Yeah, I'm fail at updating regularly. I've kinda' figured out that multi-chapter fics isn't really my thing… Yet I have started a new one. –Sigh-

Anyway, here's the last chapter.

Disclaimer: I still don't own Kingdom Hearts. Square Enix does.

Chapter 5: Answers

After sharing three kisses with a person – actually it was four, but the first one had been kind of different – Sora would have thought that speaking to the other person and telling them how he felt would have been the easiest thing in the world. But clearly he was wrong. His words just wouldn't leave his mouth and he didn't know what to say anyway. The tension the kisses he had shared with Riku left between the two was awkward and difficult to break. He couldn't describe why, or understand why he couldn't even ask the other why he had kissed him. His mouth just wouldn't open.

Part of him wanted to run out of the room and just escape the awkwardness, but the biggest part of him wanted to stay close to Riku – talk to him, confess to him, kiss him, touch him.

Sora couldn't remember ever being this confused in his entire life. And the fact that he didn't even know what he was so confused about didn't help much.

He looked over at the other boy. He was sitting on the floor, one knee upright with his right arm rested on it, gaze turned down. Suddenly his head turned and he looked right at Sora. Sora quickly looked away. He heard Riku sigh.

"We should talk," The silence was finally broken, but Riku's words didn't really help Sora find his own.

"Yeah," he agreed. Silence followed again. "Why don't you go ahead?"

He wasn't a coward. He wasn't. He just had no idea how to start, and maybe if Riku did, it would be easier for him. He could see the other's eyes narrow through his peripheral vision.

"I don't know what to say," Riku admitted, making Sora look up. "'Cause I don't know what you are thinking. I don't know how much you have figured out,"

Sora didn't answer. What had he figured out? Nothing. The only fact his mind had managed to establish was that he had never been so confused in his entire life.

Riku had kissed him. Had he seen the situation from the outside he would have concluded that Riku was in love with him and wanted to be with him. He had always thought that a kiss meant just that. But he had learned that the world wasn't simple, it was always more complicated than it seemed. Black and white he could understand, shades of grey confused him. But that was how the world was, everything was complicated. So he couldn't be sure. He couldn't just assume that Riku had kissed him because he was in love with him.

Sora had kissed Riku too, and he hadn't been thinking clearly when he did it. He hadn't been thinking that he was going to kiss Riku because he was in love with him and wanted to be with him. He hadn't been thinking at all. He had just done it. But what did that mean? Was he in love with Riku? The most obvious answer would be yes. But the most obvious answer didn't have to be the right one.

If Riku was in love with him, he wanted him to say it. He wanted him to spell it out for him and make it as clear as if it was the only truth on earth. He couldn't read signs. He didn't understand metaphors and he couldn't take hints. He needed to hear it straight forward.

He wished that could work with his own thoughts too. He wished he could ask his own mind if he was in love with Riku, and then his mind would give him the as answer clear as day.

"I don't know either," he finally said, knowing fully that he wasn't helping Riku at all. But he couldn't give answers he didn't have. "Do you think I am in love with you?"

Riku had to be the one to find the answers. He needed Riku to find the answers. He didn't know where else to look for them.

Riku raised an eyebrow.

"I think you need to tell me that Sora," he said. That was not what Sora had wanted to hear. Why couldn't someone just tell him what he felt?

"Are you in love with me?" The sentence left his lips more easily than he thought it would. Asking questions was the only way he managed to deal with this situation.

Riku looked at him for a long time, and Sora didn't even try to read his expression. He needed words.

"Yes,"

He didn't know how to react. He didn't know if he was surprised, or if he had known it all along. And he didn't know if he was happy to hear it.

"How do you know?" Sora asked. Riku furrowed his eyebrows, but he didn't hesitate to answer.

"Well, I only figured it out a few days ago," he began. "Because I was suddenly blushing and stuttering when you were close to me. But I should have figured it out sooner, 'cause I think I've been in love with you for a long time. I have always been jealous of your relationship with Kairi. I don't want anyone else to be closer to you than me, and it actually hurt to think about you and her being a couple.

"And I should have known because I spent all the time I was away from you just thinking about you. And I was afraid of not deserving your friendship after everything I had done, so I didn't have the courage to face you again. Everything I did, I did because of you Sora. You were on my mind constantly.

"And after everything that happened, you were the only one that could make me laugh again,"

Sora tried to process the things Riku told him. What he was feeling now had to be happiness. Happiness over the fact that he meant so much to Riku. Because Riku meant that much to him too. And Riku was the one he had been thinking of the most when they had been apart as well. Riku was also the one he felt happiest spending his time with, and the thought of Riku having a closer friend than Sora definitely hurt. If this was how Riku figured out what he felt, than Sora didn't need to be confused anymore. Riku had found the answer for him.

"I think I'm in love with you too," he said, as soon as everything started making sense. Riku, who had been directing his eyes at the floor again – waiting anxiously for Sora's response, looked up to meet his eyes. Sora looked into them, and felt a grin grow on his face. "Actually, I am pretty sure I'm in love with you,"

A few seconds past, and then Riku smiled back. Yeah, Sora was definitely in love with him. Why else would his stomach feel so funny just because of a smile?

He realised he had one more question.

"The fact that I really enjoy kissing you also means I'm in love with you right?"

Riku laughed, and the sound made Sora's grin widen even more.

Before he knew it, Riku had leaned over and captured his lips between his own once again. Sora happily responded. He could feel the awkwardness leave the room. Everything felt so right. Nothing felt complicated anymore.

When their lips broke the contact, Sora wrapped his arms around his friend – or whatever he was now – and hugged him tightly. Riku didn't hesitate to return the gesture.

"Riku?"

"Hm?"

"What's going to happen now?"

The answer didn't come immediately. Sora felt hands caress his back.

"What do you want to happen?"

"I don't know. I just want us to be together. I mean – I don't want any stupid stuff to happen again so we'll be separated. I really missed you, you know,"

He felt something soft against the top of his head.

"We won't be separated. Next time, we'll fight together,"

Sora drew back far enough to look at the taller boy's face.

"Yeah, we'll fight together!" he exclaimed happily and smiled his usual goofy smile. Riku chuckled.

"It's not like it's possible for me to be apart from you anyway. I tried, remember?"

"Yep! You're stuck with me!"

"Well, I guess you're stuck with me too,"

Sora continued to smile happily even when the smile were covered by lips that already started to feel familiar against his own. He could definitely live with that.

A/N: Fluffy ending is fluffy O_o

At first I was thinking that this chapter was coming along rather well, but now... meh... I don't know, I think I failed rather epicly (or not so epicly). But I'm happy to finally have finished this story anyway xD

Thanks for reading it, and I would love it if you would be willing to vast your time to review =3