[FANFIC] Bamboo Blood (Chapter:7.2)
Title: In the ground: Chapter 7.2
Pairing: Yoosu, Yunjae, Kimin
Author: BloodyRose
Length: 62/63
Genre: angst, romance, fluff, comedy, drama, smut, happy ending,
Warning/s: Yaoi, boyxboy
Summary: Yoochun kept walking and walking
Yoochun kept walking and walking, he felt his body hit something and sighed, he had finally reached the place he knew he was to reach and opened his eyes; he had hit the counter jaejoong always stood behind
This got to be a mistake, yoochun thought, how could this be right?
But, again, yoochun learned to always trust his guts, this wasn't really an easy thing right now. Still, yoochun decided he was going to trust his guts, once again
Yoochun knelt down and began examining the wooden counter; the more he examined the wood the more he was convinced that there was a secret door around there
Looking carefully and searching yoochun found it finally, he pushed it open; the dust in there was disturbed. Someone had crawled in here a lot lately so the dust was disturbed like this
With no hesitation yoochun went into the tunnel and began crawling, it was like tiny, old staircase going down into the ground. Yoochun went with the tunnel, it was so dark yet he didn't mind, he could see his way around without depending on his eyes, he felt his way around and kept on going
Yoochun was trying to imagine the tunnel in his mind; its height was somehow around one meter, it was also one meter wide, made out of stones and it was going straight forward, no corners, no turns, nothing, just forward
Yoochun thought hard, going this way in a straight line would lead him for one place for sure, he knew where it would lead but he still needed to know where the killer was
Yoochun felt the tunnel get wider and wider, soon it was even tall enough for him to stand still. Yoochun frowned, now things were getting better and better, he could feel someone else in the tunnel with him. Normally he wouldn't have heard it but the echo helped a lot, he could hear the breathing sound echo on the walls around him, he wasn't alone
Yoochun held his gun higher each step he took seemed to echo around. He moved, yoochun heard it and turned right, he was hiding in the darkness there, for sure
A soft metal sound and yoochun flew sideway just in time to avoid the flying weapon which flew his way, he rolled on the ground and tried to take air, they were both moving, in a square, pitch black room where no one saw the other. It was impossible to shoot and hope to hit him like this
Yoochun heard the metal sound again, he knew it was coming again and this time he could hear it from his right, echoing there, yoochun jumped left and heard as the metal blade sank into the stone wall, leaving a mark in it
Yoochun was quick; he jumped at once and grabbed the chain, pulling on it tightly so the killer couldn't pull it back to him
The two men were pulling on the chain, one wanting his weapon back while the second wanted to disarm the first; it seemed as if it will never end
Yoochun used his mind, he wasn't called brilliant for nothing, after all. He held the chain with his left and his gun with his right, he began firing at the chain, a few shots and it broke, the blade fell right beside him hitting the ground while the deafening noise from the bullets being shot echoed louder and louder in the tunnel
For a few seconds, around a minute in fact, yoochun couldn't hear anything but the firing noise; he now felt the chain being thrown his way, the other man had obviously dropped it now it lost its killing blade
Yoochun frowned, he couldn't hear anything to know where the man was nor could he see anything, so two senses were already useless
Yoochun stood still, he could feel the air shifting around him and it had nothing to do with the noise, he took a step forward and felt it, the breathing behind him, the hand grabbing the blade and raising it up about to strike, about to sink it into him
Again, yoochun was too good for him, he had jumped around and turned to face the killer in no time, his gun is pointed and everything, he felt the blade slashing the air around him, making its way toward him and he acted at once
Another sound was heard, the shooting sound of a bullet and the loud gasp for air, the blade dropping on the floor and the body falling right after it
Yoochun cursed loudly, he wanted the man alive. He wanted him to pay for his crimes. He wanted him to spill the truth out about who was giving him orders to kill all those people. But, the man was already dead; there was no pulse in his hand, he had knelt down carefully to check, nothing… he was gone
Yoochun still pulled on the body, dragging him out of the tunnel with him, but instead of going back, yoochun kept going forward, the tunnel still went straight forward, now it was going upward, again in those tiny, very old stairs and yoochun had to crawl again, pulling the dead body with him
Yoochun reached the end, the exit was blocked and he knew exactly why, he knew where he was, or under where he was. He knew everything now but for one thing
Why?
The question repeated itself in yoochun's mind, why would he do such a thing? Kill everyone who entered the forest? What was it for?
Yoochun turned around and began to crawl back to the other end of the tunnel, to the inn, leaving the dead body in its place
Now what he knew it was safe the trip didn't take long, he ran his way back and soon he was climbing out of the counter once again
Yoochun didn't exit from the front door, he knew someone would see him if he did, he went to the kitchen and rushed out of the back door, he rushed to the forest. It wasn't long away, he reached it sooner than he thought and went in
He didn't know his way around, not in that part of the forest, because today he wasn't going to go meet junsu, he was going to search the forest to know why the killer would kill anyone who entered it
Yoochun began searching everywhere; the new areas were all the same. Nothing seemed remotely interesting or suspicious in any of them. He was getting frustrated now
Yoochun thought he was going to waste his time here; there was nothing for him to search for… it must be a mistake. Something went wrong with his theories for sure, he had to think about it all again
Thinking, was something yoochun couldn't do while sitting down still, especially when there was nothing to look at, no junsu or anything but the dark bamboo trees… all were bamboo trees
But wait, not all were bamboo trees… junsu was sleeping under some other kind of tree, he saw it himself, why was that tree the only one not bamboo?
Yoochun began to walk again, heading to that tree indeed, he was going to find it out soon, he had a feeling about it and his feelings always turned right
When yoochun reached the tree it was dark already, the moon and the stars were barely seen from this place, he had spent hours running here and there, searching and looking around and yet he wasn't tired, the adrenalin in his system gave him enough energy to keep pushing forward
Yoochun walked to the tree, looking at it and examining it carefully, it seemed old, but not that old, if yoochun had to guess he would say around thirty years old or something… a little before the first killings began
Around that time it was war, yoochun thought; soldiers were being recruited and sent to the battle fields. Why would he plant a tree like this in such a place around that time?
To mark a spot? Yoochun's mind began to work again
'He must have buried something here, something that was important enough not to be left in the house, something that he was afraid to lose and wasn't able to take with him
Looking around the tree some more yoochun noticed it, between the roots, the ground was disturbed. The soil had been dug recently for sure
Yoochun knelt down, what could be so important to hide here?
Yoochun began to dig using his own hands; it didn't care to him how long it took him to reach there. A while passed; a few hours for sure… yoochun had dug around half a meter in circle around the tree when he found it
It was a small wooden boxed, scattered around the tree, burned in the ground, for a long time now. There were three boxed, or that was the amount yoochun found for now, opening the box by breaking the lock with a stone yoochun's eyes widened, gold… the box was filled with gold and money, heck it was as if he found the pirates treasure or something
Where did this money come from? Yoochun frowned again
Money could be a motive to kill. He wanted to protect his money, others could have found it by accident, while shopping woods, or while digging in the soil for something… anything, and once they found it he had to kill them to keep his treasures safe
Why didn't he keep them with him? Why hide them here?
The others didn't know about them his mind answered him again
That money was illegal, dirty and dangerous, that's why he didn't tell anyone about it. He knew they would wonder where did he got it from and he won't have answers, not healing ones at least
Where did the money come from? Yoochun asked himself again. This money was how he paid his hit man with, but where did the money come from?
Yoochun looked into the boxes some more, there was something he recognized, curved on one of the golden items in the box was the symbol of the biggest drug dealing gang in Korea. Yoochun knew the symbol very well because he caught many of the gangsters himself
Drugs, that money came from selling drugs, yoochun knew. But where were the drugs he sold? It must be around here, he never went anywhere out of the village and the forest
Yoochun looked around, as if expecting to see the drugs around him anywhere; he thought once again, pretty hard and frowned. The only place that ever looked suspicious and creepy was the place where junsu once took him, the place where the people were killed. The place where even junsu was afraid to go
Yoochun began to run yet again, this was the last thing he would need to check, if this was right then he knows everything, then he could bust the mastermind not only to those murders but to what seemed one of the largest and most dangerous drug gangs in Korea. Most importantly was that he would be able to spend all his time with his lover, without worrying about anything…