Heartless and His Shadow

Jungkook's POV

They say you should never follow monsters into the dark.
But no one ever warned me what to do when the monster... saved you.

Before I even knew his name, I knew who he was.

Kim Taehyung.

The boy who walked like he ruled the world but looked like he wanted nothing from it. He didn't talk much. He didn't smile. He didn't try to belong-and somehow that made the whole world bend around him. His leather jacket was always half-zipped, chains dangling carelessly around his neck, and his eyes... they never looked scared.

He was the type of person people didn't just avoid-they feared.

But I didn't.

I noticed the way people moved aside when he entered a room. I saw how even the seniors quieted around him. Everyone whispered about him like he was a walking threat, a storm waiting to break.
But when he looked at me-just once-his eyes weren't cold. They were empty.

Like no one had ever looked back at him and stayed.

And then... he saved me.

From hands that gripped too tight. From voices that laughed too loud. From the fear I tried to hide behind my books and my smile.

He didn't say much. Just three words:
"Let. Him. Go."

And like a spell, they listened.

That was the first time I saw someone fight for me.
The first time I felt seen.

And maybe that's why I started following him.

At first, I told myself it was just gratitude. That I wanted to thank him. But it wasn't just that.
It was curiosity. Obsession. Safety. Wonder. Something unnamed that made my heart race every time I saw the back of his head in a crowd.

I followed him like a shadow, quiet and close, even when he acted like I wasn't there.

Everyone called him heartless.
But maybe they just never gave him something to protect.

And I didn't know it then-but from the moment he saved me...
I was already his.

Where softie Kookie is the cutest shadow of heartless Kim Taehyung..