His hands tightly gripped on the pistol, his eyes wandering around the warehouse. He is currently crouched on one of the branches of the trees surrounding the area, identifying the dangers that might lurk. Taehyung did notice a few movements in the corner of his eyes, and he is aware that he is not alone in watching the warehouse.

He deduced that there are at least three to four people in the trees waiting for an ambush, and the rest mayhaps are inside of the said warehouse. He did conduct a hack in the security cameras in the area but it seems like it's a rundown warehouse and there is absolutely no technology inside or even outside. But, he isn't losing hope when he tracked a gadget out of the warehouse.

It seems like they're waiting for Taehyung and to corner them as their prey. However, they may have mistaken him for that but Taehyung knows that he will never be prey in their eyes. He's the predator, waiting to devour them and strike when vulnerability comes.

He has to be patient. Unlike the past him who is reckless, he learned to be patient. Yet, that doesn't mean that a part of him all changed. There were still characteristics of himself from the past, and he knew that he cannot run away from the past for far much longer.

Minho, Taehyung learned that he is a cruel man. He knows how to manipulate one's mind and blackmail a person without thinking of its consequences. It almost made Taehyung chuckle at its ridiculousness. Minho is smart, but he is reckless. He never learned from the past.

With a signal on the tablet, he moved to his spot and tracked down the only person that has his hands on the gadget. He has to be careful, especially that he knows that he isn't alone.

As he gets closer to the target, he hears mumbled whispers and he knew that he got the right one. He spied above the trees, seeing a tall man and a man with round-rimmed glasses looking at the tablet.

"It's not moving at all." Taehyung recognizes him to be MG, based on the band that decorated their upper arm. Taehyung smirked, swinging down on the ground swiftly and crouching down as he moves his hand from the pistol to the dagger for a silent kill.

"Wait, he shouldn't be waiting for that long-" WW, the accomplice of MG hesitated in his words upon hearing a chuckle from Taehyung. "MG, run." In a quick motion, a dagger is pointed at WW face with an arm clasped around MG's neck.

"Why, hello there." Taehyung smiled, "It's a shame that you worked under Minho, or I would have let you go." His arm tightened around MG's neck, making the victim choke around his hold and struggle to escape.

"Wait!" WW flinched when the tip of the dagger made contact with his right cheek. "We were only forced by Minho. We didn't want this too." Taehyung tilted his head, slightly persuade by the sudden confession.

"Is that so? How will I know that you're telling the truth?"

"We know you're V, and my team truly do respect you. Minho threatened to kill our family if this gets out. They are being held hostage however we knew that we could trust ourselves to you. That's why we made it easier for you to find us." Now that Taehyung thought about it, Seventeen is known to be ruthless and very smart of their moves. He does become perplexed when he found them as easily but this wasn't enough for him to be convinced.

"Prove it." He moved away, his arm still holding MG in a chokehold. "Tell me your real names and maybe I'll reconsider not going in a killing spree."

"I'm Wonwoo." He didn't hesitate to tell, "The guy you're holding is Mingyu."

"We truly do like to work with you." Taehyung turned his head towards the figure that emerged from the trees. "I'm the leader, Seungcheol also known as S.Coups. Wonwoo is telling the truth."

"Why aren't you with Minho? Usually, he lounges around with the leader, or is this all a setup." Taehyung narrowed his eyes.

"Jeonghan or JH is the one behind all the brains. He is distracting Minho at the moment whilst we have a discussion with you." Seungcheol sighed, "I know this is a lot to take in but if we wanted you dead, we would have done so long ago. Minho had been keeping his eyes on you for a very long time, we were all captives that witnessed all the obsession of killing you."

"So, what do you want me to do?"

"We came up with a plan but this will only work if you trust us." Taehyung's nerves are on edge, trusting people is something that he doesn't usually agree with. Even when back then, he wasn't one to trust the members of his mafia. "Please, we're captives but that doesn't mean we are the only one that is working with Minho. He is in a group called SHINee, a total of five people including him. One of them is currently overseas, so he is not able to join them."

"SHINee? I have never heard of such a group."

"They made sure that they have their radar down low. They are all behind the killings of other lower groups, however, they use people to get what they want."

"I have to kill all of them then."

"No! Wait!" Seungcheol stopped him immediately. "Minho is the only one that wants your blood. The other members disagree with this plan but they didn't want Minho dying on them that's why they are forced to help him and look out to him." Taehyung gritted his teeth, pushing Mingyu out of his hold who stumbled and fell on the ground with a harsh coughing fit and wheezing take of breath.

"So what the hell do you want me to do then? If I fucking don't kill Minho then he'll keep coming back to threaten me."

"Make him fall unconscious and send him away. We'll take care of him after." Taehyung still couldn't believe the offer. It seems too easy. "I swear, we won't go against V. You're a powerful figure, we know we'll get ourselves killed if we break this deal."

"Fine." Taehyung swirled the daggers between his fingers and started walking away. "You and your members must stay away from my doings."

"I have one more thing." He stopped in his tracks to hear another piece of information. "There are currently about 242 members inside SHINee, that is including ours. I already ordered my members to keep quiet about this exchange and to not meddle with anything that includes you. That also means that there are still about 100-ish members or so that are waiting to take you down. They do take pride in having to be assigned at killing V." Taehyung smirked, satisfied at hearing people obsessed with killing him. He knew that he has an impact on the mafia world, but he didn't know that people lust over his blood.

"100-ish?" Taehyung rolled his eyes, "I killed 200 members in the past, do you think that 100 pathetic members will get in my way?" He didn't wait for any reaction as he walks away from them. His arms stretched up to grab a branch and swung himself to land on the branch. With the same technique that he has seen Jimin doing plenty of times, he started jumping branches after branches to locate his way towards the front view of the warehouse.

He eyed the warehouse, dropping down on the ground and walking with confidence towards the warehouse. Knowing that Seventeen is out of the way, he feels that he can get over this just as quickly.

As he walks, he could feel eyes glaring at him. Some may have come from Seventeen and some may come from SHINee. They're waiting to ambush him, Taehyung got that memo already.

He kicks down the rusty door of the warehouse, warning everyone around him that he is there before entering the warehouse with a whistle of amusement.

"Oho, you got a nice place here," Taehyung commented with a chuckle, stopping in his tracks as he hears guns cocking and being pointed towards him. "Plenty of visitors too. Are we having a ball that I am not aware of Minho?" Speaking of the devil, Minho appeared on the other side of the warehouse with his arms crossed and a smug grin on his face. Taehyung eyed if the other members are camping somewhere, most likely the three leading members that Seungcheol talked about.

"You're seriously so dumb. You never change, don't you? You're still reckless." Taehyung wanted to scoff at that statement but he didn't let it show that he is already aware of the plans lying ahead of him. "Well, I would like to talk more but I am pleading to see you get tortured."

"Oh?" Taehyung laughed, "You think hundreds of guns will stop me? I thought you're better than that." Taehyung threw the smoke bomb on the ground, moving on his feet to shoot the silhouettes that he can see through the smoke. As the smoke slowly vanishes, he reached on the loop of his belt to bring out a grenade however a hand reached out to hold his wrist.

Through the mask, Taehyung looked up to see a familiar silhouette dragging him to the side and being hidden behind rows of boxes and shelves.

"Are you dumb? What are you doing in the middle? Why are you even here?" Jungkook's voice cut through the air and it almost made Taehyung hug him tightly but he realized what Jungkook said to him. Does he not recognize Taehyung behind the mask? I mean that is possible since Taehyung also spray dye his hair at the last minute to blue.

"It's you." He turned to see Jimin, "We got to see you again." Taehyung's eyebrow scrunched in confusion, what are they talking about? He is sure that they could recognize him easily even with the mask and a different hair color.

"Look, we might have a rough past but that doesn't mean we're going to let you die." Jungkook turned him around to face him, his hands on his shoulders. "We'll keep protecting you, our love." He softly kissed the top of Taehyung's head, leaving the other stunned.

"We got to kill this son-" That brought Taehyung back to reality, he clasped his hand around the wrist of Jimin and shook his head. "You don't want to kill Minho?" Taehyung nodded, not trusting his voice to speak. Jimin smiled, gently removing Taehyung's hand then nodding before taking off.

"Wait here. This time, listen to us." Jungkook sternly told him then followed after Jimin. This made Taehyung rack his brain at their behavior. The mask didn't really do many cover-ups, the hair is also a dead giveaway that it's Taehyung since there are still brown hair peeking out, except if they are distracted by the mask. Maybe, the mask is something significant to them that they lured their idea of connecting the dots to Taehyung. Plus, who did they think Taehyung is? There must be something that he is missing.

Jungkook took down at least 20 people already, yet they still kept coming. Jimin is beside him, kicking the man on the shin and elbowing the other man behind him. He could hear the sound of the gun going off as Namjoon and Jin fight side by side. Whilst Hoseok and Yoongi fight on the sidelines with a grenade and a sniper.

There are also random bullets that came flying down when they are at disadvantage, it may have done by none other than their love, or maybe Taehyung had shown up at the right moment. More so, they are grateful for the extra hand. They have also noticed how there are people hidden from the tree that does not come in to fight, they look relieved per se and they couldn't comment anything on that. Instead, they kept fighting off until there is none left.

Jungkook dropped down on the ground panting, Jimin doing the same beside him. It was very tiring, but they were done. They also got Minho unconscious as per request by their rose. Speaking of him, Jungkook sat up and made a noise.

"What? Are you hurt?" The other four jogged towards them, Jin checked on the both of them to look if there are any fatal injuries. "What's wrong?"

"He's... Our past..." Jungkook struggled to find his words, "Buns... Tiger, he's here." That made everyone freeze except for Jimin who already seen him.

"How...?" On cue, 'Tiger' walked out behind the boxes and shelves. "You..."

"Thank you so much for coming to save me." They all froze at hearing Taehyung's voice, dread filling them when Taehyung took off the mask. "I'm really sorry for overreacting and going here recklessly but... it's all done now, right?" Taehyung chuckled awkwardly, a bit confused at their frozen state.

"Taehyung... Is that mask... Is that yours?" Hoseok pointed at the mask on Taehyung's hand.

"This?" He raised his hand to show off the mask, "It's mine. It's been mine since like a long time ago." Hoseok covered his mouth, a choked sob leaving his lips. "Hyung-"

"It's you." Jimin's eyes are filled with tears and pain, "It's you that we fell in love with and got hurt."

It was as if cold water splashed down on Taehyung at hearing the reveal. He couldn't remember anything at all in meeting them.

"What do you mean? I have never met any of you before."

"Buns- Taehyung. You're the reason why we even became mafia. You're the reason why we became scarred by the thought of love. It was you. You broke us."

"I don't..."

"Why did you hide this from us?" Jin said in disbelief, "Are we just a laughing stock to you?"

"Wait... I don't get it..."

"What do you mean you don't get it?" Jungkook is filled with hurt, "You already hurt us so why come back? Are you going to leave again like before but with a different identity? What is wrong with you?"

Then, everything came crashing back to Taehyung. The familiarity of them when he first came to the mansion. The missing statue in the center. The same colored rose as his mask sitting in the middle. It was all connected to him. But, he couldn't remember anything about how he met them, or what they are talking about. It was as if his memories of meeting them disappeared. He doesn't remember the person that they used to love, or at least still loving.

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A/n

I cannot write fight scenes for the life of me! I apologize for this half-assed writing, I am really fighting off this writer's block but it's really difficult. So, I still tried and I hope this is okay! Thank you so much for the patience everyone ^-^ 

Also, I have been watching too many KPOP videos that my multi-fandom ass is getting confused at the jumbled story ideas XD

P.S. The next chapter will be a little angsty anddddd there will be so much fluff as well. :D