(I headcanon that Knuckle's hair is super curly but he jel's that shit to hell and back.)

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Also Soulmate au, where ever you're soulmate first touches you is black, but when they touch the mark it becomes ur sm's favorite color. (Ie u touch a bitch and their black mark turns pink if ur favorite color is pink) the mark can also change color if ur soulmate changes there f/c.

"Morel, are you sure They will like me?" I asked as I stood nervously next to my new mentor. "If they don't I make'm like you kid." Morel grinned sitting his large hand on my head. "Okay." I whispered as I started to rock back and forth on the balls of my feet. The more the minutes danced by I got more impatient than nervous, I mean we have been waiting for almost an hour now. Looking down at my hand I sighed, my knuckles were black, that's why I got into the fighting business. Well also because I like helping people and things in need, there isn't enough people who care in this world. "Who's that weirdo?" I heard a male ask in front of us, "why are you an hour late?" I glared back making Morel laugh in turn. "This is my new student, they will be joing you two in training." Moerl announced crossing his arms, "but she is so tiny! Almost like a middle schooler!" The man with the odd hair cried out as the man next to him seemed out of place, like he didn't want to be here in general.

"Yeah and you look like you just walked out of a high school gang." I hissed crossing my arms as Morel just laughed waving us both off. "Y/n these are my other student's, Shoot and Knuckle." First he pointed to the taller boy out of the two, the one who looked like he didn't want to be here. Then the other one who was trying to pick a fight with me off the start. Looking closer I noticed that his soulmate mark was on his face, right in the middle of his right cheek, severs him right. Then Shoot in the other hand I didn't see his soulmate mark, but then again he was 95% covered up. "Knuckle, Shoot, Y/n." Morel un-crossed his arms as he looked between us. "Nice to meet you Shoot." I smiled as I held out my hand To him, in turn Shoot gave me a shy smile as he shook my hand. "I feel the same." I decided to Just look at Knuckle, "we started off on a bad foot but I'm not going to say it's been nice so far." This made Knuckle turn red from anger Morel laughed at our reaction to each other.

"Well, let's go back to my place so we can get to know each other better." Morel waved us on as I happily fell in line with Shoot, ignoring Knuckle on the other side of Shoot.

Weeks have passed and I guess you could maybe say Knuckle's and I's relationship has been,, questionable. "I'm going to murder you and make it look like an accident." I hissed at Knuckle as he threw a ping pong ball into my cup of kool-aid. "I could show you how if you want." Killua suddenly remarked making me brake my glare as I sighed patting his wild white hair. "Kid I like you alot, but you scare me sometimes." Killua just laugh before Gon called for him from inside the pool a couple feet over. "You are the most boring person I have ever met." Knuckle simply replied as he now threw ice cubes into my drink. "And you are the most annoying bucko." I grabbed my Drink and left Knuckle by himself at the table as I sat on the edge of the pool.

"You know Knuckle, really isn't a bad guy." Knov stated as he swam next to me his eyes always watching. "Cool, why are you telling me this?" I asked as I crossed my legs under myself as I leaned down closer to him, Knov didn't really bother with others business. "Somethings I've heard from down the grape vine." Now the peeked my interest, I rasied my eyebrow at him. "Well?" I hummed as Knov looked away from me, Probably staring at Palm who was ready to throw down with me. "You should spend time with him, but give him a second chance, maybe a dog park." Knov offered as he swam away making me sigh, very vague.

"What's you're favorite color?" I asked
Knuckle as I started to color a random coloring page. "Why?" Knuckle asked clearly ready to throw hands. "I mean I'm coloring so I thought of the question?" I answered unsure as I didn't bother to take my eyes off the page. "Gold." Knuckle simply replied making me hide my smile, maybe I was the one causing the problems. "Do you even try to work out? You know because you are so small." I take it back, I fucking hated Knuckle. "Why do you keep on trying to pick a fight with me?" I just sighed this time sitting down the Gold colored pencil. My question seemed to shock him, it made me feel that he was trying to get a rise out of me on purpose.

Knuckle turned red before turning away kicking his feet up onto the table, glaring off into the middle of nowhere. "You just look useless." Knuckle grumbled making me lose my any kind of patiences I did have for the conversation. "Fuck you, Each time I try to have a normal conversation with you act like a prick!" I yelled pointing at him. I kicked the leg of his chair making him scoot a few feet away the table, actually shocking him. "Well if you actually prov-!" I stood up and punched him as hard as I could sending him out onto the floor. I opened my mouth to scream at him more until I froze when he looked back at me and his soulmate mark was the most beautiful shade of (f/c). I couldn't help it I ran ignoring the angery and confused yells that came from Knuckle.

"You're soulmate's?" Morel asked again as I held up my fist to show him my clearly rich gold color that was permanently on my knuckles. "Does he know?" Morel asked taking a hit off of his dab pen. (He totally smokes stg.) "Maybe, I'm not sure, I left in a hurry." I mumbled as I laid across the couch stretching as good as I could as I laid my head on Moerl's leg. I've only been his student for 8 months now, but I almost felt as if he was my family. "Why did you even punch him?" Morel finally asked as I crossed my arms over my chest as I glared at the ceiling. "He kept Going on about how 'small' I am and how I never actually show my strength." I frowned when I heard Morel laugh his very large hand patting my head. "You know, Knuckle likes to make fun of things he loves about others, you know that right?" Morel grinned down at me as I looked up at him, uncrossing my arms.

"You couldn't have expected me to know that." I pouted as Morel just laughed harder offering a hit off his dab pen. "Knuckle has his faults yes, but he actually does like you a lot, he just doesn't know how to show it yet." Morel gently started playing with my hair as I took a few hits off his dab pen.

It was very awkward the next time the whole team had to be together, it was pretty clear that Knuckle knew that I was his soulmate, and so did everyone else. "Alright today I want Knuckle and Y/n to both work together on teamwork, while Shoot and I work on his confidence." Morel announced as I glared at him in the corner of my eyes. I didn't bother to argue as I just sighed letting Morel and Shoot walk off together not saying anything else giving Knuckle and I some space. "So, (F/c)?" Knuckle asked as he sat down on the grass crisscross applesauce. "Yeah, it was the color of my only stuffed animal growing up." I mumbled as I sat across from him, mirroring his sitting position.

"You know, I don't mean to start a fight everytime we talk." Knuckle offered as he looked away from me, into the tree line. "You are just so small, I'm worried someday someone will hurt you and I won't be able to save you." Knuckle finally expressed his thoughts. I couldn't tell if I should be flattered or annoyed that he was underestimating me. "You know I could say the same, you get way too cocky, then you let your guard down." I offered as Knuckle agreed with a small nod. "What animal was your stuffed animal?" Knuckle asked as I started to pick grass from the ground, knotting them together. "A dog, was a saint bernard." I smiled as I started to grab a couple wild flowers braiding them into the knotted grass. "What about you? Did you have any stuffed animals? Toys?" I asked as Knuckle hummed in thought before answering. "A firetruck, I had a couple others but that was my favorite." 

I held back a giggle, a firetruck it really did fit him. "Have you ever dated before?" I asked as I decided to make a flower crown. "Uhm, no I wanted to wait for my soulmate." Knuckle confessed making a warm smile pull across my face. "So your basically new to everything?" I asked this time letting a small teasing giggle pull through my lips. "Yes! Shut up! What about you?" Knuckle got all defensive and dark red, I smiled at him. "I actually dated because as my mom told me 'you ain't gotta wait for no man, but if you do make sure you know what you're doing.'" I laughed at the memory. We was sitting at a picnic table in the middle of the park, a cigarette between her small fingers
Large tears rolling down my round face when some of my friends already found there soulmates.

"...what do you know?" Knuckle asked his curiously winning over his embarrassment. "One thing is when you bite a boys lip it drives them crazy." I smirked looking up at Knuckle through my eyelashes. "You are a pervert." Knuckle blushed harder looking away covering his mouth with both if his hands, like a little kid would when they got caught saying a bad word. I couldn't help but laugh, my chest feeling warm as I fell back into the grass. "You was the one who was asking! That makes you the perv!" I laughed louder as Knuckle got up on his knees pointing at me to yell at me. Although before he could start I grabbed the golden ring in the front of his jacket and pulled him to me. He fell ontop of me as I wrapped my arms around him, "hey!" Knuckle grumbled as he face was pushed into the crook of my neck.

"You know, I never hated you, I was so scared you hated me I just acted like I did." I whispered my confession making Knuckle stop trying to get up. "I knew something was different about you, and that scared me too so I tried to push you away." Knuckle also confessed just deciding to cuddle into me fully relaxing. I felt a warm smile dance across my face as I started to rub shapes into his back.

"You want to see if it's true?" I asked  Mischief dancing in my voice. "If what's true?" Knuckle asked moving up on his elbows so he could look at me clearly. "If it would make you go crazy if I bit your lip as we was kissing." I smirked my hands moving up to mess up his jelled hair. "Uh-!" Knuckle turned a blood red making me laugh loudly. "Your so cute!" I squealed as I kissed Knuckle on his cheek right where I punched him not too long ago. "You are pure evil." Knuckle grumbled laying back on me hiding his face in the crook of my neck making me giggle at the feeling. "Tell m-" I cut myself off with a gasp when he lightly bit my neck where my shoulder met. "Knuckle!" I laughed when he just kept biting and blowing raspberries against my neck.

I felt my face burning when I finally begged him to stop, my breath coming out in pants from how breathless I was. "You know, maybe you aren't so bad, Puppy." Smiled at Knuckle's just as red face, "Puppy?" Asked as his curly hair started to fall out of its molded form. "Yeah, you remind me of a puppy." I smiled brightly before giggling when Knuckle flipped us so I was now laying ontop of him. "How about I call you, sunshine, because when you smile your eyes light up bright as the sun itself." Knuckle grinned as I started kissing his face all over avoiding his lips, just to be a tease. "I think I like that." I whispered feeling the warm sunset licking up my back as Knuckle rested his hands on my thighs.

"Say, how about you spend the night tomorrow and we could watch some movies and have take out?" Knuckle asked clearly getting some of his nervousness back, "only if you let me pick some of the movies." I whispered as I kissed him right between his eyebrows before standing up. I smiled at his little star struck face when the reality of us being soulmates was actually happening. "See you tomorrow, Puppy." I winked as I left Knuckle, the flower crown still laying next to him forgotten by me.

(There will definitely be a part two about later life with Knuckle, I freaked love him! But I'd definitely imagine form him to take his tough guy persona a little too seriously 96% of the time.)