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Dudurudududu kissing you baby~
Dudurudududu loving you baby~
Kim Daeyoung, a 25 years old (young) man from Daegu looks very excited while dancing and humming a really old song from Girls' Generation that has become a trending among youngsters once again now in 2030.
In his right hand, there is a medium sized plastic bag containing some cans of beer and dried squids that he just bought from somewhere. In his left hand, there is a strawberry chupachup that he had just licked several times, he swings it here and there imitating the choreography happily and excitedly.
Tonight, Daeyoung thinks he can finally be able to do whatever he wants after finishing a project in his IT company. Haaa, Daeyoung inhales and exhales. The cold breeze fills his lungs and he smiles that the corner of his mouth goes up as if it will touch both of his ears. It's another day to be grateful after some weeks that he had thought he has been living in the deepest part of hell.
Daeyoung resumes his walk. Just another turn in that corner in front of his eyes and then, boom, he will arrive at his most comfortable place—his studio apartment.
Daeyoung starts humming another song, this time, he hums a song from another SM entertainment's girl group, Hearts2Hearts. He shakes his hips here and there imitating the choreography while walking forward to his destination excitedly. Until.....
Daeyoung hears a rough groaning coming from the alley between the two apartments building in his neighborhood. Daeyoung immediately stops, he can feel all of his hair stands on its end. What the hell? What was it? Daeyoung who clearly hears it can't phantom what it was. It sounded like a man's voice, but why? Why was it coming from that dark alley?
Wait! As if it's on cue, Daeyoung is reminded to the thriller horror movie that he had watched a week ago. No, that can't be.... He tries to rationalize. The gruesome murder could only happen in a movie right.....? Zombie? What if it's zombie? His mind keeps going in spiral.
However, then, Daeyoung hears another sound coming from the alley. This time it sounds like a silent sobbing. Daeyoung, the president of F people, immediately feels bad. Somehow he feels like he needs to help this 'person' so he slowly approaches the alley while trying to be brave like the marvel heroes that he likes so much.
“Excuse me...” Daeyoung cautiously turns on his phone light. At almost the end of the alley, he sees a man in a white uniform that he has never seen before. On top of his shoulders, there seems to be some badges that Daeyoung has never seen before too. Daeyoung slowly approaches the man.
Upon a closer look, the man's white uniform is tainted in red on several parts of it. Daeyoung gasps, before he can takes a step back, the man turns his head to Daeyoung. Their eyes meet for a quiet long time. Daeyoung wonders why this man gazes shift from a very alert gaze to a very soft gaze as if he has known the man in front of him, as if the man longs for Daeyoung. Daeyoung is stunned.
“助けて (help me).....” The man says in a voice just above the whisper.
Daeyoung snaps back to the reality, “H-help me?” He says in English spontaneously as if translating the man's word.
Daeyoung looks around trying to find something that he could use to press on the wounds to stop the bleeding because Daeyoung assumes it might be a big wound on his lower abdomen.
Daeyoung kneels in front of the man, his trembling hands betray his calm face as he tries to rip his white undershirt. The man in front of him just watches Daeyoung struggles like that then closely scan's Daeyoung face and smiles softly to himself.
“I—I will try to.. stop the... uh...the bleeding.” Daeyoung says in English with his Daegu accent. He slowly lifts the man's white uniform and put the ripped undershirt on his open wound.
Daeyoung can feel the undershirt below his hands being soaked. His face immediately goes pale as he utters, “This... I don't think this could work.... We need to call the ambulance immediately...”
Just as Daeyoung who is about to shout to call for some help, the man fastly warps his hand to the back of Daeyoung's long neck and pushes Daeyoung's face towards him.
Daeyoung's eyes widening and the things he can see is the man's long eyelashes and he can also somehow feels the softness of something that touches his lips.
And as if the realisation just hits him late, Daeyoung breaks the kiss first and pushes the man away strongly because he can't adjust his strength due to how shock he is.
“You! What are you—”
When Daeyoung wants to angrily argue with the man, the man leans forward in his limp state to Daeyoung. The man faints, Daeyoung frantically tries to wake him up but there is still no response from him.
Daeyoung finally brought the man to the nearby clinic. The doctor immediately performed the examinations after seeing the man's state. However after the thorough examinations, the doctor told Daeyoung that it was probably due to exhaustion that he fainted so the doctor only gives him the IV fluids. But, Daeyoung was so stubborn. He said that there were lots of blood stains on his clothes and he even did the pressure splint to his open wound earlier before coming to the clinic. Still, the doctor told Daeyoung that there were just some scratches and there was no open wound. She even made Daeyoung witness it all when Daeyoung was still stubborn about the open wound he just felt but didn't really see it because he was squinting his eyes when he did the pressure on top of the wound.
And now, Daeyoung is just sitting in front of the clinic reception staring blankly to the space. While the nurses keep whispering and looking at him weirdly, Daeyoung just ignores it all. In fact, it does bother him, but what can he do? Now he even looks like a lunatic for trying to debate with the doctor about the man's open wound when there is clearly nothing on top of his well toned abs. Daeyoung bets the doctor might think they were involved in something criminal because she suggested Daeyoung to turn the man to the police when Daeyoung said he didn't know the man personally.
“Hey, Kim Daeyoung! What happened?” The one who is rushing worriedly to Daeyoung is his high school senior who is now a police officer for Seoul Mapo district, Oh Sion.
Daeyoung called him because he himself is also worried about the man, like.. what if he is a victim of criminal case? But, judging by his look... Well, he looks handsome. I mean, his uniform... Could he actually be a mafia from Japan and was involved in mafia's war or something? Daeyoung feels the chill just imagining it and shakes his head when Sion asks him what happened.
Daeyoung makes Sion sits beside him and then starts telling the whole story about his encounter with the unnamed Japanese man.
Sion can't seems to fully understand the whole story, no, he doesn't understand Daeyoung who was willing to help this unnamed man instead of immediately contacting a police.
“Hey! That could be very serious, you know! What if you start involving yourself in a criminal case?!” Sion lowers his voice when he sees the people in the clinic are listening to their conversation.
“Right... It completely slips out of my mind, hyung...” Daeyoung answers. He looks pitiful that Sion can't really blame him for what he did. So he can only sigh.
“Where is that man?”
“He is there, still unconscious...” Daeyoung points his finger to where Yushi is treated.
Sion slowly gets up from his seat, followed by Daeyoung.
The two sees Yushi's condition, it really doesn't match what Daeyoung has told him but Sion can see clearly that the man's white uniform is soaked in red color. Could it be really blood just like what Daeyoung said?
Just as Sion is wondering about it, the doctor who has treated Yushi comes to the room to give the details to Sion, too. She also keeps mentioning that it can be a serious criminal case that might make Daeyoung involved in it. She also said that since the IV drip is about to finish but the man is still unconscious, she advised Daeyoung and Sion to bring him to a hospital instead.
“Yes, we will bring him to the hospital.” Sion says.
After finishing the administration, Sion goes out to where he parks the police car because he was on the patrol before Daeyoung called him.
Sion opens the back door and is surprised to see Daeyoung in only his ripped white undershirt showing his fluffy belly and the unnamed man sits on top of Daeyoung's black tracksuit.
“What if his DNA would be found in the police car?” Daeyoung asks. Well, Sion think Daeyoung clearly watches too many dramas.
The ride to a larger hospital is quiet, both of them seems to be in such a deep thoughts. Sion wonders if it will be alright bringing unconscious man to the police station or if it will be alright bringing unnamed man to the hospital. Then, after thinking about it carefully, Sion breaks the silent first.
“Daeyoung-ah, let's just go to your apartment for now.”
After putting the man to Daeyoung's bed, the two Korean man starts to argue in the 1LDK studio apartment room. Sion says he will look into it first, in case if it's really a criminal case involving some mafias. He says he needs to talk to his supervisor later, but Daeyoung who is already afraid for the worst case keeps insisting the man to stay in Sion's apartment or he can just bring the man to the police station or something. He even says that this man could be just a victim even though he himself is not that sure about it and Daeyoung doesn't want his precious night to be interrupted by looking after this unknown man.
“Hyung, can't you make him stay at your place? Your place is a lot bigger after all and I heard being a police means that you need to look after those in need of protection! This man is one of them!”
“Daeyoung...”
“How cruel it will be to leave this young man to be in the outside world without hyung's divine protection...”
Sion scratches the back of his head as if embarrassed. He really wants to cut Daeyoung off but it seems like Daeyoung will keep blabbering things to him to convince Sion to take this man in.
“Daeyoung-ah, I can't.... I'm on night duties.” Sion finally says. Daeyoung's eyes widening as if he just hears a grand fact.
“What?!” Then, he pauses a bit as if thinking about another options.
“Then... well... Riku hyung would still be there, right? Well, I think it would be nice to have someone from the same country to be around! It looks like this man is Japanese!” Daeyoung nods his head confidently.
Sion looks somewhat gloomy at the mention of Riku's name but Kim Daeyoung is already way too oblivious to notice it.
“Riku.... Can't....” He mumbles while looking down to his feet.
“What?! Why can't you allow him to seek shelter at your place?! Are you a policeman or not? Hyung, I didn't know you are such an unresponsible man! Why can't this man stay at your place?! Riku hyung would be the helper he needs! Riku hyung is a Japanese after all!”
“He can't.... Riku is.... We....”
“Speak louder, will you?! Haa really... I will just ask Riku hyung....”
Daeyoung angrily turns his back to look for his phone. He keeps grumbling because Sion refuses to bring this man to the police station because this man is currently unconscious, he also refuses to bring this man to the hospital because he doesn't have any identity and now! Sion also refuses to bring this man to his apartment even though Riku could be the best helper since the two of them are Japanese. And from what Daeyoung knows, Riku doesn't have any volleyball practice schedule these days—Riku is a volleyball athlete, the setter to be exact.
Sion just watches Daeyoung busily grumbling like that since he can't find his phone easily. He keeps fidgeting and opens then closes his mouth repeatedly. But, when he is hesitating too much, Daeyoung looks like he has finally remembered where he put his phone earlier. Sion feels the 'danger' ringing inside his head.
“You can't!!! We broke up!!!!” Sion finally shouts. Daeyoung looks dumbfounded as he spontaneously turns around. He keeps muttering 'What? Why?' like a broken robot to Sion.
Daeyoung who was about to grab his phone paces himself to Sion, instead. He stands in front of Sion and grabs his shoulders with both of his hand.
“Oh Sion! I mean, Sion hyung, are you joking?”
“I told you! We have broken up!”
“Why?! Why today of all days?! You bastards should date for a long time!!!”
Daeyoung shakes Sion's limp body as if his soul just leave its body.
“Ask Maeda Riku about it!!” Sion tries to talk back after feeling wronged because he doesn't truly understand why they broke up in the first place, too.
“What?! Why is it suddenly.... Hyung! You must made some mistakes right?!”
“Why are you taking Riku's side?!”
“Wh... There...”
“Shut up.” Just one word in perfect Korean dialect can make these country bumpkins shut their mouths tightly.
“Oh, you have woken up, sir.” Daeyoung mutters timidly. He doesn't even realise he just speak Korean to a Japanese man.
Daeyoung slowly releases his grips on Sion's shoulder and faces the unknown man with both of his hands in front of his stomach while looking down. Sion follows suit after seeing Daeyoung suddenly looks all docile in front of this man.
“This man? I have a name.” Yushi says coldly while getting up.
“W-what could be your name, sir?” Sion asks cautiously after seeing that Daeyoung has glued his lips together as if he doesn't have anything to say in front of him.
“Tokuno Yushi.”
“So, you are really a Japanese. We didn't know you could speak Korean this clearly, sir!” Sion tries to smooth talk Yushi.
Yushi sighs as if annoyed, “Obviously since Kim Daeyoung is my guide. I need to learn Korean language, too, to understand him better.”
“Huh, Daeyoung?” Sion turns his head to Daeyoung, but Daeyoung keeps shaking his head.
“This person knows you!” Sion talks annoyedly in whisper to Daeyoung.
“I don't know him!” Daeyoung says.
The two Korean man keeps exchanging words like that. Yushi sighs again looking at the two in front of him. He thinks he will definitely lose some years of his lifespan because he keeps sighing like this upon meeting these two.
“Kim Daeyoung, how can you say you didn't know me?” Yushi walks confidently to Daeyoung. Daeyoung flinches and spontaneously takes some steps back.
“How can you forget me?” Yushi repeats his question.
“Wait... This is a misunderstanding....” Daeyoung says in retort. He somehow feels wronged after seeing Yushi's beautiful eyes are downcasted as if he is upset about something.
“You are my guide... You used to guide me a lot. Holding my hands, asking me if I feel alright, we used to kiss, too...”
“Kiss?!” Sion shouts in surprise and glares at Daeyoung. Daeyoung just timidly shakes his head. Ah, he really feels like crying now.
“Yes, we did kiss several times.... Sometimes... Since you are a guide, you also... Used to... You know.... Did 'it' to guide me...” Yushi mumbles bashfully.
Sion can't really comprehend these many 'facts' that is thrown to him like a bombshell and so does Daeyoung.
“I'm sorry about this morning, Daeyoung. So please stay as my Guide, Daeyoung. I need you...” Yushi with his cheeks tinted in pinkish blush tries to reach out to Daeyoung.
However Daeyoung finally snaps and shouts to the whole world, “What the hell is a guide?!”
After so many commotions and the neighbours are all gathered in front of Daeyoung's apartment after hearing the noise, it is Sion's works to assure that nothing has happened and that it was just a small disagreement between friends.
Daeyoung sits down on the bed while holding his throbbing head, while Yushi sits on top of the cold floor just in front of Daeyoung.
“Daeyoung-ah...” Yushi calls softly. He does know that the whole mess was caused by him, but he also doesn't really understand why the Daeyoung in front of him is acting like this. They did have a huge fight this morning when Daeyoung told Yushi not to go to the battlefield since it was way too dangerous for an A rank sentinel like Yushi and that Daeyoung couldn't accompany him by his side since he was just an office guide and... was not Yushi's official pair guide.
“Please, sir. Don't talk to me.” Daeyoung says without even looking up.
Those are the same words the Kim Daeyoung that Yushi knows uttered to him this morning before he left for a battlefield against the rebellious sentinels.
“I'm sorry...” Yushi says, his voice barely above a whisper and trembling as if there is so much weight he carries in his apology alone.
“And thank you... for saving my life.” He continues.
Yushi doesn't really understand the whole situation either, but the Daeyoung in front of him still has saved his life. Even though he is still so heart broken by the fact that the Daeyoung in front of him seems to not know him. No, when Yushi thinks back on it... This whole situation feels new to him, too. He thinks he has never been here before, he has never seen this neighbourhood, and there is no trace of him in Daeyoung's apartment as if he really doesn't belong here. But, where is it? Where does he belong then? Yushi only knows Kim Daeyoung, the world where Kim Daeyoung is in it, that world may be the place Tokuno Yushi belongs. Still he can't grasp anything that he can understand and Daeyoung's attitude to him just make it worse. It feels quiet lonely being ignored like this when the Daeyoung he knows is always the first one to know everything about Yushi even if he acts so nonchalant about it.
After so many minutes pass with them staying on silent, Sion comes back to the apartment. He feels the heavy atmosphere between Daeyoung who seems to not want to face Yushi and Yushi who desperately searches for a way to see Daeyoung's face at least for a second.
Sion sighs, “Daeyoung-ah, I will go back to patrol again. Contact me if anything happens. And... Yushi-ssi?”
Yushi turns his whole body to Sion, he looks so pitiful like a lost child.
“I will find a way to help you, since it looks like you know Daeyoung, it's best for you to stay here. Please do take a note that Kim Daeyoung has a black belt in Taekwondo so.... Well, I hope you are not a danger to him.”
Yushi just stays still and silent as if he really is listening to Sion obediently. Sion feels awkward after receiving the sincere gaze. It makes him feel like he was scolding his younger brother.
“Well, I will be off then.”
Click.
The apartment's door is closed. Yushi turns his whole body back to face Daeyoung without saying anything as if he is giving Daeyoung some times to calm himself down.
After some minutes pass being like that again, Yushi grows bored so his eyes busily looks around Daeyoung's apartment. Scanning everything and nods to himself when he thinks Daeyoung's taste in fashion and interior design matches the Daeyoung he knows.
“So... Who are you?” Yushi startles when he hears Daeyoung asking him out of sudden when he was busy staring at the portrait on top of the bedside rack.
“Uh... I'm Tokuno Yushi, Japanese born in Tokyo...”
“No. I mean, what are you?” Only then Daeyoung looks up and meets Yushi's eyes.
It's obviously not the affectionate gaze that Yushi grows accustomed to. Yushi smiles bitterly.
“I don't know if Daeyoung will believe me.” He starts.
“Go ahead, I will listen.”
Yushi thinks for a bit, hesitantly he begins to tell the story from his side.
“I'm Tokuno Yushi, a Japanese. It was said that my hometown is in Tokyo. I grew up in the Sentinel and Guide centre because my mom and dad are a couple of Sentinel and Guide. I... I haven't seen them since I was only six...”
Daeyoung's gaze soften as he hears it and Yushi averts his gaze. It doesn't feel so good being pitied on.
“I grew up well with the care of those people in the centre and manifested as a Sentinel when I was 12. My attribute power is ice.”
“But, what is Sentinel? You keep mentioning it, but it's the first time I ever heard of it...”
“Sentinel....” Yushi looks around, his eyes lands to the marvel movie poster somewhere in the room. He assumes that those in the poster are like the fictional heroes people in the centre keep mentioning.
“You could say that Sentinel is quiet similar to a hero. Since Sentinel goes out to the battle a lot, they will likely be exhausted. We need to recharge and heal, that is why we need a Guide.”
“And what if they don't have any guide?”
“You can still rely on guiding drugs... But, it mostly will not be enough and the sentinel could end up dying.” Yushi explains calmly, only Daeyoung reacts loudly.
“Die? How?! Right! Your wounds! I think I witness it, suddenly... There is none?! I look like a lunatic trying to explain it to the doctor....”
Yushi chuckles, “It's because Daeyoung healed me.” He says softly.
“How?! I don't have any power... No, in the first place it can only be found in fiction stories!”
Yushi suddeny grabs Daeyoung's hand and intertwines it with his. He closes his eyes trying to feel the guiding. But, there is nothing he can feel aside from the fact that Daeyoung's hand is cold... Yushi blinks his hand at Daeyoung.
“How?” He mumbles. But, Yushi felt the guiding seeping to his body the moment his lips met Daeyoung's. So, why couldn't he feel it again?
Daeyoung just stares at Yushi blankly.
“I don't know, but the moment our lips touch I could feel it... The guiding...”
Feeling awkward because Yushi brings up that topic, Daeyoung pulls his hand away.
If the guiding doesn't seem to work with only holding the hands, then maybe Yushi needs to try for a guiding technique that involves the mucous membrane.
Yushi looks up to Daeyoung as he rests his chin to one of Daeyoung's knees, “Can I kiss you?”
Spontaneously Daeyoung stands up, his knee hits Yushi's chin. He can also hear Yushi grimaces in pain but he doesn't care. His face heats up at the mention of 'kiss' again. Daeyoung has thought of himself as someone who is only attracted to beautiful women so when a man who has so many beautiful yet manly features says that to him, Daeyoung can't help but feel his heart racing. No, it's not like he falls in love with this man. It's because he is afraid of this spontaneous man, yeah, that must be it.
To make the atmosphere between them less awkward, Daeyoung starts searching for a change of clothes for Yushi. He is a bit bothered since Yushi's clothes has lots of red stains on it.
“Daeyoung's clothes won't fit me.” Yushi says as he sees Daeyoung busy by himself.
“Why?” Daeyoung turns his head.
“Since I have a broader shoulder?”
Daeyoung laughs bitterly at Yushi's words and toss one of his shirt to Yushi. “Just wear it, I don't have any bigger clothes.”
Yushi immediately takes off his clothes ignoring the 'hey hey hey' from Daeyoung. He even smirks at Daeyoung a bit when Daeyoung looks fascinated by his toned abs that he sees through the gaps of his fingertips. (Seriously what is this Daegu man doing?)
Just like what Yushi has said, Daeyoung's shirt feels too tight on him on the shoulder area.
“Whoa, it really doesn't fit you?”
“I told you.”
Then, Daeyoung takes another shirt from his wardrobe. He also throw his short pants to Yushi, because well judging from Yushi's height, his pants won't fit Yushi's too.
“And whose shirt is it?” Yushi asks coldly when he has done putting on the clothes given by Daeyoung, Daeyoung massages his throbbing temple. Now he feels like he is being accused as a cheater by his boyfriend.
“It's my oldest brother's shirt.”
Yushi nods and utters “Daeyoung has brothers too.”
Daeyoung sighs, he doesn't really understand who is this Kim Daeyoung person that Yushi always mention. Does he really look like him? He has the same name as him too. Suddenly, Daeyoung gets reminded of the Japanese anime he watched before about time travelling. Well if it was fiction, he thinks he could understand about the time travelling and people from the future comes to the past or that some people can have a superpower. Still, since he is really curious, Daeyoung ends up asking Yushi.
“Wait, since you mention about sentinel and stuff.... What year are you from?”
“Me? 2160.” Yushi answers confidently.
“Huh? But, it's 2030 now....”
To be continued