A/N: Ok, so if you've read like any of my previous works this probably isn't your kind of thing, if you hadn't already gotten that from the summary. Anyways, so yeah, I'm back. This fanfiction is also posted on Archive of Our Own btw.
"I bet my soulmate's a real dick," Shinoa said as they walked through the doors to the high school they attended.
She'd been talking about for quite a while now, and it was kind of making Yuu uncomfortable. He really did not like this subject. It brought up memories he'd rather not think about.
"You wanna know what their first words are? 'So, you're her, huh? Well at least you're not the other one.' Can you believe that?"
Yuu was actually a bit shocked that she'd told him the words written on her arm. But then again it was Shinoa, she wasn't exactly secretive about these sort of things. She had no shame.
"Maybe I'll be like one of those girls in those terrible romance novels who meets her surly broken soulmate and has to fix him and then they live happily ever after." Shinoa said in the sing-songy voice she said everything in.
"I can't imagine you ever fixing anyone." Yuu mumbled.
"Hey! I'd be the most emotionally supportive girlfriend ever." She exclaimed in mock offense.
"It doesn't matter if you like him or not anyway, though," he reminded her, referring to earlier in their conversation. "It's not like you actually have to end up with your soulmate. There are tons of people who either don't feel that way about their soulmate or are in love with someone else. I think you should get to choose who you want to be with."
"Aw, Yuu, I didn't know you were such a romantic. So, what do you think your soulmate's like? If you haven't already met her already, that is. Or maybe you fell in love with someone else. You never tell me about your personal life, I'm a bit offended."
"I don't have to tell you anything." Yuu grumbled defensively. Shinoa just laughed. She rarely ever expressed genuine emotion.
"Speaking of soulmates, I'm staying at Kureto and Aoi's house this weekend to help them with the wedding. I already mentioned this at dinner last night, but you know how you don't always pay attention to the world around you."
Shinoa had lived with Guren and Mahiru since she was ten,when Mahiru was finally old enough to take her little sister in and save her from their abusive father. Shinoa didn't like talking about it, and Yuu respected that, coming from a similar situation himself.
Mahiru and Guren had adopted him two years later, a few months after Mahiru had figured out she was infertile. Yuu was still confused as to why they had decided to adopt a twelve year old kid. He had long ago decided not to dwell on it. Besides, he should just be grateful that they decided to adopt him.
He supposed that Shinoa was probably technically his aunt, but she'd always felt more like a sister. They referred to themselves as siblings sometimes, especially when they didn't feel like explaining their complicated family lives to strangers.
Kureto was Mahiru and Shinoa's oldest brother. Though Shinoa had never been very close with him, she had been weirdly excited about his engagement. She got along great with Kureto's fiance, Aoi, and had been helping the couple plan their wedding.
"Yeah, ok. Cool I guess." Yuu responded, not actually caring all that much.
Shinoa and Yuu sat down at their usual table when they got to the cafeteria. Yoichi and Shiho were already sitting down, having breakfast. Yoichi greeted them with an excited hello and Shiho just kind of nodded his head. Their typical morning greetings. Well, ok, usually Shiho's greetings consisted of insults, but he did occasionally forget to be a jerk.
"Hey, they're knew, right?" Yoichi asked after a few minutes of normal morning conversation, looking past yuu into the hallway.
"Yeah, probably." Shiho answered, not sounding all that interested.
Yuu turned around to look at who they were talking about and he swore his heart stopped for a moment.
No. It couldn't be them.
He swore he saw Mika and Akane standing right there.
One of his childhood best friends.
And his soulmate.
A/N: Please review. Thank you.