But all of this, and more, is still topped by one other scene where Riki is asked point blank whether he has a crush on Kyousuke and he admits mentally that he does, but that he can't tell him because he's sure their friendship will collapse.And then there's that random time Kyousuke tickled under Riki's chin like a cat out of nowhere. And yes, the game is very much aware of the Ho Yay here, given that Mio comments once that Kyousuke probably took Riki's hand a lot as a child and when Riki confirms it Mio sighs happily. In later playthroughs, Kyousuke's role is replaced, with only minimal changes, with Rin, the main girl. In one such scene, Riki wakes up after having fallen asleep during his narcolepsy to find Kyousuke waiting for him, speaking softly and bathed in the orange light of the sunset, and when Kyousuke tells him everything's fine and takes his hand, Riki thinks that 'at that point, his hand felt like the most reliable thing in the world'. And then there's the touchiness - holding hands is a major theme in Little Busters, explicitly referring to the time when he and Kyousuke first met, and it almost always occurs between these two.And Kyousuke himself can give Riki the title 'People you wouldn't mind sharing an Indirect Kiss with GP 2007 Champ'. When they first meet, Kurugaya wonders if he's gay, and then comments 'The line between friendship and gay relationship is drawn in the water, is it not?' And then there's Mio, the game's resident Yaoi Fangirl, who often notices the slashy moments between them and outright ships them together. The other characters comment on it, too - Kengo can give Riki the nicknames 'Loves Kyousuke' or 'In a love triangle between Masato and Kyousuke' or 'Unofficial chairman of the Kyousuke fan club', while he can give Kyousuke 'Unofficial chairman of the Riki fanclub'.And as we can see in Refrain, goes through a hell of a lot, up to and including sacrificing his life, to protect Riki and Rin and make sure they'll be okay. Kyousuke isn't immune, either - he clearly cares for Riki more than almost anything as well, and is constantly doting on him, to the point where if the player can choose to have Riki tell Kyousuke he doesn't want to go shopping with him one time he becomes quite upset and asks if Riki suddenly hates him, and if the player has Riki say yes, he leaves, totally miserable. But it goes further - Riki constantly thinks about the time he and Kyousuke first met and Kyousuke took his hand as being the pivotal moment of his life, as Kyousuke was the one who saved him from depression after his parents died and then introduced him to the others. Riki looks up to Kyousuke a huge amount, to the point of describing him mentally in almost poetic terms worthy of a lovestruck Shoujo heroine - in one of the first scenes, he says he totally understands why people come from across the school to watch Kyousuke (in the anime, why girls come to watch him), and that when he reads manga he looks 'divine'.

First of all, the truly incredible amount of ho yay between Riki and Kyousuke.

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