Stirring up the Holidays - Chapter two
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"Riku, Riku! Is it Christmas yet?"
"Sora, I'm trying to sleep…"
The brunette huffed and shook the sleepy teen, which only made him grunt and swat away the boy. "Rikuuuu! Is it, is it? Is it Christmas yet!?"
"No, there's still TWO more days! Remember, yesterday it was only three more days, so today, there's only two… Go back to bed, it's three o' clock in the morning."
"…can I sleep with you?"
Riku blinked and turned to face the boy. "That sounded wrong… but I know what you're trying to say…" He quirked a brow and lifted the covers. "Get in."
"Yey!" Sora smiled happily and bounced into bed with the other boy, snuggling into the covers soon after. "What time are we getting up?"
"When we wake up." Riku dropped the covers and shifted slightly, eventually closing his eyes.
Sora gave a small nod and stayed silent, staring up at the egg-white ceiling of Riku's room. He had slept over before, but it was different this time. He was way too excited to sleep… Well, for the first five minutes anyway. He soon fell asleep a few minutes after Riku.
About six hours later, Riku awoke. He glanced around the room, giving a small yawn, before his sea-green eyes fell upon the still sleeping Sora. He watched him for a few minutes, a small smile finding it's way onto his face just before the younger boy stirred. Riku's eyes widened and he put his head back down on the pillow, closing them again and pretending that he was asleep.
Sora's royal-blues blinked open and he grunted slightly as he stirred, turning his head and burying it in the soft pillow for a moment or two before pulling it back and giving a large yawn. His left hand came up and gently rubbed his right eye, then the left. Once he was sitting up, he took a glance around the room, eyeing the walls, the items on the side table, and eventually; Riku. A sleepy smile found it's way to his face before he leaned forward, snuggling upto the older boy.
Riku opened an eye, smiling lightly as he looked down at Sora. He lifted a hand and placed it atop the boy's head, ruffling the brown spikes gently.
Sora blinked, looking up at Riku, his smile widening. "Hey Rikuriku, I thought you were asleep…"
"I woke up before you, I was just pretending to be asleep." He smirked and wrapped his arm around the boy's shoulders, pulling him closer.
"How come?" Sora asked, still looking up at the older boy, this time a little curiously.
Riku shrugged. "Dunno, just felt like it."
Sora nodded and went silent, his eyes half-opened and wandering the room…
Riku blinked open his eyes. "Hey, Sora? …Did we put up the tree yet?"
Sora glanced up at Riku and quirked a brow. "I don't think so…"
"Then let's go do that now!"
"Yeah!"
Both boys automatically jumped out of bed, sending the covers flying to the ground as they both ran down stairs, only in the boxers and undershirts they went to sleep in. While almost falling down the stairs and tripping over the carpet, the two managed to make it to the hall closet to pull out the tree.
"Sora, you grab that side, I'll take this one."
"Okay."
"Got it?"
"Yeah I go-- ah, wait I dropped it… 'kay, got it."
"Okay, on the count of three we'll bring it in the living room… One, two, three!"
Both of them lifted the medium-sized tree and dragged it into the living room where it would be placed. Sora might've dropped the end once or twice, and thankfully it didn't break, but they eventually got it in position and ran back to the closet to pull out the decorations.
"I wanna put the star on this year."
"But you put it on last year, Sora."
Sora crossed his arms. "No, Selphie stole it and put it on, remember?"
"Oh yeah…" Riku shrugged and dragged out the big box of decorations. "Well, I guess you can put the star on this year then."
"Unless you wanna put it on Riku," Sora asked, tilting his head.
Riku smirked and ruffled the boy's hair. "Your learning, Sora, but it's okay, you put the star on the tree."
Sora nodded and smiled, pulling out a string of lights once Riku let go of the box. "Ooh, I know!" Sora said happily and walked over to the tree. "We can put the star on together!" Sora nodded again and started to carefully put the lights on the tree.
Riku chuckled and pulled out a few ornaments. "Sounds like fun." He replied, walking to the tree and placing them on one by one.
Once Sora had finished putting the lights on, he went back to the box and pulled out some tinsel. Smirking to himself, he pulled out a few strands from the box and quietly walked over to Riku, placing them atop his head and covering his mouth to muffle a giggle.
Riku blinked and placed the last ornament on the tree before looking back at Sora, brow quirking. "What's so funny…?" He asked, crossing his arms.
Sora hid the tinsel box behind his back and smiled innocently. "Oh, nothing…"
"I know that look and I'm not dumb, what did you do?"
"…I put tinsel on your head." Sora mumbled before laughing and dropping the box.
Riku blinked a few times before placing his hand on his head, pulling off the silver strands of tinsel. "It blends in with my hair." Riku grinned and walked over to Sora, soon placing them in the younger boy's hair. "There, now you can have some silver strands of hair."
"Eep, I don't want grey hair like you!"
"It's SILVER, Sora."
"Yeah yeah, whatever rocks your boat."
"Your not funny Sora."
"Whatever you say, Riku." Sora shrugged and wandered back over to the tree, decorating it's branches with shiny silver strands of tinsel. Once the box of tinsel was empty, Sora wandered back over to the decoration box and rummaged through it. He blinked and picked up something that had green leaves, and that automatically made him grin. "Hey Riku, where's the tape?"
"Why?" Asked Riku as he decorated the tree with candy canes he found in the box. "Putting something on the wall?"
"Yup, on the wall…"
"Right there," Riku muttered, pointing to his left.
Sora scampered over and grabbed the tape, then ran off to the door that connected the living room to the hall way.
"I wonder what he's doing…" Riku muttered, quirking a brow. He shrugged it off and continued to decorate the tree.
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"Sora? Where are you…?"
"In the bathroom! Come in and I'll kick your butt!"
"Pfft, grumpy. Fine, but when you get out, we're playing a game."
"Game?" a flush as heard from upstairs and soon after Sora hopped out of the bathroom. "What game?"
"Twister."
"A tornado?"
"No, not a tornado. The game twister. I found it in the closet." Riku held up the colourful box for Sora to see. "Remember when we played this last? I think you were… twelve."
"Thirteen, not twelve."
"Well, whatever. Thirteen. Now how old are you?"
"Fourteen. No, wait. I'm fifteen."
"Gee, can't even remember your own age?" Riku smirked and dropped the box on the floor just as Sora scampered down the stairs.
"Let's just play." Sora mumbled and sat down on the floor, opened the box and pulled out the mat and colour-chooser. He flattened out the mat on the ground and put the colour-chooser to the left of it. "Okie doke, who's gunna be the spinner, me or you?"
"I'll be the spinner." Riku muttered and walked over to the colour-chooser. He grinned and eyed Sora before flicking the spinner. "…Left foot yellow." He smirked, watching Sora hop over to the nearest yellow circle. Riku shook his head and spun the colour-changer again. "…oh boy. Right foot Red."
Sora blinked and looked over to the red circle. "This is gunna hurt…" He muttered but did as he was told. Once his foot arrived in the destination, he squeezed his eyes shut and waved his arms to balance him out.
Riku laughed, watching the poor boy struggle. He spun the colour-chooser again. "Heh, this'll be better for you. Right foot blue."
"Thank god!" Sora gasped, moving his right foot to the blue circle. "Ugh, I thought my leg was gunna come off…"
Riku sneered and spun it again. "Left hand red." Sora did as told, wobbling a bit. "Left hand blue… Right foot green… Left foot red… right hand blue…" It went on for a while, Riku commanding and Sora obeying; Until… "Left foot green."
"Left foot green, okay." Sora nodded and went to switch his foot, but only ended up slipping and falling on his bottom. "Ow…" He muttered, untangling himself.
Riku just grinned and shook his head. "Nice one Sora, I think you lasted longer this time."
"Yeah, I think I did too…" Sora muttered, rubbing the back of his head. "Are you gunna play?"
Riku thought for a moment or so. He glanced down to the Twister mat, then up at Sora, blinking. "Hmm… Heck, why not. I don't want to grow up too fast." He smirked and got up, making his way over to the Twister mat.
Sora grinned and hopped over to the colour-chooser, sitting down beside it. "Tell me when your ready!"
"Ready," Riku muttered, standing on the side of the mat.
"Alrighty!" He smirked and flicked the chooser. Once it stopped, Sora called out: "Left foot blue!"
Riku nodded and smirked, walking over to the blue circle and placing his bare foot on it. "Next."
Sora spun it again. "Right hand green."
"Right hand green…" Riku repeated and blinked. "Ugh." He bent over, extending his hand along the mat to the green circle. "Next…?"
"…left foot yellow."
Riku made a face but nodded, sliding his foot over to the yellow circle.
And on it went. "…Right hand red, left foot red, right hand blue, left foot yellow, right hand green, right hand blue." …Riku wasn't too bad. That is, until he fell. "Left foot red."
"Left foot-- ow. Damnit." Riku cursed and rolled off the mat onto the carpet, untangling himself in the meantime. "Heh, haven't done that in a while. My back kinda hurts now."
Sora wasn't really… paying attention. He was busy bouncing around, chanting "Twister, the hot spot!" A few… million times… Before Riku tackled him to the ground and covered his mouth.
"Enough with the Twister!" Riku exclaimed, laughing in the meantime as the younger boy squirmed under him.
"Ugh, Riku! Your heavy! Getawff!"
Riku laughed and brought his hand upto Sora's side, and with a sly grin, began to tickle the poor, defenceless boy.
"AGH! RIKU, STOOOOOP!" Pleaded Sora, who was laughing real hard. "I'm gunna pee my pants if you don't stop!"
Riku smirked and continued for a little while before letting his hand drop. "Fine, but I'll finish you off later."
Sora blinked and looked up at Riku. He immediately jumped up and moved into a karate stance. "You shall not defeat me, for I am superior!"
Riku grinned and jumped up after him, moving in a similar stance. "You are not superior, I shall defeat you! UUAAAA!" Riku leapt fourth and gave Sora a fake karate kick to his side.
Laughing lightly, Sora pretended to stumble back. Shaking it off with a grin, he ran at the older boy, sending a few fake punches at his chest. "You will die tonight!"
"Noooo! I am undefeatable! You shall not win!" Riku stumbled back, (Fakely, of course) eventually regaining balance and making his way back to Sora, one arm guarding his face, the other guarding his chest and lower body. "You shall die!"
"I have a new technique!" Exclaimed Sora, and he dropped his guard. "It's called the Crazy Psycho technique! UUAAAA!" Sora ran at Riku, and he really did look like a crazy psycho person. His arms were waving in every which way, and so was his head.
Riku blinked and pretended he was hit. He stumbled back and purposely fell to the ground. "No, I will not be… defeated! AAAGHHH!" He closed his eyes and held his mouth agape, head gently flopping to the ground. "I… Will… Haunt you…"
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Karate. .. Yep. XD Well, hope you liked that chapter ;; Next chapter coming… TOMORROW. XD;