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After a successful season for Yuuri, he and Victor are now in Hasetsu to rest and develop their programs for the next seasons. But one day, their routine changes when a letter arrives in Yu-topia addressed to Yuuri.
Obviously he finds it odd that he has received a letter where he can be reached easily via e-mail.
But when he reads the contents of the letter, he lets out a long sigh.
"Yuuri?" Victor asks, sitting down beside him with two bowls of katsudon in his hands. "What is this letter?"
"It's an invitation." Yuuri responds coldly. "Apparently, the students in my third-year high school class want to get together to celebrate 10 years of our graduation. I don't know if I should go because I never had many good memories when I was in high school."
"Oh, that sounds like fun!" Victor exclaims, getting strangely turned on by this. "Can we go?"
"We? What do you mean ‘we’?" Yuuri asks, looking at him in surprise.
"I want to go too! This kind of stuff doesn't exist in Russia so I want to see how it happens!" Victor then takes the paper with the invitation from Yuuri, who can't stop him in time.
"Hey!" Yuuri exclaims, surprised when Victor returns the paper with a pout.
"I don't understand Japanese writing, Yuuuuuuuuuuuuri!" He says, making drama. "You still haven't answered if we can go."
Yuuri, seeing that Victor is using his famous Puppy Eyes on him to get him to agree, lets out a long sigh again.
"Alright." He says, rolling his eyes as Victor celebrates that decision. "I will send a positive response tomorrow morning."
During dinner, Victor asks Yuuri to explain what happens in these meetings, while Mari watches everything in silence.
"Victor." She calls the Russian coach, who is getting ready to join Yuuri at the hot springs. "Come here."
He and Yuuri look at her in surprise, not expecting to hear her calling Victor for a conversation without her younger brother present.
"What is the problem?" Victor asks, looking at her with a forced smile on his face.
"Weren't you curious when Yuuri said he didn't have good memories at school?" she asked, crossing her arms and tilting her head slightly.
"It shouldn't be a big deal." Victor responds, not understanding what she wants to talk to him about.
"Bullying." Mari says, suddenly turning around to start washing up for dinner
Victor looks at her in surprise, not expecting to hear that.
"What?" Victor asks, breaking his smile and frowning as he deduces that must be the reason his love was nervous.
"Yuuri was bullied for years at school, because of his weight, ballet, figure skating and because he's shy and nervous." Mari explains to him, who is horrified. "Even Nishigori teased him for a while, because Yuuri always was next to Yuuko when they were in the rink, but later, when he started dating Yuuko, he not only apologized but also helped to protect Yuuri even after he and Yuuko graduated."
The two talk more about it. When he joins Yuuri at the hot springs, he surprises his husband by apologizing for calling him a piggy years ago when he first arrived in Hasetsu. Yuuri immediately deduces that Mari told him about the bullying she suffered and interrupts him in the best way he knows how to do: kissing Victor on the mouth.
"I forgave you a long time ago, Vitya. And I know that when you called me a piggy, you meant no harm." Yuuri says, smiling at him.
"I don't care if you don't want to go anymore." Victor says, hugging him.
"I think I'll be fine." Yuuri says, laughing. "I'm not the same Yuuri as I was 10 years ago."
"And it's time to show everyone who you've become." Victor opens his heart-shaped smile and kisses him.
~x~
[One week later. - Inside an Izakaya]
"Excuse me… Kohana-san? Long time no see!"
"You arrived early, Akemi-san… Oh no. It's Houji-san now, isn't it?"
"Yes. It's been four years since I got married."
"Congratulations. Have you been in contact with anyone else in our class after you moved in?"
"Only over the internet, but it's not the same thing. Plus, I keep thinking about Katsuki-kun, who moved to America after graduation, and I wonder what it must have been like for him that he didn't make any friends at all."
"Katsuki-kun… ah, looks like he's coming tonight. I just hope nothing bad happens tonight."
"He’s coming? Wow, that makes me so happy! I visit Yu-topia a few times to eat Katsudon and hear from him. Have you been following his career?"
"Yes. I even bought tickets to watch one of his national championships."
…
Time passes and more people who were part of the gang enter the bar. Men and women talking, laughing and enjoying snacks and beer.
And then, suddenly, a very hot man with black hair held back, dark blue glasses on his face and wearing a light gray jacket, pants and waistcoat, a burgundy shirt and black tie. Behind him, another man certainly foreign because of the silver hair and blue eyes also enters the bar, looking around with an excited expression and wearing a black suit and pants, white shirt and navy blue tie.
Obviously the women were the first to react to their presence.
"Oh my god, who are they?"
"Wow, they are so hot!"
"Wait, I think I've seen one of them before. On TV?"
"Who is the foreigner? He certainly didn't study with us."
A grumpy man decides to question them first before driving them out. But to the surprise of him and of many there, the first man looks around coldly, until he smiles when he sees the class representative from the class of 10 years ago.
"Kohana-san! Hello!" he exclaims excitedly, and turns to the other man behind him. "Vitya, do you remember her?"
"Yes, Dorogoy. We took pictures together at your last national championship." The man responds in English, with the exception of one strange word.
“Hello, Katsuki-san, Nikiforov-san!” Kohana-san says, in english too.
Wait…
Did she call him Katsuki?
Katsuki… Yuuri?
The fat, effeminate boy who danced ballet and was bullied by most of the students in that class?
And the foreing man mentioned a championship?
"Katsuki-san! I'm a big fan of yours!" The woman previously known as Akemi exclaims, surprising everyone. "Would you mind giving me an autograph and taking pictures with me?! Nikiforov-san too, if that's all right!"
"O-Okay." Yuuri responds shyly.
"Of course! It's such a pleasure to see my Yuuri recognized by his fans!" The silver-haired, blue-eyed man says, smiling broadly in the shape of a heart. "Although… I'm surprised to see how ignorant the rest of the students are. But on second thought, maybe it's even better for them to remain ignorant because they're present in front of the person you harmed years ago and who is now sexy, rich, famous and above all a medalist in the last Winter Olympics."
Wait, what?
And why is the environment cooling down so suddenly?
"Victor!" Yuuri exclaims, looking at his wide-eyed husband with a red face.
"Oh yeah. And he's married to me, so don't even think about wanting him for yourself." Victor says, giving a wink to the rest of the students, who are standing there dumbfounded. "Dorogoy, I'm bored. Can we leave now and go to dinner?"
Yuuri lets out a long breath as Victor is again using Puppy Eyes on him.
"All right." Yuuri just says, rolling his eyes as he sees his husband get excited about it. "Akemi-san, Kohana-san, do you want to join us?"
The two women look at each other first and then at the others who are still in shock, smiling as they accept his invitation. After all, they are not only Yuuri's fans, but his friends too, as they were the ones who helped him and supported him when the bullying happened.
At the bar, the others left behind begin to question what the hell just happened, because in the past, they had fun teasing Katsuki Yuuri. And now, Katsuki Yuuri showed them that from the beginning they were wrong.
"What the fuck?!" Someone exclaims, holding up their cell phone and showing everyone a video of a skater.
Katsuki Yuuri SP - In Regards of Love: Eros at the 2014 Grand Prix Final
"Oh my god! I believe I can get pregnant just by watching this video." A married woman comments, her face flushed.
"Me too." One of the men whispers, embarrassed, but others around him not only hear but agree with them.
…
At that moment, suddenly, Yuuri felt a strange shiver run through his body and started to sneeze several times. Victor obviously is worried about him, but he soon stops, mysteriously.
~x~
v.nikiforov
[Photo: Yuuri, Victor and two women together.]
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