And here's where the real fun starts. Kinda.

Sora: 11

Riku: 12

"Okay, boys." Seiya deposited the last bag on the floor. "That's everything we have."

"Awesome." Riku began digging through the one closest to him. Sora hadn't waited and had two of the five bags on the floor torn apart already. "Thanks for letting us have a party, Seiya."

"Oh, of course." Sora's mom smoothed Riku's hair. "You know I love Christmas and parties! I couldn't wait till you were old enough to want to start having them."

She stepped away from him and turned toward the kitchen. "Now I'm going to get started on the food so you two get going on the decorating. You have about two hours before your guests show up."

She disappeared and the boys continued routing through the items. Riku chuckled lightly as he removed a coil of garland. "I don't know why we're bothering to do this. Your house is already totally decked out."

"Yeah, I know." Sora moved on to another bag. "I just wanted to see if there was anything else we wanted out."

"I can't think of anything…" Riku paused as something caught his eye. He reached in the bag and pulled it out. "Oh, what is this?"

Sora looked over. "What's what?"

Grinning, Riku held his discovery up. "Mistletoe."

"I didn't know we had that!"

"We are so putting this up!" Riku leapt to his feet and began searching for a good place to hang the item.

"Wh-what?" Sora stuttered in disbelief. "Why?"

"Oh come on, Sora." The older male decided that the air vent grate near the front window was the best spot and looked for something to stand on so that he could reach it. "You're the one who told me what mistletoe was for."

"Well, yeah but," said Sora, a light blush coming to his cheeks. "You really think anyone's gonna want to do that?"

"Selphie will." Riku took the coffee table and dragged it over to the window. "And you know that Wakka has a thing for Nichole. There's a few other crushes, too."

"I guess so." The brunet pursed his lips. Actually, it might be kinda fun to have the mistletoe there. He didn't quite understand the appeal of girls yet but he heard a lot about them and he had to admit he was curious. Kissing was supposed to be a lot of fun and it would give him an excuse to-

"I wonder if I can get Kairi under here."

Sora's head whipped toward his best friend. Riku was balanced on the table and had stretched up to wrap the wire of the sprig of mistletoe around one of the vents. "You… you want to kiss Kairi?"

Riku shrugged awkwardly. His arms were still stretched above his head. "She's a pretty girl."

Sora had noticed that about his female best friend. Like it had been with Riku, Sora had instantly taken to the girl from the time he met her two years ago. Luckily Riku had also hit it off with her and the three were fast friends.

It should not have bothered him that Riku wanted to kiss Kairi under the mistletoe. She was his friend, too. However it did. A lot. He wasn't sure why.

Riku laughed, breaking Sora of his thoughts. He hopped off the table and pushed it back where it came from. "What's the matter, Sora? Afraid she'd like kissing me more than you?"

Blue eyes narrowed as Sora pouted. "I didn't say I wanted to kiss her."

"Oh?" Riku tilted his head. "Then why'd you get weird about it?"

"Uh…"

A strange look came to Riku's aqua eyes and he walked toward Sora. He placed his hands on his hips and leaning forward, smirked at Sora. "You want me to kiss you instead?"

"What?" The spiky-haired boy started. He shoved Riku away. "That's stupid, Ku. We're both boys."

"So?"

Flustered but he didn't know why, Sora made a face. "I don't want to kiss you, either."

Something sad flitted across Riku's expression but it was gone in an instant. He laughed again and went back to the bags on the floor. "I don't think there's going to be anything else in here. I'm gonna put them away."

"Okay."

As Riku left with the bags, Sora watched. When he disappeared, the smaller boy glanced up at the mistletoe hanging innocently in the window. He then looked back in the direction Riku had gone. Maybe it wouldn't be weird to kiss his best friend under the mistletoe…

…But which one?

Shaking his head of the strange thought, Sora heading for the kitchen to see if his mom needed any help.