Hiiiiiii I'm back with the Tae special like I promised. It came out earlier than expected. Hope you enjoy as usual! HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY, V! Btw I guess I'll adopt...idk Hobi or Tae because they're so much like my cousin that I babysit (lol).

For BtoB I had to change some of their ages. For instance, Minhyuk is stated as younger than Illhoon and Changseob in the chapter and BtoB fans know that's not true at all...

*BTW my brother just took his PSLE and got back the results. I had a friend who broke her arm for the entire exam too (during my year which was 2 years ago). I hope both you and your friend did well for PSLE and get into the secondary school you want, and I wish your friend a swift recovery (if her arm is still broken)! FIGHTING!  

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It's a typical day at a typical shopping mall, when Jungkook announced that he wanted to go to the Toys Fest at the nearby mall after seeing it in a newspaper Seokjin left lying on the dinner table. What captivated him was the giant teddy bear that apparently you could win if you spent more than 20000 won and participated in a lucky draw.

After an entire morning of pestering and getting Taehyung and Jimin to help him convince his hyung, Jungkook managed to get Seokjin to bring the boys to the fest, especially when there's probably Mario figurines there to be collected. Namjoon wanted to go there to see the newest Pokemon stuffed toys and Hoseok was just as excited about it as the maknaes when he heard about it. They couldn't very well leave Yoongi at home, so Yoongi had to tag along too, although he was very against it. 

"There's Transformers!" Jungkook runs forward with Taehyung, Jimin and Hoseok. Yoongi stays back with Seokjin, before walking towards where Namjoon was, and they start naming every single Pokemon toy on the shelf. Seokjin shakes his head, hearing them rattling off names that mean nothing to him. He makes his way over to the part of the Toys Fest where they sold Mario products. There were plushies, pillows, neck pillows, blankets and the like. There are even stationery sets with Mario print all over it. 

Seokjin barely even got started--he believes his watch just got faster--when he finds Jungkook, Jimin and Hoseok running up to them, with two more boys in tow--whom Seokjin recognizes as Dong Geun, or better known as Peniel, and Hyunsik from the BtoB family living just down the street from them. They usually had to drop Minhyuk, Peniel, Sungjae and Hyunsik at the kindergarten before Eunkwang, Changseob and Illhoon could get to school. Since they study in the same school (Illhoon was in Seokjin's class), they often walked together and chatted, although Eunkwang was a year older than Seokjin and Changseob, despite being the same age, was from another class.

"Hi, hyung!" Peniel and Hyunsik bow to Seokjin.

"Hi," Seokjin waves. He turns to Jimin, Jungkook and Hoseok. "Where's Tae?" 

"Uh..." Hoseok exchange glances over with the rest of the boys. 

"There you are!" 

Seokjin watches as Eunkwang runs over. "Seriously...you guys are just..." 

"Uncontrollable?" Seokjin laughs as he sees the rest of BtoB walking over...except there are six of them.

"I'm missing Sungjae," Eunkwang says. "You seen him?" 

"I'm missing Tae too," Seokjin says. "Why don't we search for them together?" 

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"Where am I?" Taehyung looks around. He can't find Jimin, Jungkook or Hoseok...or Namjoon and Yoongi for that matter. He's far, far away from the Toys Fest convention. In fact, he's left the area and wandered over to the Fashion department. He looks around at women's blouses and skirts as he walks through the maze of shelves with beauty products on them.

"Huh..." Taehyung throw glances around, hoping to catch sight of his hyungs...or Jungkookie. But there's no one. 

After walking around a bit more and having no success, he realizes he needs to go to the toilet. Taehyung finds the toilet sign and walks over to it, going inside. After he's done, he goes to wash his hands...before he sees someone standing over him. He looks back at the tall figure. 

Taehyung swears he saw this boy before, but he shrugs it off. 

"Hi, what's your name?" Taehyung asks. 

"Uh, Sungjae," the boy answers. He looks at Taehyung ."I think I saw you before. Were you born in 1995?" 

"Yeah," Taehyung nods, not getting the significance of that question.

"I'm born in 1995 too!" Sungjae grins, extending his hands for a handshake. "What's your name?" 

"Taehyung, but you can call me Tae!" Taehyung smiles. At least he's found a friend...one he'd probably never meet again.

"I'm lost," Sungjae says as he washes his hands. "I can't find my hyungs." 

"You can't find them? Let's search together!" Taehyung grins. "I'll help you find your hyungs, okay?" 

"Yeah!" Sungjae and Taehyung head out into the big expanse known as the shopping mall.

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"We searched the entire Toys Fest. Maybe they went out?" Seokjin suggests, grabbing tightly to Jungkook's hand, making sure that he doesn't get lost too. The twelve of them walk out of the convention hall and into a large concourse, leading to other convention halls. 

"There are four more sales going on now..." Illhoon points out. "Maybe if we split up..." 

There are sales for fashion products, a book fair, an anime fest and a winter wear sale.

"Yeah, I think it's better if we split up," Eunkwang says. "Look, since there's twelve of us, we'll split into groups of three. I'll be going with my maknaes..." He looks over at Hyunsik and Peniel. "And I'm going to leave Changseob with Minhyuk and Illhoon." 

"I'll have to go with my maknaes, right?" Seokjin takes Jungkook and Jimin's hands. Then he reconsiders. "Wait, I'll take Yoongi with me. Namjoon, you're in charge of Jimin and Hobi." 

"Alright, we'll be going off to the book fair and the winter wear," Eunkwang salutes them. "You guys go the fashion products and the anime fest." With that, the two groups from BtoB headed off. 

"Right, I'm going to the anime place," Seokjin says, bringing Yoongi and Jungkook off with him. Taehyung's a big fan of anime, so he's sure to find Taehyung there. Namjoon waves a goodbye to his hyung as he drags Jimin and Hoseok behind him to the fashion convention. 

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"Found ya!" Taehyung yells, pointing at Sungjae, the latter screaming and running out from behind the clothes racks. The two start running after each other around the convention area. Funnily...no one bothers to stop them. Taehyung yells and tumbles on Sungjae, sending the two of them to the ground, almost hitting the perfume shelves, in a laughing mess.

"Yah, get off me!" Sungjae kicks Taehyung off him, the other sprawling on the ground, still laughing. 

"Hey, we need to go look for our hyungs," Taehyung tries to stifle his laughter as he gets up with Sungjae's help. 

"Come on, let's go over there and look at those clothes," Sungjae points out, and Taehyung, forgetting what he said five seconds ago, agrees.

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Namjoon hears laughing and screaming a few meters from where he, Hoseok and Jimin are stuck at. He swears it's Taehyung's voice...and Sungjae's, the maknae of the BtoB family that he usually hangs out with. But Taehyung has never met Sungjae in his life because he's always out playing with Jimin or Jungkook.

"Hey, I think I hear Tae's voice!" Hoseok looks like a dog with his ears perked up. He snaps his head towards where he thinks Taehyung is. "Taeeeeee! Hyung is coming for you!" 

"Taeeeeeeee!" Jimin screeches, following Hoseok. Namjoon, sighing, runs after them.

But when they get there--the perfume section, there was no one there, and it becomes quiet. It's as if Taehyung has left the place.

"I was sure they were here," Hoseok on his thumb--a new habit he picked up during the course of the holiday. "I'm sure they were here..." 

"Maybe you heard wrong," Namjoon says. Though I was sure I heard it too. "But they may be around here. We should continue looking." 

Little did they know Taehyung and Sungjae were already headed out of the fashion convention and unwittingly found themselves in the winter wear department.

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"There are so many fluffy coats!" Sungjae walks over to a coat and hides in one, covering his face with the fabric. 

"I'm an alien in a fwuffy coat," Taehyung grins, grabbing a coat of his own and causing it to fall off the rack, covering him in the large coat. Sungjae can't help but burst out laughing. 

Taehyung manages to stand up, but the brown coat pools at his feet, the clothes hanger lying uselessly on the ground. 

"What are you boys doing?!" Taehyung and Sungjae turn towards the sound, which is the shriek of a shop assistant. 

"Come back here, rascals!" she yells as Taehyung and Sungjae take off, laughing, towards the earmuffs and gloves section. As soon as they get there, they had to lean on each other for support as they continue panting and panting after running so hard. Taehyung looks around him, seeing many earmuffs and gloves. He grabs an earmuff and places it on Sungjae's head.

"You look like a puppy," Taehyung says. Sungjae takes a bright blue earmuff and place it on Taehyung's head. "Now you're a puppy too." Taehyung takes a pair of gloves--the two held together by a nylon string. He puts the gloves on Sungjae's hands, and the latter finds it difficult to move his hands. 

"Now I'm the puppy police," Taehyung says, pointing to his earmuffs. "Because I'm wearwing blue headphones and policemen wear blue. You're the pwisoner because you're in handcuffs." 

"B-But I wanna be the policeman!" Sungjae makes a grab for the earmuffs, but Taehyung moves back swiftly. 

"No!" he sticks his tongue out at Sungjae. 

"Y-You're mean!" Sungjae cries, tears rolling down his cheeks, sitting down on the ground, the oversized gloves slipping off his hands.

"S-Sowwy," Taehyung picks up the gloves. He switches his earmuffs with Sungjae and slips on the gloves. "See, now you're the police! You gotta bring me to prison!" 

Sungjae looks up, wiping his eyes. "B-But you're my fwen. I can't awwest you!" 

"There they are!" someone yells. Taehyung rips the gloves off his hands and chucks them back at the gloves section, before grabbing the earmuffs off his head, Sungjae doing the same, before they throw them on the ground.

"Run!" Taehyung squeals, grabbing onto Sungjae's arm and pulling his friend along.

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"There they are!" 

Eunkwang looks over at the source of the noise. Who's "they"? 

A thought occurs to him as he realizes. Did Sungjae and Taehyung...? 

Nah, can't be. Sungjae wouldn't talk to someone unless he's been talked to first. He's that shy. An ear-piercing scream nearly tears his eardrums apart. 

"Hey, hyung, that sounds like Sungjae," Peniel says, pulling at Eunkwang's shirt. 

"You think it may be?" Eunkwang mutters. "Come on, let's go."

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"Where's this place?" Taehyung and Sungjae arrive at a book fair--thousands and thousands of books laid out on shelves, ranging from fantasy to horror to romance to mystery. There are even cookbooks, biographies, autobiographies, memoirs and even manga. 

There they see it. 

The children books' section. 

Without a second thought, the two of them head over to that section.

"Hey, I wanna get this book," Taehyung looks at a Geronimo Stilton book. He, Jimin and Jungkook had been a fan of Geronimo Stilton ever since they read his "Kingdom of Fantasy" series, and they've been trying to get his entire collection ever since, starting with the book he's now holding in his hand. The Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye. 

"You read Geronimo Stilton too?" Sungjae's eyes are wide. 

"Yeah, you do?" 

"Hyung always buys it for us," Sungjae says. "He says we need to read more." Suddenly, Sungjae starts crying.

"What happened?" Taehyung looks worried.

"Will I...Will I ever see hyung again?" Sungjae looks up at Taehyung with teary eyes.

"I pwomise we'll see them again! I'll help you search!" Taehyung grins wide. "You don't needa cry!" 

"B-But..." 

"If we don't find them, I'll call my hyung in the middle of the shopping mall! Hyung will find us and he'll help you find yours too!" 

"Your hyung?" 

"Yeah, Jin-hyung!" Taehyung smiles proudly. "Hyung will save us!" 

"O-Okay," Sungjae sniffles, hugging Taehyung.

"Come on! We gotta continue looking for them! I'll come back and buy the Geronimo Stilton book later," Taehyung says, leading Sungjae out of the book fair. "Let's go find..." 

He pauses as he sees different people, cosplaying, walking towards a large convention room.

"Wait, we gotta see that first!" Taehyung cries, dragging Sungjae along. 

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"Wait, wasn't that Sungjae?" Changseob looks over at his dongsaeng, Minhyuk, pointing towards the door to the book fair. He himself's caught up in all the manga that's there, reading Bleach. 

"I dunno," Changseob answers, not even looking up from his manga.

"Hey, it is Sungjae! And he's with someone else!" Illhoon squints in eyes.

"Really?" Changseob puts down his manga, and catches sight of two boys walking out of the convention hall.

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"There's Attack on Titan! There's Bleach! There's Fairy Tail! There's Naruto! There's Naruto, Sungjae!" Taehyung shakes his friend's shoulders, squealing. His jaw gapes open when he sees a life-sized model of a ship. "No way! That's One Piece!" 

"Uh, Tae..." Sungjae starts. 

"It's Luffy!" 

"Over there! There's Pokemon!" Taehyung cries, dragging Sungjae along with him. 

"B-But Tae..." 

"What?" Taehyung looks too excited to be paying attention to whatever Sungjae was going to say next.

"Uh, I was just thinking...you know, to find...our hyungs?" Sungjae fidgets with his fingers.

"Come on, we need to see this!" Taehyung looks at all the anime merchandise, eyes glued to the many badges, wooden swords and cosplay costumes all on sale. He finally approaches the Pokemon section, and starts cooing at all the Pokemon stuffed toys. 

"Hey, I saw something over there. Let's go!" Taehyung runs towards a Vocaloid booth.

Sungjae sighs as he follows him.

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Seokjin perks his ears up. He swears he hears something very familiar. He takes the LBX toy from Jungkook and places it back on the shelf. 

"Right. Yoongi. Vocaloid booth. Now." 

"Really?!" Yoongi looks pleased as he grasps his hyung's hand and runs off towards the area. Yoongi had wanted to go to the Vocaloid booth the first thing when he came here--seeing as it's the only place with music...other than the anime song concert that was going to be up in another...five hours? 

"See, there's Hatsune Miku! She's weally pwetty!" Seokjin catches sight of Taehyung and...Sungjae. 

"Sungjae-hyung! Taehyung-hyung!" Jungkook runs over to them, faster than Seokjin. 

"Huh?" Taehyung looks towards the three boys running towards him and his face lights up. "HYUNG!" He hugs Seokjin tightly. "Hyung!" Taehyung pouts. "You got lost." 

"You were the one who got lost," Seokjin smiles, too happy at seeing his dongsaeng again. He looks over at the shy boy just a few steps away from them. "You must be Sungjae." He doesn't really know Sungjae well, considering he had already graduated from the preschool when Sungjae just enrolled.

"Kookie, you know him?" Taehyung looks at his dongsaeng wide-eyed.

"Yeah," Jungkook nods. "Sungjae-hyung is weally nice, but Jimin-hyung and you don't like to play with anyone else..." 

"Oh, really?" Taehyung looks towards Sungjae. "Hey, Sungjae! He's my hyung! Jin-hyung!" 

"Glad I could meet you," Seokjin smiles. "Eunkwang-hyung's really worried about you. We've got to get you back." 

"You know Eunkwang-hyung?" Sungjae looks more than surprised.

"Yup," Seokjin smiles. "I'll bring you to find him." 

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"See, I told you I found Tae!" Hoseok cries, screaming his lungs out along with Jimin as they exit the fashion convention hall. "TAEEEEEEEEE!!!" 

Namjoon slaps his forehead as he reunites with his hyungs and dongsaengs, at the scene Hoseok and Jimin are creating. 

"SUNGJAE!" 

Namjoon has to swerve to the side to avoid getting hit by Peniel and Hyunsik as they rush Sungjae, tackling the maknae to the ground.

"Where were you?" 

Sungjae looks past Peniel and Hyunsik and finds Changseob standing over them, and Eunkwang. Not to mention Minhyuk and Illhoon.

"I just...I saw something interesting and I just...walked off. Sorry, hyung." 

Peniel and Hyunsik helps Sungjae up. 

"It's alright," Eunkwang hugs him. "At least you're back." 

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"Now, Tae, what did I tell you about walking off and getting lost?" 

"I should stay in the same place and not walk anywhere," Taehyung pouts, folding his arms and sitting near the dining table. 

"Exactly," Seokjin says. "So, what did you do wrong?" 

"I...uh...walked away," Taehyung says. "So that hyung couldn't find me." 

"Yup," Seokjin says. "Next time, you shouldn't walk off." He hugs Taehyung. "At least you're safe." 

"Yeah, Tae!" Jimin eats his ramyun. "I missed playing with you, you know! And I had to go with Namjoon-hyung..." 

"Are you trying to say something?" Namjoon pipes up from the other side of the room.

"Nope," Jimin sticks his tongue out at Namjoon. 

"Taeeeeee!" Hoseok cries, hugging his dongsaeng. "I was so sad without you here! Taeeeeee!" 

"H-Hyung, get off me!" 

Taehyung looks at all his hyungs...and his dongsaeng...and Jimin. Well, at least he's back and Seokjin didn't make him sit at the time-out corner...

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