~Y/N POV~

Its been a day since I found out that these seven men I'm currently living with are my mates. I just still have to find something that confirms it.

I just came from the library and decided I wanted something to drink so I'm just going to pop into the kitchen and grab some water.

I get to the top of the stairs that leads to the living room area.

But I stop in my tracks when I hear taehyungs deep voice shout.

"She clearly knows she's our mate! Did you not see her yesterday! The way she looked at all of us! Let's just speak to her about this!" Tae

"No! Tae stop! We don't actually know that! Jimin

"Guys wheres Jungkook?" Hoseok

"He's hiding from me. He knows I won't touch him in front of the hunter." Jin

"Tae don't move! You know there's other ways to talk about this!" Namjoon

"I don't give a fuck! She knows! I can feel it! I just know it!" Tae

I can hear Jin gasp.

"Taehyung language!" Jin

"What's with all the yelling up here? Me and Jungkook can't work with the hunter mocking us because of your shouting!" Yoongi

They brought a hunter home?
Isn't that dangerous?

"Blame him! He won't calm down! He wants to talk to y/n about everything but we don't know for a fact that she knows! She needs to figure it out herself Tae!" Jimin

"Ohhhh!" Hoseok

"Namjoon what do you think we should do?" Jin

"I think we should....." Namjoon

I cut him off by stomping down the stairs, just to make my presence known. I just pretend I didn't hear anything, minding my own business.

Everyone's quiet as they watch me. I jump down on the last step and smile at the six bodies standing in the living room area.

"Hey! What's going on?"

Jin coughes and Tae just stares as do the rest.

"Oh nothing just having a disagreement about who's doing dishes tonight." Jin

Oh he's lying to me. When I catch you out Jin you better make it up to me with cake.

"Well don't mind me I'm just getting something to drink."

I walk over to the entrance to the kitchen but I pass Yoongi on the way. He stands with his arms folded with narrowed eyes staring back at me. He doesn't seem too convinced by my acting. He might be on to me.

I grab a glass from the kitchen cabinet and then pour myself some water.

As I'm drinking the water I can hear harsh whispers but the words are unclear. It doesn't last long until there's silence in both kitchen and livingroom.

When I'm done I wash my glass and put it to the side.

I walk back through to the living room and again all 6 pairs of eyes are on me.

"Where's kookie?"

Taehyung stands from where he was seated, I watch him as he's about to speak but Namjoon speaks again.

"Ah Jungkook. There you are! How was your afternoon run?" Namjoon

I spin around to see Jungkook walking up behind me. I didn't even hear him coming. I look him up and down. He's wearing tight black ripped jeans with black timberland boots and a black T-shirt. That's not exactly what you wear to go out running.

I spot a little red smudge on his knuckles but I try not to react to let him know I've seen it. I know where he really was. I know Namjoon was trying to cover what Jungkook was really doing.

Kookie stood next to me and paused in thought his eyes doing that twitchy thing. I look between Jungkook and Namjoon and their eyes are both doing the same thing. I keep looking between the two until I notice Hoseok between the two watching me.

I stop looking between the two and smile at Hoseok. Crap, I just remembered he knows I can tell when they're linking. Hoseok does smile back me though his eyes twitch for a moment as he tries to blink rapidly to cover it. But fails, I noticed.

"Oh the run was good hyung. You should join me next time y/n." Jungkook

I laughed. I'm not exactly the fit type. Yeah I'll use the gym like I did back home but I won't be going out running for miles. Plus to think about what happened yesterday made me a little nervous to even think about going back outside far from the house.

"No thanks kookie. I think what happened yesterday put me off wanting to go out for a while."

I walked over to the bottom of the stairs.

"Y/n we need to talk!" Tae

I turned my body to face him and furrow my eyebrows together.

"What is it taetae?"

Tae stopped in his place eyes wide. He spun back to face the others.

"See! She does know! She never called me that until yesterday! We have to explain things to her!" Tae

Now we're getting somewhere.

"I know what? What are you talking about?"

Namjoon takes a step towards Tae.

"Now is not the time Tae. We don't know that. We should all talk about this in my office now." Namjoon

Or not. The stupid office I'm not aloud to go into.

"Good I can finally see that office of yours."

I take one step in the stairs until I hear Namjoon speak again.

"Your not coming with us. It's a private matter." Namjoon

Private matter my ass. I'm going there whether he like it or not.

"More secrets Joonie! Seriously! You know I already hate secrets so I'm going to your office whether you like it or not!"

I bolt up the stair as fast as I could ignoring the the yells of my name and Namjoon cursing. I'm racing down the hallway to reach the other stairs. They're hot on my tail it sounds like a stampede of elephants charging in the jungle.

I was only taking a wild guess Namjoon didn't lock his office this time but him cursing and chasing after to me boost my confidence that he didn't this time. And I'm so excited to see what he's hiding in there.

I leap onto the last flight of stairs in the house and climb my way up as fast as I could on my small legs. I know they're fast but why aren't they catching me as fast as I know they can?

Are they holding back their speed for some reason?

I crash into the office door, the door flew open and hit the wall on the inside of the office. I take a look around. It's nice, navy blue painted walls. Glass and light brown desk, two white single chairs and a white four seater couch pressed against the wall.

I walk over the fireplace that's next to the two chairs. There's no fire to look at so I look above the fire place to see a group painting with a plain silver frame. The people in the painting look familiar.

I study the people in the painting, their facial features, their clothes are from the 17oos. Their hair styled to the proper traditional way for the time.

The boys come tumbling into the office, huffing and puffing.

"Y/n....," Namjoon

I wave my hand at him from behind but not taking my eyes off the painting. The more I look at the more I think that's all 8 of us in that painting. This painting actually reminds me of the dream I had. When I was dressed in the exact same clothes sitting on a single chair as 7 men stood around me. But in this painting it's the 7 boys and what looks like.......me?

"Is this us?"

"Y/n..." Tae

"No more lies and secrets! Can someone take this down so I can look at it please?"

There were a few sighs and Namjoon walks past my to take down the painting and gently hands it over. It's very old that's for sure but it's been very well looked after.

I don't say anything. I just take the painting and place it on namjoons desk. Looking down at the painting.

It's exactly like in my dream, the sitting positions, the clothing except this time I can see their faces.

My face was in the middle, Namjoon was standing behind me with his hands on my shoulders, Jin and Hoseok were standing on each side of him behind me. Yoongi and Jungkook were kneeled down on either side of my chair. Tae and jimin were posed, sitting on their bums at my feet.

The painting was very good. It had every little detail to where it would be close to a photograph.

"It was your idea to have the painting done you know." Jin

"Yeah you said it could come in handy one day if were were to ever be reborn again." Hoseok

I sat in namjoons chair just listening to the boys talk to me about that painting. I don't want to take my eyes off the painting. It makes all of this seem so real.

"It's just like in my dream. The clothes, the hair but now I can see everyone's faces."

I run my hand gently across the painting. Taking in every detail. I stare at my face in the painting giving a slight smile, even though in those days no one smiled in their portraits.

My vision breaks into something else, the painting disappearing from view to then see a man dressed in a baggy beige colour shirt, with dark brown baggy trousers and what looks like black boots. He has paint spread out across his clothes, and a paint brush in his hand. He's standing in front of a large canvas, smiling, with eyes deep in concentration. His lips start moving "taehyung I can paint better than you so stop being so cocky."

A deep chuckle of Tae voice came from in front of me, still in his poses position.

"Well I should hope this is going to be better than my paintings. You've taught me everything I need to know about painting and I'm still learning." Tae

The strange man laughed. I uncontrollably moved my arm to poke the back of Taes head. He whisked his head around to face me.

"Your painting aren't bad taetae."

He give me his wide boxy smile.

"Thank you, darling. I just want this painting to be the best for you." Tae

I giggled as he reached for my hand and gave a soft but quick kiss on the back of my hand.

"Taehyung! Turn around !" Strange man.

"Goddess sake! You'd think after me being raised by that man I would of got use to his angry voice." Tae

A blink a few more times as the strange man before me disappears and the painting comes back to view.

"Taetae? You were close with the man that painted this portrait, weren't you?"

I lift my head to look at him. He nods and presses his lips together in a firm line.

"Yes, his name was soobin, he was like my father at the time. I miss him sometimes." Tae

"I bet you do, I'm sorry."

"Sorry for what Princess?" Jin

I sigh and move my eyes to Jin.

"I'm sorry that because of me you all have to suffer going through the pain of losing me over and over."

A few gasps escaped their lips.

"You know?" Namjoon

I nod, of course I know. I've known since yesterday I just wanting to find something that proved my thoughts right and this painting was the icing on the cake.

"Yes, I've known since yesterday. I just wanted to find something in this house that confirmed what I thought and this portrait just proves everything to me."

"I knew it! See I told you guys she knew!" Tae

I giggled at taes yelling, as he jumped on his spot pointing his finger at me.

"Yeah, yeah what ever." Yoongi

"Oh Yoongi bear, don't be rude."

He froze. His eye doubled in size.

I don't know where the name came from but I'm assuming it's something I use to call him, so I decided just to go along with it.

His expression turned from shocked to a smug smile within 5 seconds of the name. His eyes changed to light grey as be walked over slowly to the desk, it was like a wolf closing in in its prey. He was looking down at me like I was a meal and he hadn't eating in days. It made me nervous.

My smile that I had disappeared as he got closer to the desk. I leaned back in the chair away from him as he placed both his hands on the desk and leaned forward closer to my face.

"Yoongi..." Namjoon
Namjoons voice sounded more like a growl but it didn't bother Yoongi in the slightest. He waved his hand back at Namjoon, with his eyes still trained on me.

"What did you call me?" Yoongi

I spotted his heavy breathing as his chest rises and falls. I don't know why he's doing that, so I push all nerves aside and lean forward to his face, our noses almost touching.

"I called you Yoongi bear. What you going to do about that?" I raised an eyebrow, staring into his light grey eyes.

"Ooooooooo! He's going to ruin her!" Jungkook

"Jungkookie, stop!" Hoseok

"Ow! Jin hyung, that hurt!" Jungkook

We both ignore the bickering in the background. Yoongi takes one deep breath in and closes his eyes.

For a moment I think I've won but he surprised me by crashing his lips on to mine.

A sense of warmth rushes through my body as his soft pink lips touch mine. It wasn't a long kiss but it did last a good couple seconds. He pulled away first.

His smirk only grows.

"I've been waiting a long time to do that again. Be careful kitten." Yoongi

Oh my god.

Heat rushes to my cheeks as I watch him stand up straight and he sends me a wink.

I now feel like my whole body has heated up.

"She's blushing!" Jimin

I stand up from my seat looking down at the floor, wiping my sweaty palms down the side of my legs.

"I....um, I'm going back downstairs to watch a movie."

I then ran through all of them and out the door to the hallway. Their laughs didn't go unheard but that's didn't stop me from running with embarrassment.

~Taehyung POV~

We all laughed at y/n as she ran out the door. She's too cute when she blushes or at anytime really. Yoongi sure does know how to tease her but I don't blame him, her smell right is almost intoxicating and her usual smell in itself it an addiction but she'll be in her most fertile days in the next day or so. So I probably would of done the same as him, but I don't have as good of self control when it comes to Yoongi. In fact us three younger ones are actually the worst at self control. Which would be why they were concerned the other day about Jungkook carrying y/n naked.

Her smell still lingers in the air of the office even though she's no longer present in the room. I can hear with my ears the tv in the livingroom being turned on and the flicking of channels. She's in the livingroom like she said she would be. I saw jimins ears twitch at the sound also, the others were probably the same.

It's a funny thought that we can hear her down two sets of stairs. But that's good in our circumstances.

"Is it me or is her smell getting stronger." Jin

"No it's not you her smell is definitely getting stronger. I think tomorrow we'll have to go keep that hunter company for a few days. Namjoon

"I'll go make sure we've got enough food storage in our cells then." Jin

With that he left, I can hear his footsteps pace down the hallway to the stairs. I could listen to him walk all the way to the basement but I'd rather not.

"We still have to talk to y/n about all this. Plus I think we should tell her about us having to spend a few days in the cells."

"Unless she wants to mate with us." Jimin

I push Jimin away as he smirks at his own comment. I mean yeah that would be nice but only if she was ready to though. None of us had ever gone that far with her. So who ever gets to be the first will be one lucky guy.

"You never know she might. I could smell her arousal when I kissed her." Yoongi

I could hear Jin choke on his own spit in the link. Then y/n downstairs asking if he was alright, which he replied with a yes and then simple small talk after.

"What? I'm just saying what we're all hoping." Yoongi shrugs his shoulders.

I didn't even realise I was staring at him.

"We could all smell it hyung, you don't need to wave the kiss in our faces." Jungkook

"Your just jealous!" Yoongi

"Am not! I could kiss her anytime I want to! Jungkook

"Go on then!" Yoongi

"What?" Jungkook

"Go kiss her if your so brave!" Yoongi

Jungkook falls silent. He's not very brave to speaking to girls. When he speaks to y/n he uses the mate bond as a pull for his confidence and when y/n goes through her fertile days he's like a completely different person.

"That's what I thought!" Yoongi

He gives jungkookie a smug smile with his arms folded again.

"I have to admit I'm surprised the three younger ones controlled themselves as well as they did." Hoseok

What's that suppose to mean?
We're not that bad.
She's still got another day or so.

"No they weren't bad but we've still got another day. So it really depends on what they're like tomorrow." Namjoon

They have no faith in us, really it's insulting.

"Hey we're not that bad!" Jimin

It's as if he read my thoughts.
Namjoon laughed at him.

"Okay, okay. You're not that bad. But we should let y/n know about this as I highly doubt she remembers that right now." Namjoon

"Oh this conversation is gonna be good." Yoongi

"Why's that?"

He shrugs.

"Me and y/n had a little conversation about mates during certain time of the year. So she knows that if we were to go on a rut it would be because of her." Yoongi

I laugh as do Jimin and Jungkook. Her face will be priceless. She'll blush again, I just know it.

"Jimin!! Did you have to mention y/n wanting to mate with us while I was passing her!! I almost chocked and it made me feel super awkward." Jin

We all burst out laughing yet again at jins out burst through the link. Jungkook then patted Jimin on the shoulder.

"Your next hyung!" Jungkook

Jimins face dropped.

This only fuelled our laughter.

"Right guys I think we should head down to y/n and have a little discussion."

They all nodded and followed my lead out my office to walk downstairs.

~Y/N POV~

After Jin left, I was still flicking through the channels trying to decide what I wanted to watch. I didn't know myself what I wanted to watch I was just trying to make up some excuse to leave that awkward moment. I'm glad Jin didn't mention it when I was speaking to him but he did choke on his own spit for some unknown reason. I had to keep in my laugh as his face was pretty funny but I kept in. I wanted to make sure he was okay.

A few more minutes passed of browsing through channels in silence and series of stomping feet came down the stairs.

"Hey beautiful! What you watching?" Jimin

I just ignore the compliment because I know if I think about it too much I'll blush once again.

"Nothing as of right now. I can't decide what to watch."

"Well good because we all have to talk to you about something and you really need to know about this." Namjoon

Namjoon takes a seat in front of the fireplace, directly in front of me across the coffee table. Tae joins him my sitting next to him. Jimin and Jungkook sit on either side of me on the corner sofa and Yoongi and Hoseok sit on the opposite end of the sofa.

"Wait! Shouldn't Jin be here for this?" Hoseok

"I already told him through the link." Namjoon

"Seriously Hoseok you should pay attention, even I heard him through the link." Yoongi

He leaned back into a comfortable position but was slightly disturbed when Hobi whacked him across the chest. Yoongi just gave him a glare before winking at me.

Not this time, don't fall for it. No blushing.

"Does he really have to be here? He can just listen through the link." Jimin

"Your just scared jins going to beat your ass." Taehyung

Everyone apart from me started laughing. What's so funny?
Why would jin be after him?

"Why would Jin be after you?"

Jimin looked to the side with his eyes and pouted his lips, fiddling with his fingers.

I waited for his answer but Jungkook beat him to it. He pressed the top half of his body against my back, as I was turned away from him facing Jimin. I can hear his heavy breathing.

"I'll tell you later." Jungkook

He stayed there for a moment sniffing through my hair. I thought it was a bit strange but he didn't do anything else. He pulled away the moment he heard jins voice.

"Right so should we get this conversation started." Jin

I noticed how Jimin tensed a little as Jin came walking around the corner of the sofa to sit in the other side of him. He narrowed his eyes at Jimin as Jimin refused to look at him. Jin leaned towards him.

"I'll deal with you later." Jin

"Jin that's enough. The poor boys scared out of his boots." Namjoon

"That's because he knows what he did and he made me embarrass myself." Jin

"What?"

I looked back and forth at everyone.

"I said I'll tell you later." Jungkook

He pats my thigh and leaves it lingering there for a moment before moving his hand away. But as a replacement he moved his own leg and pressed it up against the side of mine.

"Right okay y/n we wanted to tell you something that we think you should know." Namjoon

"Yeah something that could happen as soon as tomorrow, we're not a hundred percent sure yet." Jin

"What's going to happen tomorrow? Is it about my mum and soojin?"

Namjoon, Jin and Tae shock their heads.

"No it's not about them but we've got plans moving forward on how to help your dad and minho find their location." Namjoon

"Okay, so what's going to happens then?"

"Well...." Namjoon

"Oh come on!! Just tell her already!" Yoongi

We all turned our heads to Yoongi in the corner, with his feet resting on the coffee table. He must like that position or something becaus he's always lying that way when I see him through here, that or he's completely sprawled out on the sofa taking up so much room.

"Instead of trying to make this as slow and as uncomfortable as possible just come out with it."! Yoongi

Namjoon clapped his hands together.

"Okay then! What we need to tell you is..." Namjoon

"Tomorrow could be the start of your fertile days and we'll be spending a few days in the cells until it's over. Since because youre our mate we'll know when that time comes and we'll need to give you alone time." Yoongi

Namjoon and Jin glare at him. He just shrugged his shoulder looking unbothered.

"Wow, straight to the point hyung!" Jimin

"What? Namjoon would of dragged on this conversation with trying to explain this to her when he could of just gone straight to the point." Yoongi

That was straight to the point. It just reminds me of what he had told me a few days ago about this mate thing and heats and ruts.

"So you could all start a rut as soon as tomorrow?"

"Yes." Tae

"See she understands. You remember our little topic of conversation the other day, don't you?" Yoongi

He winks at me again. Seriously what's with the winking?

I nodded at him.

"Yes I remember."

"Great that's everything then. She knows. We don't have to make this anymore awkward for her." Yoongi

He stands up from his place and starts making his way to the kitchen.

"Now if you'll excuse me I have some unfinished business to attend to." Yoongi

With that he left the room with all of dumbfounded. Okay.

I suppose it'll be alright. Yoongi did tell me that they have done this before with their mate. Meaning me. So it can't go wrong.

But what about the hunter in the cells?

"Em, what about the hunter in the basement?"

Everyone else left in the room gasps.

"How did you know about the hunter?" Hoseok

I looked down at the floor. I'm starting to feel a little guilty for ears dropping earlier.

"I....em... I over heard you guys earlier. I heard Yoongi saying the hunter was mocking him because of the arguing."

"Damn it." Namjoon

"Sorry."

"It's not your fault. Someone decided to cause a fuss." Jin

He was eyeing up Tae who sat quietly beside Namjoon minding his own business. But Tae heard and just shrugged his shoulders and looked at Jin innocently.

"What? I knew she knew who she was to us. We needed to talk to her about this." Tae

"Well we've talked about it now." Jungkook

"Y/n you don't have to worry about the hunter in the basement. In fact it actually gives us a chance to spend more time with him get more information about him. Also you don't have to worry about food or toilets or nothing like that. There's shower room in each of our cells apart from his and their enough food to last each us for two weeks and I'm sure we're not going to be in there for two weeks. So just leave it all to us. We'll get our selves in the cells but you'll have to get us out though. But if you randomly find yourself alone in the house, don't worry we'll be in the basement." Jin

"Oh and one more thing y/n, what ever you do if you come downstairs to use the gym please, please don't listen to what we say. We're not exactly our selves during this time." Namjoon

"Oh and a big give away when we're still in our ruts is that our eye colours. They never change back to normal until after." Jimin

I just nodded, what else do I have to say. I think that's everything.

Jungkook jumped up from his spot and grabbed my hand pulling me up.

"Now that's everything let's go play some games. You can choose." Jungkook

He started dragging me to the stairs. Jimin and Tae ran after us.

"Hey wait for us!" Jimin

"Yeah we want to play too! I'm playing in y/n team first!" Tae

"That's not fair!" Jimin

"No I'm playing in y/n team first. She likes me the best, don't you y/n?" Jungkook

He looks down over his shoulder at me sending me a wink, his hand still around mine as he drags me upstairs. Tae and jimin walking behind.

"That's what you think! She like me more, don't you beautiful!" Jimin

"No she likes me better!" Tae

Oh my god what has my life lead to?