Karma / / Vminkook

10. PAST

Taehyung was laying on the bed. An IV connected to his arm as it drew blood from his veins. Taehyung and Jimin's blood type were same, so Taehyung was giving his blood to the older.

The leaving blood had made him feel heady and light, almost on the brink of consciousness. His mind took him back to the day this all had happened.

Taehyung had been feeling suspicious of Jimin since a while now. Coming home late night, drinking at lowly bars and being high on drugs all the time. Whenever Taehyung asked to talk to him he would brush it away or would be too high to comprehend what the other was saying.
"Karma do you want me to spy on Jimin? I swear I'll get to the bottom of his new addiction."

"No, JB you aren't doing that. We should not meddle into his life. Soon he will realise what he's been upto and he will go back to being our Jiminie." Taehyung had declined, adjusting the mask on his face.

"But Karma he needs our help-"

Taehyung had just turned around, showing that his decision was final. He pulled off his mask and settled down in his chair as JB left, the door shutting with a bang behind him. He knew JB was annoyed by his lack of participation, but he did not want to put pressure on the older, for Jimin always came back, Jimin always had a reason.

What Taehyung didn't know was JB had sneaked off behind his back following Jimin through the dark alleys.

Taehyung was having his dinner with the other boys of his gang, meaning he was just sitting there with his mask in place, while the others devoured their dinner. His eyes wandered to the empty seats besides him one belonging to his brother and the other to his right hand. His phone started ringing, he looked down at the lit screen, it was JB.

Taehyung picked it up to hear JB breathing heavily,"K..karma," more huffing,"Karma I need back up." That's when he heard a bullet go off in the background.

"Jaebeom where are you?" Taehyung thundered over the phone, as he gestured the men to get ready. Nobody wasted a second, plates were abandoned as everyone ran out to fetch their weapons.

"Just follow my location Karma, I can't speak right now. They are gonna shoot-" and the line went silent.

A team of five had come along with Taehyung, while the others were waiting as a backup. The location had led him to an old warehouse. As they made their way in, he could see piles of dead bodies scattered everywhere, each one shot with precision. But he could not find a trace of any living being in the vicinity.

"Karma, I hear something."One of his men called out. Taehyung did hear something too, two people were arguing. He immediately started following the voices, for he could identify those two voices even in his sleep. Jimin and Jaebeom, but what were they arguing about?

Suddenly gunshots were heard, everything went still, Taehyung ran. He reached the courtyard to see Jimin holding up a gun, and JB's limp body as it fell to the ground. Taehyung could not process what had happened. His brother, his life, his only family was dead. That too by the hands of his most trusted man, a boy he had come to like over the last few years.

Jimin tried walking towards Jaebeom as the masked man held him to his chest, his tears hidden by the golden mask.

"Don't you fucking dare. You have thirty seconds before my men arrive, Jimin-ah; run." Taehyung looking up at the boy drenched in blood, "Because you aren't getting an easy death for taking him away." Taehyung's eyes shone with our hatred, as he looked up through the mask, "You would always have to look over your back, you will fear your own shadow, for one day your Karma will come and get you."

"Karma I didn't.." the boy who had always been so strong in front of Taehyung, stuttered.

"Run Jimin-ah for the game has already begun."

"I didn't... Karma. I didn't..." Jimin shouted out as he ran, for he knew if they found him, nobody would let him explain.

Taehyung laid on the ground still holding onto Jaebeom, no more tears left his eyes, for he was devising different ways he will tear Jimin apart.

Over the next few months Jimin had tried contacting Taehyung, but had been careful enough to not give away his location. He had to explain Taehyung what had happened, why things turned out the way they had, but Taehyung didn't want to listen, he was blinded by revenge. Everytime Taehyung got a message he would trace it to the sender, but Jimin would already have left.

So one day he decided he would take a shot. Jimin had always told him, one day when he would retire, he would like to go settle down in the small town, the town where he was born. Taehyung didn't found a trace of the older but he decided to wait. He had decided to kill Jimin the moment he laid eyes on him but the gang's olders had adviced against it, "You did not see him shoot JB. You need make him confess first, only then it would be justified."

" But I know he killed him, there was no one else there."

"You are the Boss Karma if you don't hold on to our promises, then who will? The moment he confesses he's all yours."

Taehyung felt someone shake him by his arm. The boy who he was so in love with stood before his eyes, smiling. "You dozed of probably due to losing of blood. C'mon get up you need to put some sugar into your tummy." He said holding up a banana and a tetra pack.

"Jimin?"

"He's fine, though it will take time for him to gain back the movements of his shoulder."

"And you? How are you?" Taehyung suddenly remembered how Jungkook had seen his dark side, "why are you even here, by my side?"

"What? Did you expect me to run away from you? No Kim Taehyung, I'm not going anywhere, you said it yourself despite everything, I love you, and that," he said, "would never change."

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So.... we finally got to hear about their past. So what do y'all think about the whole thing? Let me know. It's 3 am here and I need to catch up my lost sleep. Goodnight or maybe goodmorning or whatever.

Borahae...💜

Yours Aarch;)