azure [haruka x reader soulmates AU!]

                                    

                                          
soulmates AU in which you can't see any colour until you look into your soulmate's eyes.
                          
It was annoying, really.
                          
Going through high school and still, not finding my soulmate.
                          
I remember stepping through the gates of my high school in Tokyo as a first year, hope brimming in my heart that I would find my soulmate and see, after all these years, the colours.
                          
First year, second year, third year.
                          
I passed through them but still didn't meet my soulmate. 
                          
Every time a new transfer student or an overseas exchange student entered the school, I would pray, hope with all my heart that I would meet him, my soulmate.
                          
It didn't happen. 
                          
So here I am, standing at the gates of Hidaka University. The place I would spend my next few years studying for my [course name] degree.
                          
All around me, people giggled, chatted, smiled, arms locked with their soulmates; those who just met still in awe of the different colours around them, pointing to the leaves, the flowers, even the ground. 
                          
And here I was, alone.
                          
You could say that I was pretty much used to the drab grey that surrounded me. Black, grey, white. Three colours, so boring, but that was all I could see.
                          
To some point, the years of waiting had left me cold and hard that I would never, never, find my soulmate, and instead be left to wallow in this world with three colours.
                          
Ugh
                          
I couldn't deny though, that walking through the hallways of Hidaka University, a small glimmer of hope reignited.
                          
Even though pretty much everyone here had already met their soulmate, I was sure that at least one person hadn't, and well, perhaps he would be mine. Or I would be his. 
                          
Either way, it didn't matter. At least I could find my soulmate and be pulled from the depths of this monotonous three shade world.
                          
The first few days past without much excitement. It was pretty much the same as the time I spent in high school.
                          
Wake up, attend lessons, study, draw, study, draw some more or watch anime, sleep, repeat.
                          
Yup, my boring, monotonous life.
                          
Even though I couldn't see the colours, it wasn't like I didn't know them.
                          
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet and (almost) all the shades in between.
                          
I could name them, I knew how to blend and mix them, I knew each by the slightly different shade of grey or black that I could see, the extent of my recognising abilities.
                          
In elementary school, we had lessons to learn the colours. The government had created special goggles,* that would allow us to catch a glimpse of the different shades, using the most advanced scientific knowledge and technology available.
                          
Even though it was just for a minute or two at most; any longer and your eyes would be permanently damaged, I had learnt as many colours as I could, in awe of the stunning scenery I would be able to experience once I found my soulmate. But that was a long time ago. Now, I could barely remember the shades that I had seen. And it wasn't like I could just re-experience the goggles. They were no use on matured eyes. Only children up to 8 years old could experience its effects.
                          
So, much of my drawings and artworks were coloured in with the help of my friends who had already found their soulmates. Through trial and error, and receiving their feedback was the only way to find out if the colours actually complemented each other.