AUTHOR'S NOTE: Fun fact – this was actually the first of these 12 Days one-shots I wrote, but I decided to wait a while to upload it. I reeeeeeeeally like this one, and in my head it takes place just before yesterday's fic. Hope you all enjoy!

Thank you to Pearl-Posts, CrystalGem18, CursedRedRose and Myriam-land for reviewing the last chapter.

This chapter is dedicated to Myriam-land and I Love Being Weird.

DISLCAIMER: I don't own Yuri on Ice. In other news I AM NOT READY FOR TOMORROW'S EPISODE GUYS HELP ME PLEASE HOLD ME.

Day 7 - Tangled

Yuuri sighed in frustration as he attempted to detangle the lights. This wasn't working.

Yuuri and Viktor had agreed to spend this Christmas at the Katsuki onsen and had arrived a few days early to help decorate the place. Currently they were outside at the hot spring trying to decorate the Christmas tree Mari had put up the night before, but these lights seemed to have a mind of their own.

Giving up on the lights for now Yuuri picked up some ornaments and began to hang them on the tree instead. Most of them were skating related that his father had bought to show support for Yuuri and they made him smile. Of course there were the regular Christmassy ones like Santa and reindeer and snowmen too, decorations Yuuri knew well having seen them every Christmas when he'd helped decorate his home.

But right now Yuuri was regretting not wearing gloves. It was freezing outside and his numb fingers could barely slip the ornaments into the branches of the tree. Yuuri gritted his teeth together, feeling tears of frustration beginning to prick at the corners of his eyes. This was ridiculous. Why was he getting so upset about not being able to decorate a stupid tree?!

Throwing the Santa ornament back into the box it came from Yuuri took a few deep breaths to calm down. Watching his breath come swirling out of his mouth like smoke he tried to relax. Seriously, what was up with him? It was just a Christmas tree.

Deciding to see how Viktor was doing Yuuri turned around, expecting to see him hanging up wreaths and paper chains around the smaller plants that were dotted around the hot spring. Instead however what he saw was his fiancé standing there with a wreath around his neck, lights wrapped around his arms and torso and ornaments hanging off of almost every scrap of clothing he was wearing.

Viktor caught Yuuri's eye and grinned, looking very proud of himself. "Yuuri! What do you think? Do I look ready for Christmas yet?"

Yuuri's bottom lip wobbled for a moment and Viktor's eyes widened, afraid that he'd upset him. But then Yuuri burst into peals of laughter, the tears that a few seconds ago had formed out of frustration were now running down his face out of happiness. Viktor sighed in relief and smiled softly at his little katsudon.

"V…Viktor," Yuuri managed to splutter out once he'd somewhat composed himself, "what on earth happened?!"

"Well, I told you how I've never really celebrated Christmas before so I wanted to make the most of it!" he grinned, the ornaments dotted all over his body clinking together every time he even slightly moved.

"Well you'd better get all of those decorations where they're meant to go or else Mari will have a fit," Yuuri chuckled.

Viktor's face screwed up slightly. "Well…there might be a little problem with that."

Yuuri raised an eyebrow at Viktor before he realised what he meant. "…You're stuck, aren't you?"

Viktor grinned sheepishly. "Maaaaaaaaybe."

Yuuri laughed again as he walked over and started to pick the ornaments off of Viktor's body. "Why didn't you just tell me so I could help?"

"…I didn't want to annoy you."

Yuuri looked up at Viktor and frowned. "Annoy me? What are you talking about?"

"I saw you getting frustrated with the lights and decorations over there," Viktor said quietly, taking Yuuri's hands in his and blowing on them gently. "Your fingers are cold right? You should've put gloves on."

Yuuri's face flared up bright red at the fact Viktor had noticed. Yuuri usually didn't have a short temper, but as Viktor carefully warmed his hands up Yuuri realised why he'd gotten so frustrated.

As Viktor had said, he had never really celebrated Christmas before. That was why Yuuri had gotten so upset; he wanted everything to be perfect for Viktor's first real Christmas. Not to mention that it was their first Christmas together. Yuuri had built it up in his head ever since Viktor had agreed to come home with him for Christmas: the tree perfectly decorated, a wonderful family dinner cooked by his mother, exchanging gifts with Viktor and wishing him a happy birthday, spending some time alone together and being thankful for the day Viktor was born… Yuuri had managed to convince himself that anything less than that wouldn't be good enough. But now, looking up into Viktor's eyes he realised that none of that mattered. As long as the two of them were together, everything else would fall into place.

Viktor's gaze rose slightly from Yuuri's hands and he smiled softly. "What is it?" he asked gently.

Yuuri smiled back before stretching up and gently pressing his lips against Viktor's. Viktor was surprised for a moment but quickly laced his fingers with Yuuri's and kissed him back.

"What was that for?" Viktor asked with a smiled once Yuuri had pulled back from the kiss.

"I…I wanted this Christmas to be perfect," Yuuri admitted. "That's why I was getting frustrated with the decorations. But…as long as I'm with you then I know it'll be perfect anyway."

Viktor's smile widened as he rested his forehead against Yuuri's. "It will be, I promise Yuuri."

Yuuri nodded before chuckling softly under his breath again. "Now, how about I actually get you untangled now?"

"Sounds good," Viktor smiled as Yuuri began to unwind the string of lights he'd managed to drape around himself. "Maybe then we go inside and warm up with some hot chocolate and find you some gloves?"

"That's a few good plan," Yuuri agreed as he lifted the wreath off from around Viktor's neck, stealing another quick kiss as he did.

AN: STILL NOT READY FOR TOMORROW'S EPISODE HELP.

Tomorrow's chapter will probably be out before the new episode, but I can assure you all that this fic is not going to contain any spoilers for the new episode: I've already planned them all out so no worries there.

See you all tomorrow!