One thing the hyungs had learned over the few years of being in a band together was that the maknae line was hard to handle.

Hard to raise.

And especially hard to control.

The three youngest were still young teenagers who had minds of their own and were quite stubborn.

So they never listened.

Jimin, Taehyung, and Jungkook had no ill intent when it came to not listening to their hyungs. They simply couldn't help themselves. They liked doing what they wanted and they enjoyed playing and having fun whenever they had the time. It was especially hard when they were out on schedules or doing tours to find time to have fun so sometimes the maknae's would stay up extremely late, even after the hyungs would warn them to go to bed.

They were currently staying in a hotel in South Korea, having just finished up the last performance of a tour and would be heading home in the morning. The four oldest hyungs were extremely exhausted and told the maknae's that everyone needed to head to bed early to get some rest and recuperate. The maknae's nodded and said they would, but once the hyungs ventured off to their own rooms, the youngest ones of the group had other plans.

"I'm not even tired!" Jimin told Taehyung and Jungkook. They agreed that they weren't the least bit tired either.

"We could play a game!" Jungkook suggested.

"Oh, Jungkook-ah, what did you have in mind?" Jimin asked.

"I know!" Taehyung chimed in, "We could play hide and seek or something! Or find eachother with a blindfold on!"

Everyone agreed to it.

"I bet ARMY would love it if we recorded us playing the game. Just something fun to upload to our Youtube channel to communicate with them," Taehyung said.

The three of them agreed it would be a great idea, but warned eachother to not be too loud so they didn't wake up their hyungies. "Especially Yoongi- hyung. He'll have our heads for dinner if we wake him up!" Jungkook giggled.

They got the room and the camera ready and began filming their little video for ARMY of them playing.

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They filmed their little video and uploaded it for ARMY right away. After that they decided to put the camera away and just play the game together and be a little more silly.

At one point things got a little out of hand, the three got a bit too obnoxious and they were running around and climbing on all of the furniture. Unfortunately while trying to climb down from some of the furniture all three of them fell on top of eachother like dominoes and their bodies busted a giant human sized hole right through the drywall of the hotel room.

Taehyung withered in pain as he looked at his arm that had gotten scraped as they fell through the wall. Jimin and Jungkook were speechless as they looked at what they've done.

"Oh no! Oh no! Taehyungie are you okay?!" Jimin cried as he checked on his best friend. Thankfully it wasn't bleeding, just very sore and a bit bruised.

"Hyungs are going to kill us!" Taehyung screamed. They looked at Jungkook who was standing there, wide eyed in disbelief. The three of them knew they were about to be in lot of trouble.

They froze when they heard someone knock on their door and let themselves in. It was Namjoon.

Groggy and tired, he dragged his feet into the room. "What the hell are you guys doing in here? I told you three to go to-" He stopped when he saw the wall. "What the hell did you do?!"

"It was an accident! We're so sorry hyung! We were playing around and we fell into the wall and-" Jungkook began begging for forgiveness but Namjoon stopped him.

"Are you kidding me?! Are you actually kidding me right now?!" Namjoon screamed. His screams had woken up the other hyungs and they all came in, speechless when they saw the damage.

"Please hyungs! We're sorry! We didnt mean to! We fell and it just broke!" Taehyung cried.

"How the hell do you fall so hard into a wall it breaks?!" Jin screamed. He was livid. "What the hell were you guys doing?! You were supposed to be asleep! Do you have any idea what time it is?!"

The three youngest shook their heads no. They had no clue. Hobi and Yoongi rolled their eyes.

"Aish...these three.." Hobi sighed, annoyed.

A hotel staff member walking the halls happened to overhear the commotion and came in to see what was going on, and when he saw the damage to the wall he scolded the entire band, told them to pack their stuff because they were being kicked out, and that they would be billing the company for the damages.

"We're really sorry!" Jimin cried to the staff member, "It really was an accident!" The staff member didn't care.

The hyungs were absolutely furious as they had to pack up all of their stuff and leave. The maknae's cried together as they packed up too.

Namjoon had to call their manager and tell him what happened, and the boss was not happy.

"You three are in for a scolding with manager Ji when we get back!" Namjoon screamed at the maknae's. The three youngest couldn't stop crying the entire way back to Seoul. They felt absolutely terrible for what they did, and absolutely terrible for making their hyungs angry. They were also terrified of manager Ji. He could be a very mean and relentless man, the members had never met anyone who screamed so scarily.

"Will you three stop the tears? Just own what you did and learn from it," Yoongi scolded, "No sense in crying so much. Manager Ji will scream at you a bit, the company will pay for it, and we will move on."

"And maybe this will teach you to listen to us from now on!" Hobi added. The maknae's nodded and wiped their tears, but they were still scared to face their manager.

When they got back to Seoul in the morning, although absolutely exhausted, and the maknae's running on no sleep at this point, they couldn't go to the dorm.

Manager Ji wanted to see the maknae's, and he wanted to see them now.

They got to BigHit and Jimin was the most hesitant to get out of the car.

"Let's go," Namjoon said with annoyance, "Just get this over with so we can all go home and sleep."

Jimin nodded and got out of the car. All of them made their way into manager Ji's office.

"Ah! Taehyung, Jungkook, Jimin, sit." Ji gestured to the black leather couch that sat across from his desk. The four hyungs decided to stand. This was their maknae's scolding, they felt no sense in being involved.

Ji slammed his hand on his desk, making everyone flinch. His face turned red as his anger boiled to the surface. "Do you know how much damn money we owe that hotel?! To get their damn wall fixed because of you three?! Too much money, that's how much! I hope you three have a damn good plan on how you're going to pay this back!" Ji expressed that he was going to make the maknae's pay for it, although they definitely didn't have the money.

The three sat on the couch with their heads down, staring at the floor in shame. The hyungs did feel really bad for the three, they didn't enjoy seeing them be screamed at or seeing them scared but they figured this was a hard lesson to learn.

"Is breaking rules something you three continue to plan on doing?" Ji asked. Nobody replied.

"I asked you a question!" Ji slammed his hand on his desk again.

"No, sir," the maknae's replied in unison. Tears finally escaped Jungkook's eyes as he wiped his face with his sleeve. Ji walked over and hovered above him. "You always have been quite the crybaby, haven't you?"

"I'm sorry," Jungkook whispered quietly without picking his head up. His heart was beating fast. This was way too scary for him. He cuddled up a bit closer to Taehyung, who was practically already sitting on Jimin's lap. They felt safer the closer together they were.

Yoongi's heart felt a ping of annoyance at Ji for what he'd said. Jungkook's emotional state was completely irrelevant to why they were in trouble. He felt the comment was unnecessary.

Ji continued to scream at the three. He not only screamed at them for breaking rules in the hotel, but he started going on a tangent about how the three of them never listened and he belittled all of their personalities constantly. The hyungs had kept their mouths shut for most of it, until they saw that Jimin, Taehyung, and Jungkook were all sobbing against eachother without any kind of retaliation. The hyungs all switched from being angry at their youngest ones to being angry at their manager. He was going too far. He wasn't simply scolding them anymore but at this point it was clear he was hurting them, and the hyungs weren't going to let that continue. Sure they had done something wrong, but they were still their extremely loved little brothers.

"Alright," Jin finally spoke up, "I think they get the point." He gestured to the crying three on the couch, "Clearly they're sorry. I'm sure it won't happen again."

"Oh, you're right Jin. I know it won't happen again. And you know how I know it won't happen again?"Ji asked. Everyone's hearts were pounding with anxiety at this point. They had no clue what was coming next. Ji walked over to a closet he had in his office, dug around for a moment, and then pulled out a giant wooden paddle.

Taehyung threw his arm up in defense, "No!" he cried. Jimin felt dizzy. Jungkook suddenly felt his breath catch in his throat and then he began to hyperventilate and shake with fear. The three of them held eachother tightly.

Hobi and Jin instantly moved and stood protectively in front of them, "What the hell is that?" Jin asked. He was terrified. No way does this man think we'll let him hurt them.

"Punishment!" Ji screamed, "Something you hyungs here have clearly failed at doing!"

Namjoon was freaking out. "We would never beat them!" he screamed.

"And that was your first mistake!" Ji moved closer with the paddle, causing Yoongi and Namjoon to instinctively stand in front of the three on the couch. All four hyungs were protectively blocking them. Yoongi turned to look at them and his heart completely shattered seeing Jimin and Jungkook's eyes. They were wide and filled with fear and tears. Taehyung had his face buried into Jimin's shoulder, a desperate attempt at hoping to disappear. Yoongi never realized how completely defenseless they were. He turned back to Ji, "Fuck off. Are you insane?!"

"I have not needed to use this thing in a long, long time. But you know what? When I have had to use it, it works! It teaches discipline real damn quick! All it takes is one swift whooping and they'll be set straight!"

"Set straight from what?!" Hobi yelled, "Yes they should have been asleep, but they were playing! They didn't deliberately break the hotel room! They aren't like that! They were fooling around, just being kids, and it was a freak accident! That's not fair to them! They can't be beaten for that! They can't be beaten at all!"

Jungkook had started crying so hard that he began gagging. Taehyung grabbed him and pulled him as tightly against him as he could, holding him like it's the last thing he'd ever do. None of them had anything to say, they were mortified that if they even opened their mouths they'd be done for. They were extremely desperate for their hyungs protection.

Ji didn't care what anyone had to say, he felt as though he needed to do this in order to set things straight and discipline the youngest for what they did. "Move," Ji demanded to the hyungs.

"No," Jin crossed his arms and stood in place. The other hyungs did just the same.

"You stay the hell away from them," Namjoon demanded.

"Are you all blind?! They deserve it!" Ji screamed.

"If anyone deserves a beating it's clearly you!" Yoongi shouted. He turned to look at his maknae's again and saw that Jungkook was actually on the verge of passing out. Jimin was trying to shake him to keep his eyes from closing. They kept rolling to the back of his head. The rapper gestured to them, "Take Jungkook and get the hell out of here. Go to the car. We're going home."

The maknae's didn't move. Ji started screaming and darted closer, Jin pushed him away while Yoongi, Namjoon, and Hobi grabbed the three maknae's off the couch and pushed them towards the door. Taehyung had to help Jungkook walk. "But hyungs what about you?!" Jimin cried.

"Just go! We will be there in a minute!"

The youngest boys disappeared out the door while Ji fought with the older members. He threatened to beat them too, but they weren't phased by it. They screamed and threatened him saying that they were going to let the CEO know about this, and Ji screamed that he didn't care.

Mid argue, the hyungs turned and ran out of manager Ji's office and sprinted to the car. Jimin, Jungkook, and Taehyung were huddled together crying in the backseat. Jungkook was slumped over, sweaty and breathing heavily.

Namjoon and Hobi got in the back with them. Hobi grabbed Jungkook's face, "Hey, it's okay. Breathe Jungkook-ah, he's not going to hurt anyone. It's over. You're okay." Namjoon pulled Taehyung and Jimin into his arms and they both cried into his neck.

"Please know you guys didn't deserve any of that. Broken wall or not," Yoongi said, turning from the passenger seat to check on them. "Let's just go home and rest up. Okay? Please don't be so scared. He can't really do anything."

"He was going to beat us," Taehyung sniffled. "Why would he do that? He's never done that."

"Some people are crazy, that's why," Jin shrugged. "But once we tell the CEO what he did to you I don't think he will be much of a problem anymore." Jin offered to stop and get everyone ice cream, which really lightened the mood. They ate it on their way home and the maknae's kept thanking their hyungs for saving them.

"Believe it or not, even though you guys really annoy the living hell out of us most days, we love you regardless," Hobi laughed. This got a chuckle out of his youngest three.

When they got home, the exhaustion hit hard. Jungkook, Taehyung, and Jimin immediately crashed together in Jimin's bed, cuddling up tight. Yoongi brought some water bottles and placed them on the night stand in case they woke up thirsty. The rest of the day was spent resting. In fact the rest of the day and night was spent resting. They didn't realize just how tired they were.

The four hyungs were the first to wake up the next morning, and were confused when they walked into the kitchen to find a little card on the table. It was a piece of purple construction paper folded in half. The front had hearts drawn all over it, clearly drawn by Jungkook. Next to the card was also a bunch of hearts and flowers made out of origami. They opened the card to find a little letter from the three youngest.

Dear Hyungie hyungs~

We're really, really, really sorry about not listening and getting in trouble. We promise to do better and listen better!! Thank you for being there for us and protecting us from all the bad and scary things and people in life. Thanks for not hurting us when we mess up. We don't know where we would be without you (Probably dead, lol). Please forgive us for making mistakes and continue to love us!!!

We love you, hyungies!!

-Love Jiminie, Taehyungie, and Jungkookie(your favorite maknae!!)

The face Yoongi made reading the letter made Hobi burst into laughter. "What is that face?!"

He scrunched his face up with adoration, "They're so cute it hurts."

"Aish, they sure can be pain in the asses but they're lovable pain in the asses," Namjoon smiled.

The leader remembered to call the head boss in charge of the company and discuss what manager Ji did, and was told that manager Ji wouldn't be a problem anymore and that they were free to come to work.

Jin went and woke their little guys up, smothering their faces with kisses and saying how cute the letter was, making them all giggle. He offered breakfast, and then they headed back to the studio.

Jungkook was the most terrified to return, feeling like he might start to pass out again, but his hyungs reassured him that now manager Ji was the one in trouble and not to worry about anything.

They got to the dance studio and began practice, and not even half an hour in, manager Ji came barreling through the door, wooden paddle in hand. He pointed straight at the maknae's.

"You three!" He screamed, "Fired?! You got me fucking fired?!Oh, I'll give you one hell of a reason to get me fired!"

Jimin grabbed Jungkook and Taehyung and they ran into a corner, absolutely petrified. "Stay away from us!" Taehyung begged. Instant anxiety, followed by instant tears.

"They didn't do shit!" Yoongi screamed, "You got your damn self fired, asshole!"

Ji charged right at the maknae's. The hyungs ran at Ji, but he was quick to get out of their reach and didn't hesitate to send that wooden paddle beating down on all three of them as soon as he reached them. It was such a large, wide paddle that it hit all three of them at once. It landed right on Jungkook's ribs, making him drop and gasp for air. It smacked Jimin in the head, causing him to stumble to the floor, and it landed on Taehyung's shoulder, making him grab it and scream in pain.

"Get the hell away from them! Stop it!" Hobi screamed. The hyungs were too late, their maknae's all laying on the floor in a fit of tears with just one single blow of the paddle.

"No!" Jin screamed as he grabbed the end of the wooden torture device and started fighting with Ji over it. Jin was in tears as Hobi and Namjoon pulled the maknae's up into hugs. Yoongi ran out in the hallway screaming for staff members to come help.

"How dare you! How dare you!" Jin screamed, "They're just babies!" he cried as his heart broke. My babies. Jin got full hold of the paddle and smacked Ji straight across the face with it, sending him crashing to the floor. He continued to hit him with it, again and again, overtaken by anger for what he'd done.

Yoongi ran in with staff and they took the paddle. The staff was quick to drag a now bloody Ji out of the room, none of the members payed any attention to his screaming and profanities as he was dragged out. All attention was on the three youngest.

Jimin was laying there, his eyes opening and closing, he was falling in and out of consciousness. Hobi grabbed his hand, "Stay with me, Jimin-ah, help is coming."

Staff members already had ambulances on the way. Taehyung was rolling around, screaming and crying while he clutched his shoulder. He was in severe pain that wouldn't stop, it hurt so badly that he too felt like he was going to pass out.

Medical members of the staff team had to use oxygen on Jungkook. He couldn't breathe. His lips were turning blue as he tried to gasp for air, but he'd clutch his ribs with every breath and all he could let out was tears. Jin held Jungkook's head in his lap, "Just do the best you can, bunny. Please, breathe the best you can. Please just try." Jungkook was squeezing Jin's hand, and Jin could feel the scared desperation for help coming from the maknae that he couldn't find the breath to ask for.

All of the hyungs were a complete mess as they tried to help tend to the injuries. They felt helpless, and extremely guilty and ashamed for not being able to catch Ji before he let a single beat from the paddle do this much damage.

"I'm so sorry." Hobi's tears were crashing all around him. He leaned down and kissed Jimin's cheek, "I'm so sorry." Seeing all three of them like this was an actual nightmare come true.

"I don't understand...." Namjoon sniffled, "He wasn't supposed to be here..I don't understand..I'm so sorry."

When paramedics got there, they could instantly tell that Jimin had a concussion, and they also had to set up an oxygen mask for Jungkook. Taehyung was scared as hell to be taken away by an ambulance, and as he was being whisked away on a stretcher he reached his hand out. "No! Hyungs!" he screamed. Namjoon ran over and grabbed his hand, "It's okay, I'm right here. We're all right here." The hyungs split up and went in the ambulances as well.

At the hospital, the hyungs had to wait around while the maknae's injuries were tended to. Namjoon called their CEO and informed him of what happened, and the CEO said that Ji was never supposed to be in the building. He was ordered to be out immediately as soon as he was fired. Namjoon said that the group planned to sue Ji for what he'd done, and the CEO agreed and offered to get a lot of the paperwork ready.

"Also, Namjoon? Don't worry about the damn hotel room wall. The company will pay for it, obviously we aren't going to make your youngest ones pay for it."

"Thank you, they've paid enough of a price as it is." Namjoon hung up when the doctor came.

Jimin had a slight concussion, Taehyung had a crack in his shoulder blade, and Jungkook..

"I'm sorry for the bad news but Jungkook has two broken ribs, and one of them did puncture his lung which caused him to not be able to breathe. He's currently in surgery."

"Our maknae!" Jin screamed, "Will he be okay?!" Jin was so scared for the youngest. He knew how scared Jungkook must have been hearing he'd need surgery and that broke his heart. He wanted to go be with him, hold his hand, tell him everything was okay and to not be scared.

"After surgery, he will need time to rest, but yes, he'll be okay. In the meantime, Jimin and Taehyung are in room 5 together. You can go see them now."

The hyungs rushed to the room and ran to Jimin and Taehyung, who were laying in a bed together. Namjoon grabbed Jimin's hand and caressed his cheek. "How are you feeling?"

"I've been better." Everyone could see the clear sorrow in Jimin's eyes. Taehyung's arm was in a sling, something he'd have to wear until the crack in his shoulder healed.

"Jungkookie isn't well." Taehyung was frowning with his head down. Right now he couldn't care less about his shoulder. He was heartbroken for Jungkook. Jimin was too. He felt like his injury was nothing compared to what the youngest was going through.

"He will be alright, Tae, I promise," Yoongi replied warmly. He ran his hand through Taehyung's hair without saying anything else.

"We're so sorry," Hobi started, "We never meant for him to get to you. We had no idea he was-"

"Hyung, it's okay," Jimin interrupted, "It wasn't your fault."

"It feels like our fault," Namjoon frowned.

"That bastard will pay for what he did!" Jin screamed.

"Hyung you already kind of-" Namjoon turned to Jimin and Taehyung, "You guys probably didn't realize what was going on at the time, but Jin hyung beat the shit out of Ji! The man was bloody and everything!" Namjoon said it proudly.

Jimin and Taehyung smiled. "Good!" Taehyung yelled, wincing when he moved his shoulder. "Hey, careful there kiddo," Yoongi said.

"We're also suing him. And the big boss said not to even worry about the hotel money anymore," Hobi informed. At least that was one weight of the maknae lines shoulders.

Jimin started quietly crying. "I want Jungkook-ah"

"Me too," Taehyung whispered.

The hyungs reassured them that their youngest would be okay, even though they were all worried and scared as hell too.

The emotions in the room were high, and soon Namjoon burst into tears. He grabbed Jimin's and Taehung's hands. "I can't help but feel like I've failed you. I mean I'm your hyung and your leader and I just...I should have done more. I should have done something more to protect you."

"You did all you could," Jimin whispered. His voice cracked with sadness and he cleared his throat. "It's not like you're the one who hurt us."

"And we never would," Hobi started, "Please know that no matter what you three do in this lifetime, none of us would ever, ever hurt you."

Taehyung smiled, "We know."

Yoongi couldn't help but laugh, "That's why they're such brats. They know they can get away with it in the long run because we're all softies in the end."

Nobody denied it, and the members all laughed together. A doctor came in to let everyone know that Jungkook was out of surgery.

"Can he be brought in here too? I don't want him to be alone," Taehyung asked.

"I can have him brought in, but he's still waking up from the anesthesia and he's hooked up to oxygen. He's going to be a bit loopy."

The members said to bring him in. Their maknae was wheeled in on his hospital bed and the members hearts broke seeing him all wired up and out of it, but they were glad to hear the surgery had gone well and he was on the fast track to recovery.

Hobi ran over and grabbed Jungkook's hand, "Hi, bunny." Jungkook's eyes slightly opened, and then closed again. He was doing his best to wake up but he wasn't quite there yet.

His bed was placed next to Jimin and Taehyung's and they all spent time just staring at him, their hearts hurting.

It took a few more hours until Jungkook started to wake up for real, and he started making little noises and his hand was twitching. Yoongi gently touched his arm, "Hey there, are you with us?"

Jungkook's eyes shot open to see all of his hyungs right there with him. He couldn't help but smile. Nobody is dead.

"He's awake!" Hobi cheered. Jungkook looked at Jimin and Taehyung and could see their injuries and a deep wave of sadness consumed him. The hyungs could all sense how he felt, it was written all over his face.

"We will be okay, Jungkook-ah," Taehyung said suddenly. "Jin hyung beat him to a pulp! He's gone for real this time!"

The maknae smiled.

He was too exhausted to say or do much, but when he was awake he had enough strength to nod or squeeze someones hand or giggle a little.

It took about a week for all three of them to be discharged. Jimin's bruised head and concussion were almost fully healed. Taehyung was still sporting his sling, and Jungkook had to walk with a special crutch that took pressure off his rib cage.

"You three are a whole mess," Hobi teased.

Finally getting to go home, Jin offered once again to get everyone ice cream. It had become a very healing ritual for them.

At home, things were quiet. They got time off work to rest and recharge. Surprisingly the suing of Ji went through extremely fast and the members got a ton of money from the lawsuit. Ji had been arressted on assault charges, and the members had a restraining order put on him. He wasn't going to be a problem anymore.

Jimin asked if they could use the money from the lawsuit to pay for the hotel damages, even though their boss said not to worry about it. The man agreed that if that's what they'd like to do, they could.

Jimin, Taehyung, and Jungkook wrote the hotel a long apology letter and sent it in with more money than they originally owed. Thankfully the hotel staff found it in their hearts to forgive, and said the members were allowed back anytime.

While the three were asleep, having gone to bed early, Hobi was dwelling on the fact that the youngest had, on their own, sent the apology letter with extra money.

"They may not be the best listeners all the time but I sure am raising them well," Hobi boasted.

"You?!" Jin protested, "I'm the one raising them! Who drove Kook to school?! Who cooks most of their meals?!"

"Hey hey hey, we all raise them well," Yoongi smiled. The hyungs all started bickering on who was raising them more and they went to bed with light hearts.

Everyone was devastated over the recent events, but it made the hyungs realize that their maknae's were still kids who weren't going to be the best listeners all the time, and they needed to get used to that.

They were still great, loved maknaes. And the hyungs were all raising them well.

[The End]