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Levi and I had reached an agreement while we talked sitting on the grass by the trainee fields. Because of our statuses and obvious age difference, which was small in my opinion, we decided to be intimate with each other in secret. I had no problem with that, hell I felt like a million bucks. Seriously, I was grinning like a fool. I felt like I was walking on clouds as I made my way back towards the wall. I sighed. Levi had to go off to get something done so I had to go back alone. It was getting late already, with the afternoon sun hitting, and I needed something to eat. I haven't eaten for the longest and my stomach was pleading for grub.

I sighed and continued walking down the dirt path that I took earlier. It was weird knowing Levi felt the same way...and surprising. All this time and we both had no idea. The humor was strong in that one. I hated his guts when I first got here because of how he treated me, but I didn't realize I was slowly likeing him as time went on. Was it because he reminded me of Sasuke? I snorted. Of course not, it was because he was everything Sasuke was not. He was everything I wanted Sasuke to be, as selfish as that sounded. I looked around me to see if I saw Sasha anywhere. Only she knew where all the food was. I nearly stumbled back in surprise when I felt a hand land on my shoulder. I turned to see a girl with the scouting legion uniform staring at me.

"Sakura?"

I nodded, a bit confused. "Yes?"

"Hanji want's to speak with you, she's waiting for you over at the walls end, they're still trying to find out how the titans got in." She muttered in a fast pace.

I nodded in understanding. "I was going to head over there anyway, thanks for the notice." I said as I skipped around her and speed walked away. I had no idea what Hanji needed to tell me that was so important. Couldn't it wait? I was starving.

I walked around a couple of buildings under construction and peered over at the wall. It wasn't very far away thankfully. I continued walking at a fast pace, passing by rushing people and eager to get to my destination. The faster I got there, the faster I ate and got some sleep. I needed proper rest too. I was about to round a corner and much to my surprise, I spotted Ymir limping ahead of me. I knew it was her...I could recognize that short ponytail anywhere. The question was why was she out here? Only one way to find out...I skipped over to her and stopped beside her, easily keeping up with her slow pace.

"Ymir! You're better already?" I asked, eyeing her arms. They were intact and renewed, as was her leg. Her limbs had regenerated and healed faster than I thought.

She glanced at me with a tired expression and snorted. "You bastard, I could have used some help back there."

I blinked at the comment, then looked away quickly. "Oh errrr, I thought you had it haha." I said while scratching the back of my head.

She rolled her eyes and continued walking. "So are you going back to the wall too?" I asked curiously in an attempt to start small talk.

She nodded. "Yeah, I have to explain why I didn't tell anyone about my condition now don't I." She didn't seem too amused at the task she had. If anything, she looked greatly annoyed that she was the center of attention among everyone. Ymir was the type to be in the background, spectating, not being spectated.

"Yeah...about that, I'm just as shocked as everyone else, why didn't you say anything? Because you kept quiet about it, now everyone is very suspicious of you." I muttered just lowly enough for her to hear.

She shrugged. "There are some things I just can't say."

It dawned on me then that Ymir possibly knew about the titans, more about them than we did. Why she wasn't letting us know those secrets, I had no idea. I couldn't understand her. But even so..."I'm sure you have your reasons for not saying anything."

It was as simple as that. She took my word for it and smirked. "Thanks for understanding."

"No problem." I stated meekly.

We were getting closer to the walls enough for me to make out the figures above. They were still there. "Do you want me to carry you?" I offered with a grin.

She stared at me as if that was the most absurd question in the history of absurd questions. "Are you serious? I'm not some old fart who needs help with anything." She wrapped her arm around my shoulders and lowered her face to mine with a lecherous grin. "Listen girl, I could carry you, I'll give you the ride of a lifetime."

I shuddered at the comment, my homophobia kicking in. Tearing myself away from her grasp, I skipped around her and backed away cautiously. "Uhhh no thanks I can manage!"

She shrugged again and waved her hand in the air. "Suit yourself." Then she turned towards the planks that were being used to go up. So she was taking the same way up that she came down in. I sighed and concentrated chakra on my feet. Scaling the wall by running up was alot faster.

Once my chakra was ready, I jumped onto the wall and ran at full speed, the wind hissed and blew against my face as I ran. It wasn't long until I finally made it to the top, hopping over the top of the wall with ease. Not that many people were there anymore, but the new scouting legion members were still present. Eren and Reiner were separated from the rest and...I froze. Bertholdt was there along side Reiner, looking dirty and messy, no doubt from being tied up in the rain, he had somehow made it back... Our eyes locked and I had to turn quickly to avoid his gaze. I couldn't tell how awkward this was...but Everyone was here, so I had to act normal. Easier said than done.

"Ah Sakura! Do you have a moment?" Hanji walked over to me, along with Mikasa and Armin. I nodded and walked over to them casually.

"Sakura! Come!" Reiner yelled from the other side. I stopped dead in my tracks and hesitated to look back, panicking for a minute.

"You'll have to wait, I need her first!" Hanji called out to him. I was relieved, I didn't want to face the tall dark haired creep anytime soon.

"What is it?" I asked once we were in a circle and away from earshot.

Hanji stared at me with a serious expression and spoke. "we suspect both Bertholdt and Reiner to be spies along with Annie."

I thought about what she had said, but had trouble processing it. "What?" Was all I could say.

"We had looked at their files about their origins, all three of them came from the same village far away from the walls, we hadn't really payed attention to that particular detail with everything that has been going on...don't act like you suspect them when you're talking with them alright? Act natural like you always do."

I nodded in understanding. "Of course." I said. I personally thought that Hanji was reading too much into it...Reiner seemed like a totally nice guy. It was Bertholdt that I was worried about. Just because they were from the same village...that made them suspects? It didn't seem fair at all.

I could see Mikasa glaring dangerously at the trio behind us and I turned to take a peek to see what had her so riled up. Reiner was pushing Eren roughly...they were arguing about something, and Reiner was getting physical. Mikasa looked just about ready to kick some blonde ass. I really didn't understand why she was so upset, but when I looked closer I could see Reiner was completely hoovering over the brunette. He was serious. I didn't have time to react as Mikasa rushed forward with sword in hand. I couldn't process what was happening as blood spilled over the concrete floor that made up the wall's roof. Reiner screamed, the arm I had healed hours ago flew high into the air and landed on the roof with a sickening thud. Bertholdt stumbled back in surprise as Mikasa turned on him, swinging her sword into his neck hard. He tried to block it with his arm but it went through, cutting halfway through it and his neck as well. Hanji and I stared with mouths wide open. What the hell was wrong with her? Has she gone completely insane? Even Eren stared at her as if she was suddenly a mass murderer as both of Bertholdt's and Reiner's screams filled the air. She twirled around to finish the brunette off but Reiner stepped in, taking the blow instead. He now had a sword embedded into his other arm.

"Whats going on? Are you crazy?!" Eren shouted loudly at Mikasa.

She continued to glare at Reiner as he did the same as her. Then...something incredible happened. A bolt of lightning striked the wall, making everyone drop to their knees to avoid falling. The wall under me rumbled as the most enormous titan I have ever seen appeared right before my very own eyes, Bertholdt had transformed. It was so big, it made my own titan form look like an ant. I didn't have time to react as its hand swooped down to grab me, sweeping me off my feet. Christa screamed. Another explosion erupted into the air as yet another titan appeared. Reiner...he had transformed as well. His titan form wasn't nearly as big as the one that held me captive, but it had armor. It looked like a full on tank. It grabbed Eren with one hand, who was too shocked to move, and grabbed at Ymir, ignoring her violent kicking.

"Ymir!" Christa shouted in desperation. Everything was happening so fast. We were being kidnapped...by the titan shifting traitors that were under our noses the whole time.

My stomach dropped with the motion that the moving titan brought. It felt like I was in a rollercoaster. I was being dragged around like a ragged doll, unable to move and unable to escape.

"Eren!" There were shouts all around be, and the sound of cracking concrete as the armored Titan jumped down the wall. Eren's and Ymir's faces were priceless. They looked like they could throw up from the fall...only Eren's eyes held anger.

He muttered something under his breath...and shouted "Traitors!" That was the only word that was audible as he bit himself. Gushing red blood spilled around his hand with the gesture. He was going to turn...I had to do the same, only I couldn't. Both my arms were squeezed under the enormous titans grip. I had to think of something fast.

Eren grew, his transformation into his titan form was complete and he tore himself out of the armored titans grip, making its hand rip off of it's body in the process. With a roar, he slammed his fist into its face, making a cracking sound that echoed across to where I was at, still struggling. Eren was going to fight Reiner...while Ymir was still struggling in his grasp. Things weren't looking too good.

I bit my lip deep in thought as the giant titan that held me started walking away. Then it hit me. That's it, biting my lip. It was going to hurt but I had no other options. I bit down hard enough to draw blood, and I winced in pain as my body convulsed. I had to get out of Bertholdt's grip now. an explosion sounded as my own transformation started, bones crunched as they morphed. My body was being covered in heat, but it wasn't uncomfortable. I was slipping away deep into my own mind, like slowly floating down to the bottom of the ocean, unable to speak or move. My vision went black, and then everything was full of color as I saw my surroundings through bigger eyes.

My blurry vision cleared enough for me to spot Mikasa hanging from the cracked and slightly broken wall, staring ahead with wide eyes. I glanced around me quickly. I was still in Bertholdt's grip, he was so big Even my titan form couldn't tear his hand off. I wiggled around with screamed in desperation , sending huge waves of air dancing about in every direction. My frustration only grew when the damn titan game me an unfazed glance. The bastard, how could I not know he was a titan? How could he have fooled us all so easily? I should have known when I noticed his strange strength. It was a bit too much for any normal human being, even for Levi so why was he able to kick his ass anyway? Unless he felt guilty and gave up. I didn't know exactly the reasons behind Bertholdt's actions, but I was being kidnapped yet again, and I was getting real tired of this shit.

With every ounce of strength that I had in my I opened my mouth wide and bit down hard into his flesh. Trying not to think about how absolutely disgusting it was, I tore off a chunk of his hand and ate it, not bothering to chew and I swallowed. I repeated the process, eating his hand like a damn cannibal. He still seemed unfazed, squeezing slightly but not enough to hurt me.

"Sakura!"

I looked down to see Mikasa staring up at me. As I took careful note of the wall it dawned on me then that Bertholdt wasn't walking at all. the lower half of his ribs were attached to the roof of the wall in a gross view. It only felt like we were moving simply because he was swaying back and forth slightly due to the awkward position he was in.

He rose his arm over his head and brought it down with force I could hear the sound of wind being cut. Hanji screamed orders for everyone to get away from the wall, but she was one second too late. Bertholdt had already slammed his fist into it, making the whole thing shake violently and throwing soldiers off with the impact as smoke erupted from the damage.

Still...most of the others were able to escape just in time. I could see Connie gape at the titan with startled eyes. "He has Sakura!" He shouted.

"And another one!" Armin yelled after him. I looked down. I hadn't even noticed when he picked up another person...and Ymir. It looked like in the midst of their fight, Reiner had passed her on to him. He rose his hand, opening his mouth wide, and threw them into his mouth, earning disbelieving stares from withing the crumbling debris below.

Hanji rounded her men up quickly, eyeing both titans with a determined face. "Men, get ready for battle! We will destroy the colossal titan!" They followed her ordered obediently and rushed up with the gear.

So this was the Colossal titan...it was bigger than anything I had ever seen. I inwardly smiled in glee when Hanji swept past the titans arm, cutting around it with speed. The tendons ripped, and he released his grip on me, making me land rather ungracefully on top of the damaged roof. I gave her a look of gratitude, hoping she could tell from the glint of my eyes, since it was hard to make any facial expressions in this huge body.

Bertholdt roared furiously, bringing his fist down hard against his attackers. He didn't hit. Because he was far too big, his speed was very poor, it was like a giant trying to swat at a fly. It was near impossible to kill. They were winning.

"Now! Attack the back of it's neck all at once!" Hanji shouted with a raw voice. Everyone shot their wires into its back with swords aimed right at it. They didn't get to strike...because as soon as they attempted it, the titan suddenly exploded, evaporating into thick hot air that sent humid waves of smoke all around us.

"Is he going to disappear again like that time?!" I heard Hanji shout from within the smoke. I swayed slightly on my own perch on the wall. I was too big, so I had to crouch to hold myself steady. One foot took up a whole row of the wall.

Armin was coughing in the smoke, clearing it with his hand. "No! This time it's different...He's merely emitting heat to protect himself, our 3D maneuver gear is useless..." He was right. No matter how hard the soldiers tried to latch on, the heat waves negated the attacks. He was untouchable, and I couldn't fight on top of the wall without falling. I could try to use my chakra to keep myself stuck to the roof like gum, but with this large body, that would take huge amounts of chakra. I needed to save it. There had to be another way to get to Bertholdt.

Hanji spoke. "Listen up! We're going to wait until he stops, he must get tired sometime, Squads 3 and 4! You're on standby behind the target! Squad 2 you guys are on standby here." She pointed to the spot beside me. " It's interesting to see how long he can keep burning like that, but what's certain is that he'll run out of fuel eventually and will have to come out, we'll wait for that moment to make our move!" She turned to everyone. "Now listen to me closely! We can't afford to take them alive anymore, kill them, without hesitation." She looked up at me as well. "Sakura and Armin...Follow me! Our target is the armored titan!"

I looked down at the fight between Reiner and Eren. It was obvious that Eren was losing...he was dealing no damage to the blonde. I hopped down , the wind sent my pink hair flying in every direction as Hanji and Armin followed close behind me. Eren lay on the floor with a smashed in face, while the Armored titan simply sat a few feet away, without a scratch. How the hell were we going to get to his neck anyway? If it was covered in armor...I fell on my feet hard, making the ground rumble, and ran towards the fight.

Reiner was no longer sitting, but walking towards Eren in a slow pace as Mikasa tried to cut at his neck. It had no effect, she was like a harmless fly landing on him, and then moving around to find any weaknesses. He didn't even try to swat at her, his gaze was fixated only on Eren, and I could tell it was pissing Mikasa off. Even so...Eren was still regaining his strength, he was rising up, and with a roar of anger he smashed his fist into Reiner's face. It did nothing. Reiner slapped Eren's hand away and threw a powerful punch into his face. Eren went flying, face completely deformed with the blow. Reiner was still walking towards him too. I ran faster, feeling wires being cut into my back as Hanji and Armin landed on my shoulders. I had to be faster for Eren. I wasn't sure how effective my chakra induced punches would be against Reiner's armor, but I still had a batter chance than Eren at beating him.

Eren got up and lounged at him again, arms raised for another blow. I ran faster, pumping some chakra into my feet, I was almost there. I expected Eren to hit Reiner again, but instead, he ducked as Reiner threw a punch himself, and held on to his waist, throwing himself back to land on the blonde. It was Eren who was on top of him now, straddling his waist.

"He managed to throw Reiner to the ground!" Armin shouted with relief. I was there now, close enough to touch the two, and Eren looked up at me, eyes going wide when Reiner lifted himself up to throw Eren off. Eren held on to his neck with his legs, while twisting his arm around. He had him in a submission hold and I seized that opportunity to grab his other arm and twist with all my strength. We might not be able to beat with with strength, but we could try to take him apart.

I pulled as hard as I could while Eren squeezed his neck with his legs, making the armor around it crack. My eyes widened, it was working. The armor around his arms were cracking too, with the strain his arm was being put under. With one last pull, Reiner's arm came off and I stumbled back. Eren too, had ripped the other arm off and Reiner lay there, helpless. Now that he had no way to defend himself, we could take him down easily. We just needed to crack the armor around his neck to get to him.

Mikasa ran up towards me and shot her wires into my skin, pulling herself up with the gear and latching on to my shoulder. "Hanji! We need to get Sakura and Eren out of here, Reiner's objective is to kidnap them!"

Hanji paused, then spoke. "But they're winning, they're taking him down!"

Mikasa shook her head stubbornly. "Do you really think Reiner is going to let them get away so easily?! The colossal type is just a decoy!"

"That may be but..." Hanji gulped. "It's near impossible to escape from Reiner, he can just smash through the wall like that time, the walls are useless against him."

It was true. Even if Eren and I hid within the walls, he would follow without a doubt. The only way of preventing our kidnapping was by fighting him. He was already standing up and walking towards us again. His severed arms hung limply at his sides, smoke was emitting from them, they were regenerating already.

"It's a two vs one, what are the odds of Reiner winning? We can't do much until they figure out how to get rid of the armor." Armin muttered beside my ear.

Mikasa hopped from my shoulder over to Eren's with the gear. "Listen to me Eren! For you and Sakura to escape we need to stop Reiner from moving somehow and buy you enough time, if you two work together, you can use that locking move again and she can use her strength to break his legs, our swords are practically useless but if we use our brains i'm sure we can figure out the most we can do under the circumstances!"

He stared at her in understanding. It was a good plan, then we could deal with Bertholdt later. "O-okay I think you both know what to do." The raven haired girl muttered under her breath.

Hanji looked over at Armin. "For now, let's get off, it's dangerous to be here with them."

Armin agreed and the trio retreaded over to the top of the wall, watching us through a distance. "I'm counting on you!" Hanji shouted over to us.

So it began, the fight of three. Reiner might have had armor, but it was two he was up against. We had the upper hand. I pumped chakra into my right fist, concentrating on what part of his body I could deal a blow just in case Eren failed to drop him.

Reiner suddenly kneeled down and charged forward, completely ignoring me and slamming into Eren, smashing him against the wall where the others were perched on. I inwardly cursed. He was fast.

Eren struggled to wrap his arms around his legs. That's right...we had to aim for the legs. I followed in quickly and kicked his feet from under the blonde. He fell forward and landed hard on Eren, who in turn grabbed his legs together and held him in place. Reiner twisted his body around and threw a hard punch at Eren's face. Eren dodged it just on time, moving his head down to avoid having it crushed again.

Reiner was completely ignoring me. Why? I had no clue, it was like his anger was fixated on Eren. Or at least that's what I thought. When I least expected it, his elbow came down hard on my stomach, making my fall.

"Don't let him get you on the ground! Get back up!" Mikasa yelled.

I growled. It wasn't easy fighting with so much weight on you, it made you slow. Eren used Reiner's distraction to slide a foot onto the back of his leg and pulled him down again. Getting up, I jumped him quickly, landing a blow to his face. The result was astonishing. I had absolutely no damage...

He got up again, and stood in between Eren and I, smoke rising from his almost complete arms. This armored bastard was tough...I was starting to lose confidence. We just had to get him on the ground...but he was making it freaking difficult. This was all Mikasa's fault...saying the plan out loud...freakin idiot.

I was taken by surprise when Reiner tackled me to the ground all of a sudden. I fell hard into my back, latching on to his neck in a vain attempt to hold him in place and staring at Eren pleadingly. He tackled his back. It was like we were a titan sandwich, with Reiner being the ham. Now was our chance. I didn't expect Mikasa come flying down with the gear with a sword aimed high over her head. What was she doing? Didn't she already realize how pointless it was to try to cut through the armor?

She didn't attempt it though, instead, she cut swiftly at the back of his knees, and I was surprised to hear a ripping sound and see blood dance through the air. She actually cut him...It seemed there were parts of Reiner's body where it wasn't covered in armor.

His knees buckled under him and he faltered, resting his face in the crook of my neck. "Mikasa! You did it!" Armin shouted from above the wall, cheering for the girl.

Hanji joined in. "You can do it Sakura! Rip his neck out! Drag the traitor out!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. I obeyed and sunk my teeth deep into his armor, hearing the crack as I broke it. This was it...this was his weakness. Pain...Everytime Reiner go hurt, his armor weakened. We had the advantage now with this piece of information. I ate the armor with ease and sunk my teeth into his flesh while Eren held on to his whole body in a firm grip.

Then Reiner started crawling. Literally acting like a creepy spider and dragging all three of us across the wall. It made me stop my eating at stare ahead with a confused expression, meeting Eren's equally confused gaze. What was he doing? The people from above were following us by running across the wall as well, staring down at us with strange gazes. I could only imagine what we must have looked like from up there.

After a while, I knew why Reiner had crawled...we were right above Bertholdt...he was still shooting heat out of his body. I didn't know what, but they had some sort of plan...a plan against Eren and I. We had to get out from under the giant titan and fast...

We weren't fast enough...Eren had no idea what was going on. Since he was facing me, he couldn't look up to see Bertholdt starting to detach himself. He only flinched when Reiner roared loudly...loud enough to burst my eardrums and make me cringe with the sudden noise.

"Get ready! It's bringing titans!" I heard Hanji shout. No...it wasn't calling titans like the female type did all those weeks ago. It was doing something else, but since I couldn't talk at all, I couldn't warn anybody. I only heard two words.

"Above you!"

I wasn't sure who shouted it, but my huge green eyes dilated as Bertholdt's giant body came crashing down on us hard. The last thing I was able to think was where the hell the bastard Levi was at a time like this. Probably washing dishes or moping the floor...while Eren and I were being squished to death by this fatass...my thought's left me as Bertholdt's body made impact, and my vision grew black.

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