Hello!

This story is a Taichi x Koushiro x Sora (Taikoura/Taishirora) story. Yes, that's a strange threesome huh? I think it's a rather underrated ship (both platonic and romantic, but in this story's case it's eventual romantic) and I want to show all of you the beauty of this thruple -and polyamory in general-!

I wrote this story for Digiweek2021, a (non-shipping) Digimon event on Tumblr. So 1 chapter/one-shot per day makes 7 chapters in total and all chapters are already written and posted on my Tumblr. Though I won't upload all chapters at once here on FFN, so have patience or visit my Tumblr (same username as here) ;)

Little side road to my all time Digimon OTP Taichi x Sora/Taiora: We are building a Taiora Discord server! See my Tumblr for more information or send me a message for more information or when you're interested in joining.

For now, happy readings!

xxx

Day 1. Deep maroon & gingery auburn
~prompt: beginnings~

Deep maroon. Quiet yet full of deep curiosity and understanding. Gingery auburn. Fierce yet heartwarmingly soft and compassionate.

Even though Taichi Yagami didn't pay too much attention to hair colors, having no clue what to exactly call his own brown shade, he could easily describe the hair colors of his two best friends. The colors had always vividly danced through his life for as long as he could remember, painting his thoughts and memories, occupying his dreams both at night and day.

They reminded him of an easy breeze on a colorful and warmer than usual autumn day. A flow he could follow with his eyes closed if necessary. Letting the cool warmth embrace his mind and heart, the colors covering him like a nice blanket to prevent him from feeling too cold and lonely. The combination of flow, warmth and shades of red taking care of his soul not to fail or fall.

He could always count on them the way they could always count on him.

Images of the boy with the maroon hair pretending to focus behind his laptop but looking up only to shyly smile that cute smile of his at Taichi appeared. The boy standing up to sweetly kick back a soccer ball in Taichi's direction. A soccer ball that was kicked by the girl with the auburn hair standing there watching them, a cheeky smile across her pretty face and her hands provocatively on her hips showing off her beautiful female figure.

A switch.

The girl walks into the kitchen with different ingredients for them to cut. The boy starts cutting the vegetables, a blush on his face when he catches Taichi staring at him. A blush that feels mutual, but Taichi feels caught anyway. He feels more caught upon seeing the girl staring back at the both of them with the same shade of pink on her face as the boys. They share a laugh before the boy and girl get back to the preparations. However Taichi finds himself lost in a stare, feeling his heart in his chest pounding faster by the second.

A deep breath in. Another switch.

Alongside the seaside, the sand moving between his toes as he walks behind the two of them. The smell of the salty water fondles his nostrils, the light of the sunset brightening up their red locks, radiating some kind of heat that speaks to him like nothing ever spoke to him before. Taichi's gaze falls on their squeezing hands and intertwined fingers, before his gaze moves to their faces. Happy, lovingly, confident. The beach highlighting their body features in a way he had known, but was never able to admit. Slim, but strong and incredibly… sexy? The same heart pounding experience returns to Taichi's chest, but now his throat feels dry as well, his feet shut down.

"Yagami…"

In the distance he vaguely heard his name, but he loses himself in the presence of his best friends again anyway.

Some kind of shining aura Taichi simply can't deny surrounding the both of them. The boy and girl stop walking as well, making his hands sweaty, his throat even dryer and his heartbeat speeding up as they turn around to face him. Their hands let go of each other and they motion Taichi to take each of their hands to walk with them. His stomach turns around without getting the nauseous feeling, not able to move, but desperately wanting to act on all of it. He takes a careful first step in their direction, his heart pounding uncontrollably with every move forward he makes…

"Yagami!"

His boss abruptly shook Taichi awake with his words.

"Welcome back to earth Yagami-san. I hope you had a very pleasant daydream?" His colleague asked. Taichi slowly nodded, his face heated from dozing off and the daydreaming of course.

The dreams weren't a first time, Taichi recalls to himself. He has had these little dreams over the course of a long time, though he had never been this aware of them until now. And never been this aware of the way he felt during and after those dreams. Unable to listen to his boss at all, Taichi felt his whole body still racing. Just thinking about the reds made his heart rate speed up, his hands clammy, his head dizzy, his breathing faster, his legs numb and his stomach turning.

Come on Taichi get yourself together…

But he failed miserably. Just like he failed throughout the whole day. Colleagues and friends asked him what mattered, his face either whitish or a bright red, every time giving the askers the same shoulder shrug pretending he had no idea.

Happy to finally head home Taichi found himself taking the long way to his house, deeply sunk into his thoughts, reexperiencing all the sensations from the day. The in autumn colors painted trees he passed along the way reminding him of those two shades of red specifically. He could see their eyes, touch their bodies and simply feel their presence inside of his mind with every step he took. His face brightening up mimicking the red shades occupying his thoughts.

Once arrived home he stopped in front of his door, fumbling with the key, as if he was brought home after a date by the redheads and now the awkward parting of ways was about to happen. His stomach made another backflip, releasing the butterflies all over again.

Taichi slid down to the ground with his back against the door, his blushing head buried into his hands as soon as his butt hit the ground. Their names echoing in his thoughts.

Koushiro… Sora…

Sora… Koushiro…

Wide eyes staring to the ground as he realized the disaster that was happening to him, finally able to give it a name. And he knew from that moment on, this was either going to be the beginning of something beautiful or the beginning of a very, very messy situation…