The land above - Yuri on ice AU

Chapter 4 (The kiss)

Yura's POV

"I'll take Vitya to the north wing, take Yura to your wing will you Beka?"

"Yes sir" Otabek replies to the prince.

He carries me through the castle for a few minutes before opening a door to a nice room and places me down on the bed.

"This is my room, I have some clothes that might look good on yo-... I mean fit you"

He bangs his head lightly on the wall, that's weird... must be a human thing. 

He pulls what must be clothes out of a closet and hands them to me, what do I do with these? I'm not entirely sure how this works, I hold an item up, it looks similar to what Otabek has on the top half of his body. I want to tell him what I am but I have this feeling that's holding me back from telling him so I have to do this confidently, I pull the fabric over my head but it's not working.

"What are you doing?"

"I don't know... why isn't it working?" I growl at him.

"You are putting your head in the arm hole"

His hands reach over and move the top around so I slide in properly.

"Thanks, can you help with these too?"

I lift up the other item of clothing but surprisingly his cheeks change to a bright pink colour.

"Y-You want me to help you put your pants on?" he asks like it's a weird thing to ask.

Oh no... I don't want to freak him out... what do I say?

He just grabs the pants and kneels "Step in the holes"

"Uh okay"

I stand in the holes before he pulls the pants up to my waist and buttons them up, he stands in front of me keeping his hands on my waist, I can feel his hands on my skin on my hips. His hands spread warmth through my body and I know I've fallen. I look down and my hair falls over my face, Otabek reaches out his hand and sweeps my hair behind my back. 

"Do you want me to put your hair up?"

"Up?"

What does he mean? 

He walks to a wooden box and searches around before pulling out a round black thing. I stare curiously at it, what does it do? He pulls my hair away from my face and curls the hair around before using the black band, he pulls me to the mirror. 

"Do you like the bun?" he asks quietly.

"Yes" I breathe out.

So, it's something called a bun, I notice the mirror is just like ours under the sea. Otabek sits on his bed, I sit next to him and touch my hair, I never knew it was so soft. 

"I really like your hair" he whispers as he reaches out and tucks a loose strand he missed behind my ear.

"Thanks" my cheeks heat up as I look over and smile at him.

"So, what brought you to the beach today?"

He had obviously been bursting to ask that question. 

I stay silent, why can't I just tell him? Oh! J-J must have done this, I can't explain to him. He looks over at me. 

"Okay well let's start with something simpler, what age are you?"

"16, what about you?"

"I'm 20, pretty young for a knight huh?"

"Oh, I uh don't know" I laugh.

"So .... What is Vitya to you?"

He sounds a little sad as he asks, has that question been eating at him?

"Vitya is my older brother"

"Oh good, d-do you have a partner?"

My cheeks heat up and I ponder this question, I do have an arranged marriage but I will not be telling him that.

"No, no partner"

He smiles over at me.

"You are beautiful Yura"

I can't help but let out a little gasp, that's rather bold of him. 

"I-I..." 

He smiles and places his hand on mine, my eyes are drawn down to his hand. His hands are big, strong and rough, working hands. In contrast mine are small and soft from my time in the ocean, Otabek suddenly leans over and places his lips on mine slowly and softly. I feel myself holding my breath, my body feels like it's floating and tingling just so amazing. I can't believe this is happening, my first kiss is with a human! He pulls away with a huge smile. 

"Was that okay?" 

"I-It was amazing! I've never felt anything like that in my life!"

He laughs and hugs me. What am I going to do? I really like him... but this wasn't part of the plan. Otabek may love me but Vitya needs to make Yuri fall in love with him or in two and a half days I will be taken by J-J, the thought terrifies me, I bury my head against Otabek's neck. 

I can't go back to the sea... to him. I won't!

I tighten my hold on him as he wraps his arms around me, his arms make me so happy and safe, J-J can't reach me here. 

"We should head to dinner" he whispers against my head.

"Okay, will Vitya and the Prince be there?" 

"I assume so, do you want some shoes?" 

"Some what?" I ask confused. 

"Oh, never mind" he laughs. "Yuri won't mind, he's pretty chill for a Prince"

We walk to a large room with a table, I run when I see Vitya and give him a hug. 

"Going okay?" I whisper in his ear. 

He nods and I immediately relax. 

I notice Vitya has clothes on too, hopefully he had the same experience as I did. I glance over at Yuri and see him smiling at Vitya, yay I'm safe! 

I sit down and start eating with my hands, Otabek takes my hand and places some kind of metal utensil in my hand. I look up at him confused to see him and Yuri using it to pick food up so I copy them, so many weird things in the human world.

"So Otabek, is everything prepared for my wedding?"