One-Shot Collection (Souma x Takumi)

🌸Threads & Strings🌸

There are two types of bonds that binds two people together. One is gold and one is red.

It is a thread that is believed to be the thread that binds lovers. The Red String of Fate.

It is the thread that is believed to be the thread that something was meant to happen. The Golden Thread of Destiny.

"Fate! Stop goofing off and do your job!" A golden haired, red eyed woman scolds.

"Pfft! Yeah, yeah. Stop being so snappy, Destiny. I need a break too," the redhaired, golden eyed woman answered dismissively.

The redhead stood up and sat infront of a fountain, where the other sat across her. They shared eye contact and touched the surface of the clear water, creating ripples. The ripples started to clear and vague forms of shadows that slowly showed clear stractured of humans.

"What a poor boy..." Destiny mutters. Fate eyes her and sighed. "To go through such hardship at a young age."

Fate's red hair glowed and past through the water, two fingers were connected by a red thread. "Don't be like that, Destiny. We're not deciding their futures, we are just the ones connecting them," she says.

"My job is to determine what their destiny is..." her golden hair leads a path for the small girl in the slums.

"And my job is to find their partner, someone who is compatible for them..." Fate says, her hair once again connected two pinkies. "To connect a pair..." she adds. "We are not at fault, that is their choice."

"Still..." Destiny weakly protested. Two forms appeared on the ripples that appears to be pregnant women. "What's this?" She raised a brow.

"Hm?!" Fate jumped.

She and the golden haired exchanged glances and touched the ripples. Both of their hair glowed and a single hair of each swirled around the womb of both women, their eyes widen as the hair disappears and the womb glowed.

The waters started to move and a boy appeared, blonde hair with blue eyes, holding at knife along with another black haired who shares the same blue eyes, standing in the kitchen and cutting carrots, then it suddenly changed into a red haired boy who seems to be doing the same but a man was standing besides him, teaching him the way of a knife and kitchen. Then everything started to move fast until the blonde and the redhaired grew up each passing time...

Until the blonde saw the redhaired first, until they first talked, touched and stood side by side in the same field, then it slowed down. Both were standing under the snowy crowd, hand by hand then it slowly formed into a bright place where they were smiling together. Then the water turned back to normal and showed another form, both of their hairs turned back to normal.

"W-what..." Fate stutters. Destiny scrambles and touched the water again, it showed the two pregnant women with their glowing womb.

"Those boys..." the golden haired points.

"They share the same destiny," Fate rubs her chin with a frown. "... and is connected by the same fate."

Destiny shivered. "Destined Soulmates..."

"It's been so long since something like that happened," Fate cackles.

"This is amazing!" Destiny cheered. "I wanna see... them grow up," she smiled softly at the future self of the boys.

16 years after that...

Takumi's POV

I can see them. I can always see them, I thought it was only an illusion but as I grew up, I realized it wasn't. These red strings that connects two people, my mom says its called the Red String of Fate. Most people have them and some don't. Even Isami has a partner, I saw it appear on our 13th birthday, the year we entered Tôtsuki Academy. I believe that some still haven't met their partners, why? Because I haven't found mine. Or at least not until I turned 16. I saw him, hair red as the string tied around his pinkie finger connecting to mine.