DisclaimerXx Naruto and Attack in Titan do not belong to me, period.

First in response to ManWithaPlan113 the reason I call her Naruto and not Naruko is mostly due to personal preference. I don't particularly like the name Naruko and also the meaning if the name is different. Naruto in both canon and this fic is a wild maelstrom, to say the very least!

Secondly characters are oc in this. However this is fanfiction and moreover this is a fem!naru fic. This naruto is not Canon naruto and never will be. In fact she is actually more like Uchiha Itachi the uzumaki naruto. Dont like it? Simply click the little red cross at the corner of your screen!

Well rant over I guess. Hope you enjoy.

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Erwin

Naruto eyes were narrowed as they raised to meet the steel-blue of Erwin Smith, commander if the survey corps. The man's gaze was measured as he looked back, barren of the usual kindness that he was known for.

"It is rare that we get an early graduate, let alone after spending only two years in training, colour me inpressed" Erwin paused before walking in a full circle around the whiskered blonde, taking into note her straight posture and rather short stature (150cm) similar to that of a certain Heichou... and in a similar way to Levi she had graduated with near perfect scores and a beyond cold outer shell.

The similarities were bright and clear before the commander and he possessed no doubt that this gir- no woman, would go far. Very far. But he had just one question that he needed the answer to.

"Why do you want to join the scouting legion?"

He watched as she closed her eyes briefly, most likely in order to get her thoughts in order, before opening her mouth to reply. Her voice was clear with a slight lilt.

"To protect sir." She paused her eyes narrowing as she pondered and he inwardly chuckled at her cutely furrowed brows.

"Protect what?" He asked curiously, what would this stoic girl find worthy enough to devote her very life to?

Her eye met his and suddenly in the cold orb he saw a determination that could set ice aflame. A spark of emotion that put a glowing heath to shame.

"I wish to join the scouting legion in order to protect my precious person, sir"

"Then why not join the military police? Would it not be easier to provide for and protect someone within the walls with a larger income?"

This time Naruto did not pause, her posture straightening even further and her eyes not leaving his for a second.

"Because the person I want to protect is already in the process of training for the scouting legion. Also, sir, the scouting legion promises me a freedom that would otherwise be far out of my reach. I would rather be fighting titans then cowering behind these walls, sir, we have already seen with the outer wall of the Shiganshina that the titans are adapting and evolving in order to eat us. I believe it to be a simple kill or be killed matter, sir."

A minute passed in silence as he stared down at her, his face not betraying a single thought. Naruto herself was breathing rather heavily, her shoulders lightly heaving in response to her small monologue, allowing him to see that the woman had not spoken so much or so passionately in a long time. But her eye was a different story as, deep within the blue orb, the determination returned, almost daring him to tell her that her words were lies.

(He inwardly smirked at this point because it really did seem as though he had gained a new, rather cute, miniaturized Levi Heichou)

Suddenly, a pleasant smile spread across his face as he came to a decision, before he placed a hand on her shoulder in, encouragement?

"Welcome, Naruto Ootsutsuki, to the survey corps,"

Because Erwin was a firm believer that eyes were a window into a persons soul.

And the soul of Naruto Ootsutsuki was undeniably pure.

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Levi

All Levi had been told was that he was gaining a new squad member, apparently one of the rookies had been good enough to get an early promotion and a pass onto his team. He couldn't deny the contempt that welled inside him upon hearing this. The graduate was most likely some wealthy noble brat that had payed his way onto the squad led by 'Humanities Strongest'. It had happened before, despite Erwin's attempted prevention of this. Because money within the walls was water to humans, and greed was nothing new. Nothing new indeed.

So when the knock at his door came he was not particularly optimistic, the only potential good point being he could force the shitty brat to do some of the more disgusting parts of the cleaning, the toilets perhaps...

He was not, however, expecting to open the door and come face to face with golden hair and a blue eye (that immediately widened in horrified remembrance)

He had silently ushered the girl into his office (that Erwin had insisted on him having) before closing the door and moving to sit opposite her, behind his desk.

All was silent.

"You're the shitty brat Erwin is sending me?"

Alright, sue him, starting conversations were not Levi's strong point. At his swear her head had immediately shot up, an insult on the very tip of her tongue before she stopped herself, took a mental step back and sunk back into herself. Because damn it she was not expecting this and she was not prepared for this, at all.

Levi sighed and stood up again, walking around his desk to stand before the whiskered blonde. He cleared his throat, getting her immediate attention, before he began to speak.

"Alright. Now you shitty brat (he couldn't deny the enjoyment he felt at the fact she bristled at the name he had so kindly gifted her with) I'm only gonna say this once and not again. I'm sorry."

His words were met with a sharp intake of breath and a wide eye, simply because Levi did not apologise period. In the past Naruto had known Levi to get out of saying the word in whatever possible way he could think of (and some of those ways could be really weird) To him the words were incredibly heavy, words that he would only use should he really, as he would say, fuck up.

So to hear him say the words so freely was shocking, to say the least.

But he did not stop there, ploughing on with a stubborn determination not unlike her own.

" I fucked up, made a mistake. You trusted me more then anyone and I betrayed this trust by leaving. It wasn't my intention, believe me. Erwin and some others intercepted our escape route and managed to push us down. We were integrated into the corps and trained to be the perfect soldiers. I quickly rose up in ranks to govern this squad and Isabelle and Farlan soon joined me.

I-I forgot about you, for the first week. I was too caught up in my own bitterness and angst. At the end of that week I finally got my head out of my arse and remembered you. I immediately went straight to Erwin, I actually begged him to let me look for you, i even told him of your skill with the maneuver gear. But he said that you were too young and that I was too valuable to be chasing a street kid around.

After that I simply did my job. I graduated and stayed away from people, well except for Isabelle and Farlan and was generally an asshole.

When I saw you, that day in the marketplace, I was beyond relieved. You looked healthy and well and happy. Moreover I would finally get the chance to talk to my friend again. But then you ran away, I didn't hear what was shouted so I thought it was my fault and that you didn't want to see me. It hurt. But I knew that I only had myself to blame.

I guess after then I just carried on as usual. I was out on missions both when the new trainees, you among them, were admitted so I didn't know you were here and when part of the wall fell.

To be honest when Erwin told me I would be getting a new recruit I expected some shitty rich brat. I wasn't expecting you."

Silence reigned in the room.

Naruto was looking down, bangs casting a shadow over her eyes, making it impossible for Levi to discern her mood, not that he didn't try.

"Where are Isabelle and Farlan?" Her voice was quiet but seemed to resonate within his very being, it had been so long (too long) since he had heard her speak. Seen her smile.

Still, he grimaced at the question, regret and self-loathing lurking within his eyes.

"A mission went wrong. An deviant Titan attacked when I was away, I came back to find them," he hesitated "dead, along with the rest of my team, it was after I saw you in the market,"

He watched as she bowed her head in remembrance for a minute.

"Did you kill the deviant?"

"Of course,"

Suddenly, Naruto stood, squaring her shoulders and looking straight into the steel eyes of her superior.

"I-I want to hate you," her voice was flat and lacked any true power as she continued, "I should despise you for forgetting me after all we have been through. B-But I can't. I can't look at the person who became my best friend and protected me with hatred," she bit her lip and clenched her fists at this point, her words coming out fast and somewhat mumbled but Levi heard it all.

Then Naruto straightened to look at him with a single dead blue eye.

"However you're my superior now and I hope to work well with you Heichou it is an hono-"

"Shut up"

He watched as shock registered upon her face in response to his snapped out order. Because godammit he had lost her once and he would not again, he wanted his friend back not a new subordinate.

"You are Mine,"

She blinked.

"Wh-what?"

"I made a stupid mistake. And because of that mistake I lost my best friend and a member of my gang,"

He combed a hand through his hair and continued before she could say anything.

"However, you are and always will be a member of my gang and I want that person back. I want to work with the girl who would fight me, the girl who always had a strange craving for chocolate, the girl who I held at night to stop the nightmares," Naruto was bright red at this point, confusion and embarrassment staining her face a deep crimson. A colour that Levi enjoyed seeing on her usually composed face. He stepped closer and held her chin, angling her face up so her eyes were locked onto his own.

"So kit," he practically purred "will you forgive me? Or am I have to kick your arse again?"

And gods did that get a reaction, in response to his barb at her strength as well as the nickname the red disappeared, only to be replaced with an expression of fury.

"I hardly ever lost you bastard! And don't call me that!" She growled and he smirked.

This was his Naruto. His naruto who was usually composed but around him a flare just waiting to explode. When she was around him Naruro had always shed the numerous facades she wore around others, instead choosing to be herself.

Levi had lived for her smiles and to be honest, he still did.

As it was he only smirked,

"Hardly ever? So you admit you did loose kit. You admit you lost to me more then once~" his tone was mocking however, the small true smile on his face was not missed by Naruto and suddenly she realised that she could forgive Levi. Well actually she realised that she already had, form the moment he had told her his story, from the moment she realised that he hadn't actually abandoned her.

An answering smile crossed her own lips before she grasped at the material of her best friend's sleeve.

"J-just don't ever leave me b-bastard. You got that,"

Levi merely stepped back and smiled (his own special smile for his Naruto, nothing like the smiles, rare as they were, that he gave Hanji and Erwin)

"I swear, Naruto, that I will never, ever leave you,"

This was a promise that he swore would be broken only by death.

Thanks for reading

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