Chapter 7: Blossoming Destiny
The chirping of birds and the warm sunlight shining through the curtains wakened Sugawara on the next morning. He shifted drowsily to his side to be met a rather familiar texture underneath his hands. Still in a daze, he caressed the smooth surface without thinking. After some more minutes of dozing off, Suga opened his eyes again and let his gaze finally around. Soft snoring could be heard coming from right next to him. As he looked down, he was met with the sight of a sleeping Daichi. Not only was his sleeping face absolutely adorable and handsome, he was also wearing nothing but his boxers! Suga gasped upon seeing his defined muscles up close and blushed furiously the moment he realized that he had touched his bare chest earlier.
He looks gorgeous... And it feels so nice to be close to him…
A smile crept up his face and he found himself to be pretty lucky to be greeted by such a nice sight, especially after his breakdown yesterday. As Sugawara tried to move away, Daichi stirred in his sleep and pulled the ash-blond closer to him. Again, heat rose to Suga's cheeks, however, he quickly relaxed in his arms, since it didn't seem like Daichi was letting go any time soon. Suga felt his hands softly tracing his slender back and it sent quite the shivers down his spine. It wasn't unpleasant though. He rather enjoyed the gently touches and he felt truly secured, so he decided to simply savour the moment of piece and warmth. Quite some time passed until Daichi awoke as well and it took him a bit to realize in what kind of situation he was right now. Sugawara had fallen asleep again, his head laid on Daichi's shoulder and he had his arms softly wrapped around the brunet's waist. He smiled tenderly and brushed Suga's bangs out of his face. Not a single trace of the horrors from the previous night was visible on his now peaceful, smiling face.
He looks just like an angel… Meeting him was probably one of the best things that ever happened in my life!
Sawamura was starting to fall more and more in love with this man, although he didn't recognise this welling desire inside of his heart as love, yet. After all, he had never been in love before. With a look at his alarm clock, he froze up for a second because they had completely overslept! Today was the day when Suga was allowed to go back to work again and Daichi had promised him to drop him of at his work place.
So ne nudged the sleeping beauty next to him and whispered, "Hey sleepyhead, we have to get up or else we will be late!"
Sugawara grunted disapprovingly and needed a moment more to get up. Once he noticed that he had wrapped himself around the brunet's body, he pushed himself away with a bit too much force and knocked himself out if the bed in the process. His (sexy) housemate went to his side to help him up again and calmed him down, saying that he wasn't mad at him for the cuddling after yesterday night's events. It still embarrassed both guys, after all both of them were slowly developing romantic feelings for the other.
In the end they started their daily routine with taking turns to shower and brush their teeth, prepared a light breakfast, and got ready for work.
This morning for the first time since his release from hospital, Suga accompanied him on his way to his workplace, since Suga's kindergarten was on his way as well. Luckily, he was allowed to go back to work again, he only had to avoid lifting heavy stuff and the kids and too much running around. As chance would have it, he was also an employee at the kindergarten, where Sachiko once went to, so Daichi knew this place very well.
When they reached their destination, Daichi left his car as well and opened the door for Suga and offered him a hand as well — just like the gentleman he was. The ash-blond smiled bashfully, took his hand and climbed out of the car. Unfortunately, Sugawara stumbled across his own feet and fell straight into the brunet's chest — again. Needless to say, Daichi caught him, wrapped his arm around Suga's waist and asked worriedly, "Whoa, are you okay?"
"Uh, yeah. Thank you for catching me. Seems like I fall for you quite often, huh?" he joked, though his face was beet red anyway. Both of them stayed like that for a moment, silently staring into each other's eyes. A whistling pulled the love-struck men back to reality, which let them realize how close they had been right now, even in public. The young parents who walked passed the sweet scenario smiled as well, since both guys were pretty well known in this part of town for their great work and kind and caring personalities. After all, Sugawara and Daichi looked like a great couple and both of them deserved some happiness according to most people's view of things.
"Well hello there, lovebirds! I didn't mean to interrupt your intimate little moment, but I need to remind you about where you are right now!"
Oikawa-San greeted them with an amused grin and his hands on his hips. With bright red faces, the men in question pulled apart from each other and straightened their posture again. Sugawara scratched the back of his head and stuttered, "I'm sorry! I just stumbled and Sawamura-Kun helped me up! It won't happen again in front of the kids!"
His employer smiled, ruffled the ash-blond's hair and assured him, "Nah, don't sweat it, Suga-Chan! I'm just happy to see you well and in a good mood again! We will make sure to warn the kids about your injuries, but I'm sure they'll all understand. After all, they love their teacher here a whole lot! Thank you for taking care of him, Sawamura-San."
Daichi responded with a kind smile and little nod after shaking hands with him. He was familiar with his annoying personality, since he was the long-time-boyfriend of his colleague and good friend Hajime, so he was kind of used to his antics by now. In the end, he bid them farewell and went back to his car to get to work as well. Through the open window he said, "Please be careful, Suga-Kun! I'll take care of tonight's dinner, so take it easy and have a lovely day. See you later!"
With that, he drove off again and left Sugawara and Oikawa alone at the kindergarten. In fact, he actually wasn't very comfortable with this place. It reminded him too much of his loss and it hurt immensely, though he tried to play it off, so that his housemate wouldn't worry about him as well. Living with Suga helped him to get over it, simply because he was never really alone now. While Daichi was getting lost in his own thoughts and thoughts about his beautiful housemate, the ash-blond entered his work place where he was immediately greeted by his 3 colleagues.
The newest and youngest member was the 22-year-old Hinata Shouyou, a relatively short and slender guy, with wild, orange hair, clear brown eyes and a lively, loud and friendly personality.
Yaku Morisuke was the same age as Sugawara — 25 years old. He was rather short too, had light brown, short hair as well as light brown eyes and he was a supportive and caring, yet strict young man. Suga and Yaku had been friends for a few years now, they even shared a room when they were studying. Since both of them had pretty similar personalities they got along since high school.
His third colleague was a quiet young woman with blond, shoulder long hair and a cute ponytail on her left sight. Her name was Yachi Hitoka and she was a good friend of Hinata. Apparently, she had managed the volleyball club in which he had played during high school and he got way more confident due to his bright and straightforward character.
All three of them were especially good with kids, just like Sugawara, and they brought quite the popularity to Oikawa-Sans kindergarten.
Oikawa himself was a tall, confident and serious person, even though he showed more than often just how childish and clingy he could be. He had dark, chocolate-brown hair that's swept outwards and eyes of corresponding colour. His nice and muscular build caused him popularity among the mothers, however, they soon gave up on their flirting attempts as soon as it got around that he was engaged with his former childhood friend who was now his lover.
Being back here, surrounded by his friends was something that reassured Sugawara greatly and he thought of himself as truly blessed. The quirky ginger nearly jumped his older colleague out of joy and exclaimed, "I'm so happy that you're back, Suga-San! The kids really missed you and we were absolutely shocked after we heard about the assault in that café that got you involved! I was worried sick, even though you called often!"
The young nursery school teacher really looked up to Sugawara and respected him greatly, so hearing about his senior getting seriously injured had an impact on his life as well.
Yaku pulled the energetic Hinata away and scolded him, "Be more careful, Hinata! Just like you said, he was injured, and he is still recovering. He is still not allowed to move around too much and he has to take it one step at a time."
With a look at his friend, he asked, "Are you alright, Koushi? This hug didn't hurt you, did it?"
Before the ash-blond could answer, Oikawa joined in, "Oh, I believe you don't need to worry too much about things like that. In fact, I just witnessed something steamy outside!" Following that remark, the other men stared at him, completely speechless.
Sugawara blushed a deep red, waved his arms around in a full panic and yelled, "THATS NOT TRUE! Tooru, stop spreading nonsense! I'm not in a relationship with Daichi." All of them simply smiled upon hearing that, because his reaction alone proved that he definitely had a thing for said person. In the end, the stopped their conversation and went to prepare for their day of work. Once the tables were set, the play area was tidied up and snacks as well as tea were prepared, the four nursery school teacher went to their own break and changing room to change into more comfortable clothes with the kindergartens logo. They engaged into casual small talk, until Oikawa noticed that his injured co-worker seemed to struggle with putting on his shirt. He stepped in front of him and helped him wordlessly to get out of his sweater. It let Sugawara realize once more, that moving his body was still painful for him and he warned himself to be more cautious.
His own thoughts distracted the ash-blond, so he never noticed the tiny stare he got from his employer and friend, Oikawa. A tiny, white lily together with a black orchid had found its way onto Suga's chest. The mark, which proved that Suga had found his soulmate.
Oikawa thought with a smile on his face, So, it really was fate, huh?
