“ mom ! mom , it happened ! ” shouted a teenage boy , around fifteen at the youngest . tanjiro kamado , the towns bakers son , he was known for living in what was a supposed fairytale to the town — due to him thinking the soulmate process existed .

what was the soulmate process ? simple , whenever you get your soulmate , anything that they write on their skin will show up on yours , and poor tanjiro / always / looked up to the day when that would happen .

and it happened ! well , he thought it happened since there was a mark on his skin , a little doodle of a star and a few hearts that he assumed came from his soulmate — or from him when he was half awake and drawing on himself aimlessly , but he doubted that — since he would've eventually remembered .

“ it happened , mom ! ” the boy kept shouting over and over again as he ran through the bakery in an excited way , tears welled in his ruby eyes . luckily , it was before the bakery was open so he didn't look insane .

“ tanjiro , tanjiro dear ! please stop yelling . . ” replied his mother , a young mother who went by the name of kie . she always cared for her son and supported him of his dream on getting his soulmate , as well as tanjiro's little sister , nezuko . though the sudden yelling surprised her .

“ calm down and tell me what happened . ”

“ mom , my soulmate ! they've doodled on themselves and it came up ! ” tanjiro immediately replied and held up his arm , his opposite hand pointing to the drawings which seemed to take back kie . this was sudden .

“ so why don't you write back ? ” the mother asked with a warm smile , handing tanjiro a pen which made him gasp and run over to a seat in the bakery while clicking the pen open .

“ maybe we can meet up ! ”

kie frowned , walking over and sitting next to her son . “ don't be so pressuring so quickly , dear . ask them what their name is , what they like to do , that stuff . i didn't ask your father to meet up the day his note taking showed up . ” she replied with a warm smile , kissing her sons head as he stuck his tongue out in a thinking type of way .

‘ hi ! i see you're my soulmate ! what's your name ? ’ the boy wrote down on his skin before setting his pen to the side and looking to his mother in an excited way .

“ it's happening , mom ! i finally have a soulmate , i'm so excited to get to know them ! maybe we'll end up like you and dad ! ”

“ maybe . ”

and like that , the boy now had to wait for this response from his soulmate . . without the knowledge of his soulmates issue , of course .

maybe it'll come that soulmate somehow .