So, this is actually my 35th fic on AO3! and the 5th Fic in this universe! (the more I add to this universe the more it makes me laugh as I was adamant it was going to just be that one fic lol)
This is set when Dazai is about 4 months pregnant (they'd had the scan that would show gender, so they're in the last chunk of his pregnancy) as the twins were born in August, this is set in June-ish, google tells me summer in Yokohama can get as hot as 31c/87f (which to someone in the UK makes me think that heavily pregnant Dazai would melt in the summer heat)
Chuuya couldn't help himself when his 4 months pregnant husband's sun lounger collapsed, sending him over into the cheap little paddling pool they'd picked up that morning.
The laughter just…escaped.
(He had of course checked that Dazai was fine first, that had to count for something, right?)
Dazai had splashed out of the pool (with great difficulty as he refused Chuuya's help) and stomped into the house, slamming the kitchen door behind him.
Before he left for work Chuuya had brought him his favourite strawberry-milk chocolate, in way of apology but Dazai snatched the chocolates and continued to pout and ignore him.
Chuuya should have learnt from the day before, but the teasing between him and Dazai was the foundation their relationship was built on, and it had been too easy on opportunity to miss. He had walked into their bedroom, Dazai was getting dressed for spending another day in their garden. He had on a pair of bright purple swim shorts and was fidgeting with the too tight grey t-shirt he had grabbed.
"I thought you were a mackerel not a whale," Chuuya greeted Dazai.
His answer was the t-shirt Dazai had been wearing thrown at his face as Dazai overdramatically left the room, a different top in his hand.
Chuuya sighed, he had gotten up early to work on a surprise for Dazai, and now he'd pissed him off again. He was grateful Dazai had less than two months left. Omega instincts mixed with teenage and pregnancy hormones were a terrible combination in Dazai, and it didn't help that his own alpha instincts were going crazy as well. He quickly changed into a pair of teal swim shorts and made his way to the kitchen, hoping to catch Dazai before he made it into their garden.
He found Dazai in the little courtyard behind their kitchen, they had set up a wooden table and chair, huge parasol, a small paddling pool and the (now cursed) sun loungers. Dazai was sat at the table reading a book, he was wearing a loose tunic and looking much comfier than he had before.
"Dazai,"
"What?" he snapped his book shut "Come to tell me I look like another huge animal? Or are you keeping that for when I get fatter? I'd like to see you grow two babies and keep your figure." Dazai's hand had come to rest on his bump, as he glared at Chuuya, tears in his eyes. Chuuya sighed and came to sit next to Dazai, this was going to take tact and patience he had never possessed, despite's Ane-san's attempts to train it into him. He took Dazai's free hand, rubbing his thumb across it in a calming gesture.
"I'm sorry. I don't think that at all. I'm so proud of you, we're barely eighteen and you're growing our babies so well, they're going to be so healthy and adorable when we get to meet them." He kissed away the tears on Dazai's face as he talked.
"Really?" Dazai sniffed
"Yeah, I'm sorry for my comment earlier, but we've spent the last three years mercilessly teasing and insulting each other, it's hard to get out of that habit. I forget being pregnant screws with your thinking."
"I guess I did overreact," he paused, "and I may have laughed as much as Chibi if he'd been the one falling into the pool,"
Chuuya kissed him on the forehead before laughing,
"I'm glad you're pretty cos you can sure be dumb,"
"Shut it," Dazai smiled, tears long forgotten.
"So, do you want to see your surprise?"
"Surprise?"
Chuuya grabbed Dazai's hand,
"Come with me," he led him into the larger part of their garden.
"Oh wow! This is amazing Chuuya!" Dazai beamed.
Chuuya had made their garden more homely, he had bought new wooden sunloungers, complete with padded pillows, large enough for him and Dazai to sit on together (and the shop assistant had assured Chuuya they would never collapse) A bright white parasol for Dazai as he would always seek out the shade whilst Chuuya loved the sun and a huge swimming pool, deep enough that it required a ladder to get into. It was currently positioned in the sunny part of their garden.
"Well you're stuck in all the time, it's hot already and it's only the start of the summer. You've always loved swimming so I thought it would be nice."
"I love it!" Dazai pulled Chuuya in for a cwtch
"Good" Chuuya smiled, "I've rented it from a local shop, I told him when you're due and he gave me an extension until October, so we would have to panic"
"Why is it going back? We've got plenty of storage space"
"I'm..." Chuuya trailed off, "well, our babies will be crawling by next summer and there's no way they could use a pool that deep and by the time they can it'd probably be broke or ruined so it seemed the easy solution, and have you seen the kiddie pools they do? They're like mini-inflatable water parks" Chuuya smiled
"Is this mystery pool we'll be getting next year for you or our babies?!" Dazai asked, bemused.
"Both?" Chuuya laughed, "C'mon shall we get in?"
"Sure," Dazai pulled off his tunic, placing it on the lounger for later, and walking over to the ladder.
"If you get to warm or cold it's really easy to move with my ability so just ask."
"Show off" Dazai muttered
Chuuya helped him get up to the top step, then leaving Dazai at the top he jumped off, using his ability to float back up and into the pool, dragging two huge inflatables behind him – an inflatable lounger for Dazai, so he wouldn't have to struggle to sit up and a ring donut style one for himself. (Which he did not intend to jump off the roof with and use his ability to land in the pool, nope, not at all)
"I'm impressed, Chuuya's thought of everything" Dazai commented as Chuuya helped him onto the inflatable.
"I thought it'd be comfy for you"
"It's perfect, I love it Chuuya," Dazai sighed contently as Chuuya gently pushed the inflatable to let Dazai float across the pool as he got into his ring and followed him.
An hour passed as they floated and talked – about Chuuya's recent missions, possible names for the babies and all the toys they were going to get that were secretly more for them than their babies.
"Ohh! Come feel this Chuuya," Dazai's hand was on his bump and he had a strange look on his face, the babies had been kicking strong enough for Chuuya to feel for a few weeks now.
"What's wrong?" he asked as he put his hand to Dazai's bump
"Can't you feel it? They're kicking together, they usually take turns and owww, I think that was an elbow"
"They're active today" Chuuya smiled, placing a hand on Dazai's inflatable as he lent up to kiss him.
It was too much, Chuuya over balanced both of them, and they splashed into the water. Chuuya ended up submerged, whilst Dazai kept his head above the water by grabbing onto Chuuya's inflatable ring. Chuuya resurfaced, spluttering with his hair stuck to his face. Dazai burst out laughing
"You look," more laughter, "you look like the monster from the lagoon"
Dazai was too busy laughing that he didn't notice Chuuya's arm moving to create a wave until splashed over him, soaking his hair.
"Look we match now" Chuuya laughed, narrowly dodging Dazai's retaliation. This started an all out splash war, which ended in a tie when Dazai started shivering and yawning.
"Out we get before you catch a cold" Chuuya instructed, helping Dazai out of the pool and grabbing the towels he'd left in the sun.
"Off with your shorts" Chuuya told him, pulling off his own
"I'm not in the mood," he whined
"They're wet, I've got dry ones over here for you, and I do remember we agreed no sex until the babies are born"
"Oh," Dazai yawned pulling off his shorts as Chuuya finished drying off himself and got re-dressed. Dazai just stood their as Chuuya dried him, and helped him get dressed, in a new pair of shorts and the tunic he'd been wearing earlier.
"Better?"
Dazai nodded, yawning again
"Do you want to go inside or stay out here?"
"Stay out here? It's lovely and warm, and I want to test out those new sun loungers."
They settled on the sun lounger, it was long enough that Dazai's dangly legs fitted, and wide enough that Chuuya could sit next to him. Dazai was quick to get comfortable and cwtch into Chuuya
"I love you," he murmured before falling asleep in Chuuya's arms
"I love you to"
A/N
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