A/N : Hello, guys! So, this my first try making a fanfiction. And this time I'm making a fanfic from Free! Well, the focus of the story is the pairing of my Original Character and Sousuke Yamazaki. Well, the reason is, Sousuke needs so much love and I don't feel he got that much in the main story. Quite a silly reason for me, but it just that I love him so much.

A little bit of warning though, this story is YAOI or BOYxBOY. If you don't like reading any of that, I suggest you leave now.

Alright, the rating might be changed to M. But for now, I set it to T. I hope you guys enjoy reading this!

Disclaimer : I don't own Free! and its' characters. I only own my OC.

CHAPTER 1

Kai Roberts, borned biracial in the United States. My father, Kenneth Roberts was from US and my mother, Sayaka Suzumiya, was from Japan. Living a daily life as biracial person was not that hard. But, living with a certain talent, made you believe that life would be that harsh, the world would treat you that harsh. It took me several realizations to understand that.

When I was 6 years old, I found out a collection of tapes of my mother as a professional figure skater. Sayaka Suzumiya. She was called The Fairy in Ice. She got that on the times she was active with figure skating. I watched every single tape of her performing and her moves were fluid, elegant, and powerful. When she moves her hands, it looked like she was casting a spell and made us fell in love with her. I couldn't count how many times my jaw dropped after her performances ended. How I wished I could do figure skating as well as Mother.

I watched those tapes for so many times, for several days. Mother eventually found out that I was secretly watching her tape. Not that she was open on the fact that she was a figure skater. She wasn't angry when she found out. She joined me, to my shock, watching one of her performances with me. She hummed to the music that played and I thought she was reminiscing when she was on the ice rink. When the tape ended, my mother let out a small sigh, but I was clapping and praising her.

"Mother, you were really awesome! And you were also really beautiful and flawless, like a princess!" Mother laughed at my comment,

"What about now? Am I still awesome, beautiful, and flawless like back then?" Mother asked.

"You're always awesome, beautiful, and flawless!" I giggled and then Mother patted my head.

"Thank you, sweet pea. Let's go eat dinner, shall we? Father should be coming home soon." Mother said. "'Kay 'kay!" I walked towards the door but then Mother called me so I stopped on my tracks.

"Sweet pea? Will you do me one favor?" I looked at her with a confused face. "Never, watch these tapes again." Mother said with a very stern face. The face that always shows if she was angry.

"B-But, why?" I asked her. "Just, don't. Please, sweet pea." Mother told me, her face turned into a worried one.

"B-But, I really want to try what you did, Mother. And one day, I want to ask you to teach me how to figure skate." Mother closed her eyes and squeezed her nose bridge. "I knew that someday this would happen."

Mother whispered to herself and then she looked at me again. "Are you really sure you want to this?" Mother asked firmly. "…Yes. I really want to try, Mother." I looked at her eyes to show her my determination.

After a while, Mother sighed again. "Alright then. I will teach you to figure skate. I should let your father know." My mother's decision put a cheerful smile on my face and then I ran to hug my hand. "Thank you, thank you, thank you so much, Mother!" She hugged me back, "Yes, yes, you're welcome, sweetpea. Now, let's eat dinner. Your father should come home very soon."

When my father came home, we enjoyed dinner while Mother told him about me trying to do figure skating. His face was first surprised and then he was laughing, finally he turned really serious. Father and Mother did take figure skating as a serious sport. They did not take it lightly. My mother explained to me this and that, a literal 101 for figure skating. The next morning, my mother and I went to an ice skating rink. She taught me all the basic skills, the posture, and many other things. I always had the drive to learn faster, but my mother always told me to keep one at a time. We always had training together about 1-2 hours a week. And sometimes, my mother let me practice myself so I could know my current ability and what to improve. My mother just gave me practical advices, more like, how should I feel when I do this move, and so on.

After 2 years of training and experienced how it felt to be a figure skater, it was a tough road. And because of that, I couldn't help but to extend my training regime. My mother wasn't kidding on how painful it is if you had an accident. Well, it's not that I had a terrible accident or some sort. Sometimes I fell and it was not a good sensation, of course. Everytime I fell, I realized right after that I did something wrong. Mother always told me, if I practiced jumps and then repeatedly fall, then I've been doing nothing but practicing myself to only fall. 3 years after that, I'd been stabilizing and refining my skating skills. Figure skating is not just a sport. It's a sport with artistic side. So, while I was practicing my skills, my mother also invited some of her friends to help incorporated my moves with music.

Another 2 years had passed, and I was old enough to enter the junior championship. To be honest, I was really afraid. The pressure of showing your skills in front of many people and a set of judges were scaring me out.

"Kai, sweet pea, I know you've been telling you want to do figure skating just for fun. And I know well that this is where you can get as much freedom as you can. But, won't you try once for a championship?" My mother asked me gently.

"It's little bit challenging and intimidating than the usual, but you'll find more fun when people are praising you." I was a little unconvinced because I was still afraid and regarding how intorverted I was, I just afraid to do anything in front of many people.

"Okay, I'll promise you, after the championship, if you're not feeling that a championship is not your thing, you can stop. I won't push you any further than this. How about it?" After few moments of thinking and reconsidering, I said yes.

"I'll give it a try. Hopefully, I won't embarrass my self." I said. "You won't. I believe in your skills. Besides, doing this will help you finish that promise list of yours, right? You wrote that you want to be less introverted."

She was right at that point. "Alright, mother. You got me. Let's just get on with preparing for the championship. I need to be able to do triple jumps." Mother just laughed it off like she doubted I would learn that any time soon.

About several weeks of preparing for the championship, I tried really hard. My mother and I already discussed what should I do for both my short program and free skating program, and we decided to not do anything extreme, but not standard either. The day of the championship, I was really nervous, both my mother and my father had been nothing but supporting me. Although, it's not a championship to qualify skaters who can compete to nationals, I was still feeling nervous. My tummy was churned because of it.

"Kai, you'll be fine. Just remember what we had practiced. Remember that this ice rink is your palace and you decide what you want to do in it."

I took a deep breath and released it. I turned my head to see the crowds. It's not many, but it's still intimidating. Then, I saw my father in the supporter seat, waving two small flags, vigorously, with his both hands. And there was a big "K" written on the flag. I smiled at Father. He's always been a sweet person. No wonder Mother fell for him.

My short program went without a hitch, I scored myself a pretty good score, and I was placed second at the moment.

"It's almost your turn. Remember the routine, sweetpea. Goodluck." My mother hugged me. "Thank you, Mother."

After the skater before me finished, it's my turn to perform the free skating session. I skated to the middle of the rink. I pull my legs a little bit apart from each other, lifting my left hand up and then my right hand only until the middle of it. When the music started, I began my step sequence, following the classic music beat. I thought of this routine as me getting to know my castle. I moved my hands as graceful as I can, remembering how my mother did it when she was still figure skating. I began spinning as I thought that this castle of mine was so enormous and I could do anything in here. But, I felt that I was still trapped. I needed my castle to take my colours. So, I did my jump as if I was spreading my colours to my castle. Then, I did my combination of jumps too add more colours. I felt that I was happy enough that I could put a life to my castle. I skated around again to delve further into my castle. I laid my back while I skated to feel the happiness and warm of my castle. I returned to my normal stance as I felt that one part of my castle was not complete. I sensed something horrible and I couldn't let that tainted my castle. I skated towards the disturbing part and it was indeed a troubling feel. I jumped and I spinned as the troubling feeling tried to make me wear its colours. When I was safe enough, I gained my composure and started to do my best scratch spin. I was starting steady and soon enough I gained speed that I spinned really fast as if I was spreading my colours rapidly. And finally, the troubling feeling disappeared. My castle was finally complete.

After I pushed myself back to the reality, I was met with huge round of applause. It wasn't this many after I finished my short program, but I was glad that they liked this more. I bowed to them and then I went out from the ice rink.

"You did it, Kai!" My mother immediately hugged me. "I'm so proud of you! Your performance was outstanding!" This proud feeling just washed over me and I couldn't feel happier for myself.

"Really, Mother?" My mother nodded to me and then she led me so I could see the final score.

"The scores please." The announcer said. "Kai Roberts has earned in the free skating, 149.65." The crowd started to cheer and I was gawking at the score because to me it was quite high.

"And the total score is…224.83! Kai Roberts is in the first place."

My thought was going everywhere, trying to comprehend that I won first place. My very first gold medal. My mother hugged me from me side and then I turned to her.

"Kai! Sweetpea! I am so proud of you. You're just beyond amazing." I hugged my mother back and after that I stood up and bowed to everyone in the stadium.

Father ran to me afterwards and then he hugged me tight, lifting me then spinning around. "My boy is taking over the center stage! Oh, I'm so so proud of you, sweet pea." I laughed from the sensation and after a while my father put me down.

"After this, we're going to celebrate, okay? You deserved it." Then, I was given my first gold medal and I held it with pride as many photographers took pictures from the gold, silver, and bronze medalists. Father took me to a fancy sushi restaurant that I always liked and we ate so happily there.

"Kai, now that you have tasted how it is to compete in the championship and even won your very first gold medal, how do you feel right now? Still want to continue? Remember, I still hold my promise."

I thought that figure skating was a sport that I really like. I love it so much. Doing this had been nothing but fun and invigorating. Feeling the new sensation when I competed in the championship, it made me just want to explore more. I want to be more skilled in this. I want to be more special.

"I want to continue, Mother. I think I'm ready for this adventure." My mother responded with her most gentle smile and my father did too.

"Alright then. You can depend on me to make you the greatest figure skater out there." My mother said. But then, her face turned into a frown, and she was glancing to the other way, as if she was trying to remember something.

"What is it, Mother?" My mother finally looked at me in the eyes.

"I've been trying…I mean…I really wanted to tell you, why did I retire from being a figure skater." I gasped shortly and I saw my father eyes went wide. "H-Honey, if you still uncomfortable-" My mother put her hand on his. "It's okay, darling. I'm ready." Then she turned again at me.

"Well, it happened when I was still quite young. Maybe when I was in the mid to late twenties. My career as a professional figure skater was still sky rocketing. It's beyond me that my career would go that high. But, I kept going because figure skating was my passion. I was at a national championship one time, and it was in US. That's when I met your father. He was one of my fans that have guts to approach me. We, communicate to each other soon after, to stop him for screaming out my name too loud in front of many people in the city. We talked and we found many similarities between us. There's still one week before the championship started and I was staying at one hotel. We… Well, I admit we were too hasty so I invited him to my room. And we spent one night together. You must not know the details until you're older enough. And in that hotel, I was staying with the other competitors, including my rival. Ugh, saying her name would make me sick, so I won't say it. Few days later, I realised that I'm not feeling well. I suddenly wanted to throw up and I was worried if I were pregnant. So, I called your father. Thankfully, he's still responsible for his actions, so he quickly decided to meet me in the hotel. We wanted to make sure, so I did a pregnancy test. I went into the bathroom nearby in the lobby and did it. And the result was suprisingly positive. I panicked of course, what should I do? Obaa-chan and Ojii-chan really hate it if I were pregnant before I'm even married. I prepared myself to how should I bring the news to your father. I came out and tell your father about it. He panicked even more. But then, someone surprised us, which was my rival. Without my knowing, she was recording my panic rumbling that I was pregnant, inside one of the stalls. She recorded me and decided to play dirty, by blackmailing me. I couldn't believe she would do such thing, just for a gold medal. She wanted me to drop out from the championship, then retire and never show up again in the figure skating sport, and in return, the rumor won't spill. I only had time to think until the day before the championship began, and it was only 2 days left. They were two of my most stressful day in my life. She played me well, so I decided to give up my career and return to Japan, then soon, arrange a marriage."

My mother let out a huge sigh and I had mixed feelings. I couldn't believe that such person was even alive and I wished that she experienced an agonizing pain until she's dead. My motivation just went bigger after hearing her, even though my mother couldn't achieve her dream, I wanted to be her dream.

"Your father kept blaming himself, but I kept telling him that it's not, it's our fault. But, I told him to stop saying it because I don't want you to be our mistake. We want you to be our blessing, Kai."

My mother clasped my both hands and her tears dropped from both of her eyes. And so did a tear from my right eye. "I-I will do my best, Mother. I want to reassure you that I'm your greatest blessing."

My mother pulled me into a hug and then my father joined us. I will grow into an amazing figure skater and you will be really proud me, so I thought.

Until I was 15, I joined as many championships as I could. And I managed to achieve 2 gold medals and 1 silver medal. The silver medal I got after the first championship that I joined, and then the next 2 gold medals I got from the next championships. My life as a figure skater was slowly and surely growing into a promising future. I always set a new record for my personal score in every championship that I participated. I also grew to have some competitors who hated me, but acted really friendly just because of the media. Well, me? I liked myself to be neutral. And I was so glad to have some adoring fans. It's cute when I received many gifts from them after I performed. It surprised me that I have many fans when I was at high school. It was just my first year and several girls, from first years to third years, were swarming me. Sure, it gave me some seriously intimidating glares from the eyes of jealous boys. I wouldn't mind in the end. I can deflect all of those stares and still walking alive. But, things went pretty upside down, when I saw something was posted on the news, that I was banned from figure skating sports. I didn't know how to react, to think, or even to breathe anymore. The world around me was already falling down and I hoped the earth could swallow my body right now.

"Kai? Kai?! Kai, what happened?! Your water is spilling over your shirt!"

-To be continued-

A/N : Probably you're wondering why I chose figure skating. Well, I love figure skating since I was a kid. I just find it as the most beautiful sport I ever seen. And, right now I'm just going to show you a little bit of Kai's history. But, since I've been telling you this story with his point of view, it doesn't mean you know everything about him. Many things about him that will be revealed about him in the future chapters.

I hope you like this story and want to keep reading this. I am sorry for any grammatical errors since English is not my mother tongue.

And pleaseeee leave a review! It would be gladly appreciated. See you at the next chapter, amigos! Ciao~