'thoughts'

"speech"

I don't own anything.

In the forested area near the shiganshina district a nine-year-old Sasuke was helping his father to take the chopped-up trees to the sawmill, helping as in trying to put a piece of wood on the cart for the last fifteen minutes. His father had asked many times to leave the job to him but Sasuke was stubborn as the walls themselves when he wanted to be.

Yohan knew that when Sasuke was in one of his stubbornness streaks there was no point in trying to persuading him, so he just settled on watching him try to put the piece of wood on the cart with little success.

After trying for 35 minutes Sasuke finally managed to put the last part of wood on the cart. With a proud look on his face Sasuke turned towards his father expecting some kind of praise for his hard work, but rather then praise he was rewarded with light snores indicating that his father was indeed asleep.

Yohan was suddenly woken up when he felt a slap connected with his right cheek, jumping away he saw the angry look of his son. At first this look confused him as he wondered what did he do wrong, but then immediately realized what happened.

Sasuke liked to be praised when he did a good job or when he thinks he did a good job, not receiving praise was something he did not appreciate. This has become better as he grew but there was still a part which remained. When he was five, he would throw a fit for not receiving praise but this has been toned down to just a cute pout, that slap was just Sasuke messing with him.

"Oh, are you done putting the final piece of wood on the cart?" asked Yohan.

To which Sasuke replied "If you weren't asleep you would know."

Yohan wasn't sure what to make of his witty reply and instead just settled for a shrug. "You were taking a long time and I kind of woke up early this morning, so I figured I'd just catch up on some sleep."

Knowing that it would either resort in further angering Sasuke Yohan quickly said "Anyway let's go deliver these woods to the sawmill and ask Dr. Yeager to come by tomorrow to check up on your mother"

Akina has been sick for the past 3 days and was not showing any signs of recovery ever since. Yohan had decided that he would ask Dr. Yeager to come and check up on her when he was delivering wood to the sawmill. Sasuke also wanted to come partially because he wanted to help his dad and partially because he wanted to meet up with Eren. It had been a long time since they have met, about 6 or so months, Mikasa also wanted to come but had to stay at home to help her mother.

Sasuke suddenly remembered the other half of the reason he accompanied his father today and hurried up to the cart with his father and they set coursed to the sawmill.

After they delivered the chopped off wood at the sawmill, they were standing in front of Dr. Yeager's house as Yohan knocked on the door. There was a small cry of "coming" from the other side as well as sound of small feet hitting the ground. The door opened to revel Eren whose eyes lit up with recognition of the two Ackerman.

"Hello Mr. Yohan, Sasuke, how are you?" asked Eren.

"We are fine Eren. How about you?" replied Yohan.

"I am well- "Eren was cut off by another voice

"Who is at the door Eren?" came Clara's voice as she came up behind him, but smiled when she saw who was at the door.

"Oh Mr. Yohan, Sasuke come in what's the reason behind your visit today? Where is Mikasa and Akina?" As Clara begin to rapid fire these questions at Yohan, she led them inside the house towards the couches.

"We came to talk with Dr. Grisha to come and check up on Akina as she is sick for the past 3 days." Replied Yohan. By this point Eren and Sasuke were already deep in a conversation and were not paying any attention towards the adults.

"I see, please sit while I get Grisha for you." Clara replied before she went to get Grisha who was in the basement.

After about 2 minutes Grisha came in the living room and greeted Yohan. Yohan went ahead and explained Akina's condition to Grisha and they both came to an agreement that Grisha would come to their house tomorrow morning to check up on Akina.

"Thank you, Grisha, now I must go I told Akina that I would be home before dinner."

"No problem, I will come by your house tomorrow morning and I think Eren would also like to come."

"Yeah, that would be grate, the kids will have someone to play with." Yohan said as he called out to Sasuke. The duo of father and son departed to their house after saying goodbye.

After reaching their house Yohan while eating dinner, told Mikasa and Akina that Dr. Grisha will come by tomorrow morning with Eren to check up on Akina.

The next morning went as usual, but because of Akina being sick the responsibility of doing all the morning chores fell on Yohan. Mikasa and Sasuke had woken up at 8 o'clock and helped him in the chores.

Akina came up at the dinning table for breakfast at 10, and the family had a relatively peaceful breakfast only interpreted by a few choughs from Akina.

After the breakfast, Akina told Mikasa to continue her sewing practice. Since the past year Mikasa had picked up sewing as a hobby, seeing her mother sew various things on a cloth had greatly intrude the nine-year-old.

Right now, Akina was showing a symbol which has been passed on in her family to the twins. Sasuke had no interest in sewing so he settled for just watching his sister sew the symbol in a piece of cloth. Finally, after about 25 minutes Mikasa had sew the symbol in the cloth.

"Look mom, I did it. How is it?" Mikasa asked as she showed her mother the symbol.

"Wow it looks really pretty Mikasa, good job!" Akina replied as she observes the piece of cloth.

"Looks good" was the reply they got from Sasuke.

"This symbol has been passed on in our family for generations. If you have children someday teach it to them too." Akina replied with a smile.

Sasuke heard this and a question formed in his mind, so he asked "mom how do you have children?"

"Well, you should ask this to your father"

Hearing this Yohan who was peeling potatoes on the other side of the table chocked on his spit. He started to sweat nervously as he looked towards Akina, but paused when he saw her grinning face. 'She set me up! Dammit.'

"Um… well, dad is not too sure himself" he replied nervously, but a sudden idea pope up in his head. "Dr. Yeager will be here soon, why don't we ask him? He is super smart."

Seeing the twins nodding seriously both the parents had to hold back their laughter and had the same thought running along their head 'Grisha is not prepared for this'.

Hearing a knock Yohan quickly said "it must be Dr. Yeager; I will get it."

Yohan went up to the door and started to open it "Dr. Yeager, we have been wait-" but was cut off when a knife was logged into his gut.

Mikasa was talking with her mother and Sasuke when the three of them hear a loud thud coming from the entrance of the house. They turned to see Yohan lying on the ground with a hole in his stomach from which bold was pouring out.

Way to shocked to do anything the three stood still until they saw 3 men making their way towards them, the one on the front leading them had a knife in his hand which was coated with blood.

Akina was the first one to come out from the shock and screamed, but her scream was cut off by the leader who wacke her on the side of her head with the blunt end of the knife, knocking her out.

"Don't kill the wife and the children, they will go for good price." Said the leader as he walked closer to Mikasa to grab her.

At this point, suddenly something buzzed inside Mikasa's body after seeing her dead father and knocked out mother, seeing Sasuke clenching his head as if to fight out a headache.

At this instant her body stopped shaking and only one word echoed in her mind "fight". She suddenly grabbed the pair of scissors on the table and held them with such strength that the metal bended around her hand.

She leaped towards the leader with the scissors in her hand and went for a stab to the heart. The leader was not expecting the nine-year-old to put any resistance so he was unprepared for the sudden attack and was not able to defend against the attack.

For Sasuke as soon as he saw his mom get knocked out, a lot of imaged started to flicker through his mind, he clenched his head to stop it but it continued. The images were flickering too fast for him to see what they were, but out of all the images he saw flickered he was only able to make out one of them.

The image had 2 people, a man and a woman lying on the ground, dead. This last image caused something to happen inside his body as he felt a warm like feeling which spread across his body. When he opened his eyes, he saw Mikasa killing the person with the knife by shoving a pair of scissors in his chest.

The one man which was coming towards him with an axe paused as he saw his leader die by her hands started to make his way towards Mikasa. Seeing this Sasuke's body move on its own towards the man with an axe with such speed and agility he didn't remember having.

Sasuke ran up to the man and twisted the arm holding the axe with such strength that it instantly broke, dropping the axe. Sasuke grabbed the axe and shoved it in the man's head, instantly killing him. His body still moving on its own, grabbed the sewing needle on the table and threw it at the lasty man with such precision and force that it entered the man's skull from in between the eyes and excited through the back, instantly killing him. Though if one would have looked closely, they would have seen a small blue aura forming around the needle as it was thrown.

After a few seconds Sasuke felt drowsy and sleep overcame his eyes. The last thing he say before he fell unconscious was Mikasa rushing towards him and calling out to him before she herself fell unconscious.

Sasuke woke up on a cliff overlooking a massive town. For a second a sense of familiarity came but it went away as quickly as it came. Standing up he suddenly remembered everything that happened and looked around with confusion and panic. He just saw his father getting killed and was almost a victim of human trafficking.

As he was looking around he saw a person in black cloak overlooking the town, who strangely enough didn't have a face or at least Sasuke couldn't make out a face. It was almost like something was preventing him to see his face, Sasuke could also make out a sword hanging off his shoulder.

As Sasuke was about to ask what this was and where he was, he suddenly felt a pull he couldn't resist. He felt like his body stretching and going through some sort of hole, the last thing he heard was the stranger's voice which strangely sounded a lot like him "Don't revel it to others". Sasuke didn't know what that meant, Perhaps he was talking about the weird power he could feel inside of him. It felt amazing, so amazing in fact that Sasuke thought he could take on anyone.

At last Sasuke woke up on his bed, he was really weirded out by that dream but he put the dream in the back of his mind as right now his main priority was to make Shure that his sister and mother were safe. Due to still being a child he didn't know how to react to his father's death.

Sasuke came into the living room to find his mother, Dr. Yeager and Eren sitting on the couch. His mother looked like someone who had cried a lot judging from the dried up tear marks on her cheek. The three of them noticed him and immediately his mother asked "Sasuke thank god you woke up, How are you?", The relief was very evident in her hurt voice.

"I am fine, How is Mikasa" Sasuke asked in desperation.

"She is fine, just unconscious. She should wake up in a few minutes" Replied Dr. Yeager.

Hearing this put some relief on Sasuke knowing that his sister was safe. He secretly promised to himself that he would never let something like this happen to their family.

While waiting for Mikasa to wake up Sasuke was questioned very lightly on what happened. Sasuke didn't tell them about the weird energy that he is feeling inside his body, he assumed that the man in the black cloak was referring to this. He didn't know why he was following the advice of a random mysterious man he met in a dream, but his instincts instincts told him to trust that man so he did.

After about 15 minutes Mikasa walked out to the living room still in daze. As the family tended to each other Dr. Yeager and an unusually quiet Eren watched in the background.

Grisha was still confused on how 2 kids managed to kill 3 grown men equipped with weapons. The one with a tiny hole in the center of his forehead had to have been from a very precise weapon and it takes a lot of skill to perfectly execute a kill like that. Although noticing all of that he didn't mention any of these to anyone else because it would not be appropriate to remind the family of the disaster that they went through.

Sorry for not updating in a while i had some shit to deal with IRL. Although still don't expect regular updates as I am doing this as just a side hobby.

Thanks for reading.