Prompt: Arrest
Given by: Jediempress
Setting: Headquarters of the Radiant Garden Reconstruction Committee, Post KHII
Pairings: Sora/Kairi and Cloud/Riku
Yuffie had engaged Kairi into a conversation about why they always seemed to be left out for the most part whenever their friends had to go play hero when it happened.
Sora could not believe it. As far as he knew, this had never happened before.
He had always known Kairi to push through any distractions that might capture and hold anyone else's attention.
While they were growing up on the islands, neither Sora's dumbfounded reactions or Riku's witty remarks ever broke her concentration.
From what he had heard from Donald and Goofy, the girl never once paused in surprise or awe after her heart was returned to her in Hallow Bastion castle. She woke up, tried to catch Sora, and saw him disappear into darkness. Then, she was attacked by Xehanort's Heartless, whom she witness being held back by Riku's spirit. After that, she saw Sora manifest from his Heartless form and fled in a gummi ship (which she had never even heard of) to go to another world (which she had never truly believed existed). Through it all, she kept her focus.
When a strange man appeared on the beach with her a little more than a year later, and Riku used Pluto to guide her through dark pathways, she kept moving without question according to the silver-haired teen.
Riku also told Sora of his surprise that Kairi had taken his appearance in stride during their next meeting, even though she knew no details about his situation.
Seeing Naminè and Roxas emerge from them and then fade back into them had not fazed her at all.
When Sora and Riku seemingly fell from the sky after they were trapped in the World That Never Was, she greeted them as though they had simply been out sparring.
When Sora finally gathered the nerve to ask her out shortly afterwards, she merely commented that it was about time, confirmed that she wanted to go out, and then continued to pester Riku about helping her with a late homework assignment as she had been doing before.
She accepted the idea of visiting Radiant Garden as if flying gummi's to other worlds were an everyday suggestion.
So when Kairi stopped speaking mid-sentence, ceased moving with her cup halfway to her mouth, and stared open-mouthed across the room, -all because Cloud Strife had arrived and simultaneously gathered Riku into a rather intimate embrace- all Sora could do was watch in shock.
Yuffie looked back and forth between the two teens she had just been conversing with; trying to figure out what had arrested their attention so suddenly.
She turned to Leon. "What did I miss?"
The man merely shrugged and returned to his conversation with Cid.
Aerith and Tifa laughed and continued talking amongst themselves as they indicated the spiky-haired man and the silver-haired boy.
Cloud and Riku began speaking quietly to one another as though the other people in the room were not actually there.
Sora finally bust out laughing, as Kairi continued to stare blankly.
He would never understand the girl.