A/N: Yeah… so this happens BEFORE the drabble I did first… Haha my bad! Also, I spelled Kalos’s name wrong on my first drabble. (Kalos, not Calos) And I don’t think I got the dialog EXACTLY right… but it’s close enough!

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Meant to Be

Leaping

Finally, she had finally done it! Sora was not only given the chance to be on THE Kaleido Stage, but she was actually doing better! The cries of the little girl had opened her soul, making her relive the feeling of what it was like to simply be alive! That was exactly how Sora felt on the stage!

It no longer mattered that Layla was waiting, or that Ken was anxiously watching in the wings. Heck, she didn’t even care if Kalos approved of the size of her thighs or not! All that mattered was the spring of the trampoline underneath her, and the shouts and cheers of the crowd that she performed for.

It was all for them.

Sora was hit, for a mere second, of the princely vision she had seen earlier that day striding backstage. Yuri. She instantly dismissed it. She would count herself extremely lucky if she ever managed to land a partner like Yuri, but for now the trampoline and the audience was enough for her.

Sora felt herself rocket upwards, caught up in the delight of performing. The brilliant suddenly flooded the stage, and Sora felt blinded for a moment. That mere moment was all that was needed in order to knock her off course.

Sora’s already pumping adrenaline kicked into high speed, she would never survive a fall from this height! Her frenzied mind contemplated the possibility of trying to swim through the air to try and get over, what else could she do?

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Yuri’s heart froze when he saw that the new girl, the plum haired Japanese girl, was going to fall in between the trampolines. He had heard her dreamy sigh when she had seen him earlier, and he found it amusing. However something utterly foreign was beating in his heart as his mouth went dry while the small girl dropped. He had to save her. In his impatience he let his mask slip as he lunged past Ken, hurrying to get out fast enough to catch the girl.

“Out of the way!” he shouted before leaping onstage, vaulting onto a trampoline. He came up as she fell down, and he managed to grab her and maintain a balance for both of them.

His hands tightened around her small but muscled waist, and he could feel the girl tense in his arms. Her eyes were practically falling out of her head.

“Just keep smiling,” he told Sora with a charming grin, wondering at how he was able to force it himself when his heart was franticly beating with relief, and the strange part was he didn’t have a clue as to why.

They made a safe landing, and both chose a pose, Yuri maneuvering himself close to the tiny acrobat. He liked the feeling of her small form spooned against his. She was soft and warm, unlike Layla who was usually stiff, and not at all trusting.

As they trekked off stage Yuri shrank into the shadows. Layla was prowling around, and it wouldn’t do any good for her to see them together.

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Sora was frightened out of her mind when Yuri came swooping in. HE was the last person she expected to see onstage, saving her much less! As he held her, Sora couldn’t help but wonder if this was how Layla felt every time she and Yuri performed together, complete and stable.

In Yuri’s strong and steady grip Sora couldn’t but help relax. He was, warm. Standing next to him made something deep inside of her well up, almost like the elation of soaring through the air when bouncing on the trampoline.

As Sora waved at the audience that was roaring with approval, she felt like she had been given the greatest gift ever. Her first debut performance on Kaleido Stage was a success, she had pulled off the climax, and it ended on a perfect note with the help of a prince. Best yet on her first performance ever, she finished with Yuri Killian. And that was something she thought she would never be able to top again.

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Yuri thanked his lucky stars for several things. First off that no one wondered exactly how he had been able to react so fast. It never occurred to them that in order to see Sora’s danger…he would have to be watching her, and only her, very closely. Well, it never occurred to anyone except for a boy who seemed to be smitten with Sora, but he was already suspicious because of the shout Yuri had aimed at him.

Secondly was the fact that Ken never did opened his mouth to tell anyone about those curt words that had been barked out in a moment of panic. Little did Yuri know that those few words, however harmless they might be, were what allowed Ken to see that there was truly much more to Yuri the Russian aerialist then simply being Layla’s partner. They were also what made Ken aware that Yuri, even at his worst, would always be thinking of Sora, always.

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A/N: Hah, that was supposed to be foreshadowing to when Yuri turns ‘bad’. Hear me out people, does anybody else see how Yuri was sorta curt that ONE time, and then up until he’s like “muwahah Kaleido stage is MINE” he’s all nice and sweet? Good point eh?