ikigai [DOTAE] ✅

Chapter 5

Doyoung POV:

Doyoung approached the door to his apartment

A quick thought went through his mind

Did my parents do something for these people to murder them?

He paused... He had never thought about his parents side of it, he quickly unlocked the door and rushed inside

Doyoung sat down quickly in his dad's office chair, turning on the computer and quickly scrolling through all the files on the computer

He clicked through every file on the computer, examining each one carefully

Nothing

Than he went into his parents room, remembering seeing a safe in their room

Finding the small safe, he sighed

Locked

He searched around the room, tearing it apart, looking for a key, or any code for the safe

Doyoung was currently struggling trying to open a desk drawer that was jammed

He was starting to get frustrated

Pulling the drawer with more and more force, taking his frustration out on the drawer, anger spilling from him, tears falling from his eyes, pure frustration pouring from his body

Than the drawer ripped open, and out of the desk completely, falling backwards onto the bed, the desk drawer laying on the ground, all of it's contents strewn all over

Doyoung crumpled to the ground, once again in tears

He just knelt there, crying, he didn't know why

He felt stupid, crying over a drawer

Than he felt something hard imbedding itself into his knee

He lifted his leg, looking at the floor where his knee was

And saw

A key

(A/N: I know it's cheesy, I couldn't think of anything else 😭)

Doyoung stood and stumbled to the safe, sliding the key into the hole

It fit

Doyoung hurriedly turned they key in the lock, hearing a clicking sound, he pulled the safe open

Papers, files, notes, letters, a few falling out of the safe

This was gonna take a while

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The boy had brought the papers onto the table in the dining room, and had been reading through them for a few hours now, taking notes on everything

He reached up and pushed his reading glasses up more securely on his face

Small beads of sweat had formed on his forehead, every once in a while trickling down and falling onto the table

He adjusted his seating position, leaning back over the table

He slowly closed the last file, setting it on the pile he had created with all the other papers he had finished reading

Reaching for another file, he felt around the table while looking at his phone, glancing up as he had felt nothing but the table, he saw nothing, he had looked through them all

Stretching his arms out, his back popped a few times, standing up he grabbed his notepad he sighed looking at it

From all the notes he got he figured that his parents had been involved in a mafia

Doyoung scrunched his face, he had assumed this was the case, but now knowing it was true just saddened him

Why a mafia of all things

He had discovered that the mafia they, or his dad, had been involved in was called TVXQ

His mom had helped his father, but she had never officially joined, but she had sure helped out a lot

When Doyoung was born his father left TVXQ, and for a whole 19 years they had been hunted by another mafia group, that had been assigned to hunt them because they apparently knew to much about the mafia life

Doyoung had found letters that had went back and forth between his parents during times when they would part for a bit, to lose their enemy's scent on them

All of the files contained information on different mafias that his parents had apparently stupidly held as blackmail against the other mafias in case they ever try to kill them

But sadly it didn't work

Other letters had threats upon threats in them, threatening to do horrible things to his dad's family, including Doyoung

Doyoung had found that the main group doing the threatening and hunting was a group called NCT

They had been mentioned several times in the letters and Doyoung had even found a file on them

Doyoung picked up that file, he had set it aside because he had thought it would be useful for later

And sure enough

All the information he needed on them was right there in the file

His parents had done well

Doyoung naturally assumed that these were the people to blame for his parents murders, towards the end of his parents letters back and forth they had started to seem more worried about this group, as more and more threats from them had started coming on a very regular basis

They somehow had always managed to find his family, forcing them to move more often

Doyoung wasn't blind, he had noticed that they were moving on a very regular basis, he had originally lived in this house, when he was a baby, and until he was around 12

Where he had been friends with Sungchan and Kun

Than his parents moved, taking little Doyoung with them, he remembered being verivery mad at his parents for making him move from his friends

But now he understands

Doyoung had stayed in contact with his two friends all throughout his 7 years of being apart from them

A few months ago his family moved back to their old house, reuniting Doyoung with his childhood friends

This being their last move, their past catching up with them, and ultimately killing them