Title: Best of You
Drabble #12: The Difference Between Friends and Friends
Theme: Realization
Pairing: implied Riku/Yuffie
Words: 324
A/N: …hey, so I'm back! I have a few more chapters of BoY written, so look out for more of those during these upcoming weeks. And a huge thanks to whatever readers (however few you may be) have stuck with me through my whole coming back endeavor. I appreciate it tons :)

And without further to do…!


An angry Riku sloshed through the murky water of the waterway.

He wasn't sure when the volatile emotion had gripped him so tightly, but he was fairly certain that it happened sometime between Leon's lecture and Yuffie's insane accusation. The words "seduce" and "Yuffie" should never be used in the same sentence as far as he was concerned. He'd rather seduce Cid before ever putting the moves on the scrawny ninja. She was a female Sora for crying out loud. And while Riku loved his best friend, it was not in a romantic way at all. The kid made the most ridiculous fishy faces. He could never feel anything more than friendship for someone who did that.

Although he felt something strange while he was stuck in that closet with Yuffie. The closet was small and incapable of accommodating two people. Yet somehow the two managed to press closely enough and suddenly the closet became much too accommodating for Riku's taste - but in a different sense of the word. He could feel Yuffie's tiny hands splayed across his chest, her breath against his neck and cheeks as squeaks and snickers escaped her pert lips... At first he thought that he should feel disgusted. But then Leon had opened that closet door, and Riku felt anything but repulsed as he felt Yuffie's weight fall against his body in all the right places, making him shiver involuntarily and think about how the softness of her skin--

Whoa.

…okay, so maybe Yuffie wasn't a female Sora after all.

But she was female.

Oh shit. She was a girl.

And he was a guy.

...well. He certainly hadn't been expecting THIS.

Riku groaned aloud and sloshed his way back out of the waterway. He needed advice. And fast.