"What…is it?" A bewildered man with spiky blonde hair asked himself as he examined the fluffy blue creature being offered to him by the Keyblade Master.

"His name's Stitch, or that's what he calls himself at least." Sora said brightly, a little too brightly for the man's tastes. "Come on Cloud; just watch him for a little while! I need to find his world so I can't watch him and I can't leave him on the ship." Sora then promptly shoved the koala-like being into Cloud's unwilling arms.

Cloud opened his mouth to ask why this Stitch-creature needed to be watched if it was intelligent enough to say its own name, but Sora was already running. This couldn't be good.

Cloud frowned deeply as he looked over Stitch in his hand. "So… you can talk?" Cloud mumbled, more to himself then to the alien currently residing in his arms. In response to Cloud's question, Stitch nodded and wagged his fluffy little tail, smiling a bit too widely for the man's tastes.

Cloud looked at at the little fluffy thing, and Stitch looked back. Neither blinked and suddenly this was a staring contest, both of them staring into the soul of the other. Cloud felt like his soul was being judged by Stitch, and he hoped that his soul had the blinds up or something. This creature couldn't be normal, perhaps it was a demon that was beginning to cast a Death spell on him! This staring contest suddenly became a battle of wills as Cloud refused to be the first to blink.

Suddenly, the loud roar of an airship overhead caused Cloud to wince, and in turn, blink. He saw Donald grinning at him, holding one of his wing-hands over his beak. It looked like he was laughing, and Cloud desperately hoped it wasn't at him. He looked back at the tiny creature in his arms to see it do something that took Cloud almost completely by surprise.

"Hello!" the creature exclaimed while spreading his arms out wide as if asking for a hug. Cloud's eyes went wide as he looked down in shock. His shock quickly vanished as he remembered all the other crazy things he had seen before. This wasn't as weird as he thought it was compared to half of it. Cloud shook his head slightly.

"So your name is Stitch huh? Who named you that?" He asked with a low voice. Even if it was an intelligent blue alien that the Keyblade Master thought was a worthy summon, Cloud did not want to be seen talking with it.

"Lilo named Stitch." Stitch smiled fondly at the memory.

"Lilo, who's that?" Cloud asked while putting down the small fluffy creature, not really caring to hold it any longer than was necessary. He wasn't very surprised when Stitch stood up on his hind legs; in fact, Cloud had kind of expected that.

"Lilo is ohana, and ohana means family… and family means… no one gets left behind…" Stitch explained a bit sadly as his ears went down and his shoulders slumped.

Cloud sighed, knowing that comforting people was not his specialty.

"Hey, stay here, I'm going to get Aerith." Cloud mumbled and started walking. At the last second he got a bad feeling and turned around with his eyes slightly narrowed. "Stay here."

As soon as Cloud was out of Stitch's sight the blue alien perked up. His ears swished as he giggled mischievously. He looked around and saw a large duck in a top hat with a cane walking around holding a stick with blue ice cream on it.

Stitch curiously ran over and leaned up to sniff the ice cream. Seeing the blue alien, the large duck held the ice cream up and out of Stitch's reach.

"Back you mutt! You won't get any of old Scrooge's ice cream, no sirree!" The elderly duck snapped while whacking Stitch with his cane. These actions caused Stitch to growl loudly and seize the cane from Scrooge and snap it in half on the ground. Then Stitch glared at old duck and jumped up, grabbing the ice cream.

Stitch ran off holding the ice cream leaving a flustered and squawking Scrooge. Upon turning the corner he shoved the ice cream into his maw and devoured it, stick and all. Stitch sat down against the wall and licked his lips, finding that he liked the taste of it.

Stitch decided that he would have more of this ice cream. He poked his head around the corner slowly and looked around. Seeing that Scrooge was gone, Stitch curled up into his ball mode and rolled around to look for the duck with the ice cream.

Right after Stitch left the area, Cloud returned with Aerith. One look was all he needed to know that the blue experiment had left and Cloud groaned in annoyance and made a mental note to avoid living things that were the color blue now. There were too many of them, like Sephiroth (or his wing at least), Hades, many Heartless, and now… this thing.

"He left… after I told him to stay… damn it now I have to look for him…" Cloud grumbled to himself, remembering that Sora had asked him to watch the fluffy little demon. Aerith put a hand on Cloud's shoulder comfortingly.

"How about I help you look for him, I think I'd like to meet him if he's been traveling with Sora like you said." Aerith offered while smiling. Cloud gave her a small nod.

"Alright, you look near the market and I'll check the bailey." Cloud instructed and went to inspect the area he had assigned himself. Aerith giggled to herself and went to search the market.

Meanwhile Stitch was still rolling around when someone tripped over him and landed on the ground with a loud thud.

"Hey, watch where you're going!" A young girl with short black hair and grey eyes exclaimed. Stitch uncurled and scuttled over to her on four legs. The girl sat up and gave him a small glare, which wasn't really threatening at all. The girl then cocked her head and examined the small creature she had tripped over.

"Are you a creation of Hojo's or something? You're really weird looking!" The girl questioned loudly. Stitch cocked his head slightly at the unfamiliar name and then shook his head.

"Can you understand me?" The girl asked him curiously. Stitch nodded and sat down, his ears flicking. "Hey, I'm the Great Ninja Yuffie! What's your name, are you a dog or a bear or what? Say, you're not a Heartless are you!" The girl narrowed her eyes at him after asking the last question. Stitch shook his head and decided to answer her.

"My name Stitch! Not Heartless, cute and fluffy!" Stitch proclaimed, standing up and spreading his arms out, smiling widely.

Yuffie jumped back, "Ahh! You can talk, you can talk!" Yuffie shouted in surprise. Stitch nodded and simply beamed at her. It took Yuffie many more seconds then it had taken Cloud to realize that she had also seen weirder things than this. Curious to the blue alien's last statement, she walked over and carefully patted his forehead. "Hey! You are fluffy!" Yuffie concluded and picked him up.

She held him at arms length and examined him again for a minute. "You are pretty cute too." Yuffie said while grinning. "Of course, you aren't nearly as cute as me!" She chirped and brought him closer to huggle him.

Stitch complied and allowed her to do this. He looked up at her and she looked back at him.

Suddenly, Yuffie's cell phone went off, playing a catchy fast paced tune. She quickly answered it while holding up Stitch with one arm.

"Hello this is the Great Ninja Yuffie speaking." Yuffie said into the phone.

"Hello Yuffie, have you finished your rounds yet? I need you to run some errands." Leon said into the phone.

"Awwwwww! Why do I have to do that! Make Cloud or Cid do it! Why can't you do it yourself!" Yuffie complained loudly.

"Because Cloud is out and not answering his phone still, Cid is working on his computer to upgrade Tron again, and I am scheduled to work out diplomacy between our world and Twilight Town." Leon explained in a strained voice.

"Oh fine! But you owe me one Squall!" Yuffie grumbled into the phone, hanging up before Leon could correct her use of his name.

"Come on Stitch," Yuffie chirped happily, "Let's go deliver some stuff!"