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Time Out, Kingdom Hearts (Sephiroth, Cloud, Tifa)
Title: Time-Out
Author: Aiko Namika
Rating: G
Warnings: Attempted humor?
Word count: 384
Prompt: Kingdom Hearts, Sephiroth, Cloud, and Tifa: Trust/acceptance - If he's your darkness, then that also means that you're his light.
Summary: A pair of lunkheads and an annoyed “nanny.”
A/N: …this was supposed to be a little more serious. My mental voice got crackier as it went on, though.

Whenever one of them so much as shifted to a more comfortable position, the other would freeze, which alerted the first so that he froze too. It was like watching a particularly stubborn pair of children.

Of course, considering the fact that Sephiroth and Cloud were tied together with a length of magical rope (spelled not to break even if handled by Merlin on a bad day!), it wasn’t like either of them could actually go anywhere. Tifa was rather proud of that particular aspect of her current plan, because without their weapons – and she’d made sure to relieve both of them of anything edged, including Cloud’s damn gauntlet – there wasn’t really all that much they could do except sit there.

“Now,” she said suddenly, and waited for the startled twitch and resulting spasms to die down. “I’m rather tired of a happy little trail we’ve got going. Sephiroth runs around, and then Cloud runs after him, and I’m left trailing after the both of you with the major desire to knock both of your heads together.”

Both Sephiroth and Cloud studiously avoided looking at her, or anywhere near anything that would remind them of each other. It was hard to restrain the smile that wanted to break free; two of the most dangerous men in the worlds, shifting around and trying not to look at a single woman like her. She was dangerous, but nowhere near their level, and she knew it.

“So! We’re going to have a little sit-down now, and we’re going to work things out so that I can finally sit down and relax with the knowledge that neither of the two of you are going to try and kill each other. Or anyone else, for that matter.” It had taken long enough to get the circumstances right so that she could catch them both like this. She owed Sora, Riku and Kairi free meals for a month; maybe she couldn’t do cookies like Aerith, but she could make a mean pot roast, and that sort of thing seemed good enough for them.

Right now she had this pair of lunkheads to deal with, though. She’d get them to figure out their balance with each other if it took her almost all of forever (with an exception for bathroom breaks).