◃ Backstory #6 ▹

Lee Jeno

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Jeno's POV

This was my home, before I left.

I was raised and trained by a band of very experienced and powerful ninjas. I think they call themselves 'shinobee'?

Anyway, I decided to leave when they started teaching me how to assassinate people. I didn't want to kill people, so I snuck out late at night.

It's not like I'm their best ninja anyway. Just the second or third best. Pretty good for a six year old~.

Luckily, they hadn't thought about putting guards around the perimeter, so I easily snuck out. I took some nunchucks and shurikens with me, so I could train myself.

It shouldn't be that hard~.

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14 Hours Later
Around 2pm

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I was wrong.

It's very hard to train alone..., especially at my age...

I almost got crushed, but only because I accidentally chopped down a tree with my shurikens, and it almost fell on me...

So I tried to do one of those really cool spinny kick moves that my hyungs always did with their nunchucks. But I made a wrong move and the nunchucks tied my leg to a tree branch, and now I'm dangling upside down.

I called out for help, and soon a boy about my age showed up.

"Hi~. I Jaemin~"

"Hi Jaemin~. Can you help me pwease?"

"Sure~"

He pulled on one end of the nunchucks, until he not only succeeded in getting me free, but he also succeeded in sending both of us tumbling down the hill.

When we finally stopped, we had landed in front of this very nice house. It was a lot smaller than my old home, but it was really pretty~.

It took me a few seconds to realize that I was hovering over Jaemin.

I had kinda forgot about him.

"Sowwy Jaemin..."

"It otay~. Hoo you by the way?"

I quickly helped him up, and smiled at him to try and make up for momentarily forgetting about him.

"I Jeno~"

I cheered, and he smiled too.

He suddenly grabbed my hand and guided me inside the nice house.

Is it his?

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"Hyungie~, this Jeno~!"

He introduced me to a very tall man.

Even though he was wearing a mask, I could still see him smiling.

"Hi there Jeno~. I see you made a new friend Jaemin~"

"Can he wive whit us~? He wan away wike I did~!"

How did he know that??? I didn't tell him I ran away at all!

"Really?! Is that true Jeno?"

I nodded.

"You two are real rebels aren't you... Well alright then~. I see no reason why he can't live with us~"

He decided, making Jaemin cheer with excitement.

"We bwothers now Jeno~!"

"Yay~"

"I'll go check on your other four brothers to see if they're awake yet. Then you can meet them if they are~!"

"Otay~"

We both sat together on the floor and just talked, until the man came back with four other kids in his arms.

He sat them down in front of us, and started introducing them to us.

"Ok~, so here we have Park Jisung, Zhong Chenle, Lee Donghyuck, and Huang Renjun~. And Jeno, you've already met Na Jaemin~"

"DONGHUCK IS A WEE WIKE ME!!!"

I shrieked, which startled all of them completely awake.

"Hyungie, hoo they ar?"

Chenle asked, pointing at us.

"These are your new brothers, Na Jaemin and Lee Jeno~"

"Ooooooohhhhh~. Hewwo~"

He waved at us, and we waved back.

"So, who wants to watch a movie~?"

"MEEEEE!!!"

Everyone except me cheered.

"Wats a moovee?"

"A movie is a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images that gets shown in a theater or on a tv~"

"Huh???"

I questioned, tilting my head.

"A moving pictur~"

Donghyuck clarified.

"Oh~. I wan watch~!"

"Alright then~. You all can choose one or more from this pile~"

We all either walked, ran, or crawled over to the pile.

There were a lot to choose from. But while everyone else had no problem choosing theirs, I still didn't understand what a moovee was. So I just chose one that looked nice.

I held up mine to the man like everyone else did, and I saw that they chose some nice ones too.

Jisung's

Chenle's

Jaemin's

Donghyuck's

And Renjun's

"Those are some really good ones~. What order do you all want to watch them in?"

We decided to play Jisung's moovee first since he's the youngest.

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3 Hours Later

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We got through both Jisung's and Chenle's moovees, and I finally understand what a moovee was~.

"Alrighty~, who's next~?"

"Meeeee~!"

Jaemin cheered.

The moovee started playing after a few minutes, and Donghyuck came back from bringing us more 'popcorn'. It's really good too~.

After a few minutes of watching the moovee, something caught my attention outside. It looked a huge spiky wall of ice was at our door.

We all got up and went outside to see what was behind it. Apparently, Donghyuck had fire powers, and he used it to melt the ice.

When he melted it enough, we saw a small boy about our age. He was on his knees and he looked like he was freezing.

It must be his power, because it's definitely not cold outside.

He reached out one of his shivering hands out to us, but it started turning to ice so he retracted it back. We could see the pain on his face as he held his hand. He was crying, and his falling tears started to turn into ice too.

I get it...

He can't control his power...

"H-Help m-m-me, pl-e-ease..."