From birth each person is given a soulmate. your biological other half, the only person you are permitted to love for the entirety of your life whether you like it or not.

For your entire existence you'll spend your days feeling the pain they feel, crying the tears they cry, and finally.. taking the last breath they breathe.

If a person is to write something on their arm it will appear on their soulmates arm in the same exact spot.
If a person falls ill their soulmate will suffer the same sickness.
If a person gets physically harmed they're soul mate will receive the same injuries.
If a person cries their soulmate will shed the same tears.

In rare cases some people never find their soulmates, or are unhappy with their soulmate. for whatever reason it may be.. if either are the case you're required by law to spend the rest of your life alone.
To be caught engaging in a romantic relationship with someone other than your soul mate is strictly prohibited and in some countries the laws are so severe it's still punishable by chemical castration or ...execution.

Victor Nikiforov, at age 27 still hadn't met his soulmate despite closely aproaching his thirties. Although this wasn't exactly unintentional...for over ten years Victor had done his best to neglect his soulmate entirely.

When he was younger Victor would write and doodle little things on his wrist for his soulmate from time to time, It being nothing but a game to him.
Though as time grew on Victor began to realize that this wasn't something to be messing with and if he continued, his soulmate would find out who he was, and want to meet him.

He was afraid of love, or rather afraid of having something to lose. So he decided it best run away from it entirely.
So Victor stopped replying.
Though his soul mate was persistent for a while, eventually they became less and less frequent until they too stopped writing.

Yuri katsuki, at age 23 had come to terms of acceptance with his uninterested soulmate many years ago.
His soulmate made it clear to him  that they desired to spend their life alone, and Yuri was entirely okay with that.
At least that's what he told himself.
Although the thing that Yuri definitely wasn't okay with.. was the fact that his soulmate greedily decided Yuri's future for him, cursing him to never feel love, without even consulting him on the matter.

The concept of spending the rest of his life alone wasn't the best thing to think about, but he could live with it.
After all He'd rather spend the rest of his life alone then spend his life with someone that doesn't really  love him.

Victor was anything but unpopular, he was practically always surrounded by people and he always seemed so happy.
But just because your not alone doesn't mean you're not lonely.
And just because you're constantly smiling doesn't mean that you're happy.

Victor had always desired love, but he was too afraid to actually take the chance and find it.

What if he didn't love his soulmate?

What if his soulmate didn't love him?

Thoughts like this flooded his head whenever he thought about 'love'.

Although in the evening of one of his rare days off, he once again found himself thinking about his soulmate.
This time instead of thinking about how meeting his soulmate would effect himself, he thought about how it would effect his soulmate.
Or rather what kind of effect neglecting his soulmate would have on them.

His soulmate would be alone forever, with no one to ever love them, or grow old with them.
The thought of how he probably hurt his soulmate by ignoring them for ten years straight made them feel horrible.

So Victor made the bold decision to write something, even after all those years of constant neglect.
He didn't know why he decided to write to them only now or why it took him over ten years to consider his soulmates feelings.

Still Victor hesitantly pulled a Dark navy ball point pen from the drawer from the table beside his lounge chair.
He clicked it against his chin a few times debating on what he should write.

Eventually he decided to go with a simple 'hello." Written in neat English cursive on the peak of his wrist.
He knew that his soulmate a least knew a little English as they had briefly communicated with the language all those years ago.
While he didn't remember anything about the previous conversations he and his soulmate had,  At least he remembered that much of a detail.

That morning after Yuri woke up, when He was brushing his teeth he noticed the small word of greeting on his wrist.
Yuri was surprised at first but his face  quickly contorted  into an expression of disgust and anger.

"It's been over a decade and they finally replies to me with a measly 'hello'!?" Yuri whisper shouted  to himself.
Yuri wasn't about to reply after being ignored for that long.
This was way past 'playing hard to get.' And Yuri was not having it.

After glaring at the marking for a suitably long time He sternly hopped into the shower and then proceeded to aggressively scrub the well written greeting off his wrist.
He scrubbed so hard his wrist turned bright red and began to bleed through the pours a little, but nothing too excessive. 
Yuri sighed, breathing slowly to calm himself down. He then placed his wrist under the running water to clear the small beads of blood fourmed on his skin.

Victor felt a burning pain in his wrist that woke him up. He looked at his clock that read
'1:38 am'. he then looked down at the source of the pain and noticed the writing was gone, and that his wrist was red and mildly bloody.
Seeing this made his heart sink and his stomach churn.
He shouldn't have expected anything more than rejection after neglecting his only potential lover for over a decade.
Although even so it still gave him a great deal of pain regardless.

(Sorry if the constant switching between the twos perspective is confusing. Also the time difference between Russia and Japan is 6 hours so it's around 7:38 am for Yuri.)

Yuri turned the water off ,got out of the shower and quickly threw a towel around his waist.
He leaned against the bathroom wall and took another look at his wrist.
It was still red and throbbing but the bleeding had stopped.
Yuri let out a long shaky breath and went to his room to change.
He threw on a black long sleeve shirt to cover the red mark on his wrist, and some baggy grey joggers along with it.

Yuri flopped onto his bed, face first into a pillow hugging it tightly trying to halt his tears of frustration and confusion.
Knowing full well that if he cried his soulmate would know the effect they had on him. As Yuri lifted his head up off the pillow for air 
His face tensed up and even with his best efforts a single tear slowly made it's way down his cheek.

Victor sat up leaning against his bed frame looking up at the ceiling, the room slightly illuminated by the red glow of the digital clock beside him.
He felt a warm dampness slowly pour from his left eye.
Victor put his wrist to his cheek, feeling a wave of guilt. His soulmate deserves someone better, someone that can show them the love they deserve. For the first time Victor realized just how painfully alone he really was.
His chest tightened and his thoughts intoxicated his emotions with pure regret and despair. 

He felt his own tears flood his vision as they crept down his face rapidly.
Victor just felt so fucking sad,At this point he had no shame.. he started full blown sobbing. Victor hadn't cried like this in what felt like centuries.
His hands made their best attempt to muffle his whimpers of agony but I wouldn't say they did him justice.

Victor honestly didn't know why it upset him to such an extent that he was crying in such an unworldly manner, but he truly couldn't care less.
All he wanted to do was sit their and cry until he had no tears left to shed, and no energy left to stay awake.

As Yuri quickly wiped the thin stream away from his left eye his vision turned blurry.
This confused him at first as he was most definitely positive he had his glasses on.
Although it didn't take him long to realize that his soulmate was the source of his vision loss. The tears poured out of his eyes like a waterfall. Yuri was baffled, his partner was shedding tears for him.. Yuri could literally feel the amount of agony that came With each and every droplet of tears that hit his bed sheets, Yuri watched intently as they absorbed into the duvet.

Victor inevitably ended up crying for at least a good half an hour. He lay resting on his tear stained pillow hugging his pet poodle to his chest tightly.
tears still slowly trickling down from his eye lids, to his cheeks then joining their comrades on victors pillow of pity.
Eventually falling asleep.
With Yuri Being unable to leave his room and face his family until his partner had finished his pathetic fit.

While victor slept Yuri continued his usual daily routine, training, cooking, helping around the inn, etc. But no matter how occupied he was Yuri couldn't get the thought of his soulmates seemingly endless tears out of his mind. He felt sorta... bad about erasing their small yet probably meaningful attempt at making things right.

When Yuri finally went back to his room to retire for the day, he snatched a red pen from his desk and lay on his bed, starring curiously at the object. 
He clicked the pen and hesitantly pressed it against the skin of his palm before begrudgingly pulling back in cowardice only to accidentally leave a fairly noticeable and thick red streak across his hand.
Yuri panicked a little hoping his soulmate didn't notice as he attempted to wipe the mark off only to smudge it making it even more noticeable than beforehand.

Authors note,

Why hello!
I sincerely hope you enjoyed the first chapter to my story.
And to those of you who avidly  read my other publishing I know this is a lot different than what you may expect from me.
And I know I said I probably wouldn't even be updating 'Yuri x Otabek' until exams are over yet I make a whole new story.
But what can I say I had some free time this weekend and didn't feel like updating my old story I really wanted to try and make something new and different just for fun.
But don't worry I don't intend to stop writing 'Yuri x otabek' this is just something I've always wanted to write!
Also this is an AU so the story will be tweaked.

Sincerely

-Coffee&Desperation