(A.N. I do not own anything from Kingdom Hearts or Disney. I do however own this story line Also, this took far to long to write.)

Cloud let out an annoyed breath as he opened the trash can lid, peering into the world of stench and garbage.

"Okay, bad idea…" He muttered to himself as he quickly put the lid back in its proper place. Why did he think the creature would be in the trash anyways?

He dusted his hands off on his pants and looked up as Aerith walked over.

"He wasn't at the market place." Aerith said simply and Cloud sighed in frustration. If Sora came back and that thing was still missing...

"Don't worry Cloud; I'm sure this won't be a repeat of what happened with Pluto." Aerith said and put her hand on his shoulder. Cloud couldn't help but wince at the memory.

"No, nothing like that will happen again." Cloud said firmly and turned to look at Aerith. Aerith smiled in return and nodded.

"I know." She said and Cloud nodded back.

"Good." He said and looked around. "You can search around the Restoration Committee; I'll take the Dark Depths."

"Cloud, be careful." Aerith said.

"Don't worry." Cloud replied.

As the two of them began to walk away to check their respective areas once more Cloud couldn't help but look back. 'Why did I think he was in the garbage?'

"Hey! Hey, get outta there!" Yuffie shouted as she attempted to drag the fluffy blue creature out of the garbage bin while her messenger bag full of deliveries flapped at her side.

"Poocha Chubugga Oom Chickee!" Stitch proclaimed as he shoved various dirty and discarded items into his gapping maw.

"I don't know what that even means now stop it right now!" Yuffie demanded in utter frustration and continued to pull Stitch by his feet. Stitch was holding onto the trash bin and no matter how hard Yuffie pulled, she could not dislodge the blue experiment

Stitch suddenly let go of the bin and the two of them flew back. Yuffie hit the ground hard and Stitch landed on her so that he would be sitting on her chest. Yuffie stared up at Stitch and Stitch stared back at Yuffie.

Stitch suddenly grinned at her and burped right in her face.

"Oh, eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Yuffie groaned loudly as she turned her head to the side in disgust, waving her hand in front of herself to attempt to fan the stench of the tiny creature's breath away.

Stitch only laughed and wagged his little tail. Yuffie glared at him intensely, that is, intensely until Stitch licked her cheek.

"EW! You just ate garbage with that mouth!" Yuffie yelled and furiously rubbed her cheek with her arm. Yuffie then held her up in front of her to prevent any more licking of the face, the same arm that held the messenger bag.

Stitch grinned widely at that and snatched the messenger bag from her and ran with it in his mouth, dragging it on the ground.

"Hey! Give that back, stop!" Yuffie hollered as she jumped to her feet and chased the tiny experiment around.

Yuffie jumped over a mail box as Stitch ran between a woman's legs, the messenger bag knocking the poor women over. Stitch quickly ran to a house and started climbing it, scampering up the side like a spider. Yuffie quickly jumped onto a fence and ninja ran along it, then she jumped and did a flip, landing right in front of Stitch.

"Alright, I have you now so stop right there!" Yuffie declared as Stitch looked up at her with the messenger bag in his mouth still.

Stitch and Yuffie once again stared at each other; they stared for what seemed like eternity. Yuffie then broke the spell that seemed to have been placed on them and took a step forward. This caused Stitch to run forward and jump over Yuffie's head. Yuffie jumped and managed to grab back her messenger bag and flail it in an attempt to get Stitch to let go of it.

Stitch refused to let go of the bag and was flung around like a rag doll. That is, until Yuffie let go of the messenger bag and both Stitch and the messenger bag flew out of sight.

Yuffie watched both of them fly over the houses in silence, before it was broken by Yuffie's single comment.

"Aw crap, Leon's going to kill me!" Yuffie shouted as she started running to reclaim the messenger bag before a random pedestrian walked off with it.

Aerith was walking along when out of nowhere a large messenger bag almost hit her in the back. Almost, but Aerith turned the corner of the house at the exact moment for it to miss her. The messenger bag and the creature holding onto it hit the ground hard and skidded into the wall, making a loud thud sound.

Aerith quickly spun around and looked to see Stitch on his back, holding his head and groaning slightly.

Matching the description Cloud had given her in her head; she quickly walked over to him and picked him up. At the sudden lift Stitch stopped groaning and blinked in confusion, then looked up at her. Aerith smiled kindly at Stitch, who cocked his head in confusion, and then smiled back.

"Are you okay?" Aerith said as she patted his head. Stitch nodded and looked at the messenger bag, reaching out for it.

"Is that Restoration Committee's messenger bag? What were you doing with that?" Aerith said with a frowned and walked over, picking it up and holding Stitch in one arm. Stitch did his best to look innocent but Aerith saw right through his façade.

"Let's return this," Aerith said and started to walk, "and you're coming too, Cloud's been looking everywhere for you." Stitch groaned loudly and looked down.

"Hey Aerith, what do you have there?" A new voice asked. Stitch turned his head to see who the new person was.

"Hi Tifa," Aerith smiled at the newcomer, "This is Stitch, Sora told Cloud to watch him."

"So he hasn't learned yet, has he?" Tifa shook her head sadly, but had an obvious amused expression.

"Anyways, did Stitch steal the delivery bag?" Tifa asked after getting another look at the object in question.

"I think so, I haven't asked him yet. Stitch, did you steal this? You know it doesn't belong to you." Aerith asked Stitch, looking straight down at him.

"No, no, just barrow." Stitch replied at the same time Tifa asked if Stitch could really talk.

"Whoa! That's new." Tifa commented as she looked down at Stitch in a new light. Stitch looked up at her and smiled.

"Aw, he's kind of cute." Tifa said as she smiled back, putting her finger under her lip out of habit and held up her elbow with her other arm which was crossed over her chest. Her smile quickly disappeared as Stitch began picking his nose with his tongue.

"Ugh…" Tifa made a slight face. "Come on Aerith; let's bring this little guy back to the Restoration Committee. I'm sure Cloud will return sooner or later, he always does."

Right after they left however, a certain ninja ran around the corner and looked for the delivery bag that she had lost. Not seeing it she groaned loudly and stomped her foot slightly.

"Ohhhhh, I know it landed over here! If someone took it I'll, I'll... I don't know what I'll do! Oh man Leon really is going to kill me!" Yuffie shouted at no one in particular as she ran to another place she thought it could have landed.

Unfortunately for Yuffie, she happened to run right into Leon as she turned the same corner Aerith had been about to turn.

"Yuffie, be careful." Leon instructed while looking down at her. Something suddenly seemed wrong with Yuffie's appearance and Leon frowned, looking her over.

"Where is your delivery bag Yuffie?" Leon said as he looked down at her, putting a hand on her shoulder to prevent escape.

Yuffie let out a nervous giggle. "It's a long story. Now lemme go please, thanks!" Yuffie tried to duck out of Leon's grip and make a run for it.

"Then make it short." Leon more or less commanded as he grabbed her headband. Yuffie was jerked back by this action and fell on her butt.

"Ow!" She groaned loudly and rubbed her butt. "A little blue koala stole it okay? That hurt!"

"A blue koala?" Leon replied quite skeptically, but then he remembered.

"Did it have long ears and seem prone to destruction?" Leon asked, hoping that he wasn't correct in his assumption.

"Yeah, it could talk too! Do you know it?" Yuffie asked hoping that she would not be deemed crazy.

Leon was silent as he let go over her headband. He slowly took a deep breath before he responded.

"We've met."