Summary: Saki and Tsukasa are coming out to each other and then to their parents!!
Notes: This fic was inspired by a tweet that a friend made and I absolutely love the idea of Saki and Tsukasa coming out to their parents together so enjoy!
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“I- I’m gay”
Twelve seconds passed before Tsukasa registered the words his dear sister just told him.
Saki was nervous about telling her brother about this for a long time. Her mind had slowly caught up on the fact that she started to feel differently for Ichika, Honami and Shiho. She used to casually call her three bandmates her ‘girlfriends’ and didn’t think much of it, because she thought that her feelings were of a platonic nature. However, one day in the School SEKAI, her heart started to race at the sight of her friends on the rooftop under the starry sky. It took her about a month to eventually make up her mind and embrace those feelings for what they were. Sweet love for her childhood friends.
Once she had realised those feelings, Saki was fine. She kept them in her heart, because she was unsure whether the three girls felt the same for her. But it was okay. Oddly, she didn’t feel anxious about keeping her feelings a secret for the moment, Saki couldn’t even tell why. Perhaps it was because she simply loved to be with her friends and didn’t care about their relationship status so long they could play in their band together.
Saki also hadn’t told anyone else about her feelings. She didn’t know how to tell that she was attracted to girls so she didn’t deem it necessary to tell someone in the first place. That was until she started to notice something.
All of a sudden, she could hear oh so many girls at Miya Girls’ chatting about their boyfriends and it made her feel uneasy. What would happen if someone asked her what her type of boy is? Or worse, what if someone asked her who she’d got a crush on? She started to feel nervous about this entire romance topic.
One day, Rui was visiting Tsukasa. They were apparently discussing new show ideas. Saki felt overjoyed knowing that her brother had a friend like Rui who shared his passion. She could tell that Tsukasa was often putting other people’s needs before his own, which had worried her sometimes in the past, but now that he could be himself around someone, that had put her mind at ease.
After Rui had left that day, Saki commented, “Hihi, Rui-kun and you are really passionate about this play. I’m happy to see you two being such close friends!”
At that, Tsukasa flinched a tiny bit. As he turned around to face Saki, a blush on his face became visible for her. Tsukasa leaned back against the door, shyly staring at his feet. Saki came a little closer.
“Um, Saki, I think there’s something I should tell you,” Tsukasa began speaking, which made Saki tilt her head in confusion and curiosity. The star took a deep breath, “You see… um… Rui, he… he is my boyfriend.”
Upon hearing those words, Saki’s eyes widened in excitement. A comically big smile crept its way up to Saki’s face and barely a second passed before she pounced onto her brother, pulling him into a hug.
“Oh my god! That’s so amazing!! Why didn’t you tell me before??” Saki exclaimed.
Tsukasa was baffled at the reaction but soon a wide smile spread over his face as he reciprocated the hug and explained how he felt anxious about telling because he was scared of the reaction he might receive. However, now he knew that there had been no reason to be worried. After all, his precious sister had always been excited and supportive for anything the star had in store.
After that day, hope started to bloom inside of Saki’s chest. Maybe she couldn’t tell her bandmates or any other of her friends about her feelings, but she could certainly trust her brother with it. How could she even think she wouldn’t be able to tell Tsukasa about this. That thought made her feel a little embarrassed.
So, now she was there, sitting on Tsukasa’s bed while he was sitting next to her, holding her hands and staring at her dumbfounded. He couldn’t believe what he just heard. But as he slowly understood his sister’s words, his expression started to shift. A small hint of tears welling up in his eyes was there, his grip on Saki’s hands tightened and a smile appeared on his face. Then he pulled her in a hug and she yelped at the sudden move. She quickly placed her arms on Tsukasa’s back and leaned her head on his shoulder as she let out a few quiet sobs.
“Saki! I- I am so happy that you told me this! Thank you so, so much for telling me! I- I am so proud!!” Tsukasa cried out which in response made Saki cry. She felt so relieved about being able to tell someone. No longer would she have to carry her thoughts and feelings alone. She should’ve known that her brother would be this supportive since the very beginning. Oh what a fool she was for not even thinking about it. But that didn’t matter anymore. She felt save now in the arms of her brother.
From that day on, the two siblings would often ramble about their feelings. Tsukasa would tell her about his dates with Rui, while Saki would talk about how cute Ichika, Honami and Shiho were.
But eventually it had to come.
For once, the entire Tenma family was having dinner together. It wasn’t often that their parents weren’t gone for work but occasionally, they’d be able to have a great family dinner. The Tenmas talked about all the things they hadn’t been able to catch up to. School, friends, work, hobbies. A big life update you may say. However, this also led to the topic of love.
“And any news in your love lives,” their father asked in a joking manner.
Saki and Tsukasa glanced at each other. Both had a look plastered on their face as if they wanted to say ‘shit’.
They didn’t think about coming out to their parents. In fact, they were so happy with sharing news between the two of them only that the thought of telling their parents had never even crossed their minds even once. Now they sat there at the dinner table, wondering what to do about this.
“Haha, I am far too busy with working on becoming the next world star that there’s no space for such a thing as love at the moment!” Tsukasa proudly exclaimed with his show persona on. He despised using his acting skills as a means to lie to people but this was an emergency. He first had to talk with Saki about this matter.
“Nothing on my end either, unfortunately, haha,” Saki responded, though not as convincing as Tsukasa but it was enough to fool their parents.
After dinner, the two siblings hurried into Saki’s room as it was closer than Tsukasa’s and actually had four walls, unlike the boy’s room.
“What do we do, what do we do, WHAT DO WE DO?!” Tsukasa paced around Saki’s room frantically. He was panicking because he felt like an idiot for not seeing this coming.
“Calm down and don’t be so loud before they hear us!!” Saki wasn’t panicking much less than her brother. She was sitting on her bed, nervously biting her fingernails.
“We need to tell them! Right?” Tsukasa threw a worried look at his sister, “We cannot leave them in the dark like that right?? I couldn’t possibly lie to them for the rest of my life!”
“But what do we even say?! ‘Hey, mom, dad! Tsukasa and I are gay and not interested in your typical romance. I have a huge crush on my childhood friends and Tsukasa even has a boyfriend already!’ We can’t possibly say that!!” Saki was making exaggerated movements with her arms as she spoke.
The Tenma siblings were at a loss and frightened to death of the reaction of their parents. They couldn’t help it. Their parents had grown up during different times so even though they were usually supportive of everything Saki and Tsukasa had done so far, how could they know that they were just as supportive about their sexualities? But they had no choice, neither of them wanted to lie to their parents.
So, as Saki and Tsukasa stared at each other in silence now, worry and fear seen in their eyes, they carefully thought about how to approach their parents. Tsukasa closed his eyes, took one, two, three deep breaths and stepped closer to his sister. He gently took her hands in his and firmly held them. The star looked at Saki with determined eyes, which couldn’t hide his fear but were enough to give Saki courage.
“Let’s do this. Together,” Tsukasa calmly breathed out.
Saki gave him a steady nod. Her brother’s determination was truly infectious. Both inhaled and exhaled a long breath together before walking out of the room and going downstairs, hand in hand, to talk with their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Tenma were resting at the dinner table. Tsukasa came to a halt about two meters away from the table with Saki right next to him.
“Mom, dad, could we talk real quick?” Tsukasa asked unusually quiet for his standards, which made their parents look up with slight concern on their faces.
“What is it, dear?” Mrs. Tenma inquired. Her voice sounded neutral but in her eyes you could easily detect worry. Mr. Tenma put his coffee down to face his children and his wife also focused her gaze at her kids.
“So, uh… Saki and I… uh we’ve got something important to tell you. Well, at least important for us! Uh… yeah…” the star was fidgeting, playing with the sleeve of his sweater and scratching his nose and head nervously.
Saki squeezed his hand that she was still holding and turned her head to give him a reassuring look. Tsukasa smiled and nodded.
“Yeah, um… this is very important for brother and me so please, just listen. Give us… just some time so we can, uh, say everything,” Saki carefully chose her words, thinking twice about how to phrase each sentence. A sweat drop rolled down her face.
Tsukasa tightened his grip on Saki’s hand lightly. They glanced at each other for a brief moment before the boy slowly inhaled and then spoke.
“Mom, dad, I have a boyfriend.”
Shortly after, Saki added to her brother’s words.
“A- and I like girls.”
Tsukasa’s lips were pressed to a thin line while his limbs were trembling and Saki’s entire body was stiff. Both tightened the grip on each other’s hand even more. Saki tried her best not to start crying on the spot but when she heard a sob coming from next to her, she turned her head, seeing how her brother, Tsukasa, was crying waterfalls. He couldn’t hold back anymore. He hid his face behind his hand, muffled sobs being the proof of his emotions overflowing. Seeing the star fragile like that made Saki lose the fight against the tears and she pulled her dear brother into a tight embrace, nuzzling her head into his shoulder. She let all her feelings out.
The Tenma siblings cried their souls out, holding onto each other as if the other is the only thing keeping them from drowning in the sea of their own tears. They didn’t even receive a reply from their parents yet but they were so relieved to have been courageous enough to just tell them. Mr. and Mrs. Tenma who were patiently listening to the two kids were sighing in relief with soft smiles on their faces. They glanced at each other quickly, then got up from the dinner table and stepped to their children.
They hugged the two siblings gently.
“We are so, so extremely proud of you two, Tsukasa, Saki,” their father said with a gentle voice.
“Thank you so much for telling us, my babies. You two are so brave,” their mother thanked them wholeheartedly with her soothing words.
The family stayed like that for a while.
After all, they did not often get the opportunity to enjoy themselves in a long, gentle family embrace, letting all their feelings flow out.
why do you love the way you do? why do you devote your life to others? why do you believe in people so strongly and blindly? why? what led you to be this way? what haven't you told us, as the audience.
the hawthornes (BOTH of them), the feys, edgeworth, trucy, apollo, ema.... so on, so forth. do you owe something to any of these people? what leads you to love them before breathing and put your life and safety in danger for their sake? what leads you to love so, so hard, that you could swallow glass, get hit in the face, tased, whipped, and God knows what else that you went through off screen, just for the people you love? how is it that it's never mentioned, never verbally specified, that it is love, but you show it through every breath.
so why. why do you believe in edgeworth? why did you defend a girl you didn't know until the very end, after her big sister died? why did you stop working once that very girl left your life, after the man you risked so much for committed suicide? why do you hold this poor little girl's hand and let her cry on your shoulder within a day of knowing her? why were you completely willing to do anything a kidnapper told you to do the second you find out your best friend, the most important person in your life, might be in danger? Why, after the man you thought was dead and who left you mourning a loss that never happened comes back, do you forgive and put all your trust in him again? why do you ask him, take my badge, and defend this woman for me. this woman who i'm not even completley sure who she is. this woman who has the same face of the girl i once almost gave up my life for. i believe in you. take my place. why did you run across a burning bridge when you thought your best friend was in danger, again? why, after your entire life falls apart, do you keep yourself alive just to look after a little girl you don't even know? why is love the very first thing you do?
after your life falls apart around you, and you try to repress the love you have inside you, you can't help but clap at your daughter's little magic tricks she's so proud of. you wear the beanie she knits you along with a pin gifted to you by a girl you knew years ago. you see a boy; a boy fresh out of law school, a novice, a rookie with a heart full of love and justice, who's just lost his mentor and life, a boy who's just like how you used to be before everything fell apart. and you just can't help it, you try to hide it, but it's in vain; you stay by his side, you let him be guided by your hand in the same way you were guided before. you don't think about it twice, because you're phoenix wright, and you love even when it hurts you.
is there even a reason behind it? do you just have a heart of gold? do you just have so much love in your heart, you put it over anything else? so much, that you let it be what literally makes you indestructible? or is there more to it? you're not a reliable narrator, we know that much, is there something else that fuels you with love and faith in people? will we ever know?
you're a lost cause, you're a bird that's died and resurrected, you're a strong grip on a hand that leads you, you're the hand that leads others, you're the salvation of the innocent and the not-so-guilty, you're the glue that sticks back together the pieces of broken people, you're a friend, you're a father, a mentor, a student, you're a rival, and an ally
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