Episode three. (1/1)

Episode three: Sitting on a tree trunk in the backyard of the Beopsuja temple, with his elbow on his knees and his chin pressed on his palms, Jaejoong was watching with an annoying moue plastered on his pouty lips his Yunho doing his training under the order of one of the old monk Sunho's disciples, monk Kyuhyun.His Yunho was trying to do all the series of exercises that monk gave him with a bit of difficulty. And it was not normal. Yunho should not be in this state if he had nurtured his vital breath in the good way."Step your right foot forward and keep your balance on the foot left behind." Monk Kyuhyun said while pushing Yunho's right foot a few inches further from his left foot with a wooden stick. "Lower your middle. Bend your knees. Right arm flexed along your side. Left arm outstretched. Maintain the position." The monk made the young apprentice to straighten his upper body. "Look in front."Yunho was trying to do well. But with the lack of vital breath made him lost his balance and fell on the ground. Monk Kyuhyun just sighed and shook his head lightly at this foolish friend of him not knowing to do any exercise he gave to him."Yunho... It was not a hard exercise to do.""Sorry." The young apprentice breathed, frustrated to be so dumb. When would he be able to do something in a good way?"Try again."The young apprentice monk nodded and stood up from the ground. He repositioned himself like what Kyuhyun had said. Flexing a bit, Yunho took a deep breath and focused on his nonexistence vital breath. He must find it and end his training well this time. He did not want to be the scorn of all his fellow companions.Yunho followed The Head Master Song's instructions. Breathing in. Breathing out. Focusing onto the flow of energy from his first gate, then second gate and...Jaejoong narrowed his eyes for awhile. It could not be..."Stop!" The young boy screamed, making monk Kyuhyun turn to look at the pretty boy with a frown creasing on his forehead while Yunho stopped what he was doing and turned to look at his young wife."What are you doing?" The young monk asked sternly. "You foolish boy, don't disturb his training."The young boy ignored the monk's words and jumped out from the tree trunk. Jaejoong sauntered toward his Yunho. He put his hands on the apprentice monk's stomach while knitting his brows together. Jaejoong was trying to feel Yunho's vital breath circulating in his whole body like Xiah had taught him. And he found something alarming.The young man did not have a normal vital breath. Its circulation was not the same as all the people who knew how a Ki worked inside their bodies.Yunho's was disorderly."It won't do..." Jaejoong whispered before turning to look angrily at the young monk who was supposed to teach his Yunho the temple's martial art. "What are you doing?" Jaejoong howled, making monk Kyuhyun and Yunho startle at his outburst. "Are you a competent teacher? How could you mess up with his Ki like this? It is understandable to see him so breathless after a few steps.""Jaeha..." Yunho called his young wife with a frown creased on his forehead."You incompetent monk!" Jaejoong added angrily to the young monk who was frowning at his words."Messed up with his vital breath? I'm not the best to teach him our martial art but I won't mess up with his Ki. You do know what this could do to him, don't you?" Monk Kyuhyun retorted not really pleased by this young boy's accusations."If you know what will happen to him with a vital breath upside down why did you teach him wrong?!" Jaejoong was feeling like he could kill this monk for being imprudent. His Yunho could die while trying to satisfy his stupid expectations.Since his arrival 4 day ago, Jaejoong had witnessed enough abuses from those men who considered themselves men of God. And the young boy would not hold back. He had enough of all those nincompoop monks and companions for treating his Yunho more like a slave than one of them while his stupid man remained the same, smiling and bowing to them as if he owed them his life."You goofball!" Jaejoong pointed his forefinger toward the monk who was not please to be called with such a name. "I will show you what it cost to mess with my Yunho."The young boy forwarded his steps toward the young monk and stole the wooden stick from the latter in a swift move without monk Kyuhyun being aware of his move. The wooden stick in his hands, Jaejoong began to throw blow after blow to the stupid monk who was not capable to teach correctly his Yunho how to find and nurture his vital breath without him harming himself."What are you doing?" Monk Kyuhyun blocked a blow with his forearm and dodged another second after. The young monk was surprised to see that pretty boy who seemed so frail knowing how to use the wooden stick as if it was a sword."Jaeha!" Waking up from his torpor, Yunho ran toward his young wife and tried to prevent her to beat his teacher. "Jaeha! Stop that!""No!" Jaejoong yelled at his Yunho. He pointed the wooden stick to his husband and earned a pose from the latter who was stunned to see his beautiful wife being so angry. "You are not an idiot. And you are not their lackey either. I will teach them how they should respect you. Stay still." Yunho could only nod at his wife. Then, the young boy returned to beat the stupid monk again. "You! How could you teach my Yunho how to blow his vital breath dangerously like this?" He threw the wooden stick toward monk Kyuhyun."I'm not that kind of man who will put him in danger." The young monk trapped the wooden stick between his forearms. "Listen young boy! I was put to be his teacher against my will. However, I won't do anything to harm him. I am a man of God.""Oh! Oh! You are trying to say that you messed up his Ki to get revenge on him for being named on an irksome task."Jaejoong tried to tug the wooden stick away from the hands of this stupid monk, who seemed strong enough to maintain the item in place between his forearms, preventing the pretty young boy to blow him another stroke."Don't put words in my mouth." The monk spat. "I'm not like those monks who would look down on him. We're under the same master. And he is my friend."The pretty boy smirked and kicked the shin of the monk with the sole of his shoe making the latter withdrawing his right leg before moving quickly on his left. In a few seconds, Jaejoong found himself at the right side of the young monk. With his free hand, he pointed his thumb on one of the nerves of monk Kyuhyun's spinal cord which paralyzed the man. He pushed the left leg of the monk harshly with the side of his foot making monk Kyuhyun lose his balance. Before Kyuhyun could do anything, the young monk found himself stomach on the ground with the young boy trapping him with the wooden stick around his shoulder blades and a knee on his back."Don't underestimate me." Jaejoong whispered."Jaeha!"Yunho could not let his young wife beat monk Kyuhyun more she already did, fearing that she would be punished by the monastery authority for raising her hands on one of them. He grabbed her by her waist when she rose the wooden stick in the air wanting to beat the poor monk who was still unmoving on the ground."Don't do that! Jaeha!" He dragged his young wife away from his teacher."Let me hit him hard. He is an idiot. A goofball like that nincompoop." Jaejoong struggled in Yunho's arms and hit the poor monk on his back with the wooden stick in his hands. "Now! You're not so almighty. What it feels to be treat like trash? Tell me?"The poor monk was not the one who mistreated Yunho. But, all his repressed anger had found its trigger when the pretty boy found out that his Yunho was harming his own life without knowing the situation he was in with a disorderly Ki.Who could be the culprit of his Yunho's messed up vital breath? All those stupid monks, they needed a good beating. And monk Kyuhyun was unlucky to be the one facing him at this instant."Don't..." The young apprentice was trying to prevent Jaejoong to harm Kyuhyun again with difficulty. His young wife looked frail and small but she was tougher and stronger than he thought."He needs a good lesson for messing up with your vital breath.""Jaeha... Please..."Yunho was cursing in his mind for reacting slowly. However, the young man was stunned to see his young wife bursting into anger against Kyuhyun. And more, how could she know that his vital breath was not in its place? Who could she be?"I kill him." Jaejoong kicked the monk who was still on the ground while Yunho was too late to get the young boy away from the unmoving monk laying on the ground."You won't kill anyone."The young couple turned their eyes to the person who was standing a few meters from them. The old man was looking at them with a stern look while marching toward them with a few monks tailing him in tow."Head Master Song." Yunho said bowing to the old monk in form of respect."My child." The old Head Master Song replied with a smile plastered on his face. But, the old monk lost his smile when he turned to look at the young boy who was staring at him suspiciously with the wooden stick still in his hands, ready to slash anyone who would say or do something not right toward him or the young apprentice monk standing next to the young lad. "And who are you?" The old man inquired coldly, having an upsetting feeling about that fellow youth."I was wondering where those stupid monks had learned their stupidity." Jaejoong mumbled under his breath with an annoying moue, tightening his hold around the wooden stick. He did not like that old monk. He felt something odd and dangerous from the man."Jaeha." Yunho scolded his wife for being disrespectful toward the master of this sacred place. "I'm sorry Head Master Song. Jaeha... Jaejoong is the boy I found roaming in our lands 4 days ago. He is not used to be under our rules." The young apprentice bowed to the old monk and made his wife do the same. Jaejoong was not ready to bow to that old man, but with his persistence Yunho made the young boy flex his body in two in a form of respect to the Head Master."Hmm. A wild child." The old monk nodded, showing his understanding while fondling his long white beard. "Jaejoong is his name.""Are you dea-""Yes! Jaejoong is his name." Yunho confirmed the old monk's words while he put his hand on his young wife's mouth, preventing her to say something which could anger the monks who were surrounding the Head Master Song, knowing that the latter was not going to blame his wife for being so impudent.The old monk Song nodded again while he was looking hard at the young boy, making Jaejoong shiver at the Head Master's intense stare. The young boy did not like the way this monk was staring at him. And he buried his self onto his Yunho while the latter wrapped his arms around his wife's small body intentionally.The Head Master Song narrowed his eyes seeing the young apprentice's behavior toward this youngish. Then he turned to look at the poor monk still laying on the ground in a not so good shape. "Someone go help the poor Kyuhyun on his feet."One of the Head Master Song's followers tilted his head to a group of young apprentices who were standing in the area as spectators to help the poor monk on the ground. However, before those young men could help their poor and bruised sunbae, the later was tore from the ground abruptly like he was a mere rice bag and put on his feet next to the old monk Sunho by a strange young man.Monk Kyuhyun wanted to say something to the newcomer but found that he had lost his voice. He could only grunt at his friend who was staring at him with the right corner of his mouth curled up into a smirk and his forefinger pressing on his lips. This stupid Changmin had misused his vocal cord to mute him like that strange beautiful boy who always followed Yunho like a loyal puppy since his arrival in the temple did with one of the nerves of his spinal cord.The young monk furrowed his eyes and stared at the boy in the arms of Yunho. Who was that little lad? Having that kind of knowledge, this Jaejoong was not a mere orphan like he claimed to be.Monk Changmin turned to face the Head Master of the Beopjusa temple. Joining his hands, the young man bowed lightly to the old monk in form of greeting, but he managed to stay awfully nonchalant."Your loyal disciples should be more respectful toward the Head Master Song." One of the few old monks surrounding the Head Master Song said with a stern voice, looking at the young man as if he was nothing but a dirt."I don't know why you still keep that stray dog at your side." Another added, glancing at the newcomer with disdain."Enough." The Head Master Song sighed, raising his frail hand. "Sunho. Please. Discipline your disciples better." The oldest monk added quietly, dispelling the animosity among all his people."I will." The man bowed to the highest person of this holly lands respectfully, remaining in his position when the Head Master Song and his cortege resumed their walk.Monk Kyuhyun and monk Changmin bowed in turn. Yunho did the same while trying to make his young wife bow to the cortege which passed by them with a glance from the Head Master toward Jaejoong. While the young child stood still with his arms crossed over his chest, holding the gaze of that old man.Bowing once was enough. Mostly he did not want to lower himself before a man who made him feel horripilation crawl all over his skin.Xiah had taught him how to read and feel the air people gave off around them. And that old man was a bad news. He felt it into his bones. Thinking that his Yunho put more faith in that kind of man was making him sick. Jaejoong was going to put some sense into his husband's mind soon.When the group was alone, monk Changmin could not help but traipse toward the couple with a smirk on his lips and drag the pretty boy in his arms, holding the latter tight in his embrace."What are you doing?" Jaejoong shrieked, trying to pry the man away from him."Jaejoongie goon! I'm glad to see you again. You don't know how much I missed you.""Get your paws away from me. Yunho!" The young boy whined and held out his hands to his husband for help."Get your hands away from Jaeha!" Yunho gritted sternly through his teeth."Get lost yourself." Monk Changmin said before trying to plant a kiss on one of Jaejoong's cheeks."Yunho! Help!""What are you doing to my Jaejoong?" Yunho snatched his young wife away from the other monk and held the gaze of the young monk fiercely with his arms tight around his young wife."Oh!" Monk Changmin tilted his head to his