Unsurprisingly, the next day Kai came back with fire in his eyes. As expected he did win every fight…except for the one against Kyungsoo.

“Seriously,” Suho looked at Kai, who was once again laying on the ground panting. “You really pick up quick,” he praised, quite impressed.

Kai’s lips were turned down as he glared up at the sky above him. The words weren’t processing in his mind, all he could think about was what kind of alpha was he to lose to an omega, twice. “I’m pissed,” the alpha snarled. He had been so close to beating Kyungsoo, so close. All he had to do was flip the boy onto his stomach and pin his hand behind his back, or even just throw him over. But no, the moment he looked down into Kyungsoo’s wide clear eyes his mind would go blank. Frustrated, the alpha felt a growl begin to rumble in his chest.

“Winning 3 out of 4 fights is much better than 0 out of 4,” Baekhyun stated, looking down at Kai. The alpha didn’t reply, choosing to snarl at the beta until he backed up, hands up in surrender, “Woah, okay, touchy.”

Kyungsoo could understand that Jongin was angry, an alpha’s pride was huge after all. Unsure what he should say without causing another blow, Kyungsoo tried to make light of the situation. “I don’t think I’ve ever beat an alpha who was part of this pack before. It feels good, thanks Jongin.” He watched Jongin’s cheeks turn pink before realizing what he had done and internally groaned. Great job, he thought it himself, insulting the alpha’s position was a wonderful way to cheer him up.

Kai didn’t say a word, not even a growl escaped his downturned lips, and he only lifted himself from the ground, visibly fuming before storming back to the house.

Sehun whistled as Baekhyun and Taemin began cackling at Kyungsoo’s stupidity. “Well that was smart,” Luhan commented, clapping his friend on the back. “You basically stomped on his alpha pride and then rubbed your foot into it.”

This time Kyungsoo groaned out loud, “I didn’t mean it that way! It was a joke.”

Sehun shook his head with a smile, “Well you just made him the joke.”

The omega groaned again, going off to follow Jongin into the house.

Kyungsoo paused by the front door, listening carefully to sense where Jongin was, he determined the boy seemed to be inside their bedroom. Kyungsoo decided against knocking, it was his room too after all, and walked in. “Jongin,” the male called softly. He could see the male sitting his bed, staring at his hands. His eyebrows were furrowed, and his frown was so prominent it was border lining a pout. Honestly, Kyungsoo had to bite his lip from smiling at the adorable form. That certainly wouldn’t help with the alpha’s pride.

Jongin looked up, he had already sensed that Kyungsoo had entered the home and was waiting for him. The alpha did have to admit that he felt uncharacteristically weak, and he hated it.

“What you so angry about?” Kyungsoo asked as he approached the alpha slowly, arms crossed. “The point of practice is to lose and get better next time,” he tried to explain with a shrug, leaning against the doorframe. “Plus, you’ve been hurt a lot these past couple months. I’m guessing it’s been awhile since you’ve fought too.”

Jongin looked slightly surprised before he composed himself and then mumble something, so softly that if Kyungsoo wasn’t an omega, he probably wouldn’t have caught it. “Is that how long I’ve been here?” The omega froze once the words processed in his mind but he chose to ignore it, right now that wasn’t the topic.

Jongin looked up this time, “you’ve been hurt much more than I have.” The words sounded playful, even the corner of lip turned up but his expression showed that he was serious.

Kyungsoo smiled, “well considering the pack I’m part of, it would be a bad thing if others could beat me easily.” It was true of course, he could beat alphas, and he had beaten them, when he was in top condition of course because most were quite bigger than he was in their wolf forms. He’d never beaten an alpha from his own pack though. They were a whole different level.

“Yeah, but they can right?” Jongin suddenly said, though it was more of an accusation than a question. Was he asking if other Alpha’s could beat him?

Kyungsoo looked at him, his expression was hard to decipher. “Of course they can,” he answered carefully, his mind going back to the situation in the forest about a month ago. “Even though I’m strong, I’m still an omega…”

The alpha exhaled and looked away, “That’s what I meant.” Kyungsoo waited for the younger to continue but he didn’t.

“What do you mean?” Kyungsoo asked with a huff, Jongin was being so cryptic that it was beginning to annoy the omega.

“You’re an omega.”

“Yeah?”

“I’m an alpha.” Jongin sighed and ran a hand through his hair. “If I can’t beat you… then I’d be lower than those bastards out there who actually can hurt you.” His voice began to raise slowly, frustration filing his voice. “I’m here to protect you, how the hell do I do that when you don’t even need me to? I’m ing pissed at the thought that if some bastard tries to hurt you again --,” but he closed his eyes and stopped himself from continuing. Instead he took a deep breath to calm himself, “I know it’s my alpha pride talking, my need to be strong and to protect… actually I know I’m ing capable of fighting,” he scoffed remembering that he did in fact beat Sehun, Luhan, Baekhyun and Taemin today. “But it’s just with you that I can’t-…. that annoys the hell out of me.”

Kyungsoo sat frozen as he took in Jongin’s confession, still slightly confused too. “Um-,” the omega blinked trying to get his brain to do something. “Why-why do you feel like you have to protect me?” Kyungsoo asked in confusion, he couldn’t say that he wasn’t happy though. He could feel it, his omega was savouring the fact that an alpha wanted to protect him. It made him want to grin and giggle, which was stupid but he couldn’t help but feel giddy. He had to calm himself though, before his omega began crooning for the scent of the alpha, and he didn’t think he could just cuddle Jongin without feeling awkward.  He blinked when he received no answer, he saw Jongin glaring down at his hands.

Kyungsoo smiled and walked over to the bed, sitting down next to the man. “Thank you,” he says with a small smile, “for thinking that. But analyzing and speed are my specialty, especially when outsiders underestimate me and count on their power alone to defeat me.” The omega stopped himself before he added that his eyes constantly followed Jongin all the time, unconsciously analyzing him. Following his movements, grace, his expressions and the stance he held. In a way… he was a bit of an expert. Kyungsoo shook his head to get rid of the thought, but he couldn’t stop a slight pink from dusting his cheeks.

“I rely on that, gives me the upper hand,” he said with a shrug. “I’m kinda relishing in the moment actually, because once you beat me I highly doubt I’ll ever win against you again.” He added in sheepishly.

Jongin simply gave Kyungsoo a look that had the omega laughing. “What?”

The sight of Kyungsoo’s heart-shaped smile couldn’t help but get Jongin to smile as well. “I’m confining my worries to you here and you’re pretty much saying that you’re enjoying it?” he said with a raise of his brow.

“Ah- that’s- that’s not what I meant,” the omega spluttered as Jongin continued to give him a look. “I just mean that you shouldn’t be too sad cause you’ll probably beat me like tomorrow or something so just do your best, it up and let me live in glory for a bit,” he rushed out to explain himself. But hearing the words out loud made Kyungsoo realize how immature he sounded. His face instantly turned red and he looked down, too embarrassed to meet Jongin’s eyes. There were a couple seconds of gosh awful silence that felt like minutes before he heard Jongin chuckle and felt a hand on his head.

Instantly Kyungsoo felt his insides heat up as well, his omega that he had been pushing down was jumping around, craving more of the alpha’s touch, wanting desperately to lean into the large hand that lay on top of his head. But Kyungsoo stayed frozen, using every inch of his willpower to refuse his omega from taking control. “You’re cute,” Jongin commented, making Kyungsoo flush even more. “Even when you’re being weird.”

Instantly, Kyungsoo’s eyes snapped up to Jongin’s, eyes slit into a glare. The alpha laughed this time at the quick change of the omega’s expressions. But instead of getting flustered by looking into Jongin’s eyes up close, something else caught his eye.

His hand shot out and turned Jongin’s face to the side, “Are you hurt?” Kyungsoo asked seeing a cut right above the alpha’s eyebrow, hidden beneath his bangs. Kyungsoo frowned and moved onto his knees so that he towered over Jongin slightly. He used his other hand to lift the hair to get a better look. It wasn’t large, about the length of his pinky finger. Jongin obviously wouldn’t care about something so small, but knowing he caused the injury made Kyungsoo’s stomach churn. “I hurt you…” Kyungsoo stated unhappily, carefully inspecting the cut while the hand that lay on Jongin’s cheek caressed the skin softly. He hadn’t noticed Jongin’s eyes widen as he continued to the alpha’s cheek.

“Does it hurt?” Kyungsoo asked, finally meeting Jongin’s eyes. He hadn’t realized just how close he was until he was staring straight into Jongin’s wide brown eyes. The omega’s eyes widened as well, but neither boy moved, somehow unwilling to pull away. Kyungsoo knew he had to retract his hand and move back, but his body wouldn’t budge. Instead he continued to keep his eyes trained on Jongin, mesmerized as he watched the alpha’s eyes slowly darken. It was an unreadable look, but it was beautiful.

The alpha ever so lightly closed his eyes and slightly leaned into Kyungsoo’s hand, nose skimming the omega’s palm. Inhaling deeply, he turned his gaze back to Kyungsoo. The look of desire heavy, the smell of “want” filling the air. Hit with such an intense feeling, Kyungsoo fought to withhold a shudder.

But like a spell, Kyungsoo found himself drawing nearer. The hand that lay on Jongin’s cheek slowly caressed as it moved down his jaw, then down to the nape of his neck, his fingers curling there. He felt a weight on his hip, Jongin had placed his large hand on Kyungsoo’s waist, gently pulling him closer. Feeling his chest against him, Kyungsoo took a shaky breath. He was able to feel the warmth emitting from the alpha. Jongin’s scent was filling the air around him, like wood and roses, with a hint of cinnamon –it made the omega dizzy.  Kyungsoo felt the urge to be even closer, he craved more heat. His omega was begging to submit, to expose his neck and have those beautiful alpha teeth sink in-

With a small tilt of his head, Jongin brought his face to Kyungsoo’s neck, finally able to take deep breaths of that gorgeous scent of vanilla and lavender that the omega was releasing. Kyungsoo had his eyes closed, relishing in the alpha pheromones surrounding him, the feeling of Jongin’s breath caressing his neck brought him such unimaginable pleasure.

Jongin wanted to bury himself in the beautiful scent, it was calling him, pulling him in. He concentrated on the soft hand that lay curled at his neck, nails slightly pressing against the skin. Not enough to be painful, but enough to have Jongin wanting more.

The wave of possessive pheromones hit Kyungsoo hard, making him gasp. If he weren’t already kneeling on the bed he was sure his knees would have gone out. Kyungsoo couldn’t hold it in, he let out a small whine, “alpha.”

But his sudden gasp snapped the alpha out of his trance like state. The warmth was ripped from Kyungsoo’s grasp –the omega had to fight back a whimper as Jongin suddenly jumped off the bed, back by the wall. He shook his head a bit to clear the fog in his mind. Thoughts of danger danger danger, repeating again and again. It wasn’t the right time, he shouldn’t be confusing Kyungsoo like this. He could see the omega’s confused expression, be it whether because Jongin backed off, or because he was realizing the situation. Jongin didn’t want to wait and see.

“…Sorry,” the alpha mumbled, “we should- um I’m just –I need to ask Suho a question…” with those awkward words Jongin flew out the door, leaving Kyungsoo frozen and kneeling on the bed.

It took Kyungsoo a solid minute to move again –thoughts racing. He let out a sigh as he sank onto the bed, running his hand over his face. He could still feel it; that urge to have Jongin’s hand back on his waist. He wanted to look into Jongin’s eyes, to feel his skin, to be surrounded in his scent.

He wanted Jongin.

It took a couple of minutes but Kyungsoo ended up trudging down the stairs, band aid in hand to cover Jongin’s cut. His mind was racing, were they just going to ignore what had happened? Should they talk about it? Was Kyungsoo ready for that? Was Jongin?

He got to the middle of the staircase before he heard a familiar hiss.

“Oh would you quit being such a baby,” he heard Taemin’s voice follow afterwards.

Frowning, Kyungsoo continued down until he could see the living room.

“It ing hurts,” he saw Jongin glaring at Taemin who seemed to be already placing a band aid on Jongin. Kyungsoo’s eyes slit as he saw Taemin’s hand against Jongin’s forehead, keeping his hair out of the way.

Taemin huffed, “honestly, the sooner you stop being such a whiney the sooner it’ll be over.”

The omega didn’t hear the rest of it as he made his way back upstairs. He didn’t mind that Jongin was getting treated for his wound by someone else. Jongin could ask whomever he wanted to treat his wound, Kyungsoo shouldn’t care, less work for him.

…

But the image of Taemin’s hand on Jongin’s forehead had his chest stinging. “Stupid alpha,” he muttered.

By the time Kyungsoo made it back downstairs, he had decided that he was going to pretend like nothing had ever happened. That moment in their room was just frustration and . It was simply an omega craving an alpha. That’s what Kyungsoo decided upon.

Luckily everyone was simply watching TV, tired from their prior training. Kyungsoo announced that he would make dinner without even glancing to the people seated on the couches. But just before he walked into the kitchen he paused by the door and turned around, eyes landing on a certain alpha. “wanna help?” he asked. He didn’t want to make anything awkward between them, it shouldn’t anyway since nothing had happened.

He felt relief sweep through him as he saw Jongin grin and nod as he stood up to follow him into the kitchen.

The next training day went on without a hitch,

Just until the sparring began. Kai impressed the others further by fighting with exceptional skill, taking down everyone much faster than he did yesterday. Although Sehun grumbled, he did admit that Kai was skilled and good at picking up moves.

Kyungsoo had been more than impressed, in fact he had been in awe. He was unable to remove his eyes from the alpha as he took down the others, he didn’t realize just how stimulated he was until he let out a small involuntary whine. That’s when he also realized that his wolf had been jumping around inside him.

Kyungsoo did his best to calm himself down before Jongin approached him to fight. However the omega frowned when he noticed a hint of nervousness in the alpha’s expression.

He decided to try and ease the boy’s nerves. “Think you can beat me today?” Kyungsoo teased as he stood in front of Jongin, arms crossed, chin raised and looking all arrogant.

He watched carefully as he saw the alpha’s facial expression soften before he rolled his eyes and gave a playful smile. “Count on it Soo.” The simple reply had Kyungsoo grin. In truth, the omega really looked forward to being able to touch Jongin again. Since yesterday Kyungsoo’s hands were itching to feel Jongin’s heat once more.

Jongin crouched low, eyes determined. Although it was meant to intimidate, it had Kyungsoo shivering for all the wrong reasons. He couldn’t take his eyes off the alpha’s flexing arms, or the sweat that shone on his forehead due to exertion from earlier fights. He imagined running his hands against the hot skin…  Kyungsoo blushed when he realized that those weren’t the right thoughts to have right before a fight, so Kyungsoo tried to focus. Mimicking Jongin’s pose, he crouched and growled.

Suho gave the signal and the omega pounced. It was during fights that Kyungsoo’s wolf took control and that meant that he just had to pounce on an alpha.  Of course, by doing such an open move allowed Jongin to prepare. He was able to throw the omega off immediately, though he was surprised at the directness. Seeing the slight surprise, Kyungsoo had great idea. He quickly got back onto his feet and pounced again. Jongin sure wasn’t expecting that to happen, and so he landed on his back with Kyungsoo on top but instead of throwing him off again, the alpha got a tight grip on the omega and rolled them over. Now he had the advantage. The other boys watched and realized that both were paying attention to the others reactions before making a move.

Within split seconds of each other they would do the complete opposite of what the other would think. Making it a very interesting fight to watch. They continued to fight and roll around, it was harder for Kyungsoo to pin Jongin since he was smaller but the omega was unrelenting. Suddenly getting an idea Kyungsoo waited for Jongin to flip him again but Kyungsoo was ready and continued to roll, pulling Jongin with him. Kyungsoo smirked when he landed on top of Jongin. Out of breath he looked down at a shocked Jongin. Kyungsoo bent forward a bit, a large smile unable to leave his face. “You’re losing,” the omega teased.

He expected Jongin to smirk, growl or tease back but Jongin didn’t respond. The alpha’s eyes were concentrated a bit lower than Kyungsoo’s eyes. Kyungsoo felt a bit worried at the lack of response from the alpha, he wasn’t even fighting back or attempting to escape. Kyungsoo bent a bit forward so that he was a couple of inches away from the alpha’s face, “Jongin?” he called.

Jongin snapped out of his daze and looks up into Kyungsoo’s eyes, shocked. Suddenly Kyungsoo was pushed to the side as Jongin jumped to his feet. Everyone looked at Jongin as the young alpha looked at his feet, “sorry, I just… I’m not feeling well. I’m heading back.” Without waiting for anyone else to say anything, the alpha ran to the house.

“What-?” Kyungsoo said in disbelief, his mouth open. He took a step forward but Suho stopped him. “He needs to figure this out himself,” the beta explained. Kyungsoo frowned, not truly understanding Suho, but found himself nodding.

Kyungsoo really wished that he hadn’t listened to Suho. He really wished he had just gone after Jongin that day and confronted him about what happened. It had been four days and Jongin had not spoken to him. In fact, the alpha wasn’t even looking at him.

Kyungsoo was past the point of being annoyed, he was pissed. He didn’t understand why Jongin was acting like this. He expected this kind of behaviour after the incident in their room, not after a simple little sparring session. Kyungsoo wasn’t even able to corner Jongin in their room, the younger male would be in bed before Kyungsoo even came in, or he would be in Taemin’s room until late. Kyungsoo was just never able to catch him.

“I mean really,” Kyungsoo groaned as he plopped on Luhan’s bed. “He’s just so… confusing!”

Luhan sat on the opposite bed, Sehun’s bed, and stared at his friend with wide eyes. “okay, wait. You what?” he shrieked. “you and kai?”

Hearing Luhan put himself and Jongin in that context made the omega blush. “I –I think. I mean, he seemed to have wanted me. And I want him-“

“Kyungsoo,” Luhan interrupted him with a serious expression. “you –I mean you’re talking about mating here right? You want to… mate with him?”

Kyungsoo looked down and nodded his head softly. “I don’t know how to explain it. It’s like…I felt this pull to him since he arrived here. And I’ve never wanted an Alpha’s mark before. But that night… I just really want him to bite me. I want his mark on me. I want people to know that I’m his.”

Luhan listened carefully as his friend tried to explain. “Wow,” he whispered. “You’re serious.”

Kyungsoo nodded, “but…. With what happened in the room, it was like we were finally going to gave in to that pulling force… but now he won’t even look at me.”

Luhan listened to his friend to to explain his confusion and work his thoughts out, it didn’t take a genius to figure out that Kai and Kyungsoo had something special since the beginning. He didn’t expect the topic of mating to come up, but it made sense. If he could imagine Kyungsoo with anyone, it would be kai. As for the alpha boy, he could see why he was so hesitant. It was all just so much so fast. And they still knew nothing about him.

Luhan smiled and got up to sit next to his friend. “I think it won’t be easy, but you two do have something. Don’t give up on him. He’ll come around eventually.” Kyungsoo rested his head on Luhan’s shoulder and sighed. He sure hoped eventually would come sooner.

(I didn't really edit, forgive me)

A/N: sorry it took so long, i ended up going on vaca and had very limited internet connection. also, the chapter is short, i wanted to make it longer but I wanted to get this out to you guys even more. Finally, things will be moving a bit faster now. hopefully. and I kinda feel like writing an extra as well. Any couple you guys particulairly want?