The Hidden Treasure

~16~

Yoongi returned to the dance room and saw the guys slowly gathering their belongings to head home. Jin looked at him with a wary eye and when Yoongi merely shrugged, Jin frowned and sighed, slinging his backpack over his shoulder and left the room.

J-Hope watched the exchange and his mouth twitched. They had all had fights before. They had even written it into their songs. It was an expected occurrence when you put seven individuals all together twenty-four hours a day for seven years. However, he still hated it. Especially when it was between two strong personalities like Yoongi and Namjoon. He zipped up his bag and put his free hand into his jacket pocket. He slowly made his way over to where Yoongi was leaning with his back against the wall, his face trained on the ground.

"Hyung, is everything okay?" He tried to laugh a little but it just came out weird, causing him to immediately regret speaking at all.

Yoongi didn't even raise his head. "Probably." He kicked his toe on the floor and J-Hope saw him pull in his bottom lip and frown.

"Okay, well if you say so." He started to walk on by but stopped short and stood still for a second. "I sure hope you're right." He looked at Yoongi from the corner of his eye and then walked out of the room.

Yoongi frowned deeper.

"Alright, Kookie! Let's go! My feet are killing me." Jimin grabbed a still puzzled Jungkook by the arm and proceeded to pull him out of the practice room.

"Hyung, wait, I need to talk to-"

"Later, Jungkook-ah. Later." Jimin threw a cautious look at Yoongi and plastered on his smile again before successfully extracting the maknae from the dark cloud hovering over the practice room.

Taehyung suddenly felt awkward, now alone with the brooding rapper. He grabbed his jacket and bag, not even bothering to put his jacket on or zip up his bag. He clutched them both to his chest and tried to leave the room as quickly as possible, giving Yoongi a wide space as he went to pass him.

"Hold it right there," mumbled Yoongi with a dark tone to his voice.

"Hm?" Taehyung swallowed the lump in his throat and tried to not race out of the room.

Yoongi slowly raised his head and eyed the younger member.  "Tell me about this girl." 

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Jungkook stood at the door to the room he shared with Namjoon and took a deep breath as he laid a hesitant hand on the knob. Should he act like everything was just fine when it clearly wasn't? There was a weird vibe hanging over the group and he didn't care for it one bit. However, he didn't want to meddle in Namjoon's business. He knew as the youngest member he had no right to go question his elders and dig into their personal business. He sighed and hung his head. The right thing for him to do right now was to just avoid the situation entirely if he could.

He turned the knob and slowly entered the room. Namjoon was still unloading his bag and putting things away. His earbuds were in his ears and he had a deep frown on his face. Jungkook tried not to stare at him as he went about quietly putting his own things in their proper places.

He grabbed a pair of shorts and a t-shirt out of his drawer and still Namjoon hadn't said a word. When Namjoon finally turned around, he jumped and flung his hands up to his face.

"Jungkook-ah! You scared me!" He laughed softly and rubbed his hands down his face.

Jungkook smiled. "Sorry, hyung. Guess you were deep in thought or something." The maknae laughed softly in return and closed his drawer.