Kitty: This is the Non-hentai version of 'Race', another fiction that I will not place up here. Though I took out the sexual content it still has swearing and a bit of sexual language. This fic happens during the beginning of the Hero Story of Sonic Riders, after the scene with the thieves and Eggman's announcement.

Note: Read my bottom dialog for an important message!

Disclaimer: Sonic the Hedgehog and all related characters © SEGA and Sonic Team. All other characters © Lumorean Arts and/or Jonothan 'Ace.'

What You Like

By: Kitty Hamagochy

"And the race is about to start!" Omochao announced over the loud speaker.

Another race in the World Grand Prix was starting up. Its eight competitors sat eagerly at the starting gate. They were all in a buzz of excitement to get underway as each stretched their muscles and prepared themselves. Knuckles the echidna cracked his neck from side to side while examining the competition. Everything seamed as is, no one on the track he feared.

His head did a double take to his right, looking over his shoulder to a white female bat he had just noticed was there. He couldn't seam to take his eyes away from her as he watched her stretch her long, slender arms above her head. He watched her pull her gorgeous, feminine body, revealing her wavy curves, flat stomach, and perfect breasts. She expanded her ebony violet wings outwards, then relaxing them at her side. He notice she had a new outfit, possibly becoming one of his favorites. She wore black bell bottom sweat pants with a white flower on the bottom, lightly draping over her white and reddish pink shoes. Her top was a tank, black with a stripe of white along the edges. It only covered her large breasts, leaving her beautiful stomach exposed. Her ginger paws where covered with white gloves with a stripe of reddish pink along the edge as they almost eclipsed her elbows. Knuckles watched as her glossy turquoise eyes turned to him.

"Oh crap..." He spoke silently to himself turning his head away quickly.

A slur of questions then began to confiscate his mind. Such as: Why was she here? And when did she sign up for the WGP? From his confused state of mind he hardly felt two delicate paws grab hold of his broad shoulders.

"Hey, treasure hunter, long time no see." Rouge purred delicately in his ear.

Knuckles nearly jumped out of his shoes from her sudden appearance. "Rouge? What the!"

Rouge came up from his back to face him at his side. She gave a sweet giggle at his actions, "Aren't we a bit jumpy, echidna."

Both their ears perked hearing the starting bell as the countdown began.

Rouge gave him a quick peck on his cheek, causing it to warm from her delicate touch, "Good luck." She whispered before dashing towards the gate.

Knuckles shook the tingling feel she had left him with to start his run. He was one of the last out of the gate and had a bit of a hard time catching up with the competition. As he tricked onto the platform he made it easily into third place. Knuckles looked above, seeing Rouge had taken the first set of accelerator rings. Unfortunately, as he continued to stair he lost his balance from a competitor's attack. He became angry, not with his competition, but with himself for being distracted. He took off towards his power short cut to get a head of his foes. As he looked behind he saw someone following close, making it out to be Rouge. Something told him she was up to something.

When he rounded the first slick turn he looked to his side to see the smirking bat riding next to him. Rouge sped up slightly to turn in front of him, casing the startled echidna to ram into her. He was tossed back, dazed at what she had done. Looking over to he he saw that she had been knocked down as well

"Rouge, what the hell is wrong with you!" Knuckles yelled getting back on his board.

She never answered him, just giving a seductive smile. The second lap was much the same. Rouge kept preforming odd maneuvers to keep the echidna in the back of the pack. This aggravated him greatly, as soon they were so far behind the other racers were out of sight. Finally, on the third lap everything came into play. As they came near the sharp turn towards the finish line Knuckles tried desperately to stay in front of her. But what ever he did made no difference, she was always close at hand. As they rounded the turn Rouge was right by his side. Knuckles looked over to her, witnessing a smirk on her muzzle. As soon as she did so Knuckles felt his boards become wobbly as the Temptation glided against its side. The added friction and the side jets caused both boards th loose their balance and flip, ultimately causing the two riders to fly off and roll into the bushes.

Knuckles felt something soft and warm land on top of him, feeling his goggles invisible as they had flung off his body from the collision. He opened his blurry eyes to none other then Rouge's looking down at him with a grin, an arm crossed over his chest with the other holding up her head. Her body felt amazingly light on top of him, probably being able to fly meant her bones were hallow and thus made her seam weightless. Such close contact with her made the echidna's cheeks turn warm as he tried desperately to regain his composure.

"Rouge, Get Off!" He yelled at her.

"Now why would I do that, echidna?" She giggled, enjoying his wriggling.

"So I can beat you in the race!" He screamed out.

"I'm sure..." She still remained amused.

A thought came to mind to flip her off, as she was obviously so light. But, for some reason, he thought against it.

"What do you want anyway?" Knuckles growled.

"To talk..." Was all the bat answered him with.

"You certainly have an interesting way of getting a hold of someone to just talk." Knuckles remained starring into her beautiful eyes.

The two were silent for a while, about a couple of seconds or so. Rouge continued to stair down at him from her perch, enjoying the feeling of her body atop his.

"Knuckles, we're sort of friends aren't we?" She finally asked.

Knuckles chuckled, "Define friend, in your dictionary."

She gave a warming smile, "Alright, fine, Mr. Smart Alick. What do you think of me?"

Knuckles' blush came back to him, "What are you talking about?"

"What do you like about me, Knuckles?" She asked him.

"What? Where did all this come from?" Knuckles was easily becoming flustered by her odd questions.

Rouge turned her head to the side sadly. "You're so stubborn, you know that?" Rouge turned back to him, crossing both arms over his chest and resting her chin on them. "Just answer it. Is there anything, at all, you like about me?" Her words seamed to have a hit of sadness and longing to them.

Knuckles was silent, wondering what he should say. "Well, you're interesting..." Knuckles choked out. He watched her give him a questioning look. "Okay? You're strong, brave, and you don't take shit from anyone." Knuckles blurted out, turning his large head away in embarrassment.

Rouge's heart felt like it skipped a beat when he said those words. "You really think that?" Her voice tuned happily.

He turned his eyes back to her as he said, "Yea..." Then turned them away again.

Rouge began to bring her face closer to his, "Do you want to know what I think of you?" She asked him, sexily.

Knuckles turned back to her, his blush deeper then ever. "Well... I... aaa..."

His voice was stopped by her delicate lips upon his own. He squirmed a bit at first, but was soon hypnotized by their warmth. Her lips soon opened wider to force open his. He could feel Rouge's velvet tongue cores his rough lips making them smooth with her saliva. Soon their tongues met and began to exchange each other's flavor. Knuckles found her quite sweet, but left a bit of tartness behind. Rouge began to feel his overly large paws move up onto her waist and squeeze her. She moaned from his touch, bringing her own paws down to meet with his. They stayed like that for over a minute, breaking apart for only a second every so often, then returning to each other's lips.

She lifted her head from him, "That's what I think of you..." She gave him a seductive smile.

"Rouge... You mean you?" Knuckles was stunned at this.

Rouge nodded delicately. She lowered her head down to him and began to nuzzle his masculine chest. "Knuckles, I love you. I always have. I would constantly wonder what you felt for me. I think I got my answer..." she cooed.

"Yes, Rouge... I love you too." Knuckles began to feel her more with his paws.

The two were then jutted from their peaceful state of mind as the mechanical announcer called out the end of the race.

Knuckles looked down at his new love confused, "But, we didn't finish."

Rouge gave a sweet giggle, meeting her eyes with his, "Don't worry, I rigged two Ghost Data disks to finish the race for us."

"You always think ahead, don't you?" Knuckles smirked.

They stayed there for a couple of minutes enjoying each other's company. Soon Knuckles realized that he had to finish something, and thus they had to leave. As they walked slowly towards the beginning of the race both seamed to have a sad expression upon their face. They held their boards under one arm as they continued their slow stride. Knuckles told Rouge about the thievery that accrued not to long ago, and their part in it. Rouge sighed feeling she would leave the excitement to them this time.

"So, you're not going to stay for the Grand Prix? Even if you could get a hold of some jewels?" Knuckles asked, a bit depressed.

"Yea..." As they walked she leaned her body towards his side, walking along closely, enjoying the moment for as long as it would decide to last. Rouge gave a small laugh, "You know, in a way I don't seam as interested in jewels anymore. Well, except for the Master Emerald and it's guardian." She smiled up to him giving a mischievous grin.

Knuckles smiled, taking hold of her paw in his and leaning his head on hers, "Rouge... I do love you but..."

"You want to keep our relationship a secret for now, right?" Rouge continued for him. She heard him give a long sigh. "I think so too."

They stopped and turned to one another, "At least until things cool down and..." Knuckles didn't know how to continue, having a sad and longing expression on his face.

Rouge began to nuzzle him beneath his chin, as if to comfort him, "Yea, then we can be together." She felt her heart become tight as she spoke those long hoped for words.

Their bodies soon parted to stair into each other's glimmering eyes before they departed. Knuckles soon felt her delicate paw slip from his as she reluctantly backed away, taking her own path for the time being. They left each other with a warming smile, assuring that they would meet again. Each praying that it would be soon, but anytime would seam like an eternity apart for them now that they had each other. Knuckles watched silently as his love disappeared into the shadows of a nearby street. His smile remained as he returned to his stride, heading towards Sonic and Tails who finally spotted him off in the distance.

Ending Song: A Thousand Miles

By: Vanessa Carlton

Making my way downtown
Walking fast
Faces passed
And I'm home bound

Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making my way
Through the crowd

And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder...

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight

It's always times like these
When I think of you
And I wonder
If you ever
Think of me

'Cause everything's so wrong
And I don't belong
Living in your
Precious memories

'Cause I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder...

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight

And I, I
Don't want to let you know
I, I
Drown in your memory
I, I
Don't want to let this go
I, I
Don't...

Making my way downtown
Walking fast
Faces passed
And I'm home bound

Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making my way
Through the crowd

And I still need you
And I still miss you
And now I wonder...

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass us by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you...

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
If I could
Just hold you
Tonight

(End)

Kitty: And thus this is officially a Bonus Chapter for an up and coming Sonic Riders/Lumorean story line cross over thing... Of something I have no clue about...

Shadow: Surprisingly, she does, sorta, maybe know what she's talking about.

Kitty: Hey, you have to give me some credit. I've already started its Line Out. (If you would like to see what a Fiction Line Out is and how it can be helpful in the development of your fic you can easily request it by a review. You can also request to see what a Fiction Screen Play is and how it can be useful in writing your chapters. Trust me, I've been writing for about 5-6 years now, I've developed some pretty helpful items to get your chapters up and written and fictions completed without asking help from other people. Mostly because I feel that if I take an idea from a reviewer the entire fic isn't technically my own original work. I don't know, I guess that's just me.)

Shadow: Kitty's pretty ticked right now...

Kitty: I'm not necessarily ticked at the people who commented but at myself for leaving so many mistakes to be yelled out for. I never leave mistakes! Now I feel as though I have to take down every fiction I have up here and redo them! You people have to remember I have my own way of writing, whether you accept it or not is your own choice! So listen and listen good! I have freakin' checked this damn thing THREE times and if you suspect ANY errors YOU MUST SITE THEM in a review, as well as HOW YOU WOULD CORRECT THEM, and I will correct them from there! -twitches-

Shadow: Kitty, calm down... It's going to be okay, my god...

Kitty: Yes, the dots ARE suppose to be there! They're part of my writing! Dot, dot, dot ... DOTS! So are these, '!' . Get Over It! -Continues to twitch-