Fire and Ice {Ereri/Riren}

Chapter 2 - The boxer incident

Hey guys! I was so excited about this fanfic that I had to write another chapter! Hope you enjoy it, and thanks again to Kattalee who helped me, go check her out she's awesome :) Enjoy!

-Ereri-

My names Eren, I'm 15. I suppose I was your average boy up until age 12. My mum died in a house fire, I tried to save her but just ended up with an ugly scar all the way across my cheek and no mother. I have Mikasa; my adopted sister. She was 11 when she found out what happened. All I remember was waking up in hospital a few days later with a heavy weight on my chest, when I looked up I saw that Mikasa was sobbing her heart out on me. Bless her. When I was finally aloud out of the hospital we had no where to go, well our mum was dead and dad was on an expedition in the jungle in Africa. So we went to my Uncle Steve's flat. It wasn't very big and only had 2 rooms so of course I let my Uncle and Mikasa have them and I slept on a camp bed in the living room. It took me a few weeks to get over mum's death. But poor Mikasa took a whole month. I feel sorry for her really. She had lost her real parents, and now she just lost another one. I'm the only thing she has left seen as dad rarely comes back now a days. I mean, we used to have a cat Buttercup; but we had to give her away as my Uncle is allergic to cats, and we couldn't really afford it anyway.

Well I suppose that's enough about our past life, but today we are going to a new school. I'm nervous, I probably look like a right nutter who has been in some dodgy fight due to the giant scars on my face. Oh well. I'm sure I'll make friends. But I don't really care if I don't anyway, I like peace and quiet. It's Mikasa I'm worried about, I've only seen her smile twice since mum died. Once on her 13th birthday when I got both of us tickets to see Bastille, and once when I woke up in hospital after the house fire. I suppose I better go and wake her up or we'll be late..

Third person:

Eren turned over in his creaky old camp bed to face the living room and yawned. 'Well I suppose I better get up then.' He told himself. Tossing his blanket aside he sat up and stretched his arms and legs out in front of him like a cat. He'd grown at least an inch since last month so he was pretty lanky. Eren stood up and ran his hand through his messy brown hair, and walked barefoot to Mikasa's room. He knocked on the door, but when he heard no usuall "I'm up Eren, go away." He slowly opened the door and peeked in. What he saw was quite a shock. Mikasa was sitting on her bed and crying. Eren rarely saw her cry so he wondered what was wrong.

"Mikasa?" He whispered, slipping into her bedroom and closing the door behind him. "What's wrong?" Mikasa sniffed and wiped her nose on her pyjama sleeve. "It's nothing." She mumbled. "Well of course it's something, your crying for god sake." Eren said sitting next to her on her bed and putting his arms around her. "C'mon, tell your brother." He said giving her a small smile. "Promise not to tell Uncle?" She whispered "Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye." He grinned goofily at her. A small smile played at her lips. "I miss mum." She simply stated scooting closer to him and wrapping her arms around his chest. At first he was shocked but then he realised he did too. "Me too Mikasa. But she's fine, she's with grandma and gramps. She's probably really happy up there." Eren told her, holding her tighter in his arms and rocking her slightly. "I suppose..." she stared at the wall and then back at him. Suddenly she completely let go and pushed him off the bed. Eren was in complete shock at why she did that until she shouted, "EREENNN!! YOUR SO GROSS! GO GET DRESSED!"

He looked down and realised that the only thing he had on was his boxers. "Oh, uhh.." He blushed a deep red and stood up. "GET OUUTTT!!!" She yelled, throwing pillows at him as he ran towards the bedroom door and yanking it open. "Okay, okay!! I'm going! Hurry up we have to go to school, you don't want to be late on your first day!!" He ran out of her bedroom, pillows still flying at his head and towards the closet. Eren chuckled to himself as he pulled out a light blue shirt and some skinny jeans. Suddenly he heard Mikasa shout from her room, "I'M TAKING SOME MONEY OUT OF YOUR PIGGY BANK FOR LUNCH!" Eren laughed at her demanding ways, "YES YOUR MAJESTY!" He yelled back. "SHUT UP EREN!" Eren grinned to himself as he pulled on his clothes, grabbed his bag and some toast and waited for her in the kitchen.

When Mikasa had finally got ready she found Eren's face squashed against the counter as he slept. She got out her phone and quickly took a picture of his face just as Eren woke up. "DELETE THAT PICTURE YOU BITCH!!" He chased her out of the kitchen laughing, and surprisingly she was laughing too, Eren chased her past their Uncle's room to hear him shout, "LANGUAGE, EREN!" "SORRY UNCLE!" He laughed and chased her all the way down the stairs until they were outside. Both of them collapsed with laughter on the path. "You better not put that on Facebook." He panted trying to catch his breath. "No promises" she smirked, as they collected themselves and started walking to school. 'Mabye today won't be so bad..' Eren thought.

'Mikasa smile counter = 3' He smiled to himself. Eren was glad that his sister was going back to her normal self again.