Ukiyo¹ | ʲᵘⁿᵍᵏᵒᵒᵏ

𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖜𝖔;

A sharp hammering in my head, it could be said that it hurt me least when I regained consciousness.

"Ugh, fuck!" I groaned, without knowing at first where I was, and after making a quick move, making me feel a little bit sick. I bite my low lip to shut a shout. My rib hurts like hell.

My eyes quickly looked around the room where I was in. This was a simple room. A single full bed, white linens. A desk that was full of books and a small brown closet. I could say that it was the same size as my bedroom. Some large and grey heavy curtains stopped the light come in.

My eyes snapped open. Light! My siblings are going to kill me! Fuck, fuck, fuck!

Oh, well, let's think again. If the person, whoever has me here doesn't kill me first. It is a Crow; I know for sure. I can smell his essence. I tried to look at something with what I could defend myself when I heard some footsteps coming into the room.

"Woah" exclaimed a tall guy, he raised his hands, and in the process, the clothes that he was holding fell off to the floor, "put that lamp down. Listen, I won't hurt you. If I wanted to, I already have done it, don't you think? Besides, you'll just get more hurt."

"Who are you? where am I? Why I am here?" the questions burned out of my mouth.

The tall guy knelt to pick up the clothes.

"My name is Seokjin, you're at my place. And you're here because some Crows assaulted you."

I raise an eyebrow, "Crows, and you saved me from them?"

"Yes, because I know them. I told them to stop."

"Who are them?" I asked.

He sighed, "Jeon Hyun Joon and his friends."

Heard that name, that bastard's name, set me to stone. He noticed that, so he raised his hands as a symbol of peace again.

"Listen, I know. I am a Crow too."

"No shit Sherlock"

He ignored me, "But I won't hurt you. I'm not that type of Crow."

I laughed, "How can I believe in you? All the Crows are manipulated, and liars."

My words made him angry, apparently, because he started yelling.

"Hey, even when I rescued you from Jeon Hyun Joon, I carry you for several blocks. I climbed the stairs with your fat ass and cured your wounds! You cannot trust me?! What an ungrateful Moon!"

His hard and speeded words let me go frozen. He was right. Any Crow would have done that. In fact, they would have been participating with Hyunjoon too.

"I'm sorry," I said, maybe a little bit bitter, because, after all, he was a Crow, "so, if you took me here, do you know where's my phone?"

I wasn't fully aware that I wasn't wearing my uniform, instead, I was using an oversized t-shirt. When he noticed that I was looking at myself, he blushed. A Crow blushed in front of me!

"Oh, y-yeah. Even if¾ I don't think this will fit you, but it will work somehow."

He left the clothes on my hands, next to my phone. I tried to not yell when I noticed how fucked up my cell phone was. It was all broken. I groaned.

"Can I use your phone? Just to let my family know I am alive." I asked.

"Sure thing", he smiled, "by the way, I am Seokjin. Kim Seok Jin"

The nice Seokjin gave me his phone. One hundred, no, maybe thousands much better and expensive than mine. I sighed again when I let my thumb freeze next to the call sigh.

"Why don't you call?" he asked next to my ear, I hit him, "HEY!"

"They're gonna kill me!" I yelled a hurt scream, "They're going to cut me in little, small pieces and then, they are going to sell them on the black market. They will make socks with my lungs and laughs over my craving."

He frowned, "What do you say? They're your siblings. Family. They won't do that."

I laughed, "Oh, it's because you don't know them as I do. Can you kill me? End this suffering!"

He looked at me as if I was an alien or something like that.

"Don't be a drama queen. They're your siblings, they worry about you. They won't kill you."

And without saying more, he dialed the number I had written. My eyes widened in fear as I began to hear the first tones.

"Hello," Jimin's tired voice came through on the other end of the line after the fourth ring.

"Oh, h-hi, baby mochi" I said in a low, very low voice.

For a moment, the line was totally silent, so I had to move my phone away from my face to make sure the call hadn't been dropped.

"Park Hye Rin, for the love of the moon! Where the hell are you? Why did you make JB lie for you? Do you know the punishment Uncle Kim gave him? You're in serious trouble, young lady! It had better be too bad a situation for you to learn your damn lesson of never doing things without consulting us or thinking about us." He yelled. Yup, that's my brother.

I squeezed my eyes shut, "Sorry oppa... I just... I'll be home when I can, I'll take full responsibility. I'm sorry."

I heard a heavy sigh on the other end of the line, I couldn't stop my tears from starting to sting my eyes. I could feel the way my siblings or the others in the house were probably upset with me for sheer stupidity. I didn't even want to imagine the punishment Uncle Kim will give me when he returns.

I huffed in exasperation, none of this would be happening if my brothers weren't so overprotective and never let me out on their own.

"Just give me the address, and I will pick you up, Hyerin."

He was asking nicely, even though he sounded pissed.

"No. I'll go home when I can. I'll be fine, I'll call you every night if necessary. But we'll see you later. I love. And tell JB to forgive me, I'll make it up to him when he gets back."

Without waiting for my older brother to say anything, I ended the call and turned off my phone.

When I realized what he had done, I brought my hands to my lips. Eyes wide open. The heart beating inside my chest was too strong.

What had I just done?

"Wanna eat something?" asked in a nice manner Jin, when he noticed I was having a huge inner trouble inside of me. I slowly nodded, "Okay. Here, change your clothes. Need any help?"

I looked at the garment and then I calculated the movements I had to do. My cheeks flushed a little, I ended up nodding to which he smiled at me before leaving the room, closing the door slightly.

Releasing a heavy sigh, I put on the gray Chantal pants that he had left me. Once I was ready, with all the pain in my soul—worse than when I was training with JB—I went downstairs until I reached the kitchen where my little savior Crow was making me some food.

"What's your relationship with Hyunjoon?" I asked once I was at the table.

It got him a little bit of time to answer, and when he did, he was tense, "I am their trainer, I am afraid that I taught him to fight. Sorry."

"And why would a Crow save a Moon?" I asked.

Just like earlier, he just kept quiet. Concentrated on cutting the vegetables that he had on the board and stirring the meat that he had put in the pan. Taking his time.

"I noticed something in your eyes: you weren't afraid," he said after a quiet time, "You were not afraid, despite being surrounded by three imbeciles, you were not afraid. In your eyes, I could see the way they glowed with hate. As if they were not rivals or superior to you intervened earlier."