SouRin Week: February 2016
Title: The Ring on Your Finger
Author: melonmachinery
Day/Prompt: Day 1/Paper – Never Met
Rating: T
Ch. Word Count: ~500
Side Pairings: Makoto/Haruka (not really mentioned until much later)
Summary:

Sousuke returns to Tokyo ready for his life to continue on in the same monotonous gray it had since his dreams stopped in their tracks, but something flashy catches his eye and he can't turn away.

A/N:

Well! This is my first time writing a continuing a fic that isn't like separate moments in time... and it's an AU too oh boy! I hope that everyone likes it! I've actually had the idea forever now but I've never had an excuse to really do it! I really hope I can execute it properly... I'm posting the prologue and the chapter today and then I'm going to try to keep updating once a week! I hope everyone enjoys!

The Ring on Your Finger

Prologue

The darkness passed before his eyes, lights zipping by, nothing different from what he remembered. When he focused his eyes he saw the lights glaring and the distorted reflection of the backs of the man and woman standing to the side. His palm hurt a bit from holding onto the strap above. He yawned into his arm, it was early, or at least early for him. The bag hanging off his shoulder and the backpack weighing him down.

He tried to stay awake, if he missed his stop he'd get an earful from Kisumi.

"Excuse me," he apologized as the train jerked him into the side of a young boy. The boy said nothing and the train moved on. He felt the telltale signs of vertigo coming on as the train slowed to a stop. One more stop to go and he'd be free of it.

When the doors snapped open with a puff of air and a hiss only a small group of people shuffled in. It was off peak, and he wasn't heading straight to the city so it wasn't that bad. An old woman passed behind him to a chair and he tried to shuffle around the others to get closer to the door when he knocked into someone entering.

"Sorry," he said and the other person answered in kind, stepping around him. Sousuke saw a flash of dyed red and his eyes followed it. The person he had run into was on his phone, a soft black hat pulled down around him to match his fashionable double layered jacket. He was eye-catching to say the least.

The train jerked forward and back as it started up again. They bumped shoulders, but said nothing. Sousuke couldn't keep his eyes off of the downturned gaze of the stranger next to him. He looked somehow beautiful, handsome even, despite the artificial color of his long hair and a fashion sense that Sousuke didn't understand but could appreciate.

Sousuke tried to drag his eyes away when the stranger put his phone in his pocket. His eyes flicked up and Sousuke's breath caught when they made contact. They made polite smiles and nods in unison, and Sousuke forced his gaze back to the door, watching the darkness pass. His heart was beating a mile a minute when they finally started to slow down.

The light of the underground station poured in behind the mass of people and when the door opened Sousuke did his best to get out as quickly as possible before the people started to pour in. He glanced back before the door shut and saw the young man moving aside to make room for a couple and their kid. Their eyes didn't meet again and when the door closed and his image disappeared Sousuke was a little surprised to feel disappointed.

He shook his head to regain his bearings and stepped up the stairs, there were plenty of eye-catching things in the city anyways.