You Only Live Once [Yuuri x Reader]

Chapter Three: Yuris on Ice

I smiled at Yuri as he stepped onto the scale for about the fiftieth time. He had been working super hard to get his weight down, and he was doing really well. After a while I decided that until Yuri was able to get on the ice, I wouldn't either. To encourage him more.

Yuri looked up at me and smiled from ear to ear, "I'm back to my normal weight." I smiled and kicked off of the wall, "Then we better get to the Ice Castle and tell Victor." Yuri ran out and I followed behind him. I grabbed both of our bags since Yuri was so excited, he forgot. I followed a bit behind him until we made it to the rink. The Ice Castle was crowded with Paparazzi and my jaw dropped. They must have found out Victor was here.

Yuri ran to the door and I looked around. I saw a hair of blonde walking towards the door. More specifically, Yuri. I saw them raise their foot ready to kick and my eyes widened. "Yuri!" By the time I spoke, I was too late as the person kicked him through the door. I ran inside to see Yuri on the ground. I looked at the person who did it and glared.

"Hey! What's your problem?!" I stormed to the blonde head that kicked my friend. I barely had height on them as they glared back. He went to speak, but got distracted by Victor. Victor was skating on the ice and I tilted my head, watching. Yuri came back, he was obviously in pain. I smiled at him, "Sorry. I tried to warn you about the Fairy of Russia over here." Yuri laughed, but quickly stopped.

"Y-You mean. Yuri Plisetski?" Yuri seemed scared and I nodded. Wonder what he' scared of. Has he even met Yuri? Yuri Plisetski, I mean. Victor saw Yuri and smiled his usual smile, "Hello, Yuri! What are you doing here? I'm assuming it's because I forgot to do something I said I'd do." Plisetski nodded and mumbled something I couldn't here.

I looked at Yuri, my Yuri, to see if he knew what they were talking about. Yuri read my look and shrugged. I looked at Victor to see him point at The Yuris. "Fine. I shall make a program for both of you and you'll perform it. Whoever does the best wins," Victor said.

Hm, but he promised he'd coach Yuri. Then again from what I'm hearing, he promised the other Yuri he'd write a program too. I guess this will be interesting.

The triplets appeared out of nowhere and began to for a deal with Victor. I sighed and went to a bench, pulling on my skates. I felt like some side character in all of this sometimes. I put my head phones in and turned the music up as loud as it would go. I played my short skate music and began working on it.

Before I stopped skating, Yuri and I had discussed a few ideas.We managed to find a way to shorten the song to the proper length that was just under the time limit. We were thinking about focusing on choreography first, then we'd fill in the gaps with jumps. When I told him the song was one of my favorites, he told me to skate how I felt. The song gave me motivation, so my first though was to do exactly that. Make the skating show that motivation.

I started out with a bit of choreography, to start it off I had to step out into a spin. It was hard to get the momentum right off the bat, but I managed as long as I concentrated. After that , I added a bit of choreography. Nothing major quite yet. The song continued, once the lyrics began, I decided to add a jump. I didn't really decided until it came, at the last second I went with a triple salchow, one of my specialties. I continued, trying to look graceful and powerful at the same time. It was hard, but I was managing. I added a combination of a double axel followed by a triple toe loop.

I was getting lost in the music as I did a corkscrew crossover and jumped into a flying sit-spin. The music slowed down and I did the same by doing a spread eagle once that was done, the music began speeding up. I expressed such by adding movements that slowly sped up as it went on. The song reached it's peak and did a triple flip. I barely landed it, stumbling a bit. The song was coming to and got enough momentum for a camel spin, followed by my ending position where I positioned one skate behind me on the toe to keep balance while the other held me up as I leaned back enough to touch my skate with one hand and held the other in the air as it I was reaching for something.

The position was similar to a catch-foot lay back spin, except minus the spin and my toe was on the ice. It was a hard position to do so quickly, but I barely made it. Once I finished I stood straight up to go get my water. I yelped as I came in contact with someone. I wrapped my arms  around them to avoid falling only to bring them down with me.

I looked up to see I had crashed into Yuri. A gave him and apologetic smiled and he said something I couldn't hear. I tilted my head and saw him laugh. He reached up and pulled my headphones out of my ears, placing his hand on my waist. Oh, I can hear now. "You really need to stop turning your music up all the way," Yuri laughed, soon we were both laughing our heads off. I lost my balance and landed on Yuri's chest which only caused him to laugh more while I pouted from hitting my nose on his chest.

Yuri calmed down and looked at me, smiling. I could tell in his eyes he was worried about something, but I knew the last thing I needed to do was bring it up. "That was really great," Yuri  sat up so I was basically sitting on his lap. I blushed and moved off of his lap. "Thanks. Now I just need to remember everything I just did," I chuckled. When I skate like that it's like my body goes on autopilot and I don't really remember what happens afterwards.

Yuri shrugged, "I had the triplets video it. I know how you get lost in the music." I blushed a bit and nodded in agreement. Yuri's known me since we were kids so he basically knew just about everything about me. "Thanks, Yuri," I smiled.

"So is Victor going to make you guys a short program?" I asked tilting my head. Yuri's eyes filled with worry again, "Yeah, we're going to have a competition. If the other Yuri wins, then then Victor goes back to Russia with him." My jaw dropped. "But he said he was gonna coach you!" Yuri shook hid head and sighed, "He also said he's help with the other Yuri's program," Yuri explained. I frowned and looked down. I knew he was right, but still.

"If you don't make it, I'm not letting you quit," I said, looking Yuri in the eye. He smiled sadly, "That's nice of you Y/N, but don't worry about me." I gave Yuri a stern look and moved closer. "Yuri, if you retire. I'll retire. I'm not going to allow you to give up because you have a bad season. Got it?"

Yuri gave me a doubtful look which was replaced with a scared one at the mention of me retiring. "B-But, Y/N! You're skating career is just taking off," Yuri tried to reason. "Your's will too as long as you don't retire. Now promise me you won't retire," I said sternly, I held out my pinky. I took promises really seriously. Yuri sighed and reluctantly linked his pinky with mine. I smiled and hugged him tightly.

"Hey love birds," A Russian accent cut in, "We are going back to the Piggy's home. Victor will show us program tomorrow." I looked up to see Russian Yuri skating towards the exit of the rink. I pulled away from Yuri who quickly stood up. I sighed and slowly stood to my feet with the help of Yuri and we skated to the exit.

We all got ready and left to Yuri's house. I could really use some food right now to be honest.

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