His Steel Gaze

Chapter 1

I looked up from the ground at the house before me. It was Eren's home and light was illuminating dimly through the windows. I walked up to the door knocking several times shifting my weight from one foot to the other as I waited. I heard faint footsteps from in the house and smiled as the door flung open. Standing there in sweatpants and a plain t-shirt was Eren, his hair was sticking out in every direction and his eyes were clouded over with exhaustion. "Eren I still don't know how you sleep in this late it's 3:00pm in the afternoon!" I shook my head and walked in as he moved to the side slightly. "Nani you need to understand I need my beauty sleep." He mumbled and he ran his hand through his hair. "You're such a dork" I laugh and wrap my arms around him and lay my head against his chest, breathing in his scent. For someone who is a slob he sure as hell smells good every day. "Do you have some obsession over hugging and sniffing people?" He chuckles as he hugs me back, his head in the crook of my neck. My breath hitched at the feeling of his warm breath against my neck. "Only you and Mikasa" I giggled and broke the hug when I heard her walk down the stairs. I walked up to her hugging her instantly inhaling the scent of vanilla and strawberries causing me to smile as my head rested just below her shoulder. "You seriously need to hook me up with the shampoo you use." I say my voice slightly muffled and she laughs, her shoulders shaking slightly. "It's nice to see you too, short stack." She says and I can hear the smirk in her voice. A menacing glare crosses my face as I look at her. "Are you flipping kidding me! I'm only like five inches shorter than you!" I yell while I wildly gesture between the both of us, puffing my cheeks out in anger as I finish my short rant. She laughs at me slightly and I open my mouth to yell at her when I'm interrupted. "Anyways, Happy 18th birthday, Nani!" I hear Eren say from behind me and I turn around to see him holding a small box that's beautifully wrapped in blue wrapping paper topped off with a white bow. My hands fly to my cheeks as I fight back a smile ",Eren, I said no presents." I say barely hiding my excitement. "Suck it up and open it." He smiles pushing his arms out and I take the box from him, admiring the box as I ponder what's inside. I slowly peel away the wrapping, not wanting to ruin it. I'm greeted with a light blue box and I open it and I feel my eyes water, trying not to cry. In the box was a necklace with a beautiful sliver chain and a rectangular pendant, like a dog collar. My fingers glided across the cool metal and i turned it over looking at the sentence engraved on the back. M+E+N March 5th.  My vision blurrs and I lightly place the box down on a table near me and run into Eren's arms. "Oh, Eren, it's beautiful." I say and tears slide down my cheeks. "It's no big deal shorty but I'm glad you like it." He smiles and he wraps his arms around me enveloping me in warmth and I smile in content. "Hey you know I should get credit for this too don't be an asshole Eren" Mikasa yells and I break the hug, looking up at him just to see his lopsided smirk as he bursts out laughing. "Yeah Mikasa paid for half of it and we both agreed on the engraving and the pendant." He said still chuckling slightly. I glare at him and slap his shoulder, turning around to Mikasa hugging her with a smile on my face "Mikasa thank you so much I love it" I say as I start to tear up again. "You're such a drama queen but I'm glad you like it Nani" She smiles warmly at me and I let go of her. I look at my best friends with love gleaming in my eyes, I love these guys to much to describe and I would do almost anything for them. I hear Eren clear his throat bringing me out of my daze and he shifts his weight awkwardly as we sit in silence. "Let's go to the blossom tree?" Mikasa piped up and said as more of a question, my eyes lit up and I nodded already heading to the door. A smile spreads across my face when i hear chuckles from my friends as they trail behind me. I walk out the house with Eren and Mikasa by my side as we walk down the pavement streets, giving polite smiles to the people that pass us. There were several things we all had in common which one was that we were not extremely sociable people. We all will make a polite conversation with somebody if one is started but we don't really start them with random people just whenever. "Remember when Ashley tried to make a conversation with the old guy that lived across the street from school?" I suddenly asked and Eren let out a chuckle while Mikasa held in a laugh. "That girl really didn't know when to stop talking" Eren chuckled. Mikasa finally cracked and let out a giggle. "He was so shy and she like was way to enthusiastic for him she scared the poor man!" She laughed and I looked at her adoringly. Mikasa was beautiful with her shoulder length raven hair and dark eyes that were intimidating but welcoming at the same time. When she would laugh around the guys in our class they basically swooned over her. I envy her in a way. She was just the kind of person that you couldn't hate. The closest I got to a boy liking me was in kindergarten when this random boy named Joey confessed his love to me in front of the whole class after I gave him a piece of my cookie. He actually tried to kiss me but I was caught off guard so his mouth hit my juice box which spilled all over his new race car shirt. He then said he was 'breaking up with me' and I just sat there confused until I just finished my lunch. We never really talked any time after that he just molded into his friend group and we never talked through elementary school really. I chuckled at the memory and Eren glanced at me "What are you thinking Nani?" He said as he stared at me with an emotion in his eyes that I couldn't read. I shrugged it off with a nothing much not really caring to dwell on the subject. It was about ten minutes later when we reached the tree and I smiled as I walked up to the base of the tree sitting down and leaning my back against the rough bark. Eren layed in the grass not to far from me and Mikasa just layed her head in my lap as we all just sat in a comfortable silence. I watched as light pink petals fell from the tree slowly drifting to the ground. "I think it would be cool if i could just freeze the world right now." I say softly and I start to play with Mikasa's hair braiding it then undoing it and braiding small pieces again. " Just the three of us under the tree the sky a perfect shade of blue and we don't have to worry about anything outside the walls." I smile slightly transfixed on the graceful petals. I hear them hum in response and I look to see Eren drifting off to sleep and Mikasa just has her eyes closed as we sit. "Mikasa?" I ask and I hear her hum when she implies she heard me. "Do you remember the song you sang to me when I got that really bad flu last year?" I ask and she replies with a yes and she opens her eyes to glance at me. "How does it go again?" She smiles at me and closes her eyes and her voice fills my ears.

~Deep in the meadow

Under the willows

I smile at the nostaliga and close my eyes as I join in with her.

A bed of grass

A soft green pillow

I hear Eren hum along with us until he's singing too.

Lay down your head

And close your eyes

And when they open

The sun will-

I let out a gasp as it feels like gravity does a flip on me and my insides turn painfully. I feel tears prick at my eyes and it feels like the air is sucked out of me. Then suddenly I'm back at the tree but I'm not sitting I'm in Eren's arms and he's calling my name along with Mikasa. There voices are dull until they grow louder and they are full on yelling my name. I clutch my chest at the feeling of not being able to breath and I gasp. Then it's gone everything but a horrible feeling lurking in my gut. My gaze fixes on Eren and my face is laced with confusion as I ponder what the hell that was. That horrible feeling is punching me in the gut and I give Eren and Mikasa a look. "something's wrong" I say looking at Eren "NO SHIT! what the hell was that Nani!" I jump slightly at his voice and his face softens. " I-I don't know what that was but I don't mean me 'something' is wrong." I say and look around worried for something to pop up and happen but nothing does. My friends are still looking at me confused and believe me I am too. I sigh in relief and my shoulders slump the feeling not really going away. "I'm ok" I whisper half lying. I lean myself against the tree and hug myself and sigh again. I smile at the thought of being eighteen now I'm an 'adult'. Eren relaxes and reluctantly moves to lay down again. "Guys I'm fine now really." I smile and Mikasa visibly relaxes. She crawls back over to me and goes to lay down when a shadow is cast over us and not just us though part of the town too. Everything is silent which is extremely odd since the town is usually buzzing with excitement at this time it's like 3:30pm. I look up at the sky and there are no clouds. "What the-" I'm cut off by Mikasa gasping. I look over at her and she's really pale and her eyes are trained at something in the distance, her eyes wide with... fear?... "oh my god.." I hear Eren who's now sitting up with the same look as Mikasa. "Guys what's going o-" I look in the direction they are and my words are cut short. I feel a shudder run through my body and I'm frozen. I can feel myself pale as the blood drains from my face. I'm looking at the wall the wall thats over fifty meters high. And there's a titan looking down at the village.

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Ok well that's the first chapter.... I hope you guys like it I think it's an amazing improvement from when I first started the book on wattpad. But yall have your opinions but please leave a comment and tell me what you think I won't be updating until possibly after my exams and my first is in the 27th but if I can finish the chapter i will defiantly post it before then so maybe vote if you liked it and well.. BAI!  X3