Mine ~ Ereri

2

Carrying the small neko really made me wish I had a car. He may be light, but give me a long enough walk to carry his weight and it starts to feel like a lot.

Halfway into the walk the boy in my arms fell asleep. He felt really cold, no wonders considering he most likely hasn't been indoors for a while and it was only about 40 degrees (Fahrenheit) last night.

I sighed, holding him closer to hopefully warm up a bit. Looking down at his face, I noticed how hard this guy's life must've been. He had beautiful features, of you looked past the minor injuries on his face. His past 'owner' probably enjoyed his facial appearance, due to the fact that he only had a few small bruises and a tiny cut on his cheek, a red mark following down to his chin.

I felt bad for him. Before I knew it, I was standing at Hanji's door. I didn't even knock before she opened the door with an ecstatic look on her face.

"Eren! I saw you walking here through the window with that adorable little neko in your arms and I couldn't help but get curious! So what's the situation, titanbaby?" She said excitedly. Honestly, I have no clue why she calls me 'Titanbaby'. I do know that she's really into her science. Like, she has her own lab and everything.

"I tripped over him this morning when I was walking the back way towards our college. He needs some medical attention. Can you help him?" I asked.

"Can I? Darling try and stop me!" She squealed, running inside towards her lab with me in tow.

We got to her lab and she pulled a bed, like the ones in infirmaries, and moved it to the center of the room. I set the boy in my arms down, making sure to put him in a comfortable position that allowed us view of most of his wounds.

"Alright Hanji, what do we do?" I asked, looking up at her.

"Experiment!" Her eyes sparkled.

"No." I deadpanned.

"You're no fun." She pouted.

"It's not that I'm not fun, it's just completely wrong to experiment on some unconscious stranger." I said. Hanji is such a child sometimes even if she's two years older than me.

"He's not just a stranger, Eren, he's a neko stranger!" Her eyes were wide, hoping I would say yes.

"Tch, as if me being neko makes up for the fact that I don't know either of you." We both looked over at the raven haired boy, startled by him talking. He was currently sitting upright with a stoic look observing us.

Hanji ran over to him, looking at his ears and tail in amazement. She put her hands on his face, making a sound of awe when his pupils dilated like a cats.

"Don't touch me, shit-glasses." He moved away from her grasp, wincing slightly when he moved his torso.

"But you're so adorable! Alright, enough is enough, let's treat those wounds shall we?" She clapped her hands together. He flinched at the loud sound, pinning his ears back.

"Would it kill you to be quieter?" He hissed. He's not wrong, Hanji can be exceptionally loud. All the time. Every day.

"Sorry!" She whispered, still beaming. He rolled his eyes at her childish behavior.

We got to work on bandaging the many cuts on his torso and putting some sort of cooling gel on the lash marks on his back. Hanji wrapped gauze around some of his torso just to help the wounds from reopening.

We moved onto his arms. It was all fine until I came to his wrist. Claw marks were across the length of his wrist, overlapping each other. They weren't all new, only about 4 weren't healed. Luckily none were open wounds, they were all scabbed by now.

I took both his wrists and wrapped gauze around them.

"Were they from you?" I asked softly. Hanji was out of the room getting him some food.

"Why does it matter to you, brat?" He hissed, pulling his wrists free from my grasp.

"Well either me or Hanji are going to take care of you, and trust me you don't want it to be Hanji, so I think I deserve to know about you." I said and his gaze softened. He opened his mouth to say something, before he was interrupted by the door being kicked open.

"I have the soup!" She said loudly. She walked over to us, holding it in front of his face.

"It's chicken noodle." She whispered dramatically.

I literally facepalmed.

Hanji, you're great and all but sometimes you are an extreme idiot.

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Authors note:

hey! Sorry this chapter is kinda sucky. I'm trying to update daily because I want to get this story going and sometimes it doesn't turn out. It isn't edited because I'm lazy. Thanks for reading!