Chapter Notes
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"Yuri is my son, not yours."
Usually these words should not hurt so much. But in the case of Yuuri Katsuki, the story is different. After all...
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Yuuri looks at the doctor, startled.
"I ... am I barren?" He asks, terrified.
"Yes, Mr. Katsuki, we do not know the cause of this, but the tests prove that you do not produce sperm." This will not affect your day-to-day life, but it makes it impossible for you to be able to conceive in a conscious sexual act your partner.
Yuuri looks at him in surprise. Well, he would not have to worry about that because he's gay and still has a crush on a certain silver-haired boy even after a few years without seeing him. But even so, knowing that you can not raise a child is something painful.
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"Yuuri, are not you studying right to help kids who are in need of help?" Mari asks, after Yuuri tells her about the result. "Why do not you give a home to these children too? You do not necessarily have to be married to adopt."
"I was thinking about it, Nee-san, but what about you? Would you like to receive strangers here, at our home?" He asked, looking at her.
"They could help me in the restaurant and in the hot springs and they can learn a lot more from us, I do not care, do whatever feels right.
"Thank you very much, Nee-san." He says, hugging her.
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Victor, with his son sleeping in his arms, finds Yuuri outside the hospital, talking on his cell phone. Yuuri notices, and beckons for him to approach.
"I'm telling Mari about you." Yuuri says, turning his face and continuing again. "Haruyuki will also stay with us, since her apartment was also affected by the fire."
Oh. Of course. After all they are dating.
In the hospital parking lot, Yuuri guides him to his own car. Victor realizes that there are several different bags in the back seat and on top of the trunk. Victor enters the side of the hitchhiker and puts on his seatbelt, and watches the window of the car. When he does not hear anything from the car or his side, he turns his face and faces Yuuri watching him.
"I imagine what you should be feeling right now and I'm sure I have no right to tell you that it's going to be all right and that you're going to be able to overcome that situation. You have to believe that it will be all right, I can offer you a hand, but you decide what you want to do." Victor is surprised by what he says.
Suddenly, everything makes sense to him. His jealousy of Haruyuki, the constant interest in Yuuri, the disappointment he felt when he remembered him. The sadness he felt when Yuuri ignored the words of his son moments before.
"Like I said before, you can stay with us until you can afford your own home again." Yuuri says, and Victor focuses on him. "You could also help me with the children! And then, I would like to be one of my partners in the Yu-topia Akatsuki Children's Program? I really need someone who deals with food nutrition."
Victor looks at Yuuri, after finally understanding what he feels for the man.
"It will be a great pleasure." He answers, with a fake smile on his face.
After all, Yuuri Katsuki will never fall in love with him.
It is not?
"But I'd like some time to think about it." Victor says, and Yuuri just nods, turning the key in the ignition of the car.
On the way back home, Yuuri's cellphone rings again and he picks up a headset and uses it to answer the call.
"Mari?" He asks, and Victor notices a frown. "When?"
What happened?
"Tell them to gather everything they find for me immediately, because I'm coming home now. I'm calling Detective Strauss now to take action." He says, pushing the button. "Sorry, Victor. Looks like something happened involving one of my kids."
"No problem, Yuuri." Victor answers, looking at his own son.
"Detective Strauss? Yuuri Katsuki here.I just got the call about Kenjirou Minami. I'm going to Yu-topia now. I understand. I believe in half an hour, I'll be there. All right."
Yuuri shuts and lets out a long sigh, slamming the steering wheel with his right fist.
"You bastard son of a bitch." He swears, to Victor's surprise.
After all, he never expected to hear Yuuri's curse.
Which means it's quite serious.
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When Yuuri parks the car, he opens the door and leaves immediately, running to enter his house. Victor also gets out of the car, and approaches the entrance. There, he watches Yuuri, Mari and a group of young people talking to each other. Soon, he changes the keys and takes a helmet, and then finally looks at Victor, but soon looks away.
"Mari, you can give my room to Victor. I'll go and sleep with the kids. Guang-Hong and Yuuko, can they take the things in my car there? "
"Yes, Otou-san." The boy Victor talked to earlier says, alongside another woman with long dark brown hair and Asian appearance as well.
And soon he leaves, getting on the bike and turning it on.
Victor looks at Mari Katsuki, who is approaching with a cold expression.
"What happened?" He asks, watching her go by.
"One of Yuuri's children has been kidnapped." She responds, scaring him. "Come on in. I'll take you to your new room."
"Is it really okay with me being here?" He asks, worrying again. "I do not want to bother."
"I'm already used to my idiot brother bringing children from one hour to another. One more does not make any difference." She says with a smile on her face.
"You too!" Victor complains, making her laugh.
Victor is taken to a family room. In one of his few memories with Yuuri in the past, there is one where he, the boy and Mari have studied together for the final exams and the two end up sleeping in the same bed so tired.
He looks around and smiles. The room remains the same.
"You remember, don't you?" He listens to Mari, and looks at her in surprise.
"Mari, I ..." He begins to say, but the words get stuck in his throat.
"It does not matter now." She says, seriously. "I just hope you know that if I break my brother's heart again, I'll break up you too."
What is she talking about?
"Mari?" They both turn their faces and look at Haruyuki, who is carrying some things along with Guang-Hong and the other girl.
"Put it down here on the floor." She says, holding out a sheet to Victor. "Victor, why do not you help them load your things from the car here?"
"My things?"
"Do you really think Yuuri would let you here without anything?" She asked, looking coldly at him. "Victor, you're still an idiot."
You mean everything in the car is his?
And what did she mean by 'break her brother's heart again'?
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It's already dinner time and nothing Yuuri. Victor watches his son chatting normally with the other children until the boy looks around.
"Where's Kenji and Otou-san?" Yuri asks and the children look at him in surprise.
"Kenjirou had a headache, so Otou-san took him to see Dr. Angelo." Guang-Hong says, smiling.
"Oh." The boy just says and then notes Haruyuki Kunogi, who has just joined them. "Haru, I want to learn to skate better!"
"I also want to teach you, but Yuuri told me he was going to see if father would agree." Haruyuki says, looking at him with a grin on her face.
Yuri looks at his father and opens his mouth, but closes it and looks back at her.
"Papa is an idiot, I prefer Otou-san." He says to everyone's surprise.
"Yuri!" Victor exclaims just as the banquet door opens.
Yuuri and Minami enter, to everyone's surprise. The boy, clearly pale and shaking, finds himself caught by almost every child. Victor then watches the lawyer approach Yuri and squat down next to him, with a serious face.
"Yuri, I may even be your 'Otou-san' but it is your father who has every right to make decisions involving you. I can't do anything without his consent." He says, to Victor's surprise.
Mari watches the scene with a frown.
"But I like you better." Yuri says, clearly confused.
"I like you too, but I'm not your father. I can't be your father." Yuuri says and Mari's eyes widen.
"Yuuri!" She screams, but he just stands up and ignores them, leaving the room, holding his head in a strange way.
Mari looks at Yuri, who sheds tears and sobs. She picks him up and looks at Victor.
"I must imagine what you said to him. It may even seem silly to you, but to my brother, the fact that he can not be a father is something that has shaken him so much, so he tries so hard to be a father figure for all these children. " She says, leaving not only Victor but others present in surprise.
"He ... Can not have children?" Haruyuki asks, surprised.
"Oh shit." Mari says, biting her lip. "I think I said too much."
Victor then realizes that this may undermine their relationship. All because of him. He lowers his face to look at his son, at the same time as two men enter the restaurant.
"Mari, did Yuuri and Minami arrived?" One of them, Asian, asks.
"Yes, he and Minami are safe here." She responds and the other gray-haired old man is wearing a doctor's coat and carrying a heavy bag on his shoulder, looks around and finds the boy.
"Kenjirou, will you let me examine you? I know it was a traumatic experience, but I need to document everything." He says, looking at the boy.
"I know." He says, face down. "But could you check Otou-san, too?"
"Why?" The man, clearly a doctor, asks in surprise.
"Otou-san is also injured. He hit his head with an iron bar." Minami says.
"I'm fine. I took medicine for pain and the wound was treated quickly." Yuuri says, resurfacing there beside Mari. "Doctor Angelo, my child first."
"Of course. For you, the kids and Mari always comes first." Victor watches the doctor sigh and turn to the boy. "Let's go?"
While Kenjirou Minami is in good health, despite having the details not disclosed to anyone, in Yuuri's case, the story is a bit different. According to the doctor, as the bruise on the head was treated soon, he will not suffer any infection. But because of the swelling and the pain he will feel for days, he must spend at least a week on sick leave. That same night, Victor began to reflect on everything that had happened that day. He is confused. He is concerned. And he's completely in love with Yuuri Katsuki.
"I must be the king of idiots." He says, sighing.
Before bed, he picks up his cell phone and opens Google. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Haruyuki Kunogi", which is available in its original form here: She has several titles and medals from when she was skating in the Junior category. Watching her videos on Youtube, he feels the sleep coming and, being very tired, ends up sleeping soundly. So deeply that he does not realize that, hours later, someone enters the room and lies down on the bed next to him.
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Preview of next chapter:
Victor awakens slowly from his sleep and gives a long yawn. He turns on the bed and freezes, for he is surprised that there is another body sleeping beside him and that he himself is naked. He opens his eyes and, so extra, he screams.