ᴘᴀɪɴᴛ ꜱᴛʀᴇᴀᴋꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ʙʟᴀɴᴋ ᴄᴀɴᴠᴀꜱᴇꜱ 🖌 ʏᴜɴʜᴏ x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ

E I G H T

After the exhausting warm-up, Yunho nearly collapsed on the floor. San chuckled at his reaction, "If that got you tired, then you're not gonna survive the actual training."

"What?" Yunho let out a sigh and continued to lie down on the floor, dreading the training already.

The coach blew his whistle, signalling that training has started. The other trainees starting to put on their boxing gloves and mouthguards, some of them pouring water on each other. They all lined up in front the board and the coach proceeded to write the new moves that they're going to learn. The coach pointed to an older trainee and he proceeded to show the new moves, making Yunho gulp loudly. He was so not ready for this. San reassured him with a pat on the back, Yunho smiled slightly but nervousness was coursing through his veins.

The trainees got into pairs to practice the moves, Yunho was paired up with another trainee, Soobin. Soobin looked at Yunho dangerously with made him scared.

"Your first time, right? I'll go easy on you." He said, his words not matching his face.

Yunho sighed in relief but was still nervous in case he messes up any moves. His thoughts were interrupted when Soobin snapped his fingers in his face, making him jump.

"First you need to know a few things before you start fighting," He informed, "First, chin down cause you don't want to hurt these." Soobin went up and squished Yunho's cheek.

"Second, look at your opponent's shoulder so you know where they're going to hit. And finally, not punches below the belt, for obvious reasons."

Yunho nodded at his advice, taking in the information. He puts on some boxing gloves on and a mouthguard popped in his mouth. He puts his fists up and when everyone gets ready, the coach blows the whistle and the matches starts. Soobin starts by left hooking Yunho's side, making him stumble. 

Soobin snickered and whispered, "Hit me already."

Yunho nodded and weakly punched him in the stomach, only making a slight impact. Soobin giggled and landed a heavy punch to his chest, making him fall over. Soobin started quietly counting to 10. When he reached 10, a bell ringed, signalling that Yunho had lost. Soobin helped him get up and brushed his shoulder.

"I went easy on you, what happened?" He chuckled.

"That was easy?" Yunho muttered.

Soobin laughed, patted his shoulder and hopped off the ring. Yunho slowly got off too and went to the water fountain. All the other trainees look like they barely broke a sweat, leaving him wondering how they do it. He suddenly felt an arm around his shoulder.

"So? How was it?" San asked.

"Terrible, I lost."

"Yeah I saw, but it's okay. You're only a beginner." San let his arm fall off and went to his locker.

After a quick water break, the coach went up to Yunho and handed him an access card, "Here, you're gonna need it. You need a lot more training than what we're doing now."

Yunho blushed in embarrassment and nodded, "Thank you."

Training continued and Yunho just got more and more exhausted, he had to remind himself that this was for his own good and that it's for revenge. He could feel light bruises form on his stomach and arms, but it was nowhere near as bad as when Wooyoung and Mingi beat him up. 

At the end of the training, it was already 3 PM, everyone packed up and quickly got out of the training center in groups, Yunho was just about to go home when he felt a hand tap his shoulder. He turned around to see Soobin and San.

"Hi..?" He said.

"Wanna have lunch with us? A new place just opened." Soobin showed him a new bento place on his phone.

"Uhh.. Yeah sure." Yunho smiled at the invitation and walked alongside them to the restaurant. Soobin and San were talking among themselves but Yunho didn't feel left out, he felt comfortable for the first time his life, like he got friends. 

Once they arrived at the restaurant, they each took a seat at a small booth and ordered some bowls of food and waited for it to arrive. In the meantime, Soobin tried to converse with Yunho.

"So, why did you start boxing?" He asked.

"Oh uhh.." Yunho looked at San.

"Don't tell me he forced you." Soobin chuckled.

"No it's not that, it's.." He took his breath, "I-I get bullied sometimes so.. You know.."

"Ohh. You know, a lot of the others joined for the same reason." The food arrived and the three of them started eating hurriedly, finishing the food quickly. Yunho spoke with a ball of rice in his mouth.

"Really?"

"Yeah, they used to be skinny losers like you-"

"Hey, don't say that!" San slapped his arm lightly.

Yunho chuckled at what's happening between them, feeling like he's third wheeling a married couple. After all the food has been finished, the bill arrived.

"H-how much is it?" Yunho pulled out his wallet.

"It's my turn to pay, don't worry," Soobin pulled out a debit card, "But next time, it's your turn."

Yunho nodded and after the meal was paid for, they all went out and went their own separate ways. Yunho decided to follow his coach's advice and went back to the training center. When he entered the training center and it was empty, aside from the employees. Yunho put his bag in a locker and wrapped up his hands and went over to a punching bag. He imagined the punching bag to be Wooyoung, Mingi, Y/N or whoever he could think of that bullied him and made his life hell. His punches were getting stronger by the minute, his arms flexing slightly. He kept at it for a good hour before his arms numb. He laid down on the ground for a bit before getting up and moving onto a new punching dummy. His arms and mind taking no rest as he continues to punch harder and faster, the only thing fueling his strength was a single thought, repeating over and over in his mind:

"I'm going to get my revenge."