I think the only reason that I can dish out these chapters is because Yuri on Ice is just too short. I mean 12 episodes, I can finish them in 4 hours. And that's what I've been doing daily since the show finished. I don't know if it's a curse or not. On one hand I can rewatch the entire season in a couple hours just to finish my chapter, on the other, Yuuri and Victor's love story is just too short.


Chapter 2

Yuuri Katsuki quickly turns into Katsuki Yuuri, as he had been told. Japanese people put their surnames in the front.

Katsuki Yuuri isn't what Victor imagines him to be like. First of all, he is nothing like Yuuri Katsuki, the man who had swept him off his feet during the dance. He is every bit the proper and shy man he portrayed during their airport meeting. Victor wonders how he could have ever thought that Katsuki Yuuri was adopted, he looks and acts every bit like his parents.

Katsuki Yuuri is surprisingly easy to get on with, it's not just because he hasn't said anything about the banquet yet - Victor still fully expects him to drop the bombshell one day. But Katsuki Yuuri is almost timid around him, it's almost startling to see the difference between the two Yuuris he knows, he suppose that's why he had mistaken Katsuki Yuuri as a Junior skater.

He gets embarrassed way too easily, almost too easily that it makes Victor wonder if he's playing hard to get. There is no way that Yuuri Katsuki would blush so easily when he put his hand on his face. There had been more skin contact during the banquet then here.

Katsuki Yuuri takes him out to see Hasetsu (Training, Yuuri says) A date, Victor thinks. He secretly thinks that Yuuri is too careful with his wording. (He could've said they were going to a strip club and Victor would have still gone with him). But he feels slightly put off by the fact that Katsuki Yuuri blushed all shades of red just to extend the invitation.

They end up in the park below the castle. And instead of showing him around like Victor expected him to (Yuuri said he'd show him around Hasetsu), Yuuri just shows him the park and tell him he's free to go round the shops while he trains for a bit. Alone.

Victor nearly pouts.

It was a Tuesday morning, so there were hardly any people walking around. Most of the townspeople milling around were old people and the shopkeepers. It's 9 in the morning, and most of the shops are open even though there are hardly any people around.

"Good morning!" He greeted one of the younger looking owners.

"Victor Nikiforov?" The man clearly recognized him.

"Fan?" He flashed his thousand watt smile, "Picture?"

The guy shakes his head without hesitation, Victor wondered if all Japanese people acted like this. Or was it only the ones he met?

"Katsuki kun need more than me." He pointed to Yuuri who is sitting on the bench, "Fan for a long time."

Victor turned his head back to look at Yuuri. Yuuri...if Yuuri was a fan, he hardly fitted in his definition of one.

Sure, Yuuri did blush a lot around him, and he did look up to him almost reverently. However Yuuri was also the one who had danced with him half naked and asked Victor to be his coach.

How did the guy see Yuuri as a fan, while he - Victor Nikiforov couldn't make head or tails of the same guy?

He thanked the guy for that small tidbit of information, and goes back to Yuuri.

Yuuri was exercising next to one of those trees with pink flowers.

"Cherry blossoms," Yuuri tells him when he asks, "We call them Sakura."

Yuuri didn't seem to mind his intrusion and merely scoots over to allow him a seat on the bench. Victor watched Yuuri swing his legs, up and down, up and down.

The steady rhythm seemed to lull the both of them into a comfortable silence until Victor thinks of something again.

"Do you have feelings for Minako?"

When Victor had first met her, he realized she was pretty and friendly with Yuuri. Almost too friendly.

"What? No!" Yuuri flushed, and Victor narrowed his eyes minutely before his face smoothed over. Had Yuuri been thinking about Minako? He would have to ask him about that later, under the guise of coach and student of course.

"Do you have a lover?"

He had better not have one.

"No."

"Ex-lovers then?"

That was important too, Victor wanted to know who Yuuri had liked before. Why Yuuri had left them and chose him.

"N-no comment."

"Let's talk about me then!" Victor jumped at the opportunity, pleased that he finally got a chance to get Yuuri jealous and make his move, "My first lover was -"

"Stop!"

Victor paused and took a look at Yuuri. Even though his face was beetroot red, his brown eyes were alight with a foreign emotion. Was Yuuri actually serious? Did he really not want to talk about them, but instead focus on skating?

Victor does pouts then, what a killjoy. Yuuri was no fun, Victor can't even hold a proper conversation with him before he starts blushing. Where was all that courage that had prompt him to coach him?

So Victor changes the topic. He had noticed the castle when they first dropped by the Ice Castle. It was a surprise to see this historical monument in the middle of a town like this without any tourists milling around.

He chuckles when Yuuri tells him it's a Ninja House in all seriousness, Yuuri looking like an adorable child is something new to him too.

His train of thoughts stops abruptly when he finally processed what Yuuri said.

"Really? Ninja?"

He lets Yuuri take the picture of himself and Makkachin and post it on instagram, he can't wait until the likes starts pouring in. Ninja houses in Japan! He should've came to Hasetsu earlier if he had known of it before.

Posting the photo probably wasn't a smart move on his part (but he had been really excited) as the Russian Yuri arrives amidst the flurry of reporters and fans that had figured out where his photos had been taken.

The young skater had demanded that he return to Russia. Apparently Victor had promised to choreograph a routine for him if he won the World Championships, and Victor had forgotten all about it.

Which wasn't all that surprising.

Victor knows he is a forgetful man, god knows how many times Yakov and told him that. He could remember few promises that he had made and fewer promises that he had actually kept. The one Yuuri Katsuki had extracted from him was the only one that he remembered and kept on his own violation.

Victor knows that promises are important, he sees that in Yuri Plisetsky's eyes, he can also see it in Yuuri Katsuki's eyes. That's why he can't abandon either one of them just to satisfy the other.

Agape and Eros. His last choreography for his last season. He may not be competing this year, but he still wants to see it on the ice. To see his love for the ice performed by the two rising stars.

Yuri stays here in Utopia Kastuki and Yuuri's sister - Mari so graciously bestows the name Yurio upon the Russian skater, which honestly saves him from the headaches he could potentially get from trying to distinguish the two Yuris from each other.

So Victor agrees to the name Yurio and smiles angelically when the young boy blows up on him, it wasn't as if he had fun seeing him distraught.

Okay, that was a lie. But life was a lot easier now that one of them was called Yuuri, the other Yurio.

Victor Nikiforov is not a vindictive man, if he did say so himself. He didn't give Yuuri Eros and Yurio Agape just so he could laugh at their discomfort (Yuuri had been rejecting him ever since he came here, and Yurio had the nerve to interrupt his and Yuuri's budding relationship). But really, Yuuri should have expected that he would be given Eros, given his sensualized dancing a year ago, and he could hardly give a 15 year old child Eros right?

Still, Victor can't say he hasn't thought that skating to Eros will help in showing Yuuri's own eros. He knows that it's deep inside him, he's just been too shy and conscious to let it through. Victor can't wait until he sees the Yuuri Katsuki again.

"Both of you are my fans right?" Victor tries what he has learnt from the shop owner. The reaction is immediate, Yurio immediately scowls and accepts his challenges.

"If I win, Victor you come back to Russia and be my coach."

Yuuri…

Yuuri stays quiet.

"Yuuri, what do you want if you win?" Victor prompts.

"Katsudon. I want to eat Katsudon with you, Victor."

"Huh?"

"I want to keep on winning and continue eating Katsudon with you. That's why I'll skate to Eros."

With you, Yuuri said.

Yuuri wants to eat Katsudon with him. Victor's eyes widened and a smile big enough to split his face appeared.

With him.

"I'll skate with all the Eros I've got!" Yuuri declares and Victor smiles even more when Yuuri's puffed up chest and upturned face does paint him as an adorable piglet.

A magic spell to turn a little piggy into a prince. Victor wishes it was that simple.


The next few chapters might be out next week. I have surprisingly less free time during weekdays despite only taking four classes. And writing these chapters really takes a lot out of me.