An Innuendo or Two
He parried another shot. Riku was relentless. Sure they were play fighting, but to them, this was a serious competition, a test of their masculinity, to see who was better than the other.
Riku lunged forward again. Sora dodged and hit Riku in the back of the neck. Riku fell onto his hands and knees. Sora jumped in for the finishing blow. Riku rolled out of the way and Sora's wooden sword got stuck in the sand of the little paupu tree island. While Sora was attempting to pull out the sword. Riku kicked Sora in the ass causing him to do a half-somersault and land firmly on his back.
"Told you I'd win" Riku said arrogantly, pointing his sword at Sora's face. Sora at that moment freed his sword and hit Riku in the shin (their mom's spent a fortune on band-aids, you know). This caused Riku to flinch enough for Sora to regain his balance and strike at Riku again. Riku blocked and did an amazing backwards jump onto the paupu tree. Sora jumped after him and landed on the paupu tree, Riku then struck with a strong blow. Sora blocked it easily . . . but lost his balance.
Sora fell about seven feet into the waters of Destiny Islands with a splash.
"Are you okay?" Riku asked.
"It's . . . a little hard to . . . swim when you're wearing . . . giant shoes!" Sora replies while choking down water.
Riku laughed and began taking off his clothes. He took off his shoes, socks and shirt, leaving him in just his pants.
Riku jumped in the water and pulled him onto the beach. They flopped onto the beach panting, Sora on his back, Riku on his front, his arm still wrapped around Sora's waist.
Sora looked over at his best friend who had just saved his life to find his shimmering blue eyes staring back at him. His heart fluttered.
Sora jumped up. Riku followed.
"What's wrong?" Riku asked.
"I don't . . . I don't know" Sora replied before bolting home as fast as possible.
Sora dashed home as fast as possible. When he got home, he took of his shoes, ran up the stairs, ran into his room and slammed the door behind him.
"What was that?" Sora asked himself in his thoughts. He shook nervously as he paced back and forth in his room. "I can't be in love with him, he's Riku, he's my best friend, he's a . . . boy. If I was in love with a boy, that would make me . . . " Sora sank to the floor and began to cry. He must have been crying for five minutes, tears were streaming from his eyes when he heard a knock on the door. Sora froze. The door opened and Riku stepped in.
Riku made eye contact with a teary eyed Sora. "Are you okay?" Riku asked.
"I'm . . . I'm fine" Sora stood up, wiped the tears from his eyes and gave Riku a big smile that only Sora could give.
Riku returned a caring smile. "I don't believe you for a second" he said " I'll be at home if you need to talk" Sora nodded as Riku walked out the door.
Sora waited five minutes. He got up, put his shoes on, walked out the front door and ran down the road. He had to talk to Kairi.