Attack on Titan: Don't Shoot the Baby / Part 2

It was in the middle of the night. The moon was exposed in the night sky with stars shining dimly while sounds of crickets and other kinds of critters could be heard.

Everyone tied their horses and began setting up sleeping bags and a fire.

Jean and Eren were still bickering back and forth like a bunch of immature toddlers and I was seriously sick and tired of it. Ever since morning, I've been stuck with these two arguing all day without break. And now it was literally dark and Im trying to sleep in my sleeping bag but they won’t shut their darn mouths-!!

I would toss and turn, and it wouldn’t help. I don’t know if I was merely just reaching my limit or not, but it seemed as though their yelling just got louder, and louder, and louder, until…

“GUUUUUUUH!!! Can you both just SHUT UP for even a FEW minutes?! I'm trying to sleep and your acting like a bunch of freaking toddlers who isn’t even smart enough to learn how to get along!! Its been like this ALL DAY and its freaking night already!! I WANT SLEEP.”

With that much being said, I turned on my side and sighed heavily before closing my eyes, preparing myself for sleep.

Everyone had shocked looks on their faces though.

Nobody has ever seen me snap. Not ever. I was known to be quite quiet and reserved. So this….this was a bit shocking and new to everyone.

I even surprised Armin!

“Wow...I’ve never seen you snapped like that before, Kiyomi.” I heard a quiet chuckle coming from Armin.

He was surprised...but he seemed to find it either cute or funny. Or perhaps something completely different.

Now I felt embarrassed….

“You know, Kiyomi is right guys! You both have been at it since morning! You need to learn how to shut your trap!” Connie barked at Eren and Jean.

Suddenly an entirely new argument took place and eventually…

“GAH!!” I jumped out of my sleeping bag and then....

“I'VE HAD ENOUGH!!!!”

I grabbed my head but my butt suddenly fell onto the ground with me, and everyone started pointing fingers and laughing at me.

I just want this stupid day to be over…

“Guys, cut it out! Stop laughing at her, you all should seriously just consider trying to get some sleep as well!” Armin stood up for me.

“Yeah guys. We’ve all had a long day and its time we all try to take it easy and rest up for tomorrow.” Marco joined it.

Everyone seemed to agree with the idea after seeing how Marco said something, and all the pointless arguing stopped and everyone started to get ready for some sleep.

I sighed in relief, seeing how I could finally get some well deserved rest. I turned on my side to notice Armin sleeping aways from me in his own sleeping bag.

“Kiyomi, I’ll give you back your notebook tomorrow morning. I really love all that you have wrote so far. I can’t wait to read more.” he smiled at me.

I smiled in return before shutting my eyes for some sleep.

He is so adorable and precious when he smiles...his smile is like the sun.

Having had my eyes shut for a while, I was so close to being able to fall asleep. I was beginning to doze off...before….

“FREEZE!! STAND UP AND PUT ARMS WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM!!”

There were scary looking dudes with guns pointed at us when I snapped out of almost falling asleep and I was scared the daylights out of.

Everyone stood up and raised their arms in the air where the men could see them.

They looked scary...but more than they look scary, who exactly were they and what do they want from us?

I looked around and eventually spotted Armin. He had his hands over his head and one of the men had a gun pointed right at Armin.

If his fingers slipped or pulled, the gun would fire directly at Armin and would most likely kill him.

This…was not…OK.

“Don’t shoot the baby…” I began to mumble.

“Hm? What did ya say?” the man turned to look at me.

“Don’t drop the baby…” I mumbled once more. It was slurred however, so it was hard to understand what I was saying.

“What…?!”

“DON'T SHOOT THE BABY!!!!!”

“I shoot the baby.”

“Don’t shoot the baby!”

Before anything else could happen…

“Dude this is pointless. Lets just give the girl back and go so we don’t have to deal with action or whatever.”

One of the men appeared with Christa and pushed her onto the ground before the group fled.

“What the heck?! Who were those dudes?! Were they trying to kidnap Christa?!” Eren bursted out.

“Yes...but they eventually found kidnapping me very pointless and decided to bring me back and leave.” Christa explained.

“Okay…?”

So...that was basically the entire trip. After that, we decided to turn tail and return to camp.

We didn’t reach the goal of where we were supposed to head for our assignment, but our instructor Keith said he was fine with it...as long as we did over a thousand push ups.

After a long day of training….

“Kiyomi? I need to talk to you.” It was Armin.

“Armin! What is it?” I ask him with a cheerful smile.

“The other day...y-you called me a baby.”

….

“I-I’m not a baby! I-im a man! I know I probably don’t seem much like one, but--”

“Armin, of course your a man! You definitely are! But...back then….I just meant that you were...p-precious like one.”

“P-Precious…? L-like….a-a….baby!?”

The End