Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
A/N: I decided to give Sasunaru month a try in English this year, so here you have it. This is a collection of individual and mostly unrelated drabbles. Both Sasunaru and Narusasu tropes will be included and each chapter will have its own warnings, as well as a tag to specify if it's SN or NS.
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Prompt #1: Soulmates (-)
Warnings: Fairy Tales, merpeople, Naruto being a hopeless romantic. This is set in the same universe as "Aquamarine", you can check that one on my profile.
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Naruto felt the skin on his lower arm start thrumming mildly, and immediately knew this was the precise moment his life would change forever.
He stopped moving forwards and looked around, anxiously. He could hear his heartbeats pounding in his ears. But there was no one to be seen.
He looked at his mark and yes, the gentle heat under his skin was definitely present. And that could mean only one thing. His soulmate was somewhere near. So, he'd just have to find them, no biggie!
"Hello! Is anyone there?!" he called out and started inspecting his surroundings. Some animals got startled and hurried away, but there was overall no response. That didn't deter him, though. He kept looking, following his gut instinct and the feeling on his skin, until he got closer and closer to the shore.
He didn't recognize this beach. It was probably the first time he came here, but he loved to travel and get to know new places. That was the main reason he was here, alone, in the middle of nowhere. The ocean was just so enormous that it made no sense to not explore it.
His senses guided him until he was almost on land, and then there was light. Naruto had to cover his eyes by the sudden brightness, atypical considering the time. The sun was already down, but there was light over the surface. There was also this weird sound… Wait, that was someone's voice!
Curious but wary, Naruto swam up and peeked from the distance. He could distinguish the silhouette of a human walking in the opposite direction to where he was. The mark on his arm burned, and he just knew.
Soulmates were sacred to merpeople. Every single merfolk waited for the one made only for them. It was custom, it was tradition. Nobody mated before meeting their fated one, and once they finally found them, the bond lasted a lifetime.
Naruto's parents were soulmates, and every single other couple he'd met were too. So he had awaited the day he would finally find his one, his only. And that day had finally come, except for one single, small detail he hadn't really considered before.
He had always thought his mate would be a mer, just like him. He'd never heard of interspecies soulmates, and yet here he was, totally smitten with the human he hadn't even met yet. But he could feel it in his bones, this human was his soulmate.
He had picked up the land token the human had left on the sand the day before, and was attentively inspecting it. It was clearly not made to be underwater, because the material was weakening so fast, but there were also strange symbols engraved on it, but Naruto knew nothing of human language.
Wait, he knew nothing about human language! How was he supposed to talk to his mate, then?
He could feel his presence through the mark, the human was near. So, he decided to follow him around without approaching him.
Now in the daylight, he could see his features more clearly than last night. His skin was pale, and his hair, black. As expected, he had two legs, and no other visible appendix, but Naruto didn't really know much about human anatomy. He watched him pace back and forth, marching on the beach, and suddenly this weird thought plagued his mind.
Was he perhaps looking for something? The item Naruto had dared to retrieve from the beach?
Or could he actually be looking for someone?
That must've been it! The human had to feel his soulmate was near, so he was looking for Naruto!
But could Naruto approach him? How would his soulmate react when he saw him and realized Naruto wasn't human?
Well, he thought, there was only one way to find out.
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A/N: So, I've been thinking for a while about making a Naruto POV or a sequel of "Aquamarine", so maybe this will kickstart something hahaha
I will probably post a longer version of this separately someday, but in the meantime, I hope you guys enjoyed this and see you in the next prompt!