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It had always been hard knowing you had a soulmate. Knowing that there was someone out there with your mark on them.
Kacchan was quick to make his opinion of it known; marring the tiny purple flower on your hip with burning hands and heavy fists. “A Deku like you doesn't deserve a soulmate — they're better off without you!”
And you took those words to heart, shrinking yourself down until you were just so easy to overlook.
And as much as you tried not to look for them, you knew the second you saw them; staring lovingly at someone else.