november stories
Title: ☆november stories。
Author:
quaint_stories
Pairing: Junno x Tatsuya;
Rating: g
Genre: twisted fluffy feelings;
Summary: Colder than October, it's another special day on the calendar and Junno and Tatsuya haven't seen each other in over a month aka it's Junno's birthday now and more ice-cream talk.
a/n: I'm so giri giri!!asklsjsjsfsf!!! Happy Birthday, Junno <3
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Really,
If time itself could tell stories, what magical tale would it spin and regurgitate of them?
November bites.
Gnawing at Junno's skin like it's starving.
Looking up the day is colourless.. just a sky painted dirty white in vastness. Junno sighs, clasps his palms together and blows warm air into them before pushing them back into his pockets. Sighing and shifting on his toes as though shaking off the cold, he then looks up again at the train schedule.
It's already been two hours but the train is still late.
Towards the end of November, Tokyo is having it's first snow. A sky that had some blue and yellow this morning had changed to rain at midday and somewhere along the hours, the winds swooped in and changed it all to snow. Junno sighs yet again for even though he's a man of patience, today has really been trying him. Today, not only was he forced into a day long seminar, his presentation for the new ice-cream flavour didn't go over well as expected. After all, who in their right mind would be in the mood for ice-cream in winter?
Well apparently,
Only him and Tatsuya.
They're crazy together like that and that's one of many reasons why they're made for each other.
Speaking of Tatsuya, it's been over a month since they last met. Text messages are sent and replies are made but there are never phonecalls much less any meet ups.
The last message Tatsuya sent him was about MIYAVI doing a concert and him wanting to go but couldn't because a coworker, Kamenashi, had recently got married and quit the firm. So now, not only was Tatsuya bitter with a strange sort of jealousy but he's got to take on Kamenashi's work. Under his mask, Junno laughs to himself at remembering Tatsuya's excitement yet frustration in his LINE message. Junno utterly loves that even through words he can picture Tatsuya's every expression like they've been planted in his brain since birth and now make up parts of his DNA.
Junno snaps out of his thoughts as an announcement comes over the intercom.
'The train bound for Asakusa will soon be arriving on track 4'
"Finally", Junno mumbles. At this point, his nose has gotten numb from the cold but hearing that the train will be arriving soon, his fingers feel a little warm.
Even so,
The snow continues to fall down, piling up on the train tracks and on occasion even blow onto the covered platform. Junno frowns and screams 'DON'T YOU DARE!!' in his mind
But what use is there in screaming at nature?
Forty minutes later he arrives at his home train station, his eyes bulging and his mouth half hanging. "What are you doing here?"
"What do you mean, what I'm doing here?" Tatsuya raises his eyebrows and keeps them in place like he's being convicted of a sin. "It's my birthday".
Junno laughs, his full mouth of teeth showing, "don't go around stealing other people's birthdays", he replies, finally in front of Tatsuya. "You already had yours last month"
Tatsuya shrugs and looks at him like he's talking nonsense then says, "What's yours is mine so what's the difference?"
And Junno laughs some more. Forget the terrible day and forget the cold. "And what if I don't want to share with you?"
"Fuck off", Tatsuya replies, jollily leading the way, his hands warm and reaching for Junno's. Junno takes hold and side by side they stroll down the now familiar street to Junno's apartment.
When out of nowhere Junno asks, "Uepi but really, why were you waiting at the station?"
"Don't ask me stupid questions", Tatsuya answers, pinching Junno on the plumb of his palm that's still tightly grasped in his hand. "If not for you then why else would I be waiting here for over two hours?"
"Over two hours?!" Junno is near devastated picturing his Uepi waiting in the cold for a whole a hundred and twenty plus minutes. "Are you crazy? Why wait out in the cold when you could've been warm waiting inside. You still have a key, right?"
Tatsuya sighs long and hard like he really was wrongfully arrested, "You don't get it, do you?"
"Get what?" Junno asks, his eyes big and bold and glistening in a strange sort of innocent excitement in that, glad he is to see Tatsuya but very pained to learn of him waiting out in the cold for him.
Tatsuya sighs yet and yet again, looks around them a bit before skillfully sliding his hand in Junno's own, leans in then whispers in a way that's not so much a secret but a grade of intimacy. He says, "you're home and all warmth is you".
Suddenly, the dirty white sky seem to burst out in colours and the cold snowy day has never felt warmer. Junno clasps Tatsuya's hands even tighter and feels himself elevating in happiness. "Today, really is my birthday," he grins, floating on his own clouds.
Tatsuya's response comes in light chuckles and later adds, "So I guess my work here is done".
"Not if I have anything to do about it," Junno wraps his whole arm around Tatsuya, caring not of the people around them nor of the cold enveloping them, "I wish tomorrow and the day after tomorrow could also be my birthday".
Tatsuya laughs and relishes in the fresh air that's surprisingly neither hot nor cold but perfectly warming to the heart. "Junno, you're a whole 36 year old now, don't be so greedy".
Junno follows with a laugh.. a low sweetness with some melancholy squeezed between it all because his heart is so full with the man by his side right now and yet-
"Uepi..." he calls, they've now crossed the final pedestrian crossing to get to Junno's apartment and the snow is indeed this close to piling up. The scenery passing them seems flashcards of moments immortalising themselves in memories... though this day, this moment... it all still feels a bit hesitant but at the same time, hasty. "Will you be here when I'm 37?"
"I hope not", Tatsuya answers, a smile of mischief on his lips. "Next year this time I hope I'm warm and cosy under a kotatsu. You can be in the kitchen making us mulled wine or hot chocolate".
Junno chortles and although Tatsuya doesn't sense it, his own nose is burning and his eyes are glistening with tears that want to flow free in their gladness and just as they got inside the apartment, Tatsuya slams the door behind them, wraps his arms and then his whole self around Junno and asks, "Do you even have the tiniest idea of how much I love you?"
Within the same breath Junno hugs him back equally tight and precious. "Now, who's being annoying?", he asks, a smile riding his lips as he too holds Tatsuya tight. "I have a request for your 37th birthday".
Tatsuya dresses back slightly to look at him. "37? I think I've long passed that age babe".
Junno looks at him appalled, "Wasn't it you just boasting about what's mine also being yours?" a mellifluous giggle ensures, followed by a display akin to a peacock joyfully at dance.
Tatsuya laughs back and corners Junno against the wall even closer. His hands on either side of the entrance door and he's looking into Junno's eyes like Christmas and all things sparkly and wonderful have come a whole month sooner and just so, he just tips and kisses Junno on his nose. He then leans back to get a look at Junno and his heart flips and skates and leaps and hugs his whole chest just looking at Junno's face.. looking at Junno who still has his eyes closed and his lips waiting. And Tatsuya understands and lowers his head exactly enough to press on Junno's lips with his and he quivers... perhaps from the cold, and when Junno breathes in, Tatsuya pries his lips further apart and enters tenderly like all his life amounts to this moment... like all he wants to do tonight is kiss and melt over and over again in this man's arms.
And just so,
Night falls. The snow stops.
And time has yet again made itself a diary of them.
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A/N: ... Seriously, I've been thinking about this plot since Tatuya's birthday but it only cemented 3 hrs ago. Also you might notice hints to anotjher story... well that's Tatsutya's birthday story here