Verb [uh-sev-uh-reyt]

- To declare earnestly or solemnly; affirm positively; aver.

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"Hello Lewis!" Hiroko exclaimed, greeting the tall Brunette as he strolled carelessly through
the Katsuki Hot Springs's entrance. Lewis nodded at the smaller woman "Hello Mrs. Katsuki." Hiroko flushed slightly, waving her hand at the handsome man. "For the last time, Lewis. Just call me 'Hiroko'." Lewis noted that, even though he will keep calling her 'Mrs. Katsuki'. He liked working at the Hot Springs, his bosses were extremely nice and very understanding (they don't try to smack him with a broom if he's late like Sayuri does).

Lewis glanced around the room of drinking men, he saw no sights of a certain chubby Japanese man. "Where's Yuri?" He asked Hiroko glancing about the main room, there were few men in green robe clothing drinking sake in front of the Television. "Yuuri is outside, shoveling snow."

The Brunette nodded solemnly, Yuuko given him a mission to cheer the chubby Japanese man up, since he would probably be sulking in his room. But he wasn't too depressed about the video to shovel snow. 

I'll just talk to him later... Lewis thought, walking to the bathroom to change out of his snow-covered clothes into his red jumpsuit. He was cleaning the outside spring in the Male section, since he lost a bet against Mari.

Suddenly a brown blur sped down the hallway, pounced onto the chest of the unexpected man.

Thump!

Lewis let out a low grunt as his ass painfully met contact with the wooden floor, the thing that knocked him off was sitting on his legs. Lewis glared at the large brown squirming thing, it was a big brown poodle.

Lewis blinked at the poodle, it looked identical to Victor, the Katsuki's family dog who sadly passed away recently. Lewis liked Victor, or Vickie, as he called the poodle, the dog was very playful and well-trained. Lewis often played with the late poodle during his breaks, when he was bored and without any entertainment.

Lewis reached up a hand, began petting the poodle's soft chocolate curls as the dog panted louder and attempted to lick the Brunette's face.

"My goodness! Lewis! Are you okay?" Cried Hiroko, hurrying around the corner with her husband trailing behind, she came to check on Lewis when she heard the loud thud from the front office.

Lewis silently nodded at his worried employers "I'm fine." He briefly stated, gesturing to the happy poodle in his lap. His employers relaxed, letting the worry for the tall brunette melt away. "Well...that's a relief!" Exclaimed Toshiya, wiping the sweat from his aging forehead, as his wife nodding along, then added "We didn't want you to get hurt in the job! You might not have been able to skate for a while."

Lewis nodded, absentmindedly running his fingers into the soft fur of the poodle. Then, it dawned on him to ask while his bosses are here, "When you get a new dog?" He asked. He was there last Thursday helping Mari with cleaning the Women's bath section, he remembers wanting to drown himself in the hot five-feet-deep water, so he didn't need to listen to Mari's crappy taste in music for another minute. He would have known if the Katsuki family gotten another dog. 

"Huh? We didn't get a new dog," Hiroko said pointing to the drooling poodle in Lewis's lap "He belongs to a new customer."

"New customer?" That somewhat perked Lewis's interest, it was very rare to get new customers.

"Yeah, quite a handsome fellow with a thick accent. I think, Eastern European." Toshiya said, thinking back to their new customer. Lewis hummed lowly to him, patting the soft head of the poodle.

He couldn't help but feel this day is particular was going to be interesting.

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Lewis was dressed and now armed with his cleaning supplies, walked through the entrance of the Men's baths. Steam hung thick in the humid air of the indoor bath, as various men relaxed in the hot water.

Lewis wasn't the biggest on bathhouses, he had been to many different ones in Europe. But never seemed to enjoy the idea of sitting into your own "soup" with other strange men. But who was he to judge?

Lewis quietly walked across the wet tile floors towards the glass door, separating the two indoor bath with the outdoor one.

"Hey. There he is, that silent man I've told about."

"Wow. I never seen somebody as cold as him, he has the eyes of a soldier."

That last comment made him scoffed slightly. Lewis was used to be commented on, he stuck out like a sore thumb. It was obvious that he was a foreigner, from Lewis's features to the way Lewis spoke his fluent Japanese in an American accent. But having the 'eyes of a soldier', isn't a comment that Lewis was used to hearing. It made the brunette curious, what about his eyes made that man think about a soldier?

Was it the dull, almost nonexistent light in his violet eyes? Does it show the pain that he tries to mask?

Lewis left his thoughts, and reached to open the glass door. The cool night breeze hit the slender brunette, he sighed as the coldness cooled his skin from the sweat-inducing stream inside. He stepped out in their outdoor bath area, letting the door closes before him. Setting down the bucket filled with the clean cleaning rags inside, and noticed a glaze boring to the holes upon his face. 

He looked up to see a man sitting in the steaming water, just staring at him. Lewis frowned at the rude staring of the male, and decided to speak up. "Hey. The Outside pool is closed right now." The White-haired man pouted at the handsome Brunette in front of him and whined carelessly "Aww....but the water feels nice." Lewis arched a silent eyebrow at the man, he could tell that this man was a foreigner. Most likely to be from Russia from his accent. Also, something about the naked Russian was familiar to Lewis, but couldn't put his finger on it.

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Yuuri raced down the hallway towards the male baths. He ignored the confused protests from his parents as he knocked over a table, sending the objects flying as he ran off. He had just returned from shoveling the snow outside, and was immediately tackled  by what he thought was the ghost of Vic-chan. When he asked about his father about the poodle, his father replied about  "a really good-looking foreign guest." Yuuri knew it must be him.

Yuuri opened the door of the Male bath, running through the steamy room like a madman. And then, he slammed open the door. Yuuri was unconscious to the fact that he had knocked something large in the water. Yuuri looked around the outdoor pool, until his dark eyes connected with bright blue ones.

Yuuri's eye widened as his body stood dumbfounded as he stared at his idol, Victor Nikiforov who sat naked in the hot water. "Vi-Victor...Why are you here?" He managed to let out in his shocked state. Victor noticed the man and stood up nude from the water, leaving nothing for the imagination. 

Then the white-haired man struck a confident pose, reaching out a hand to the Japanese man. "Yuuri, starting today, I'm your new coach. I'll make you win the Grand Prix Final" Victor exclaimed, ending it with a wink. 

Yuuri blinked at the Russian idol for a moment, before letting out a loud "What?!".  While, Lewis stared blankly at the snowy sky as he floated in his jumpsuit around the hot spring, mustering all his willpower not to drown Yuuri Katsuki and his new coach in the heated water. 

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Yay! Victor is here, now sexy times with Lewis begins~

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, sorry if it's too short. I'll try to make the next one longer. So if you like it, please leave a vote/comment below! 

Bye~