Attack on Titan: Sleepy Armin

Today in the cafeteria located within the camp where members of the 104th training corps resided in, Armin Arlert sat at one of the lunch tables.

And if you must know anything about Armin, then you must know that he is incredibly tired and sleepy today. Incredibly.

Last night he was forced to run unending laps around the camp, to do a thousand push ups, and you don't even want to know the rest!

Basically he was forced to do many tiring physical activities overnight by the order of instructor Keith.

If Armin were to disobey, he would be sent to the fields to work, meaning he would lose his chance in being able to graduate into a soldier to join the scouts.

And we all know that Armin isn't the best at physical activities, so this was pretty rough on poor ol’ Armin.

But why would Instructor Keith make Armin go through such hell you may be wondering? It's simple-- it's because he was getting left behind in jogging exercises through the woods.

Armin has always has had a difficult time with the jogs in the woods, especially when everyone was forced to run with a heavy big bag weighing over their back.

Instructor Keith was getting sick of slow Armin. He was tired of Armin always getting left behind. So he had Armin do many excruciating exercises during the night.

He barely had any sleep at all...only two hours. And that's it.

Poor Armin….:’(

But Armin, as hungry as he was, skipped on eating and went straight to the table he always goes to, and laid his head down for some sleep.

He couldn't even imagine what training would be like today.

Mikasa and Eren walks to the table with their tray of breakfast, and noticed Armin laying his head down, sleeping.

This surprised both Eren and Mikasa, seeing how Armin usually never, and I mean never sleeps or takes naps during meal times in the cafeteria.

“Yo, Armin...you ok, buddy?” Eren would poke his best friend on the head.

“Hm?” Armin lifted his tired head up to see both Eren and Mikasa sitting with him at the breakfast table. They seemed concerned.

“Armin, are you alright?”

“Yeaaaaah…..” he replies groggily.

“Armin, you don't look or sound ok. What happened?”

“Oh, well if you must know, Instructor Keith forced me right after dinner to do a bunch of physical training until past midnight.” Armin points out.

“F-For Real!? Geez, what did you do to get on Instructor Keith's bad side!?”

“...Get left behind in jogging exercises.” Armin groaned before laying his head back down.

“Poor Armin…” Mutters Mikasa.

“How dare he-!! I'm gonna fight him!” Growls Eren.

“Eren, don't! H-He’ll put you in the fields if you do something as reckless as that!” Armin jerks his head up.

“I don't care! Your health is more important!!”

“B-But Eren…”

“No buts!” Eren charges out of the cafeteria to find Keith.

“Where is that bastard!? Show your face, coward!!” Shouts Eren.

“Eren, stop it this instant!!” Mikasa chases down Eren and places a hand on his shoulder.

“Don't touch me!” Eren slaps Mikasa’s hand away.

“If I lose my chance to join the scouts this way, I'll find another way!”

“But Eren, there is no other way!”

“Yes there is!”

“No there isn't!”

“Tsk, I'm not arguing with you, child!” Eren begins storming off.

“Eren, your more of a child than I am!” Mikasa barks.

“Is that why you are always babysitting me like I'm a snot nosed toddler!?”

“Eren, stop! I'm ok, really! Don't do this, please! I'm fine! Don't ruin your one and only chance to join the scouts all because of me!” Armin hugs Eren's Arm to keep him from charging off.

“A-Armin, let go of my arm!”

“Please don't! I only lost a couple hours of sleep! I’ll be fine!” Armin pleas.

“Then how many hours of sleep did you get?”

“T-Two…”

With that answer being stated, Eren becomes even more enraged.

“HE’S DEAD MEAT!!!”

Eren begins to attempts to charge off once more, but Armin refuses to let go of Eren’s Arm. Armin may not appear like it, but he can be strong when he needs to be.

“Armin, I told you to let go!”

“N-No!” Armin refuses. Eren becomes astonished. Usually he never sees Armin act so stubborn before.

“A-Armin…”

“If you lose this one chance that you got...w-We’ll never see the Ocean! We won't be able to see the Ocean together. Is that what you want? To crush our childhood dream?”

“W-What? O-Of course not--”

“Then please don't attack Instructor Keith. I'll manage today….somehow.” Armin shrugs it off.

“Nope. Your getting some major sleep.”

“H-Huh?”

Armin suddenly finds himself being carried up onto Eren's back.

“I'm taking you back to the guys dorm room. You need serious sleep! There even shadows under your eyes!”

“B-But Ere--”

“Quiet, Armin.”

Eren shushes Armin and carries him back to the guys dorm room and tosses him onto the bed.

“Oof!”

“Sleep Armin.” Eren demands.

“B-But instructor Keith--”

“Don't worry about Keith, ok? I'll just find out some excuse to tell him like your sick or something. A trannie can't train if they are sick after all. And besides, seeing how you need sleep in bed, everyone will fall for it.”

“B,-But I don't like lying…” Armin whimpers.

“Don't worry about it, Armin. I'm the one who will be lying, not you. So don't sweat it.” With that, Eren Leaves Armin alone in the room.

“F-For once…It's actually nice to finally get some good rest. Thanks Eren…” Armin closes his eyes to finally be getting some good sleep. Eren sure was a great friend.

The End