tetro pink soulmate au part one: Hasemura
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Wahooo I finally posted this. Anyways here’s context for how this au works. It’s a bit like Hanahaki disease with how the person coughs up flowers but that’s where the similarities end. It’s usually not deadly and is more common. It’s tailored to a person’s emotions. If they feel an intense burst of happiness they’ll cough up sunflowers. If they experience sadness, they’ll cough up marigold flowers. When a person dies their eyes shrivel up and turn to cypress flowers. When a person falls in love with their soulmate, they’ll cough up flowers that resemble their soulmate(color, scent, type of flower). Not only that, they feel the same emotions/feeling their soulmate does if it’s strong enough. The order in going is Hasemura, Hirojima, Watazaki, Hayashigeki, Tsuhama, and Wadasaki With that enjoy!
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Hasegawa experiences the flowers when he’s six and witness the death of his sister. He nearly choked on his tears and flowers and had to get taken to the hospital with his sister. Meanwhile, a barely older than a toddler, Kamimura has his mom place a heat packet on his stomach, holding him close for comfort and trying her best to explain what soulmates were and the sadness and pain he was feeling was a good thing. It meant he had someone in the future. Kamimura believes her.
It’s only after Kamimura finds his parents’ corpse, their loving eyes replaced with withered flowers, that he changes his mind. He doesn’t think the flowers are a good thing. In fact he comes to despise them
Elsewhere Hasegawa does what he does best, he studies. He learns all there is know about soulmates. It’s a popular topic and there is a lot of information. Part of his reason is because he just likes learning things—the other reason is because of the pain in chest that he constantly feels, rarely lifting. He wants to know more about his soulmate but no way to contact them, thus, turning to textbooks for answers
Kamimura’s aunt’s home is different than his parents. She’s different. Sunflowers don’t bloom from her mouth when she hugs him like his mom used to, or she doesn’t keep the flowers he coughed up like his dad did. She doesn’t hate him either. It’s just indifference. Kamimura thinks that’s worst.
When Kamimura falls for Isao, he doesn’t cough up a soulmate flower. It’s a big indicator for him to not do it, don’t tell him how you feel. Another part of him, that it’s just because he hasn’t told Isao how he feels. Sometimes he doesn’t even believe in soulmates, not if some don’t live long enough to be soulmates.
So he tells him and, it doesnt go well. It hurts, hurts so much that for a long time he doesn’t move in his bed. He just lies there in a bed of his own flowers, all of them building to the point they almost bury him, like an early grave. Sometimes he wishes he was in one
By the time Hasegawa is a teen he knows everything there is to know about soulmates. He knows the statistics of when you are most likely to meet your soulmate, the percentage of people who have soulmates, everything. Yet he doesn’t know who his soulmate is. A part of him doesn’t want to know, it’s too much of a risk—he’s heard the stories of soulmates meeting and it going terribly wrong. Some people even come to resent their soulmate. Hasegawa doesn’t want that. He doesn’t want to be a burden.
Then the both of them go to Fujioka Memorial High and they meet. At first they think nothing of each other and they don’t start talking. Hasegawa is too antisocial and Kamimura is guarded. However it only takes one moment for them to feel the pull
. A moment in the library, Hasegawa busy studying and Kamimura looking for some peace and quiet, unable to sit at any other of the tables due to them being crowded with people. So the two sit together. They don’t force conversation, just sit in comfortable silence. It becomes routine of them just enjoying each other’s company before slowing it becomes something more. They begin talking. It’s nothing personal but for a while they are each other’s only friend.
Soulmates are a popular topic amongst teens and it eventually comes for them. Kamimura is turned away from the idea of it, in fact the entire flower system that he hates. But Hasegawa is able to break through that. After years of depression and coughing nothing but marigolds, Hasegawa helps bring joy in his life, including the sunflowers. Hasegawa learns to be comfortable in his own skin, to allow him to himself.
It takes over two months before one evening, when they were hanging out in Hasegawa’s dorm, when Hasegawa makes a joke and Kamimura can help the laugh that tears from his throat. Hasegawa is in complete awe—and then he feels something burn in his throat. He excuses himself to the bathroom. It feels like acid and it hurts and pokes at his throat. He ends up coughing up a flower. Not one that symbolizes any emotions, it’s a soulmate flower. Its leaves are sharp and prickle his fingers as he rubs his hands over them, but it doesn’t discourage him from admiring the flower bud above it. It was a dark blue, petals bunched together with a blood red center, the color of Kamimura’s eyes. The flower doesn’t have a sweet smell, only one that reminded him of chemical.
Hasegawa panics of course and hides the flower while he tells Kamimura he isn’t feeling well. Hes hurt but he leaves. The boy spends the rest of his day in his room, a box in his lap. A box filled with soulmate flowers. They’re lavenders but the color of brown and smelled of paper and pen.
It takes three more months before either of them are ready to talk. Both of them have baggage and issues regarding soulmates. It takes a lot of conversations and a lot of help from others. But once they talk, they fit together like a puzzle. They don’t need words together, just their company. It’s not perfect but nothing in life is. But for them it works.
PART TWO OF THE SOULMATE AU WILL BE ABOUT HIROJIMA
