"How would you feel about competing for our school this Saturday? With your skills I know we can win." The man smiled at Taehyun.

Y/N was beyond pissed. She fights off two dudes by herself and he gets offered a spot on the karate team because he kicked one guy in the face???

"So what do you say, are you in?" Shiwoo pressed Taehyun for an answer.

"I don't know, I am pretty busy." Taehyun sighed thinking about the Yuka situation.

He looked over Y/N fuming before she groaned and stomped off. A smirk made its way onto his lips as he looked at the guy.

"Actually I think I have some room in my schedule."

The director shook his hand again. "That's fantastic, here's my card just call the number and we'll get you all set up." Shiwoo said handing him the card.

Taehyun took it and thanked him as a crowd of people cheered.

The guy Taehyun knocked out was now slowly coming back to consciousness.

The bully leader looked up and saw Taehyun. "L-look man I don't want any trouble!"

"Then beat it." Taehyun said as the leader gulped and ran.

"Wow Y/N I didn't know you could fight like that." Sunghoon said as Y/N glared at him.

"Uh oh I think she's mad." Yunjin whispered to him.

"Huh well that just happened." Taehyun said walking over and looking at the card.

Y/N crossed her arms and scoffed. "Why did you get the offer, I fought two guys on my own!"

Taehyun looked at her. "Maybe because I'm better than you."

"Oh you wanna go right now!" Y/N said about to attack him when Sunghoon grabbed her and held her back.

Taehyun rolled his eyes. "Relax it's just a karate team."

Y/N shoved off Sunghoon. "Do you know how hard it is to get into this school's karate team!?"

Taehyun shook his head. "No."

"It's really fucking hard! It makes no sense you got this opportunity and I didn't ugh!" Y/N complained before she shoved past the group.

"She's just a little jealous, I'm sure it'll blow over by tomorrow." Yunjin awkwardly laughed.

The Next Day:

"Or maybe I was wrong..."Yunjin sighed to herself. "Come on Y/N just get over it."

"Yunjin I can't just get over it." The girl flopped back onto her bed. "I've trained long and hard to be apart of that team and Taehyun gets offered the spot but not me!"

"I heard he's training today, why don't you go with him and check it out."

"Why would I do that? So he can gloat in my face some more." Y/N sighed.

"Just go."

"Ugh fine." Y/N said getting up and walking over to her closet to find something suitable to wear.

At the Training Dojo:

"So Taehyun this is where the magic happens." The guy from yesterday showed him around.

Taehyun nodded looking at some of the students in their black karate gis doing training.

"We'll get you an official school gi then you can practice with the others." Shiwoo patted his back and left.

"So you're Taehyun?" One of the students walked over to him.

Taehyun turned to him. "Yeah."

"I'm Taeyong, I heard you beat up that soccer captain yesterday."

Taehyun rubbed the back of his neck. "Yeah it was no big deal."

Taeyong turned and saw a girl enter the dojo. "Who's that?"

Taehyun gave a confused face before turning around, his expression immediately dropped. "What are you doing here?" He asked walking over to Y/N.

"Just seeing where you'll be training." She said crossing her arms.

"Taehyun!" Shiwoo called out.

Taehyun, Y/N, and Taeyong turned their heads to see Shiwoo walking over with a folded gi in his hands.

He noticed Y/N and handed Taehyun the gi. "I'm sorry but this is a closed practice."

Y/N glared at the man. "Oh really?"

Taehyun stepped in front of her and faced Shiwoo. "Actually is it fine if she stays? She won't be a bother." He turned around and gritted through his teeth. "Right?"

Y/N rolled her eyes and nodded.

Shiwoo shrugged. "Alright then you can take a seat over there young lady."

Y/N left and sat down as she watched Taehyun.

"I'll go put on my gi." Taehyun jogged out of the room and returned a few moments later.

"Okay Taeyong you spar with Taehyun."

"Yes sir." Taeyong replied as he and Taehyun made their way to the middle of the mat.

The bowed before staring their fight.

Taeyong made the first move by kicking his right leg near Taehyun's head.

Taehyun used his arm to block the hit and then kicked Taeyong in the side.

Taeyong stumbled back a bit as he kicked Taeyong in the gut.

Both boys continued to attack each other with kicks and punches that were dodged by one another.

Taeyong took another shot at Taehyun's head as Taehyun ducked and kicked Taeyong's feet from under him.

Taeyong fell to the ground as Taehyun pinned him with his legs. He stretched Taeyong's arm until he had no choice but to tap out.

Taehyun got off of him and helped Taeyong up. "Wow you're really good."

Taehyun patted his back as they turned to Shiwoo.

"Well done Taehyun, I have no doubt in my mind you'll do excellent at the tournament Saturday." Shiwoo said.

Taehyun nodded. "I'll try my best sir."

Shiwoo's phone rang as he looked at the caller ID. "Ah I've got to take this, keep practicing." He said before answering the call to attend to some school business matters.

Y/N walked over. "Eh that was almost good."

Taehyun rolled his eyes. "Oh please like you could do better."

Y/N gave a fake smile as she kicked his legs making him fall. She whipped her head around and walked out of the dojo.

"Woah!" Taeyong said looking at Y/N then Taehyun. "Is she single?"

Taehyun looked up at him before sighing and letting his head fall back onto the ground.

The Next Day at a Local Cafe:

"Mmm the coffee here is pretty good." Sunghoon said putting his cup down.

Y/N was leaning her head on her hand, spacing out.

"Hello Y/N." Sunghoon said waving a hand in her face. He moved her arm making her head fall.

"Yah what!?" She hissed glaring at him.

"You've been spacing out for the last five minutes." Sunghoon said taking another sip of coffee.

"Sorry I'm still mad about what happened at the festival."

"What's the big deal about joining this karate team?"

"It's a big opportunity to improve my skills and compete with people on my level. The only problem is it's extremely hard to get into. It sucks seeing someone else get I've been working for."

Sunghoon gave her a sympathetic look as he patted her head. "Well if it makes you feel any better, you're a lot stronger than me."

Y/N let out a small laugh.

"So are you going to the tournament tomorrow?"

Y/N thought for a moment. "Probably, as much as I hate Taehyun, I still wanna support my school."

"I'll go with you, sounds fun." Sunghoon said finishing off his coffee.

Y/N nodded her head as they gathered their stuff and left the cafe.

At the Dojo with Taehyun:

Taehyun was currently working on his spinning back kick when Kai walked into the dojo.

"Taehyun!" He called out.

Taehyun wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel before walking over to his friend.

"Hey." He smiled.

"Nice kick." Kai complimented.

"Thanks, what did you need?" Taehyun asked.

"It's kinda important, let's go somewhere private." Kai replied in a serious tone.

Taehyun looked around and nodded before they left to the lockers that were in a separate room.

"What's going on Kai?"

"You know that call I had to take yesterday? Well I've some information about Yuka."

Taehyun's eyes widened in surprise. "That's big. What is it?"

"I won't say everything here until we can get back with the others, but essentially, Yuka's been building an army. His following is huge."

"That's not good. The more numbers he had the harder he's going to be to control."

Kai nodded. "I know it's the news you don't want to hear especially since your match is tomorrow, but I wanted you to know."

Taehyun thanked him. "I'll get the boys together...and Y/N and let them know what's going on tonight."

Kai nodded again as Taehyun left to go practice some more.

He adjusted his position and kicked the dummy in front of him as hard as he could.

"Woah you're all fired up." Taeyong said walking over.

"Yeah just making sure my kicks are still good for tomorrow."

Taeyong nodded. "Hey is your um lady friend going to be there?"

Taehyun gave him a weird look. "Why do you want to know?

"I like feisty girls."

Taehyun rolled his eyes. "I don't know if she'll be there."

"Well if she shows let me know." Taeyong smiled before leaving to practice.

Taehyun felt weird hearing him talk about Y/N like that but decided to shrug it off and continued his assault on his practice dummy.

Later that Night:

Taehyun had set up a time for everyone to meet to discuss the new information Kai had presented.

Y/N walked in and completely ignored Taehyun as she sat down on their couch.

"What is this all about?" Yeonjun asked.

Taehyun turned to Kai and gestured for him to tell them.

"After the bank incident I had a friend look into Yuka's numbers and..."

"What were the numbers Kai?" Soobin said getting serious.

"About 500."

"500!?" Beomgyu said in disbelief.

Yeonjun was stressing. "We can't fight with that many."

Taehyun stepped forward. "We don't have a lot of information right now. His numbers could just be a bunch of idiots who don't know anything."

"Yeah but if those idiots have guns and know how to fight then we're screwed." Yeonjun argued back.

"I hate to say it but Yeonjun's right. Yuka has the numbers, it doesn't matter what other information we get. He'll still win." Soobin sighed.

"I thought you guys had the biggest numbers." Y/N said looking at the boys. "After all you were making such a big deal about how your dad basically runs the country."

"We've lost a lot of members over to the past year." Kai said.

"How many?" She asked.

"Around 300, that includes people abroad. Yuka's numbers are people stationed in Korea." Taehyun said.

Y/N shook her head. "You're honestly scared of 200 more brainless chumps? So what if he has more men, as long as we have the upper hand then they'll never win."

Taehyun glanced in her direction. "But we can't have the upper hand if we don't know what Yuka is even planning. What project needs 500 men to carry out?"

The rest of the members sighed with stress and confusion.

Soobin spoke up. "Taehyun I think it's best we call it a night, after all tomorrow night you have your big match, you'll need all your energy."

Taehyun nodded as the rest of the boys got up.

"We'll figure something out." Kai smiled going to he and Yeonjun's shared room.

The room became quiet with only Taehyun and Y/N left in it.

"Are you coming tomorrow?" He asked her.

Y/N's E/C eyes focused on him. "I'm going to support the college, not you." She said coldly before getting off of their couch and heading out the door. She slammed it shut behind her.

Taehyun looked at the door and took a deep breath. He shook off his uneasy feelings before heading to he and Beomgyu's room and falling asleep.

The Next Day at the Tournament:

It was now Saturday, the day Taehyun was competing.

Taehyun had been training hard with his fellow teammates all morning and were now headed to the stadium where the tournament was taking place.

Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Kai, Sunghoon, and Y/N all came to watch the fight.

They walked inside to a large open room with a big karate ring in the center. There was an open second floor used by the tournament handlers.

A few of the helpers were hanging a metal outline of a painted karate kick move. It was attached to the railing of the small platform that ran across the middle of the ceiling.

Y/N noticed this as the boys made their way to the front.

Lots of people showed up to watch Taehyun.

"I heard the guy Taehyun's fighting is like 7 feet tall." Beomgyu shouted over the billion other conversations happening.

Y/N rolled her eyes. "Yeah like Taehyun could take someone that tall."

Suddenly the lights went dim as the announcer came to the middle of the ring with a microphone.

"Hello everyone! Thank you all for coming the annual adult division Karate tournament!"

Everyone cheered loudly as Y/N gave a small clap.

"The two schools competing tonight are Seoul Tech and Hybe University."

The crowd cheered loudly again as the announcer smiled. "Let's get started shall we?"

Everyone was screaming loudly as the first two competitors got on stage. First round was Taeyong vs a guy named Taehoon.

They bowed and began their fight. Taeyong was doing quite well and a few moments in was able to get him pinned.

The supervisor of the tournament announced Taeyong as the victor. The Hybe students cheered like crazy as Y/N gave a pitiful clap.

About 5 more matches went on and it was now tied. 3 Seoul, 3 Hybe.

Taehyun's match was the last one and he was going against a guy named Shang.

"Aren't you nervous? If Taehyun doesn't win then we lose the whole tournament!" Sunghoon said looking at Y/N.

Taehyun and Shang walked up and bowed as the supervisor put his arm down for them to begin fighting.

Y/N noticed someone climbing up to the platform and heading to the metal karate decoration hanging above the ring. However, they didn't look like a worker...the person was oddly familiar.

Then it dawned on her when she saw a glimpse of the snake tattoo.

'Yuka's men are here.' She thought to herself as she turned to the group.

Her eyes widened. "Guys we've got to stop the fight!" She said yelling at the boys.

"What?" Beomgyu asked shouting since he couldn't hear her.

"We have to stop the fight! Someone is trying to sabotage!" She yelled louder.

Yeonjun rolled his eyes. "Yeah right you're still jealous he got to compete and you didn't!"

"I'm not lying-"

"Y/N just chill!" Beomgyu shouted as they ignored her and cheered on Taehyun.

"Ugh!" Y/N said pushing past the crowd of cheering students as she made her way to the ladder that leads up to the platform.

Taehyun and Shang were putting on an incredible performance since both had matching skill levels.

So far Taehyun only landed a kick to his side but Shang was able to dodge every other attempt.

Shang was a lot bigger than Taehyun in terms of physical size, but Taehyun had the agility to keep up.

Y/N glanced up at the guy as she jumped up and skipped a few of the bars on the ladder to get up faster. She climbed as fast as she could as she saw the guy with pliers cutting away bit by bit at the wire holding up the metal object.

"Hey!" Y/N shouted as the guy looked at her.

"What are you doing here little girl?" He asked turning his next, she could see the snake tattoo.

"I could ask you the same thing." She said walking over and putting her fists up.

The guy dropped his pliers and cracked his neck. He lunged at her and attempted to kick her side.

Y/N moved her body to the left and spun her body around and kicked him into the railing.

"Oh you're gonna regret that you bitch!" The guy gritted through his teeth as Y/N kept her eyes focused on him.

He got up and grabbed her ankle before slamming her down on the platform, making her hit her head.

Y/N groaned and pushed him off of her with her legs before getting up. She felt a cold liquid run down the side of her face. Her fingers grazed over it before seeing the crimson on her fingers.

She jumped up and kicked the guy in the chin as he fell back before quickly getting back up and swinging his fists at her.

Meanwhile, Taehyun and Shang were still fighting.

Shang landed another kick to Taehyun. He groaned as Shang went to do it again. Taehyun grabbed his leg and spun him onto the floor.

He smirked as they both kicked at the same time to block each other's attack.

The crowd was cheering louder and louder.

Y/N gripped each side of the railing and jumped for a split second to kick the guy back with both feet.

He grabbed her legs and slammed her back onto the platform.

She rolled to her side to avoid a punch as she kicked his legs out.

He forced her into a corner where her only escape was to go up on the railing.

She blocked one of his punches before flipping up onto the railing. Her foot nearly slipped as she waved her arms to balance herself.

"Woah-" she said looking down at the long plunge beneath her.

The guy went to kick her legs as Y/N jumped and did a reverse back kick to avoid the attempt before her feet landed back on the black metal.

Y/N used her height to her advantage and kicked the guy back.

Taehyun wiped the sweat from his forehead as he went in with a rush of kick attacks before doing his spinning back kick and finally landing a huge hit to the Shang's head.

Shang fell to the floor as Taehyun moved on top of him to immobilize him.

The supervisor called the match and declared Taehyun victorious as the Hybe students erupted in cheers.

Y/N looked down for a split second the guy she was fighting punched her legs making her fall. Her hand gripped at on the other railings that was near the platform.

She gripped that railing with both hands before using all her strength and forcing her body to swing up.

Her feet collided with the guy's head as it knocked him into the part of the railing holding the metal karate object.

Y/N panted seeing the guy now blacked out before she noticed the wire keeping the object up was cut and now coming loose.

The announcer was busy giving Taehyun he earned metal as Y/N yelled as loud as she could.

"Taehyun watch out!" She screeched as the object began to fall.

Taehyun looked up with wide eyes as he pushed him and announcer off the ring as the object came crashing down.

Y/N panted harder seeing everything as she noticed he was okay.

"Woah what just happened?" Sunghoon said as he and other crowd members were shocked.

"You've ruined everything!" The guy Y/N beat hissed as he was now up and holding his arm. "I'll make sure you pay!" He said before running off the platform.

Y/N chased after him but lost him quickly around a corner.

She was now on the same level as everyone else.

Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Kai, and Sunghoon came running over to her.

"Y/N what happened? And why are you bleeding!?" Yeonjun asked,

"Someone tried to kill Taehyun." She panted, eyes darting between the boys.

"Someone tried to what!?" Sunghoon shouted.

Taehyun came rushing over as he looked at Y/N and saw she was bleeding pretty badly.

Y/N's vision was getting fuzzy due to having her head slammed into cold metal multiple times.

The scared voices around began to blur together as she swayed in her spot.

"Y/N...Y/N!" Taehyun's voice became muffled and unclear as Y/N's eyes rolled into the back of her head.

Taehyun caught her before she hit the ground.

The last thing she saw was Taehyun's concerned face before....

darkness...

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