Yurio

We are in the dinning room, eating a delicious breakfast that Yuri made. The food is really the only reason why I agreed to meet at the Ninjas before going the, Hasetsu's castle.

I just wanted to go to the castle, so that I could meet the wedding planner, and slip in my ideas for the wedding before the idiot couple came and gave their input. They are such old people, they want a cutesy wedding with sophisticated decoration. Oh hell no. There needs to be some edgy element to this wedding.

But I would never turn down an offer of eating Yuri's home cooked meals.

Once we finish eating a delicious breakfast of pancakes, I immediately stand up and shout. "First one there gets to decide the flowers for the bouquet." And the dash out of the house.

I really want the bouquet to be actual flour packets... I love the pun! Imagine when they throw the bouquet, and the package opens and spills flour all over the waiting guests!

As I'm running I hear footsteps coming up behind me. I know that it's Victor giving chase, even with out having to look back.

"If you play dirty it doesn't count!" I yell back at him.

"You're the one playing dirty!" He yells back creating an ice sheet on the ground in front of me, so instantly I jump to the roofs and continue on.

Suddenly a black car with tinted windows speeds past on the road below. I glance at the license plate.

Ninjas

Yep that's Yuri.

I try to pick up my pace, but the car who probably had Beka and Kasai in it too, speeds off, leaving us in the dust.

Dammit. I knew that Yuri wouldn't approve of my plan for the flour... put come on... think of the pun man!

I just hope it's Beka who gets out of the car first so that he can pick the bouquet... even if he does end up picking actual flowers, I'm sure they would be beautiful.

•••

Kasai

Otabek is the first one to get off the car, so I guess technically he's the one who can pick what's in the bouquet.

I glance down at my watch.

7:53 am

Well we aren't that early. I mean we still have to wait for Victor and Yurio to catch up.

I look around trying to see if Minami is here yet.

"Who are you looking for?" Niichan asks looking around too.

"Um, er- I... I just was wondering who would arrive first between Victor and Yurio."

Niichan laughs. "Well it'll definitely be Victor."

"I wouldn't be to sure about that." Otabek smiles.

"Oh really?" Yuri challenges.

They go off on a friendly squabble over whose significant other will win.

I silently slip away to go check my phone. Suddenly someone jostles into my, and I look up from my phone to mumble a "sorry", but when I look up, I see a smirk and the chicken nugget hair.

"Forgive me fair lady for bumping into you." He says over exaggerating while bowing in a very 'high class snoppy' voice.

"Oh no kind sir, it is I who must apologize. It seems as said I was lost in thought, and was distracted from my surroundings." I say going along with him in the same voice.

"If it polite for me to ask, what was occupying the fair lady's mind. I do sincerely hope that it was...," he the raises his eyebrows and drops the 'high class' voice, "this incredibly hot and sexy man."

We both laugh, "Only in your dreams." I wheeze out... because clearly not in my dreams to I imagine him... not as extream boyfriend material, eating ice cream together, shopping together...yep not as all.

"Well yes of course." He replays flashing me with a smile.

"You have dreams about yourself? You hot and sexy narcissist."

"Well at least you admit the hot and sexy part." He laughs. I blush, "but no," he continues, "it's that I have dreams with you in them. Anyways aren't dreams almost always about oneself. After all it's you're own subconscious reflecting on what happened during the day, and what is to come..."

"Well maybe we should go meet up with Niichan." I say changing the subject. I think about dreams all night, I really don't need to think about them during the day.

Niichan rounds the corner smiling, "I thought someone was calling me." His smile dims a bit when he sees Minami. Honestly Niichan, what's so bad about him?

"Hey Niichan, Minami and I just bumped into each other." I say. He raises an eyebrow. "Niichan this wasn't planned at all. I mean how would Minami know that would would be here if all places at this time?"

Minami joins in, "Yes sir, I was really just planning on coming here to get some inspiration for my art." He rummages inside his bag and pulls out a sketchbook. "Our culture is something that I find truly interesting, and thus I can find plenty of inspiration here. Isn't the combination of the past and the present shown through art truly touching?"

"Ah, yes." Niichan says.

"So you wouldn't mind if he joins us on our tour right Niichan?" I ask trying to sound as innocent as possible. "I mean we are going through some of the sections that are closed off to the public, and I am sure that that will be a lot of things that Minami can be inspired from. You wouldn't want to cut an artist off from his source, now would you Niichan?"

I knew that there would be no way for Niichan to avoid bringing Minami along now.

"I guess he can..." he says. He sighs and walks back around the corner calling over his shoulder, "come on hurry up then, we wouldn't want to be late."

"You were smart to bring the sketch pad," I say in a low voice to Minami as we follow after Niichan.

"I need to remember this, because it's the only time you'll ever call me smart," he jokes. I roll my eyes, "but no seriously, I was thinking about a reason I could randomly show up at the castle, and I looked over at my table and saw my sketch book and was like, that's it!"

•_•_• (time skip)

After our tour, we go to a quaint little restaurant across the street for ramen.

We did down at a six person table, and order our food.

"So Yuri tells me that you're an artist!" Victor says as I pour everyone their tea, being the youngest.

"Ummm..." Minami glances over at me... please don't tell me that this is going to me an interrogation session. "Ya I guess I kinda am."

"Kinda?" Yurio asks, "what do you mean kinda, like you're either an artist or you're not."

"Well," Minami explains, "I don't classify myself to be good enough to be considered an artists. But I like drawing and painting."

"What's you're favorite medium?" Otabek asks.

"I love to use water colors. The ways the colours can blend together and the soft image that is can make is the best. But when I'm sketching, I like to use charcoals." Minami answers.

Otabek nods and smiles, taking a drink of his tea. It's a good thing Minami actually is interested in art.

"Do you have anything you can show us!" Victor says eargerly.

"Ya I'd love to see your art work too! I love art!" Yurio jumps in. He starts pulling off his sweater, but Otabek puts his hand on Yurio's back. "It's okay Beka, I'm just going to show him my tattoo."

Otabek reluctantly takes his hand away, and Yurio pulls off his sweater. He's wearing a black tang top underneath, and turns his back to up, and pull on off the straps off his shoulder so that we can see his tattoo better.

It's of course, a tiger. Inked in blue and green ink, it stands out in contrast to his snow pale skin.

"Wow..." Minami says. He reaches out. "Can I touch it?"

Yurio nods, but Otabek grabs Minami's hand

"Okay I guess I can't... that's... that's cool too." Minami says quickly retracting his hand.

"Can I please see your artwork!?!" Pleaded Victor as Yuri put on his sweater again.

Niichan elbows him, "You can't ask those things. For some artists, their work is extremely personal. Especially what they put in their sketchbook. It's like a diary. You can't go asking artist to show them your sketchbook no more than can you ask a random stranger to read their diary."

"But I just wanna see-" Victor complains.

"Ummm..." Minami cuts in. I raise my eyebrow. Is he actually going to let them look at his sketchbook? Even I haven't seen the whole thing. He's only shown me certain pages... he marks the sections that I'm allowed to see, and the ones that I'm not. He glances over at me, "If you would like you could look through it."

He goes through his bag, and brings out his sketchbook, "the sections in between the pink sticky notes I rather you not look at." He hands his notebook over to Victor's eager hands.

Immediate everyone except me and Minami crowd over his sketchbook. Victor is rapidly flipping through pages, and Yurio is telling him to slow down.

Yuri tells Victor to slow down or else he wouldn't know when he got to the pink sectioned pages, but right as he says this, Victor flips to a pink flagged page. For a brief moment I see silver hair, and a piercing green eyes with a dabble of orange... and an eerily familiar smile. I shiver a little bit, and so does Otabek. But Victor continues to flip, and the image is gone.

I blink, and look up at Minami. He seems on edge, but Yuri then made sure that Victor would slow down, and warned Victor when they were coming to a pink section.

I tried to recreate that brief glance I had of that image... why did it seem kind of familiar? Who was the person?

They get to the last work of the sketchbook.

"Wow... look at that!" Victor's comment breaks me out of my thoughts.

I look down at the page and see my own face looking back up at me over my shoulder. I'm wearing a traditional kimono, but my shoulders are bare, and on my shoulder you can see a little peep of an ink black tattoo. The off shoulder kimono has the top part of a floral pattern, and there was a dark wine red high waisted long straight pleated skirt tied off with a dull magenta obi. My hair was left draping behind me, hiding the middle of my back. But what was interesting is that Minami colour it silver... I dye my hair black... how did Minami know that silver is actually my natural colour?...

Hastily Minami closes the book. "I didn't finish that one yet. I forgot to mark it pink because I was doing it last night. It's still a work in progress."

"That was... that was-" Niichan begins...Oh no. I hope he isn't that mad... but Victor cut him off, "Can we have that when you finish it?"

Minami blinks, looking surprised. I'm taken aback as well. I thought Niichan and Victor would flip that they found a drawing of me...

I blush... I can't believe he actually drew me... I always knew that he was an amazing drawer, and liked to take inspiration from his surroundings... but that drawing... it seemed personal... like he meant it for his eyes only...

I look up at him, and our eyes meet. Is it just me or is he blushing. He turns away, breaking our eye contact.

"Umm..." he hesitates, "sure... I mean, yes. I'd love to give it to you. That is if I could get an invite to your wedding, I'm sure it would make a great gift. I mean I could even paint it and frame it for you."

There he goes trying to get an invite to his idols wedding.

"Deal." Victor shakes his hand, "but it needs to be big, and if you need, you can even get Kasai to model for you. I just want it done big so that any guest who comes in takes one look at the painting, and thinks, 'Wow she's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.'"

Minami shakes and smiles. He looks over at me, still smiling. "That won't be hard to do at all. I'll just have to paint what is right in front of me. After all everyone thinks that she's beautiful."

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Original a/n that was posted with this chapter

A/n

Hello lovely human beans~

HhhhhhhhhHHHooooOOOOwwww was the chapter... I hope it was cute... I was trying for cute.

It's summer, and I don't know what to do with my life...

Anyjuice, see you in 2 days with a new chapter.

Peace out.