history

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Title: History
Pairing: J-Hope/Suga friendship
Rating: PG-13, for language
Summary: I don't think it's a secret that I love Hoseok and Yoongi's bffery. This is the backstory to how they end up in BTS together.

The problem with Jung Hoseok is that he’s freaking adorable.

Yoongi doesn’t do adorable. He doesn’t do cute, or endearing, or anything that makes his cheeks hurt from grinning too much.

Yoongi spends his first years of middle school cutting class and attempting to learn how to run the streets of Daegu - or at least his neighborhood. He doesn't quite make it on the streets, but one of his hyungs introduces him to a dingy hip-hop club next to the university and Yoongi’s life takes a turn for the better and he finally learns that he's much better suited for spitting rhymes than for throwing insults.

Hoseok spends middle school dutifully attending class all day, cram school all night, and tutoring on the weekends. He never misses a lesson, not even when he catches the flu and has to leave class every 20 minutes to be sick in the bathroom. During his second year of middle school his best friend begs him for days to perform H.O.T at the school festival, as a rapper. Hoseok is open to the idea but holds out until his friend offers up a date with his cousin in high school. At the festival, Hoseok falls in love less with the rapping and more with the cheers from the audience.

Yoongi completely falls in love with that hip-hop club and the life it entails. By his third year of middle school, he's writing verses that have all of the college noonas fawning over him. They are drawn in by his bad-boy charm and he pays his hyung for a fake ID. For all the noona’s know, he's a high school senior saying fuck it to the man and skipping sooneung. He can hold his liquor and it isn't long before all the noonas discover that his tongue isn’t only good with words.

Hoseok begins listening to more hip-hop after the festival. He discovers American rappers, Hongdae underground clubs, and the art of the mixtape. After cram school, in the wee hours of the morning when he should be sleeping, he practices rapping and dreams of life in the famed underground clubs up in distant Seoul. When he tries to memorize his English homework, his mind wanders to Naz and Tupac. He starts writing rap verses the summer before his first year of high school, fantasizing the music that could accompany his voice.

After a major fight with his parents, Yoongi makes the decision to move to Seoul as a high school freshman. He’s heard of a new entertainment company and he’s been talking online to a boy who calls himself "Runchrider". The night before he leaves, he gets completely smashed with his hip-hop hyung. Somewhere between throwing insults at each other and taking shots, he ends up with his hyung’s tongue in his mouth. Yoongi has never held anything against experimentation, but the next morning his hyung is so weird about it that Yoongi is glad to head north. He's heard that Hongdae doesn’t judge anything except your talent.

Hoseok only dates one girl - after he’d failed to impress his best friend’s cousin he ends up with a girl in his middle school class. By their first year in high school, they are the campus couple and everyone talks about how sweet they are together. But Hoseok has a dirty secret, he doesn’t want to stay in Gwangju and be the sweet boy next door anymore. His brain is filled with ideas for new songs and suddenly he's losing interest in his studies for the first time ever. Right before his second year of high school, he asks his parents if he can move up to Seoul - for a more challenging school environment. They buy it. His girlfriend, however, throws a chair at him.

Yoongi moves in with Runchrider, whose real name turns out to be Namjoon. Big Hit Entertainment accepts him as well and he falls into rank with the other boys that Namjoon is trying to pull together into a new group. Namjoon is convinced that they can make it, be the next Big Bang but 100% hip-hop. Yoongi likes him and the other boys well enough and they let him do his own thing and run off to Hongdae every Friday night. Even if he spends every other waking hour in various studios writing, mixing, dancing, and even singing, he can still go to Hongdae every Friday and lose himself in the crowd. He meets women, men, foreign exchange students. He is a badass with Gyeongsan satoori. Daegu Yoongi becomes Hongdae Suga.

One day when Hoseok is walking back to his aunt’s apartment after cram school, he wanders past a couple of guys rowdily rapping in an alleyway. Despite his brain telling him to just keep moving, he ends up peeking his head in. After ten minutes of staring with rapt attention, one of the boys notices him. His name is Namjoon and he is more amused than anything at Hoseok’s stammered apology for peeping. Somehow Hoseok is brave enough to mention that he writes rap lyrics too. Ignoring the other boy's snickering at his Jeolla accent, Namjoon smiles. He punches an address into Hoseok’s cellphone and tells him to meet him there the next day at noon.

Yoongi knows nothing about Namjoon’s encounter, he still has his own schedule and works best alone. But, he’s heard grumblings among some of the other boys about a country bumpkin that Namjoon has, for some reason, developed a new fondness for. He must think he’s Mother Theresa, he keeps bringing in strays. Yoongi bristles at these whispered snipes at Namjoon’s kindness - after all, it was Namjoon that had essentially handed this new life to Yoongi. But, Yoongi also scoffs at the idea of a kid from the middle of nowhere making it in this business. Everyone else in the group is 100% city. He doesn’t waste any more time thinking about it.

Hoseok becomes quick friends with Namjoon. After he raps one of his original verses, his face heats at the excitement that emanates from Namjoon’s body in palpable waves. He learns that the other boy wanted a voice like Hoseok’s in his group, that his pompous voice is wonderfully, completely at odds with his goody-goody image. After their fateful first meeting, Hoseok learns a lot about himself from Namjoon, from their meetings in the younger boy's studio all day every Sunday. It takes three months before Hoseok finally sucks it up and admits to his family that his future is with Big Hit and Namjoon. His parents give him their blessing, tell him to do his best as Hoseok sobs with relief, his father smiling at him over his mother’s shoulder through his cellphone screen.

It’s when Namjoon officially introduces Hoseok to the Big Hit boys that Yoongi’s life truly goes to hell. Namjoon calls a meeting on Friday night, mandatory, and effectively ruins Yoongi’s Hongdae night. When he strolls in ten minutes late, Yoongi assumes that the smiley boy on Namjoon’s right is his cousin. It turns out that he's the newest member of their little band of idol-wannabe misfits. And, he is fucking smiley. Despite the fact that he is the very boy all the other kids hated for no reason, his smile shuts them all up pretty quickly. Over the course of the next month, Yoongi watches as the other boys fall one by one to Hoseok’s charm and quick laughter.

Which leads to his current dilemma. Yoongi has fallen as well, in fact Yoongi is loath to admit it but he’s pretty sure he fell day one. Something about how wide Hoseok can smile and how easy it is for him to pout his lips and whatever Yoongi was teasing him for suddenly melts in his brain and all he can think is cute, shit, so cute, fuck. Whenever Yoongi’s words die on the tip of his tongue, Namjoon shoots him this incredulous look while Hoseok laughs and slaps his shoulder. And then Yoongi bristles and berates Hoseok for hitting him and Namjoon for glaring at him.

Yoongi gets along fine with everyone, but Hoseok is the first person that he begins to spend time with outside of work. Sure, he can spend all night writing with Namjoon but on his day off he’s usually spending the day in bed or on the recording studio couch without giving a passing thought to what the other boys are up to. After Hoseok, however, that all changes.

On their third day off after the younger boy moves in with them, Yoongi is woken by a soft knocking on his and Namjoon’s door. When Hoseok sticks his head in and asks him to go shopping, Yoongi knows he should stick to habit - he should verbally berate Hoseok for having the gall to wake him up on their only day off and ensure that such idiocy never happens again. Instead, he groans and agrees to be ready in an hour.

When he makes it to the kitchen table, showered and dressed by noon, Hoseok is bouncing with barely contained glee and the other boys are staring at Yoongi as though he’s fucking insane. Yoongi is torn between wanting to crawl back into bed and punching the other boys in the faces. He fastens his hand around Hoseok’s upper arm and drags him out the door. Hoseok squawks something about food and Yoongi mentions a good café in Myeongdong.

An hour later, watching the younger boy sip gingerly at a café mocha - sweet coffee, of course - Yoongi can’t help but feel like he’s on a date as he tries to drown himself in his americano. Hoseok keeps trying to plan out their shopping route and every time he asks Yoongi for his opinion, the excited hope in his eyes - as though he’s waiting to hear everything that Yoongi has to say - makes Yoongi’s breath catch and his heart swell.

The day goes extremely well and Yoongi lets Hoseok drag him around for three hours - twelve stores, thirty outfits, and one hundred opinions - before they finally make it back to the dorm. The other boys wisely don’t comment on Yoongi’s unusual behavior. Namjoon, however, is neither wise nor the type to bite his tongue. When Yoongi retires back to the comfort of his bed, and leaves the other boys at the mercy of Hoseok’s fashion show, Namjoon follows and closes the door to their shared room behind him.

“Don’t even start,” is all Yoongi growls out as he nuzzles into his pillow. He honestly doesn’t have the patience for whatever their pseudo-leader is planning at throwing at him. He doesn’t even want to ruminate on why he agreed to go on some weird version of a date with a boy that embodies most of the things that Yoongi actually hates, like cuteness and rainbows and energy and boisterous, obnoxious laughter.

“I’m not here to give you a hard time, hyung. I just think it’s nice that you’re spending time with Hoseok is all...” Namjoon is awkwardly shifting against the door. Yoongi doesn’t need to look to know this - despite Namjoon’s leader-like tone, he’s still shit with all the leader-like responsibilities.

“Yeah, okay.” Yoongi rolls over, the noise filling their room.

“No, really hyung, he’s been having a hard time adjusting and I think today meant a lot to him. Just, don’t tell him I told you.” Yoongi adjusts himself so he can see the younger boy. He’s picking at his thumbnail.

“What do you mean he’s having a hard time?” Namjoon glances at him before focusing back on his hand.

“Well, you know, Hunchul and Donghyuk are nice and all but they’ve kind of been ignoring his offers to go out and actually be friends. I think they’re waiting for him to get sick of Seoul and go back to Gwangju... But I don’t think he’s going to, I don’t want him to so... I guess I’m just glad you’re giving him a chance.” Namjoon huffs a sigh, “sorry, I’m making this awkward. Just, thanks for today. You’re free to relax now, obviously.” And with that he’s opening the door and fleeing the room.

And Yoongi... Yoongi’s not sure how to process this information. He suddenly feels guilty for avoiding Hoseok after he first joined and imagines Hoseok crying, alone in his bunk and just wishing for a friend. Hoseok is the type that needs to surround himself with friends to rely on - Yoongi hadn’t realized that the other guys hadn’t been filling those roles. He should probably feel mildly put out that Hoseok had come to him last, but instead Yoongi’s happy that Hoseok came to him at all.

Hoseok’s laugh sounds from the other room. Fuck it, Yoongi is tired and he’s really not the type to be introspective about shit like this.

Unfortunately, the moment he’s just about to fall asleep he’s hit with inspiration for some sappy love song that simply won’t leave him be. Fuck being an artist, he groans as he fishes about under the bed for his notepad.

After their eerily-like-a-date-first-friend-date, Yoongi finds himself re-orienting himself. Instead of focusing on himself and music alone, suddenly he’s adding Hoseok into his daily life. If Hoseok isn’t smiling, Yoongi finds himself going over to tease him. When Hoseok flops to the ground during dance practice, it’s Yoongi that hands him water. When Hunchul, then Donghyuk leave, it’s Yoongi that finds Hoseok on the roof crying and pats his shoulder and pretends not to notice the tears arching down the younger boy's cheeks. When the new members join, Yoongi can’t help the tiny flares of jealousy at how accommodating Hoseok is - at how the other members instinctively gravitate towards his warm smile.

But, at the end of the day, the new kids make Yoongi's job easier. Hoseok suddenly has 4 new reasons to smile. Yoongi wants to give them a hard time but he finds that he can't, not when he sees how attached Hoseok grows to them in the first hour that they all meet. Soon, the younger boy is running around being stupid with Taehyung, practicing the new choreography with Jimin and Jeongkook, and helping Jin around the dorm.

A week later, Namjoon is watching Hoseok attempt to suffocate Taehyung on the couch with a pillow as both Jeongkook and Jimin attempt to clamber onto his back and Jin yells at them from the other couch to please shut up for the love of god. "I'm not sure how this happened, but I think we finally figured it out. I think this is the group," he's shaking his head in half disbelief, half relief.

Yoongi pulls his eyes away away from the scene in front of them to look at him. "Yeah, I think we're stuck with them." Namjoon chuckles, still shaking his head as he wanders back in the direction of their shared bedroom. Hoseok makes a strangled sort of whining sound, somehow ending up at the bottom of the couch pile and Yoongi decides it's time to intervene. "Ya, ya, let's not kill anyone before we debut!"

Hoseok's hand shoots out of the pile and wraps around Yoongi's forearm. "Hoseok, don't you fucking-" is all he gets out before there's a war-cry and his vision is filled with pillows and Hoseok's crazy smile.

A/N: Sorry that I took major liberties with their ages. I'm not entirely sure about when they joined BTS - but I assumed it was around the time they entered HS. I can also only write Yoongi in one way apparently.