New chapter/series update: my post-canon Olympics WIP
“Oh, anata, this is beautiful…”
Yuuri's voice petered out into a hush as he brushed gentle fingers over the image on the front cover of the scrapbook, depicting his preteen self in a relatively simple but polished black, white, and gold skating costume.
“Is this Mila’s handiwork?” he warmly asked, beaming when Viktor nodded a confirmation.
Yuuri was already looking misty-eyed, and his heart flip-flopped at this realization.
“You haven’t even opened it yet,” he teased, bringing a hand up to thumb at his lash line.
Yuuri giggled in response and then his breath hitched, presumably, at what he discovered to be on the inside cover: a photo of himself, Yuuko, Takeshi, and puppy Vik-chan at the Ice Castle, taken during the 2004 off-season (as noted in the caption). Yuuri and Yuuko were laughing at Takeshi, who looked quite disgruntled at the fact that Vik-chan was drooling all over his hand.
Opposite the first photo on the other page was another from that off-season, again depicting Yuuri and Yuuko, though this time, they were both on the ice, their arms outstretched in matching poses. The caption read: Yuuri and Yuuko imitating Viktor’s 2003-2004 Short Program .
Below the first photo were several paragraphs of kanji written in Yuuko’s neat scrawl, and below the second was another written blurb, authored by Takeshi.
“Well, here we go…I’m definitely going to cry while reading these, I can already tell,” Yuuri muttered.
Yuuri, I assume you’re reading this on the day of your Free Skate in Beijing, which would mean that today marks a whopping seventeen-and-a-half years since you first took the ice as a Novice skater at your first ever competition.