I don't own Yuri on Ice, just messing around while I have the chance.
Hope you are still enjoying this story. I still don't really know where it's going or whats going to happen.
Chapter Three
Celestino was happy when the flight was over, he had noticed that Yuuri hadn't even tried to sleep on the journey home. Celestino was worried, Yuuri had a blank looked in his eyes. As the people around them started to get out of their seats to disembark the plane. Celestino waited until it was nearly empty before prompting Yuuri to move out of his seat. It took a few moments, but Yuuri got up, grabbing the small carry on luggage he had brought with him. A gift he had gotten for Phichit and something that he wanted to read on the plane.
"Come on Yuuri," Celestino encouraged him as they got off the plane. They made their way through baggage claim and then customs.
Celestino guided the unresponsive skater through the terminals and sighed in relief when he saw Phichit waiting for them. He gave a wave as they stopped for a moment. Yuuri looked down at his feet, embarrassed and ashamed of what had happened. Phichit's eyes filled with worry for his best friend and went over to the two of them.
Yuuri jumped as he felt arms wrap around him. He tried to keep everything in, but it didn't work. Within seconds of Phichit holding him, he was trying to stifle his sobs. He dropped his bag and wrapped shaking arms around his younger friend. "I messed up," he cried softly.
Phichit shook his head, "No, no you didn't Yuuri, something happened and we'll find a way to fix it, just you wait."
"How? How can you Phichit? They didn't want me," he cried, burrowing himself that little bit closer to his best friend. The comfort the other was giving him was dearly wanted and needed.
"We'll think of something," Phichit promise firmly. He didn't want to believe that someone would just sleep with their soulmate and leave them without even talking to them first. He wanted so badly to believe that something had gone wrong, a mistake had happened somewhere and that Yuuri hadn't been abandoned by his newly discovered soulmate.
"Th... thank you," Yuuri sniffed, not wanting to let him go. He didn't care that they were in the middle of the airport. All he wanted to know was that it was going to be all right.
"Come on Yuuri, I know we should have a hugging marathon, but I think we should do that at home," Phichit joked lightly, trying to lighten the mood a little. He knew that Yuuri was going to be feeling devastated. But it would be better if he could hold off the approaching breakdown until they were somewhere private and able to deal with it better.
Yuuri nodded and reluctantly let his friend go. His eyes were red and puffy from his crying, "Okay," he mumbled quietly.
Phichit smiled to him, "Come on, let's get home and then we can veg out in front of the TV and you can tell me what happened properly," he prompted as he picked up Yuuri's bag as the Japanese skate pulled his luggage behind him. Celestino was almost sighing in relief when Phichit was able to get Yuuri moving and talking. There was some brightness back in the normally warm honey brown eyes again.
"Were you able to get the car?" Celestino asked him.
"Yeah, was easy, just told him that you asked Ciao Ciao," Phichit grinned, using their nickname for their coach.
Celestino smiled softly, "That's good."
"Come on, I parked up in short stay. And the clock is ticking!" Phichit grinned, keeping the air between the three of them light. He didn't want to even think about mentioning what had happened again until they were at their apartment.
"All right," Celestino shook his head at the exuberant Thai skater.
Yuuri gave a watery smile as he watched his friend almost bunch out of the airport. A hand clasped in his own. "Thank Phi," he sighed softly.
Phichit turned and grinned at him, "That's what besties are for, and don't you ever forget it Katsuki Yuuri!" he told him, a sternness in his voice that Yuuri would hear occasionally when his thoughts went on the darker side.
"I know," he told him as they quickly walked across the carpark to where Phichit had parked.
"Right, hand over the keys," Celestino said as he held out his hand for them.
Phichit huffed, "But I wanted to drive. I don't get much chance to, you know he doesn't like us borrowing his car unless you asked him to let us?" he whined, giving Celestino the puppy eyes look. Or rather the hamster eyes looked as Phichit liked to call it. He preferred the smaller rodents.
"You know that doesn't work on me. So stop trying," he said with a shake of his head and wiggle of his finger, "Now hand them over and put the luggage away," he told him.
Phichit pouted as he handed over the keys, "So mean Ciao ciao."
"Yes, yes mean Mr Calidini," he rolled his eyes at the normal insult when he was pushing the two of them to practice more.
Phichit stuck out his tongue, getting a small chuckled from Yuuri. Phichit hid the grin at the noise and then turned to his best friend, "We have to think of a way to get back at him. Maybe put tabasco sauce in his coffee." He staged whispered as he opened the boot.
"We did that last time," Yuuri pointed out.
"I know but it was so funny the last time, we need to get it on film. My followers would love it," Phichit said, thinking of how he would set it all up.
"Well, we could always think of something new?" Yuuri suggested as he helped put in his own case.
"Maybe, we'll have a think about it later," he said as he put in Yuuri's carry on and then closed the boot lid.
Yuuri nodded and the two of them slipped into the backseats, buckling up. "Ready," he said, his mind blocking the thoughts that were trying to push back in.
"Good, let's go home," Celestino said as he began to drive out of the carpark. "How were things at the rink?" he asked Phichit, he had left the club in the capable hands of the other coach.
"It went fine. Morris is having trouble with the triple toe loop again. He keeps falling. Though Jessy is doing well. She's enjoying learning a new jump. Adam thinks that she would be ready for Juniors soon," he said going over the two other students that Celestino helped at the rink.
"That's good. I know Pepper wants to take on a new Junior, I'm going to suggest Jessy for her," he said, nodding slightly as he pulled out into the traffic.
Celestino asked about a few of the other skaters in the rink before trying to get which it to answer about his own training that he had been or rather supposed to have done while Yuuri and he were at the Grand Prix final.
"I've done fine, going over the routines I need," he said brightly.
"Good," he said as he then looked to Yuuri, who was now watching the scenery go past.
Phichit caught his eye and shook his head, making sure his coach knew not to bring up skating for him just yet. He looked over to Yuuri, the older skater was becoming lost in his thoughts again. Phichit knew he had to bring him out of it, "Hey Yuuri, want to watch The King and The Skater with me?" he asked brightly.
Yuuri blinked, jumped slightly as he turned and looked at Phichit, "Sorry?"
"I want to know if you want to watch The King and The Skater with me?" he asked again, looking eager at the prospect.
"Erm, yeah, sure," he nodded.
"Good, we should see about getting a little junk food in," Phichit said, excited at the prospect.
"No junk food," Celestino warned them.
"But Ciao ciao!" Phichit whined, "You need to let us have a little bit, please," he begged his coach to relax the rules.
"No."
"Please!"
"No Phichit," he argued back.
"Please, please coach, don't be mean again," he whined back.
The two of them heard a quiet giggle coming from Yuuri.
"Fine, and you'll both be working hard for the next week because of it. You know I don't like you having cheat days during the lead up to any competition," he told the two of them as he pulled into the parking space near Yuuri and Phichit's apartment building.
"Thanks, Ciao Ciao," Phichit grinned as the car came to a full stop. He undid his belt and jumped out of the car. he went straight to the boot and opened it up as Yuuri slowly got out.
Celestino did the same, "I'm not going to come up. I'll leave the two of you alone," he said, a shake of his head as Phichit was already talking about the prospect of a The King and The Skater and maybe watching the sequel as well.
"Thank you for bringing us back home Celestino," Yuuri said softly as he thanked his coach.
"Welcome Yuuri, take a couple of days and then come back to the rink, and try not to let Phichit corrupt you too much with junk food and that film," he joked good-naturedly.
Yuuri smiled at him as he went to help Phichit at the back of the car. getting out the carry-on. The two watched and waved as Celestino drove out of sight.
"Right, let's go," Phichit said as he headed to the front door and went inside. Yuuri followed him to the lift and got inside. They lived on the fourth floor of the building, a nice two bedroom apartment that Celestino had organised for the two of them almost two years of Yuuri living in the university dorms.
Phichit unlocked the door and left Yuuri case beside the door for now as he watched Yuuri walked inside. The Japanese skater stood there as his mind started to crash in on him once again. The Thai skater sighed softly and went over to him, making sure to close the door to their apartment first. He wrapped his arms around his best friend and waited for Yuuri to start talking.
"I... I woke up and they weren't there Phi," he said softly, as tears began to form in his eyes once more. He didn't say anything as he waited for Yuuri to carry on, "What did I do wrong?" he asked, needing an answer, but unsure if he would even get one.
"Oh Yuuri, you have done nothing wrong. Maybe something happened and they had to go or something," Phichit said, trying to think of why this mysterious Soulmate would leave his best friend. His cinnamon roll best friend.
Yuuri broke away and turned, anger and hurt burning in his tearful brown eyes, "I must have done something Phichit. I had to have done. Why would they go and not tell me, or leave a note or... or something!" he yelled.
Phichit didn't react to the yelling, he just waited as Yuuri yelled the same thing over and over a few times. He watched pain in his eyes and concern and worry lining every part of his body. He waited and there it was, the bit he dreaded. Yuuri collapsed to the ground, his yelling over with and the tears falling rapidly as he sobbed out his pain.
"Yuuri," he whispered as he walked over and fell to the floor wrapping his arms and pulling Yuuri towards him. "We will figure all this out, and we'll find whoever it is that was with you. And I'll make them pay for hurting my best friend with everything that I am," he promised as he rocked Yuuri back and forth, letting him cry.
"Phi, I failed. I failed everything. I failed at skating, I failed at even being able to keep my soulmate interested in me other than... than in bed," he sobbed brokenly.
Phichit held him, waiting for the tears to start to slow, "It's all right. I'm right here and I'm not going anywhere. And Yuuri, you didn't fail at anything. You had some really bad news and you were hurting from that. Even I would be the same if I learned that one of my babies had died. I wouldn't have even tried to skate. You did and you still did great even with all that going on," he said as he addressed the first thing that Yuuri mentioned.
"But I still failed at keeping my soulmate. They have rejected me," he said, sniffing.
"You don't know that until you have talked to them. You have to wait until you have talked to them all right," Phichit said, almost panicked over the thought of Yuuri believing that he had been rejected. He knew what happened to those that had been rejected. His Uncle had died because he had been rejected by his soulmate. It didn't happen often.
"How would I be able to talk to them Phichit?" Yuuri asked, "I don't even know who they are?" he said, shaking again as he thought of being such an idiot at the banquet. He didn't even remember what had happened.
"We'll find out, we know the people that were there. They are all skaters, coaches and those involved, and we know that their eye colour would be blue," he said as he remembered the colour of Yuuri's mixed soulmate mark.
"Do," he began his voice sounded young and small as he asked, "Do you think we will be able to find them and find out what I did?"
"Of course we will. We'll make sure that we know what happened and why they left you alone," Phichit reassured him.
Yuuri just nodded, feeling drained and tired. Phichit sighed, "Come on, I think you should just get ready for bed. I know it's early, but have a small sleep and then we'll think of a game plan on finding this mysterious soulmate," he said as he stood up and slowly pulled Yuuri to his feet.
Yuuri just nodded and the two of them made their way to Yuuri's room. Phichit left Yuuri to change as he went and did the same in his own room. He walked back into the room to already see Yuuri in his bed. Phichit smiled as he climbed in as well.
"Sleep well Yuuri," he said as he brought Yuuri closer and held him, he was crying softly. Phichit soothed him softly whispering words of encouragement, saying that they will find out who it was and then work things out. Phichit was determined to find out who it could be. He didn't want to lose his best friend like he had lost his uncle after he had met his own soulmate. Slowly he felt Yuuri fall asleep and his quieted his voice. He didn't fall asleep as he started going over who it might be. There wouldn't be a long list, hopefully.
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