Valentine's Day finds Yuuri crowding Viktor against a wall, pressing their bodies flush together with a daring he ordinarily reserves for the ice. He steals a kiss, lips grazing the corner of Viktor's mouth, just enough to sample a taste. Extra, he and Yurio have called Viktor plenty of times, except this time Yuuri feels it's his turn to have a go at the label. He holds up a box—wrapped with blue ribbon— and presses it between their chests. "Chocolates for you," he says, breathless and beaming.
Valentine’s Day had been something, traditionally, Viktor had spent holed up in his tiny, bland apartment with his cellphone off (and thrown halfway across the room, and preferably shoved beneath a thousand layers of cotton sheets) while tuning out Makkachin’s almost rhythmic whimpers from beyond the worn door to his cluttered bedroom. Before that, it had been spent at shallow bars and twisted in foreign sheets that smelled of alcohol and strangers he could never even place a face to. Long before that, it had been spent with late night wishes and soft kisses to the top of a fluffy head because he had convinced himself that Makkachin was his soulmate (and infinitely better than the meek, wide-eyed children that sang him praises without even personally knowing him).
Never had he expected to spend it with his spine curling painfully against the wall of a small hot spring and inn thousands of miles from the country he called home with his face as flush as the color of Makkachin’s tongue. Cerulean hues as wide as the vast oceans as they stare, unblinking, at the man pushed unabashedly against him, and mouth parted slightly in surprise. But the ghost of a kiss that dances along the corner of his lips is enough to snap his jaw shut to swallow the horribly undignified whimper that threatened to crawl up his cracked throat.
Viktor has never been an easy to surprise; he’s used to weaving careful tales and complex plans, but Yuuri, and Yuuri alone, is capable of shaking the very foundation that Viktor just barely manages to stand upon. And he does it too often and too quickly for Viktor’s fragile heart. And Viktor’s convinced he might just shatter if Yuuri keeps up at this pace (but he might not mind bending either; to give in to whatever Yuuri has in store for him).
“Ah - Yuuri,” he breathes, twisting his lips into a timid smile in an attempt to hide the way his voice cracks when he forces out the words. Just barely does he manage to snake a trembling hand between their bodies to wrap his fingers gently about Yuuri’s and the box pressed against their chests. “Thank you,” he manages with a bit more conviction than before. “But I have something for you, as well,” he whispers, leaning forward to press a gentle kiss against the other man’s lips that lingers for longer than it should.
Normally he wouldn’t partake in such a holiday, but Yuuri’s mother had talked him into making chocolates for the other man (with her help, of course, because Viktor certainly didn’t know his way around the kitchen). But when he finally leans back, he pulls the small box out from behind his back (where it had been shoved against the wall, leaving the ribbon on top a tad bit off center), and presents it to the other man. “Happy Valentine’s Day, Yuuri.”