A Warrior's Heart

Chapter 16; Teaching Yoongi fun

I just imagined Yoongi doing a lil dance 🥺

-x-

"Maybe when that Rowoon guy gets what he wants, he'll change and become Rowoon the Kind?"  Taehyun questioned as he followed the older over the river. They had passed the gate and were now travelling through the mountains, following the stream of the water.

On his left side was a small waterfall, and on his right the big lake which stretched out a good mile or two. Stones were positioned on the right places so you could just step on them to get to the other side, but it was slippery so they went carefully and slowly.

"Do you have people in your world who get what they want by threatening to do bad things?"  Yoongi retorted, not looking back.

"Well there's this one guy.."  Taehyun softly answered as they stepped onto solid ground again, his mind drifting off to Ravn and his gang.  "And when you give him what he wants, does he change for the better?"  Yoongi asked him then, stepping onto the stairs of the bridge leading to another part of the little groups of grass islands covering the area.

"Not really."  The younger said, chuckling sadly.

"Might does not make right, Taehyun." Yoongi wisely told him, stopping on the middle of the bridge and turning around to face him.  "Right makes right. If you don't stand up for what's right, it's better to just not stand up at all."

"That's easy for you to say!"  The boy exclaimed with a scoff.  "This guy he's- he's taller and stronger than me."

"Then what do you do?"  The warrior asked him next without missing a beat.  "I run." Taehyun sighed.  "And does that solve your problems?"  The older questioned while giving him a meaningful look.

Taehyun thought about it for a moment before looking down at the ground beneath his feet.  "Not really.."  He said softly. Yoongi gave him a bored expression at his answer and turned around, not saying another word about it.

They continued walking for another hour or so without saying any more words to each other, not having anything to really talk about. They crossed all the little grass islands on the lake and soon set feet on the rocks of the foot of the mountain. Taehyun soon began to feel awkward with the silence and decided to break it.

"So do you have a girl? Or boy? I don't know what you're interested in-"

"No."  The warrior cut him off. Taehyun frowned, rather suprised with the answer as he had thought the man looked old enough to be at least married.  "Why not?"

"Because I have my work."  He simply replied.

"And your job doesn't leave enough spare time to have a personal life?"  The boy asked him as they walked up a staircase made out of wood and rope, leading them up to the mountain paths.

"My job is my life." The warrior answered and stepped onto the pathway between two mountains. Taehyun sighed as he followed him.  "Seems like a lot of fun."

The older slowed his pace and glanced over his shoulder to the boy behind him.  "Fun?"

"Yeah. It's when you're doing things that make you feel good, make you happy, you know?"  He explained.

"I feel good doing my job." Yoongi said, nodding to himself. Taehyun exhaled as he stepped over a rock, almost tripping but managing to keep his balance. He felt kind of bad for the guy. He couldn't imagine a world where he didn't have fun and had to work everyday and didn't have things to smile at and didn't have time for a boyfriend and- just the thought of it made him sad.

"Listen, you gotta relax sometimes."  He told the older, setting the arrow holder and shield down on the ground. He pulled the hood of his vest up and reached in his pocket.  "Ever seen these before?"  He asked as he held up a pair of sunglasses. He always kept them with him and since it was warm outside he had a pair in his the pocket of his jeans. Luckily it didn't break during the fight. Yoongi didn't reply and just narrowed his eyes sceptically.

"No? Okay, look-"  Taehyun said and pressed the sunglasses onto his nose.  "It's called dancing, yeah?"  He smiled and stepped onto a large rock on the side to be taller then the warrior.  "It's like uh.."  He hummed in thoughts before he came up with a beat and while he was beatboxing a little he made some of the moves he had used for a dance competition at school once, glad he memorised them well enough to still know them.

Yoongi just watched him with a judging expression but something in his eyes sparkled, telling Taehyun he was at least slightly interested in what he was showing him. He was confident in his dancing, although he wasn't the best and hadn't won the competition. He smiled and took the glasses off.  "Here try these on"  He said and reached for the warrior, who quickly pretended to not be interested as soon as the younger had stopped dancing.

He flinched away when Taehyun tried setting the glasses on his nose, not familiar with the object and not knowing what it did. Taehyun clicked his tongue.  "Just stay still otherwise I'll poke your eye out-"  He said and Yoongi did as he was told, feeling the cold material of the glasses on his skin. It was odd and unlike anything else he had felt on his face, but he didn't necessarily hate it.

As soon as he looked through the glass he gasped, mouth falling open. Suddenly the world around him was darker, like the sun didn't work anymore and everything was covered under a large shadow.  "Magic"  He breathed and reached his hand out to the glasses to compare the world with and without, pushing it up to his forehead and back in front of his eyes.

"Pretty cool, huh?"  The younger grinned proudly, happy he had something out of his world he could brag about.  "Okay I'll do the beat and you just move your hips around, okay?"  He told him and quickly thought of another beat which he started to voice out as soon as he thought of it. He watched Yoongi frown while he smoothly moved himself.

The warrior was a little stiff, not being used to this at all, and his movements were somewhat awkward and off-beat, but he swayed his hips from side to side and switched to a tiny circle occasionally.

When he got the hang of it and felt himself starting to enjoy it he quickly stopped, tearing the sunglasses from his face and handing them back to the younger.  "I don't have time for fun."  He said. Taehyun got startled and watched as the man started walking away wit ouch sparing him another glance.  "Oh c'mon.."  He sighed and quickly grabbed the shield and arrow holder off the ground before he quickly followed him.