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Halooooo gorgeous people of the world! Author is here for another (hopefully not trashy) update 😂

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Anyways, here is our 5th chapter! Enjoy!----------------3rd Person POV

Another month has passed since Luna submitted her chosen pieces of music to Brian and her choreographer, Kurt Browning. Shockingly, choreographing both the short and free skate was relatively fast and Luna picked up them up quick. Maybe it was because both Luna as well as Yuzuru had input in everything. Artistically, both her programs were amazing and very emotional. However, technically, Luna knew in the back of her head that one quad is not gonna cut it. After all, she wants to be the best of the best for her last season.

That's why here she is, tailing behind her uncle who's currently observing Yuzuru run through his short program. "Coach." Luna said while poking his arm. Brian just ignored her because he knows what she wants. She's been bugging him ever since they came up with the choreography. It was Brian who chose her jumping passes after all.

When she was ignored, Luna rolled her eyes and took a deep sigh before saying"Coach. Coach. Coach. Coach. Coach. Coach..." she continued bugging him and kept poking his arm. Brian sighed, raised his right hand signalling Yuzu to stop, and turned to Luna. "WHAT?!" Luna retreated behind Yuzu and said "Yuzu-kun look at the mean, mean man.." Yuzu just laughed at her and said "What did the mean man do, Luna-chan?"

"Well..." Luna trailed off"What? Well what Luna?" Brian said as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Let's talk about this in your office Uncle." Luna straightened and looked at Brian seriously. And for what seems like the hundredth time, Brian just sighed and nodded."Yuzu, run through your program again. I'll be right back." "Hai." Yuzu replied and smiled at Luna before he skated off.

When they arrived at the office, Brian just sat down at his chair and Luna just stood at the door. This is going to be one long argument. Brian thought to himself before saying "Speak up."

"So here's the thing.." Luna started explaining. ********

Yuzuru's POV (YES THE LONG AWAITED)

Training with Luna for the past months have been really fun and amazing. Not only was I inspired, but I was actually really motivated whenever she watches me skate. It's like more motivating than having Pooh-san watch me perform. Weird.

I didn't notice I was staring at her as she was tying her laces when I was snapped out of it"Yuzu. Yuzuru." It was Javi. "Yea, yes?" I asked"You were spacing out staring at uhmm.." He said while gesturing towards Luna who was wearing an all-black tight fitting training gear. "What were we talking about again?" I said trying to change the subject. "Look, Yuzu. Out of all the people here, I know the most about you. You know you can tell me anything, right?"

"I know Javi. I'll tell you when.. when I have my thoughts sorted out."

Javi then patted my shoulder before skating off for warm up.

I then saw Luna-chan come up to me smiling brightly than she did yesterday after her talk with Brian. "Ohayo Luna -chan. Looks like everything went well with Brian yesterday?" I smiled at her. She smiled even wider (if that was even possible for her beautiful face) and replied "It went really really good Yuzu-kun! I've been bugging him ever since my programs were choreographed and he just wouldn't listen to me."

"So what happened?" I asked her, slightly not even caring because all I care about is just seeing her happy."I bumped up my technical difficulty! I mean, I wanted to do something more but it looks like increasing the difficulty of my jumps are the only thing I can do for now." "What? Why?" Now my tone changed to a concerned one. Why would she do that? She already has high technical difficulty."Just because. I want people to enjoy my skate. I mean, sure winning matters but I love it when I see people smile after my performance. It feels like a sense of fulfilment.." she just said with a smile on her face.

"I know you can do it Luna-chan. You've been doing great since we started training and you learn fast. When you were doing a run of your short program you were so beau---" and I stopped myself from the embarrassment right there. Baka. You're gonna scare her off. I mentally facepalmed myself and continued "your step sequence was beautiful." What an excuse.

Luna just ruffled my hair on her tiptoes and said "Of course! I learn from the best training partner, after all!" She winked at me and skated away. I swear I could've felt butterflies in my stomach just now. And I think my heart dropped to my feet.

Pooh-san. What should I do. *****************Luna's POV

YES! I finally got my uncle to increase the difficulty of my programs! I was asking him to not only make my jumps more difficult, I also wanted to move all of them in the second half of my short and most of them in my free. Well maybe I guess I was asking for too much considering my condition. I don't want to take TOO MUCH of a risk before the Olympics. But I also don't want to lay low during the GP season.

Now here I am, doing full run-throughs of my short program which I'll be doing for the past two weeks together with Yuzu.

Yuzu.. As his name passes through my mind, I just can't help but smile. During the past few months, me and Yuzu have become closer than ever. And I seriously don't want to admit it to myself but even Sky, Zhenya, Javi, and Jason thinks so too. Even Uncle Brian! Their words just can't seem to stop replaying in my mind.

"I see the way he looks at you..." Sky said"I'm a girl too, Luna. I think you should tell him about you feel. I can tell he likes you back..." Zhenya said last week."Chica, I know Yuzu. He's a nice guy. And you're an amazing girl. Why don't you guys just try?" Javi said yesterday. "Girl. I don't even know why you're second guessing yourself. You like him. He obviously likes you back. Why make it complicated?" Jason said earlier when I was taking a break.

I swear these people just have the perfect timing. Do I like Yuzu? No, actually the question isShould I like Yuzu? Do I have the right to like Yuzu?

Speaking of the devil, I was snapped out of my thoughts by Yuzu who just finished practicing his program. "Hey hime. It's your turn! Let's see what you got." There he goes calling me hime again with that signature smirk of his. Seriously, when he does that I feel like my heart's gonna burst.

"Uh.. yeah yeah okay." I just replied."Luna. Its our last run before we finish training today. Give it your all like you always do. And watch your jumps, we need to work on your quads some more next week. They're still under rotated. And your triple triples." Brian said as I took my position in the middle of the rink and said "Haiiii~"

Right after I finished, I was out of breath like I always was. But this was a bit less tiring just because its just the short. However, I keep telling myself I can do better. I feel that I HAVE to do better.

As I was normalising my breathing, I hear Yuzu's applause, showing me two thumbs up and Uncle Brian coming to me patting my shoulder. "You did amazing as always Luna. Like I said, just a few more polishes on the jumps and we're good to go. It looks like we'll be training on your free programs as early as next week!"

"Thanks Uncle! Anyways, I'm just gonna fix my things before going home." I said to him as I headed to the lockers. When I was done changing, I came out and saw Yuzu waiting for me outside, hands crossed over his chest. He was also carrying my bag.

"Oh hey Yuzu-kun. I thought you already left?" I said to him reaching for my bag hanging fro. his shoulder. "I'll hold this. Coach Brian said your brother called. He said he'll be home late tonight because something came up at the hospital so he asked me to bring you home instead!" Yuzu just smiled at me. That idiot brother. What's he up to now. Ugh.

"Uhm... are you sure I won't be a bother? I can go home by myself you know. And maybe your house is far from mine so.." I replied frantically. I seriously don't want to be a bother. We're both tired from training, too. "Nonsense, Luna-chan. Your brother already texted me your address and it's on the way to mine so no worries. Besides, I won't let you go home alone, hime. It's dark out. We don't want some creepy guys hitting on you, right? Now come on!" He said to me and stretched his hand out for me to hold.

I just sighed and smiled. How can you give me someone like this when I don't even have much time left..I reach for his hand and looked up to him, "Let's go Yuzu-kun"

*****As my house was not far from the rink, like 30-minute walk, I just asked Yuzu if it was okay if we can just walk there. Apparently, my house was just 10 minutes away from his. Great. Now my brother would find more excuses for Yuzu to pick me up and take me home. Well, not that it matters. I kinda like this better...

The walk home was... interesting. Halfway to my house, I let go of Yuzu's hand to check my phone while walking. Just then two drunk guys were walking towards our way. Yuzu just put up the hood of my coat, held my shoulders and pulled me to change our positions so I was out of the guys' way and they won't see me. My eyes widened at his actions and as we walked past the guys, he took my phone, put it in his pocket, and held my hand instead. "We'll be home soon hime. Just check your phone later. You might trip." He just said to me as squeezed my hand. I just hummed in response. And there, we walked in comfortable silence.

Now we arrived at the front of my house. I was slightly concealing my tiredness from all the walking that we did. A 30-minute walk is no joke, especially for me. I just don't want him to think something's wrong. At least not now."Here we are your majesty." He said to me as he bowed jokingly."Oh come on stop that Yuzu." I just laughed at him. "Thank you... for walking me home. And..""And?" Yuzu looked at me confused."And for taking care of me for the past few months. I'm really thankful..." I continued looking down at my feet. "Hey look at me." Yuzu then held my chin and made me look up to him softly. "I wanted to. It's nothing to be thankful for. You're worth it." He said as he pushed loose strands of hair from my face. I just look at him, stopping tears from falling down my face. "Just... Thank you, Yuzu. Thank you..." I said to him sincerely as I held his hand that was caressing my cheek. "Now go inside. It's cold out here. Good night, hime. See you tomorrow." Yuzu said.

And before he let go, he leaned down as his warm lips made contact with my forehead for a few seconds. He then walked away, waving with his back facing me.

I just stood in front of my house for a good 5 minutes when a hold gently went up to my forehead where Yuzu left a kiss.

Maybe I should take this risk, too?

And with that thought, I went inside and slept happily.-----------------------Heyaaaaaa. Chapter 5 here! I hope you guys liked it. Please comment about the pacing of the story. I feel like I should be taking things a bit slow and steady instead of just baam.

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