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Taemin's Hip Tattoo (SHINee)

woo request time, thank you so much ahh

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Kibum noticed it first. Taemin was stretching with him in the dance studio and his shirt went up slightly. 

"Is that a tattoo I see?"

"Yeah," Taemin said. 

Kibum grinned and whistled. "It looks good."

"You're the last person who I expected would say that."

"What? Why?" Kibum laughed. "It's permanent, right?"

Taemin nodded. 

"Yeah, well, then it's permanent. There's no use in hating it now."

With a sigh, the youngest focused on his stretching. Kibum smirked at him, waiting to see when he would lose his cool. Taemin was determined to not do that.

"I'm kidding."

"You are?"

"Hell yeah," Kibum said. "It looks really nice. You look, very... um, sexy."

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"I think Taemin has a new thing to show us," Kibum announced when they walked into the studio. Jinki looked up. His fluffy hair fell onto his face. 

"What?"

Taemin's face turned red. He tried to hide his face. 

"Lift your shirt Taemin," Kibum said. 

Jinki's brow furrowed. "The hell?"

"You'll see, you'll see. Taemin, lift your shirt." Kibum shook his head. "You do it in front of the fans, why can't you do it in front of us?"

"Don't-"

Taemin yanked his shirt up. Kibum grinned. Taemin wondered why he looked so proud of himself. Jinki nodded. 

"Nice," he said. 

"That's all you have to say?"

"Yeah," Jinki said to Kibum. 

"Like, you're not surprised or anything? You're not going to comment on the artistic art that he got-"

"He already has one on his arm, though?"

Kibum stopped talking, nodding lightly. "You're right, you're right."

Jinki shrugged. "It was going to happen soon." He smiled up at Taemin. "It looks great Taeminnie!"

Taemin grinned.

"Where is Minho?" Kibum asked. The rapper was nowhere to be seen.

"He's late," Jinki said.

"Oh, I didn't realize that. Thanks for telling me."

Jinki started to laugh, Taemin joining in. They were sitting on the ground at this point, not bothering to warm up for dance.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Minho burst into the room, shirt and face sweaty. He had ran from the parking lot all the way to the studio.

"What's your excuse-" Kibum started.

"There was traffic."

"Sure, okay," Taemin said.

"He has something to show you," Jinki said, referring to Taemin. "That's why they're so..."

"What?"

Taemin grinned. Minho glanced at him weirdly, something was definitely up. Jinki smiled at him, but didn't tell him what was going on.

"What is-"

Taemin lifted up his shirt and, stepping forward, showed Minho his tattoo.

"Doesn't it look nice?"

Minho's eyes had instantly gone wide. He stared at Taemin's hip.

"The hell are you thinking?" Kibum asked.

"He didn't need to shove his hip into my face!"

Taemin laughed. "How else would you have seen?"

Jinki was staring at them in confusion, his nose scrunched up. "Why are you guys always like this?"

"Beats me." Kibum threw his hands up, shrugging. 

"What?" Minho asked. "I have eyes, I can see from further away. I felt a little concerned when Taemin got that close to me."

"What?" Taemin asked.

Kibum laughed. Jinki smiled and looked down at his toes. He was impatient to start but he didn't say a word to hurry the others.

"That's enough for right now," Minho mumbled a moment later. "Let's get started with dance."

"Imagine what Jonghyun hyung's reaction would've been," Taemin said. "He would've been so happy!"

Kibum nodded. "Yes!"

"Probably, yeah," Jinki said. "I mean, yes, definitely. For sure."

"Yeah!"

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