New Beginnings

Chapter 1:A New Beginning -Eren

Chapter 1-

"What do you mean you want us to go with you!"

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Eren and his little family of three had grown over the five years he had been on the streets. The boy and his childhood friends, Mikasa and Armin, had been alone for only a few weeks before they met Jean and Marco. After that, they met Sasha, Connie, Ymir, and Christa. They met a few other street rats like themselves along the way but few lasted, some stuck around for bit only to disappear in the middle of the night. This was common to them, find and help a group and then just wait until said group left. Trust was hard to get here and they were lucky for those they had. Recently they had one group stay over a month, a small group of one girl and two boys. Annie, Berthold, and Reiner had been they're names but they left right when they seemed like they wouldn't. A few months after they left though, Marco had fallen ill with an infection, but without money or parents, they couldn't take him to get help. They tried but no one would accept them, well almost no one. Right when it seemed useless, that was when they met this one doctor, they were very eccentric and helped them the best they could. The problem was by the time they found their saving grace it was too late. The infection had spread halfway across his body, by that point he was on his deathbed. All the doctor could do was make him as comfortable as possible and take away the pain so he could die in peace. That was when Jean changed, it was no secret the two had been in love. Jean left without a word after that, only to come back now, after worrying his small family of misfits for months.

It had turned out Jean wasn't leaving them, quite the opposite actually.

He had left to find them somewhere safe, he refused to lose anyone else like he had lost Marco. He came back a few hours ago, panting with his two shaded hair clean and new clothes. He looked better too, he had filled out and was no longer as much of a stick like the rest of them, he seemed more content with life. But to Eren, it had looked like he had lost his fight. Eren would be the first to admit that living on the streets wasn't fun. It was awful and dangerous, he had many close calls himself, and half the time you were stuck in a limbo of being so hungry you felt like you were caving in and other times you felt like even moving was a hassle from the fatigue and dehydration. It sucked and he knew that but he would rather this then accept someone's pity and become their lapdog. He was one of the few who refused to give up though, the rest of his group was tired and seemed to like the idea of a roof over their heads and not having to fight for food.

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"Look Eren, I want us to be safe. Do you remember the last time you felt safe and comfortable? I don't, but I feel that now and it's amazing! I get that you don't want to be indebted to anyone but no one should die because you're stubborn!" Jean exclaimed his pitch slowly creeping into a yell by the end. Eren glared at him with a vengeance, he never said he wanted anyone to die. From an outside view you would see a concerningly thin boy with messy brown hair with high cheekbones and tan skin that seemed too small for his own body, it stretched over him making him look deathly and pale compared to what he could have been. His bright teal ocean eyes, the only things hinting at him being alive, glaring across from himself at a slightly healthier looking boy. Jean had grown into his skin after months of food and sleep he didnt get before. He now presented as a strong healthy young man with light hair scattered on top of his head with short dark hair circling the sides and back of his head. His pointed nose and long face held bright amber eyes that somehow pleaded and glared back at Eren.

"We're fine where we are, you horse faced jerk!" Eren yelled in return, admittedly he knew he couldn't argue Jeans points and the other boy was right. He was also right about Eren being stubborn, the teal eyed boy refused to give up.

"Are you blind? Eren looked around! You guys are living in a rotting abandoned building! You all are half starved and honestly, when did any of you last take a bath?" Looking at any of them you could tell it's been months since they last washed. Though that was partly because it hasn't rained in months and that was their primary source of water. The red and ashamed faces of the group was proof enough that they were at the very least ashamed of their appearance compared to they're clean friend. Jean took their deathly silence as answer enough, "Exactly! That is why Marco is dead and the rest of you will soon follow at this rate! I'm not losing any more friends when we can easily prevent it!" At this point, the cleaner boy was more pleading to the lot of them rather than fighting Eren. He was desperate to get his friends to safety and you could tell most of the others wanted to go with him.