Pursuit of Happiness

1 : Pursuit Of Happiness

The afternoon sun slowly disappeared behind the mountains across the sea. The vivid display of orange, yellow, and red colors all over the sky with the vibrant sun beginning to reflect the water. The scenery of the horizon from the beach creates more beauty as the seawater now mirrors the afternoon sky.

He could felt the sun rays start to heat up his skin and good thing there was a slight sea breeze that cooled off his warmed up skin. In the distance, he can hear people laughing merrily and talking loudly at the beach. Children and families play around without worries.

The world seems so serene after the war ended.

The Ackermans were standing in front of the half-built house at the nearby place from the beach. It's not a regular house but a soon tea-shop. Both of them looking at their tea-shop in happiness and Levi remembers back then when he always had the thoughts of opening a tea-shop in the future. In the future without titans and wars.

Five years ago, the war between titan and humans had ended. The Rumbling had left huge devastating impacts. It's a sickening memory of that time when thousands of the Wall titans, marching and destroying anything at their paths. Humans including those innocent children and animals were crushed. A lot of their comrades died in the battle. They did sacrifice their lives to protect others and fight for freedom and peace. Their dedication and death will not be in vain and forgotten.

"Dedicate your heart!" That's what Erwin always told the soldiers.

After the war ended, it takes years for humanity to rebuild anything that has lost. Families, friends, homes, businesses and so on. Crushed bodies and blood were everywhere. There were millions of people who died in the bloodbath. It was tragic and upsetting.

There were only a few of their comrades were still survive and most of them now living in normal life as ordinary people not as the people they were in the past; in the military. They deserved happiness after what they have been through including the Ackermans.

"Hey, are you okay, Levi?"

Levi immediately turned his head to the woman standing beside him. He found his wife looking at him in worry. Levi takes his time to stare at the woman's beautiful face for a moment, adding a little beauty as the sun rays struck across her face. He cupped her cheeks with his hand and his thumb lightly rubbed the porcelain cheeks.

"It's nothing, brat," Levi shakes his head and gives his wife a soft smile. His eyes wander at the ring finger of her left hand. A silver wedding ring and 'Ackermans' were engraved on the ring.

His wife was once his subordinate, protege, and also his 'partner-in-crime for many years. Her name is Mikasa Ackerman, also known as 'The Girl worth a hundred soldiers in the Survey Corps in the past. They have been married for a year now. The news of the union of the Ackermans was a shock to the public and the news spread like wildfire. Mikasa has changed from the bratty and gloomy brat into a mature young woman and also a wife of a man, a man who was once the strongest soldier in the whole military. Levi never really expects in his life that he will fall in love and married to someone impossible, his wife. On some occasions, he asked himself how Mikasa Ackerman ever wants to settle and share her life with a man like him? How the young woman breaks the walls that he's built for a long time. Levi always expects Mikasa will end up with Eren or someone around her age like Kirschtein.

Expect the unexpected.

Mikasa was indeed his mirror, his friend, his partner, his soulmate and his wife. They were once a lost soul in the dark. The moment they realized they were the puzzles that matched perfectly together, both of them were 'happy'. Happy that they found the light in the darkness they've been through. Happiness was somehow impossible in the past but now, the happiness they'd dreamed of has come.