"Huh?!"

Susie's startled response to Kris' question made them glance over to her, them repeating their question as they sat in the latter's house playing games.

"Do you know if you like girls or guys?" They asked placidly.

"Where did this come from?" Susie questioned, Kris pausing their game of Super Smashing Fighters out of courtesy to the house guest.

"Would you believe me if I said I was just curious?"

"Well, I... I don't know, honestly." Susie flushed. "Do YOU know what you're into?"

Kris shrugged impassively.

"As long as there's love, I think that's all that counts. I'm pretty sure being the only human around doesn't give me many options, anyways. Not sure how monster biology is supposed to work with human biology, but it's whatever. Not like I can't adopt someone like my parents did for me."

"You're... really open-minded." Susie observed.

"I kind of have to be, to ask about your preferences." They pointed out.

Susie glanced down.

"Would it matter what my preferences are?" Susie was still cautious.

"Not really. We'll still be friends. I'm a non-binary pansexual anyways, so you can be honest about it." They assured while cracking a rare smile her way, and, in Kris' heart of hearts, this was the truth.

It didn't really make a difference to them what Susie's preferences were.

If not for Noelle asking about the matter, in fact, Kris wouldn't have bothered in the first place.

"I'm... not sure." Susie lamented. "I really don't know right now."

"Well... That's okay." They crossed their legs. "No need to have a definite answer. I'm sure time will tell."

"Uh... Thanks." Susie thanked with a small laugh.

In response to her honesty, Kris thought it only fair to tell the truth as they resumed the fight, having the knightly blonde swordsman attack the giant, fire breathing turtle Susie controlled.

"I'm asking because someone in class likes you."

Having said it with such casualness, Susie flinching in surprise and looking at them with a blanked out expression made Kris almost consider stopping themselves from ringing the turtle out in Susie's moment of distraction.

Their competitive nature caused them to deal the final blow of drudgery however, and the announcer suddenly shouting "GAME" made Susie's eyes snap back at the screen, a baffled look on her face.

The clashing set of stimuli festered conflicting responses in the girl, her torn between wanting to berate Kris for cheating and impulsively reacting to them telling her such information.

Finally, she found a viable response after a moment of bafflement, through which her eyes snapped between the TV and her friend back and forth.

"Kris, what the hell?!"

"It was just instinct." Kris said, shrugging, before they propped their elbow on their knee, their chin on their fist, them smirking over at her. "I had to do whatever I had to to win."

She glared at them.

"So that whole thing was just you trying to distract me?"

Kris raised their free hand defensively.

"No, not at all. There really IS someone in our class that's interested in you." Kris told her sincerely, and this managed to calm her somewhat, her purple cheeks growing red despite this.

"Well... Who is it?" Susie asked.

"It's not my place to say. They just wanted to know if you'd be interested in people of their gender." Kris glanced forward.

"... It's not you, is it?"

Kris glanced back over to her, ignoring the victory screen of their knight character, seeing her looking seriously at them.

They held Susie's gaze for a second, then, smiling, asked, "What if it was?"

They felt it was wrong to needle her in this matter, yet they felt the compulsion anyhow.

She gave a shocked look to them, then looked away, stammering over her words.

"Well... Uh... I mean..."

Kris chuckled lowly, and Susie, hearing this, responded by giving a punch to their arm, which only caused them to laugh even louder, despite the pain.

"Don't laugh at me! I've never had anyone say something like this before!" Susie yelled.

"I'm not the one who wanted to know your preferences." They admitted, and Susie growled in frustration.

"Oh shut up, you dork. You're just messing with me, aren't you? Admit it."

Kris hummed.

"Yes and no."

They mentally acknowledged that they probably just made it worse on themselves by saying this.

But, in their heart of hearts, they felt no regrets.

"What are you telling me then?!" Susie exclaimed.

"Someone in class DOES like you, and wanted to ask what your preferences were." They explained.

"But is it you?"

"No. I'm just the messenger for them." Kris shrugged. "Unless you're not comfortable with people knowing it, once you figure it out. I don't want to push you out of the closet, if you're not ready... Assuming there even IS a closet."

Susie sighed.

"Why would anyone like ME anyways?"

"Why WOULDN'T they?"

She gave them a look, and seeing the mischievous smile playing on their lips, she frowned.

"What do you mean?"

"You're a strong, loyal girl, not to mention cute." Kris' red eyes half-lidded. "Plus, you're pretty fun to hang out with. Anyone would be lucky to have you."

"Uh... Thanks." Susie said in a small voice, taken aback by the tone and expression Kris had, the mixed messages they were sending her taking her for a confusing loop. "I think you're uh... pretty cool too, for a nerd."

"Thanks." Kris replied, chuckling.

"Don't make jokes like that though. I thought you were serious for a second there." Susie said.

"About me being interested in you?" Kris asked for clarification.

"Yeah."

"What if I WAS interested though?"

"It's whatever. You aren't, are you?"

"Maybe."

She sighed.

"Why're you flip-flopping?"

"I guess I just think you'd make for a nice girlfriend." Kris told her. "That being said, I'm happy just being friends."

"Yeah." Susie nodded, smiling again, only to look at the character screen. "Hey, if Ralsei or Lancer were here, who do you think they would pick?"

A/N: I just wrote this based on the idea of Noelle asking Kris what Susie's preferences were, instead of stopping short.

I based Kris' personality around what Chara's implied to be like in Undertale, being sort of creepy, but not entirely evil, so much as just a bit mischievous when it comes to their friends.

I also had Kris and Susie play as Link and Bowser respectively since... well, you can probably tell from the similarities between their Dark World designs and the Smash characters.