Hidden Meanings

One Color [Jaxita Soulmate AU]

Soulmate AU where you can only see shades of the eye color your soulmate has until you make eye contact with them. Also, a high-school thing.

The world was too dull.

I released another troublesome sigh, tapping my clipboard with my pencil as I looked over my notes.

It was strange, knowing how I saw my world in hues of light green (is that what they called it? The word just popped into my head) while others- like my sister, for example, before she met her soulmate, saw the world in different shades.

Is this really all the world has to offer me?

It was like it has been bleached of all but one color, and that annoyed me to no end.

All the pathetic talk about soulmates...I didn't believe in that. It was just a problem with our eyesight.

"-son? Jax-kun?"

Blinking myself out of my daze, I lifted my head from where it had settled on my extended palm. "Hm?"

"Feelin' gloomy about the world again, I see," One of my school friends, Shinzo, stopped waving a hand in front of me.

"I am not," I retorted.

"Whatever, whatever. We all know how you're musing over the whole color thing," Shinzo teased.

"You looked at my sister in the eyes and the whole world exploded in color- how much bragging are you going to do?"

Behind Shinzo, I could identify Shinji by his amount of piercings and the dark green (the actual color I don't know) hair. "You're in a sour mood, I see," he commented, the words slow-paced and thought-out like usual.

"It's stupid. I'm sure this whole soulmates thing is a fake," I muttered. "It could be caused by a genetic problem in our DNA that's stops when you look at someone who you think you'll have a long relationship with."

"Eh?"

"He's saying," Shinji drawled, "that the actual changing in color in your eyesight is fully mental."

Shrugging, Shinzo chose not to address the subject and linked his hands behind his head. "Besides, I heard Fer was supposed to bring a new friend over."

"And this matters why?" I set my clipboard to the side, glancing up at her.

"Who knows, she could be your soulmates! You too are both loners and single."

"...having a soulmate doesn't mean you have to love them. This is proven by asexual people," Shinji sighed.

"Whatever," he replied. "Ooh! I see them n- oh, she's a pretty one! Although, unnatural hair color...blue..."

I had no idea what he was talking about, of course. We had all been assured we would know the exact names of a color the moment we saw it with our 'true eyes'.

I looked over at my sister, who wavered eagerly at Shinzo, her soulmate. And next to her was...

My blood ran cold.

All the shades of green that had littered my version had disappeared and colors- red, blue, orange- began to leak in.

She gasped, tugging on Ferphina's sleeve, her short blue hair bobbling up and down, and her excited shout was loud enough for me to hear.

"Ferphina-chan! It's him! Silver! Silver, silver, silver! That's his hair color! And his eyes are a dark green!"

She let go of my sister's sleeve, leaving her side in an instant to hurry over to me.

My tongue had almost went numb, and I found it hard to speak. "Y-You're..."

"Ashita!" She greeted. "I guess we're soulmates!"

It was fascinating. Staring at her, relishing and basking in the light of seeing the vibrant and dark hues and shades of colors.

"Blue..." I said at last, reaching out to touch one of her bangs that reached down to her shoulder.

"...it's very pretty."

IM IN A SOULMATE-Y MOOD SO REQUEST AWAY! Any ships involving my characters...and it would help if I had the whole soulmate scenario but if not, I can scavenge for one.