"shotaro?" hikari asked, pushing open the door of the boy's room to see if her brother was there. however, the room was completely empty, barely looking like it was used by someone. "shotaro?" she asked again walking around the house but seeing no trace of the boy. "hawoon?" she then asked, knocking on the bathroom door.

"yes, babe?" the male answered from inside.

"is shotaro with you?" she asked. "i can't see him anywhere."

"no, he went out a while ago. he said he needed a bit of fresh air." hawoon explained what shotaro had told him a while ago.

"and you didn't go with him?" hikari frowned.

"i wanted to, but he refused categorically."

"h-he... what?!" hikari gasped. "shotaro's an omega, he would never say no to someone."

"well, something obviously changed, because he did."

α

effectively, shotaro was out in the streets, breathing in a bit of fresh air as he had told hawoon a while ago. it felt good to be outside of the house after almost a week and a half. these past days had been like hell for him, he didn't want to do anything anymore, and he didn't even have the strength to do anything either.

it was super weird. it wasn't that shotaro wanted to act like that, but he couldn't not act like that. it was as if something had taken possession of his body and prevented him to be the usually happy and bubbly omega he was. he wasn't the master of his own body anymore...

something sucked the life out of him and he didn't even know what. the only thing he knew was that he was missing something, and he was almost sure that this 'something' was none other than his mate.

but how could you miss someone that you didn't even meet? 

"hello young man."

the omega lifted his head the fastest he could, making it look like he was moving in slow motion. his eyes fell on a male – a beta judging by his lack of scent – that seemed to be in his thirties.

"hello..." shotaro replied.

"what are you doing here on your own?" the man asked.

"i needed a bit of fresh air." the omega stated.

"well, i'm not sure this neighbourhood is the best place to breathe in some fresh air, firstly because the air here reeks of filth, drugs and alcohol, but also because it isn't the nicest neighbourhood around town."

shotaro stayed silent, looking up at the male without moving. his mind screamed at him to run away and go back to the comfort of his home to cuddle between hikari and hawoon. he knew this neighbourhood was awful, and that dozens of crimes happened every week in here, but he couldn't move. his body acted on his own, and he couldn't even decide what he wanted to do nor what he wanted to say anymore. it felt like he was meant to be here right now.

"you look too cute and innocent to be a beta... are you an omega?" the man asked, studying shotaro's body.

"yes." shotaro nodded.

"well, then i advice you not to stay here. i don't see a mark on your neck, so you porbably didn't find your mate yet. i'm not sure you'll get out of here in a sane state if you continue walking in here." the man in his thirties explained, looking around the dirty street.

"thank you for warning me, but i need to do something here." shotaro replied in an almost robotic voice.

"look, i don't want anything bad happening to you. i'll accompany you." the man said, heaving out a sigh.

"no."

both the man and shotaro seemed surprised by this sudden interjection.

'no'; one word, two letters, but so much power and so much meaning coming from the mouth of an omega.

omegas couldn't say no. omegas were powerless beings that were gullible and easily manipulable. anyone could make them do whatever they wanted because they were defenceless and couldn't refuse anything.

"n-no?" the man frowned.

"no. you can go away. i need to be alone." shotaro replied simply, his eyes looking as cold as ice.

"h-huh..." the beta stuttered, looking at shotaro. "are you sure that you don't want me to... to accompany you?"

"yes." shotaro nodded. "now, go away."

the beta male looked one last time in shotaro's eyes before the boy turned on his heels and walked further in the dangerous street.

α

"what do i do with it?"

"i don't know... massage it."

"it doesn't work."

"pump it?"

"doesn't either."

"how doesn't that work?" doyoung frowned, sitting up on his bed and looking at sicheng who was sitting between his legs.

"i don't know. but it doesn't move a slight bit."

both doyoung and sicheng looked down at doyoung's dick that was lying flat between his legs, no boner in view after a few minutes of sicheng toying with him.

"try sucking it, it will surely make it hard." doyoung informed.

"let me call xiaojun then, he gives the best blowjobs." sicheng informed.

"oh, yes!" doyoung nodded. "call xiaojun."

singcheng left the room, coming back a few minutes later with hendery and xiaojun on his heels.

"what's the matter?" hendery asked, looking at doyoung lying on his bed without pants.

"i haven't had sex in like two weeks, so i called sicheng to have sex, but we can't get to make me hard." doyoung explained.

"oh, yeah, i heard something about chennle and kun having sex a few days before, but none of them could get into it." hendery hummed.

"yeah, we heard about it too." sicheng nodded. "but we wanted to try seeing if one of xiao's blowjobs couldn't help him."

"ooh, i never refuse a blowjob." the said boy smiled, hopping on the bed and lying on his stopach between doyoung's legs. "ready?"

"oh, yeah..." doyoung sighed, drooling at how fuckable xiaojun looked right now.

the chinese male dove on doyoung's member, taking it whole inside his mouth and swirling his tongue around it skilfully, adding teeth in the mix from time to time, his hands playing with the boy's balls and all of that while keeping his eyes locked with doyoung's the whole duration of his little game.

anyone in doyoung's place would have cummed after less than ten seconds of such stimulation, and doyoung was sure he should have cummed after that time, but today, it seemed like this did barely anything.

his dick was still as flabby as it was before, and he couldn't find himself to moan or growl at all the good xiaojun was doing to him.

"so, how good is our little xiaojunnie?" hendery asked, his hand slapping xiaojun's ass before groping it.

"ouch!" xiaojun exclaimed as hendery's hand hit his butt.

"ah, fuck, your teeth!" doyoung groaned as well after xiaojun's teeth grated his member when he let out a scream of pain.

"okay, that's not normal." sicheng frowned. "you're supposed to like getting spanked." he pointed at xiaojun. "and you're not supposed to feel hurt by a little teeth scratch." he added, pointing at doyoung.

"well, i'm still not hard, so it hurts." doyoung replied.

"yeah, and i'm not excited either, so spanking does hurt as well." xiaojun glared at hendery.

the four males looked at each other, blinking in confusion.

"are you guys hard?" doyoung frowned.

"no." xiaojun shook his head.

"no." sicheng said after looking at his non-existent bulge.

"neither am i." hendery stated.

"this is very not normal..." doyoung bit the inside of his cheeks, trying to find an explanation to this sudden weirdness.

"i have an idea." hendery stated. "let's try with our favourite kinks."

"great, i'll be back with toys." sicheng nodded.

"take the leash for me." xiaojun added.

"and bring some lube."

and so, ten minutes later, the four boys were sprawled out on the bed, sicheng having his as eaten out by doyoung while wearing a cock ring as sicheng tried at the same time fitting as many fingers as he could in hendery who was himself jerking xiaojun while pulling on the leash that was tired to a tight collar wrapped around xiaojun's neck.

all in all, everything was going alright as the boy tried to make each other hard. none of this worked as the boy were still flabby and the sexual acts hurt them a bit, but they continued their play, hoping that something would somehow change and make the sex enjoyable.

however, nothing did.

after almost half an hour of playing with each other, none of them had become hard, and everything started to hurt really bad. normally, they would be able to get off in a matter of minutes, but today, it seemed like it was not the day for this.

"ouch... h-hendery, pull less..." xiaojun whined, tugging on the chain linking his collar to hendery's hand.

"sorry... i pulled because sicheng hurt me..." he replied, flinching as sicheng moved his hand to fast again, hurting his hole.

"yeah, i feel like the cock ring is compressing my dick..." he replied, reaching for the small ring to take it off.

"guys, i can't understand..." doyoung sighed, lying on his back and wiping his mouth to get rid of the saliva that had gotten on his face after eating sicheng out. "we used to be able to have sex ten times in a row, and now we can't even get hard..."

"do you think we reached our quota of sex for life?" xiaojun raised a brow.

"i don't know, but it's really weird and- "

doyoung was stopped in his sentence by a sudden pinch to his heart that made him flinch slightly. when he looked at the other boys, they all seemed as out of breath as him, and the three other boys all had their hand placed on their heart.

"what was that?" sicheng asked.

"you felt it too?" hendery questioned.

"we all felt it." xiaojun nodded.

"but what is it?" sicheng repeated his question.

doyoung waited for a few seconds before his alpha instincts made him realise what was happening.

"he's in danger." he stated, his eyes widening.

"who?" sicheng flinched again as the feeling in their hearts intensified.

"our mate." hendery and xiaojun exclaimed at the same time.

the four boys looked into each other's eyes, staying frozen for a few seconds before jumping to their feet and getting dressed in less than a second.

they all rushed to the living room where the other members were as well, looking as alarmed as they were.

jeno and jaemin looked particularly bad, their hands clasped to their necks while they growled loudly.

"we need to go, right now!" jeno exclaimed.

"where to?" taeyong asked.

"guryong village." jaemin replied immediately, taking his hand off his neck and revealing the bright red bite mark that hurt him so bad. "shotaro is in danger."