(I'm making the ages up for his parents sorry if it's inaccurate,also Yuto is 28 and Kino is 18 here so yeah. Also I could not figure out how to end this so I am sorry it sucks oops)
Yuto's mother and father met cause Yuto's mother fell out of a tree. It sounds ridiculous but it's the truth.
You see,when she fell she broke her leg. Which, of course, made her cry. The crying is what triggered his father,his head swiveling left and right as he searched for her.
She wasn't anywhere near him, she was actually miles away on the other side of town. But he could still hear her cries as clear as if she were beside him.
After hours of searching hospitals, cause the cry she made sounded painful, he came across a part of town he'd never been to. With a hopeful heart he checked the hospital there and,as luck would have it, he found a room with a young girl who was crying cause her leg had been broken in 3 places after falling from that stupid tree.
He didn't need to say anything to her,he knew it was her as soon as he saw her. Just as she knew it was him when she saw him,his worried eyes told her that. No stranger would have looked that worried.
2 weeks later they were married,and now 40 years later they were still as happy as ever.
When Yuto was a child he loved to hear that story,it sounded so romantic and happy and perfect in his innocent eyes. When he got older he got confused how it worked cause it made no sense,so he asked his parents.
And that's when they told him about soulmates.
Apparently when your soulmate cries,whether it be in pain or happiness or sadness, you could hear it. No one around you could hear it,just you. They say it fills your ears and sounds as loud and clear as if they were beside you.
Yuto thought that was stupid,but it did make sense. How else would his father have heard his mother if she was miles away in another part of town? How else would his father have known who she was without even having met her before?
It did make sense in a way,but Yuto wasn't sure he believed it. He wasn't calling his parents liars,it just didn't seem possible.
His parents laughed with knowing smiles on their lips,telling him he'd understand one day. One day it'd happen to him and it'd all become clear. Yuto still doubted it,but didn't argue.
All through high school people talked about soulmates.
I wonder where mine is? Do you think they're pretty? Have I met them yet? How will I know it's them? How will they know I'm theirs?It drove Yuto bonkers cause no one shut up about it.
A group of girls would whine when one of their friends found theirs,fawning and getting all googly eyed as they watched them in the cafeteria together.
A group of boys would slap a hand on the back of the guy who got lucky enough to run into his at the market.
Even his best friend Hyojong found his one day.
They were walking to their next class and suddenly Hyojong's head swiveled this way and that,his eyes searching for something. Yuto asked what was wrong but Hyojong shushed him and took off in a run toward the front of the school.
