Road to Utopia - NCT

11 - Chaotic

A/N - Some of the role names have changed. 'Gun Supplier' is now 'Weapons Specialist' (which I had used in a previous chapter and forgot to address it). And 'Flirt' (which makes me cringe now) has been changed to 'Undercover Agents'. I need to change 'Drug Stopper' too, but I'm still yet to come up with one. I'll edit the previous chapters eventually.

"Thank you...Doyoung."

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This morning was chaotic, way more chaotic than I had expected.

I had woken up at 10am (a somewhat reasonable time for me since I didn't have a shift, mission or meeting) and was out of the house by 10.30. I had greeted Taeyong and Ten inside the restaurant and made my way to the hideout's entrance. But then I had remembered: I didn't have a way in. The first time, Johnny had pressed his necklace onto the bookshelf and the next few times another member had let me in since I was with them.

So, I had to do the walk of shame back out of the office to Taeyong for him to let me in, which he happily did. "Meet me this evening in my office so I can give you a necklace too. I had Shotaro, Jeno and Johnny work on it for the past week."

"Thanks." I smiled and went down the steps, not forgetting to duck my head down and watch where I was actually stepping.

As soon as I had entered the HQ, I heard yelling. A typical day usually but this was more frantic yelling. Going closer to the noise, I saw a crowd of people surrounding Yuta while he yelled in pain.

"Fuck! Jungwoo, what the-agh!"

"I didn't see you there, OK? I'm sorry!"

"Next time, don't look for Lucas if he's not even in the building!"

"Yah, Yuta, calm down and stop moving your leg." Taeil ordered, holding his leg down. "Yangyang, get the stretcher. I'm gonna have to reassess his leg and probably recast it."

He nodded and rushed to the infirmary to get it. When he came back, he slid it under Yuta and carried him off. I stared at it happening, but Yuta grabbed my arm on the way.

"How the heck did you predict this?"

Before I could even think of an answer, Taeil and Yangyang had moved him to the infirmary and shut the door.

Jaehyun was also in the room and he pulled me to one side. "What did he mean? What did you predict?"

I hesitated. What did I predict? "I...don't actually know. I can't remember."

"But you've only met Yuta like...once, twice?" I nodded. "Where did you meet him? Maybe it'll jog your memory."

"At the shooting range, the meeting and just now."

"Well, I think it would have been at the shooting range. Was anyone there? Do you remember your conversation?"

"Um...Taeyong was showing me around and Yuta was shooting and he reminded us to go to the meeting. That's all there was to it."

"Hm...let's ask Taeyong later, OK?" I nodded again. "I'm heading to the gym, wanna come with me?"

"Sure, I haven't really worked out before though."

He gasped. "Oh, I'm so teaching you how to build those puny muscles of yours."

I felt offended, but it was true. I literally looked like a stick that was about to snap. Jaehyun dragged me down the stairs towards the training area. When we reached there, Hendery and Xiaojun seemed to be wrestling each other in the boxing ring, except they were also shouting insults at each other. Currently, Xiaojun was on top of Hendery.

"Don't you need a licence to be that ugly?" Hendery flipped the other boy while yelling.

Xiaojun grunted but kicked him off five seconds later. "Well, you're the reason the gene pool needs a lifeguard."

"And your face makes onions cry." He got up and punched Xiaojun in the face, making him stagger to the side of the ring.

"Well, you should sue your parents for your face; what the heck happened there?" The other punched him in the stomach, making Hendery double over, so Xiaojun took advantage of this by drop-kicking him to the floor.

"Does this happen often?" I whispered, concerned for the pair.

"At least three times a week." Jaehyun whispered back. "I think there was one week when they fought 27 times, and there was about 5 in one day."

Yup, they're just crazy.

"Give it about 5 minutes and they'll be cuddling each other before raiding the bar." He commented before raising his voice to address the pair and make our presence noticed. "Hendery, what was that? Your punch was off by 3 millimetres and 13 degrees too far to the right. If you punched like we taught and not in anger, you could have easily knocked Xiaojun out. And you, that drop-kick was far too weak. If you were facing an actual opponent and not Hendery, you wouldn't have won the fight."

They looked down in shame before apologising. "If you're going to spar with each other, at least do it properly. I don't care if you yell insults and curses at each other, but the very least you can do is use the techniques we teach you and not something from a video game." They looked a little embarrassed now since their cheeks started to go red.

"Fine, we will." Xiaojun muttered before dragging his partner out of the gym. Probably to the bar like Jaehyun said before.

"And now, we can train. Would you like to work on strength or techniques?" He turned to me.

"I'm still injured, so whatever's the lightest."

He rubbed his neck. "Ah, forgot about that...maybe we can do something else then?"

"It's OK, I can just watch you. Maybe I'll pick up some useful tips." I didn't mind watching. I had nothing better to do.

"I'll feel bad with you just sitting here. If you want to explore more, then feel free to do so." He said and picked up a pair of dumbbells and started doing reps with them. It was amazing how he didn't look that strong but could easily lift the 8kg dumbbells with ease.

He did 10 reps before the entrance door slammed open to reveal Sungchan.

"Renjun's awake!"

END

Glad to see you all here :D

I was going to publish 4 chapters much later today but I'll do 2 now, 2 later. If I was sticking to that, this update was supposed to be hours ago...