"You must be Kim Taehyung. It's nice to finally meet you, man."

Blood rushes to Taehyung's face when he hears the man's deep voice. He closes his eyes, trying to remember his voice from years ago. It sure has changed. The man looks different too, taller and more handsome. Taehyung could say, he grew up well, unlike him.

"Taehyung, are you feeling okay?" His professor's voice snaps him out of his thoughts. He immediately opens his eyes, feeling embarrassed.

Why the hell was I standing with my eyes closed in his office? Ugh, so embarrassing! Taehyung internally screams at himself. He wishes to fill his palm with water and drown himself in it.

"I'm... alright, professor." Taehyung says in a small voice, earning a confused look from the other two males.

"Okay. This is Mr. Minghao. He is interested in your paintings." The professor says, a little too excitedly for Taehyung's liking.

"Of course, he is." He mumbles. The professor glares at him, silently yelling at him to show some manners.

"Oh, that's really good to know. I'm glad you liked my paintings, Mr. Minghao." Taehyung forces a smile and bows in respect.

"I would like to buy your paintings, Mr. Kim but I would like to know the story behind them first." The man says and Taehyung holds an urge to roll his eyes. Since when is he interested in paintings? He thinks to himself. He remembers being told how useless paintings are years ago.

"Taehyung, I think you should explain that to Mr. Minghao. I have a class so I'll see you both later." The professor says, collecting his tablet and a few papers for his class. The man, Minghao, nods his head in acknowledgement before the professor leaves.

As soon as the door closes and the two males are left alone in the room, Taehyung rolls his eyes, "Minghao, huh? What a funny name!"

"Hey, don't joke about my name, dude. It's Minghao for the world. It hurts me that you're making fun of it." The man pouts. Taehyung glares at him before striding towards him. He grabs both of Minghao's collar and makes him stand up. "What are you doing here, huh? After disappearing from my life years ago, why are you here now?" Taehyung demands.

He suddenly feels so angry that he could just punch the man in front of him or punch the wall. He is suffering and this man has contributed in it. Well, not directly but still.

The other man holds Taehyung's hands and frees himself. "Now, now little brother. That's not how you greet your hyung." He smirks. Taehyung rolls his eyes again. "Hyung? My hyung's name is Kim Mingyu. I don't know any asshole named Minghao."

"I'm glad you still acknowledge me as your brother though."

"Hyung, stop acting as if everything is okay. Just... Just give me a damn good explanation about why you abandoned me in the past and why you're back now. Do it before I punch you because I'm very angry at you." Taehyung says and even though he has a pout on his face, the other man knows that he should not underestimate an angry Taehyung.

Mingyu sighs and points at the chair in front of him. Taehyung stares at him for a while before sitting down. Over the years, Taehyung has had trust issues. He has gone through a lot so you cannot really blame him. But he still trusts his brother. His brother, who used to be his superhero. Oh how badly Taehyung wants Mingyu to be the same.

"You better start explaining. I don't have the whole day for you." Taehyung says, trying to appear unbothered as he stares at his nails. Mingyu sighs before starting, "Before anything, I want to tell you how sorry I am, Tae. I know what happened with you at that time wasn't the best thing. Life wasn't fair with you. I-"

"Stop blaming life. It's your fault that I'm in this condition not life's. Had you not abandoned me, I would be totally fine... pursuing art and focusing on being an artist without worrying about getting caught by the police for dealing with drugs or getting beaten to pulp by some shitty gang everyday." Taehyung whispers yells at his brother. He is having a really hard time controlling his anger. He feels so betrayed that even words cannot describe that.

"Wait, I think we need to get the hell out of here while we're talking about this. We don't want someone to hear us." Mingyu says and Taehyung nods. He silently stands up from his seat and leads the older out of the office and towards the terrace where he was with Jungkook a few minutes ago.

Once they reach the quiet place, Taehyung turns to his brother and crosses his arms across his chest, a silent command for him to start speaking. "Okay, Tae, first of all, I have no fucking idea why you'd involve yourself with the gangs. You were provided with enough money to live a peaceful life without all this nonsense."

Taehyung stares at his brother. He remembers what had happened before his family sent him to Daegu. They had given him enough money and said that they would bring him back once things were alright. Taehyung was like thirteen or fourteen years old back then and he had no idea what was going on with his family. All he knew was that something had terribly gone wrong and his parents and brother were sending him away for his own safety and they would bring him back when everything is settled. At least this is what they said to him.

But years rolled by and he heard nothing from his family. He did have enough money but a boy who has been pampered his whole life was suddenly left on his own. Living was not that easy for him. He wasn't street smart.

"You wanna know how I ended up like this, hyung?" Taehyung takes a step closer to his brother, his jaw is clenched in anger. "THAT'S BECAUSE I GOT FUCKING ROBBED!" The blue haired boy yells in frustration. Had he not got robbed, he wouldn't be doing the dirty work he has been doing for something as petty as money. Yes, money was a petty thing for him. He belongs to super rich family.

"What? Robbed? You had two bodyguards, Taehyung, who were supposed to keep an eye on you. How is this possible?" Mingyu demands and Taehyung rolls his eyes. Exactly how clueless can his brother be?

"Bodyguards? Right." Taehyung takes a step closer to Mingyu and pokes his chest with his finger. "Your oh so trustworthy men were the ones that robbed me, hyung." The blue haired boy drops the bomb at Mingyu, making his eyes go wider. "What the... Where the fuck are they?" The older looks aggressive. The men he trusted his little brother with, turned out to be snakes. They were never really honest that means. They just saw the youngest of the Kim family alone with so much money and tried playing dirty.

"Don't worry, hyung. They took the money and ran away but I'm light and sound sensitive in sleep and I realised what happened. So I got up and chased them. They kept running, I kept chasing until we reached a lake. A dead end. I asked them to return the money to me, hyung. All I had was cash because cards can be tracked down. They just mocked me, called me a pathetic weakling who ran away when his family was in danger. That hurt, hyung." Taehyung's voice was dangerously low.

"What did you do, Tae?" Mingyu whispers.

"Oh, nothing. I just killed them." Taehyung shrugs, looking absolutely unbothered.

"W-What? What did you do?"

"I kicked one of them at his penis, hyung and while he went down, I stabbed the first one in the eye with the knife that you gave me for my safety. Then I stabbed him in the stomach and then, I did the same with the other one." Taehyung smirks. Mingyu can swear he has never seen his brother look so dangerous. All this is too much information for him but then he slowly smirks too and places his hand on Taehyung's shoulder, "I'm proud of you, Tae. That was your first kill, right?"

"Yeah." Taehyung says, smiling widely because he can see admiration for himself in the eyes of his brother.

"I'm so proud of you, Tae. Like you have no idea." Mingyu immediately hugs him and Taehyung is about to wrap his hands around his brother too when he suddenly remembers that he is still mad at him. So he puts on a stoic face and pushes the older away.

Mingyu frowns but steps back. He knows what's going on in his brother's mind right now. "Okay, so what happened then? What about the money?"

"The second bastard... the one I kicked, threw the money in the lake. That infuriated me more and lead me to kill them but I swear to God, hyung... I never felt that good in my entire life. Like, you have no idea how relieved I felt." Taehyung claps his hands again, looking like an innocent child who just wants to show a painting to his parents to make them proud.

"Oh, that's great. Did you do it again?"

"No, I ran away from Daegu because I was scared of the police catching me. When I came here, I met a guy who is a part of a gang-"

"Mekong, right?" Mingyu prompts. Taehyung is not even surprised that his brother knows. His brother is an expert when it comes to the underworld stuff.

"Yeah, so I met him and we were apparently drunk when I told him about my financial problems. He took me to Mekong, people there asked me to run errands and I... well I agreed. I must be dumb because I ruined my future but it paid well. Now I don't even have that job because the Yakuza asked Orion to stop involving themselves with me. Mekong got angry and called me useless, beat me to shit and ruined my handsome face." Taehyung tells him his side of the story.

"Well... wow a lot has happened with you. By the way, what am I hearing this story about you... that your parents disowned you for being gay? They accept you, Tae. Wholeheartedly. You're their little one and you know that." Mingyu lightly scolds him.

"It's just a story I made up when they asked about my family, hyung. I can't exactly tell them that I'm the younger son of the leader of Yakuza who was sent away during an emergency."

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