Disclaimer: I've run out of clever ways to say that I don't own squat.

Grinning Reaper: Yah, this is my first what might be seriously on going Slash amongst Knights And Their Chicken-Wusses. As a minor side note before we begin...Yah. I am aware that most of the gang wasn't around the orphanage at the age of ten but pretend with me okay?!? Fank yoos! ;)

First Kiss



"Seifer." Irvine said at last. "Truth or Dare?" It was Selphie's tenth birthday and the 'gang' was locked up in her room playing games. Seifer gave Irvine a disgusted look. Like Irvine had to ASK which one he'd choose.

"Dare." The lanky boy said as if it were the only choice. Irvine rubbed his chin thoughtfully (and thought to himself that this action would look a lot cooler if he had a beard.) He had to think of a really good dare. Something that by absolutely no means even Seifer would do. (And if he did he would be a laughing stock!) Irvine thought and finally decided on a good enough dare. But he needed a victim. Someone who was oblivious, someone who would embarrasses Seifer to no end. Irvine's green eyes gazed around the room...and finally rested on his target. A pair of long thin legs propped up on a wall and a golden head buried in a comic book.

"I dare you to kiss Zell." Irvine said at last. Seifer leapt up out of his chair.

"WHAT?!? That's NUTS!" Zell, who had heard his name looked up from his Ifrit Man comic book. (It was one of the older issues, the old Ifrit Man didn't look as cool and young as the new one but it was still pretty good.)

"Huh?" He sat up. "Kiss me?? EW!!"

"It's Truth or Dare." Irvine said matter-of-factly. "Ya gotta do it." He said standing so he and Seifer were eye to eye.

"Yeah." Voiced Squall. Quistis bit her lower lip.

"That is kinda unfair though." Irvine gave Quistis a nasty look and turned a sweeter gaze on Selphie.

"You're the birthday girl. You decide." He said grinning his gap toothed grin and trying his best to convince the petite child with his eyes. Selphie looked thoughtful for a moment and twiddled a strand of hair around her finger.

"Okay." She decreed at last, grinning widely. Irvine whooped for joy. Being handsome DID help you out after all!

"I'm not doin' it." Seifer said scowling terribly and crossing his arms over his chest.

"Yeah, me too! No way! Uh-uh! Not in a lifetime! Not ever! YUCK!" Zell agreed. Seifer glowered at him.

"Stay outta this baby." Zell stomped a slender bare foot and gave Seifer what would have been a glower that was much more murderous save for the fact that it looked rather like a pout.

"I am NOT a baby you big stupid....ASS!" Zell nearly shouted using a word he had heard an actor use on TV.

"I'm tellin' Matron you said a bad word!" Quisits gasped, her saucer blue eyes widening. Zell pouted a bit and crossed his arms sullenly.

"Will not!" He returned.

"Will to!"

"Waaaaait a second here!" Irvine waved his arms, silencing the two blondes before their argument could go any further.

"Seifer if you won't do it you a coward!" Squall said suddenly, knowing just the right words to say to get his rival started.

"I am not!" Seifer objected, outraged.

"Then why won't you do it?" Squall asked, a tiny, rare smile playing on the boy's face. "Coward." Seifer sulked for a few moments and fumed silently under his breath.

"Okay I'll do it." Seifer said at last.

"Wh-wh-WHAT!?!" Zell shrieked.

"But only to prove that I'm not a coward or anything." Seifer said over the din that Zell was creating. The smaller of the two boys made a mad dash for the half open door.

"Get him!" Irvine shouted, lunging for Zell's slender frame. After several long minutes, Irvine and Squall managed to wrestle a failing Zell in to a chair, and Squall was taught the pain of being kicked in the groin.

"I dun wanna do it. Irvine do I hafta?" Zell asked looking up at his tormenter with wide blue eyes and a quivering lower lip. Zell was quite aware that his patented 'puppy face' was often what got him out of scrapes.

"Yes you do." Irvine said tightening his grip on Zell's arms. Darn it. He must not have looked pathetic enough. Zell sighed and hung his head. His fate was sealed. Seifer shuffled over so he was standing in front of Zell, looking as if he was about to hit every last person in the room in the mouth. Quistis and Selphie gathered around them also.

"Go on." Giggled Selphie, giving Seifer a slight push. "Do it."

"I'm gonna! I'm only doin' this because it's your birthday y'know." Seifer shot back.

"Yeah I know." Selphie said giggling still. "Men." She said to Quistis, shaking her head. After what was much hesitating and struggling, Seifer bent over and gave Zell a quick kiss on the corner of his mouth.

"Hey that isn't fair! It's gotta be longer than that!" Squall protested deciding that if his anatomy was going to suffer than so was Seifer.

"Yeah." Irvine piped up. "Ten seconds. Selphie and Quistis you count. Oh, and it has to be one the *mouth* not just part of it." Zell began to call Irvine and ass but decided that that might not be a good idea because Quistis really would tell this time and if she told the he would really be in- Zell's entire train of rambling, tumbling thought was stopped when Seifer, darted forward and kissed him again, his eyes scrunched tightly shut. Zell blinked his eyes a few times then did the proper thing and shut them. Was it just him or were Selphie and Quistis counting unusually slow? It actually wasn't as bad as he expected it to be, even though he was perfectly aware that he was wasting his first kiss on Seifer. Still...it was actually kind of nice.

"Nine Chicobo...TEN Chocobo!" Selphie and Quistis chanted at last. Seifer and Zell practically jumped apart and both began wiping their mouths.

"I'm goin' down stairs, this game is for babies anyway." A red cheeked Seifer said turning on heel.

"Yeah." Agreed Zell flopping back on to the bed and picking up his abandoned comic book. He pulled the Ifrit man book up over his face to hide the tiny smile that was on it.

"Hey Squall," Selphie said. "Truth or Dare?"



Grinning Reaper: Yeah well that's the end of it. Whaddaya think? Should they kiss again? Should I draw it out more? Should I stop asking these questions and get to writing the next chapter?? Questions comments and requests are welcome. Reviews are cherished. ::hint hint wink wink:: Oh, by the way happy Thanksgiving!