Author's Note: Thank you for the support, I wasn't expecting it to be honest, I saw a prompt whilst scrolling through Tumblr and I thought it was a pretty complex plot so I started writing on a whim. As a quick disclaimer I do want to say that I got the concept for this story from the Daily Story Seed on Tumblr, so check them out, they have amazing story prompts, but nonetheless this is my original story. Anyways I try to write two chapters a day, but I'm busy with school and a few other stories that I'm writing, but this is my main focus, so updates should come quickly. Thank you again!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

My alarm going off 20 minutes late was the start of my bad day. I barely had enough time to brush my teeth, let alone shower. Gathering myself, I ran out of the room to get across campus to meet Ino for breakfast before our midterms. I was halfway to the cafeteria when I saw a thread coming from my body. I looked around, but there were too many people surrounding me to pinpoint the person. I wasn't sure who it was, but I was excited to say the least. Throughout all of my 23 years on earth I had never seen a thread coming from my own body.

I stopped for a second, and then without a second thought, began running in the direction of the strand. Before I knew it I found myself standing a few feet away from a raven haired man sitting by himself on a bench. I held the tree, and squinted my eyes to get a better look. After getting over the initial shock of my soulmate being a man, I realized he was extremely handsome.

The mystery man was focused intently on the book in front of him, his perfectly sculpted brows furrowing every so often at whatever it was that he was reading. He was…pretty, for lack of a better word. All of his features were chiseled to perfection, hard and soft all at the same time. His dark hair contrasted with his pale skin in a beautiful way. He looked godly. I watched in morbid fascination for a few more minutes, strongly considering going over to talk to him, before a hand fell onto my shoulder.

I jumped before looking over at the intruder. Ino smiled brightly at me, and then turned her attention over to see who I was watching prior to the interruption. She giggled loudly, looking back over at me. "That's Uchiha Sasuke," she said knowingly, leaning herself up against the tree. My eyes widened in shock at the familiar name and I looked back over at the man that I was connected to. How was I going to tell Sakura?

"He's gorgeous huh? Too bad he's like asexual, what a waste," she scoffed, latching onto my arm, and pulling me in the opposite direction towards the cafeteria, completely oblivious to my inner turmoil. Yeah, I was going to fail all of my exams today.

I didn't ask for it, I didn't ask for any of it. I didn't want this stupid "talent", or the ridiculous crush that I had on Sakura. I definitely didn't ask for the depression or loneliness that plagued me anytime that I went out, and I surely didn't ask for the one person who I shouldn't have been connected to, be the one that I was unfortunately, connected to.

I had imagined how it would feel to finally find my soulmate countless times. Constantly picturing what they would look like, sound like, smell like, hell even taste like. It was something that I yearned for, something that I had always looked forward to, and now when I had finally found them, the one, my person, it just had to be him. I never even considered that I was into males, since I had never found anyone that appealed to me before. Well, anyone other than Sakura, that is.

My crush on Sakura probably had more to do with the fact that she was the only one I had ever allowed myself to become extremely close with, but regardless, this was just unfair. It's not that I was opposed to being with a man, because I wasn't. I just always assumed that my soulmate would be a woman, but of course not, because truly, my life was just one huge joke. If gender wasn't enough to make this whole entire scenario just completely ridiculous, then surely the fact that my fucking soulmate was Uchiha Sasuke would do it for you.

I resisted the urge to punch a hole in the wall of my dorm as I walked in, throwing my stuff on the ground angrily. I had a 2 hour break in between classes, and I was way too upset to study. Groaning loudly, I threw myself down onto my bed with violent force. I was like 99% sure that I heard one of the wooden planks on the bedframe crack, but I ignored it, burying my head into my pillow, and screaming at the top of my lungs. I was extremely thankful that my dorm mate wasn't in, because I stayed in that position for a while. Feeling too sorry for myself to actually get up and be productive. I wallowed in self-pity for over an hour before my alarm went off, signaling that I had to get up to go take the last test of the day, for my Oceanography class.

2 painfully long hours later, I walked out of the building, slinging my bag over my shoulder, and pulling out my cellphone to finally make the phone call that I was dreading. Finding Sakura's name in my phone, I clicked on it, bringing the phone up to my ear, and chewing down on my bottom lip.

"Hello?" her cheery voice rang through the phone. I gulped.

"H-Hey Sakura," I said nervously, continuing on my walk back to the dorms.

"Naruto! How did your last exam go?" She asked sweetly.

"I'm pretty sure I failed, but that's not why I called," I said, trying to figure out how to tell her that the man she was in love with was, by some sick joke, in fact connected to me instead of her.

"Oh?" she questioned curiously, but before I could respond I crashed into someone else, effectively causing me to drop my phone and backpack onto the ground. I quickly grabbed my phone to inspect the damage, and found that the screen had cracked, just my fucking luck. Forgetting that I was even on the phone with Sakura still, I looked up to glare at the person who had bumped into me. I wanted to puke when I saw none other than Sasuke glaring down at me.

"Watch where you're going, idiot," Sasuke said, brushing himself off, and looking at me like I was gum on the bottom of his very expensive shoe. I narrowed my eyes at him, trying to ignore how handsome he was, and how painfully close we were. He was a bastard.

"Watch where I'm going? You bumped into me asshole," I retorted, finally picking myself up off of the ground, and once again slinging the bag over my shoulder. I tucked my phone into my pocket, and kept my narrowed eyes on him.

"Tch, whatever," Sasuke retorted finally, brushing passed me but not without bumping his shoulder into mine as he went. His unique scent entering my nostrils at the contact, and I involuntarily took a deep breath, savoring the smell. In a perfect world, I would have been happy that I was tied to him, but this was going to be problematic. I turned to watch his retreating back, glaring at the stupid thread that was connecting us until it finally disappeared when he was out of my line of sight. Yeah, my life was a joke.

I slammed the door behind me, and dropped my bag on the floor, grunting a greeting towards my roommate, before collapsing down onto my bed for what seemed like the millionth time that day, and covered my eyes with my arm.

"Exam that bad?" I heard Shikamaru question from his desk, turning his attention from homework to me.

I flipped over, and met his intrigued gaze. "I wish I was upset over the exam, but no, that's not it."

"What's wrong then Naruto?" he asked, crossing his arms over his chest.

"You know my sight thing right?" I asked, already knowing the answer to the rhetorical question. He rubbed his face, and then nodded in response.

"Well," I started, sitting up and kicking off my dirty shoes. "I told Sakura I was going to help her find her soulmate, she said she already knew who the guy was, she just needed me to confirm."

"And you like her," Shikamaru added helpfully. I nodded, lacing my fingers behind my neck, and laying back down, before continuing.

"Correct, and today I found the person I'm connected to," I said, watching as his expression turned thoughtful, he didn't speak, instead waiting for me to elaborate. "I don't know what I did to deserve this, but my soulmate is the same person that Sakura is convinced is her soulmate." I finished, closing my eyes and shaking my head. We sat in silence for a while, but I could feel Shikamaru's gaze on me, probably analyzing my situation in that genius head of his.

Eventually Shikamaru stood up and walked over to me, patting my arm affectionately. "How troublesome," he muttered, before moving away, and opening the door to our dorm to leave, probably to go see his girlfriend. The sound of the door clicking closed was the last thing I heard before I was met with a deafening silence. I let out a sad sigh.

"Tell me about it."