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Who: Isa, Terra and Terra-Xehanort. Open to all!
Where: Outside Terra and Xehanort's apartments, then the Virgo Ward. (Feel free to assume you spotted them in a random store if you want to start a thread)
Summary: Xehanort pretty much planned a shopping trip for Isa, it won't hurt to take him up on that offer, right?
Warnings: Derpfaces being Derpfaces? Isa being confused?

Isa was unsure how he got into this, or if he should even take Xehanort up on the offer. Shouldn't he be avoiding him? None of this really made any sense to Isa. Oh well, if Xehanort wanted to help, he wanted to help. Far be it from Isa to be the one to push Xehanort down the wrong path.

After getting over his reluctance and hesitation, Isa headed down to the lower floor the other men lived on.

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Xion and Sora were out shopping. At least that was the simple version. The more complex one involved picking up some things they needed, a then a bookstore to grab a cookbook, and then finally stop by a grocery store and pick up some supplies to make Aqua cookies or something. Except that it was lunchtime, and Sora was hungry, and truth be told Xion had felt her stomach gnawing at her too.

So they'd stopped by the food court in the mall of the bookstore they were going to head to afterwards, and picked up some food. It was afterwards, trays in hand and Xion leading the way, that they moved to the tables looking for seats.

And then Xion looked up and saw something that made her blood freeze. Or rather, someone. There was no mistaking the blue hair, the face, even though she wasn't standing right in front of him.

Instincts - ones that had kept her alive for the past year and a half before she'd come to Hinoto-Ri - kicked in almost instantaneously. Her tray of food fell from her hands with a crash, and she began to back up, ready to bolt.

Hungry? More like starving, as far as Sora was concerned. Especially after doing all of that grocery shopping. How could you feel anything BUT hungry after spending all of that time looking at food?

He was following closely behind Xion, but he was so focused on the thought of finally getting to eat that he didn't notice her stopping until he was already nearly running into her. That meant that when she back up she was backing up right into him, and he instinctively grabbed her shoulders to stop her from going up any farther. He had dropped his own tray, too, but he could worry about that in a minute.

"Xion? What's wrong?" He glanced around, but he couldn't see what was scaring her.

Isa looked up at the sound of clattering of dishes and trays. Many patrons in the mall's food court did, but most turned their attention back to their food, Isa's gaze lingered on the two teenagers who made the racket. One of them was Sora and the other...?

The other was...?

Someone... someone he didn't know.

Well that "someone" was pretty much trying to not visibly panick and doing rather badly. In hear head, she was mentally berating herself. How, how had she let herself get so complacent? How had she let her guard down so much she didn't even notice that he was there until he was less than fifty yards away?

And of course her outburst had attracted his attention, and the only thing keeping her from bolting outright is Sora grabbing her shoulders. She knows that this is Hinoto-Ri. She knows that maybe this Saix isn't like the one she knows (he may not even remember her).

But she isn't really willing to take that risk.

"I-it's Saix," she squeaked, trying to tilt her head in the vain hopes of hiding her face, "We have to go."

"Saix?" The name didn't ring any bells, and Sora wasn't sure what to do. It had to be someone bad, though, for Xion to be this shaken. "Who's that?"

It was in the brief pause after he said that when he finally noticed someone familiar nearby. It was the guy with the blue hair that Sora remembered meeting over the network, who said he used to be in the Organization but wasn't anymore. Sora still wasn't really sure what to think about him, but...could he be the one Xion was talking about?

No, Sora remembered. His name was Isa, wasn't it? At least, that's what he had said. So what was going on?

Isa, who had ditched the coat for something far more mundane, stood up and walked over to where Sora and his friend were.

He didn't say anything to them, he didn't even really look at them. He only stooped down and started picking up the dropped trays.

Xion shot back a still panicked and slightly disbelieving look. Sora didn' know?

"He's from-" But that moment, Saix started to make his way over, and Xion froze, her entire body stiff as a board. There was something very, very off here. The outfit was different, he wasn't even looking at them or saying anything or...

What was going on? Xion didn't say anything herself, standing stock-still, like a tightly-coiled spring that could be set off at the lightest touch.

Sora knew of the Organization, but he didn't know much of anything at all about the individual members themselves. Technically, he had never even met one of them, much less learned their names. That just made this whole mess a lot more confusing for him.

He's a little surprised when Isa starts walking their way, and especially when he begins picking up the dropped trays. A little unsure, too, since he was kind of hoping he wouldn't find out Xion was there until Sora could learn a little more about him, but...hey, he was trying to help, at least! That was a good sign, right?

"Oh...thanks." he said to Isa, though he was still keeping an eye on Xion. She was only getting more tense, and meanwhile Sora just didn't really know what to think.

Isa stands up and places them on a nearby table.

"So... who's your friend, Sora?" He keeps his voice even and calm, and turns to look at the girl who curiously looked like a black haired Kairi.

What... What...

He didn't know her. He didn't recognize her. And... and he wasn't acting like Saix. Her eyes were wide with shock and lingering fear as she glanced from the person in front of her to the one behind her.

And at that point she was finally able to take in some of the differences between the Saix she'd known and the person in front of her. The casual clothing was a big difference of course, but the most striking thing was the eyes. Green, instead of gold. And just as importantly, not narrowed with disdain at her presence.

She finally glanced back at Sora, her shoulders no less tense than before, but no worse either.

"What's going on?" she stammered.

"Uh..." That was a weird question to hear directed at him, of all people, especially since Sora felt entirely lost right now. For a second, he's not sure if trying to answer Isa or Xion will help the situation more, but he's more inclined to try to explain things to his little sister first.

He just had to figure out what and how to explain it all.

"When I talked to him on the COMP awhile ago, Isa," He gestures towards Isa's direction, indicating who he was talking about. "Said that he used to be in the Organization, but wasn't anymore. Do you know him?"

He was pretty sure that she had to know him, but that was as good of a place to start sorting this out as any.

"I'm trying to put my time in the Organization behind me, I'm not that person anymore," Isa added as an explanation.

He doubted it would be enough for anyone who knew him during his time as Saix, but it was all he could say at the moment.

Isa. She knew that name. Of course she knew it, since Lea had (over time) told them - not all, but pieces - of his history in Radiant Garden, and most specifically his original friendship with Isa. It... hadn't been the easiest thing to hear at the time, that Axel and Saix used to be friends and all that entailed but... it had been okay. She and Roxas had accepted it and gotten past it.

She doesn't know what to think, or believe. There's definitely something different. If what he was saying is true she should be happy for Lea's sake because Lea had told them how much Saix had changed and yet neither Axel nor Lea were even here and all she felt was this festering pit of surprise and suspicion.

"Y-yeah, I do... sort of," she said finally, in response to Sora's question, before looking Isa square in the face, "But you don't remember me."

It's not a question.

"He-" Sora is about to ask why he wouldn't remember Xion, but then the obvious occurs to him. Did she mean that this was...well, like what happened with Riku? Did she think that Isa was from a place where she had disappeared?

That thought makes him uneasy all over again. But it's not as if they know for sure yet, right? Sure, Isa wasn't really acting like he recognized Xion, but...

He turns to Isa, directing the question at him.

"You...don't?"

"I..."

He looks from the girl, to Sora, and back again. Who was this girl? Why was she acting as though she knew him? She couldn't have been right, that he had forgotten about her. Someone who was friends with Sora and resembled Kairi? The Organization would have at least been aware of such a girl.

"I don't know her."

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