It was a normal friday afternoon, after going into his 20's and now that he was almost 30 Taekjoo had chose friday to be his cleaning day, 29 wasn't that old but for him it felt old, he had started getting problems with his knee a couple years back but that was nothing.
Today he chose his bathroom that was connected to his bedroom to be the one to be cleaned, grabbing cleaning products from the laundry and swiftly getting into action, he started with the shower, cleaning the dark dirt that was stuck in the corners of the shower and cleaning the walls from the all product that had flown off while showering.
As he was finishing the shower area and moving onto the sink area he heard his phone ringing from the kitchen, rushing to get to his phone, almost tripping over something he had left on the floor, finally grabbing the phone but falling over and landing on his knee answering the phone.
"Yes hello" Taekjoo quickly said into the phone, panting from running and holding his bad knee as he had fallen onto it.
"Taekjoo come to the company, we have a mission" the other person said, it was Chief Ims, the person who had chosen for him to join the NIS in the first place, but this man has also acted as a father figure since the start of him working with them.
"Yep I'm coming, just give me a little bit" Taekjoo says as he's getting up, he hissed from the pain in his knee.
"You okay, Taekjoo?" Chief Ims mumbled to the phone, worrying about Taekjoo when he hissed.
"Yep, just fell on my knee again" Taekjoo told him, putting the phone on speaker and getting ready, knowing that Chief Ims was gonna talk to him until he got in the car and left.
"Taekjoo, be careful or even go to the hospital, that damn knee has been so much trouble for you" Chief Ims said with clear worry in his voice.
"Yeah… later" Taekjoo peeked out the window and sadly it was snowing so he quickly put long pants and a shirt on, grabbing a thick jacket and grabbing the car keys "Alright I'm leaving" he said, walking out the door hanging up the phone and jumping into his car and turning it on, he threw the phone on the passenger seat and slowly got out the drive way, driving to the company building.
Once arrived he quickly went to Chief Ims office and walked in like it was nothing, the new recruits were confused on why someone like him can walk in without anyone escorting him, but that was a later conversation.
"Taekjoo!" Chief Ims exclaimed happily upon seeing Taekjoo "Important conversation needing to be happening" Chief's face turned serious "I need you to go to Japan, there's some information on a family I need… your the only person I could find who fits the job"
"Japan? Thats… very pacific" Taekjoo comments, he didn't want to be going to Japan anytime soon, it wasn't far away from South Korea but it completely new place, lucky he would have no problem with the language as he had been made to learn Russian, English, Japanese and German as he was going to need those in the future and here was when the Japanese was going to be used.
"You're lucky I taught you Japanese before this day" Chief said, seemingly proud of himself for teaching Taekjoo himself, as he was very protective of Taekjoo after finding out about him being half-siren "you depart tomorrow, get packing" Chief said, standing up and opening the door for Taekjoo to leave.
Taekjoo and Chief hug, Chief telling Taekjoo to be careful, then them going their separate ways, as Taekjoo was leaving a new recruit run up to him, looking scared and trembling as she held onto his waist, hugging him and burying her face in his back, one of the older recruits stormed up to them. All older recruits knew not to mess with Taekjoo, as they would have problems with Chief Ims if they did but this guy was a brute, the girl let go of Taekjoo as soon as she saw the brute hold up his hand, Taekjoo pushed the girl back and went in for the punch, getting the guy in the stomach, making him double over in pain, he then gripped the guys head and sent his knee into the guys head, leaving him bleeding on the floor.
"Fuck!" Taekjoo loudly exclaimed, feeling frustrated with the brute "are you fucking stupid!?" he then asked the brute "I don't care, I don't wanna know, 'cause I already know you are" Taekjoo returned to the girls side and kneeled down to her height, she looked so very young, much younger then when he joined the NIS, she was maybe fourteen or fifteen "How old are you? Are you okay?" Taekjoo asked, rubbing his hand on the girl's arm to comfort her a little, she was still shaking from the shock of watching the fight.
"I'm tw-twevle" the girl quietly stuttered.
'Twelve?!?!' Taekjoo thought to himself. Taekjoo scratches his head, he was confused on why the fuck a twelve year old was here of all places "just stay away from that and if he bothers you again you come to me" Taekjoo then told the little girl. She nodded and ran off, leaving Taekjoo alone with the brute of a man.
Taekjoo spat at the man and left, driving back home and packing for Japan. He searched up what season it was and luckily the seasons were the same, so he packed cold much like he would wear in South Korea.
He departed tomorrow so he didn't really have long to pack and it was already the afternoon. He didn't get his day of cleaning and he won't for a little while, which pissed him off ever so slightly.
But he had to deal with it, after packing the most important things he rolled his suitcase out into the lounging area of his house and put it down right in the middle of the room, not caring much for were is was going to go as of now, he opened the fridge grabbed something with vodka in it and sat down, drinking his drink slowly, his plan was to get drunk as he hadn't done that in a while.
As the night got older Taekjoo stopped drinking as much, at about 3 drinks he stopped. He watched a new show in Nettyflix, it was interesting it was about how a brother and sister fell in love but they didn't know they were brother and sister until the end of the story, it was sweet but also weird to watch, but as the characters were finding out their brother and sister he falls asleep.
Walking up his loud ass, annoying alarm Taekjoo quickly got off the couch and stumbled to turn the alarm off, he was also still in his clothes from the day before so he just kept them on to go to the airport.
Arriving at the airport the place was bustling with people, small kids to elders about to fall off their perch, it was packed, his plane didn't depart until nine o'clock, he checked his phone.
"Fuck!!" he said racing to get on the plane, being late was the worse and it was already three minutes after nine, he got into line and did everything he was meant to do before getting on the plane, the plane to Japan had zero stops in between it, it was just Korea then Japan, but Taekjoo's plane actually landed in Fukuoka.
it was closest to South Korea and also were the mission was set as the last remanding family member of the family he was meant to find was spotted in Fukuoka, Akio Tanaka, she was part of the famous mafia family, but her family was also enemies to the NIS she needs to be found for questioning, her father Kenji Tanaka has targeted Chief Ims, but that family hasn't been seen in years, that's the funny part about it, the family went missing when Taekjoo was around ten years of age, something was weird about this family and Taekjoo was going to figure it out, one way or another, as he got on the plane he saw someone who looked very familiar to him, her long dark hair was pulling up into a bun, her dark skin glowing in the sun light, he older face still holding its beauty, it was his mother he hadn't seen within ten years, the gasp that left his throat was loud, she was with an older man and a child, her child? It couldn't be, she was too old to have kids, the kid looked younger then Taekjoo, maybe she was about 18 years old.
He gripped his luggage and walking closer, that was definitely his mother, this child looked more like the man she was with, he quickly moved through the crowd and catched up to her, grabbing her wrist, she gasped and looked around, her eyes widening upon seeing him, the man and child hadn't noticed yet, but when she dropped her luggage they noticed her, she threw herself into Taekjoo's arms, holding him so tightly he might burst.
"My son, my sweet lovely son" she said in a whisper near his ear.
"Hi mum, long time no see huh" he quietly said back, the embrace broke apart but she still held his arms in her hands, she hadn't noticed the still webbed hands, nor his knee as his pants covered that.
"Get your hands off him!" an angry gruff voice sounded from behind his mother, Taekjoo immediately looked up and glared at the man, the child was hiding behind him like a coward, his mother let go of him, staggering back and returning to the man's side "who do you think you are to hug MY wife like that!"
'Wife?' Taekjoo questioned in his mind "Sir, this is my mother" he calmly and simply replied, angering the man more somehow.
"You can't be she doesn't have any kids" the man stepped forward, the child now hiding behind his mother.
Taekjoo grabbed the man's collar and pulled him forward, saying a low dangerous whisper "I'm her son, you can't do anything about it, if you do… your life won't be so peaceful, ya hear me?" Taekjoo released the guy and the guy stumbled back, Taekjoo had a dangerous glare on, if a look could kill, this man would drop dead right here right now.
The man ushered his child and Taekjoo's mother away, they boarded the plane and some time later Taekjoo did too.
Sitting in his plane seat he ran a hand through his dark tangled hair, letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding and suck into the seat, finally a relaxing one hour flight to Fukuoka, most of the time Taekjoo slept, most of the flight was a blur he needed his sleep after how many sleepless nights he's had this year, most of the days have just mixed together.
He woke up to the plane landing, he had woken up many times before landing but he didn't really remember much of it, he grabbed his luggage and walking off the plane, he looked around a bit, glancing at every person face, he wanted to see his mother once more but he couldn't find her, so he left.
Taekjoo remembers what Chief Ims has told him of what the girl looks like, blue hair, colourful eyes and she has traits of being a mermaid or a siren, Taekjoo groaned "This is going to be the hardest mission I'll ever have to do" he said to no one but himself, looking up the bright blue sky that was actually clear for once, this winter has been very cold and snowing.
As he walked around Japan he had to go to a hotel, KOKO HOTEL, it had good reviews and it had four stars. He found the hotel checked in and went to his room, placing his suitcase down on the spare bed and laying down, just relaxing for a little while.
'How can someone be so tired' Taekjoo thought to himself, he rubbed his eyes grabbed his wallet and key card, putting it in his wallet and leaving, having to find this Aiko girl quickly so he could get back home, but another mission was to avoid his mother and her new family at all costs.
At first he just walked around, exploring the landscapes of the city, buildings towered over him as he walked around, the streets were bustling with people, young and old, the roads were busy with cars going to and from places, it was loud and chaotic.
'I'm never finding the damn target' Taekjoo thought to himself as he walked, he was basically back to boobs, shoulder to shoulder with how many people were here, it kinda pissed him off, South Korea was much less crowded, he rubbed his temples trying to stop the headache that was forming and continued on his way, all he had to look for was blue hair, that was going to be easy, he looks up and sees a group of people with blue hair.
'Why the fuck is this getting fucking harder!' he screamed at himself in his head, he walked closer to the ground, studying girls eyes, none of them had purple nor blue eyes, so she wasn't among those people, he kinda thanked whatever god was up there that the target wasn't there as that would be too easy, even though he wanted to be at home.
After two hours of looking he didn't see anyone else match the description of the target so he just went exploring now, he walked into a tiny restaurant that didn't have many people, it was small, the smell of wood was strong, the place was very clean and well kept, there was a family at one of the window seats, the baby giggling with the youngest child as the parents talked about something, Taekjoo smiled, remembering how his family was before his father and brother left.
Taekjoo walked up to the counter and asked if he could have a table and some food, the server nodded and guided him to a table letting him sit down and giving him a menu, the foods sounded different, so he ordered something he knew, ramen, it was the easiest thing and also the cheapest thing on the menu. He asked for the ramen, the server bowed, Taekjoo gave him a confused look and he left, leaving Taekjoo alone at the table to finally be able to think and relax, Taekjoo relaxed back letting out a breathing he didn't know he was holding, closing his eyes and relaxing back, finally letting all the worries of the world go.
His mother and her new husband and child walk in, Taekjoo immediately looks away from the approaching family, knowing theres going to be a un-necessary argument if he shows that he's here, the family happily order their food and take a seat, lucky for him it was far away from him, he looked forward and placed his head him his hands, covering his eyes as tears threatened to fall, his breathing had increased as well, quietly sobbing to himself, it hurt him seeing his mother happier without him, forgetting about his brother and his father, forgetting all the memories they had together, all he felt was hurt, nothing but hurt, he looks up and glanced in their direction, all he felt like doing was running, he had no idea but whenever he saw his mother he felt like fleeing, maybe it was his fight or flight response but that's what he wanted to do.. Run.
He got up, leaving the restaurant, forgetting about his food he had ordered and running. Yes he was twenty nine but he still felt that child like fear when he saw his mother, the fear she'll lock him up again, the fear she'll leave to the sea and also never come back. He needed to run.
After running for sometime Taekjoo found himself at the beach, the sun shining down on him, making his dark skin warm, the calming sound of the water hiding against the coast line, the happy voices of people, as he walked closer all the panic left him, he took his shoes and socks off, feeling the sand between his toes, that day when he was ten comes back to him, he feels like a young child again, he walked near the coast of the water the water washing the sand off of, as he looks to his side he sees a head of blue hair coming out of a cave near by, the sun shining off, he comes out of his daze as he sees the person falling, dropping his shoes and rushing over, catching the person before they hit the sand.
He pulls her into a more public area of the beach, falling down and sitting down, placing the girl's head in his lap, he knows he's meant to catch this girl and bring her in but he's so out of breath and light headed it didn't come to his mind to take her, panting and putting his hand behind him to stable himself, failing in the end and completely just passing out, his head hitting a hard rock that was behind him and then a warm liquid trickling down his head.
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As he wakes up he feels a pounding pain in his head, he opens his eyes to white.
'Am I in heaven?' Taekjoo thinks to himself, he looks to his side and sees purple and blue eyes blankly staring at him.
"Got a fucking staring problem?" he says to the girl, slowly sitting up. He groans in pain and just accepts he's not sitting up for a very long time, laying back down he looks to his side again and the girl is still staring at him.
'Fucking creepy bitch, why is she just staring at me!!' he thinks to himself once again "Jesus Christ, You have a fucking staring problem" he angerly said once again, glaring the the girl with a pout, he looked down putting his head in his hands then he heres "Are you a siren?"
The panic that went through his body was intense to the point he just passed out, his vision blurring and his sight completely blacking out until he just fainted in the hospital bed.