Under The Fox's Tail ⁷

Eat

Hoseok had stayed silent as his eyes travelled the wall, carefully and slowly as if he was looking to find something and that made you look at it as well, even though you couldn't understand anything that was craved on it.

"You came here for what reason if you can't open this portal?" You questioned and he smiled a bit before replying to you.

"This portal is supposed to contain the name that will gift me my key. The person that is supposed to give me love." His response was surprising and unexpected which made you uneasy a bit even though such a piece of information would benefit you.

Love was what would set you free for him after all. Cause the seal would break if he was to fall in love. That was something you knew because of Yukio and now you just knew why it would break. Obviously, it was because once he get someone to love him, he was gonna leave through this portal. He was gonna be able to return to the spirit world and maybe never return back.

The thought of it made you feel sad for an instant as it sounded unfair to whoever was to love him because they would lose him the day they were to gift him their feelings of love and it was also unpleasant because it meant that he will no longer be part of the same world as you were. 

You should be happy that his annoying self wouldn't be appearing out of anywhere and carrying you any more yet you weren't because you couldn't help but think beyond those small incidents you had shared. You couldn't help but think of him as someone with feelings now. He no longer was just a crazy spirit in your eyes.

He was someone with a heart. Someone that once sacrificed himself to save the lives of others. Someone who was desperate to live for someone as you still remembered that face of his as he had stretched his hand towards that old painting of him and the girl that looked like you. He sure wasn't as abstract and absurd anymore and that somehow enabled you to sympathize with him and the feelings you imagined that he might feel when that moment comes.

"Can you read these letters?" You questioned, feeling a bit nervous to hear the name that he might have found there.

"It's not that easy. It's a riddle but I will solve it. I have to." He spoke with determination in his eyes and you just fell quiet, thinking that his desire to leave this world must have grown too big.

"Does that mean that we have to stay here till you solve it?" You spoke after some minutes that you let him stare at it, feeling the pressure sinking to your bones.

"No, I was just memorizing it. Let's go." He replied and looked your way with a smile before he approached you and engulfed you in his arms.

"I will invade your privacy once more. Excuse me for a moment." He told you and then entered your body without hesitation, making you feel again that freaky sensation that literally was as scary as it was unbelievable. It felt like you were being placed on standby while in your own body. As if your brain was put on pause and was no longer able to control your body nor your own flesh felt as heavy and real as before.

Soon you found yourself passing through the concrete material that surrounded that room, through pitch darkness you felt your body slipping through till you reached the outside again and he left your body, making you feel as if something was getting ripped from inside you, a thing that kinda took your breath away.

"Being possessed by someone else is not nice. It eats your energy and that is why I don't prefer doing it often. But such was the situation today. I hope you are okay." You heard his voice before feeling his palm on your back, patting you there for a moment as you were with your hands on your knees, breathing heavily.

"Yeah. I am okay." You replied, knowing that this was not the time to throw a tantrum at him since your friends whom you could see in the distance, might be already looking for you two.