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I was on vacation! Sorry for the little delay.

YinYang was acutally pretty hard to write so i hope that i did him justice. He perspective as slightly different, so lemme know what you all think!

Review!( i am so drunk on sleepiness right now. hehe.) but please review. Thanks!


YinYang.

YinYang was the smallest, quietest and the fastest of this new group that he had joined. Before he had joined he made sure that everyone he had worked with knew about the first two aspects of himself but never the last. He had learned through many experiences, that he did not care to share, that one must always have an 'Ace up one's sleeve' as these west-worlders said. At first each person in this Expendables group was connected to someone but YinYang was connected to no one and he had preferred it that way. He did not like being attached to someone because that connection sometimes caused him a lot of trouble especially when there was already a lot of trouble that did not need being added to. So he kept himself to himself, did his job and tried not to get attached. But somehow they got under his skin and before he knew it; he was connected. Most days he didn't notice it but then there were other times when it was glaring and he could not help but look back in wonder and gratefulness at the path that had brought him to where he was.

YinYang was the son of an extremely wealthy merchant back in the homeland. He was brought up wanting for nothing, sent to the best schools in which he excelled and was taught the family business and of course learned the marital art that was aligned to his family. However when it was time for him to go into the family business, to his father's horror, YinYang chose to go into military service. No amount of begging, threatening and pleading could persuade him to do otherwise. His Father in a fit of anger disowned him and sent him to his fate. Yet on his day of enlistment his father came to him to ask him why he had chosen to betray the family. YinYang had then revealed knowledge of all his father's bribes, scandalous affairs and so called honorable gifts. As his father stood open mouthed, YinYang also informed him that his mother was now reading a letter stating all that he had just said along with evidence. It was the world's first glimpse of the man called YinYang that had learned many lessons in secret and shared few. What he did not tell his father was that he had stolen from his father's secret store of money and had given his mother exact instructions of what to do with her life. He then left his family behind to find his way.

Three years later found him in the Western Army called the Marines where he was given the nickname of Chin; which he found distasteful but it was better than what some of the others minority groups had gotten so he kept quiet about it. For the first time he had a family of sorts, that teased each other, fought, slept and laughed with each other. These rough men taught him many new lessons that he did not know before but still he saw in them a thread of dishonor and malice that made his relationship with them feel tainted. He always had to have an 'Ace up his sleeve' in order to survive. He thought that he would have gotten used to living this way but after serving in the marines for six years, he found that living with the constant need to have that Ace was starting to have a toll on him. He longed for someone, anyone that he could show all his cards and they would show him all of theirs.

However it seemed like the universe was against him. When he got discharged, he quickly aligned himself with a security group that turned out to be part time thugs. He had gathered evidence and then sent it off to the police along with setting his team up. Then he had wandered for a few months before joining a prison transport detail. That had been great for a year until one of his team got drunk and YinYang found out what they really thought about him. That had led to a serious fight in which he had to incapacitate all of his fellow workers. The aftermath of that had not been pleasant. It was while he was getting drunk in a small bar that he got approached for mercenary work. He spent a few years with various groups, always moving for some reason or another. The West he decided was a place in which no one could be trusted. At least he thought so until he met Barney Ross.

He met Barney in a fight. He was passing by an alley and it was only his quick reflexes that had him moving out of the way as a body went flying. He peered into the alley to see one guy beating the daylights out of two other guys. He stepped into the alley and saw a muscular guy standing in front of a prone figure. His two assailants were taunting but not getting close before they met the same fate as their comrade. Yin Yand watched as they faked rushed the guy, only to be caught and then punched to the ground.

"And stay down this time," the muscular guy growled at them, "bunch of thugs." He looked up to see YinYang watching him then moved to pick up the prone figure behind him, throwing the body over his shoulder. He walked past YinYang. YinYang followed him to see him putting the young man into a heavily fortified truck. Then the man turned to him and waved him over.

"Well come on," he said, "This guy needs to get to a hospital quick." YinYang found himself climbing into the passenger seat of a total stranger. He was given the duty of holding a dirty rag against a nasty stab wound. The young man was sprawled across the seat, dark blood dripping over the leather but the muscular man didn't seem to mind.

"Why are you helping him?" YinYang asked, "Friend of yours?" The guy shook his head.

"Nah. Just a kid that was in a bad place," he replied.

They rode in silence until they got the young man to a health facility where the medical team took over and the muscular guy answered to the best of his ability. In the glaring light of waiting room YinYang saw now what kind of man this was. The way he held himself, the way he moved and talked and the way his eyes never rested told YinYang all he needed to know. This man was a mercenary like himself; yet here he was helping some kid in a back alley. Once the muscular guy was done, YinYang followed him back out to his truck. At the door they stood facing each other.

"You are a killer," YinYang said.

"Yeah I am," the man replied, his voice strong but with a current of sadness behind it as if being drawn from a deep well of sorrow.

"Why did you not kill them," YinYang inquired, "You have a gun." The man shrugged.

"They didn't need to be killed," he replied, "They are just kids were in a bad place too. Not everyone in a bad place needs to be killed."

They stared at each other again.

"Do you have a team?" YinYang asked. The man blinked once then nodded. "I would like to join it." The man looked away from him for a few seconds then back at him.

"How about we go get something to eat and I will tell you about it. Then you can make up your mind of you want to join or not." He held the door open for YinYang. YingYang looked at him and then got in.

So that was how YinYang ended up in a small diner sitting across from the man whose name he found out was Barney Ross. Barney was unlike all the other guys he had ever dealt with before for two reasons; he had actually asked for this job and Barney was actually honest. The realization hit YinYang when Barney began lay out what the group was about, what their code of conduct would be and what the payment would be like. Here was a man that was laying his cards on the table. YinYang forced himself to smoother the hope that he was having as he said that he would join and shoot Barney Ross' hand, but he hoped that he would at last be given a chance.

Turns out he had been. Barney Ross was the man that laid his cards out and expected YinYang to do the same. It may have taken YinYang months to do it but he had. And it had felt like a burden being released. The Universe had smiled on him in the form of Barney Ross.