Black Knight ◇ Yuri On Ice

Begin Again

Yuuri Katsuki

Uniform. Glasses. Gun. Essentials. That's what goes in my bag every morning. Even now that my life has done a complete 180 turn. One side of the 180, my new job, I like. It's better than my previous job as a government treasurer; I get to top up on my lacking people skills, my colleagues are tolerable and unsuspecting and it's the perfect relaxed environment that I need since my real job is anything but relaxed.

However, the other part of the 180, I don't like at all. I don't like that the one person that meant everything to me, the one person that my world revolved around is now in a coffin underground, a piece of my heart lying in there with him.

As I leave my room, backpack on my back, I take a sad glance at the black suit I wore for the occasion and still haven't taken down from my wardrobe door. He's gone forever now. It's my duty to live on and carry on his legacy. It's the least I can do after he taught me so much, saved me from myself, made me who I am today.

Pushing those thoughts behind me for a later date, I run down the stairs of my empty house and pass through the door. London's cold air hits my face as I initiate my usual morning jog.

The jog is always the same, it always starts with me trotting past my highly capable, black, glossy Audi; feeling good about burning calories and not fuel. Not that it matters since my body is at peak performance and I have a seven figure salary. Regardless, I'm not really awake without my jog, when normal people can't function without their morning coffee I can't function without my morning jog.

After putting my earphones in and pulling up my hood to protect myself from the cold I begin with the main event; thinking. This is the prime time for my brain to go over what I need to do and how I'm going to do it.

I haven't got any jobs today but I still have to go to Assassin Unions HQ under Minako's orders. Now that my mentor is gone the Union needs a new leader. Things are changing at AU and as it's top asset I'm required to have an active role in those changes, which is perfect for me because although the new leader won't be as perfect as him I want to make sure someone he would approve of is picked.

Twenty minutes of turning the gears in my brain and watching my breath turn to steam in this spring morning later I arrive at my place of work. Today is one of those days I get to go to work two hours later since Minami opens shop. I can already see the red and gold boy pottering about through the glass window, serving customers with his usual animated smile.

As I push through the glass door of Yuko Coffee the bell announces my entrance, causing the small boy to whip his head in my direction. I always come right on time so he knows it's me before his big eyes even meet mine.

"Hiya Yuri-san! How was your jog?" He asks, way more awake than a college student should ever be.

"Not bad." I shrug, pulling my earphones from my ears, "how's college?" As I walk behind the counter, he follows.

"Great! Other than the fact that my classmate broke my camera stand..." His shoulders drop a par with his voice.

"Get them to pay for it" I mumble, taking my black and pink uniform out of my bag.

"They said they won't because it was accident. And I don't have money for a new one" he whines. I'm so close to telling him to knock them out with the back of a gun and steal their money as that is what I would do but Minami is just a civilian, he doesn't need to hear that, it's not something he could just do like I could.

"You don't think you could lend me some money Yuri-sannn" he clings onto my hoodie sleeve and pouts up at me, eyes big and pleading. As if it would ever work on me.