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Lost and Found Soulmate - Kazutora

Word count: 1234

Paring: Kazutora Hanemiya x gn! Reader

Summary: Soulmate connections are weird, hopefully finding things your soulmate lost can actually help you find them.

A/n: Hello everyone, this is my entry for @softxsuki 's Fanfic contest on tumblr. I really loved the idea of the event and seeing that the word count was changed from 5k to 1k really helped push me to actually participate. I'm happy with how this idea turned out and even if I don't win, at least it was the motivation I needed to beat up my writer's block a little bit. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys and as always remember to hydrate or diedrate.

"You don't get it Takashi, you have such a normal connection with your soulmate. I have to try and piece together who they are based on random shit that appears in my house once a month." I ranted to my lavender haired friend once again. "Like how are a pencil and hair tie supposed to lead me to my soulmate? Almost every person on earth has access to these things." I said, laying my head on the table next to Takashi's sewing machine.

All I received in response was a chuckle and a shake of his head. "Your silence doesn't help me Taka. You're supposed to be giving advice." I grumbled.

"What do you want me to say Y/n? It's not like I know who your soulmate is. All you can do is hope that the next thing they lose is an actual clue to who they are." He answered, while still focusing on the jacket he was working on. "Or you could try to lose something that tells your soulmate how to find you." Takashi suggested.

"It won't work. I've already tried that. Somehow the universe knows when I'm trying to lose stuff. Plus everytime I lose my wallet it always shows up in an hour or so. Stuff that gets switched is gone for the whole month." I explained, not missing the look of judgement that crossed my friends face. "Don't judge me. If you had such an absurd connection you'd try anything to figure out who you're meant to be with." Standing up and stretching, I sighed. "Anyways I should get going. I have to get some stuff before the Toman meeting later." Takashi just nodded, giving a quick see you later, before going back to looking at the stitches.

Walking out of the studio, I couldn't help but sigh dreading the idea of returning home to find the useless item my soulmate lost this month. Like I said before it's always something that is no help at all in finding my soulmate. Sometimes I just wish my soulmate connection was something normal like their name on my wrist or hearing each other's thoughts. It would make things so much easier instead of this stupid game of lost and found.

The walk back to my little apartment was quiet as if the world around me knew that I was dreading walking through my front door. When I finally did get inside I was surprised that sitting on my coffee table wasn't the usual pencil or hair tie.

No this month it was something different, something that left me at a loss for words. Sitting in the same spot where the lost objects always appear, was a single earring. But not just any earring, it was a short gold chain that ended in a simple golden bell. The same golden bell I had seen hanging alongside black and yellow hair since I was in middle school. The same golden bell that was one of two distinguishing features of one of my closest friends.

I stood in my living room just staring at the piece of jewelry for what felt like hours, but was really only a few minutes. This had to be a coincidence right, my soulmate just happened to have a similar earring. There was no way my soulmate was actually Kazutora, the guy I had admired for years but settled with just being his friend because there was no chance we were soulmates.

Before I could try and convince myself that he had just dropped the last time he came over, my phone started ringing. Lifting it up I didn't bother checking the caller ID, I just brought it to my ear before speaking. "Hello-"

I was cut off by a frantic Kazutora. "Did you leave your locket at my apartment last time you came over?" He asked, not bothering to say hello or ask how my day was going.

Hearing mention of my locket, I thought back to this morning when I was getting ready and couldn't find the small golden necklace that I always wore. I knew it was missing this morning but I also knew for a fact that I had it the night before and I hadn't been to Kazutora's place in over a week. There was no way I left my locket at his apartment.

"Where are you?" He asked, taking my silence as an answer.

Snapping out of my train of thought, I finally responded. "I'm at my apartment." Before I could say anything else or asked if he had left his earring here, the call cut off.

Looking down at my phone startled and confused, I got ready to call him back. As I was about to hit the dial button, a loud knocking sounded from the front door. Setting down my phone and grabbing the earring from the table, I moved to open the front door. In front of me stood none other than Kazutora, he looked just as frantic as he had sounded on the phone.

"This might sound crazy but you're my soulmate." He said as soon as he registered that I had opened the door. His words were then followed by him raising his hand to show the golden heart shaped locket I had since I was child.

Finally accepting that this was in fact happening right now, I raised my own hand. "This also might sound crazy, but you're also my soulmate." I said, revealing the bell in my hand.

After sharing a laugh and inviting him in, we sat together on my couch. Just enjoying each other's company and joking about the random things we had found over the years.

"Seriously, how do you lose so many hair ties?" I asked from my spot next to him.

He just shrugged. "I don't know, they're small and disappear easily, I guess. How do you manage to lose so many socks, like do you have a dresser just full of different ones? Cause I swear I never once saw two of the same sock." He shot back.

"Don't judge me and my mismatched socks. At least I know how to keep track of pencils." I said sticking out my tongue.

A comfortable silence soon enveloped the space, like we were both content to just be here close to each other. It made sense honestly, we had been friends since middle school and it wasn't uncommon for us to just hang out in silence. But there was something different about this silence, like even if we didn't notice it before there was still something that finally just felt right.

"I'm glad that you're my soulmate." Kazutora said, breaking the silence. "You've always been there for me and you make me feel so relaxed. It makes perfect sense that it's you."

I just moved closer to him, cuddling into his side. "I can say the same about you."

With that we spent the evening enjoying each other's existence and relishing in the fact we finally found our soulmates. It wouldn't be until the next morning that we realised we had totally missed the Toman meeting after seeing dozens of calls and texts from our friends. We both just laughed it off anyways, after all it had been years since the 'meetings' were anything more than a hangout with all the founders. Plus once they heard the news they'd forgive us.