Thread by @IDtsuKei

What if #bakt soulmate angst au where when your soulmate touches you for the first time, a mark is left on the parts of the skin that make contact. Most peoples hands are decorated with swirls of their soulmate tattoos, because of handshakes. Sometimes it’s someone’s fingers and

Their partners arm where they gently grasped their elbow to stop them from stepping onto the street too early.

Kuroo’s parents were soulmates, and divorced because they fell out of love. Tsukkis parents were soulmates, but his dad died young, shortly after he was born and he’s

watched his mother suffer from the loss his entire life. Neither of them wants to be with their soulmate, they hope they never find them. (Until they meet each other, but when nothing blooms where their arms clack together as they block, they both can’t stop the disappointment

From swirling through their veins.)

Bokuto’s parents are soulmates, and his mothers love each other so much. Akaashis parents aren’t soulmates, set up in an arranged marriage for business reasons and his home life is very cold, detached. Every time he goes to Bokuto’s, he’s

Amazed by the love his family have. They both desperately want to find their soulmates. (Again, the first time bokuto high fives akaashi and neither of them wakes up with the telltale soulmate marks, they both take months to get over it.)

Eventually, they end up accepting their

Fates, that none of them are the others soulmates. Bokuto and tsukki bond over classes, both of them on the same circuit of college volleyball, and they start dating. Bokuto tells tsukki that they don’t need to be soulmates for him to love tsukki. Akaashi and kuroo bond over late

Night train rides home from work in Tokyo, grabbing late night ramen before falling into each others beds. They aren’t soulmates either, but after a few months they can’t deny their love for each other.

They end up reconnecting, all four of them, after the all star game Kuroo

Sets up. Bokuto insists they all go out to dinner, because akaashi and kuroo are his best friends even if they haven’t talked in what feels like an eternity. It’s awkward at first, Akaashi realizing his feelings for bokuto hadn’t gone away, just settled in next to his love for

Kuroo. He consoles himself with the fact that at least bokuto is with tsukki, if he could pick anyone else to be with him it would be tsukki hands down. Kuroo falls right back into flirting with tsukki, who snarks back but inside his heart is pounding. Only bokuto sees what’s

Really happening here, so in tune with his emotions after years and years of practice stabilizing himself, so he pretends to fuck up the hotel reservations he had gotten, pretends him and tsukki have no where to sleep for the night. Tsukki grumbles, says he’s going to start

Looking online. Kuroo, catching on to Bo’s scheming, grins and insists they crash at his and akaashi’s place. They don’t have a spare room, but they have a giant living room and they can spread out the futons and blankets and it’ll be like a sleepover, like old times at v ball

Camp but with all of them in the same room.

They agree and end up crashing, all four of them, sprawled on the living room floor.

It goes bokuto tsukki akaashi Kuroo but they’re sprawled so much they are all touching each other. Kuroo’s arm thrown across akaashis waist and

Gripped around tsukki’s hand, his ankle wrapped around Bo’s. Bo’s got his arm under tsukki’s head, tsukki’s hair acting as a buffer but the skins brushing his shoulder, and his fingers rest on akaashi’s shoulder as well. Tsukkis side is pressed against akaashi’s, their shirts

Raised enough that their hips are pressed together skin to skin.

Tsukkis the first to wake up, an early riser due to his shifts at the museum. He notices it first, the flowers blooming all over his body. A hand for Kuroo, a hip for akaashi, a shoulder for Bo. He thought, after

Years of refusing any talk of soulmates, he would panic, but instead all he feels is a swell of relief. The calm of knowing finally, finally this is right.

Bo wakes up next, and stands and stumbles to the bathroom after pressing a sloppy kiss to tsukki in greeting, and tsukki

Waits. Finally, halfway through his trip, he hears bo scream and he came running out pants around his ankles still but boxers pulled up thankfully. He points at tsukki who just shrugs, also at a loss for words.

His yelling wakes up Kuroo who rubs the sleep from his eyes with

the hand covered in tsukki’s sunflowers, stopping to blink when he realizes what’s happened. He also starts yelling, him and bokuto pointing and prodding each other in the ankle.

Their combined yelling wakes up the grumpy akaashi who freezes when he sees the marks, storming out

In a panic. Kuroo follows him and after a chat he calms back down, and they join in a conversation in the living room.

Years of struggling, feeling unwanted, like the universe had made a mistake when really it was just waiting for all four of them to get it together at the

Same time.

They don’t immediately jump into anything, Kuroo and tsukki’s experience showing that simply being soulmates isn’t always enough. They start seeing someone who specializes in soulmate related therapy, and eventually, they give in. The four of them start dating and

As they slowly condense from three apartments(Bo and tsukki didnt live together, the pro volleyballers of the group) to one, things fall into place around them.

Eventually they’re all together, in Tokyo, in a house of their own, soulmates and partners in every aspect.