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"we found them!!!!!"

taehyung yelped and ended up dropping a plate, that shattered on the floor, one of the pieces slightly cutting his leg.
"ah shit!" he hissed in pain and looked up only to see a bunch of men in black with guns who so suddenly ran into his house without a warning or at least a simple knock on the door.

taehyung panicked. who were those men?
he carefully stepped from the behind of his kitchen counter, making sure to not step on the shattered plate pieces.
he walked closer to them, raising both of his hands in the air after seeing that more than twenty guns were pointed towards him.

taehyung gulped.

"who-" taehyung was about to ask, but before words could escape his mouth, he noticed the dark sun tattoo on the wrists on all those men. a wave of relief hit him.
"hey, I'm also from the geomeun gang, no need to be so aggressive. what's going on?"

all of a sudden taehyung heard footsteps. he turned around only to be met by jungkook and minseok who obviously just woke up.

"what's happening? what the f-" jungkook started to question, but froze after seeing a bunch of scary men dressed in black, pointing guns at the three of them.

"they're from my gang, but– oh shit jungkook, they ... they are here for you!" taehyung shouted after realizing  what was going on. "run!"

the men started walking closer in a fast pace while taehyung screamed for jungkook to run away.

"but taehyung, I can't leave you here!" jungkook yelled back.

"get the fuck out of here, jungkook!!! get out the window!!!" taehyung pushed jungkook towards the big window next to them.

"get them before they escape!!" a voice yelled and taehyung immediately let go of jungkook and ran over to try and fight the attacking men. he grabbed his own gun from under the couch and started shooting them, even though he knew that doing this was quite stupid. one against twenty is not a tid bit fair.

jungkook opened the window and gave taehyung a last glance before climbing onto the windowsill.

"I'll jump first, you go right after me." he told minseok and jumped out, perfectly landing on the grass.

minseok walked over to the window and looked at jungkook with an unreadable expression on his face.

"what are you waiting for, minseok? be quick!" minseok heard jungkook yelled to him.

minseok gave jungkook an evil smirk and then laughed after seeing the confusion on jungkook's face.
without saying a word, minseok closed the window and flipped the lock.

by the time minseok came over to taehyung, the elder was already struggling to escape from the hands of the men, his gun in the hands of one of them.
taehyung gave minseok a confused glance.
"w-what are you doing? why didn't you run away?" he asked, but minseok stayed silent.

suddenly the front door opened and someone entered taehyung's house.

"yoongi?" taehyung said. "tell them to let me go! what the fuck is going on!?"

"shut it, taehyung. good job everyone." yoongi said in his deep voice and walked closer to taehyung.
"good job, minseok."

taehyung's mouth flew open and his eyes seemed to be the size of the moon, as he watched how minseok came over to yoongi and the elder placed a peck onto the youngers lips.

"you...." taehyung tried to speak but couldn't.
"fucking bastard...." he whispered.

yoongi gave some sign to one of the men and taehyung started to panic. he knew exactly what that sign meant.
not a moment after, a loud thud was heard and taehyung fell unconscious to the floor after the harsh punch on his head.

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he woke up hours later in an unfamiliar place. the first thing he noticed was the darkness engulfing the room. it was late in the evening.
taehyung closed his eyes, as he felt his head pound from the pain.
after waiting for a little while, the pain became weaker. that's when he realised that he was tied to a chair in some room.

"you're finally awake." the room filled up with bright light and taehyung squinted his eyes. after adjusting to the light, he saw that he was in an office.

yoongi came over to taehyung, moved up a chair and sat on it opposite of taehyung.

"you betrayed me. you betrayed the entire gang." yoongi spoke quietly as he twisted the gun around in his hand.

"I didn't."

"really?"

"minseok is the only betrayer here, and so are you, actually." taehyung scoffed. "for how long did you two know each other?"

"since childhood." yoongi replied.

"so you cheated on me with him all this time. great, I've been double cheated."

"you cheated on me with jungkook."

"we never made things official with you!" taehyung shouted.

"exactly. so I wasn't cheating on you either. but at least, I didn't have an affair with someone from our rival gang." yoongi talked, dropping his voice an octave lower than usual. "how could you do something like this? that pathetic boy was your reason to leave the gang, wasn't it?"

"so what if it was? I left the gang so that you won't call me a betrayer, but somehow you still did that for no reason." taehyung rolled his eyes.

"no reason, you say?" yoongi chuckled darkly. "if this wasnt a worthy enough reason then let me introduce you to another reason."

yoongi walked up to the door and opened it. taehyung watched in confusion as he heard some talking.

"well, hello hello brother." namjoon walked in the room and walked over to the boy.

"na- jin!?!?!?!?" taehyung yelled after seeing seokjin who entered the room along with namjoon. "w-what the fuck !?!?"

"oh? acting like you didn't know jin was alive? good try, fucker." namjoon said in the scariest voice taehyung had ever heard.

"i-i..." taehyung bit his lip nervously.

"I knew you were a dick, but not to this point..." seokjin mumbled and walked over to namjoon.

"how could you not tell me about jin?!? how!?!? you know how fucking much he means to me, you know! and aside from our hatred towards each other you still couldn't tell me something like this?!?" namjoon yelled.

"but-but, namjoon, I was going to–"

"shut up, taehyung." namjoon laughed. "I do not believe you anymore."

after a long silence, taehyung spoke up.
"so what now? you'll kill me? go ahead, I've got nothing to lose." taehyung said glancing at the gun tucked into namjoons belt.

"hmm really? ... no, taehyungie, I won't." namjoon sounded like psychopath. " I can't just simply kill you, you're my lovely brother after all."

"what?" taehyung gulped with fear. he has never seen this side of namjoon.

"I won't kill you." namjoon repeated. "instead, I'll make you die in pain, but ... not physical."

"what do you mean?"

"when you killed our father .. do you understand how much I died inside? can you even imagine how much I suffered when I thought jin was dead? and you had the guts to not tell me he is alive, just like you had the guts to kill our own father. do you ever even regret it?" namjoon asked.

taehyung stayed silent.

"I want you to suffer as well. I want you to suffer so much, that you'll be begging for death."

"how will you even do that?" taehyung asked sternly, trying to not show the fear that was crushing him inside out.

"you must kill jungkook."

"w-what?"

"you heard him." seokjin said. "kill jungkook."

"why w-"

"you were the one to tell me... ah how did you say it... oh right. 'this job should have no feelings involved', so... you don't love him, do you? he is our rival, so its self explanatory."

"jokes on you, buddy, I don't work for the gang anymore, you can't make me do this." taehyung laughed.

"do you know that those discharge papers require yoongi's signature? well yoongi burned the papers, so... you are technically still working here." namjoon said and jin nodded.

"very funny." taehyung said nonchalantly. "why must I even listen to you anyway?" taehyung asked and tensed up after seeing how namjoon started to laugh.

"I know that deep inside you love him, I know that. and even though you hate him now, you wouldn't want for him to feel hurt in any way. that's how love works.
so you either kill him or I'll.... I'll tell jungkook you were the one that killed his sister."
taehyung's mouth flew open as he stared at namjoon. how did he know ? how did he know all of this?!

taehyung closed his eyes, as a certain flashbacks ran through his head...

"if .. if its hard for you to continue, you dont have to." taehyung whispered.

"no, it's alright." jungkook answered. "basically, the person who killed her was a heartless bitch, the only thing they stole was a painting that I found out later on, was some exquisite and expensive painting the gangs were searching for. that's when I decided to get into this entire gang shit; she was my main reason. I want to become the best murderer in town, so I can find out who killed her and then kill that person with my own hands."

he can't. taehyung can't let jungkook find out about this in any type of way.

"imagine how much he will hate you after finding that out. just imagine: the boy who only saw love in you will hate you. he will hate every part of you, he wouldn't care about any type of excuse you'll make. it will come back to you, just like you didn't want to hear jungkook out, he wouldn't want to listen to you as well."

taehyung cried. tears rolled down his cheeks. his mind just started playing over those memories... those pathetic memories that make taehyung weak. god he hated this.

"no... love makes me weak, you make we weak and–"

×

"you're incredible." taehyung said. "what did I do in my past life to deserve meeting someone like you?"

"ah, who knows? probably saved the world." jungkook chuckled.

×

"we just recently confessed to each other... you remember, right? that night when–"

"–when the lights went out and you saw me cry."

×

"but think about this, if we will continue being wrong and fucked up, at least let's be wrong and fucked up together."

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"I love you, taehyung." jungkook whispered.

"I..." taehyung looked up at jungkook and gave out a little smile. "I love you too, jungkook."

"we will be watching you." seokjin added.

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taehyung walked on the empty streets of seoul, clenching the knife in his pocket.

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1:27 a.m.
jungkook

taehyung
jungkook? where are you?

jungkook
taehyung? is this really you?

taehyung
yeah
tell me
where did you go

jungkook
thanks god!
I was worried something happened
to you...

taehyung
m fine

jungkook
I am on this rode near the forest
the one that leads into nowhere
after you cross
the wooden bridge
I'm hiding

taehyung
I'll be there soon

jungkook
taehyung are you sure everything
is alright?

seen.
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was there a point?
if taehyung kills jungkook, he would lose him forever.
if jungkook finds out about taehyung killing his sister... then taehyung would lose jungkook as well.

either way it would hurt.
but taehyung won't be able to live in a world with jungkook who would hate him.
he can't let jungkook know the truth about this, it will only break jungkook, but if he kills him... there will be nothing else to hide and he won't know that taehyung didn't say anything about jin to namjoon as well.

as much as taehyung wanted to back out...
he couldn't.

why?

because yoongi burned the discharge papers. and here taehyung started regretting getting himself into this entire mess in the first place.
it's a contract he signed the day he became a member of the geomeun gang. if you start this entire thing, being able to back out would be practically impossible. but taehyung never thought of such outcome, he never really thought this all through. he never thought how the tables could've turned.

in the this entire community, there are millions of gangs all around the world – some are stronger, some are weaker. and each gang has a leader, but ... each one of those leaders all work for the main leader. that is someone who has control over every single gang and they can do anything.

if someone from a gang, including the leader, disobeys and breaks at least one of the rules included in the contract, they are to experience drastic consequences. ones who have experienced the 'consequences' were never to be heard of again.
there were numerous rumors about the way the main leader tortures those people in ways people have never heard of before and it was truly scary. taehyung understood that when he heard that yoongi himself was scared of the main leader. yoongi used to be a sort of idol, a person taehyung admired and looked up to. he was fearless and heartless, but if he was sacred of them, that meant things were really fucked up there.

"jungkook? are you here?" taehyung called out quietly after getting to the needed destination.

he heard some rustling in the leaves behind some tree. it was dark, so he barely saw a thing.

"I-im here..." taehyung heard jungkook's frightened, soft voice and felt his heart clench. he couldn't believe what he was about to do.
taehyung looked at the road that was visible from behind the wooden bridge. there was a black car. of course, they'd check on taehyung to make sure he completes his task.

the thought of running away with jungkook immediately vanished.

"come... come out here.." taehyung said quietly.

"I was so scared, taehyung." jungkook ran up to taehyung and hugged the elder. "I was so so scared and I was waiting for y-ggh."

jungkook froze after feeling something strike through his stomach. he took in a shaky breath and right after that felt how he started to cough up blood.

"wh-what.. taehyunggg aghh..." jungkook pulled away slowly and looked into taehyung's eyes that were... filled with tears.
"wh-why d-did you ....." it was difficult to speak because of the piercing pain. the younger looked down and saw a knife held by taehyung, that was inside of his stomach.
"you... why did you do t-this...?"

taehyung stayed silent. the only sounds that were heard were taehyung's sobs and jungkook's rapid breathing mixed with frequent coughing.

"taehyung..." jungkook cried out.

"jungkook... I'm..." taehyung whispered. he felt his heart shatter into pieces at the sight of this jungkook.

taehyung felt how jungkook started losing strength and slowly sliding down.
his one hand was holding jungkook while the other held tightly the knife that was deep inside jungkook's stomach.

taehyung leaned in and pressed a kiss onto jungkook's lips. he tasted the metallic blood and salty tears that made him mentally gag.
jungkook kissed back, weakly.
he pulled away and gave the boy he loved so much a last glance. he stared into those beautiful, big eyes that held an entire galaxy in them and pulled out the knife, letting go of jungkook fully.

the younger screamed in pain and fell onto the cold, forest floor.

"I am sorry.... I am so fucking sorry, jungkook."

TO BE CONTINUED...