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Hinata
The darkness. That’s what scared Hinata Shouyo that most. Which was pretty ironic considering the fact that his last name was spelled with the kanji character for ‘sun.’ But that was his phobia ever since he was a child. Whenever he slept, he had to at least have two lamps turned on. His parents also remembered to keep the lights in the hallway on just in case he needed to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. He almost never went to slumber parties or camping trips, which his friends thankfully understood. Whenever he went out, he always carried a flashlight in his bag. And a penlight in his pocket. It wasn’t so bad, at least not yet. Hinata was fine as long as he wasn’t alone and in total darkness. Going to movies with friends and families was alright with him as long as the movie wasn’t scary. But he knew that it was going to get worse. Once he meets his soulmate his phobia will almost immediately worsen. He didn’t know how much it would worsen but he imagined that he won’t be able to walk home alone in the dark. His parents were soulmates as well. His mother had the phobia while his father had the past memories. Stories about how they met during college often came up during dinnertime and Hinata would remember every single detail. His mother was claustrophobic and she met Hinata’s father in a restaurant after almost spilling coffee on him. After that encounter, his father had dreams that were flashes of his previous life with his destined soulmate while his mother became too scared to even go into an elevator by herself. Eventually, they realized that they were each other’s soulmates and after their first kiss, the memories and phobia disappeared. Hinata usually liked to imagine who his soulmate was and when he would meet him or her. The idea of being destined to fall in love with a particular person from the start fascinated him. Not to mention the fact that they also fell in love with each other in their past lives and that when Hinata eventually died, his soul will be reincarnated again and will fall in love with the reincarnated version of his soulmate. It hurt his head a lot to think about it and sometimes he’d feel confused or even worried about the whole soulmate-finding thing. But whenever he saw his parents together, he felt hopeful and happy about the fact that in his world, there was a person for everyone.
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Kageyama
The memories. The thing that has yet to come. Kageyama was soon entering his freshman year at Karasuno High School. He knew that high school was where soulmates usually met each other. They would start soon. To be honest, Kageyama still didn’t know how he would react once he finds his soulmate and the memories come. Would he fall in love with his soulmate right away? Would it take a long time for the two of them to get together? Would the memories of his past life be happy? Would they be sad? Kageyama hardly knew his parents. They were almost always busy at work and he was left at home alone at a very young age. Because of that, he began to amuse himself with volleyball. His skills began to shine in middle school and he became known as a volleyball genius. None of his parents showed up at any of his games, not that he cared. Making that perfect toss and winning the game was all that mattered to him. He practiced long and hard but in the end, it wasn’t good enough for him to make it to Shiratorizawa. One of the very few things that he actually knew about his parents was how they met and ended up together. They weren’t each other’s soulmates. That was for sure. His mother was supposed to carry the memories but since she never met her own soulmate, they never came to her. His father had a fear of heights. Unlike Kageyama’s mother, he ended up meeting his soulmate but she died in an accident shortly after their encounter and his father’s fear only worsened. He knew how they ended up together but the real question was why. Most of the time, he thought about what would have happened if he was raised by parents who were each other’s soulmates. If he never had to see his own father staring sadly into space or hyperventilating when looking out a window on a floor a few stories above the ground. If he never had to see the blank gaze in his mother’s eyes and her attempts in consoling his father. When Kageyama looked at his own parents, it reminded him of a puzzle piece forcibly joined to another piece that didn’t fit. Kageyama hated it. The idea of having a soulmate. Someone who you were destined to be with for the rest of your life, and the life after it, and the life after that. He didn’t like the idea of his life being written out from the start and being forced to fall in love with someone. High school was definitely going to be a challenge for him. After all, that’s the time where most soulmates meet each other. If he saw his, would he feel a tug on his heart? Will he suddenly feel as if his world has changed? Or will he just feel nothing?