Bratty thief stole my heart

Chapter 1: The underworld of Sina

Eren's Pov

"Hey, you there! Where you goin'?"

'Shit! Not them again! This day was just about to become a good one!'

I started to walk faster. I din't need to turn around to know who's calling. I've had enough encounters with them to recognize this arrogant, demanding tone emmidiatly.

I've lost count long ago of how often I already ran from the Military Police. I do it like, well, every day. But still they had never been able to catch me. Me, Eren Jaeger, one of Sina's most wanted criminals and probably most hated person of the town's guards. These idiots are just too frustrated over the fact that I was able to escape the every single time they chase after me.

And I plan on keeping it that way cause if they ever get to arrest me, I'd be dead the next day. I won't even get a trial, they would just execute me in public to prove their strengh and to scare off other criminals.
But I can't let that happen, the others need me. They can't survive without me stealing food and other supplies from the rich people above the ground. The others, that are Armin, my best friend, Mikasa, my adopted sister, Jean or what I call him, horseface, Marco, who's too innocent for this world, Sasha, who has a constant need of food, Connie, a boy with an obsession for the military, Christa, the kindest person of the whole universe and her girlfriend Ymir, also known as freckled Satan.

I've been best friends with Armin ever since I can remember and we adopted Mikasa when I was around nine, so these two are praticialy my family. My parents died when I was twelve, they got killed by one of the gangs ruling the underworld because they couldn't pay back the money they had borrowed in order to keep me and Mikasa fed well.

They came late in the evening, Mikasa and I were already sleeping, but we were woken up by loud banging on our front door. We heard the door creek open and the angry voices of a group of men.

"Where is our money? You should have paid us back weeks ago!"

My father tried to calm them down, but they only seemed to get more furious. Their yelling scared Mikasa and me, so we sneaked out of our beds and peeked through the door of the little room we shared. There were five scary looking men standing in our living/eating room and a tall guy with dirty blonde hair who seemed to be their leader was shouting at my father who was desperatly trying to convince him to give him more time. Even though we were just kids both Mikasa and I knew that our parents had had problems with paying the high taxes, that's why they had moved into the underground. But we were still barely able to scrape by, that's why I started to steal food for us. We knew that Dad owed somebody quite a lot of money, but he and Mom always told us not to worry about it whenever we asked them. But now that these guys who obviously belonged to a gang were standing in our living room threatening our father, my sister and I were very worried.

We were about to open our door when our mother came in.

"We can't pay you back and you know that", she said with a calm voice, but I could see the worry on her face.
"How should we be able to get so much money in such a short time? You need to give us a few more weeks. We will..."

" I don't want my money in a few weeks, I want it right now!" The leader of the gang made his way towards my mother. She took a step back.

"Please, we don't have it yet! There is nothing you could do to get it faster!"

The blonde guy growled, but then one of his comarades tapped him on the shoulder, wispering something in his ear while pointing at the door Mikasa and I were standing behind. The blonde turned around to our parents again, an evil smile forming on his lips.
"You have two children right?"