HOW YOONGI AND HOSEOK FIRST CROSS PATHS MANY YEARS BACK

Little Hoseok spends his days as a live-in patient in the hospital due to the complications during his birth. However, he was a happy kid and liked to sneak out to explore the hospital grounds as soon as the adult took their eye of him. Of course, he was usually caught before he could get anywhere especially if his hospital room door was closed since he is way too small to open it by himself. He can't even reach the door knob which seemed to dominate over his small form.

It was one of those rare days where he wasn't attached to any IV machines and dressed in his cool clothes instead of the dull hospital gown. His parents were busy talking to his doctor and his elder brother who was supposed to keep an eye on him was busy on his phone.

''It will only take a few seconds I just need to send this... ''Important document'' through my phone mail to my best friend and project partner who needs it urgently hm lil' bro? just play with your teddy for a little while then big brother will come join you ok Hoseokie?'' said young Seokjin after taking one final look at his baby bro fiddling with the laces of his Timberland boots placing his favourite teddy right by him.

Little Hoseokie not really paying attention, too busy with his boots laces that seem more interesting to him, so Seokjin took it as an opportunity to trade the new Super Mario game character he managed to acquire with his best friend.

Seokjin stood with his back leaning against the door focused on his phone while the door was left open wide enough for the little guy to easily slip through without anybody knowing.

A few seconds was enough for the little guy to go off wondering about the hospital without anyone knowing till he got lost completely.

The small child wandered through the large hospital building, head tilted upward to scan the faces of the giant adults that moved like shoals of fish from room to room. Every few steps he would stop and follow after them into a patient's room to another greeting them with a big smile. Some older patient found him so adorable they awed and oohed at him with love and care.

He was dressed in a dark green dungaree on top of a white shirt; a long sleeve oversized green varsity jacket on top left open, chubby cheeks, small face and small tiny body. He finished it off with a watermelon beanie and he topped it all off with tiny timberland boots to add to his swag baby look.

The kid moved like his knees were just hinges, wobbling to and fro before falling on his padded bottom. Then he clapped like it was all part of the plan and rolled to his stomach to get up again. His actions were so innocent and prim especially his short attention span that made him look like he was in his own world. He was just too cute for this world.

He giggles with a smile that light up the whole world playing and having fun with a few patients who noticed the inquisitive little guy wandering around laughing and enjoying himself so much that he lost track of time.

The giggle was an auditory hug. His shy little giggles wended its way through the atmosphere enveloping even strangers in its tickling embrace. Even the most stoic, gloomy and depressed of the sick patients in some of the rooms stifled grins when they heard it.

Beneath a sky that only promised icy rain and with a stressful day ahead that threatened to stretch into infinity before nightfall, that childish eruption of pure glee was the gift they didn't know they all needed.

But eventually the toddler had to leave them behind.

After a while going on another adventure after the other, going from one patient room to another till he finally decided it was enough and set to return to his hyung and mummy and daddy.

Since he had been gone for way too long, his parents would be desperately searching for him. By now they would have already noticed his disappearance.

Munching tirelessly and mindlessly on all the free sweets given to him toddler Hoseok made his way back to where he assumed leads to his parent's whereabouts. He indulged in those few snacks given to him by the many new friends he made during his little adventure, although his doctor had told him he wasn't allowed to meaning he hadn't tasted many of them before so he relaxed, taking the time to ensure he finished them all before getting back.

His little feet carrying him deeper and further from the right path where his hyung and parents were, probably going insane searching for their beloved missing baby boy wandering with wild open eyes and quivering jaws finally realising he had gone missing because his big bro failed to keep an eye on him.

The toddler shuffled forwards, eyes getting wetter by the moment.

No matter how far little Hoseokie ran, nor how fast, he couldn't find his way back, and he didn't know how to either. He'd thought he was running in the right direction, had been almost certain of it when he'd begun moving, but surely he should have been there in the arms of his parents but he wasn't. He didn't want to risk changing direction and delving even deeper into the complex building, so he maintained his path, running and running, tripping constantly and then once he struggled to catch his breath he started to walk instead, all the while his fear was growing in his chest.

He tripped countless time while running that he now staggered to his feet, looking back sorrowfully, his eyes on the verge of tearing up.

However any child would have started to cry by now but little Hoseokie held back on his tears and tried to trace back his steps one last time with a sad pout.

Underneath his clothes were big puffy pampers for his age that made his booty appear bigger than himself. His puffy little booty shaking from left to right cutely bringing a smile to those who noticed him walking off.

He was so small soo short that hardly anyone noticed him although they might have felt a bright coloured chibby-sized hay fly pass their foot but by the time they turned to check they saw nothing. They then tilted their heads questioning themselves looking a little confused and eventually shrugging their shoulders blaming it on tiredness or over-imagination.

Everyone around were giants compared to little Hoseokie and they terrified him hence why he was afraid to ask one of the adults towering over him for help. He was very scared, timid, and frightened of everything bigger than him. Time to time he stopped confused with which direction to pick when there appeared to be more than one in front of him; His actions so adorable.

Little Hobi continued his search to locate his family with baby swag focused ahead until he heard someone crying. It sounded like a child's cry.

The little boy stood quite alone on the empty corridor looking left and right, holding himself in a manner that suggested he'd like his mother to just appear with open arm ready to embrace him. The small child wasn't focusing, eyes scanning without locking onto any one thing, almost like he was in a daydream. He shifted his weight from his left to his right and back again every few seconds as if thinking of moving and yet choosing to remain still.

Suddenly, to little Hoseokie, the voice crying out was more interesting than finding his way back to his family. The little guy too curious he had no idea when he stopped tracing his way back to his hyung and instead started following the sound of a quiet cry that got louder the closer he got which was leading him to the stairs.

Lucky for him the door was left a little ajar, enough space for baby Hobi to squeeze his tiny body through.

Right by the fourth flight of stairs was a different small boy maybe a year or two older than little Hoseokie crying. The older boy's trembling small tubby hands cupped carefully around a pretty bad scrapped knee crying. A nurse lady was trying to help and console him but the boy wasn't letting up. He wailed louder whenever the nurse attempts to clean the wound.

Curious little Hobi decided to approach the crying boy and started climbing his way up the stairs except he had to use both hands to push up each stair even though he was quite frightened of stairways. Imagine his really small body looking at a stair flight from the bottom up which looks like a mini mountain to climb for his size. It was quite scary for the little one however; he braved it just because he felt drawn to the crying boy sitting up all the way on the 4th flight.

Nobody, not even the crying kid or the nurse noticed him making his journey up those giant flight of stairs to get to them until he was making his way to up the final stairway before reaching the one the crying boy was sat on.

''OH MY GOD! WHAT THE... (PANTS A BIT WHILE HOLDING TO HER CHEST) THAT SCARED ME. WHAT...When did this little one suddenly appear from?'' screamed the nurse scaring both babies.

The nurse quickly made to help little Hoseokie up since the little boy was struggling finding it difficult to climb over with his small body after almost slipping off. The nurse felt her heart almost drop to her stomach but luckily she got there in time to protect him.

Once settled upright safely on the stairs, the little boy then wiped his hand on his clothes until he felt they were clean enough while the whole time the crying boy stopped crying and the nurse both only watched him with confusion written on their faces. Both were wondering who was this kid and what does he want coming over to them.

The nurse squatted low to the child's level and spoke with a friendly tone she greeted the little guy who intruded in on them,

"Hey 'lil buddy, what's up?"

''HI .....Mwy (My) name is HOSEOKIE nwice (nice) to meet you. What's yours?'' he asks speaking slightly on his tongue brightly to the other child sitting on the stairs facing him that was crying before.

'' (Sniffs) H-Hi ... (Sniff) its YOONGI Hyung'' the other boy reply's while rubbing his eyes and sniffing to stop his nose from running.

''OONGI?'' Hoseok repeats parroting after him

'' (Humming, he pronounces it wrong shaking his head) YOON-UUN... (He waited for Hoseok to repeat it after him) and then GI... togethew (together) you say it like YOONGI Hyung (he said it exaggerating on his lip movements to elaborate further)'' said Yoongi with tear stained cheeks teaching Hoseok calmly with patience even though he'd been crying not long ago.

''YOONGI HYUNG!!'' repeated Hoseok correctly this time around and getting overly excited clapping his hands when Yoongi approved.

'' Doews it hurwt?'' he said pointing at Yoongi's scraped knee.

''Mmm'' mumbled Yoongi nodding his head along with it in agreement. His lips trembling on the verge of crying out loud again.

'' OH NO that's not gewd (good) bad bad bubu (he meant the injury on Yoongi's knee)....mmm T-then mmm... (He thought of what his mother will say to him) D-Don't cwy mwy swiut hamanam bwave boy (he meant, 'don't cry my sweet handsome brave boy) mmm...Mummy...NO! H-Hoseokie pwomise to make it stop and go way nkay. W-will mwy bwave baby boy twust (trust) mum-Hhobi?''

Yoongi did not know what to do since he couldn't understand the younger's words looked up to the nurse for help.

The nurse only chuckled finding their interactions too cute and adorable to watch.

She makes eye contact with the injured boy and realises he was asking her for help.

The female nurse quickly rubs medicine on a large thick cotton bud on a stick and gives it to the youngest first teaching him how to do it by showing him.

The younger watched her closely with his eyes wide and mouth slightly open in pure concentration.

As soon as the nurse handed over the medicine cotton bud into the hands of the youngest toddler Hoseok. The kid immediately lit up very eager to try it and couldn't wait to nurse Yoongi's badly scraped knees.

Hoseok proceeds very carefully and slowly, with timid small hands, to dab the medicine on the eldest's wound, completely focused with his tongue sticking out. He kept smacking his lips so his cute little dimples would appear quickly before vanishing once he relaxed his mouth.

Both boys brought their head dangerously close looking down at the wound while Hoseok nursed the wound to the point that it was almost like they were competing over who gets to have a closer look at it until cute little Hoseok's view gets blocked by the elder's head so Hoseok has to put his pinkie finger into the oldest ears to tickle him.

His plan works and both boys bust into giggles. The giggles rolled out of little Hoseok like the waves on a long shallow beach. They seemed to disappear for a while only to build up and break to the surface once more each time their eyes meet and Hobi notices the weird way the eldest's hair appears all messy making him look so funny.

His laughter elicited more giggles out of Yoongi somehow even though the oldest knew it wasn't manly to giggle but he couldn't help it. However, little Hoseok's giggles sounded like a precious gift of the God's light, a pure soul. Yoongi's own giggles died down so that he could listen closely to that of the youngest bell-like beautiful laughter that's a little high pitched. For in that sound was the smallest fragment of his spirit; Yoongi even swears that it soaked in through his ears and gave him the edge he needed to not be sad anymore.

You see, the reason Yoongi wasn't in a happy mood so much that he even threw a tantrum, was because Yoongi was visiting the hospital with his family to bring his beloved sweet grandmother to the hospital after she had collapsed and her Alzheimers had gotten worse. And so, his parents were thinking of leaving her at the old people's home where she could be properly taken care of along with others like her.

Yoongi's parents are those workaholic parents who hardly have time to spend with their one and only child so the poor kid was being looked after by his grandmother who was too old to be taking care of a toddler. Due to that Yoongi loved his grandmother and feared being alone once she was gone, knowing his parents weren't going to be there for him.

That was the reason why Yoongi did not want his grandmother whom he was very close to and loved and cherished a lot to be taken from him, hence he angrily ran away from his parent and ended up tripping on the steps injuring himself because he couldn't see well with teary eyes after losing sight of his parent who came after him.

Yoongi's face was barely inches from the younger beautiful boy with light brown wavy hair in a cool outfit from top to bottom, who was currently too busy concentrating all his attention on gently applying the medicine on the bruises on Yoongi's knee to the point that he forgot to blink and his eyes were slightly watery.

Little Hoseokie pouted his pink cherry lips while he softly blew raspberry air to ease the pain for Yoongi when he noticed how Yoongi would slightly hiss in pain every time he patted the medicine on the wound.

Yoongi stifled laughter after seeing that his personal cute little nurse buddy struggled to blow air out through his mouth and only made those silly sounds, spitting on his wound instead of air. Yoongi's cheeks filled up with air trying not to laugh out loud.

Whereas the female nurse sat behind Hoseok watching them wasn't doing much of a good job at holding in her laughter as she was snickering.

Yoongi sat slightly taller than little Hoseok on the upper stair so he had to look down and lean closer towards Hobi who was squatting on the lower level of the stairs. In that moment of snickering laughter, Yoongi's long lashes softly lowered with his gaze upon little Hoseok's cute soft pink pouting lips and he had forgotten all about the wound and the sadness in his heart.

As if in slow motion he watches every detail of the younger child's face unconsciously closing up the little gap between them that their noses almost brushed and he just wanted to cup little Hoseok's soft cheeks and squeeze them because they looked like pair of mochis; very inviting.

Hoseok finished applying the medicine and finished it off by covering the wound with a colourful kid plaster.

''FISHNE!! (Finished)'' rejoiced Hoseok

Yoongi smiled his own rabbit smile at cute Hoseok he unconsciously bringing both his palms to squeeze tight on each side of Hoseok's face. Hoseok just looked so adorable he just wanted to pick him up and take him away.

'' Thank you...Hobi'' said Yoongi calling his little helper by his nickname who seemed to like it as he looked excited to hear it giggling and clapping to himself.

''Hehehehe... YOONGI HYUNG! Pwo-pwomise Hobi hm? , Ppwomise Hobi that only Hobi NURWSE hyung KAY? PINKIE THWEAR (He meant, Yoongi Hyung should pinkie promise that only Hoseok takes care of his injuries)''

Yoongi gave him his pinkie and locked it together with Hoseok's promising him.

''YAY OONGI HYUNG FOWEVER WITH HOBI... FOWEVER!!'' little Hoseokie cheers even louder although he pronounced Yoongi's name wrong again

Yoongi did not mind. Actually, he rather found it cute.

''Hug HOBI, hyung hm...'' demanded Hoseok with arms wide waiting for the older to come into his arms which Yoongi did not hesitate to do.

Once apart did Yoongi realise their height difference and how short and small and doll-size Hoseok was compared to him or anyone he'd ever seen in his life. The smaller boy had to get on his tippy toes to give Yoongi a sneaky kiss on the cheeks almost falling down the stair again thankfully the female nurse came to his rescue one more time after her heart nearly summersaulted out of her chest due to the fright of the curious mini-sized nurse tilting dangerously backwards off the stairs.

She took better care this time to make sure to get both boys finally off of the stairs and onto a flat surface for her weak heart to finally relax and not get shocked again.

''Hobi, Where do you want to go?'' asked Yoongi smiling widely after wiping his face to get rid of the tear-tracks.

''Hobi go back to mummy and daddy ... b-but Hobi nn-not know how....'' he answered shrugging his shoulders waving his arms in an exaggerated way acting as if he was copying how adult behave his lips forming a triangle shape with a lost face.

''hmm ... then.... will Hobi come with Yoongi? Yoongi hyung won't feel lonely if Hobi comes to stay with him'' coerced Yoongi

The younger shakes his head up and down in a big movement, ''Mmm Hobi go with oongi hyung he-he'' he smiles lifting up to look up at Yoongi who also smiled back with warmth.

His almond -brown eyes found Yoongi's and he laughed, as only a baby can laugh a sweet sound unblemished by the hurts of life.

Little Hoseok's miniature fingers grasped Yoongi's, and held Yoongi's hand tight with all the might he could muster.

That was how the two met and already the seed of love was planted in their hearts from such young age with Hobi around the age of 3 and a half whilst Yoongi was about 6 and a half years old.

Of course, Yoongi visited the hospital a few more times to see Hoseok and play with the younger one and to also see his hospitalized Grandmother as well after his plan to kidnap Hoseok that day failed because he'd forgotten the female nurse was there with them.

The adults laughed about their adorable pure innocence.

Hoseok did introduce Yoongi to his parent and even Seokjin Hoseok's older brother but after many years later the adults forgot about Yoongi but not little Hoseok who sadly fell into coma and still remembers the boy called Yoongi which he always repeats in his deep sleep.