red haired herbalist.

02

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chapter two
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he remained frozen to the floor at the sight of the sword. yuta backed away before the man next to him groaned "he didn't do anything－"

"oh my god jaehyun! are you hurt? you're not bleeding are you? what's one plus one? what's my name?"

the man named jaehyun sat up properly, rubbing his head "two, and who are you again?"

"its me, youngho!" the tall male yelled in jaehyun's face.

"oh right, that was your name" the other man standing behind youngho said.

"not you too, taeyong" youngho said, fake crying

yuta reads the situation and slowly goes back to his bag, gets it, and quietly tries to crawl away. but life is never on his side as the man who just fell was already on his feet, flaunting his sheathed sword right on the ground in front of yuta. he flinched before falling back and looked up at the handsome man not lifting his head.

"who are you, and what are you doing in the forest so early?" he asked, despite knowing travelers were often seen in forests and doubted this boy could be one too.

"i-i was just taking a walk is a-all... haha" yuta said awkwardly, rubbing his nape with the cloak still on, pulling the hood over his head a bit more. noticing how conscious yuta was about the hood, the man places his sheathed sword under the hood pointing it at his face, before pulling it up.

the hood flew revealing a really good looking face and a very rare and beautiful red hair. frightened, yuta puts his hand over his hair in attempt to cover but was obviously useless.

he noticed all three pairs of shocked eyes were on him. the man named jaehyun took a step forward, "you got strange hair..." he says. "um, y-yes, i hear that a lot"

just as yuta was saying, he got distracted by something on the man's arm. "you have a bruise" he said pointing at the painfully red patch of skin on jaehyun's arm. jaehyun looks at his arm noticing the wound, "its nothing, it'll get better soon" he said. "i have something for that" yuta said his eyes wide remembering he's a pharmacist. he dug through his bag, "it might get infected if there's any cuts, you should－"

"i don't need it" he heard a clear voice from jaehyun as he flaunts his sheathed sword. "why do people like shoving their swords into others faces" yuta thought, when jaehyun continued, "it could be poisonous, why would i trust a stranger?"

"oh..." yuta mumbles slightly annoyed. but he wouldn't blame jaehyun because he too, or anyone, would be cautious of a stranger. he grabs the sheathed sword in front of him before forcefully slamming it on his own arm. "what are you－" jaehyun looks shocked for the second time by yuta that morning, and saw the pharmacist take out a small jar. he opened it and it looked like poultice. yuta takes a little bit of the green cream and smeared it on a clean cloth and put it on his wound.

"well, i don't have a habit of carrying poison around" yuta said with a smile and lifted his now bruised but medicated arm for jaehyun to see.

youngho laughed, "he got you there, jaehyun"

jaehyun just chuckled before crouching down to yuta.

"you must have heard these guys here say my name but let me introduce myself. i'm jaehyun" he said, raising arm showing yuta his bruise which was now slowly darkening.

"yuta" the red head said smiling taking his jar of poultice with one hand and held jaehyun's arm right below the bruise with his other hand.

the four of them soon found themselves inside the house. "its an abandoned house but the three of us usually hang out here when we're out in the forest" jaehyun says as yuta was tending the wound. the two other men by the side playing a game of chess.