Strength || An Annie x Male! Reader fanfic

Strength

POV; Third Person

Sweat dribbled down young (Y/N)'s face and neck, soaking his shirt collar. The boy's father clutched a black belt in his right hand, leaning on a nearby tree. His mother peeked worriedly out of the family's small hut window. (Y/N) fell backward, his knuckles and legs ached from the two days of training without any breaks. His father growled, tightening his grip on the leather belt.

" (Y/N), no breaks! It's either train or have a world full of pain. You're such a disappointment! "

The boy panted, shakily getting up. In his head, the 11-year old, about to turn 12, wanted to refuse, eat something else than just a few slices of hard bread, and finally get to have a good night's sleep. He thought that he was the only one who had to be trained to death like this, but there was actually many another. One of those people would be a girl his age. She went by the name, Annie Leonhart.

Annie was trained by her father. Right now, she was on a mission. The mission? To destroy all of the walls with the people inside of them and retrieve the founding titan. Three other kids would be accompanying Annie in this mission. At this time, the two of them were in separate places. (Y/N) would soon be informed about the fall of Wall Maria, breached by a titan as tall as the walls, and a strange armored titan. The boy was about to be sent on his own mission. This time, he would use his strength and knowledge to get into the trainee corps, graduate in the top 10, and join a regiment.

(Y/N) looked over at his dad, the usual look of fear and need of sleep stamped onto his face. The abusive father was walking towards him. His head was lowered. (Y/N) let out a quiet squeak as his dad placed his bony hand on the boy's shoulder.

" I'm sending you on a mission, (Y/N). You're already too strong for my liking. "

The father, who had dropped the belt and had both hands on his son now, explained the mission. He stopped to say one last thing.

" I'm sorry for what I've done. It was for your own safety. But come back to me and your mother when you're older. I wish to see you again. "

(Y/N) watched his dad as he stood up, and started to walk toward their shelter. The (H/C)ed boy raced after his father, closing the door behind them as they entered.

Timeskip ; 3 years

POV; First Person

The trainee corps commandant, Keith Shadis, screamed at the recruits asking for their name and reasoning for why they were here. He had skipped many people, including me and a small blonde-haired girl next to me. Her icy blue eyes stared straight ahead. I wondered what her voice would sound like. Soft? No, not with that hard gaze. I'll ask for her name then! Keith was behind us, yelling at the recruits still. I tapped on the girl's boot with my own. She looked down, following my leg up to meet my face.

" What do you want,"

She whispered, her sight averting from me back to in front of her. She had a hint of annoyance in her voice.

" What's your name? "

The girl stayed silent for a minute.

" Annie, Annie Leonhart. Yours? "

I smiled.

" (F/N) (L/N). "

Annie looked over at me, eyeing the hand that I had out towards her a bit. She shook my hand, quickly glancing over at a blonde-haired male. He wore a green shirt. The male's name was Reiner if I could recall. He was looking over at Annie angrily. As soon as he saw me he quit, looking back in front of him like everyone else. The commandant cleared his throat, standing at the end of the rows of recruits.

" Time for a tour around the site, scum! "

Short Timeskip

I glared down at the empty tray that was sat in front of me. Hard bread, soup, and some cold butter had once been there. Annie, who sat in front of me, had pushed hers to the side. A smirk came upon my lips.

" Not exactly fit your standards, Leonhart? "

She looked up at me with a piercing stare. I extended my hand toward her.

" I'll take it from you. If you don't want to eat it, that is. "

Annie hesitated but shrugged and poured the soup into my bowl. She passed the bread to me. The container of butter sat on the staple food. I gulped the food down quickly. Annie stood up, grabbing her tray.

" See you tomorrow, (Y/N). "

She waved before walking off. With a grunt, I grabbed my own tray, stood, and put it in the stack. Then I made my way to the boy's barracks. 

Timeskip; The next day, hand to hand combat

A groggy and already annoyed-looking Annie stumbled to get into the row of trainees. She stood in front of me, next to a raven-haired girl named Mikasa Ackerman and Ymir, a brown-haired female. Commandant Keith, who greeted us with cursing this morning started to pair us up. I was the last to be paired up. Just guess who I was paired up with too. Annie.

" This should be easy for me, right (Y/N)? "

Annie kept a straight face, glaring at me as she distanced herself.

" You ready? "

I nodded. Annie stood still, her eyes locked with mine. She suddenly charged at me, her fists balled up.

Another Timeskip ( sorry about having so many ); Dinner

Annie and I sat across from each other, avoiding eye contact. After a never-ending fight of trying to get each other to the ground, our whole bodies ached. A countless times of exchanging kicks, punches, only able to get half of them to make contact. My head was bandaged along with most of my limbs. The training ended with all of us having to wrap each other. It was horrific, both of us yelling at each other after pulling the bandages too tight. Reiner and another male, Bertholdt, had kept an eye on the both of us. The two of them were staring at us right now.

The feeling of their eyes on me was creepy. I quickly grabbed my tray, stood up, and dumped my food. As I walked past them to get to the door, their aura was insanely overpowering. There was something up with them.

" The faster I get out of here the better, right..? "

I mumbled as I pushed open the dining hall doors. As long as I'm able to see my parents again, that's all that matters.

Word count : 1234 words

(  this is kinda a short first chapter, but I'll be working on the second one right after I publish this )

( it might take a while to upload also because I could take a short break, plus I'll try and make the second decently large )

( by the way, I'm not going to change the storyline too much )

( since Annie doesn't have that much time before she gets stuck in the crystal, I'll include the ova)

( I might also change the storyline so that you save Annie from getting stuck in the crystal, it just depends on what the readers think )