Hi, I'm Yaoi Chen, and I'm one of the many Hawaiian Fire Dancers in Hawaii, but one of the only Chinese ones! As you may have noticed, my name isn't very typical. When my parents first moved here they didn't really understand english, and tried to put my name down as Yahui, but ended up writing Yaoi. Oops!
The first thing I really noticed when we got off the plane was the gorgeous Hawaiian fire dancing. I didn't really know what it was, but I immediately knew I wanted to do it. My parents supported me, and still do, and now here I am! Last year I went to O'Ahu for a competition, but I did pretty badly. Right before the competition my beloved dog, Ala, died, so I had started stress eating, so I wasn't at my top condition, mentally or physically. So now I'm heading back to Kaua'i to spend some time with my family and try to figure out what I want to do now.
When I got off the boat the only person waiting for me was my old instructor, Kamalani, who was waiting with an unnecessary amount of flags and enthusiasm for a failed dancer. As we wander back to my parent's hot spring hotel she complains about how long I've been gone, two years; how much weight I've gained, I'm sorry I gain weight easily; how lackluster my performance was versus the video of me that my lovely friend took of me doing a competitor's routine, excuse my adoration of better dancers than I; how much everyone missed me. When we get to the hotel my mom greets me with a huge hug and shows me to Ala's grave.
I return to a what seems to be a giant lump of fur knocking me down. At first glance it seems like it could have been Ala, but it's so much bigger. Almost like Kona. I chuckle and rub behind the darling's ears. "Mom? Whose dog is this?" I shout back to my mom "I'm not really sure. She came in with a girl, almost looked like that Alana dancer you lov-" I jump up, and race to the baths. It couldn't be, could it? Could Alana Kapena really be here? I slip through the washrooms and nearly crash through the door out to the hot springs. There a tall girl stands up and looks at me through her long hair, extending a hand out as I attempt to stutter out a name "Hello Yaoi, starting today I will be your coach"

Author's Note

So I've been sitting on this for a bit, and I just thought I'd post it now. Presenting:

YAOI ON FIRE
Aka, sort of genderswapped Yuri on Ice with Hawaiian fire dancing instead of ice skating. And excuse the horrible writing, I was attempted to imitate the narrator voice and, well. It didn't go well. And the wonderful sunofhades and hat-one-fanperson are doing some art for it! They also read over it. So here's the first crappy thing of Yaoi on Fire, sort of inspired by this post: post/153533863881/omg-ive-been-laughing-so-much-since-i-saw-this by drawingchallenger on tumblr.

Go check out the artists!
, that_one_fanperson/, /_That_One_Nerd and I've seen the WIPs and their art is AMAZING.

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