When Eren and I followed Hanji into a new room deprived of windows, her behavior changed. As soon as the door shut behind us, she stopped walking and stood in the middle of the room with her back to us. Eren and I exchanged questioning glances.

" Um, Hanji? " I spoke out.

Her whole body was shaking. I was beginning to wonder if she would break down and cry. She didn't. Instead, she swiftly turned around and grabbed my shoulders. Her eyes were wild and she was inspecting my head as if word got out that there were alien life forms living in it.

" Hanji? " I asked again, greatly confused.

" I have been wanting to ask you this question ever since Levi brought your body in, your hair…is it natural?!" She shrieked as she held my locks in between her fingers.

I deadpanned. What was this womans problem?

" Yes, I was born this way."

She gasped. " No way, that's so cool! " While she was busy gushing over my hair color, Eren walked over to the front of the room and glanced at the two beds on each corner.

" Is this where we'll be kept?" He asked. Hanji looked over at him.

" Yeah you and sakura will be sleeping underground for now as part of the court agreement, they still don't fully trust you, and you might flip out if you were to turn in your titan state above ground." She walked over to the left side.

" your things are on the bed eren, that's where you will be sleeping." She turned to me.

" The outcome of your case was unexpected so your things are being kept in the scouting legion building for inspection, you can get them later."

I quickly looked over my body. My pouch and headband were gone. I was so caught up with my situation that I haven't even realized my things were missing. I sulked.

" Okay." I whispered.

" Don't look so glum sakura! Your bed is over there." She pointed to the other bed. I sighed and nodded.

"Can I see my friends?" Eren asked hanji.

" Not right now, your in the scouting legion, your friends will have to join in if you don't want to separate." Eren nodded in disappointment.

"Well, since you guys now know where your room is , follow me!" She opened the door and walked out. Sheesh, wasn't she even going to ask if I was comfortable sharing a room with a boy, I thought as we followed suit.

The sky was strikingly bright when we made our way outside. Compared to the dark underground room lit only by a lamp, the outside world annoyingly made my eyes squint. It was actually quite pretty. The building had a very unique style unlike anything in konoha.

" Heyyy! Look here, it's the titan shifter and the girl with the exotic hair!" Hanji screamed and waved at a couple of people sitting in a wooden bench. Four people walked up to us and crowded around me. Three men and a woman stared at me in awe.

" So, this is the one who broke erwins sword with her hand." The woman said. She had orangey brown hair and wide light brown eyes. She was pretty.

" Shes really small, I doubt shes just an ordinary girl." The man with blonde tied up hair mused.

" I'm petra, this is mike." She said pointing to the blonde. He krept closer to me and bent down to press his nose on my neck. He sniffed.

"W-what are you doing?!" I squealed. He tensed but continued sniffing, then backed up and smiled.

"Eh?" I said blushing.

"Don't mind him, he has a habit of smelling everyone when he first meets them, then he nods and smiles afterwards, there's no real significance to this." An old man with grey hair said popping out behind petra. I stared dumbly.

"Oh Okay.." I muttered. Mike moved on to sniff eren, what a weirdo, I thought.

"I'm oluo bossard by the way, I have the most titan kills in the team." He shook my hand and gave an arrogant huff.

" I'm eld jinn, nice to meet you." The other man with blonde hair said cautiously.

" I'm Gunther Shultz." A man with black hair stated while bowing down slightly. I didn't know whether to bow or not so I just gave him a curt nod.

" Sooo, your village was attacked by titans?" Oluo asked, trying to appear like he couldn't care less what my answer was.

" Yes, I…found my way here." I said carefully. I had to think before I spoke. If I said too much, I was going to make them poke holes in my story.

" I see, well sorry to hear that, im sure working under Levi will make you wish you were eaten to- ah!" He crouched in pain as petra elbowed him painfully.

" Shut it, Levi isn't that strict, Working with him is an honor!" She gushed dreamily. She had a crush on the guy, It was so obvious, but I wasn't going to openly question why anyone would feel attracted to a sasuke clone. My gut clenched. I still liked him, no matter how much I hated to admit it. Even after he left, My thoughts were sometimes filled with thoughts of him. Who was I to judge petra. "Sakura." Hanji's voice brought me out of my thoughts. " Hurry! " I noticed she, along with eren, were waiting for me by the stalls on the far side of the building.

" Right!" I yelled. Turning to the odd bundle of people, I bowed gracefully.

" It was nice meeting you all!" I said smiling. I turned back to hanji and ran up to them.

" Since you are an unexpected arrival sakura, erwin is still discussing what to do with you, so for the meantime, just do as levi instructs okay? Same with you eren, you may be in the survey corps now but you're still under levi's control." She smiled and backed up a few steps. Great. I was going to be the sasuke clones slave until they figured out what to do with me. I felt a pang in my stomach. I didn't want to be here. This wasn't my place. I missed konoha. The window above us opened suddenly and we all turned to the man sticking his head out. Forget the sniffing guy, Levi was a weirdo too. Who wore a cleaning cloth on their head and another to cover half their face?

"There you two are, come inside, I have work for you." He muttered behind the white cloth pressed to his mouth. Even looking like that, he wore that cool monotone expression. It took everything in my power not to laugh. Hanji slapped both our backs.

"Have fun you two!" She wandered back to the odd group we were introduced to. Eren and I gulped and made our way inside.

" Good grief, your filthy." He stated at me. I frowned. Sure I was filthy. They had me locked up in a dirty cell for …forever!

" You can take a shower once your'e done." He said while whiping his hands on a white apron, yes apron. He handed eren a broom and a bucket with a sponge to me.

"Eren you go to the front yard and sweep the leaves off the pavement, Sakura, you scrub the floor here."

Eren muttered an ok and turned to me. "I guess I'll see you later."he said, were we friends now? Come baaack I thought miserably. I didn't want to be alone with the sasuke clone.

"You can start anytime." Levi said in a bored tone. I gave him a cold glare.

"I'm not going to forgive you for what you did" I whispered angrily. "You went too far." He blinked innocently. Like he couldn't believe I would accuse an angel such as him of kicking the crap out of the only trustworthy boy I have met in this world.

"I couldn't care less what you think, you can't achieve anything without sacrifice, remember that." He walked over to a wooden table and dusted it off. I stuck my tongue out behind his back. I didn't like this asshole one bit. I could kill him right here and now, just punch him and send him flying out the wall. I couldn't however. I was still disoriented and confused about my situation. I was still beginning to grasp the fact that I got sucked into some other world. I couldn't afford to make enemies. Until I found a way to get back, I had to lay low and do what I was told. This was a world with unknown rules, and that was dangerous.

I bent to my knees and took out the sponge. Dragging it alongside the floor I mused over how I hated every minute of this. I wasn't a maid, I was a medic nin. I wanted to curl in a ball and cry in a corner. I scrubbed harshly with each minute that passed. Levi was done with his part so he sat on the chair sitting away from me and stayed completely silent. I could feel his eyes boring into my back. That asshole was probably sitting in glee thinking how slow I was. My knees were starting to ache from scraping against the floor so I stood up and stretched. My boots were too low to offer protection. I still felt his stare. Fed up I swiftly turned and looked him in the eye.

"What?" I snapped.

He frowned. "Is your hair natural?"

I groaned. I was going to go through this until I left.

"Doesn't anyone have pink hair around here?" I asked taking a seat across from him. I wasn't finished with my cleaning but I needed a break.

"No." He said rather bluntly.

I pouted."Its natural." I said. My stomach growled. I wanted to punch it in embarrassment.

"Why don't you finish up so you can go eat." He stated.

"I want to take a break." I replied matter of factly. His stare shot daggers. I gulped.

"Fine." I said. A gentleman would clean up for me and take me out to eat I thought glumly. Oh yeah, this guy wasn't a gentleman, I had a better chance of making a rock smile. I scrubbed in fustration. I hadn't eaten ever since I got here. I wished I ordered ramen when I went for shikamaru after all. I gasped. Shikamaru! He knew I was going to train outside konoha's gates! He had to have noticed me missing and told tsunade sama where I was. "Oh no…" I whined. It was hopeless. My life was in the hands of that lazy ass.

"Something wrong." Levi's voice brought me back to reality. "No." I muttered. He was absolutely the most boring person on earth. Tch, sasuke clone... I scrubbed in silence the rest of the day.

I was beat when I finally finished cleaning. My hands were wet and cold. I really should of wore my gloves. Levi escorted me outside once he took off his silly attire and folded it neatly. This clean freak was going to work me to death. Finally, I finally understood shikamaru for once. Eren was waiting outside and walked up to us.

" I'm done, do we get to go now." He asked.

"Of course not, I'm stuck with you two, I imagine your hungry, lunch will be ready in the main hall, come with me." Levi instructed.

We followed him in silence. "Are you feeling okay?" I asked eren. He looked extremely worried. "Huh, oh yeah its just, I really want to see my friends."

I thought for a moment."Mikasa and arlin?"

"Armin, yeah I don't feel right separating from them." He said.

"I know how you feel, I want to see my friends too." I whispered.

You never know what you have until you lose it.

"your wounds healed pretty fast." I commented. His face was clean and unbruised.

"Yeah, my arm grew back too." He stared at his left arm in concentration. It grew back?

" What happened?" I asked in geunine curiosity.

" A titan bit it off, but it grew back, maybe it's a part of being a titan." He shuttered. I didn't really understand but I was too tired to press any further. Levi opened the door we came across and stepped in. We followed. The smell of food hit my nose and my mouth watered. The room was warm and cozy, apart from outside. I was cold and night was about to come, being in here and eating food made it almost seem like home. The same group of people I met were seated. Save for mike, Hanji was seated across the end of the table.

"Eren, Sakura, Glad to see you!" Hanji exclaimed. Levi took a seat across petra and oluo. Eren and I sat next to him, Levi on my left and eren on my right. "Sooo lets eat!" Hanji yelled happily. The woman was always bouncy. I dug into the fresh bread that stood on my plate. I savored every morsel in my soup. I really was hungry. Everyone else was either eating slowly or kept glancing at eren and I.

" So you were in wall maria when the colossal titan first appeared?" Hanji asked in a low serious voice at eren. Eren tensed and nodded.

"So how big is it! Is it really sixty meters high?" Petra asked nervously with wide eyes. I nearly choked on my food. Sixty meters?

"It was big enough to look over the wall, It destroyed it, more than half of the people got eaten." Erens voice held rage. I stared silently.

" You haven't seen it, you haven't seen how they eat people." Erens words were directed at me. I shivered nervously.

"Enough, eat so we can clean up." Levi instructed. Everyone groaned. This guy only thought about cleaning, even the way he ate. He took his sweet time picking his spoon carefully and slowly crept it into his mouth. One small spill would kill him.

"We don't know anything about the titans, so how, how can we ever hope to win." Eren muttered.

"That's not true, I have done plenty of experiments with titans, I know many. many things!" Hanji proudly claimed. My head shot up. Eren gasped.

"Really! Tell me!" We both yelled at the same time. We glanced at each other. Hanji's mouth hung open. Her eyes went wide.

"Y-you guys want to know, about my experiments?" We nodded eagerly. Ever since I got here, I was painfully curious about these beings that supposedly ate more than half of the worlds population.

"No! You guys don't want to know." Olou said drastically.

"But I do…" I whispered. Levi's eyebrow twitched and he got up. Everyone else did too and followed the sasuke clone outside.

"Fine! I will tell you, Im so happy your interested in my experiments!" She giggled. We waited impatiently. " Well, I caught two titans, a seven meter high and a smaller one. First we kept them tied up so they wouldn't try to eat us. It worked. I calculated that they were quite calm when bound, even at the sight of humans. I tried to talk to each of them separately, I asked how the weather was up there, and If they could understand what I was saying, Neither responded. This led me to conclude that they have no intelligence and can't understand human speech." She shook with tears in her eyes. " In order to grow more attached to them I named them sawney and bean. I slept with them daily. Of course I wanted to know if they had any other weaknesses besides the back of their necks so I had t-to…stab them, hurt them, Oh sawney! Bean! That hurt me more than it did you!" She sobbed dramatically. Eren and I exchanged glances. "We didn't find any, They healed in a matter of seconds, so It was impossible to dissect them as well. When I chopped off sawneys arm, I held it. It weighed no more than air. It wouldn't make sense because the arm was huge So this makes me believe that, perhaps the titans are only projections we are seeing, they are being controlled by a stronger more physical phenomena. They have no digestive organs so they don't eat to live, they simply eat to eat, they have ignored animals brought to them so they are only interested in humans. They also appear to have no reproductive organs so how they reproduce is still a mystery, and their body temperature is ridiculously hot, It rises upon regenerating. And lastly, I wanted to know why titans aren't so busy roaming around at night. We covered both titans with blankets, depriving them of sunlight. Sawney got weak and eventually went into a stunned comatose state, as if he was sleeping, but bean, He was so restless he nearly bit my head off! HAHAHAHA! If I had a nickle every time I almost got eaten in my titan experiments!" This woman was crazy. She pounded the table as she laughed. Did she have no sense of safety for herself at all?

" The survey corps are an eccentric bunch." Eren whispered. I nodded in agreement.

" So this means that these titans differ from height?" I asked.

Hanji smiled. "Indeed, We may not know their origins, but im discovering things about sawney and bean bit by bit." Eren stared at her confusingly.

" Hanji…how, how can you stay so close to them, aren't you afraid they might escape and eat you? Haven't you seen how they eat people?" Erens question was a reasonable one. I too thought it would be impossible to be interested in such a creature.

Hanji's face turned serious. "Yes. I have seen close friends get eaten before my very own eyes, I myself have nearly died beyond the walls."

Eren slammed a fist on the table. He was angry. "Then how!?"

Hanji smiled. "Eren, all this time humanity has known nothing but fear, they fear titans, and they should, but it's that same fear that prevents us from moving forward, from winning this war with them, if you look at them from a different angle, you can see things that you couldn't from the fearful and angry perspective we originally had." Eren calmed down, He unclenched his hand. She was right.

"But where did they come from?" I asked. This world, was whipped out by these beings. It was the strangest thing, It was like a zombie film, only the zombies were giant. I was curious about everything in this world.

"No one knows, they just suddenly appeared after the american war." Hanji said carefully, her eyes glazing over as she thought about possible theories. We stayed in silence for a bit, thinking about what we heard. These beings sounded like gods, invincible except for the back of their necks…according to hanji. These people had it really bad.

" So the only way to kill them is by attacking the back of their necks?" I asked.

She nodded. "You have to cut the backbone, that keeps them from regenerating, that's what we survey corps people are for, ventering outside the walls and collecting information on the titans."She took a bite of her bread.

"Is that all you've found out?" Eren asked after a while.

"Yeah unfortunately, but I have more information, want to hear?!"

Eren and I nodded. "Yes!" We nearly shouted.

She clapped her hands. "This is a bit long, and you probably already heard it but…."….

"And that's what I know about titans!" Hanji exclaimed enthusiastically. Eren and I wore dead zombie faces. It was morning. Hanji was going on and on about theories all night long. Strange theories. Theories no kid should ever hear about.

"Make…It…Stop." I whispered in agony.

"Ughhhhh" Eren groaned weakly. I understood why levi and the others left. They should of warned us. The door slammed open.

"Hanji! The titans! Someone killed the captured titans!" A man yelled hysterically. Hanji gasped. We ran outside, following hanji and the man to a hidden part of the building. The gates opened and we walked at a quick pace, the sun shone bright for a time like this. The place was full of people in uniforms so eren and I had to push our way to the front. The commotion was really big. Eren and I stopped dead in our tracks when we saw it. The scene was dramatic. Hanji lay on her knees, gazing at the giant skeletons before her hopelessly.

"Noooooo! Sawney! Bean! Who did this!" She wailed. Her cries could be heard a mile away. People talked amongst themselves.

"Hanji is really pissed, who could of done that." Whispers flew around like a good gossip. It was chaos, and hanji's wails were only getting louder. I couldn't understand hanji's attachment to these ginormous beings. However, that didn't stop me from feeling sorry for her.

"What is this." Eren muttered beside me. A shadow loomed over us both. Hands gripped eren by his shoulders. I backed away as erwin bent to erens ear and whispered.

" Look around, who do you think is the enemy." Erens eyes widened in perplexity. With a quick glance my way, he stood and walked to my left side.

"I'm trusting my intuition, I just hope you don't disappoint me." He was a good foot taller than me so I had to crane my neck to see his face. He was unreadable, just like that time, there was no way to tell if he was angry or weary of me for attacking him.

"What do you mean." Eren whispered. Erwin didn't respond. He stared at the crying hanji. It was ominous. Who could of killed hanji's experiments. I looked around. Everyone looked shocked and innocent. But erwins words. There was someone here who did it. For some strange reason someone wanted hanji's experiments to stop. But why. The three of us stood watching as hanji cursed at whoever killed her precious beings. Someone among these people were an enemy. I frowned. There was a lot more to this world than I thought. Titans weren't the only problem, something more ominous lay beyond us.