"Drag me down?" Yuri on ice SOULMATES AU

11. Jedi

When Yuuri and Phichit separated, Yuuri had to go back to the ice rink he left from. When Yuuri got there, Celestino wasn't impressed.

"Wow, Yuuri. First day of practice; and you left mid-way?" Ciao Ciao sighs, bring one hand to his face. Yuuri immediately apologized, and then yelled 'I'll work harder!' but never gave Ciao Ciao a reason on why he left, which made him curious.

"Yuuri, why'd you left?" Ciao Ciao says, making Yuuri tense up and panics internally,

"I-I had to see Phichit!" Yuuri lies.

"Sure..." Celestino starts off, sarcastically nodding.

"I am your coach, it means I must have you focused, or you won't go on the ice at all. I know you have strength, you have potential and the skill of being a good skater, use it! Though your anxiety pushes you away from that...hmmm" Ciao Ciao say, rubbing his chin thinking.

"What are you thinking about?" A nervous voice comes out of Yuuri.

"Let's skip practice today! We'll get you home, then we'll talk, and then you'll run off the tacos you just ate." Celestino says with a wink.

"How'd you know I ate tacos? Are you a Jedi?!" Yuuri says, astonished.

"Yes, now let's go." Ciao Ciao says, walking Yuuri to the exit of the ice rink.

"Just to be clear, you are a Jedi right?" Yuuri asks, making sure if he's lying.

"No, you have some taco remains on your clothes though." Celestino sighs, making Yuuri embarrassed on how he didn't notice before. 

"Oh-I got scared a second there," Yuuri breaths. They walk down the street to find a free taxi that isn't taken, they passed by many people, and the buildings were just like how Yuuri had remembered it. Just. Detroit.

~At Celestino's house~

"So...yeah, there you have it,' Yuuri lies. Phichit goes along with the lie and nods.

"You decide to skip practice today, and your workouts, just because of the movie you had to show Phichit?" Ciao Ciao says, accepting whatever lies Yuuri is blabbering on about, but he knows he's lying.

"Yuuri, you are one of a favourite students, but I cannot coach you unless you tell me the truth, yes?" Ciao Ciao says. Yuuri nods, and is kind of upset that he had to tell Celestino the truth about his problems, but Yuuri know Ciao Ciao will understand. Phichit gives Yuuri a worried look that he may think Yuuri will not skate once Phichit's leg heals.

"Okay..." Yuuri starts off.

"I had this soulmate problem for years now, and I...I didn't want to drag that soulmate into a mess that I have created, so I..."

"Cut ties?" Ciao Ciao says cutting off Yuuri.

"Yeah, how did you know?" Yuuri asks, looking down at his thumbs fiddling with each other, they were in the kitchen on the table talking, Phichit was sitting there with hem too, helping Yuuri explain.

"I've done that too," "No way!" Phichit gasp, and he was all over the place now.

"Wait, we can do that?" Phichit asks, amazed on how Ciao Ciao and Yuuri have somethings in common, he means-- they have a lot of things in common like taking care of Phichit, love skating, love Phichit, tired of Phichit's hamster poops. Wow, Phichit notices that they get along so well was because of Phichit himself.

"But I am able to see my string again," Yuuri says.

"It's okay, but back to the story though, and I may help you as well, then we'll talk about my story, because I think I know how to fix it," Ciao Ciao says, and Yuuri trust Ciao Ciao that Yuuri will be fine, because if Ciao Ciao is fine then Yuuri can be. Maybe he'll just be like Ciao Ciao coaching, but of course, he knows it'll never happen.

"I met him through text, at the age of 15, and I learned he's the one with a fate, so I stayed back and let him go, he didn't wanted me to, but I did. He says we'll meet again, but I don't know what this action I had done, did to him. I want to meet him but he must hate me," Yuuri sighs, looking at the lamp in the living room, he notices a ladybug on it. Just landed.

"So you let him go so..."

"So Yuuri doesn't have to ruin his life!" Phichit laughs, wrong timing bro.

"You won't ruin his life, you have no fate," Ciao Ciao says, reassuring Yuuri it'll be okay.

'Thanks' Yuuri mumbled unfer his breath, sarcastically then Ciao Ciao says, "I don't mean it like that, I just mean, just because you have no fate doesn't mean you can make one, I mean, you're soulmate...uh...what's his name?" Ciao Ciao ask.

"Victor," Phichit says, then sighs, "I told him it may be Victor Nikiforov because he told me he has a russian accent and a poodle but--"

"He's not, even if he is, I can't live up to his standards," Yuuri sighs, putting his head down flat onto the table, then Celestino sighs and says, "He's your soulmate, what standards does he have? You reached his standers, why? Because you're his soulmate" 

"Wait---you think it's Victor too?" Phichit says, happily. Yuuri groans as they both nod yes, then groans more as they start talking about Victor's soulmate crisis, because Victor Nikiforov is single. They talked and ignored Yuuri, and tried to put 2 and 2 together.

Then they heard knocking on the door, so Yuuri got up and opened it, and it was a man. A very tall handsome man asking for Phichit, and Yuuri looked into the kitchen seeing Phichit talking nonsense with Ciao Ciao. 

"Why?"

"I'm his soulmate," 

"What?

"His soulmate?

"How do you know his name?

"We've met before,"

"No, he told me he never met his soulmate yet,"

"He did, he must've lied to you," 

No.

 No he did not lie.

He can't lie, I am his friend!

Yuuri and Phichit was suppose to live on forever, but Phichit was hiding his secret, for how long?

Doesn't matter.

Fuck it.

Fuck him. 

Fuck Phichit.

Yuuri opened the door wide so the man can enter the apartment, and Yuuri puts his shoes on and grabs his jacket. Phichit looks at the man and then worries about Yuuri as he left building, Phichit called after Yuuri but Yuuri must've ignored him. Phichit might lose his best friend. He will lose his friend. The only best bud he has. Phichit panics and ask Ciao Ciao if he can tell Yuuri to come back so Phichit can explain.

Ciao Ciao got up and exited the apartment.

"I told you not to come," Phichit says angrily. The other man was simply doing his normal non-expressionest face, and Phichit then sighs and mumbles some words in frustration.

"Yuuri! Yuuri, where are you going?"

"I'm gonna run off the tacos, and going for a walk to think," Yuuri says, not looking back as he goes to the elevator, next he knows he, he'll be going down.