Song for the chapter; Sea (Hidden song from Love Yourelf Her.)  - BTS

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"It's been a month, he should be back by now!" Taehyung yelled, grasping at his brown hair in distress while Seokjin just stared at his brother, not knowing what to do, or if there was anything he could do to help. "This is not okay, I'm going to search for him." Taehyung muttered, putting on his coat as he went into his room, packing a few things into his sack. He then proceeded outside to the yard where his horse stood, huffing at the sight of her master.

"Taehyung?" Seokjin muttered and the younger boy turned around to see his brother standing some foot away from him. Taehyung sighed, pulling the horse along with him as he went to stand next to his brother, cupping his face. "Hyung, I'm going to be gone for some time. I want you to stay here. There's dinner on the table," Taehyung stated, then dug into his bag to take out a handful of coins "- and here's some money for you to buy meals for the rest of the days I'll be gone." Seokjin nodded, putting the coins into his pocket.

"Be back soon." He whispered, "Together with dad."

Taehyung nodded, pressing a soft lipped kiss to his brother's forehead before getting on the horse. "If I don't come back by a week, send help. Never come alone after me, and send help." the younger warned before getting on his horse and riding out of town, leaving Seokjin to stand at the yard of his house as he stared at the dirtroad.

"Bye TaeTae."

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It wasn't three hours later when Taehyung stumbled down from his brown horse, tying it to the trunk of the tree and sitting down beside the female horse. "I'm tired Maltida." He handed the horse an apple from his bag, which the animal gladly took after a few sniffs. "I want to find my father, I want to get back to Seokjin hyung - it's not safe leaving him alone in that village especially with Jinsoo around - fuck I'm talking to a horse!" Taehyung yelled into the palm of his hands.

Jeon Jeongguk was on his way back to his brother; he had decided to return home early this month - he wanted to see the improvments of his brother's state ( and also, living alone three towns over from him actual home was boring.) When Jeongguk walked past the tree, he stopped when he saw a figure pressed lightly against the trunk of the large mango tree. He thought that the person was dead at first, then panicked as he rushed towards the limp man.

Nobody knew how or maybe it was because of the long trip he had taken, Taehyung managed to fall asleep against the tree trunk, arms wrapped tightly around his bag.

"Hey." Jeongguk lightly shook the man, seeing that he was asleep and fortunately not dead - thank the lord for that. "Hey, uhm . . . can you wake up?" Jeongguk shook the man again and the sleeping one just whined, cuddling his bag further into his body, "Just five more minutes, Pa." Jeongguk chuckled, eyes flitting to the man's face. He was pretty, Jeongguk would give him that. His eyelashes were long and they fluttered on his cheeks every now and then. The man's hair was a light brown color, the figmented strands which would get blown by the wind ever so softly everytime.

"Cute." The raven haired one chuckled, "Undeniably." He continued, letting out a small sigh as he sat beside the sleeping boy. He couldn't probably leave him alone in the forest can he?Taehyung's eyes fluttered opened when he felt presence beside him, immediately sitting up in shock when he see a boy smiling at him. The sandy haired boy gasped, pushing himself off the ground and stared down at the boy. "I'm glad you're awake." the raven haired boy smiled, standing up as well.

"W-Who are you?" Taehyung asked and closely looked at the way the other boy chuckled before walking a few steps towards the other. Taehyung gasped as Jeongguk's face was just millimeters from his own and gulped. "W-What are you-"

Jeongguk smiled, taking the leaf that was stuck between Taehyung's sandy hair before smiling at him again and walking away. "You can call me Jeongguk, by the way."

Taehyung picked up his bag, immediately following the other boy and reached out to grab the boy's forearm. "I need you to help me." He pleaded, eyes going wide with plead, the other stared at him, bewildered. Then Taehyung looked around where they were stood at, turned back to Jeongguk and licked his lips in habit.

"My dad, h-he's missing. I don't know how, I don't know if he's alive but its been a month and he should be back right now. And m-my brother's home alone when he's in no condition to be alone. I . . . just - please help me." Taehyung choked out, hands numbly grasping the other's shirt. "Please, Jungkook. I need to find my father."

Jungkook sighed, hitting the nearby tree with a twig he found on the path. He had learnt Taehyung's name a while after he had decided to help the poor boy. Taehyung was quiet, just occasionally turning to pet his horse or stare at the surroundings. "I could be a murderer for all you know." Jungkook mumbled and Taehyung stopped in his steps staring blankly at the younger male before breaking into a small smile.

"I know you're not." Taehyung said and Jungkook hummed softly, Taehyung walked forward and he could clearly see the other's back. He smiled, loving the reason he recieved from the other. "How can you be so sure?"

The sandy haired boy turned around, letting the flower he plucked recently be blown away from his nimble hands then looked up at the other boy, "You hesitated on helping me." He chuckled lightly when he saw the confused look on the raven haired male, "If you had approached me with bad intentions since the start, you'd immediatly agree when I asked for your help to accompany into this large, dark forest. Instead, you thought about it, wasted 30 minutes of my life and then agreed. I think you made yourself pretty clear." He made a weird face in conclusion and smiled at him. "Yeah?"

Jungkook shook his head with a slight chuckle, "You're unbelieveable."

"So where are we going anyways?" Taehyung asked sleepily, the duo had been walking for over four hours and Taehyung had got on his horse to nap on its back. It was dark outside and was probably some time around midnight. But unfortunately, he found sleep with him but no enough for him to grasp it so he ended up lying on the horse's back and staring at the star filled sky, and let his eyes flutter with sleep ever so often.

Jungkook replied and jumped down from his horse, "My house. We'll drop some things off and we'll search for your father." He then approched the big bushes before pushing it open and dragging both Taehyung's and his horse inside. "Speaking of which, we're here." Jungkook pushed open the metal gate.

Taehyung didn't reply so Jungkook brought the horses to the stables. It was only then when he realized that the other boy had fallen asleep on top of the horse. He chuckled lightly, shaking his head as he tried (very hardly) to get Taehyung on his back. "You're so silly, hyung." He mumbled and turned his head to look at Taehyung sleeping, his tan cheek is pressed against Jungkook's shoulder, making his lips jut out slightly.

"I'm not silly." Taehyung muttered making Jungkook laugh softly. He proceeded to walk for 15 minutes until he reached the castle gates. ( it was hard to walk with the extra weight on him, Taehyung wasn't excatly the lightest person.) He knocked on the door with his right hand, the left one holding Taehyung up by his thigh.

Yoongi opened the door sleepily after a couple of annoying knocks on the door. "What the fu- Jungkook?!" All sleep was wiped away from him as he stared bewildered at his best friend's brother, but what suprised him was that there was a guy perched on his back, asleep.

"Ask questions for later, help me now." Jungkook grumbled and Yoongi nodded, taking the bag from the other boy. "I'll see you in the morning, Hyung." Yoongi nodded again, blindly staring after the two as Jungkook merched up the stairs with a sleeping guy on his back.

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Taehyung whined softly, turning on the bed only to have his nose collide with a hard surface. He scrunched his nose up and rubbing it as he opened his eyes slowly. Taehyung's eyes widened when he realized that he was on a bed and that Jungkook was sleeping next to him, hlaf naked.

The older man screamed, pushing the other off larged bed which resulted on Jungkook to land on his butt. "Ow! What was that for?" Jungkook whined, standing up as he rubbed his hips. "That was so uncalled for."

Taehyung rolled his eyes, "Shouldn't have scared me then, asshole." Jungkook just chuckled again, "You should thank me, you know. I brought you back here on my back and you aren't excatly the lightest person." Taehyung's cheeks flared at what the younger said, "What? I wasn't - what?"

"Come on, lets go down for breakfast."

The walk to the dinning hall was quiet, well, on Taehyung's part since he was too embrassed to speak or form words while Jungkook kept talking about introducing the older to his brother. "I would love to stay but you promised you would help me. We should go." Taehyung muttered, "You also never told me you live in a castle. . ." An isolated one at that, Taehyung wanted to add but he didn't want to dissapoint the younger boy.

Jungkook shook his head stubbornly, "Just one breakfast, come on."

When Taehyung and Jungkook arrived to the large hall, three men were sat at the table with 25 chairs - who needs 25 dining chairs anyways? One of the man smiled brightly, his left hand was bandaged and Taehyung winced at the bruise on his cheeks. It seemed like he wasn't the only one who noticed it too because Jungkook stopped walking when he saw the man, "Hoseok hyung what happened?"

Hoseok shurgged, "It wasn't thing major. I'm fine." Jungkook didn't seemed convinced but he dragged Taehyung to sit beside him and the other guy. Taehyung noticed he was really pale and wondered if he had recieved enough sunlight in his lifetime. Then he turned his head to look at another man who sat at the end of the table with a cold, blank face. He looked scary, and Taehyung immediately looked down to play with his hands.

"Tae, meet my brother, Kim Namjoon."