Riku immediately jumps into action with a vertical slash, determined to catch Yuffie off-guard as quickly as possible. After all, he did hear from Sora that she was an extremely agile fighter.

"Oh no you don't!" With an amazingly swift reaction time, Yuffie dodges to the side and back-flips away, seeking to create distance between herself and Riku. In a blink, she then sends her Shuriken flying at him. Knowing he's now at an instant disadvantage, Riku clicks his tongue and prepares to block the oncoming blade.

The echo of metal upon metal reverberates throughout the Square, drawing in a small crowd of residents. The Shuriken falls to the ground with a heavy clang once Riku's Keyblade breaks its trajectory.

From the corner of his vision, Riku catches Yuffie dash towards him and turns his block into a quick horizontal slash. Yuffie narrowly avoids it by ducking below him and retrieves her Shuriken. "W-Woah! You almost got me!" she exclaims.

With the purpose of not letting her create distance between them again, Riku throws all of his strength into another slash and forces her to block.

"Ugh! You know you have the strength advantage!" Yuffie squints at him with a pout, as if she's waiting for a response. Clearly not wanting for the match to end too quickly, she trips him up and makes him lose his footing with a nimble sweep at his legs.

Annoyed with an easy victory getting wrestled from his grasp, Riku huffs, "That wasn't very fair."

"Come on, Riku, you know there's no such thing as fair in a fight!"

"This is a sparring match!"

"Same difference, now come on!"

Frustrated, Riku thrusts his Keyblade forwards. Only for Yuffie to leap onto it, then effortlessly hop off and let the momentum carry her to land right behind him. "Oh crap." Riku whips around to block her Shuriken, assuming she would strike his side.

He is met with one of her Kunai pressed against his neck instead.

"Stop!" Naminé speaks up, thus ending the match.