hello, i was wondering if i could request trigger and what soulmate au you think matches them? like red string of fate, injuries appearing on your soulmates body, countdown timer, etc. please remember to take care of yourself and no rush when it comes to this. i just really appreciate finding another fan of trigger :)
thank you and i hope you remember to eat, rest, and hydrate <33
U COMPLETE ME.
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
ft. Yaotome Gaku, Kujo Tenn, Tsunashi Ryunosuke x gn! reader.
cw/genre: soulmate au, romance, fluff.
hi, lovely nonnie ! thank you so much for this request ! it is my first time ever writing soulmate au, so I hope it’s not too bad… you’re so sweet ! you take care as well, yeah? stay safe, well rested and hydrated 🩷 I’m glad to meet another TRIGGER fan too <3 I apologize this took so long :(( – it’s also the longest fic I’ve ever written hehe – I still hope you like it, mwah !
♡ YAOTOME GAKU
… and getting flowered tattoos wherever your soulmate receives a scar. The tattoos disappear once you and your soulmate meet.
It started around the time TRIGGER was formed.
Gaku doesn’t really know the meaning of the dark ink appearing on his skin sometimes.
It began with the swirling rose on his shoulder, an intricate pattern of decaying petals that seemed to drift away over the pallor of his back. The art was beautiful, but he can’t quite recall ever having it done. It seemed to be appealing enough for photoshoots, so his manager didn’t mind much.
However, that mysterious flower wasn’t the last of petals that would caress the idol’s skin.
Another flower appeared some time after, right below one of his knees. A dahlia this time, its petals with a subtle shade of warm pink filling them in.
And again, he is certain he has never stepped into a tattoo parlor…
This matter is beginning to take a turn for the bizarre, seeing how the rose on his shoulder is mostly faded, akin to a sepia colored photograph displayed in a sunny room, memories exchanged for light and time.
However, he was not the only one with a garden of ink flowering on their skin.
—
Lying down on your bed, you spread your fingers, hand raised before you. Your eyes follow the lines of the two blooms circling your pointer and ring finger: a dahlia and a rose, respectively.
Where did they even come from? You don’t have the habit of drawing on your own skin since you were a kindergartner, nor have you dared to get anything permanently inked on your body just yet… The flowers simply appeared one night, as if they were extensions of the starry heavens, forming a ring tailored to you.
You roll around in your bed, picking up one of the latest magazines you’ve acquired, your favorite idol group featuring on its cover.
The next thing you know, you’re bolting upright, the glossy book centimeters away from your face.
It’s not like the fact that TRIGGER appears on the cover is anything out of the ordinary, but rather, you’re solely focused on their leader.
Yaotome Gaku. Your bias since they debuted.
He’s wearing nothing but an open white shirt with black pants.
And there, on his right shoulder, you see it.
It’s partially covered by his clothes, but they’re see-through enough.
Dark lines converging into what’s unmistakably a rose, a few petals extending down his back and collarbone.
Your eyes flit from your hand to the picture and to your hand again.
There is no doubt. It’s the exact same design.
You have to make it to their next concert. You have to see him, and try to talk to him. Even if it just may be wishful thinking, you have to at least try.
Luckily for you, TRIGGER’s next live performance is around the corner.
—
And so, the fated day arrives, with you on the first row holding white light sticks tightly.
All your nerves seem to manifest in the throbbing sensation of the dark blooms you sport.
As usual, TRIGGER’s concert is an utter success, and you’d be elated to be witnessing such a spectacle were it not for the wild thumping of your heart at what you’ve decided to do afterwards.
As the music ends and your favorite idols say good night, you take one last deep breath.
You make a beeline for the back entrance and wait.
Muffled voices of fans come from the other side of the rundown door, but they’re all white noise to you.
Under the mixed light of stars and streetlamps, you examine your tattoos once more. They almost seem to flicker, as if glitter in shades of night had been melted over the inked lines.
Minutes pass, the crowd dissipating, their voices fading into the faraway stars, concealed behind the abundance of illumination.
And then, the door to your side opens.
A tall figure you’ve watched dance countless times strides out, and, for a second, your voice dies out in your throat.
Is this really a good idea? Will he just take you for another crazy fan?
No, you have to focus.
“E-excuse me…” You begin, voice slightly trembling.
Steely eyes meet yours, yet somehow, you don’t feel any of the coldness their color would suggest.
“I…” The idol’s head tilts to the side for an instant at your hesitation. “Okay so this might sound insane, and you’ll probably think I’m some crazy fan, which I am- A fan I mean, not crazy, hopefully…” You trail off, nervously fiddling with the hem of your shirt, as you look down. “But the thing is…” You shake your head. “I’ll show you.” You finally manage, exposing your ring finger to the night lights. “Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but… how did you get your tattoo? The one on your shoulder… I kind of… isn’t this one the exact same?” You ask, showing him your hand.
His winter sky eyes widen, and, when you follow his gaze, you find an eerie glow blazing in shades of white where your tattoos are.
And not only that. A gasp leaves your lips when matching brightness emanates from the man’s shoulder and knee, the shapes, the exact same on your fingers, glowing in your favorite color.
“What even-“ he begins. His sentence goes unfinished, the sudden burst of light fading, leaving nothing but untarnished skin behind, all traces of ink vanished.
Then you notice them.
Paler than the rest of his skin, two thin lines mar his ring and index finger, the exact same place where your tattooed flowers used to be.
And it dawns on you, that the garden of ink you’ve been sharing isn’t just a coincidence.
“How did you get these?” You question, fingers delicately threading through the idol’s. The rosy hue of summer dahlias rises to his cheeks at the contact. “I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to…” You fumble, realizing you were holding his hand.
“No need to apologize.” He smiles. “I help out someone in the kitchen sometimes.” He doesn’t elaborate further.
Afterwards, one of his hands reaches for your shoulder, where the point of a jagged thin scar, mostly faded, peeks out. “May I?” He asks, as you nod, giving him the green light to pull your shirt slightly aside.
Momentarily, his gaze widens, a flash of puzzle pieces falling into place. Then, a soft smile tilts his lips upwards.
“So, may I know the name of my soulmate?” Are the words of Yaotome Gaku, as he extends a hand to you.
You take it, introducing yourself.
“Is it okay for us to be together here in the open, Yaotome-san?” You ask, glancing around for prying eyes.
“It’s alright.” He assures, tone soft. “And you can call me just Gaku.” A smile reaches his eyes, its shine not unlike the slivers of moon reflected in the puddles of late summer rain. “It’s nice to finally meet you, [Y/n]”.
“Likewise, just Gaku.” You grin, a little mischievous, as you take his hand.
♡ KUJO TENN
… and sharing the same talents. What one learns, the other can also do.
Unconsciously, you start humming the same melody again.
Like every morning as you walk through deserted streets, the sun yet to rise from behind an horizon that you felt was at the tip of your fingertips when you sang.
It’s a well known piece, of that you are certain. You’ve done your research as lyrics began flowing from your lips like a forgotten native language.
Somehow, one day you knew them by heart, when the previous one, a nostalgic melody was all you had to go by.
And the voice you hear, or imagine in your mind when you think about the song… you swear you’ve heard it somewhere before.
As a gust of wind causes you to tuck your coat tighter around you, a flapping sound momentarily interrupts your line of thought.
Clinging onto a street light, a dark piece of glossy paper catches your eye. Bright colors can be made out on the edges of it, white lettering covering the back of the flier.
No harm in taking a look, right? You think to yourself, as your gloved hand reaches for it.
Turning it around in your grasp, you notice it’s an advertisement.
Apparently TRIGGER is performing again soon at the FSC Hall.
A smile illuminated in the cold light of morning curls your lips upwards.
Finally, they’re getting a chance to perform at a large venue.
TRIGGER is the group that’s been with you through thick and thin since their formation, and oddly enough, somehow, you could always memorize their songs without even trying.
Well, not exactly memorize.
It’s more like, you already knew every one of their songs when you listened to them for the first time.
It certainly was uncommon, but then again, since you were a kid you somehow had always picked up dancing and singing uncanningly quickly, with no training at all. And while you did not choose to make it a profession, it certainly was a hobby you held very dear.
The tunes you sang, the swaying of your body on nights when all you knew were tears, had brought a little of light and color to otherwise tinted in drowning memories.
And it was TRIGGER’s songs you always danced to, akin to the first cherry blossoms carpeting an otherwise muddy ground.
Pocketing the pamphlet, you heave a sigh, adjusting your back and heading towards the train station.
You have to get tickets this time. Is the thought that accompanies you for the rest of the day, in moments when you’re not humming that song.
The center of your beloved idol group in question, by the way, happened to have a hidden talent of his own too.
—
Everyone who is a fan of Kujo Tenn knows of his enjoyment of sweeter tastes, and especially, his love for donuts.
However, what remains a secret to most is the fact that he can bake quite well.
The idol doesn’t know how or when exactly did he learn; his only memory is still being in middle school when his usual bakery had run out of his beloved treat, thus, he decided to try his hand at it himself.
To his surprise, both the flavor and texture came out perfectly, almost impossibly alike to the chocolatey desserts he usually got on his way home.
He hasn’t visited that bakery for a while, now that he thinks about it… Will it even still be there?
He doesn’t have much longer to dwell on the thought when his two groupmates (who also happen o be his roommates) get home.
“Something smells really good in here…” Tenn can make out Ryu's voice coming from somewhere in the corridor.
“Tenn, we’re home!” Gaku this time, and two sets of approaching footsteps.
“Hey, Tenn, what is it that smells so nice?”
Tenn in question has a few seconds to ‘tsk’ and turn around, frilly pink apron still on while he mixes the dough.
“You guys could have warned me that you’d be here so early.” He grumbles, blushing. Oh, he so knows the other two won’t drop the subject of him cooking in a cute apron.
“You baking?” Gaku, his head peeking over Ryunosuke’s shoulder.
Tenn pinches the bridge of his nose. For someone who was the center of a world famous idol group, he certainly didn’t enjoy being on the spotlight like this.
“So what if I am…” He glares at the leader of his group.
“Must you always be so charming?” Gaku shoots back, words coated in pure sarcasm.
“There, there… guys, please, there’s no need to fight…” Ryu intervenes. “I didn’t know you could bake, Tenn… when did you learn?”
Maroon eyes avert to the side.
“It’s complicated… I didn’t exactly learn… I just tried one day and somehow I knew how to.”
“Just like that?” His friend’s amber eyes narrow in thought. He gives Gaku a look, to which the latter shakes his head in confusion. “I’m not entirely sure that could be your case,” Ryu continues. “But, back in Okinawa, I heard people talk once, stories circulated too… I’m not certain how much truth is there in them but maybe… could it be you have a soulmate, Tenn?”
The modern angel’s brows furrow skeptically.
“A soulmate? Isn’t that a folktale?”
“We don’t know…” his older friend goes on. “Isn’t it just a little strange, however, you could bake perfectly on the first try? Unless you used some recipe…”
“I didn’t.” Tenn states, confidently. “It’s as if… I somehow had already memorized it, even though I cannot remember when, how or where.”
“Then it’s not impossible you got this talent from them… And whoever they are, they know a thing or two about making sweets. Seems fitting for you, huh?” Comes Ryunosuke’s friendly teasing.
As his friends go get changed, Tenn begins preparing the dough for shaping, the word ‘soulmate’ lingering on the back of his mind like an old childhood song.
—
Lately, Zero Arena had become a place of respite for you.
Early evenings dusked beautifully behind the building, pinks and golds glittering off of the expanse of rippling water surrounding it.
Despite the warm hues the world keeps dyeing in as the sun sets, the air is cold.
You regret not having brought a scarf.
Plus, the just baked donuts you made at work only do so much to warm your hands as you hold the box between them.
Closing your eyes against the dying sunlight, you lean back on the bench, taking a breath before starting to sing the lyrics the great idol Zero used to.
Dis one.
Curiously, that and TRIGGER’s songs were the ones you managed to always intone perfectly, especially the parts Kujo Tenn, their center, performed.
Except this once, yours is not the only singing voice.
You’d have to live under a rock to not recognize that voice, but then again, this couldn’t be, could it?
You wait until you and your duet companion chant the last note.
And then you turn around.
A few feet away from where you sit, a lean male stands. His hair falls perfectly over one side of his face, the color of starlight through clouds. He sports a dark coat, accentuating the overall angelic pallor of his complexion, the red scarf around his neck, almost matching the shade of his eyes, akin to little pools of a blazing horizon.
“How are you able to sing that song perfectly? Kujo Tenn inquires, without further preamble.
His tone… it’s… colder? than what you recall him to be on stage.
You bite your lip, then:
“I don’t know. I just do… I’ve known this song for a long time… I have no idea why I can sing it, how, when, or where I learned it.”
His expression remains guarded; then, he notices the box you’re holding over your lap.
Recognition flashes through his sanguine gaze.
“That box. What’s in it?” Tenn’s eyes don’t leave the logo stamped in pink over the white background.
He knows that design. He used to stop by every day back when he was still in middle school, after all.
“Oh, this?” You open the lid an inch. “Just something I made today at work after I ended my shift. Would you like to try one, Kujo-kun?” You offer, now opening the donut-filled box completely.
A tender smile paints the idol’s lips a more vibrant shade of rose the moment you recognize him, slender fingers reaching out for one of the chocolate covered donuts.
“I remember these, from years ago.” He trails off. “I didn’t know if the shop would still be there…”
“It is.” You smile, a little woeful. “My grandparents grew too old to keep working on the business, though, so I kind of manage it by myself now.”
A twilit breeze picks up, your free hand instinctively reaching up to pull your coat closer around your neck.
“Oh! Would you like to have these?” You manage, fumbling a little for words when it sinks in that, yes, you’re talking to one of the most famous idols of the moment.
“Only if you accept this first.” The man utters, already wrapping his maroon scarf snuggly around your neck.
You fluster, cheeks blazing like the sun that’s already halfway behind Zero Arena’s ground level.
Nodding, you hand him the box.
“I have another offer.” Tenn states, fingers brushing against yours when you pass him the package. “I can help you bake for your shop. Would you like to… meet up and practise my performances with me some time in exchange?”
You raise an eyebrow.
“No offense but, can you bake?”
“I don’t know why I can, how, when, or where I learned, but yes, I can bake.” The idol replies, with a warm, knowing smile.
“And what do you gain from this exchange?” You question further, a part of you fearing this is just some cruel joke despite how right everything, how right you feel around him.
“To get to know my soulmate.” Tenn utters, as notes of powdered sugar and fuchsia clouds surround you.
That’s more like the angel you admire.
Your soulmate.
“I’d like to get to know you, too, Tenn.” You return his smile, soft.
As you share conversation coated in colored sweetener, you begin making your way back home.
Home…
Perhaps you’ve already started becoming each other’s.
♡ TSUNASHI RYUNOSUKE
… and having a compass on your body leading you to where your soulmate is.
Lately, the needle has started twitching.
In golden ink, perfectly circular on the inner side of your wrist, the tattoo of an ornate compass lies.
Its point had always been stagnant, lines in silver glitter inked over your veins, its only movement your beating pulse.
However, as nights began to cover in bright lights and snow, your compass had started pointing towards somewhere.
Or rather, someone.
You knew wherever they were, whoever they were, you’d find them somewhere along the other end of the needle.
As you sip a warming latte, your gaze entranced by the slow flutter of snowflakes as they fall with the gelid breeze of night, you wonder.
What kind of person might your soulmate be? Are they still far away, since all the compass has done is flutter, not particularly pointing anywhere?
Does the movement mean you’re somehow getting closer to your soulmate?
Sighing, you pull your sleeve over the aureate circle permanently etched on you, before standing up, paying for your order and taking off into the cold evening.
—
The sudden activity on his compass can’t be just coincidence.
Tsunashi Ryunosuke knows he’s not hallucinating either, he knows the gilded lines tracing over his veins by heart.
After all, the compass never once moved when he used to accompany his father on fishing trips, tumultuous waters threatening to topple the small boat over.
However, since he’s gotten into this plane, the argent point has budged slightly, akin to a broken watch that went back and forth, forever ticking the exact same second.
Ryunosuke’s honey gaze glances out the window, his hometown in Okinawa little more than a dot of green and brown over the astronomical expanse of blue expanding on all sides.
Closing his eyes, the to-be idol leans against the headrest of his seat.
He wonders, what will this new life of his be like? And who is the person his tattoo is being pulled towards?
Landing is still hours away; he guesses he can rest his mind for a while for now.
—
The compass has moved again.
Fully moved this time, unmistakably pointing towards a concrete direction, no matter how much you turn around or change position.
A pull resonates throughout your whole body, urging you to follow the path it indicates. A lane of gilded cobblestones, at the end of which your other half supposedly awaits.
What if it’s all wrong, though? What if they’re someone scary? What if you just get kidnapped and all of this is just part of some malicious bigger scheme?
‘No. Focus, [Y/n]’. You try telling yourself, shaking your head.
A gust of liquid night pricks your skin in icy shards when you step outside, the moon’s smile glinting off of the aureate pattern on your forearm, a thread of starlight pulling you towards your fated soulmate.
Of course, the universe saw to it that you were not the only one chasing after this not yet tangible dream.
“Excuse me for a second now, guys.” Ryu announces, after him and his two future group mates have finished showing off their dancing moves.
Quickly grabbing his coat on the way out, his steps carry him through the stardust contained in the remnants of snow littering the streets.
And yet, despite the possibility of slipping, the idol’s gaze is solely focused on his wrist.
In the same way those of the person who accidentally bumps into him are.
A colliding force suddenly sends you stumbling backwards, the slippery asphalt already unforgivingly hard in your mind as you shut your eyes and brace for impact.
Except instead of the cold and hard sound of dirty concrete against bones, a gentle voice follows.
“I’m so sorry! Are you alright?”
Then you open your eyes. Strong arms are keeping you upright, strangely comforting, even though this is the first time you’ve seen the owner of this warming voice.
Regaining your stance, you apologize:
“My bad, I guess I wasn’t looking where I was going…” You explain, laughing a bit nervously.
The man smiles, and you realize then how handsome he truly is.
For all you know, he could very well be a model, an actor even.
Soft brown hair sweeps over one side of his face, his tanned skin accentuating inviting golden irises. The curves of his face are sharp and sculpted, but somehow soft all at once; a gentle hearth, beckoning you to take a moment of respite.
“I suppose I wasn’t paying attention either.” Are the next words he speaks, waking you up from your momentary reverie.
Then, a flash of gold catches his eye, and you notice him glancing to your wrist.
“Ah yeah…” You smile, a bit flustered. “I was just looking for someone…” Your words trail off, observing how the needle now points in the direction the attractive stranger came from.
“That makes two of us, then.” He smiles, displaying the inner side of his forearm for you to see the exact same tattoo you have, pointing straight towards you.
Matching smiles meet your lips when it all clicks.
He’s the one you had been searching for amidst nights where falling snow erased the traces of everything; the footprints of fated love buried beneath layers of frigid moondust.
And you. The tethering anchor awaiting in the raging waves. A lighthouse, the promise of a home here too, despite being miles away from his own.
“Call me Ryu.” He tells you, extending a hand to you.
You sofly shake it, both of you a little awkward.
You chuckle in unison.
“I kinda have to get back somewhere now…” He explains, a shadow of guilt passing over those sunshine eyes. “But let’s meet soon? I’ll find you.” He promises, raising his arm, showing you the compass pointed at you.
“Sounds good.” You softly utter, to him, to the stars who wrote this fate.
With a last kind smile, he rushes towards the street he came from.
You stand there for a few minutes after his figure has vanished.
Ryu. You have the impression the glow of fame is coming his way.
You turn on your heel.
The stars glow a little warmer.
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