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Chapter Five: Yurio, The Stable Boy

So far a week had passed and Yuuri's feelings began to grow for the Ice Prince. True, he didn't have an idea of what the feeling could be, but he knew that it was very strong. And also Yuuri had finally gotten better at skating on the ice. He couldn't do flips or jumps just yet, but he could do gliding and a few little tricks like that.

One day, Yuuri had finished a twirling part on the ice. Once he was done, he stopped and panted in front of Viktor. He had done the turns about ten times, but wanted to make sure that they were excellent. "How was that, Viktor?" He asked the ice prince.

Viktor applauded his student with a smile. "Honestly, I thought that it was very beautiful. You can take a break now, Yuuri. You look like you may faint." He said and held out the basket of food that Yuuri had brought.

The raven haired male chuckled softly before gliding off of the ice and sitting beside the prince, pulling out some small sandwiches. "Sorry that I wanted to do it over again. I just want to get it right, I want to be good!"

"I understand that." Viktor said kindly, eating one of the sandwiches, "But tell me, how did you know that you wanted to ice skate?"

Yuuri gave a shy smile. "Oh, well... I kinda read about it in a book. There were so many pictures of people ice skating that I thought it looked so much fun! I wanted to see if I could copy it, but I didn't have a lot of confidence in myself to get myself onto the ice or do tricks."

"Well, a book can only do so much for you. You must actually do something in order to learn it." Viktor said wisely, taking a sip of water from a carrier in the basket.

"But, if I may ask, how did you know that you were so good at ice skating though? I mean, from the book it said that you were born with that talent." Yuuri said, remembering the book about the prince.

"Oh well, I wasn't actually born with that talent. No one is born with any type of talent. They must learn how to be good at that talent first before seeing if the can do it well." Viktor said before thinking, "Well, I suppose my mother taught me first. I remember being so shaky that my mother's hands would shake too."

"Your mother? You mean Queen Anastasia?" Yuuri asked, remember the two royals that once ruled; Queen Anastasia and King Vladimir, the most famous and kindest royals Hasetsu ever had.

Viktor nodded. "The one and only. I remember how kind she was and how beautiful she was too. She was the only person in my castle that would make me eat my vegetables!"

The two boys laughed at that. "Well, my mother is pretty important to me too. She's the only person who ever actually believed that I could skate and have confidence." Yuuri explained with a smile.

Viktor sighed out gently and looked down at the snow. "I... I miss my mother, Yuuri."

Yuuri couldn't help but feel bad for the prince. There he was all happy and kind to everyone, even though he lost his family because of an envious wizard. Not thinking about what he was doing, he took Viktor's hand and gave it a squeeze. "I'm sure that wherever your mother is, she's watching out for you and smiling down on how far you've come." The peasant said honestly.

Viktor looked down at their hands and gave a kind and happy smile. His face burned and turned a bit red. "How did I get so lucky to meet you, Yuuri?"

"When I saw you dancing on the ice..." Yuuri said honestly, feeling himself lean into Viktor as the Ice Prince did the same. He didn't know what he was doing, but he wanted this to happen. Just a bit closer and...

"VIKTOR!" The two men jumped at the sound of someone screaming Viktor's name. The two men looked around until they found a short blonde hair boy with piercing green eyes, a red and blue coat, long black pants, and black boots.

"Yurio?" Viktor gasped and stood up, running towards the other male and giving him a rift embrace. "You're here! I've missed you!"

The blonde boy, Yurio, growled and shoved Viktor off of him. "Cut the "I missed you" bullshit! Where the hell have you been?! Do you realize how much we have been worried about you?!" He yelled at the ice prince.

However, while he was getting yelled at, Viktor kept a cool head. "Well, no offense, but I got tired of staying in there like a secret, Yurio."

"You were only staying there because you-" Yurio then noticed Yuuri, who stood there in confusion as to what was going on, "Who's this guy?"

"Oh! Yurio, this is my new friend and student, Yuuri Katsuki. I'm going to be teaching him how to ice skate." Viktor introduced, "Yuuri, this is Yuri Prisezki, one of my friends and a stable boy. But I call him Yurio."

Yurio took offense to that. "I'm not going to be a stable boy for long, you know!"

"Calm down, Yurio. Anyway, he's one of the adopted children Yakov has." The Ice Prince explained.

"Oh. Well, it's nice to meet you." Yuuri said with a king smile before holding out his hand to Yurio.

Yurio looked at Yuuri's hand like it was a rat. He then ignored it before looking at Viktor again. "Anyway, you're coming back with me! We're going back to Yakov and you are going-"

"No." Viktor said in an assertive voice, which shocked both Yuuri and Yurio. "I'm sorry, Yurio. But I will not leave until I finished teaching Yuuri everything that I know. I want to help him and..." He leaned down to Yurio's ear and whispered, "I think he might be the one."

Yurio gasped; This little piggy was the one who could break Viktor's spell? He scowled and looked away. "Fine... You can stay here with him."

Yuuri gasped happily. At first he had been afraid that Viktor would be taken away, but now he wouldn't since they had Yurio's blessing. "Oh, thank you so much, I promise that-"

"That doesn't mean I'm leaving! I'll be staying here to keep an eye on Viktor!" Yurio grumbled before picking up a sandwich from the basket and eating it. "This is good."

Viktor and Yuuri both looked at each other before chucking a bit. Yurio was like an angry but cute little puppy dog. Maybe he had a soft side. But the two just hoped that there wouldn't be any more surprises...

Dang, three chapters upload in one day. Terribly sorry about that, wait I'm not, lol. Oh, I also forgot to tell you all a Merry Christmas Eve and I hope everyone is having a safe and fun time with your family and friends. And I also hope you guys also got all the presents you wanted, and if not, I hope it is at least something you like. So make sure to fav, follow, and comment to see more and I hope to upload all of this before Christmas Day. Bye bye everyone!