The fighting had been constant for a  good four days. Taehyung and Jungkook wouldn't stop bickering and screaming at eachother. Nobody was too sure how the fighting had even started. The older members knew it had something to do with Taehyung claiming Jungkook was talking about him behind his back to one of his other friends but Jungkook swore it was just a rumor and it wasn't true. He'd even shown him texts to try and prove his innocence but Taehyung told Jungkook he clearly just deleted everything.

Dance practice was less than productive for the two. Hobi was constantly having to tell them both to keep their mouths shut during rehearsals because they were finding every opportunity to spit profanities at eachother. Jungkook would purposely keep running into Taehyung so he'd mess up his dance steps and Taehyung would scream at him and push him to the floor.

The hyungs were at a loss of what to do. They had tried to make the two talk it out and even screamed at them multiple times about how they needed to stop the fighting, but the two maknae's didn't care to listen. Taehyung was mad at Jungkook and Jungkook was mad at Taehyung for being mad at him. It was an endless cycle.

"I didn't say those nasty things about you to my friend, someone is lying. But if you're going to act like this big of a bitch then maybe I should have said nasty things!" Jungkook screamed at Taehyung one day while they were in the middle of a water break. Taehyung took his water bottle and splashed it right in his maknae's face. "I don't want to hear words come out of a damn liars mouth!"

"Will you two please just end this already?! What does it take?!" Jimin begged. He didn't understand the fighting. Jungkook and Taehyung were thick as thieves, he didn't know how they could possibly fight this much for so long without simply missing the friendship enough to just stop fighting, no matter what happened.

"I'll end it when Jungkook admits what he did and apologizes!" Taehyung yelled at Jimin.

"I told you I didn't talk shit behind your back! I've told you a million times! So I'm sorry for telling you the truth, apparently!" Jungkook yelled to Taehyung. Jimin rolled his eyes and walked away. He figured at this point everyone's efforts were useless.

The two maknae's started pushing eachother around the room even after Namjoon yelled at them to stop. Jungkook pushed Taehyung and he fell into Yoongi who then fell into Jin.

"Yah! Brats! Both of you!" Jin screamed. He was at his wits end with the two but had no idea what to do.

"Do you two need some kind of couples therapy or something?" Yoongi joked. He'd spent a lot of time ignoring the two's fighting, he figured it'd end eventually. Hopefully. His joke didn't lighten the mood though.

"Tell Jungkook to go to therapy for being a liar!" Taehyung yelled.

"No, tell Taehyung to go to therapy for being a little bitch!" Jungkook screamed back.

"Hey! Watch your mouth, both of you!" Hobi yelled at them. The hyungs all rolled their eyes when the two started screaming at eachother again. Namjoon had more than enough and said he was going to go work alone in his studio instead. Soon the group decided to quickly scatter to their own studios. Nobody wanted to be around Jungkook or Taehyung and the two certainly didn't want to be around eachother.

This proved more of an issue at home considering the two shared their bedroom. Taehyung tried begging the other members to switch rooms with him to which they all denied his request. "Just get over it," Jimin kept telling him. He then tried kicking Jungkook out to which Yoongi took it upon himself to tell Taehyung he wasn't allowed to do something like that.

"Why not? I'm his hyung and I'm asking him to leave!" Taehyung protested to Yoongi.

"And I'm your hyung and I'm telling you that you aren't allowed to kick him out of the room."

Taehyung decided to undermine Yoongi's authority and asked Jin to tell Yoongi to mind his own business to which Jin's response was "Listen to Yoongi." With that Taehyung stormed away.

After another week of fighting, the members were going crazy. At home one evening everyone was in their own rooms, aside from Jin and Hobi who were watching TV in the living room. It was hard for them to hear much though considering Taehyung and Jungkook were still at it screaming at eachother in their room. Suddenly they heard something in the room fall and break and then more screaming and banging on the walls. Jin decided he finally had enough. They couldn't live like this anymore, and he had an idea.

"That's it, hyung has had enough!" Jin said angrily to himself as he stood up from the couch, "This ends tonight!" he screamed. Hobi looked at him confused, "What are you going to do?" He noticed how angry his hyung looked. His face and ears were beat red.

"I'm going to make them stop!" Jin yelled and started making his way towards the youngests bedroom. Hobi trailed behind him as he was curious to see how Jin was going to resolve this issue. Jin burst through their door, "ALRIGHT!" he screamed over the two shouting.

"Tell him to-" Jungkook pointed to Taehyung but froze when he saw Jin start taking his belt off. Taehyung and Hobi also froze. Jin held the belt up, "I don't want to hear it anymore from either of you! So if you two can't seem to end this fighting on your own terms, I will beat it out of both of you if I have to!"

Taehyung and Jungkook both backed up and then stood frozen. Hobi grabbed Jin's wrist and tried lowering his arm, "Woah..hyung..no way..you can't.." Hobi was in shock. None of them ever did something like that to eachother and Jin was the last person he would have expected it from. Jin pulled out of Hobi's grip, "Back off," he spat.

"Hyung..." Taehyung whispered. His voice cracked. This was definitely a first and he was quite scared.

"WHO FIRST?!" Jin screamed. Hobi tried pulling on his arm again, "Jin seriously, stop!"

Taehyung and Jungkook saw Jin turn and whisper something into Hobi's ear. Hobi gave them a frown and then started to walk away.

"Wait! Hobi hyung!" Jungkook cried out. He didn't want Hobi to leave.

"I asked him to do something and like a good dongsaeng, he's actually listening," Jin replied. He took a step closer to the two and they both backed up. They gave eachother nervous glances and didn't know what to say. They both felt their hearts pounding in their chests and their hands were getting sweaty.

"Please don't.." Jungkook whispered. He was already on the verge of tears. He never had any reason to be scared of Jin and he didn't understand what was going on. In all the years they'd known eachother Jin never even hurt a fly. Jungkook didn't understand why he'd want to hurt his dongsaengs.

"Oh? Don't? Just like we've all been telling you guys for weeks 'Dont fight' and you haven't listened? You haven't listened to any of your hyungs so why should I listen to you? Am I not the oldest?!" Jin yelled at Jungkook. Jungkook gulped. He didn't have a reply so he nervously dropped his gaze to the floor. Taehyung had let a few tears slip out. He sure didn't want to get hit with a belt. He also realized he didn't want Jungkook to get hit with a belt either.

Jin turned to Taehyung, "Now I will ask again, who first? Actually Taehyung, since you're so vocal about being Jungkook's hyung I will leave it up to you. Would you like me to hit you with the belt first, or would you like me to hit maknae with the belt first?"

Taehyung looked over at Jungkook and saw him shaking. His heart dropped to the pit of his stomach as he quickly realized how stupid the fighting was. Jin couldn't seriously expect him to give permission to hit Jungkook?

"I...hyung...no...don't hurt Kookie! He's our maknae! You can't hit him! I'll just..me...just me.." Taehyung begged, "I'm really sorry."

Jungkook didn't want Taehyung taking the belt either. He faced Jin again, "We'll stop fighting! We promise! I promise to stop fighting with Taehyungie but please don't hit him!"

"Why shouldn't I?" Jin asked.

"Because that's a belt! You'll hurt him!" Jungkook cried in terror. He still couldn't imagine having to witness such horror.

"You two have been hurting eachother all damn week so what the hell is the difference?!"

Taehyung and Jungkook looked at eachother again. They hadn't even realized that at this point they were standing huddled together and Taehyung was holding onto Jungkook's shirt sleeve. It seemed to have happened automatically.

"It's not like that!" Taehyung defended, "Yeah we've yelled at eachother but we haven't been beating eachother!"

"So then once I'm done with the both of you, I expect the yelling will stop!" Jin yelled.

"Hyung no!" Jungkook cried, "It will stop! We swear it will! Right Taehyungie?!" Jungkook looked at Taehyung with desperate eyes. "Yeah, yeah hyung we promise!" Taehyung replied to Jin.

"I guess we'll see about that, won't we?" Jin yelled. He took another step closer and held the belt in the air. The two tried to take another step back but were soon standing back against the wall. They started hugging eachother and crying. Jin lowered the belt and started to put it back on, "Figure this out before I decide to change my mind." Without waiting for a reply he left the room and slammed their door behind him.

Taehyung and Jungkook held eachother tightly and sobbed. They instantly started apologizing to eachother for all the fighting and both started rambling on about how much they meant to eachother and how neither of them ever wanted to see the other one get hurt. Taehyung apologized to Jungkook for being so mean to him over something he believed the maknae to have never done and Jungkook apologized for all of his retaliation. Once the tears stopped they were still extremely sad over what Jin had done so decided to curl up in bed together and cuddle.

"I can't believe he was going to do that.." Jungkook whispered. Taehyung turned and kissed Jungkook's forehead, "Well I wasn't about to let him do it to you."

"You either, hyungie," Jungkook whispered. The two stayed cuddle up and eventually fell asleep.

Jin made his way back to the couch next to Hobi.

"How did it go?" Hobi asked.

"I think they got the point."

"You told them it was an act right? I mean you told them afterwards that you had no intention of ever actually hitting them with that thing, didn't you?

"I may have left that part out."

"Hyung! That's mean! You have to tell them you were acting!"

"I'll tell them later."

"You're really just going to let them sit in there and think you were about to beat them?!" Hobi yelled frantically. He really didn't like the idea of that.

"Ahh Hobi-ah. Calm down. They'll be fine. A little tough love will do them good. I'm sure they know I wasn't going to do it. At least..I think."

Hobi rolled his eyes, "Do you think they'll be okay now?"

"Yeah. They clearly love eachother. They're just kind of stupid sometimes," Jin chuckled. The other members came out. "What's that? Silence? Did they finally stop arguing?!" Yoongi asked. Jin and Hobi told them what had happened. They felt kind of bad about it but figured at this point they were desperate. But they all did reiterate to Jin that he had to tell them he wasn't being serious about the belt. Jin promised to tell them in the morning.

The morning was surprisingly peaceful. The first thing Jin did when he woke up was check on Jungkook and Taehyung. They were cuddled up in bed still asleep. His heart sank a little bit thinking of the night before, he did feel bad about it. He realized maybe he'd gone a little too far with his acting. He shouldn't have scared them so badly. He felt bad for making them cry but he felt like the last resort was to scare the hell out of them, which seemingly worked. He helped the others make breakfast and Jimin went to wake the two's maknae's up.

They slowly made their way to the table and sat right next to eachother. They sat so close together they may as well have been sitting in the same chair. They both gave Jin a nervous glance and kept quiet.

"Jin has something to tell you," Hobi spoke up quickly. He hated seeing them look nervous because of him. Jin walked over to them, "I wasn't really going to do it."

Taehyung gave him a bit of an angry stare, "Oh? Could have fooled us.." he pouted.

"Hey! You all know I dabbled in acting! I'd say I'm pretty good!" Jin defended.

"Wait, you were just acting? You weren't really going to do it?" Jungkook asked with big eyes.

"Are you crazy?! Of course not! Hyung would never, you guys should know that by now! I just figured a good scare would knock all the fight you had left out of you!" Jin smiled. He rubbed Taehyung and Jungkook's backs, "I'm sorry for making you guys cry and all but it really was the only thing I could think of when nothing else was working."

Taehyung and Jungkook looked at eachother and smiled. They should've known their Jin hyung would never hurt them.

"How far would you have taken it if they hadn't stopped fighting?" Yoongi asked curiously.

"I don't know but I wasn't going to hit them at all," Jin replied defensively.

"Please never do that again!" Jungkook laughed. He'd never felt so relieved.

"Well don't give me a reason to! It worked, didn't it?" Jin asked.

The two maknae's looked at eachother again and hugged while nodding. Jungkook turned to Hobi, "What did he whisper to you that made you leave?"

"He told me it was an act and that he wasn't actually going to do anything and to trust him," Hobi smiled. Everyone smiled at eachother. Taehyung turned to Jin, "Hey hyung? Thanks for that I guess. It was a bit of a wake up call." Jin shot him finger guns and a smile.

They got started on eating breakfast and it was music to the hyungs ears to hear their two maknae's finally laughing at eachother again instead of screaming.

[[The End]]