Summary – All Riku wants to do is catch his true love under the mistletoe, and of course, Sora's right there to help him out. --Sora x Riku, plus others--
Disclaimer – I'm supposed to be getting KH2 for Christmas, but other than that, I don't own/will own nothing.
Reviews – Thank you all for your reviews! They made me very happy to post this.
Author's Note – I want to get the rest of the parts up before Christmas, but I have finals next week so I don't know how that'll work, but I'll try my best!

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Snowflakes
By: Her Tears Of Darkness

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PART II

"Leon, I'm hungry." Cloud spoke to his lover, who was currently driving.

"So am I, but we'll have to wait till I find a motel tonight for that."

Cloud blushed. "No, not that hungry. Actual food hungry."

"What?" Leon glanced at him for a second. "You just had 4 slices of Pizza Hut pizza an hour ago."

"Yeah…but it wasn't enough."

Leon sighed. He then saw at the sign on the road that said "Destiny Buffet! The Greatest Buffet on the Island. Only $10.99! Exit 85."

"If we go to the buffet, will you leave me alone?"

Cloud's eyes lit up. "A buffet! Yes!"

Leon crossed over to the lane for Exits 80-87.

"Yay!" Cloud planted his face on Leon's neck and breathed deeply. "I love you."

Leon shivered involuntarily. "I love you too, but not while I'm driving, ok?"

"Hmm." Cloud started to place tiny kisses on the boy's neck. "Yep, ok."

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Riku was not nervous. He really wasn't. He'd been to the skate rink lots of times before.

Ok, that's a lie. He has made perfectly sure that he always avoided going to the rink anyway he could.

But when Roxas practically begged him to drive him to the rink, he couldn't just say no, right?

Right?

Riku rubbed his head and glanced inside his closet for what seemed to be the 100th time that day.

He sighed. This was not working.

"If we were a movie
You'd be the right guy
And I'd be the best friend
That you'd fall in love with…"

Riku blushed slightly at the odd ring tone. His sister was always sneaking into his backpack, taking his cell phone and changing his ring tone to some random song. One of these days, he'd catch her.

"In the end, we'd be laughing
Watching the sunset
Fade to black
Show the names
Play a happy song…"

Riku hummed along with the song.

…What?

…No, of course he didn't like Hannah Montana! Sheesh…

"Hello?" he answered his phone.

"Um…this is Riku, right?"

"Right…" He vaguely recognized the voice. "Mrs. Strife?"

"Yes Riku. I suppose you know exactly why I'm calling don't you?"

"Um, no…" Riku played dumb.

"Oh, I suppose you do."

"Not really…

"Yes you do.

"Mrs. Strife, I really don't know."

She sighed loudly. "Riku, where is Cloud? He disappeared Thursday night and I haven't heard from him since."

"Really? I haven't heard from him either."

"Look, I know you know. Just tell me where he is."

"I told you. I don't know."

"Riku, you don't understand. I NEED him home NOW. Especially if he's with that guy… "

"You mean Leon?"

Mrs. Strife made a sound of disgust.

"Look Mrs. Strife, Cloud ran away because you were keeping him away from the boy he loved. Yes, I said it, boy. He loves. And if you want him back, you're just going to have to accept that."

"Little boy, I don't know who the hell you think you are telling me what to do, but if you don't tell me where Cloud is right now I'll…

"What? Kidnap me? Tie me down? Hold me at gunpoint? I could just call the cops on you right now and tell them that you're threatening an innocent 16-year-old boy."

"Damn you Riku. I hope you burn in hell for defending a homo."

Click.

Riku grinned at himself, and then went back to choosing his outfit. He suddenly had a whole new attitude.

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Unsurprisingly, the first face Sora saw when he walked into the rink was none other than Namine, and it wasn't a very friendly face either. Which was partly his fault. He was about 2 hours late. But he had a reason.

OK, so he guessed practicing kissing himself in the mirror/on his pillow wasn't something that took 2 hours to do. But he's never kissed anybody (or at least anybody he really liked) before and he wanted it to be perfect. Especially if this guy was straight.

Sora smirked at himself. Not after he was done with him.

Namine glared at him. "What are you smirking for? Did you know that Riku got here an hour ago? An hour! Do you know what a difference a whole hour can make? You could have already had him in your arms and obeying your every wish and demand already!!"

"Um…I'm sorry?"

"Ugh, whatever Sora." She grabbed him by the wrist and led him to the counter guy to get his skates. "We've got work to do."

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Leon shut the door of the motel room he and Cloud had found after spending 3 hours at the buffet.

Note to self: Never bring Cloud to a buffet ever again.

He knew Cloud liked food a lot, but he didn't know just how crazy he could become when around said food.

Plates after plates after plates of different kinds of meat, rice, bread, cookies, cakes, sweets, fruits, etc., etc. etc. stacked up on top of each other, and Leon just drinking some water watching in the blonde, sort of disgusted by it and amused by it at the same time.

Either way, Leon was glad to be away from all the wondering eyes and hoped all that food would ease Cloud over for the next couple…days.

It meant more time alone with him.

As if on cue, Cloud wrapped his arms around his waist and whispered in his ear, "How about we watch The Ring 2 on pay-per view and I'll make sure to hold you at all the scary parts?"

Leon shook his head and took Cloud's hands. "I've got a better idea." He removed Cloud's arms and used them to pin him to the nearest wall. He leaned in and started to kiss the sensitive part on his neck. "You know, you've been a bad boy for all that teasing you put me through in the car and for making me watch you eat all the crap. Do you know what I do to bad boys like you?"

Cloud swallowed. "N-no…"

Leon answered by slipping his behind Cloud's back and squeezing, hard, earning a moan from the blonde. He fiercely started sucking on his neck, earning another moan.

"Leon…"

He worked his way down Cloud's neck.

"Leon."

He slipped his hand under Cloud's shirt.

"Leon."

Slowly removing it…

"Leon!"

Leon stopped and stared longingly into Cloud's eyes. "Yes?"

"I-I don't feel very good…"

He saw him hold his stomach, cover his mouth, and run to the bathroom.

Shit.

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"What does she see in him?"

Roxas was eating, or instead, stabbing at his cheeseburger with his fork. He and Riku were currently at a nearby food court, Roxas taking a break from teaching Riku to roller-skate. The guy was freaking terrible! It was like watching a train wreck. He couldn't even stay up for more than 5 seconds without slipping or falling on his ass. But Roxas wouldn't give up. He would teach Riku to skate one way or another and get attraction points from Namine.

Right now, he just needed a break.

Or rather, something to take his anger out on. Poor burger.

Riku turned his attention from eating his own cheeseburger to where Roxas was glaring. Namine had just pulled Sora to the center rink and now they were holding hands and skating around the center.

He guessed it was the holding hands part that made Roxas mad. He didn't know what the problem was. He thought he… it looked kinda cute.

He turned back around and asked, "Who's that guy with Namine?"

"My-ex-friend-Sora-the-freaking-steal-my-girl-backstabber." Roxas answered.

He heard the name Sora somewhere in there. 'Sora' he said to himself. He shook his head.

"Why don't you just go down there and ask to skate with her?"

Roxas' eyes lit up. "Riku, you're a genius!" He threw his cheeseburger in the trash and ran down to the rink.

"Heh, so I've been told." He chuckled.

He finished up his lunch and reluctantly put his skates back on.

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"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Here he comes! Here he comes!" Namine screamed causing the couple in front to stare at them. She stuck her tongue out at them and they turned back around whispering something about 'crazy blonde maniacs'.

"Sora, you'd better remember all your lines ok or you're dead, ok?"

"Gee, thanks for the motivation Namine."

"Shh… Hey Roxas."

"Hey Roxas." Sora echoed.

"Um, hey guys. Um, um, um…"

"Yes Roxas?" Namine stared straight at him.

He swallowed. "Sora, do you mind if I…you know…cut in?"

"No problem man."

He looked skeptical. "Really?"

"Yeah. Here. Take her." He held her hand out for him.

Namine smiled innocently and took Roxas' hand for him. They went skating off but not before Roxas turned around and mouthed a "Thank you".

Sora was happy that was over. It felt weird touching Namine.

He spotted Riku coming, very wobbly he might add, down the stairs…near the mistletoe.

He grinned. Now for the fun stuff.

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Leon rubbed his temples. No, no, no, no, no. This could not be happening to him. He was in a motel, alone, with Cloud, in a room, with a bed.

But no. They could be having all the fun in the world at this moment, but instead he was sitting outside a bathroom door, listening to Cloud heave all his $11.00 and some change down the toilet.

Was fate this much of a bitch?

"Cloud, are you done?" He said impatiently.

"Uuuuuggggghhhhh…"

Leon guessed that would be a no.

He heard someone knocking on their door, interrupting his misery. He got up and called, "Who is it?"

He got no answer. He opened the door and tried asking again, "Who…"

"Areith Gainsborough. Official Destiny Islands Motel Nurse." The tall, brunette girl with a pink nurse's outfit held up a card for him to see. "Now, we've got a," she read off a board in her hand, "'Cloud Strife' in here with stomach pains?"

"Sure…something like that." He stepped aside so she could pass.

She went straight to the bathroom and knocked lightly. "Cloud. Cloud? Are you in there? Oh sweetie, everything's gonna be ok now. Momma Areith is here and she brought ginger ale and cookies!"

He heard Cloud mutter something that sounded like an "ok," and got the feeling that everything really was gonna be ok.

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Riku was not ok. Little kids were laughing at him. Little 6 and 7-year-old kids were laughing at him!

It wasn't his fault that skating was harder than it looked and he tripped 100+ times just coming down the stairs.

Why did they have stairs in a place like this anyway? There has to be some kinda rule against that.

Oh well. He could go complain to the boss/manager/guy/girl whatever later.

He paused on the last step when he'd seen Kairi leaning against the wall outside the rink; talking to some dark-haired girl he'd never seen before.

This was it. With his amazing skating skills, he would glide over to her and she would see him and look into his eyes and whisper "I love you" and they would skate the night away in each other's arms.

Unfortunately, he wasn't an amazing skater and wasn't able to keep his balance going down the last step and fell flat on his ass again.

More damn laughter.

"Hey, you need some help?"

Riku looked up to see two beautiful, concerned blue orbs staring down at him. He almost forgot where he was…almost.

"Ugh, yeah." He held his hand out and the boy pulled him up. He scratched the back of his head, a little embarrassed at himself. "Um, thanks."

The boy grinned back at him. Infectious. "No problem."

"Sora, right?"

"Yep. And you're Riku."

"Yeah, that's me."

Riku realized he was still holding the boy's hand and dropped it like it was on fire, but then realized the boy was the only thing keeping him up and he lost his balance.

Sora held his hand out again. "Want me to teach you some stuff?"

Riku gazed up at those eyes again. Well, he thought, it's still early and Roxas seems pretty busy anyway…

He took his hand, not at all noticing the group of people staring at them.

"Hey look." Sora pointed upwards.

Riku took a glimpse at the olive green plant hanging above them. His felt his heart stop as he saw Sora leaned in towards him and placed the most innocent of kisses on his lips.

Sora pulled away seconds later looking at Riku with the cutest face a boy could ever have that Riku could not help but kiss him again.

His mind was racing. What the hell was he doing? What the hell was happening?

Kiss. Lips. Soft. Floating. Heaven. Sora.

"Sora?"

Kairi.

Riku (reluctantly?) broke the kiss and looked back at the shocked faces staring at them, Kairi included. He took a deep breath and…ran as fast as his legs would go. He could have sworn out of the corner of his eye, he saw his little sister give Sora a thumbs up.

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Author's Note – Coming up in Part III:
Will Areith really make everything ok?
Will Leon and Cloud have their alone time?
Will Riku give in to his feelings?
What exactly are those feelings?

Review or no part III!