PAINT ON YOU [KAORHYS FANFIC]

Fist and Last

Kaori is sitting in class on a normal Thursday in school, watching her friend Jelay bumble her way through writing the date on the whiteboard during English class, when the drawings start appearing on her arm. She had been looking down, doodling in her notebook absentmindedly, when she spots an elaborate doodle of a puppy on her left arm.

At first, she passes it off as her own disconnected thoughts leading her to accidentally drawing on her arm. However, the next thing she knew, more and more details started appearing, as if someone were drawing on her skin, and before she knows it, a surrealistic image of a puppy wagging its tail stands in all its glory on her arm, engraved in black ink.

Letting out a squeak of surprise, Kaori gasps and shoots up straight in her seat, eyes widening dramatically and hands flying to cover her mouth to silence herself.

"Kaori?" Sansan, the teacher, who stands at the front of the room with Jelay, frowns in concern. "Is everything alright?"

"Y-yes!" Kaori stammers, still shocked, her left arm still shaking with apprehension. "I'm fine!"

In the seat next to her, her best friend, Karina Bautista, gives her a worried glance before noticing the highly-detailed image of the puppy on Rena's arm.

"Kao!" she exclaims, leaning over and gripping Kaori's arm. "Did you draw this?"

"No!" Kaori replies, eyes furrowing and willing herself to calm down. At this point, the rest of the class had all turned to witness Kaori's distress in confusion. 

"I didn't! It wasn't me! I don't— I have no idea where this came from! It just appeared in front of my eyes!"

"Let me see," Sansan murmurs, gingerly taking Kaori's arm. After ten seconds of an unsuccessful attempt to smudge the image away, Sansan looks down at Kaori with an amused expression.

"I think you should talk to your parents about this," The teacher chuckles, shaking her head. "There's nothing wrong, trust me. But it's your parents that need to explain this... occurrence to you."

--

That night, Kaori learns about soulmates.

"Around this age," her mother had begun to explain gently, "you receive a soulmate. You know that you have a soulmate when whatever they write on their skin begins to appear on yours."

"So, that puppy on my arm..." Kaori bites her lip. "My soulmate drew that? On his own left arm?"

"In exactly the same position," her father confirms with a nod and a soft smile.

"And if I write on myself, will it appear on my soulmate's skin?"

"Exactly," her mother replies with a big grin. She had been absolutely ecstatic when she had found out about the puppy image. "You should try writing back to him sometime. You can communicate through messages."

Kaori bites down on her lip a bit harder.

"Maybe I'll wait a little," she murmurs a bit hesitantly. "It seems a bit... soon."

And right on cue, Kaori notices a bit of writing begin to appear on the back of her hand.

Let's keep on running tomorrow too!

Kaori cracks a smile at that. It seemed that her soulmate is the motivational kind. Then she promptly bursts out laughing as the writing continues:

Remember to kill Jonjon for making you wait!

And apparently, her soulmate had a grudge against this Jon boy as well. kaori giggles quietly to herself as her parents share amused glances with each other before leaving Kaori to the new scribbles appearing on her body.