tree at his right and released gas to increase his speed. This instinctual reflex helped him dodge her capturing move. However, she wasn't finished yet. As she already knew Eren would evade her first attack, she hurled her other hand to the tree Eren was getting close to. Her speedy hand in fist form was like a cannon ball coming towards Eren, from his right side. "Please, make it in time" Eren thought. He pulled his legs to his torso and released his gear. And with all he got, he bounced off from the tree she was targeting. It was impossible to distinguish their moves from each other, since her fist hit the tree as Eren bounced off.

Her fist's effect to the tree was monstrous. The tree shattered into thousands of pieces and scattered like a shrapnel bomb to all directions. After bouncing off from the tree, Eren did a handspring in the air. That was when he felt the pain coming from his back, that excruciating pain. He wasn't able to scream or shout; instead he took a heavy breath. Pain was spreading out through his body wave by wave and he was going numb, his eyelids were getting heavy. He wasn't strong enough after all.

"I suppose,.."

"...I failed them again."

The thing Eren liked about being close to death was the tranquillity, that silence and peace. Shouldn't death supposed to be something bad? Wasn't it the end after all? Then he saw her again, like the previous one. His mother was waiting for him with open arms in front of their house. She was smiling to her son, waiting for him to come back home. He didn't care anymore, nor about the titans or nor about this fucked-up world.

"Eren?.. Where are you going?" He heard a sweet voice that warmed him up. Was that her mother's? But she was smiling, her mouth wasn't moving at all. Who, then?

"Eren, aren't we going home together?" the voice continued. "Will you leave me alone here?" Eren recognized the owner of this voice. "Mikasa?"

Then another voice was heard, this one was a passionate one. "Didn't you promise me, Eren? Weren't you going to kill them all? One by one... Weren't you going to fight until you wiped them all? A different voice followed, but this was cold and sounded peremptory. "Eren Jaeger... you impotent brat, you believed in yourself instead of believing in my squad? You didn't let them fight for you so... in the end, is this... all you got?!"

Eren tried to say something, but there weren't any words coming out. Three voices synchronized alternately, they made a chorus.

"Eren! Wake up!"

Eren obeyed the order, opened his eyes until end. He was still in the air, pieces of wood were floating beside him. The pain was more endurable now, because his purpose came before all: before the pain or before his life. He weren't allowed to die, not yet, he had things to take care of.

He landed on her grasping arm, but he was sliding too fast. So his hands moved involuntarily, out of a reflex, he turned his swords to the ground and thrust them into the flesh. This ended his sliding and Eren was standing on her arm now. Then, he stopped holding his swords, his both hands caught the piece of wood that was stuck in his back. He took a deep breath and pulled it with all his strength.

A scream echoed through all forest.

The squad had turned their gears to backwards, after seeing Eren's turn. They were standing on a thick branch of the one of the nearest trees right now, trying to see how the fight was going. Oluo and Petra's first attempt to join the fight at Eren's side had been turned down by Eld. He had said he made his own choice, if they had tried to help him; they would only get in his way. But the fight they witnessed wasn't kind of the fight they all expected.

"Why is he not turning into a titan?" said Petra with a worried face. "He will get killed if he continues like this!"

"We must help him!" Oluo agreed with her. But they were interrupted by Eld.

"The Special Operations Squad, I, Eld Jinn, The Second in Command, am ordering you to withdraw. In this situation we have no option but regroup with Levi-heichou and await his orders. He is more informed than us in this operation. We have already lost Gunther, I will not let there be any more casualties. Eren made a call, even he is fighting with his 3D Manoeuvre Gear, I am sure he has something in his mind! "

"But!.." Petra pleaded, she was interrupted by Oluo this time, he held her arm for a second and spoke with a voice that not trusted its own owner.

"There is no more 'but' Petra...No matter how stupid he sounds usually..." Oluo cleared his throat. "...he is right this time, we must find Levi-heichou..." Petra looked at the battle between them one more time, wished for Eren to live; this was all she could do. And so, non-convinced soldiers obeyed the order of their captain and at the same time, all three fired their gear's hooks to the deep forest, leaving their friend behind.

In the meantime, Eren pulled his swords from the flesh and started running towards titan's shoulder. At last, The Female Titan was aware of Eren's presence on her body. After the hit on the tree, her other hand was a wreck that was healing slowly, so it had took a while for her to spot him. Eren was running fast with his swords in his hands, he wasn't angry or in pain. He was rather smiling.

"Mikasa, Armin, Levi-heichou... I won't let you down." he thought.

"And mother I am sorry, I stood you up again...But wait for your son, after I lead them to their extinction."

" I will come home..."

"...with Mikasa."

Author's Note: Here is the second chapter of the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.

I hope you liked the first one and the second. I was going to write more actually, the end and the chapter name was going to change but I liked this end a lot (I hope you did, too!) so I did not change them.

I would like to thank bakandas, Sentinel07, kureneko nnch, Sailor Dying Will for their support!

With a good friend's advice I tried to write this one a little bit longer. From now on I will try to keep every chapter over 1000 words.

I am waiting for your reviews about these both so I can improve the story in the next chapters ;)

PS: After considering the advices in Sentinel07's review and the others, the chapter was updated in 12th of August.