destiny...(11/?)
a/n: i am so very sorry!!! for disappearing again! couldn't write much because i was busy with preparing for my audition and my lappy decided to screw me up hell much! mianhae...
now its the final few chaps of this series, so hopefully it'll be good, sorry for any cliff hangers.
unbeta'd!
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Time had been ticking passed, as if eagerly counting down to the merciless end of Jinki's life. It's only two weeks away from the five months due of his life as told by the four immortal guardians. The interval of Jinki fainting had became shorter each time. Everything seems to be telling Jinki that his time is almost up and nobody knows it better than he himself.
During that period of time, Jinki had been busying himself with tonnes of stuff. As he promised himself not long after knowing that he would die within the span of five months. He spent time making memories with his umma Joonmi. They went on a tour around Korea, visiting all the different cities which Jinki never had time to visit with his umma in the past including Joonmi's hometown Busan. They also took loads of pictures with the polaroid camera Jinki owns, filling an entire wall in their hall with all the pictures they took (approximately the amount of more than a hundred sets of polaroid films).
Not only did they went on the tour, they've also went around volunteering to help people in need along the way. Be it teaching in schools in the countryside to help relieve the workload for school teachers, building a house for someone who've they had randomly met, or even helping farmers to harvest. You say it, they 'd done it. They were not alone in such missions though, the four guardians of Jinki accompanied them throughout, helping and watching over them during the process.
Due to all the traveling, the four guardians eventually took shelter under the same roof as Jinki and his umma. Joonmi mentioned that it would save them all the trouble to move around from their houses to the Lee's residence, what she did not know was that the four boys don't actually have their own houses to go to. It was either Jinki's house or their own respective world or dimension if you would like to call it. Joonmi also said that their house was way too big for the two of them, so the four boys moving in would make the house more lively and less cold, besides, she had already regarded them as her own, obviously not knowing that they were going to take her one and only child away.
The remaining days for Jinki was spent wisely, if the boy really had to admit it. There were tonnes of things happening, but there was simply one final question that he had been pondering over the past months and had yet gotten any slightest clue of what he should do. "Where and who would he be after his death? Would be be with Taemin, being an angel? Would he be with Key, being a reaper? Would he be with Jonghyun, which means he would have to be turned into a demon, or would he be with Minho, being the devil of all time? He can never stop doubting the possibilities and whatnot of him being any of those. He just couldn't stop thinking that he would fail in those just like how he failed in life.
On one of the night while Jinki was asleep, his four guardians gathered in his room, as it had already became a routine for them to stay in Jinki's room, watching the boy sleep. Sometimes they would spend it in silence, watching the boy. Sometimes, they would just spend the night wondering about many things which would happen, immortality doesn't always comes with the know-it-all which seems to be their case. They would not know what's going to happen the day after, if they did know, then wouldn't everything be too predictable?
But that night, they've decided to spent it talking to each other, discussing about the boy. They did not even have to lower down their volume while speaking because Jinki would never sit up in annoyance and curse the heck out of all of them for disturbing his sleep. He was literally a log when it came to sleeping.
"So...now what?" Jonghyun asked no one in particular.
"We've tried all sorts of ways, getting close to him and stuff. Those definitely worked, since we're literally his best friends now. But it seems like our lil chicken boy doesn't know what he really wants yet," Key mumbled as he stroked said boy's hair affectionately.
"But why must he be the one choosing? I mean since he doesn't even know what he really want, so why can't we make the decision for him?" Jonghyun stomped his feet in frustration.
"Because God came up with this rule? And besides, that's human rights! He has the right to choose what he wants and whatnot," Taemin explained and rolled his sapphire eyes.
"Besides, all of us wants him. We'll be fighting for him all over again, so ultimately he'll still have to be the one making the final choice," Minho continued while drumming his long fingers on Jinki's study table.
"UGH!!!" the demon groaned and grabbed a fistful of Jinki's comforter to munch on.
It took the other three some effort to swapped the demon away from the comforter which had already became a mess of scattered cotton on the wooden flooring after the disastrous attack of said demon.
"Yah! Since when you've started munching on cotton?! Don't you munch on enough souls? Now you're moving your soul-eating fetish to cotton are you?! Seriously, are you sure you're not T-rex himself who came back to life to munch on all the cotton comforter that he could find!?" Key bombarded Jonghyun with his word vomit, not forgetting to smack the heck out of that Rex-demon's head.
While the demon whined and rubbed his head in pain, the angel waved his right hand over the mess of cotton, instantly revealing a perfect chicken motif printed comforter. He picked it up from the ground and gave it a few flung before laying it over Jinki again. The devil who stood by the boy's side bended over to stroke Jinki's cheek while watching him curl into the warm comfort that had been recovered.
The next morning Jinki woke up with a very pleasant mood judging on the fried chicken dream he had the night before, totally oblivious to the small incident that took place while he was dreaming.
As soon as he made his way into the hall, "Somebody had a good night huh?" Minho smiled slyly at Jinki as he plopped down on the couch right next to him.
The boy beamed and nodded, "You bet! Dream that all of us had a chicken feast!" he grinned a toothy grin.
Taemin chuckled as he munched on his bowl of strawberry honeybunch cornflakes cereal, eyes focused on the television screen but not even paying attention to what's flashing on it. Jinki looked around for the sight of his umma but failed to catch her anywhere. "Where's umma and Key?"
"Grocery shopping," Minho replied, stilled focused on the television, which happened to be showing Pororo then. Jinki nodded knowingly.
"And they left without even making breakfast," Jonghyun grumbled from the kitchen. Tip-toeing his way to look into the top cabinets.
"Why is there only Raisin Bran left?! Who in the world eat these now?!" the demon grumbled again as he held out the box of cereal.
"Don't we have some pancake mix left?" Jinki thought out loud.
"Nope. that's why the ladies had to go shopping," Minho mumbled and glanced at Jinki before returning his gaze to the television focusing on Pororo once again.
Jinki nodded thoughtfully as the hungry demon stomped out of the kitchen and somehow managed to squeeze his way in between the boy and devil which earned a scoff from the devil.
"Jinkiiii~~~~ I'm hungry, aren't you hungry too?" the demon whined and nuzzled his head in the crook of Jinki's neck.
"I am, but I guess we'll just have to wait till umma and Key returns, they'll have food with them, don't worry," the kind boy replied and gave a few comforting pats on the demon's back.
"But I don't want to wait! I would die of hunger!!!" the demon went on and exaggerated, throwing his arms up in the air.
"You won't die of hunger, you can't die from hunger," Taemin replied deadpan from the bean bag chair across the couch where the other three were at.
Jonghyun shot up and gave his best puppy-eyes paired up with a mega pout to Jinki, hoping that the human boy would cave in to his pleads. All Jinki could come up with at that time was a series of nervous laughter and an "Uhh.." while Taemin mumbled something about Jonghyun being a big baby and how ugly he looked with that pout on his face.
"Yah!! Why are you being mean to me right now? I'm hungry and that's it! You're banned from getting anywhere near Key! You're turning into a mean angel because he had been corrupting your once innocent mind too much!!" the demon gasped in horror. Minho only arched a brow when all these drama unfold. He was too used to it.
"Hmm guys..." Jinki raised his arm up and waved it between the bickering pair, who were totally oblivious to Joonmi and Key's entrance. And said death who was holding a bunch of shopping bags and what seemed like clothes (where the hell did they get clothes so early in the morning?), sending death glares to the pair.
"Guys..." Jinki tried again, this time, louder and waving his arm harder. But instead of noticing, Jonghyun hugged his waist with a dead grip as an attempt to hide from Taemin's verbal attacks made it too hard for Jinki to breathe. The boy then pointed a finger to his umma and Key, while nudging the dense demon with his elbow.
The demon whined and rubbed the sore spot where he got jabbed by Jinki, "Mwo~~?" while Taemin laughed out loud thinking that Jinki was on his side.
It was then that Joonmi's giggles caught the attention of the pair. "One more word from any of you, I swear you're so gonna pay for it," Key warned while he eyed the pair while his fury eyes.
Minho and Jinki snickered when they saw Jonghyun and Taemin physically shuddered at Key's words. The demon and angel were staring at death in fear, Key decided to dump all the grocery bags on the demon's laps.
"Ugh! Why are you so unfair?! Why am I the only one who always gets this? This is not the reality I wanted!!" Jonghyun glare up to the culprit but was shut right up the moment he saw death's eyes. He swore on all the gummy bears and T-rex candies in the entire world that he saw flames literally burning in those eyes.
"Ay- aye aye sir!" Jonghyun bolted up from his seat on the couch and scrambled his way into the kitchen to set everything down on the dining table before bumping squarely into the edge of the table with his crotch.
"So what do you want for breakfast?" Key grinned down to Jinki.
The day went by uneventfully, other than the few times, Jinki tripped over thin air and Jonghyun's constant whining about being hungry. Before anyone knew, it was almost bedtime for Jinki.
As usual, Joonmi had already went to bed around 10pm for her beauty sleep, while the rest of them stayed in the hall watching the latest Harry Potter movie on the home theater system as it was movie-night. But to be exact, its always movie-night whenever the five of them are together.
Everyone was concentrating on the movie when Dobby appeared and teleported everyone out of Malfoy's mansion but ended up dead because he was stabbed by the dagger that Bellatrix threw into the time gate before it closed.
Jonghyun was sniffing and choking on his tears because of Dobby's death as Taemin mumbled about how beautiful Hermoine was regardless the situation she was in.
When the movie finally ended, there was a comfortable silence when all they heard was the occasional sniffings from Jonghyun and their own breathing.
Jinki stood up from the couch that he had been glued on for the past hours, "I've made my decision," the boy mumbled loud enough for the others to hear.
The other four hummed aimlessly in return, before realization dawned them.
"Wait! What did you just said?" Minho said a little louder than he intended and looked up at Jinki wide-eyed.
The latter chuckled and repeated again, "I said, I've made up my mind."
"What?! What mind?!" Jonghyun stared at jinki ridiculously as he scratched his head, trying to convince himself that he did not just heard that coming from the human boy.
"Bedtime!" Jinki exclaimed with a genuine grin before stalking off to his bedroom on the second floor.
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don't kill me! ><"
oh! not spotting again, mianhae..
now its the final few chaps of this series, so hopefully it'll be good, sorry for any cliff hangers.
unbeta'd!
---
Time had been ticking passed, as if eagerly counting down to the merciless end of Jinki's life. It's only two weeks away from the five months due of his life as told by the four immortal guardians. The interval of Jinki fainting had became shorter each time. Everything seems to be telling Jinki that his time is almost up and nobody knows it better than he himself.
During that period of time, Jinki had been busying himself with tonnes of stuff. As he promised himself not long after knowing that he would die within the span of five months. He spent time making memories with his umma Joonmi. They went on a tour around Korea, visiting all the different cities which Jinki never had time to visit with his umma in the past including Joonmi's hometown Busan. They also took loads of pictures with the polaroid camera Jinki owns, filling an entire wall in their hall with all the pictures they took (approximately the amount of more than a hundred sets of polaroid films).
Not only did they went on the tour, they've also went around volunteering to help people in need along the way. Be it teaching in schools in the countryside to help relieve the workload for school teachers, building a house for someone who've they had randomly met, or even helping farmers to harvest. You say it, they 'd done it. They were not alone in such missions though, the four guardians of Jinki accompanied them throughout, helping and watching over them during the process.
Due to all the traveling, the four guardians eventually took shelter under the same roof as Jinki and his umma. Joonmi mentioned that it would save them all the trouble to move around from their houses to the Lee's residence, what she did not know was that the four boys don't actually have their own houses to go to. It was either Jinki's house or their own respective world or dimension if you would like to call it. Joonmi also said that their house was way too big for the two of them, so the four boys moving in would make the house more lively and less cold, besides, she had already regarded them as her own, obviously not knowing that they were going to take her one and only child away.
The remaining days for Jinki was spent wisely, if the boy really had to admit it. There were tonnes of things happening, but there was simply one final question that he had been pondering over the past months and had yet gotten any slightest clue of what he should do. "Where and who would he be after his death? Would be be with Taemin, being an angel? Would he be with Key, being a reaper? Would he be with Jonghyun, which means he would have to be turned into a demon, or would he be with Minho, being the devil of all time? He can never stop doubting the possibilities and whatnot of him being any of those. He just couldn't stop thinking that he would fail in those just like how he failed in life.
On one of the night while Jinki was asleep, his four guardians gathered in his room, as it had already became a routine for them to stay in Jinki's room, watching the boy sleep. Sometimes they would spend it in silence, watching the boy. Sometimes, they would just spend the night wondering about many things which would happen, immortality doesn't always comes with the know-it-all which seems to be their case. They would not know what's going to happen the day after, if they did know, then wouldn't everything be too predictable?
But that night, they've decided to spent it talking to each other, discussing about the boy. They did not even have to lower down their volume while speaking because Jinki would never sit up in annoyance and curse the heck out of all of them for disturbing his sleep. He was literally a log when it came to sleeping.
"So...now what?" Jonghyun asked no one in particular.
"We've tried all sorts of ways, getting close to him and stuff. Those definitely worked, since we're literally his best friends now. But it seems like our lil chicken boy doesn't know what he really wants yet," Key mumbled as he stroked said boy's hair affectionately.
"But why must he be the one choosing? I mean since he doesn't even know what he really want, so why can't we make the decision for him?" Jonghyun stomped his feet in frustration.
"Because God came up with this rule? And besides, that's human rights! He has the right to choose what he wants and whatnot," Taemin explained and rolled his sapphire eyes.
"Besides, all of us wants him. We'll be fighting for him all over again, so ultimately he'll still have to be the one making the final choice," Minho continued while drumming his long fingers on Jinki's study table.
"UGH!!!" the demon groaned and grabbed a fistful of Jinki's comforter to munch on.
It took the other three some effort to swapped the demon away from the comforter which had already became a mess of scattered cotton on the wooden flooring after the disastrous attack of said demon.
"Yah! Since when you've started munching on cotton?! Don't you munch on enough souls? Now you're moving your soul-eating fetish to cotton are you?! Seriously, are you sure you're not T-rex himself who came back to life to munch on all the cotton comforter that he could find!?" Key bombarded Jonghyun with his word vomit, not forgetting to smack the heck out of that Rex-demon's head.
While the demon whined and rubbed his head in pain, the angel waved his right hand over the mess of cotton, instantly revealing a perfect chicken motif printed comforter. He picked it up from the ground and gave it a few flung before laying it over Jinki again. The devil who stood by the boy's side bended over to stroke Jinki's cheek while watching him curl into the warm comfort that had been recovered.
The next morning Jinki woke up with a very pleasant mood judging on the fried chicken dream he had the night before, totally oblivious to the small incident that took place while he was dreaming.
As soon as he made his way into the hall, "Somebody had a good night huh?" Minho smiled slyly at Jinki as he plopped down on the couch right next to him.
The boy beamed and nodded, "You bet! Dream that all of us had a chicken feast!" he grinned a toothy grin.
Taemin chuckled as he munched on his bowl of strawberry honeybunch cornflakes cereal, eyes focused on the television screen but not even paying attention to what's flashing on it. Jinki looked around for the sight of his umma but failed to catch her anywhere. "Where's umma and Key?"
"Grocery shopping," Minho replied, stilled focused on the television, which happened to be showing Pororo then. Jinki nodded knowingly.
"And they left without even making breakfast," Jonghyun grumbled from the kitchen. Tip-toeing his way to look into the top cabinets.
"Why is there only Raisin Bran left?! Who in the world eat these now?!" the demon grumbled again as he held out the box of cereal.
"Don't we have some pancake mix left?" Jinki thought out loud.
"Nope. that's why the ladies had to go shopping," Minho mumbled and glanced at Jinki before returning his gaze to the television focusing on Pororo once again.
Jinki nodded thoughtfully as the hungry demon stomped out of the kitchen and somehow managed to squeeze his way in between the boy and devil which earned a scoff from the devil.
"Jinkiiii~~~~ I'm hungry, aren't you hungry too?" the demon whined and nuzzled his head in the crook of Jinki's neck.
"I am, but I guess we'll just have to wait till umma and Key returns, they'll have food with them, don't worry," the kind boy replied and gave a few comforting pats on the demon's back.
"But I don't want to wait! I would die of hunger!!!" the demon went on and exaggerated, throwing his arms up in the air.
"You won't die of hunger, you can't die from hunger," Taemin replied deadpan from the bean bag chair across the couch where the other three were at.
Jonghyun shot up and gave his best puppy-eyes paired up with a mega pout to Jinki, hoping that the human boy would cave in to his pleads. All Jinki could come up with at that time was a series of nervous laughter and an "Uhh.." while Taemin mumbled something about Jonghyun being a big baby and how ugly he looked with that pout on his face.
"Yah!! Why are you being mean to me right now? I'm hungry and that's it! You're banned from getting anywhere near Key! You're turning into a mean angel because he had been corrupting your once innocent mind too much!!" the demon gasped in horror. Minho only arched a brow when all these drama unfold. He was too used to it.
"Hmm guys..." Jinki raised his arm up and waved it between the bickering pair, who were totally oblivious to Joonmi and Key's entrance. And said death who was holding a bunch of shopping bags and what seemed like clothes (where the hell did they get clothes so early in the morning?), sending death glares to the pair.
"Guys..." Jinki tried again, this time, louder and waving his arm harder. But instead of noticing, Jonghyun hugged his waist with a dead grip as an attempt to hide from Taemin's verbal attacks made it too hard for Jinki to breathe. The boy then pointed a finger to his umma and Key, while nudging the dense demon with his elbow.
The demon whined and rubbed the sore spot where he got jabbed by Jinki, "Mwo~~?" while Taemin laughed out loud thinking that Jinki was on his side.
It was then that Joonmi's giggles caught the attention of the pair. "One more word from any of you, I swear you're so gonna pay for it," Key warned while he eyed the pair while his fury eyes.
Minho and Jinki snickered when they saw Jonghyun and Taemin physically shuddered at Key's words. The demon and angel were staring at death in fear, Key decided to dump all the grocery bags on the demon's laps.
"Ugh! Why are you so unfair?! Why am I the only one who always gets this? This is not the reality I wanted!!" Jonghyun glare up to the culprit but was shut right up the moment he saw death's eyes. He swore on all the gummy bears and T-rex candies in the entire world that he saw flames literally burning in those eyes.
"Ay- aye aye sir!" Jonghyun bolted up from his seat on the couch and scrambled his way into the kitchen to set everything down on the dining table before bumping squarely into the edge of the table with his crotch.
"So what do you want for breakfast?" Key grinned down to Jinki.
The day went by uneventfully, other than the few times, Jinki tripped over thin air and Jonghyun's constant whining about being hungry. Before anyone knew, it was almost bedtime for Jinki.
As usual, Joonmi had already went to bed around 10pm for her beauty sleep, while the rest of them stayed in the hall watching the latest Harry Potter movie on the home theater system as it was movie-night. But to be exact, its always movie-night whenever the five of them are together.
Everyone was concentrating on the movie when Dobby appeared and teleported everyone out of Malfoy's mansion but ended up dead because he was stabbed by the dagger that Bellatrix threw into the time gate before it closed.
Jonghyun was sniffing and choking on his tears because of Dobby's death as Taemin mumbled about how beautiful Hermoine was regardless the situation she was in.
When the movie finally ended, there was a comfortable silence when all they heard was the occasional sniffings from Jonghyun and their own breathing.
Jinki stood up from the couch that he had been glued on for the past hours, "I've made my decision," the boy mumbled loud enough for the others to hear.
The other four hummed aimlessly in return, before realization dawned them.
"Wait! What did you just said?" Minho said a little louder than he intended and looked up at Jinki wide-eyed.
The latter chuckled and repeated again, "I said, I've made up my mind."
"What?! What mind?!" Jonghyun stared at jinki ridiculously as he scratched his head, trying to convince himself that he did not just heard that coming from the human boy.
"Bedtime!" Jinki exclaimed with a genuine grin before stalking off to his bedroom on the second floor.
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don't kill me! ><"
oh! not spotting again, mianhae..