Our Mates

“I know it! I can sense her!” Kyungsoo continued running through the lush green forest with his five pack members behind him.

“Kyungsoo! Slow the fu—”

“Oh Sehun! Watch your mouth!” Suho yelled.

Sehun rolled his eyes while Kai chuckled off at the side. Chanyeol smiled and shook his head as he shared a knowing glance with Baekhyun

“He’s already head over heels for her,” Chanyeol spoke to Baekhyun through mind-link.

“He’s gonna go crazy when he actually sees her,” Baekhyun spoke back.

The six of them reached an open space where a layer of bright green, cut grass laid. In the middle of the grass field was a teenager, playing with butterflies. She was wearing a white summer dress that went to her knees. Her long, wavy brown hair flowed down her back. She wore a sweet smile upon her lips as she extended her hands out towards the butterflies that surrounded her. She chuckled when one landed on her nose.

She’s beautiful, Kyungsoo smiled.

He smelt blood and his eyes shot down to her ankles. Her left ankle was bandaged up. His eyes widened as he ran towards her with much worry. The five others followed him with a very annoyed expression on their faces.

“Oh my gosh! Are you okay?” Kyungsoo asked with wide eyes.

The girl screamed, not expecting people to be in the grass field with her. She didn’t even hear anybody approaching her. Her heart raced out of shock and confusion. She stepped back in fear. Six random boys showing up suddenly? That was never good. She slowly took steps back as she gave the six boys a cautious look.

“W-Who are you? What do you want?” she dug her nails into her palm.

Kyungsoo pouted and his big eyes glistened in the sunlight. He seemed to make the same gestures that a puppy would make when they wanted someone to pet them.

“You’re hurt,” he pouted.

The girl’s eyebrows furrowed as she fought the urge to look down at her ankle. She didn’t want to give the guys a split second to take advantage of her. She lifted up her chin and put her lips into a firm line. She tried to stand her ground, although the fear of being in the
presence of six strange boys was very real.

“Who are you? What do you want from me?” she asked, without her voice faltering, making her gain a little more confidence.

Kyungsoo’s pout continued to grow.

“You’re hurt! I don’t want you to be in pain! Can I lick your ankle?” Kyungsoo asked with hopeful eyes. He smiled innocently, showing his heart-shaped lips. He clasped his hands together and took a step towards the girl.

“Y-Y-You w-want t-to l-lick my a-ankle?” the girl asked with confusion, disgust, and fear.

She blinked multiple times as she tried to adjust the situation.

“Yes!” Kyungsoo nodded repeatedly. “You see, my saliva can speed up the healing process of your—”

Baekhyun ran up to Kyungsoo and slapped his hand over his mouth. Kyungsoo pouted and frowned as he tried to fight against Baekhyun. Baekhyun let out a nervous laugh and tightened his grip around Kyungsoo.

“I think he’s been watching too many League of Legend episodes on Netflix!” Baekhyun smiled through clenched teeth.

The girl’s eyebrows furrowed as her head tilted to the side.

“U-Uh, I’m no expert or anything, but I think League of Legends is a video game . . . and even if it was a TV show, it’s not on Netflix,” the girl said as she continued on taking steps backwards. Maybe if she was able to distract them, she could get far and have a head start on running.

Sehun face-palmed and sighed.

“Oh my gosh, shut up people. She’s gonna think we’re stupid.”

“I bet she’s already thinking it,” Kai chuckled.

CHOMP.

“Ow! You bit me!” Baekhyun exclaimed rather loudly as he stared at Kyungsoo in shock.

Kyungsoo spit to the side before wiping his mouth. He took long steps towards the girl, holding his hands together.

“Do you love me?” he smiled.

The girl almost choked on her spit. She stared at Kyungsoo in horror before picking up her pace.

“Is he on crack?” she whispered.

Due to the werewolves’ enhanced hearing, they all heard it.

“Yeah, Kyungsoo started last summer,” Chanyeol said.

Suho shot him a warning glare before walking towards the girl and Kyungsoo.

Take it slow, Soo.

Kyungsoo stood straight up and looked at Suho with a pout.

“B-But—”

“I know how you feel,” Suho said. “It’s irresistible but—”

The girl turned around and took a run for it. Her ankle burned, but she kept on running.
Kyungsoo looked forwards with wide eyes.

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! They’re going to kidnap me, rape me, and kill me like all of those Criminal Mind episodes! They’re going to eat me!

“Love! Wait for me!” he yelled.

“Freakin’ crazy people,” the girl breathed hard as she ran.

Awoo!

The girl stopped running as her breathing hitched. That howl . . . it came from right behind her. She hesitantly turned around and saw five males and a very big wolf. It was like she never ran. They were still the same distance away from her, but what mostly caught her attention was the big brown wolf with big hazel eyes. It whimpered before carefully walking towards the girl. She held her breath and clenched her fists.

This is just a dream. Just a crazy dream, she tried to assure herself.

But, the pain in her left ankle was telling her that it was all very real. The wolf stood two meters from her. It sat down and began wagging its tail like crazy. She would have thought that it was nice and cute, if not for the current situation. Its tongue was out as it breathed in and out at a rapid pace. It almost seemed as though it were smiling.

“Kyungie wanted him to be the very first werewolf in wolf form you ever see,” Suho said softly.

The girl’s lip twitched and her body shook.

“W-Werewolf?” she shook her head, not believing them. She began to chuckle nervously. “A-All of you are on cra—”

Kyungsoo stood up and began walking towards his mate. Within seconds he changed back to his normal self, but he was naked. Instead of being shocked of seeing him butt naked, she was more shocked of his transformation. With all of the weird questions and wrong movie/game preferences, the girl’s head was spinning with confusion.

“This isn’t real,” she said before her eyes rolled back, following with her body going limp.

Kyungsoo yelped as he ran forwards and let her fall into his arms. He frowned as he moved a strand of hair away from her face.

“She’s scared of me,” Kyungsoo sighed with much sadness.

Suho sighed and walked up to him. He patted Kyungsoo on the shoulder and shook his head.

“It’ll take some time. She’s a human, so of course all of this is frightening to her.”

“You should have taken it slow, Soo,” Chanyeol said.

Kai glared at Baekhyun, making Baekhyun step back in fear.

“W-What!” Baekhyun yelled.

“League of Legends? Netflix? Episodes?” Kai’s eyebrows rose as he asked Baekhyun each question.

“I see you and Sehun watching it all the time!” Baekhyun tried to defend himself.

Sehun face-palmed and shook his head.

“I worry for you sometimes, hyung.”

Kyungsoo ignored the others as he carefully stroke her cheeks. They were squishy and he wanted so much to pinch them, but he decided not to. So . . . he poked them.

“I don’t even know her name,” he frowned.

Suho sighed and ruffled Kyungsoo’s hair.

“It’s okay, Kyung. We’ll know soon.”

“W-What if she doesn’t want to come with us?” Kyungsoo began to tear up.

Kyungsoo was usually one of those guys that never talked and always wore a cold expression on, but when he was in the presence of his mate, his walls broke down and out came the child-like Kyungsoo that was waiting to make an appearance.

Just holding her was making him happy. To think that he would never be able to hold her again made him sad and scared. This bond that werewolves had with their mates was extremely dangerous and scary. Yearning for your mate for days on end was as dangerous as standing on the edge of a very steep cliff.

“Let’s carry her back to town and see if we can get a clue on where she lives,” Suho said.

Kyungsoo nodded and lifted the girl up in his arms as stood. He looked up and around at the field. He closed his eyes and took a long sniff of the air. It was sweet and addicting. He listened closely to the leaves that brushed up against each other in the wind. He listened to his mate’s slow and steady heartbeat. He smiled and opened his eyes. He looked down at his mate.

Vanilla.

“I think I can follow her scent to her home.”

Suho nodded in approval.

“But, before we do so, you need to get some clothes on,” Suho threw the backpack that he
was carrying.

Kyungsoo smiled and nodded.

⚜⚜⚜

“Oh my goodness! What happened to our Miss Kang Yoobin?” an old lady asked as she walked up to Kyungsoo.

Kyungsoo smiled.

Kang Yoobin. What a pretty name.

“She’s just sleeping!” Chanyeol piped in, trying to avoid any suspicion. He laughed nervously as he showed off his creepy smile.

Sehun rolled his eyes and sighed.

Way to act normal.

“Grandmother, we found Miss Kang here sleeping in the grass field a couple of miles from here. She was waiting for us, but we came a bit late. We didn’t want to wake her, so we’re taking her home to her bed.” Sehun said politely.

The old grandmother’s eyebrows furrowed. She rose her wrinkled hands up to her glasses, pushing them up the bridge of her nose.

“She was waiting for you, eh?” another old lady walked up to the eight of them. “Yoobin doesn’t talk to people out of this town. And, during the ninety-eight years I’ve lived here, I’ve never seen any of you before,” her squeaky voice spoke.

Suho shot Sehun a warning glare, telling him to shut up.

“Grandmother, we’ve actually known Yoobin for a while now. We live in the city just out of the outskirts of the forest.”

The old woman that had first approached them swatted the other old woman away.

“Get away, Kyungmi! They’re just trying to help Yoobin get home.”

Suho smiled in appreciation.

“I’m sorry for bothering the both of you. We’ll be going now,” Suho bowed, making the others do the same.

Kyungsoo just stood there and smiled back. The two grandmothers when about their days as
Kyungsoo held Yoobin closer to his body . . . if that was even possible. He took another sniff of the air around him. The vanilla scent was getting stronger. He continued to follow Yoobin’s scent to the outskirts of town. Her house was basically on the other side of town.

The six werewolves and unconscious human stopped before a nice and cozy cottage. It was separated from the town and other houses. It was isolated in this part of town and forest. It was small and seemed able to only house two or less people. He wondered if his mate lived with her parents or not. If not, then it’d be easier to take her. Kai walked up to the cottage and to the front door. He put his hand on the door knob and twisted it to the side.

Unknowingly, the door creaked open.

“Well then, Miss Yoobin here has a lot of trust in the town to leave her home unlocked like this,” Kai said as he stepped in.

Kyungsoo looked down at Yoobin with a frown.

It’s not safe to do that around here.

They all walked in and Kyungsoo immediately set her on the couch. Suho walked into the small living room with a glass bowl of warm water and a clean towel. Kyungsoo thanked him and began carefully patting Yoobin’s face with the warm towel.

Baekhyun and Chanyeol examined the living room and home while Sehun and Kai sat on another couch.

“She seems to be living by herself,” Chanyeol said.

“Yeah, there’s no family pictures or anything,” Baekhyun walked into the hallway and into all the rooms. “There’s only one bedroom.”

Kyungsoo sighed and looked around at her home. Indeed it was quite small and there were no pictures anywhere. He wondered if she was abandoned here by her parents as a young child, or did she never even know who her parents were. He looked back down at Yoobin. Her face was at peace and her heartbeat was evened out. He smiled slightly before moving a strand of hair off to the side. Soon her eyes began to twitch. Kyungsoo sat up straight with a smile, hoping that she would be calm now.

Yoobin’s head ached. She stayed on the couch for a while, letting her headache slowly fade away. When it subdued, she slowly opened her eyes. She noticed that she was no longer outside, and she was now seeing the ceiling of her home. She blinked a few times.

It was a dream?

She remembered the big brown wolf turning into a human boy with big eyes, brown hair that matched the fur of the wolf, and heart-shaped lips . . . not to mention his naked body. Relief slowly began to wash over her.

I knew that it was a dr—

“Yoobin! You’re awake!” Kyungsoo beamed.

Yoobin’s eyes widened. Her head snapped to the side and her breathing hitched. She sat up and backed up into the forest green couch.

No!

“Are you feeling better? You fainted out of shock!” Kyungsoo dramatically flared his arms around in the air.

She slapped her hands over her eyes and shook.

“Yoobin! Are you okay? What’s wrong?” Kyungsoo asked with furrowed eyebrows.

The other five pack members just stood on the other side of the room, watching the two.
Yoobin slowly peaked behind her fingers. She sighed in relief when she saw that he was wearing clothes again. But then, when she realized that the six males were in her tiny home with her laying on the couch, a whole bunch of scenarios popped into her head. She pushed Kyungsoo backwards hard, making him fall and trip on the coffee table. He whimpered in pain when he landed on the broken shards of the glass bowl that had broken as he fell.

Yoobin quickly went to a drawer and opened it, grabbing a pair of scissors.

“Who are you people? What do you want from me?” she yelled.

Suho’s eyes widened as the five pack members ran to the injured one.

“Kyungsoo ah!”

“Oh my gosh, Kyungsoo!”

Yoobin’s eyes landed on the bloodied Kyungsoo. He pushed away his pack members and slowly stood up.

“Don’t worry, I’ll heal.”

Immense guilt hit Yoobin, but she continued to stay in a fighting stance.

“Get out of my house,” she said in a low voice.

“Yoobin ah,” Kyungsoo’s soft voice spoke. “Can we just sit and talk? I promise with all myheart that we’re not bad people. I just want to talk to you.”

Yoobin swallowed the lumped in her throat and let out a shaky breath. She glared daggers into everyone’s eyes.

“Why should I trust people I don’t even know?”

“We’re werewolves,” Kai deadpanned.

Yoobin’s eyes widened while the other five werewolves scowled at him.

“Dude,” Chanyeol hissed at Kai.

Yoobin swallowed again. She knew that they weren’t lying. She saw the transformation for herself, but still, she was in denial.

“W-Werewolves aren’t real! T-They only exist in books and movies!” Yoobin took in deep breaths.

“And TV shows . . . right?” Baekhyun looked at Yoobin, as if asking for her to answer him.

Yoobin slowly nodded out of confusion.

Baekhyun pointed an accusing finger at Kai.

“HA! I do know my stuff,” he shouted.

Kai rolled his eyes and shook his head. Yoobin tightened her grip around the scissors.

“We are werewolves, Miss,” Sehun smirked.

Soon, his eyes turned purple and fury ears began to grow. Yoobin’s eyes widened as her heartbeat increased.

“Sehun, stop,” Suho said.

Sehun pouted before letting his ears disappear and his eyes turn back to brown.

“Yoobin ah,” Kyungsoo was still in pain, but was healing, nonetheless, “You’re my mate.”

Yoobin looked at Kyungsoo in confusion.

“M-Mate?”

She wanted to tend to his wounds, but she didn’t want to let her guard down.

“You’re my soulmate. Without you in my life, I will never be complete.”

Yoobin softened at his words.

So, the stories that the grandmothers used to tell her weren’t stories at all. They were true.
When Yoobin was just a new born, she was dropped off in the middle of the town. Everyone worked together to let her live the life her birth mother would have never given her. The town mayor gave her the name of Kang Yoobin. The two grandmothers, that EXO-K had met, raised Yoobin as if she were their very own. Everyone in the town knew Kang Yoobin.

Yoobin was so friendly with everyone, that she knew she wouldn’t have a romantic relationship with anyone that lived there. The two grandmothers urged her to move to the city so she could find a boyfriend, but for some reason, Yoobin knew that if she waited long enough in the town, her one and only true love would come to her.

And now . . . here was a handsome bleeding werewolf, claiming that she was his soulmate.
The day had come.

“Are you really?” Yoobin slowly let her hands down.

Kyungsoo smiled and nodded.

“I am.”

“How did you find me?”

“Whenever I was in a certain radius of you, I knew where to find you. I felt a pulling sensation towards you. My heartbeat raced and my adrenaline pumped. I could smell the sweet vanilla perfume that you wear. I heard the beautiful laughter that you made when you played with those butterflies. I fell in love with you at first sight.”

Yoobin stared at Kyungsoo in awe. She set the scissors down on the counter and slowly walked up to him.

“What is your name?”

“Kyungsoo. Do Kyungsoo.”

“And, you already know mine,” Yoobin stated.

“Yes,” he nodded.

Yoobin’s gaze went to Kyungsoo’s bloodied clothes.

“Oh my, let me get you cleaned up first.”

She ran out of the living room and into the hallway. She disappeared into her bedroom. Kyungsoo looked up at Suho. Suho smiled and nodded. He helped Kyungsoo to the couch and gestured for the others to follow him into the kitchen to give the two some privacy. But, unfortunately the living room and kitchen were connected to look like one big room, so there wasn’t much privacy going on, but it was better than nothing.

Yoobin came back out with a first aid kit and sat by Kyungsoo. She asked for his hand and he gladly gave it to her. She wiped his wounds clean with some hydrogen peroxide and dabbed some healing cream onto it. Kyungsoo just smiled as he watched her tend to his wounds.

“How old are you?” he asked.

“Nineteen,” Yoobin answered. “How old are you? Are you like . . . nine hundred years old or something?”

Kyungsoo chuckled and shook his head.

“We’re werewolves, not vampires.”

Yoobin slowly nodded.

“I don’t get it,” she shook her head.

“We don’t live forever like vampires do. We actually have the same aging process as humans. Movies have destroyed that thought process though.”

Yoobin smirked.

“And I’m living proof.”

Kyungsoo winced when she pressed a bit too hard on his arm. She gasped and pulled back her hand.

“I’m so sorry!”

“No, it’s fine,” Kyungsoo chuckled, seeing her panicked state.

“U-Uh,” she continued to clean his wounds, “So . . . how is this mate thing going to work out?”

“I want to take you home with me.”

Yoobin’s eyes widened as she pressed hard onto his arm.

“OW!” Kyungsoo screamed out in pain.

Yoobin just sat there and stared at him.

“You what?” she asked.

Kyungsoo cradled his arm and already bandaged hand.

“We’re gonna live together forever and be a happy family. We’re gonna mate and have a lot
of pretty and handsome babies. We’ll even create our own pack with our ba—” Kyungsoo was already fantasizing about the future.

Yoobin stood up and put her hands on her hips.

“I don’t even love you yet.”

“Yet,” Suho stepped into the living room with the other pack members behind him.

Yoobin glared at him.

“How am I supposed to know that you’re all not going to just kill me and eat me once you take me to your home?”

“We don’t eat humans,” Sehun rolled his eyes.

“We prefer rabbits and other cute furry animals,” Chanyeol nodded.

Yoobin’s eyes widened in horror. Baekhyun rolled his eyes and slapped Chanyeol’s shoulder.

“Stop with your humor. It’s dry.”

“Well then, should I get you a cup of water?” Chanyeol asked.

Kai wanted to dig a hole and burry himself out of embarrassment.

“We never hurt anyone that’s part of the pack,” Kyungsoo said as he stood up.

His wounds were almost fully healed. Yoobin crossed her arms.

“Yeah? How am I supposed to believe that?”

“You just have to trust us.”

“Trust is earned.”

“I’ll earn it.”

“And how will you do that?”

“How do you want us to do it?”

Yoobin just stood there, not knowing what else to say. Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her left ankle. She had to change the bandage soon. She yelped out in pain and fell onto the couch in front of her.

“Yoobin ah!” Kyungsoo yelled and reached out to her.

Yoobin pushed him away.

“Don’t touch me! I’m fine,” she blew her bangs out of her face and sat down right.

Kyungsoo looked at her ankle with a pout.

“What happened to your ankle?”

“I got it caught in a thorn bush.”

Kyungsoo smiled.

“I can heal you! Just let me lick it!”

Yoobin looked at him in disgust and stood up.

“Why the hell do you keep saying that?” she yelled.

“Please?” he asked.

The other werewolves rolled their eyes. Since when did Kyungsoo get so desperate to lick someone’s ankle?

“My saliva can heal you faster!”

Yoobin shivered from the thought of gooey spit on her wound.

“No!” she held up her hands as she began to back away from him.

Kyungsoo inched closer and closer towards her. Suho sighed and shook his head. Kyungsoo pouted.

“I WILL LICK YOUR ANKLE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!” Kyungsoo sprinted towards Yoobin, but Suho was faster and caught Kyungsoo around the waist before he could get to Yoobin.

Yoobin turned around in panic and ran into the couch, landing on it.

“OOF!”

SPAT!

GASP.

“Ew, dude.”

The entire room went quiet. Yoobin’s eyes widened. She felt something wet on her leg and slowly looked down. A big blob of spit was splattered on her leg. She screeched out in disgust and began wailing.

“EW! EW! EW!”

“I TOLD YOU TO LET ME LICK YOUR ANKLE! YOU’RE IN PAIN!”

“AND YOU’RE DELISIONAL!” Yoobin yelled back before running into the bathroom.

Kyungsoo began to whine and sat on the ground with a pout.

“I was only trying to help her,” he said.

“And help her you did not,” Baekhyun nodded once.

Kyungsoo took in a deep breath and heavily exhaled. He put on a determined smile.

“LET ME LOVE YOU!” Kyungsoo shouted as he sprinted for the bathroom.

The other five werewolves heard the bathroom door slam open.

“GET OUT!” Yoobin yelled.

“LET ME LOVE YOU!”

“I DON’T WANT TO!”

“PET ME!”

“NO!”

“I LOVE YOU!”

“I DON’T!”

“DON’T DENY YOUR FEELINGS FOR ME!”

“I HATE YOU! I’M NOT DENYING THAT!”

“WHY DO YOU HATE ME!”

“YOU SPIT ON ME! AH! STOP SPITTING! NO! NO! DON’T LICK ME!”

The five werewolves once again . . . face-palmed.

“Hyungs, promise me you won’t be this extreme when you meet your mates,” Sehun rubbed his temples.

The other four only chuckled.

“You’ll be the one that’ll be worse than Kyung.”

“STOP LICKING!”

“PET ME!”

Notes

Hello, yes I'm back. I decided to start posting stories on here again since the plagiarism has died down. So, I hope you enjoy this comeback story. :)
<3 Nubci