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Victor attempts to find his feet in Japan but finds himself becoming obsessed with Yuuri’s instead as he fails to decipher the mysterious puzzle of Yuuri's constantly exposed ankles.
AKA “I went to Hasetsu and all I got was this lousy foot fetish.”
When pair skater Yuuri Katsuki’s career comes to a scandalous end, he does not expect the retired pair skating legend Viktor Nikiforov to suggest that they compete together. But taking on a new skating partner is full of trial and error, and the skating world doesn’t know how to react when the Katsuki-Nikiforov duo, against all odds, starts doing well. The last thing either of them should do, as they strive for their last chance at greatness, is to fall in love. Yuuri knows he is damaged goods, and Viktor knows his body is starting to fail him. They have competitions to survive and medals to win. No, falling in love is out of the question; they’re just very good friends. And even if Viktor felt something, he’d never act on it, and even if Yuuri happened to be hopelessly in love, he’d be mortified if Viktor ever found out.
All Viktor wants is for his son to be happy - and if that means spending countless hours at the ice rink, a million more in the ballet studio, and devotedly cheering for Katsuki Yuuri at every competition he enters, then that is precisely what he'll do.
He just didn't expect to become a fan, too.
(He didn't expect to fall in love.)
Yuuri Katsuki has been betrothed to the High King's son, Victor, since he was just a child; furthermore, as an omega, he's forbidden from practicing magic in combat. For years, he's been able to put off the former because the Prince was traveling abroad, and gotten around the latter by practicing with his mentor in secret.
Now Victor Nikiforov has finally returned home, and Yuuri is being summoned to the capital for their wedding. He needs a plan to put off marriage long enough to find a way to break the betrothal, while keeping his practicing from being discovered.
If only the Prince didn't have other ideas.
“The law clearly states that the regent shall have a mate. It is widely known that being mated keeps one’s head clearer, brings joy and strengthens relations, both in one’s professional and personal life. Since I do not have a mate, nor do I have anyone in my life as of right now that I would want to spend my life with in that way, I have chosen to evoke the ‘Catarina praxi.
“Lilia will give out the specific details how it will be conducted, but it will be a nationwide search for a mate for me and will require scent samples. As those of you who are familiar with the praxi knows, this means that all omegas that fall into the chosen group are prohibited from entering a mateship until an engagement between me and a chosen omega has been announced. This results in that all unmated omegas from the age of eighteen to twenty eight are now legally arranged to be mated to me, until an official engagement has been made."
The Nicholai Hall explodes with questions from the reporters as Lilia steps up to the microphone, while Yuuri keeps completely still, eyes wide and mouth hanging open, heart pounding in his chest.
Dear Yuuri Katsuki
Thank you for accepting the offer of this arrangement. It is a great honor for the crown to have you join the group of omegas currently in the Blixster Agreement, and for supporting the Royal Family through this esteemed agreement. We are all very grateful for your support, especially myself.
I hope to come to know you better in the years coming, and as the Blixter Agreement states, we shall be exchanging letters. Consider this my first, as well as a form of introduction.
My name is Victor Nikiforov...
Cheer captain Victor is on top of the High School hierarchy. It's his senior year, he's managed to ditch his ass of an (ex) boyfriend Cao Bin and his squad is going to the National Cheerleading Championship. The only things standing in his way is the screaming red 'F' on his math test. Lilia says he has to pass, so his math teacher gives him a tutor. Another senior student named Yuuri Katsuki.
“He’s cute,” Victor says, feeling a slight blush unwillingly seep into his cheeks. He hurries to push it down, collect himself. Ji still looks surprised, an expression that slowly fades to realisation, and then a smile grows on his face, dimples appearing on his cheeks.
“You like him!” he says, and Victor has a harder time pushing down his blush this time because it’s sort of true? He’s only spent twenty minutes with Yuuri but there’s something about him that just makes Victor’s heart race.
“We’re just done with our last job, leaving the hospital now,” Phichit answered, putting his own seatbelt on as Yuuri steered the ambulance out towards the main road. “You got a new one for us?”
“Yes, a feral alpha on S:t Sigferd Street, by the park. Doesn’t seem to speak English,” the dispatcher reported, the information showing on the touch screen in the car. Yuuri didn’t look, simply guidning the car towards the address. After spending four years as a paramedic in this city, he knew the roads well. “Can you take it?”
It’s Japanese Nationals. Yuuri is focused on trying to redeem himself in the eyes of the Japanese skating community after last season’s performance. The Japanese figure skating community is focused on the fact that their Ace is back on top with a World Champion fiance.
(How to feel like you’ve won respect when everyone already respects you)