Our Sweet Yurio - A Yuri on Ice AU Story

Chapter 6 - You're Not Second Place

A/N: Hello everyone! Welcome back to yet another chapter of Our Sweet Yurio! I hope you all enjoy today's chapter! I really feel like the characters barely actually act their age, but I felt if everyone was in middle or even highschool it just wouldn't have the same charm. And elementary school wouldn't really match their maturer personalities. Like I've said before, its sort of like they enjoy kiddish things and such, but they still have developed vocabulary and thought most of the time? I think that's how it is anyways...

Otabek and I were currently sitting on the bench, watching as the other kids ran around, happily playing tag and catch and what not. We were silent, neither of us bothering to say much at all. I couldn't help but notice the teddy bear smoocher from the first day, Chris, I believed his name to be. He was currently hugging one of the swing set's poles that were holding the swings in the air. Okay...that's nice. I thought, raising a brow.

"Yurio," Otabek addressed me, glancing towards the happy kids prancing around the playground for a moment before returning his gaze to my eyes.

"Hmm?" I grunted in response, looking down at my feet for a few moments before looking back up at him.

"I thought we were supposed to be talking," He said bluntly, narrowing his eyes at me.

"What on earth do you expect me to talk about?!" I shouted, scowling at him.

"You could tell me about what you like..." Otabek replied calmly, trailing off.

"Cats. I-I like cats," I stammered, an embarrassed blush erupting on my cheeks. You idiot! Out of all the things you like, why did you say THAT one?! I mentally scolded myself, wishing I could just repeatedly slam my head against the wall until the humiliation I was feeling disappeared permanently.

"Maybe that's why everyone call you 'an adorable little kitten' and such, Yura," Otabek said, not phased by my seemingly odd interest.

"Y-Yura?!" I repeated with a disbelieving tone, looking at Otabek with widened eyes. "What's with the nickname?! I don't want a stupid nickname! And I hate being considered anything cat-related! I'm a tiger! Not a weak little cat!" I shouted, though for some dumb reason, I felt like I was lying, when I obviously wasn't. Obviously.

"Well, you don't seem to like your new name, Yurio, so...I thought you might appreciate it if I called you something else..." Otabek replied, shrugging his shoulders, "If you don't like it, I won't do it again."

"DON'T!" I shouted. My cheeks reddened immediately, having not meant to raise my voice that much, or really much at all. "I-I mean, don't stop calling me that...b-but don't get the wrong idea! Its not because I-I like it! Its just because Yurio is the stupidest name ever and makes me feel like the second Yuri..." I said quietly, trailing off as my cheeks only grew hotter. I'm not just the "second Yuri!" I'm my own person, and I'm worth way more than that stupid pig, because I'm the better Yuri! I thought.

"Okay. I get it, you don't want to be second place, right?" Otabek replied, nodding once. His mouth stretched upward slightly into a smile, "Yura, you aren't second place, okay? You're never going to be second place to me, that's for sure," he said quietly, a warm smile appearing on his face. He reached up and ruffled my hair.

"Don't ruffle my hair, I'm not some little kid," I said, pouting a bit unconsciously. Otabek only smiled more, not paying much mind to what I said. "Why are you so smiley and mushy all of a sudden anyways?!" I asked, though as always, it was more of me demanding an answer angrily.

"I just care about you, Yura," Otabek said softly, his smile softening.

"R-Right. Whatever," I responded, looking away from him. I thought I heard him chuckle at that, but if I did, it was gone within just a second.

"Hey!" A new voice called. I looked forward again and was met with the eyes of the one and only, "King" JJ.

"What the frick do you want?!" I asked through gritted teeth, not wanting Mrs. Hinata to be alarmed of my constant anger issues just because I yelled at a stupid kid.

"Woah, calm down, kitty," JJ said in a somewhat mocking tone, pushing his hands down in a motion that one might use to tell an animal to sit.

"I'm. Not. A. Kitty," I growled, glaring at the stupid boy in front of me.

Of course, he paid no mind to that and continued speaking, "We just wanted to ask you two if you wanted to come and play with us. We got bored of catch, so now we wanted to play Hide and Seek Tag," he paused for a moment. I then realized the many other kids standing behind him. When I said nothing, JJ continued, "Its exactly what it sounds like. You hide, and once you're found, you run."

"No w-" I started to say, but Otabek interrupted.

"C'mon, it'll be fun, Yura," he insisted, a very slight smile appearing on his face.

"Fine." I only made that decision because of the fact that he was planning on playing. I didn't really want to, but it wouldn't hurt, right?

A/N: I feel like this chapter wasn't nearly as well written as the last one. Does anyone know the reason for the highs and lows in quality of these chapters? Is it just my imagination or what? For one, they should probably be a lot longer if they actually had enough detail to really tell the story, right? 1500 words or more, probably. I guess I'll just have to think about what I imagine it to look like more? I feel like when the chapters mainly consist of dialogue, its hard to put as much detail maybe? I dunno, I'll stop rambling but I hope you all enjoyed this chapter!