I am so, so sorry for the huge long delay with this chapter guys, there's just so much going on and I got a bit of a block. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this chapter. It's the last one.
Can It Be?
Yamato drew back, looking down at Taichi through lidded eyes.
"Well," Taichi breathed, looking up at the faintly blushing boy above him. "That was …"
"Sorry," Yamato muttered turning away. "I don't quite know what came over me."
"Oh." Taichi looked hurt. "I assumed …"
"Well, you wouldn't be totally wrong in that assumption." Taichi hissed and turned his head sharply to stare at Yamato in amazement. Yamato smiled at him gently. "I just hope you don't hate me."
"I could never hate you, least of all for doing something I've wanted you to do for a long time."
Yamato stared back at Taichi with the same astonishment. Then he grinned. "Are you serious?" Taichi nodded. "Then what the hell are you waiting for?"
Taichi laughed and pulled Yamato down for a deep passionate kiss.
* * *
The rest of their week was spent in blissful happiness. The four boys could barely believe that such wonderful luck had come to them during their vacation. But sadly, like all good things, their trip had to come to an end.
Taichi sighed as he finished packing up the last of the gear into Yamato's van. He looked around at the place they had stayed for the past two weeks with a melancholic expression.
Yamato came up behind him and placed his arms around his waist. He planted a soft kiss on Taichi's neck. "What's wrong?"
Taichi turned his head and smiled at him. "I'll miss this place."
Yamato nodded. "Yeah. We had a great time here. I wish we could stay longer, but everyone's expecting us back."
"I know. I'm glad we came."
"The others had no idea what they were missing out on."
"Actually, I'm also quite glad that they did miss out." Yamato looked at his boyfriend curiously. Taichi explained, "Well, if they had come, do you really think everything that happened would have happened?"
"I see your point. I guess not." Yamato smiled and turned Taichi around in his arms. "Then I'm quite glad that it was just a small trip." He kissed Taichi deeply.
The loud jarring sound of the horn pulled them apart. The two older boys glared slightly at the van and the younger boys inside who were gesturing impatiently for them to get in. Taichi sighed and Yamato rolled his eyes.
"Guess we should get going then," Yamato murmured, pulling away.
"Yeah." Taichi took one last look around the campsite then walked away with Yamato to the van.
* * *
Taichi and Yamato greeted everyone cheerfully as they all gathered on the last day of the holidays in a small café. It had been so long since everyone had seen each other, there were hugs and kisses galore and many swapping of stories from various places. Finally, the group managed to settle themselves.
"Where are Daisuke and Takeru?" Ken asked curiously, looking around for his two friends.
"Don't know," Taichi and Yamato replied in unison. Ken shrugged and returned to a conversation with Koushiro.
Taichi leaned in and whispered in Yamato's ear. "Five bucks says Takeru's giving Dai head."
"Five bucks the other way round."
"Deal."
The two of them returned to conversations with everyone around them about their holidays, no one noticing the short whispered conversation between the two.
Finally, the two missing digi-destined arrived at the café, puffing and panting from running.
"Sorry we're late," Takeru offered as apology when he got his breath back. "We got held up by something important." Takeru noticed Taichi and Yamato's grins and blushed slightly. Daisuke didn't seem to notice the looks sent his way by the two, he was too busy greeting Ken and the others with enthusiasm. Things settled down for a bit, then Taichi noticed something about Takeru.
"Hey, Teeks, you've got something in the corner of your mouth." Yamato glared at his boyfriend, hoping that he wouldn't have noticed and Takeru blushed slightly. Daisuke looked over and flushed slightly too.
"Oh, really, funny. Guess I missed that in my hurry to get here." Takeru's voice sounded a little forced, and Taichi grinned, hoping to prolong the poor boy's torture as much as he could.
"I'm sure. What were you eating?"
"Uh …" Takeru was lost.
"Ice cream," Daisuke supplied. "My mother just brought it back and well, we couldn't help ourselves." Daisuke grinned, but the look in his eyes as he stared at Taichi warned the brunette not to press any further.
But when had Taichi ever heeded any warnings?
"No I imagine you couldn't help yourselves. You're not like me and Yama here who can restrain ourselves and manage to get here on time." Taichi held a hand to his mouth to try and hold in the laughter, but it wasn't quite working as well as he'd hoped.
Everyone else was listening in on the strange conversation now. It almost seemed that the four boys were talking in some weird code.
Seeing their expressions was too much for the Child of Courage and he cracked up, holding onto Yamato for support. The blond boy looked as though he wanted to join in but managed to keep a fairly straight face.
"I agree," Yamato jumped in, in an effort to hold back his laughter at the situation. "I'm very disappointed in you Takeru."
"Why? Like you've never done it?"
"I'm not just talking about that." He looked over at Daisuke. "Ice cream? That was the best you could come up with?" Yamato shook his head. "I'm disappointed in the both of you. Really, you have to be able to think on your feet, make sure you have something that covers any slip ups you make. Ice cream?" Yamato shook his head again. "And you lost me five bucks!"
Taichi had been about to say something else, having gotten over his last case of laughter, but upon hearing Yamato's indignant statement, he burst out laughing again.
"Huh?" Daisuke was lost on that one.
So was everyone else. They had no idea what the hell was going on between the four teenagers, so they just watched and waited until someone was kind enough to explain.
Taichi managed to get a hold of himself and grinned as Yamato paid him his owed money. He looked up at Takeru. "Your brother didn't seem to have as much faith in you as I did."
Takeru returned the grin. "Guess that showed him not to bet against family."
Daisuke blushed again as he finally got what they were talking about. Then he turned to Taichi in surprise. "You bet on us?"
"Spur of the moment thing. You know how it is." Taichi pocketed the money then grinned. "But jeez guys seriously, you couldn't wait?"
Takeru shook his head. "No, we couldn't. Well, I couldn't. I mean, you understand don't you Taichi?" He looked at the older brunette pleadingly. "Look at him, I mean really look closely at him. Soccer and physical exercise does wonders for a person. I couldn't just not do anything, it would be like spurning a dish untasted and who would want to do that?"
"Not me," Yamato said. "That's what got me in this perfect situation in the first place."
"Oh." Taichi hugged Yamato, much to the surprise of the others. "Yama thinks I'm perfect."
"I didn't say you were perfect, I said the situation was." Looking at Taichi's extremely sad puppy dog expression, Yamato hurried to take it back. "But you're perfect too Tai, absolutely perfect for me." Yamato smiled at him and saw that it still wasn't working. "I love you?" he tried. Taichi shook his head. Yamato sighed. "How about I make it up to you later?"
"How?" Taichi glanced at his boyfriend's brother. "Like that?" he suggested with a grin.
Yamato nodded. "Whatever you want." Yamato suddenly got worried when a very evil expression came over Taichi's face. "Uh-oh," he whispered.
"This should be fun," Taichi said with a smirk.
It was about that time that everyone else finally got what they had been talking about the whole time. Jyou promptly fainted and Sora was too shocked to tend to her boyfriend. Miyako was dancing around with heart in her eyes saying how adorable they were and trying to get Koushiro to agree with her. He was standing looking at them quizzically before muttering, "Well, it was only a matter of time." Iori was blushing bright red and had to excuse himself to the bathroom. Hikari was crying from shock and Ken looked stunned, but not much else.
"Well," he finally said. "This is certainly weird. My two closest friends are dating each other."
"If it helps any, I know how you feel," Daisuke offered. "When I found out about how my Keru had kissed you in your base that time I got so freaked, but I got over it, so I guess if you're accepting you'll be able to deal."
Ken looked at Takeru in shock. "You told him about that?"
"Yeah, well, it was kind of a bonding thing," Takeru shrugged. "We all mentioned our first kisses with another guy."
"Oh boy," Koushiro muttered. "This cannot go good for me."
"Probably not," Taichi grinned.
"Probably not for Jyou either when he wakes up," Yamato added in.
Everyone looked at Daisuke expectantly. He held up his hands innocently. "Hey, I made out with Taichi, I think he'll be fine with everyone knowing he kissed another guy."
"I think so too." Yamato murmured in Taichi's ear. "And I'm sure he's comfortable doing a lot more than that."
Taichi blushed. "Yama, cut that out, wait 'till later."
Sora blushed at this statement. "You know what guys, I think we should all be heading home now. I've got to get Jyou home and I'll need someone's help with that."
"I'll do it," Koushiro volunteered quickly. "I mean, I live nearby and all." Plus, I've got to get out of here, I know Taichi'll end up spilling everything else that happened eventually. Koushiro helped Sora get Jyou up and together they made it to her car and they drove off.
"I've got to get back to Tamachi so that means I should leave pretty soon." Ken smiled at the four and backed away. "I should probably take Hikari home too, seeing as you'll probably be … busy later Taichi. So yeah. See you." Ken grabbed Hikari, who was still sobbing about loosing Takeru, by the arm and dragged her out of the café.
Miyako was still staring at them dreamily.
"You guys are so cute together," she squealed. Iori appeared again, noticed everyone's departure and grabbed Miyako by her shirt.
"We have to go now. Sorry to leave so soon, but … uh … something came up." Iori couldn't some up with anything better than that, especially considering he was terrible at lying so he just left, dragging the protesting Miyako away by the back of her shirt.
"Well," Taichi grinned. "I guess their vacation wasn't as good as ours."
AN: This story wasn't really meant to be an epic, just something short and sweet. I hope you all enjoyed it anyway. Thank you to everyone who reviewed or even just read this, I really appreciate it.
Well guess that's about all, laters.
