Soul mates. Kagome had always wondered what that word meant. Was it some spiritual connection between two beings? Or was it the pure, unadulterated love one had for another? She played with that thought as she examined herself for any new writing and found her outfit for the day. By the time she was out of her apartment, she was too busy thinking about the test she was getting back to think about it anymore.

She thanked the barista, dropping the coins he handed her into the tip jar in front of the register, and grabbed her coffee before walking to campus and finding her classroom. "Hey!" Rin greeted as Kagome took a seat next to her. "You nervous?"

"Ridiculously," Kagome responded, placing her bag under her seat and her coffee on the table in front of her. "But you studied hard, you must've done great. SM's underlining helping?"

"I don't wanna disappoint him," Rin agreed shyly. "I know he's just underlining what I write, but it's so sweet!"

Kagome rolled her eyes. The girl wrote everything on her arm, from test dates to appointment times to reminding herself to bring lunch. It was a wonder whoever this guy was hadn't written back yet – all he did was underline things when the dates got close.

Rin pouted. "Hey, just because you hate your soul mate doesn't mean I have to hate mine."

Kagome sighed and gave her friend a small smile. "You're right, I'm sorry. He seems great."

Rin bit her lip and grinned. "Doesn't he, though?"

Kagome smiled back. Rin was right; just because her own soul mate sucked didn't mean everyone's had to.

"Miroku got arrested again," Sango sighed, handing Kagome the bowl of popcorn before sitting down next to her on the couch.

"You know, I'm surprised he can still be a monk with how often that's happened. Seriously, he knows he's your soul mate, why doesn't he just…stop grabbing every pretty girl he sees?" Kagome asked, bringing her mind again to what being a soul mate meant. One would think that it meant happiness. A utopia where everyone was happy forever.

It wasn't.

Even just Sango. She met her soul mate over a year ago. Something like that should have been perfect. But for Sango, she got to meet him when he was brought to the precinct on sexual assault charges. A cop! And her SM got brought to the precinct at least once a month. Every time he got there, he asked her out, and every time she said no.

Sango shrugged. "It's not like he ever actually ends up in jail. He just gets brought into the precinct and talked to. For some reason, everyone there still likes him."

Kagome looked at her, eyebrows raised. "The police officers like someone who constantly gets arrested on sexual assault charges?"

"Right? They think he's fun and charming. And since the 'worst he does'," Sango made air quotes as she said it, "is rub butts, they let that go and enjoy it when he's there. And since he's made it very clear that I'm his SM, and since I constantly have to reject him at the precinct, I'm the bad guy."

"That jerk!" Kagome scoffed. Soul mates. Ugh.

Sango sighed and pressed play on the show. "Yep."

Assassination classroom was Sango's favorite non-nostalgic anime, and if anything was going to get her mind off Miroku, it was watching two high school assassins use their SM status to help each other locate their target's whereabouts. It wasn't a romance anime at all, so that was as deep as the relationship got, but it didn't stop the fangirls. Or Kagome. "What's their ship name again?"

"Karmagisa."

"Right. Nice."

Sango side-eyed her friend and grinned. The only thing better than the fangirl train was dragging your friends down with you.

"Are those…ink marks? Oh my god, yours is in jail! Ahaha!"

"Kagome?"

Kagome turned her head towards the voice and gave a small smile. "Sorry, I got distracted again."

"Tattoos?" Koga asked as he walked to her before wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his chin on her shoulder. As her looked at the two of them in the mirror, naked – damn, they looked good together.

"Yeah," she sighed, absentmindedly bringing her hand up to trace the barbed wire-shaped ink on her bicep. There was another tattoo on her back, but with Koga holding her from behind, she wasn't going to break apart from a six-pack just to torture herself by looking at it. "I mean, who does that? I know it's legal, but it's super rude that I have to sign up for these for life with no choice in the matter."

Koga's eyebrows raised as he examined his girl in the mirror. "Uhh… I hate to break it to you, gorgeous, but I think he's making another life decision for you right now."

"Huh?" Kagome put her focus back on the reflection in front of her and gasped. "That asshole!"

She watched as a what seemed to be the beginnings of a star started appearing in a faint ink between her right shoulder and chest. Seriously? He was getting a third tattoo? "Oh, hell to the over my dead body," she spat, breaking apart from Koga to grab a pen from her backpack. She brought it back to the mirror with her. Almost brimming with anger, she drew two straight lines through the tracing in an X shape to send her first message to her soul mate.

Koga watched her as she stared intently at the mirror, almost daring the person on the other side of her link to keep going with that tattoo. After a full minute passed and nothing happened, she breathed out in relief and turned to smile at her lover. "All better. Now…" she bit her lip and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Back to bed?"

Koga smirked and used to lighting to get one more look at her before heading into her dim room. He swept his eyes over her body hungrily.

And he almost didn't tell her. It would have been so easy to not tell, to keep this fucking hot thing going for another hour before saying adios for the night. But even though she didn't love him, he couldn't look at that beautiful face and lie to it. "Kagome…you should have another look."

She furrowed her brows and cocked her head to the side. "O…kay?" Uncertainly, she turned around and her fists clenched as she watched the words "SUCK IT" being written in red ink above the tattoo tracing.

When she woke up the next morning, the tattoo was done.

That's it for the intro, I hope you enjoyed! Don't forget to leave a review, it keeps me motivated! :)