Title: Ice Breakers

Summary: Yuuri Katsuki was determined. He would own the ice on which Viktor Nikiforov skated. He would make it his own, he would be the best Figure Skater there was and Viktor would regret ever thinking less of him.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yuri! On Ice

Pairing: Victor/Yuuri

Rating: T (Might change later in chapters)

Edited: 18/02/2017

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Chapter 1

Yuuri Katsuki 8-years-old looked at himself in the mirror. His face was marred with cuts and bruises that matched the others that littered his body but he paid no mind to them only his features. He didn't look like Mama or Papa, not even Mari! He looked like a girl! But he was a boy! Tears threatened to leave his eyes as he continued to stare at himself. He was a girl-boy freak!

Earlier at School

Break time was a blast. Yuuri loved playing on the swing set the school had just added to the collection that included the monkey bars and tyre skip. There were two swings and you had to be lucky enough to claim one before anyone else. Any Yuuri was lucky it seemed. Yuuko occupied the other swing and Takeshi was pushing her. They were both ten already but still shared lunch and break with Yuuri. They didn't particular love the swing set but seeing Yuuri smile at them like that was good enough for them. Takeshi, although he would never admit it, saw Yuuri as a younger brother that he had to protect.

Yuuko looked up when her name was called along with Takeshi's. Some of their classmates were beaconing them over. Glancing at Yuuri who just smiled at them in encouragement they got up and went to them, promising to spend time with him after school.

The other kids saw the empty swing set as an opportunity and rushed towards it. But a group of boys claimed it before. A brown-haired boy took Yuuko's old seat and laughed at his friends scowls at not being able to sit instead. "Heizo I want to swing!" growled one of the other boys with red hair. Said boy looked at him then indicated to Yuuri who was still just swinging to himself.

The other boy got Heizo's hint and smirked before approaching the ember-eyed boy. "Oi! Get off! I want to swing now!" demanded the redhead.

Yuuri looked up at the talker, unattractive boy with an annoyed look on his face. "No." he replied and went back to his swinging.

The redhead's friends howled with laughter seeing the boy being turned away by such a petite boy. "What do you mean no? I didn't ask you, you girl-boy freak!" snarled the boy.

The 'girl-boy freak' stared at the boy for a while before standing up. The other smirked in victory. "Yeah, freaky, listen to your superior." But as he was about to move to sit on the swing, Yuuri's arm flew out and punched him in the jaw. The red-haired boy was shocked by the assault but it didn't last long as he and his friends showered the smaller boy with punches and kicks.

Yuuri curled in on himself. He had never felt pain like this.

"BOYS STOP THIS INSTANT!" came the hollering sound of a playground teacher than slowly the kicks and beats were stopped as the boys were pulled away by older kids and teachers leaving a bloody and broken Yuuri balled up on the floor for everyone to sympathise.

Back to Present

Mari heard weeping coming from Yuuri's room and got curious. The boys that had beaten Yuuri had been suspended for a while and even as the Katsuki family tried to press more charges for harming there little Yuuri, nothing could be done after all Yuuri had thrown the first punch and no one knew why. They had tried to get Yuuri to talk but all he did was stare at them with teary eyes and didn't utter a word. The school said Yuuri didn't need to return till he was comfortable and got Yuuko to take his work to him. had been suspended for a while from school due to the fight he had Mari didn't understand why Yuuri had hit the boy after all Yuuri was a gentle person and would never purposely hurt someone without good reason. Opening the sliding door, she saw him banding his forehead on the mirror while tears fell from his clenched shut eyes.

"Oi baka! What are you doing?" Mari asked but it wasn't full of her usual annoyed tone. But rather concern. The black-haired boy looked up at his sister before looking at her features that suited her gender and bigger ugly tears fell from his eyes.

"I'm a f-freak Nee-san!" sobbed Yuuri and went to hug his sister by the waist. Mari was shocked by the words that left her brothers mouth and detached the boy from her hips and knelt so they were face to face. Yuuri tried to cover his face with his arms but she held them away.

"Why are you a freak Yuuri?" asked Mari and she wanted to know. Her little brother was a precious child, freak was not a word to describe him. He was a miracle, a unique being and the light of her life.

"The boy said that I- I was- was a girl-boy f-freak! And I am! I look like a girl but I'm a boy! It's freaky!" he cried.

And suddenly Mari understood why Yuuri had hurt that boy and honestly, she wanted to as well. With a sigh, she pulled the trembling body into her arms and held his shaking form close.

"Yuuri Katsuki. You are not a freak. You were gifted with beauty that even a girl cannot pull off. Never doubt yourself okay? You may not see it now but when you're older those boys will be at your feet just to sneak a glance at you. Never ever let pitiful people bring you down. Okay? You are worth so much more than them." she spoke softly into his curls.

Yuuri listened, his cries quieting and his body still as his Nee-san carried on. "And who said that a boy can't look like a girl and a girl can't look like a boy? You know you are a boy, that you can do what the other boys can do and so much more. Your looks are you advantage over this world and you should use them." she finished.

Yuuri would never forget the words his sister said. They were full of love and honesty. Happy tears came out his eyes and he cuddled into his sister mummering a thank you into her shoulder. Exhaustion came over him due to all the emotions he let loose and he fell asleep in his sister's arms.

Mari placed him onto his wooden, sticker covered cot before leaving the room. She knew her brother was capable of wonderful things and she wouldn't let a couple of kids with pea sized brains tell him otherwise.

Ice Breakers

Yuuri woke up the next morning with a confused look on his face. He didn't remember going to bed. And the musky taste in his mouth meant he didn't even brush his teeth. Eww. He sat up and suddenly all the memories came back to him. All the kind words his normally mean Nee-san had said to him. And he smiled. Standing up he once again stood in front of the mirror. Wiping away old tear tracks and moving his hair so it wasn't a weird mop on his head he said.

"I am beautiful."

Ice Breakers

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