[multichapter] baby blue: part 5: chapter 6

[thesecretdoor]

Title: Baby Blue: Part 5: Chapter 6
Pairing: JunDa
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1130
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, and only the words are mine.
Summary: They knew that moving forward would be hard, but with each hurdle the happiness they deserve seems further and further away.
A/N: This chapter is dedicated to pandanyan!! Happy belated birthday Pan-chan!!

April 25^th 2015

He hadn't been this nervous the last time Taguchi had pulled up in the driveway of his mother's house. Taguchi looked over to him, giving him an encouraging smile that didn't quite meet his eyes and then together they nodded and opened the car doors.

“Jun, Ueda-kun!” Taguchi's mother greeted them warmly as she hurried along the driveway. “It's been so long since I've seen you both.” Her knowing look was directed towards Taguchi but Ueda couldn't help feeling a little bad about it, it should have been his place to encourage Taguchi to visit his mother rather than monopolising all their days off for himself.

“Mum.” Taguchi greeted her back just as enthusiastically, wrapping his arms around her.

Ueda stood to the side, bowing awkwardly until she pulled him into a hug next. He laughed a little but the nice gesture did nothing to ease the butterflies in his stomach, who knew if she'd still welcome him so warmly once she found out their news.

They'd already decided to wait until after dinner, the last thing they wanted to do was to ruin the whole day but still it had do be done. As much as Ueda wished it weren't so, they were here for a reason.

“Mum.” Taguchi started, clearing his throat as his mother cleared away the pots from dinner, and then he looked to Ueda for approval. They'd rehearsed it a hundred times over already, twice on the drive here alone but the time had finally come. Ueda nodded and looked down at his hands as Taguchi continued. “Could you please sit down? There's something that we need to tell you.”

“What is it dear?” she asked almost anxiously, drying off her hands quickly and moving to sit between them at the table.

“There's something that I've been keeping from you.” Taguchi announced. “I didn't want to, but I couldn't be honest with you...the Jimusho wouldn't let me...only everything is about to change....”

Taguchi's mother looked even more worried as she held out her hand to hold Taguchi's and Taguchi grasped it eagerly, worrying at his lip as he took slow breath after slow breath.

“Junno.” Ueda urged eventually. Taguchi's eyes shot up to meet his own desperately and for the first time since they'd discussed telling their parents, Taguchi looked panicked. “This was supposed to be the easy part remember?” he asked with a shaky laugh but Taguchi couldn't return it, reaching out with his free hand for Ueda's instead.

“Jun.” Taguchi's mum interrupted, but when they both looked at her face, her expression was soft, comforting. “Is this about the two of you?” Ueda felt his jaw drop a little as Taguchi's eyes widened but his mum just gave a short laugh and slapped his arm. “You're scared of telling me that you're together? Give me some credit, what kind of a mother would I be if I didn't figure it out years ago?”

“Years?” Taguchi asked, his hand letting go of Ueda's and Ueda shook his head at that being the part of her sentence he picked up on.

“I see it in your performances you know? When you're happy, when you're sad...when you're breaking apart...I saw it a few years ago and I didn't know what had caused it until you brought Ueda-kun home for Christmas. When I saw the way you two were with each other I knew you were in love.” she explained. “I don't know what happened, why you couldn't be together all that time but I saw the way you both changed, how happy you were for a while...”

“A lot happened...” Taguchi offered in explanation. “I couldn't tell you about any of it at the time...most of it I was too ashamed to tell you anyway, but I will, we just need to tell you something else first.”

Her face dropped into that apprehensive expression again “What is it?” she asked, looking worriedly between the two of them.

“We're going public with our relationship” Ueda stated, leaving a brief pause for the information to sink in but before he could continue Taguchi interrupted him.

“We're getting married.” his voice had been shaking, whether in excitement or nerves Ueda couldn't say but the scream that came from Taguchi's mum was all excitement.

“Congratulations.” she shouted again, getting up from the table and running round to wrap her arms around Taguchi. Taguchi let out a relieved laugh and hugged her back tightly and when she pulled back enough to grasp for Ueda's arm, pulling him into the cuddle too, Ueda could see wet streaks shining from both of their faces.

Eventually the screeching died down and Taguchi's mum peeled herself away to go to the kitchen and find some champagne, or wine at least, she was certain she had wine.

“Baby.” Taguchi whispered, the single word loaded with so much as he pulled Ueda in to kiss him passionately.

“I know.” Ueda whispered back, the words smushed against Taguchi's lips. “There's still so much we need to explain to her...the poll...the...” his words were cut of completely by Taguchi's lips pressing impossibly hard against his.

“Not tonight.” Taguchi insisted, pulling away enough to speak but keeping his forehead pressed to Ueda's “For tonight let's just enjoy it...just for now let's pretend everything is going to be alright.” Ueda nodded, after all the panic and worry, they deserved just one night of celebrating.

“I found the wine.” Taguchi's mum almost sang, dancing her way back to the dining table with a bottle and three glasses. Ueda pulled away self-consciously but Taguchi didn't let him go far, keeping their hands entwined even as they sat back down at the table. “Here's to the two of you.” she announced as she poured the glasses almost full “To over-coming hardships, to fighting for what you want regardless of what anyone else might think, and to a happy future together.”

Ueda raised his glass, clinking it against the other two and drank deep. Tomorrow they could worry about the hardships and the fighting, for tonight they were pretending.

Two hours later when they finally stumbled into Junno's bed after another bottle of wine and few more toasts, Ueda didn't even need to pretend. “I love you Junno.” he giggled, pulling the other man on top of him. “I love you, and I don't care about anything else.”

Taguchi laughed back but nuzzled into his jaw anyway. “Just how drunk are you?”

“Not enough to think this is a good idea, but enough to do it anyway...” he answered, not even sure himself whether he meant what they were planning to do in the long run, or what the hand creeping up his thigh suggested they were about to do right then.

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Sorry this was late again!

Comments

[tat-fan-luv.livejournal.com]

*tackle hugs*
I had a feeling Junno's mom would be understanding and happy for them. You can only have so many people against it before it's like, 'is it really worth it?' Not saying it wouldn't be but I hope you get what I mean. I think next chapter will be interesting, no predictions yet though, probably next chapter though. Keep up the amazing work you doing wonderfully

[thesecretdoor.livejournal.com]

She had to be really!! I think it was very subtley hinted back when UePi spent Christmas with Taguchi and his mum, that she maybe knew what was going on. I kinda can't remember though >_< In my head she's always known, and she was always going to be supportive because from what Taguchi says about her she seems like a very awesome lady. Like you said, it wouldn't be fair to have everyone against them! But it also wouldn't be any fun to have everyone accept them either :P

Thank you for reading and commenting as always!

[pandanyan.livejournal.com]

Aaah *glomps* thank you so much for dedicating this part for my bday! *glomps* Oh and happy birthday to YOU now! XD I definitely have some stuff in store for you once I get done with my assignments @@ tbh it was a real treat to see this after submitting an assignment *w*

And oh mama Taguchi how I love this woman so much! >w< I love her reaction!

"“Not enough to think this is a good idea, but enough to do it anyway...” Where did I hear this before?? I'm pretty sure Uepi said this line but I'm not sure if it's during their last visit in Christmas or somewhere else *w* intriguing though!

Urgh but I'm feeling the dread here...so Junno's mom accepts them so you're probably going to have Uepi's parents go harsh on him huh? >< Lol go easy on them okay? From what I've heard they're pretty nice people too despite what Uepi says about being left in the mountains as a kid XDXD Aaah but who am I to say XD I'm just scared when the angst is gonna kicked in, you've given us nothing but lovely fluffy fluff so far *w*

Thanks a bunch for this update! And you know what? Don't need to apologize for being late, seeing an update alone makes me so happy to know this series is back on *w* <3 *huggles again*

[thesecretdoor.livejournal.com]

That's OK :) I'm glad it made you happy. Did you have a good birthday? Mine was pretty awesome :)

I love Taguchi's mama too, I seriously think she must be one of the coolest mums ever (And I feel totally bad because in another fic I made her super mean, but that one won't get posted for a while)

Points for recognising the quote! It's from all the way back in Part 1: chapter 2, though I may have re-used it before, maybe, I don't know why but I really like it >_<

Lol, you see angst coming a mile off :P but you're right, it is about time, there's been too much fluff so far :P I'm sure Ueda's parents really are nice people, unfortunately it wouldn't make a very angsty story if everyone was supportive so you guesses right, there's a little bit of friction up ahead!

I took a week off work for my birthday so I'm hoping I can get a few more chapters written so that I don't need to slow down posting :)