A/N: Wahhh! You guys~! The response from the first chapter was too kind! *Sniffles* I love you guys, I really do. And I saw lots of names from my previous story, which makes me even happier! You guys have no idea! *jumps off of bed*

Wah! Such a busy few weeks. I become a senior next week! Yay~! And less than three weeks until I'm in San Francisco for Yaoi Con~! Cosplay projects, masquerade preparations, make up projects, and school... Someone save me. XD

Let's give another big thanks to Lady Mari Chan for her hard work as my beta reader! I know I can be really annoying, so it's a difficult job. XD

-Misty

Song of the day: Ain't Nobody

By: Yenny

The Change You Wish to See

(Original summary, but screw the stupid character limits) Levi's never put much care into things. He doesn't put much care into things at all. Nothing ever peaks his interest. Well, that's until he meets Eren Jaeger. Levi isn't sure what it is that's so interesting about him, and it irritates him to feel these feelings he's never felt before. Regardless, he goes to talk to the boy. When he doesn't receive an answer, he just thinks that the boy is rude; however, he understands why when Eren doesn't answer him. Eren is deaf.

Rated M for sexual content, adult language, some violence, mile character death
Main pairing: Riren with some side pairs
Anime: Shingeki No Kyojin (Attack on Titan)

Chapter Two:

Meet My Family

After that, Eren Jaeger had come to Levi's book store for two days, and he was always alone. He never asked for anything extra other than the books he wanted, and every day, he'd stay for a few hours and read his books before leaving, sometimes taking one or two with him, sometimes not. He always arrived at twelve, contrary to his first day there, and he always left at four, which Levi considered odd, but it was none of his business anyway. The kid had his own agenda to live out.

So, on the third day, after some poking and prodding from Hanji (and incessant amount that made him nearly tare his hair out), she finally convinced Levi to talk to Eren Jaeger. Of course, after their first encounter, Levi hadn't bothered to try talking to Eren at all, or even write down what it was he wanted to say. Eren didn't try either, and he didn't care. However, something did bug him, and that was whenever he talked to Hanj.

He had no idea what the two could be saying, whether it was something good or bad and who it was about. They could have been joking about Levi right in front of him and he wouldn't have even known. Hanji wasn't good at hiding lies of course, so he would have known eventually if they had said something bad abuot him, but if they talked about him in a way that wasn't horrifyingly graphic, well then he'd never know.

When they laughed, he was irritated. When Eren whined, he was irritated. When Hanji pointed to Levi and then Eren laughed, he was irritated to no end.

When Eren smiled, he was upset. Why? He wasn't sure. Something about that smile made him upset, and that was it.

He wasn't at all enthusiastic about it, not after what happened when they met, and he was positive that Eren wouldn't be happy about it either, but she wouldn't stop pushing ice down his shirt until he did. For anyone, after sixteen cubes of ice go down their shirt, they tend to give in.

So now he'd figure out some things. He'd try to be nice this time around though, and he'd try to fix what he previously fucked up. Why he even wanted to play nice with the kid was beyond him, but it didn't matter. He couldn't sleep at night with this hanging over his head, and God knows he needed his sleep with a job like his that required a lot of reading.

So Levi just sucked it up and walked over to the boy. He was at his previous table, the one he sat at every day, and had his head in a dictionary. A dictionary? Yes, a dictionary. The kid was seriously weird. Levi thought that at first, but then he realized that Eren had his head in it because he was looking for a word he didn't understand in another book.

Levi felt Eren's words coming back to him. He couldn't have been that much of a dumbass as Eren so politely put it.

Levi knew talking wouldn't catch the kid's attention, so he simply sat down beside him in an empty chair at the table. He looked over to him, and Eren's golden eyes slowly lifted from the book to meet his. The brunette looked back down into his book for a moment, and then looked back up, as if waiting for something from the older man.

What could Levi possibly do? He couldn't talk to the kid, as far as he knew anyway. All he was doing, all he could do, was sit there and watch the kid who was staring at him with a mixture of confusion and annoyance.

"Hm...?" Eren sounded out quietly.

"So can you hear certain things, or are you just totally deaf?" Levi asked despite himself. After a quiet pause, when Eren reached into his book bag and pulled out his notebook, Levi got his answer. Eren handed Levi his notebook, along with a pen, and Levi stared at the page already presented to him. There were words already written down on the page, words he couldn't help but read.

"No, the verb is the action. Running is an action. It's the adjective that describes something, whether it's the noun or verb. Pink is an adjective, so "The pink cat was running." The adjective pink describes the cat."

"Why would a cat be pink?"

"Seriously, Eren? You're such a dork."

"You're the dork. You couldn't find your glasses two minutes ago and they were on your face."

Eren's hand suddenly covered up the page, stopping Levi from continuing his snooping. Eren turned the page for him, giving him a fresh page to look at, and one without words. Eren took the pen back from Levi and wrote down on the blank page.

"What do you want?" The paper now said. Levi took the pen that was offered to him and wrote down what he needed to say just a space below the words.

"To talk... But that's kind of redundant, isn't it?" He wrote down. He showed it to Eren, and the boy sneered at the sentence. He set the notebook down on the table and pulled another pen from his book bag, which he used and began writing down in his notebook.

"You're an ass." Levi read, and he faintly smirked. The kid had a certain spunk to him that he liked. It wasn't often when someone would battle him in wits, minus Hanji, but Hanji was a special case.

"You're still a little shit." He wrote down.

"Is that what you were calling me a few days ago?"

"Yep." This time Eren chuckled a little and looked back at his book. This gave Levi the time to write down a question. He tapped at Eren's shoulder, getting his attention before showing him the words on the page. "You've talked before. Can you talk, or can you say a few words?" He asked, and Eren replied in the notebook.

"I can still talk, I just don't know if I'm saying things right or not. I try not to talk, because I've been told I sound weird when I do." Levi frowned at the words.

"Who told you that?"

"Just about everyone outside of my family and friends... No, even some friends say it too."

"Well they're stupid. You sound more congested than you do weird." Levi sat back as Eren read over the words.

"Thanks..." Eren said out loud. Levi leaned forward and wrote in the notebook.

"So you can't hear a person reply either, right?"

"No..." Eren mumbled and shook his head. "I can't... Hear things..." He tried. Levi noticed the frustration written on his face before he went right back to writing. "I can feel vibrations though." He wrote down.

"Vibrations?"

"Like loud music that shakes a house, or if I'm sleeping on someone, I can feel their breathing or their heartbeat. I can imagine what those things sound like through the vibrations."

"Do you sleep on people often?" Levi asked and smirked. Eren rolled his eyes before replying.

"I only ever do it to my sister or my friend, more so him than her for obvious reasons."

"And he lets you?"

"Of course he does. I'd do the same thing for him if this was his situation." Levi looked at Eren's face, noticing the pain that showed in his golden eyes. It was obvious that this was getting to be too much for the kid to talk about. It was something he wasn't comfortable with, and Levi would respect that. So with that, he turned to a fresh page and began writing again.

"So, if you know how to talk, does that mean you were born with your hearing?" Levi asked, although he regretted it. This didn't seem any better than what they were talking about before.

"Yeah, I lost my hearing when I was nine."

"Would you care if I asked how?" Levi asked and watched Eren's face. He seemed to be going through the pros and cons to the idea, but he still didn't seem comfortable to continue. "You don't have to answer that." The older man added afterwards.

"I was in an accident, that's all." Eren set his pen down, and Levi took that as a sign that he didn't want to continue on any conversation. Levi set his own pen down and motioned for Eren to look his way. The kid did, and Levi signed his apology for him, hoping that he could make it up to the kid. Eren smiled, but Levi could see the bitterness behind those eyes before Eren was grabbing at his pen again.

"Your sign language sucks." He wrote down in his notebook.

"How can my sign language suck? I'm not even talking." Levi wrote.

"You're keeping your thumb tucked in, and it's supposed to stick out." Eren motioned for Levi to look his way. When he did, Eren pointed to Levi and signed the apology. He then pointed to himself and did the same, with the only exception of having his thumb stick out.

It was a simply explanation. "You're doing this, and you're supposed to do this."

"Alright, I get it." Levi muttered to himself. In the dense quiet that soon followed after, a soft vibration was heard. Eren felt it instead of hearing it, and he reached into his book bag to pull out his phone. Levi didn't see the caller ID; however, Eren's eyes looked at it with a dull look. He waited, and Levi watched as he waited for the call to end. When it did, Eren flipped the vibrate option off and turned the volume down low on the ringer.

He then sighed as he set his phone down on the table and looked back at his book, as if questioning if the conversation was over. Levi simply waved him off before standing and pushing his chair back in to give the kid his peace. Levi walked back over to the counter where Hanji was waiting, a grin spreading her cheeks wide to the point where it looked painful.

"That looked civil." She stated kindly. "He got you to smile and everything."

"We just talked." Levi muttered and looked back at Eren. Levi heard the soft playing of his ringtone; obviously someone was trying to get ahold of him, and obviously Eren was ignoring them. That's probably why he put his ringer on, so he intentionally couldn't hear it.

"He's kinda cute too. You got the hots for him?" Hanji questioned. Levi could practically hear the smirk on her lips and the condescending tone in her voice.

"You're sick, you know that?" Levi growled.

"What...? There's nothing wrong with an innocent date." The women said in a simple manner.

"He's twelve."

"Oh he's older than that." Hanji said.

"How would you know?"

"Because when he checked out his books a few days ago, I got him a library card. He's nineteen, if you're curious. Makes it legal for you two."

"Stop it," Levi growled at her.

For the first time in the three days he'd come to the store, Eren stayed late. It was six-fifteen when someone actually came in looking for him. Actually, it was two people, a girl and a boy. The girl was frantic, her black hair a little messy and disheveled, her cheeks red and her breath bated. The boy standing behind her was panicked, but as soon as they walked in, his big, blue eyes fell to the hundreds of books around him. He was in awe, and the panic was gone.

"Excuse me," The girl called out to Levi. He lifted his head from his book and looked at the teen with a bored expression.

"Yeah...?" The girl walked up to him and set her keys down.

"I-I'm looking for my brother, Eren Jaeger. He sent my friend a text saying he was here." Even her tone was frantic, as if she'd just run ten miles to get here. Hopefully that wasn't the case, and guessing by the keys, it probably wasn't.

"He's over there." Levi said and pointed to Eren still sitting at the table. The girl looked over to him, and she sighed in utter relief at the sight of him.

"Eren," She groaned and walked up to him. Levi hoped that the girl knew Eren was deaf, because calling out to him wasn't going to get his attention. "Eren!" She called out and shook his shoulder.

Eren jumped out of his book and looked up at her, surprised by the sight of her. When his eyes found hers, a look of fear showed on his boyish features.

"Mikasa..." He muttered.

"What are you doing here?" Mikasa asked and signed at the same time. "You're supposed to be home." Eren signed, but for his lack of hearing, he didn't speak like her. "Armin told me where you were. Armin!"

The boy who had been browsing books put the one he was reading away at the sound of her voice. He followed her voice to the two of them, and Eren was obviously upset with him.

"Armin..." He whined and signed something Levi couldn't read.

"I'm sorry, Eren. She didn't know where you were; she was scared." Armin signed. "I know I promised, but she threatened to burn my books if I didn't tell her."

Well, that explained why Eren liked books. If the boy, Armin, shared the same love for them, Levi could understand why.

"Why didn't you answer your phone when I called you?" Mikasa asked. Eren shrugged his shoulders and looked at his phone sitting on the table. His sister picked it up and looked at it, only to find her answer.

"You idiot, your ringer is on." She reprimanded.

"That little sneak..." Levi mumbled to himself. Mikasa honestly thought that it was an accident that his ringer was on, when the truth was that Eren simply turned it on to ignore her phone calls. He was a kid, sure, but he was quite the little minx when he wanted to be.

"Eren, you aren't doing this every day, are you?" His sister asked. "Don't lie to me, do you understand me?" She went so far as to cup his jaw in her hand when he tried to look away. "How often have you been coming here?"

Eren signed his answer, and his sister groaned. She released him, and Eren looked away pitifully.

"Eren, really?" She asked and rubbed at her forehead.

"I thought you only came here that one time a few days ago. I didn't think you came back after that." Armin muttered and signed. Eren shook his head and replied, to which the boy looked relatively pleased.

"It doesn't matter anymore." Mikasa said. "We're leaving."

"No, Mikasa!" Eren whined.

"We're going." She warned, her tone actually frightening, even from where Levi was standing, and he wasn't by any means close. Even Levi felt a little threatened by her attitude.

Eren whined and stood up from his chair. He collected his things and stuffed them back into his backpack, and then tossed it on his back. He reached for his books, but Mikasa grabbed at his arms and yanked him forward.

"Let's go," She commanded. Eren audibly whined and fought within her grasp, but his sister obviously had some serious muscles to her for all of her skinny stature.

"A-Armin! Armin!" Eren called out to him and managed to free a hand to sign something to him. Mikasa yanked him out of the store, and Armin sighed to himself when he was left alone. He noticed Levi's lingering stare and he promptly clear his throat and collected the books Eren left behind, a small blush on his cheeks the whole time.

"Um, s-sorry about that." He apologized and brought the books over to the counter. "They can be a hassle sometimes."

"Were they your brother and sister?" Levi asked, but he highly doubted it. None of them looked alike, and Mikasa was the one calling Eren her brother. It really didn't make sense.

"Oh, n-no, Eren and Mikasa are related, but I'm not. I'm just a friend." The blond stuttered with a blush.

"The kid must trust you then. He doesn't even text his own sister." Levi muttered as he began putting the books into the system.

"No, he trusts her too; Eren's just trying to make a point. It's not that big of a deal really."

"It seems like one."

"Well, maybe I'm just used to it then. They're always fighting like this." Levi placed the books back on the counter for him, and the blond took them quietly, though grunting at the weight of them.

"They fight like this all of the time?" Levi asked.

"Uhm... Yeah, kind of." Armin cleared his throat again.

"Right... Well, these need to be back by the twenty-eighth." Levi instructed. Armin nodded his head in understanding.

"Right, it was nice meeting you. Have a good day." He said and left the store as quietly as he came in.

It fell quiet again, and Levi suddenly felt the pressure enveloping him. Even though he heard only the small sounds, such an occasional yawn or the flip of a page from Eren when he was there, the quiet now was unsettling. People rarely visited the store, so having it quiet again wasn't something of the norm anymore.

It made him feel uneasy.

P.S. Want to hear the dumbest thing I did about this story? Okay, so while I was writing about Eren reading his books, I had a thought. Here was my thought. "Oh, he's going to need some books with braille in them so he can read them."

... Do you get it?

He's deaf, not blind. XD Oh I'm tired.