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I was deeply thankful for them not asking questions and doing as I asked. I carried Mitzuki to the shower and as soon as it was ready I stepped in with him (the both of us fully clothed) and leaned his slender frame against mine, letting the water tumble over his shoulders warm him up as I brushed the water out of his eyes and I hoped he would regain consciousness soon.
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Kim Mitzuki's Panic Attack
Nie Namjun's P.O.V.
When Mitzuki screamed "SUGA!" and passed out, Yoongi looked absolutely terrified as he lifted my friend up and told me to run a shower, and for Seokjin to build the fire up and set it up like we're fifteen year old teenagers having a sleepover which I guess technically we are (the sleepover part) - only we aren't fifteen anymore.
Seokjin and I barely had to look at each other before we did as we were asked, knowing we would get an explanation once things had calmed down. After running the shower and watching Yoongi get in with Mitzuki, clothes and all, I laid out the soft bath towels and went to help Seokjin in the lounge.
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"Saranghae husband." I quietly called to him, relishing the sound of the word husband on my tongue, trapping him inside my arms as I conveyed the worry I felt for Mitzuki. It had been so many years and with all the criticism we'd already endured by loving another male... It's so hard for us to endure that our friends were suffering worse than we did.
"My husband," Seokjin replied just as quietly with just as much affection as I've come to know, my blonde looked at me with reassurance in his gaze, kissing my cheeks he gazed at me with sincerity,
"Kim Mitzuki will be okay you know, I'm pretty sure he had a panic attack and he'll be alright soon. I'm sorry I wasn't thinking when I explained as bluntly as I did about what we do and I think it shocked him by bringing up traumatic memories. I suspect that he was in a pretty bad way when Lan Wuxian and Lan Yibo found him if that was his reaction to us simply talking about the photographs that A-Ying and Lan Yibo have of him. In some ways I'm more curious to know just how bad he was when they found him but in other ways I also don't want to see them. I want to protect you from doing anything stupid, you know, like being charged with murder of the motherfucker who left your cousins lover this scarred."
I kissed Seokjin and showed him my dimpled smile. As always he'd understood my fears and worries, and expressed what I'd needed to hear. The golden flecks in my husbands pretty brown eyes had sparkled with interest while talking about the yet unseen photographs that the Lan's were in possession of and I knew he wouldn't be able to stifle his curiosity until he'd seen them.
And he was right as well that I would commit murder to protect my family... Wait... Was this why Auntie and Uncle Kim hadn't... I felt a tiny spark of anger ignite in my guts but I needed more information before I was able to make a solid decision. My hands moved from Seokjin's hips to his broad shoulders, a frown now marring my brows and my lips no longer curved upward, my dimples hiding.
"Call Lan Yibo. I need to know if that scum also killed Auntie and Uncle Kim and the rest of the fam-"
"You won't need to call the Lan's, I can tell you everything." A husky voice interrupted from the doorway.
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Yoongi and Mitzuki were both changed into dry clothes and though my cousin was hanging on to Yoongi he was looking much better, for a start he was awake again. Violet eyes looked questioningly up into chocolate ones and though tears brimmed they didn't overflow as he nodded slowly.
Seokjin had set up both sofa-beds in the lounge and all of us sat down. Soft murmurs between Zuki and Yoongi had me fiddling with my fingers with mild anxiety until my husband caught my hands and gently kissed each of my palms. A sigh a short while later brought us back to the present, Mitzuki clearing his throat while the mint haired male next to him held his hand as if he were anchoring my cousin to the bed. What my mint haired cousin said next had both of us speechless. Kim Mitzuki said with a voice full of the tears we could tell he was holding back.
"Jeon Namjun. I regret to inform you Kaard BamBam was executed approximately one year ago. On the thirteenth day after Kaard BamBam's execution the remaining members of Kim Mitzuki's family were murdered to cover the fact that Kim Mitzuki had gone missing, though he had told his family he was planning on going to travel overseas with his fiancée at the time and would likely be out of touch for a long period of time."
Auntie and Uncle Kim were... dead?
Apologies, regrets and many questions began to bubble up but before I had a chance to voice them he continued.
"The executioner of Kaard BamBam was I-I-Iz.." I watched as finish the sentence before I hopped off the bed Seokjin and I were on and I dragged my willing blonde into a group hug that enveloped both my oldest friend and my cousin. Tears poured from chocolate orbs like a faucet had been left turned on, he shook his head and muttered he couldn't finish. Suga continued the brunette's story.
"The executioner of Kaard BamBam was Izuka Yang. The person who ordered elimination of Kim Mitzuki's family down to their pets was Izuka Yang. The mechanik who completed the job was Min Suga." My cousin's violet eyes were full of regret and for a moment I wondered why. Then I knew as his words caught up with me.
Min Suga. Min fucking Suga. Min Yoongi.
My own cousin had killed my best friends family.
"Why?" Asked Seokjin. My temper flared as bright as my hair. Seokjin held my hand in a vice-like grip, halting my speech. A single tear snuck over his waterline and Yoongi angrily brushed it away.
Over the next few hours it wasn't Min Yoongi who detailed everything that had happened over the last four years but Min Suga; assassin and cold-hearted killer. Mechanically he began what started as an ordinary tale but delved into a world of pain and torture for both him, Mitzuki and anyone else who came into contact with Izuka Yang.
My cousin showed us that they, Yoongi and Suga, were simply two sides of the same coin and he exposed his heart to us as he explained everything we wanted to know - and things we didn't:
- Yoongi had gotten into debt with the wrong people and had ended up working for Izuka Yang to pay it off,
- After the debt was worked off Izuka Yang had threatened to kill his Grandmother if he didn't continue to work for him,
- Half brothers Kaard BamBam and Trancy Alois began working for Izuka Yang, Yoongi and BamBam had become close friends,
- Kim Mitzuki and Izuka Yang had gotten into a relationship,
- Kim Mitzuki nicknamed Yoongi 'Suga' because he'd looked out for him at school,
- Izuka Yang became abusive towards Kim Mitzuki, not much at first but escalating gradually,
- Suga and BamBam had been casually dating to hide their real affections for others,
- Suga had found out after returning from a month long job, that BamBam had 'accidentally' let Mitzuki escape Izuka Yang,
- Kim Mitzuki had been raped and beaten so badly the last time that, even as BamBam pretended not to see him leave, BamBam believed Mitzuki would die,
- Suga had been made to watch the recorded video of BamBam telling him to leave moments before being executed by their employer,
- After watching BamBam's execution Suga was forced to murder Kim Mitzuki's family,
- An "anonymous" report of Kim Mitzuki was called in and Min Suga was told, he then volunteered to check out said report,
- After his arrival Suga discovered that Kim Mitzuki was in Lotus Lakes but also that there was someone claiming to be Kaard BamBam,
- Suga found out that it was Trancy Alois pretending to be Kaard BamBam who was with Kim Mitzuki,
- If Suga had arrived any later, Kim Mitzuki would have disappeared forever, or at least until Trancy Alois was finished with him, after which he would likely turn up in pieces (if at all),
- How Lan Wuxian had told Min Suga he'd taken care of Trancy Alois for Mitzuki's sake, and
- Lan Yibo and Lan Wuxian had told Min Suga to take Kim Mitzuki to the cabin, to take him and hide him away while they dealt with the bounty hunters who were hunting Mitzuki and Suga.
To say Seokjin and I were shocked would be an understatement. We were horrified at everything Mitzuki had had to endure while he was in the care of Izuka Yang, someone I'd thought I could trust with my best friend - I remembered meeting him a couple of times early in their relationship and he hadn't seemed like such a bad guy.
"So what you're telling us is that you're basically dead for real if Izuka Yang or his goons get their hands on you?"
My blonde demanded answers in a tone that brewed no argument. Mitzuki and Yoongi looked at each other having a conversation with their eyes, I didn't think anything of it when Mitzuki tugged on his sleeves asking unsurely if Seokjin and I could be trusted but Yoongi nodded and cupped his face, kissing his lips tenderly.
"Mn," Mitzuki replied before taking off his hooded jersey and his t-shirt. To say Seokjin and I were horrified would be an understatement. The brunette gestured to all the scars that covered almost every inch of his torso, down his arms and up his neck, probably wrapping around his back and some of them didn't stop at his pants line.
"My ex-boyfriend does... this... to those he claims he loves. Someone recently told me that I'm lucky to have gotten out alive. I doubt I'm lucky at all, BamBam died because of me. What do you think he'll do to the... belongings... who betray him?"