Yoongi was already asleep when Taehyung left the building, it was 2 am and he preferred to go to Jimin's place on foot rather than using his car. Night was his favourite time of the day, the sky was also his favorite canvas and he felt powerful walking alone in the total darkness of Seoul's empty alleyways.
Yet, tonight he wasn't up so early to break someone's skull, instead just to take a walk till Gangnam-gu. It would take an hour or so but he didn't mind at all, he loved that it was a bit far for it meant more time for himself and for his haunting thoughts.
Almost an hour later and he was boarding Gangnam-gu district and it was a bit dangerous. Gangnam belonged to Du Agma Pa, his rival gang, and if any goon or thug spotted him trespassing to their territory then they'd try to beat him up and he'd have to fight them back alone.
The whole district was lit up except for a few dark alleyways, which were usually used by thugs and thieves to do their business unnoticed. All Seoul was very familiar to him.
He knew every shop, den, turn, alleyway and neighborhood and yet, when he walked past that familiar alleyway, at that particular turn to Jimin's building in Apgujong-dong, the wealthiest neighborhood of Seoul, his heart clenched very hard he balled his fists to stop himself from groaning.
It was there after all when he first met the top guy of his black list whom he still didn't find to kill yet, no other than the big boss of Du Agma Pa, and the one who attempted to kill Yoongi five years ago, and he couldn't help but recall that cursed day.
“Where the fuck are you Yoongi?” Taehyung asked worriedly as the older shrugged. The answer was obvious, he was walking to where Taehyung had instructed him to.
But he got a bit distracted in the way and that's why he was late, but he believed Taehyung had no authority to tell him when to come home. That was one of the reasons they escaped their former home anyways, beside them being frequently mistreated but that was for another time.
“Walking back?” Yoongi replied sarcastically as he stuck the lollipop back in his mouth.
“You went the exact way I described, right? It's dangerous to wander the streets late at night. I made it obvious you had to come as soon as possible!” Taehyung yelled through the phone.
Yoongi really never understood the dangers despite him being the heir to a mob. Taehyung had planned him a way so he could reach Dongjak-gu without trespassing any territory of their rival gang, but Yoongi rarely listens and Taehyung assumed he was taking the shortest way instead. A stupid act but totally predictable .
“No, I'm walking another way. Didn't you say I have to come early?” Yoongi dodged the question with another one as he shrugged again, indifferent to the younger'sworries.
“Bitch, you don't understand, do you?” Taehyung hissed as he frantically yet blindly searched for the older. “Where are you right now?”
“Gangnam-gu” Yoongi said vaguely, and Taehyung knew for sure he had totally ignored his warnings. Yoongi never saw what happened to trespassers, never saw any real gang activity and was assuming it was totally fine to get to safety a bit later even if everyone was looking for him. Yoongi's parents were going insane trying to find him, Taehyung was in the exact position right then and yet the thing he didn't know was that they weren't the only ones looking.
“Yoongi, where are you exactly?”
“In Apgujong-dong. Why?”
“Coz the fucking district doesn't belong to us, damn! Do you want to get yourself a beating?” Taehyung demanded as he was loosing his mind looking for his careless friend.
He particularly said a beating but it was the less of his worries at all. The identity of the heir was hidden but what if it got figured out by their enemy when they ran away from home earlier that morning?
At least he was very close to Apgujong-dong and felt a surge of relief at that. He was about to tell Yoongi to wait for him because he was nearby and looking for him, but he heard something in the phone, something he was having nightmares about up to the current moment.
“Boss, isn't the boy there the one you ordered us to find?” Taehyung heard a whisper in the background and he felt a jolt ran down his spine.
“Yoongi, Yoongi! Run away, run away! Fast!” Taehyung shouted his lungs out through the phone as he heard heavy thuds of footsteps getting closer, the voice of shuffling then fast successive thumps.
From the noise he assumed Yoongi was running for he could hear his ragged breaths, then the call got cut off with a loud thud. Yoongi had definitely dropped the phone while running so hard.
Taehyung was running too, looking for his friend but he was no where in sight.
“Yoooonngiiiiiiiii!” Taehyung shouted but his voice got lost in the empty space, not reaching anywhere and he felt so helpless. He began running again and he had just passed an alleyway when he heard a whimpering sound. It was so weak but he could hear it very clearly, upcoming from the alley right next to him, he looked inside but couldn't see anything in the pitch darkness.
“So dear, it's here where you die.” A cold dark ringing voice said and more whimpering was heard as it died out gradually. He tiptoed closer to the voice when he hit something with his boots right at the turn. He held it close to his face and paled so bad when he recognised the device.
It was Yoongi's phone. It was there where he dropped it.
With no much thoughts he shifted closer and it was then when he saw it all so clearly. There was seven huge men, all masked and one of them holding a smaller boy from his neck, undoubtedly strangling him.
The kid was fighting off with all of his strength but could do nothing to escape the man, and it took him a few seconds to realize it was Yoongi who was getting strangled, with blood oozing from somewhere in his forehead. And the masked man did it with his bare hands, his long fingers curling around the boy's soft neck, so cold- heartedly .
He knew they may kill him as well if he interfered, they were seven, he was alone. They were older, stronger and muscular and he was only a fourteen year old boy.
But it was his only friend who was dying there and he couldn't just watch him die, so he held the knife he brought with him as he positioned himself to do something, anything. He didn't have a plan in mind but didn't have the time to think either, one more second and they'll see him lurking behind, and it'll be the end of them both, he couldn't let it happen.
Taehyung took a step back, then rushed forward with an inhuman speed as he jumped over the man strangling his friend. He could only reach his shoulder nevertheless but he took the opportunity to stab him so hard, the hardest he did in his entire life and the man's hands loosened around Yoongi's throat, the smaller falling, his face as red as a tomato and his lips so blue as he coughed hard, trying to push air back to his air deprived lungs.
And Taehyung knew that if he was just a few seconds late, Yoongi would have taken his last breaths, would have slipped right through his fingertips, would've lost him forever.
Taehyung nudged Yoongi from the ground, dragging him behind as he tried to run with all of his power, but Yoongi was so weak to run. Luckily, the seven men were in shock, lost between helping their boss’ bleeding shoulder and following the two of them.
The stabbed man was still shouting in agony before he turned in their direction, shooting them a full-of-hatred pointed sharp glare, his doe eyes being the scariest thing he saw in his life. The men were calling him 'Boss' it seemed, but he couldn't nevertheless realize what it meant in his fear stricken state.
The bleeding man ordered the other men to follow the two rather than keep watching him and had said so clearly to kill them both once they catch them, then to send him their eyes and tongues in a box. The younger boys ran with all of their strength when they heard what was awaiting for them and it was the hardest chase of their entire lives but they had escaped, barely.
Since then onward, Taehyung was desperately looking for that man, the guy he understood later was the boss of their rival gang ‘Du Agma Pa’. He wanted to revenge from him, to kill him before the powerful said man kills them first.
Taehyung didn't see his face but he was looking for a man with big doe eyes, dark hair just as dark as his eyes and with a scar of a knife stab right under one of his shoulder blades.
He didn't know he would find him this soon though, didn't know he found him already.
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