Chapter 1- This is where the problems start...

Yuri didn't know when it started, he's never that observant of himself. Maybe it was the day he saw him 5 years ago, maybe it was when he was "kidnapped" back in Barcelona. He didn't care, at least, he thought he didn't. Anyways, the Grand Prix Final was over, he himself got Gold, Pork Cutlet Bowl got Silver, and Phichit got Bronze. JJ was devastated, serves him right, because he's such an asshole. Welp, all that's left now is Viktor and Yuuri's wedding. That was the thought going through his mind when he turned a corner and almost ran into the couple. He quickly ran back before they could see him. Were they, arguing? He just saw Yuuri in tears. "-should be for the best, Viktor" Yuuri said. "Yuuri, please you know that this is what you wanted" Viktor said holding back tears. "I know, but everyone will only hate me more if I do say yes" He's right, Yuri thought.

"He does have a point" a voice said behind him, and it took all of Yuri to not scream and it turned out to be Otabek. "What're you doing here?" Yuri whispered. "Looking to congratulate you" he responded. The thought made him blush and he turned his head. "Thanks… I guess" Yuri mumbled. Otabek grabbed his wrist and dragged him to where the group of Yuri's Angels were. Yuri struggled, but he couldn't get out of the strong man's grip. Then, out of nowhere he got yanked away before the fangirls could seem him and they were in a bathroom. Then, suddenly he was in an embrace. His face was as red as a beet. "Wha-what are you doing?" he stammered. "I'm hugging you" Otabek said like it was obvious, "the question is why you aren't pulling away? Are you actually a tsundere?" Yuri felt embarrassment to the core and immediately started screaming and denying it. "Oh, so you are" Otabek responded. And Yuri couldn't say anything else and he just kept staring at him. He didn't know how many minutes passed because he started to hear a familiar voice outside yell, "YURIO? WHEREFORE ART THOU YURIO?" It was Minako-san.

Oh, he forgot about the banquet. "I gotta go" Yuri said, and Otabek looked like he wanted to say something, but he just nodded and let him leave.

Well, for starters, the banquet WAS F*CKING BORING THIS YEAR. NOTHING HAPPENED. YUURI DIDN'T EVEN GO NEAR ALCOHOL! Which was a bummer because (and he will never admit this out loud) he actually enjoyed the dance off last year. He noticed that Viktor and Pork Cutlet Bowl were keeping their relative distance from each other and their rings were gone, but no one said anything. Yuri himself just stood in a corner by himself, talking to no one. He didn't enjoy being alone, he just didn't mind it, but he does get lonely like most people.

For example, today, Otabek was at the other end of the party room, talking to Chris. He was without friends, so it was just him and his thoughts. He threw away his cup of some carbonated yellow liquid, that he actually enjoyed and went to the bathroom. At least it wasn't noisy in there. He jumped so that his butt reached the counter next to the sinks and laid there, not caring if his suit got wet or anything. After several minutes he heard the door open and he sat up, it was Otabek. Why does he keep ending up alone with him. Well, it's not like he minded it or anything. He was actually kind of glad they were alone, then he slapped himself twice to get those thoughts out of his head. If any of them were right, he wouldn't be able to go back to Russia. He wished he was like Viktor, he didn't care, nor did most of Russia, but they all felt uneasy just not disturbed enough to bully him over it.

But if it was Yuri himself, there might be backlash, Yakov and Lilia might stop coaching him. Otabek approached him and hugged him, Yuri didn't realize he had a look of terror on his face until after he felt his face relax. "What's wrong, Yuri?" the man asked. Then, without even meaning to, Yuri started to cry. Otabek started to rub his back as if to calm him down. He just wanted to melt into him and disappear forever. Why did it have to be him? Why couldn't he have fallen in love with Mila or something? Sala? Even Yuko-san would have been fine. "It's ok, it'll be ok" Otabek said. "No it won't," he said in between sobs. After 2 minutes, he calmed down a bit. "Now tell me the problem" the man responded. "I think I'm" -he took a deep breath-"in love with you" he whispered. Otabek raised an eyebrow. "You were planning to tell me this when?" Yuri just blushed. "I can't go back to Russia" was all he said. "Then come to Kazakhstan with me" Otabek said. Yuri felt like he was gonna cry again, but held back. "I can't do that either"

"And why not?"

"Because, I don't know that country"

"Then let's move to Japan"

"Ew, I don't want to be anywhere near that Pig and Viktor"

"America?"

"Meh, too boring"

"Then where do you suggest we go?" Otabek said. "Let's decide when this is over then" Yuri responded. He suddenly felt sleepy. "Do you want to go back to the hotel?" Yuri yawned as a response. They somehow managed to sneak out without anyone knowing. Yuri threw himself onto his bed and laid there, suddenly not being able to sleep. He stood up and went to go to the bathroom and was met face to face with a shirtless Otabek. He immediately slammed the door shut. "If you want to take a bath just say so" he heard him say. Yuri could not go back in there without blushing.

"Can I?" he asked. "Sure come in, I don't care" Yuri decided it was a good time to man up, so he stripped and went inside. And without focusing too much on Otabek, he got into the giant bathtub. If he had to be honest, he missed the Pig's hot spring. "How does it feel?" Yuri was interrupted from his thoughts. "Huh?" he said. "I meant how does it feel to win Gold for your Senior Debut?" Otabek said.

"Oh, it doesn't feel special to be honest" Yuri felt like melting into a pool of water. WHY DOES BEING IN THIS MAN'S PRESENCE MAKE HIS MIND TO TURN TO MUSH!? He realized too late that he had indeed said this out loud, Otabek was grinning slightly. While pointing at him, Yurio screamed,"YOU THINK I'M A ROMANCE FREAK DON'T YOU" Yuri stood up and yelled, which was a mistake because he then proceeded to slip and fall forward. Otabek stood up and caught him before Yuri could cause damage to himself.

"You should be careful, Yuri" Otabek said. Yuri felt his stomach brush a certain appendage, and covered his mouth and gave a muffled gasp. "What's wrong?" Otabek asked, and Yuri swallowed his fear and said, "Nothing, I'm ok" "Are you sure?" Otabek sounded concerned. Then, there was knock from the hotel door. "I'll get it" Yuri said and grabbed his tiger print bathrobe. He opened the door, it was Phichit.

"Здравствуйте Yuri!" he said.

"What do you want?" Yuri responded angrily. "I was just wondering if you've seen Yuuri?" Phichit said without breaking smile. "No, why do you ask?" Phichit's expression changed into that of concern. "Well, he got into an argument with Viktor and ran off in the direction of the hotel, so we thought you might've seen him" Yuri didn't know what to say. "Wait, how did you know we were here?" Yuri asked first. "Oh, I saw you and Otabek leave, but don't worry no one else noticed" he said smiling again. "Um, ok. Have you tried the roof?" Yuri said.

"Oh true! He does like to go places where no one else does. And it was weird that he was the only one with roof access" Phichit said, "BYE YURI" Yuri slammed the door closed, mad that it took precious time away from his alone time with Otabek. He slapped himself again. He took off the robe and went back into the bathroom, only to discover it was filled with bubbles.

"OTABEK WHAT DID YOU DO?" Yuri yelled. "Oh, I was wondering what a bubble bath was when I read the bottle, and the instructions told me to pour 2 tablespoons per cubic centimeter. Yuri managed to somehow not slip on all the bubbles and snatched the medium sized bottle away from him. He read the instructions. "Beka, you should be glad I love or I would have killed you. The bottle says half a tablespoon you illiterate f*ck," Yuri said facepalming.

"Come into the bath, it smells like roses" Otabek said, "wait, where did Beka come from?" Yuri instantly turned red. "SHUT UP" he yelled on he got into the bath. After sitting in the bath for about 20 minutes, Otabek finally said, "Do you want to get out? You're gonna start pruning" Yuri just sunk completely underwater. Then forgot there was still soap in it and regretted opening his eyes. This day was going horribly, so he decided to cut his bath short and rinsed his hair, or at least tried to. He couldn't get some of the soap out, so Otabek asked if he could help. "Sure, knock yourself out" Otabek spent about 4 minutes working Yuri's hair around and by the time he was done, his neck hurt. After this little episode, he and Beka rinsed their bodies completely and went to bed.

At exactly 2 am, he woke up in a cold sweat because of a nightmare. He dreamed that his grandpa, his only family, left him. Otabek was reading a book, gee, talk about convenient. "Are you ok?" Beka said closing his book. Yuri was still trying to recover, so he didn't bother responding. Otabek got off his bed and got on Yuri's. He embraced him and surprisingly Yuri felt like he was calming down. He looked up and saw that Otabek was staring back at him. Then, it was the moment of truth, he might as well do this now. He sat up, so that they were eye level, and their lips connected. Yuri felt… odd, he didn't know why, probably because he has never kissed anyone before. It felt nice and he wished he could stay like this forever. His arms started to travel up Beka's back and around his neck.

Beka's arms tightened around him and Yuri felt himself slowly falling backwards to the point where Otabek was on top of him and Yuri was lying on his back. Then, he finally parted from him to breathe. "I was wondering when you were gonna do that" Otabek asked while gasping for breath. "I didn't know when to do this exactly since I've never done this in my life" Yuri responded. Then, with the most horrible timing possible, there was another knock at the door. Yuri quickly got up and went to open the door. This time, it felt urgent, so he kind of ran. When he pulled out the door, this time it was Viktor. "Viktor? What're you - " he started to say, until he saw his expression.

"Oi, what happened?" He has never seen Viktor this devastated in his life. "We can't find him" Viktor said. "What do you mean you can't find him?" Yuri said. "He could've just gone to Japan without tel-" "We called Nishigori-san, Minami-kun, and his mom" Viktor said interrupting him, "he's not in Japan." He heard Otabek walk up behind him. "What's wrong" he asked. "The pig yelled 'wee wee wee' all the way to somewhere" Yuri said quietly. Yuri then kicked the door, what is that Pig doing? Who does he think he is, running away at a time like this? What the f*ck happened between those two to cause all of this. Everyone's is distress, if they find him, Yuri is going to knock him unconscious the first chance he gets. "Where is the last place you saw him?"

They spent the next few hours gathering a list of people who knew Yuuri. Hell, they even called Leo back in the US to see if he went there, but he just apologized and said that he wasn't. "Hey, you can call Guang Hong, he might know" Leo said. Turns out, Leo was wrong because Guang Hong wasn't that good of friends with Yuuri. "Have you talked to Seung-gil, yet?" Guang Hong asked. "The only times those two interacted was that little hugging episode he had back in the Rostelecom Cup and in front of an elevator," Yuri said, slightly annoyed. "Oh, how was I supposed to know that?" Guang Hong protested. Yuri just hung up on him and threw himself on his bed. Where could that sorry excuse for a man be?

Author's Note: Hi, Rhys here and I think this story is starting off horribly because I started writing this on a whim back in December, and now it's 11 pages long on a google document and I betcha my counselors now think I have a problem, but hey I don't care, RHYS OUT!