Cadet Ackerman (SnK ff.) [ON HOLD]

16. For Better Understanding

16. For Better Understanding

A new expedition is about to commence in a few hours, but unfortunately, the Special Ops cannot participate.

"Tch, this sucks," Levine muttered as he watch the rest prepare for their departure from the patio of the headquarters together with Eren and Armin.

"Yeah, I know right? It's going to be boring here," Eren said, sighing. Armin's eyebrows knitted together after hearing their conversation.

"That's an ironic thing to say," the blonde said and turned around, followed by the other two, "Anyway, winter is coming. The Survey Corps won't be busy for a few months, but I doubt we'll have a vacation."

"Oh yeah. Levi-heichou ordered us to help with the remaining four months of Hazel-san's pregnancy. I wonder how it will go?" Eren wondered and turned to Levine, "Do you think it's a nephew or a neice?"

"Don't start it, Eren if you don't want your face to meet my fist," Levine threatened. He doesn't like these kinds of conversation. He feels awkward about the topic, considering his relationship with his brother is very complicated.

"Hey, just saying. Jeez. It's been a month since your identity as an Ackerman were revealed, but you're still a tsundere brother towards Levi-heichou," Levine glared at Eren. He's not a tsundere...he's just awkward. Levi on the other hand is doing his best to reach out to Levine, which is kind of weird for Levine. Even Hazel is trying to push him to have a better relationship with her husband.

"You really want to meet this, don't you?" He lifted his fist up to his eye-level as his glare grew even more intense.

"You're lucky you have a brother," Armin muttered under his breath only to be heard by the slightly shorter male.

"Yeah, a brother I don't know for nineteen years." He said with a sarcastic tone and walked ahead of the two other boys. All of the sudden, Yami appeared beside Levine, walking with him along the way.

"Answer me. Are you cranky today because you are not part of the expedition or because your birthday is right around the calendar, but no one knows about it?" The double ganger asked Levine only annoying the latter even more. Yes, his birthday is nearing, but he is not expecting it to be a 'happy birthday'. Never once.

In his seventh birthday, he was beaten up by older and bigger thugs after he was caught stealing their foods. In his twelfth birthday, he did not eat for the whole day and he has to survive a whole month due to the epidemic around his area in the underground and just last year, he had Loose Bowel Movement which extremely angers him. What difference will it do this year?

"I'm going to stick to the first one," Levine whispered as Yami shrugged.

Meanwhile, Levi is in his office doing paperwork's. Oh, paperwork's for the whole day until tomorrow. How delighted. Only if he could skip all this and lay in his clean bed and let his lovely (not so lovely...) wife serve him. Okay, that wish might've sound a little wrong, but who cares. He will do anything to get out of this sh*t.

As his hand wander around his desk, he noticed a piece of parchment under the pile of papers. It's Levine's bio-data. He took a small break on his job and carefully took the parchement. It's been a month since he gazed on this piece of paper, but because of curiosity and anxiety, he only skim the texts.

September 23rd

He remembers that day. That's the day his mother died and the day Levine was born. Levine was born that day...

He looked over to a calendar hanging on his wall and saw it's September 21st already.  Two more days before the big day and all Levi's doing is sitting around with these lazy stacks of papers. If these papers are so important, then why don't they just sign their selves? Levi needs to plan for Levine's birthday if he wants to be closer to his brother.