In day time, Kaito and Hachune were sitting on top of a fruit stand.

"Okay, Hachu. Go!" Kaito said. Hachu smiled and dipped over the edge, hanging in her pigtails, and looked at the proprietor whom was yelling to the passing crowd.

"Try this, your taste buds will dance and sing." He then noticed Hachune grab a melon. "Hey, get your paws off that!"

"Blah blah blah!" Hachune mocked him. He walked up to her pulling the melon out of her hands but in the same time, Kaito snatched a melon while the man had his back turned.

"Why, you! Get away from here, you filthy little...thing!"

"Bye bye!" She zinged back up, the man put the melon on top of a stack as he realised something, didn't he just do that?

"Nice goin' Hachu." Kaito said as he split the melon, giving the other half to Hachune. "Breakfast is served." In the crowd, Meiko was walking around dressed like a peasant as she walked by, many men were trying to convince her to buy their stuff.

"Pretty lady, buy a pot. No finer pot in brass or silver."

"Sugar dates, sugar dates and figs! Sugar dates and pistachios!"

"Would the lady like a necklace. A pretty necklace for a pretty lady." Meiko smiled at them but gasped as a fish was showed in her face.

"Fresh fish! We catch 'em, you buy 'em!"

"I don't think so." Meiko backed away and bumped into a fire swallower, causing him to accidently swallow his fire. "Oh, excuse me." He gulped and then burped a flame. Hearing a noise, Kaito looked down, seeing a fire swallower. But his attention was on the beautiful, bruntette whom was apolegizing.

"Wow!" He breathed. She pulled her cloak over her head. Hachune saw the weird look on Kaito's face and jumped up on his shoulders, waving her pigtails infront of his face.

"Hello? Hello? Kaito?" Meiko was walking up to a boy who was standing beneeth an apple stand, looking at the apples.

"Oh, you must be hungry." She said, taking an apple and giving it to him.

"Here you go." The boy ran off. She was suddenly grabbed by the sales man.

"You'd better be able to pay for that."

"Pay?"

"No one steals from my cart!"

"Oh, I'm sorry sir. I don't have any money." Kaito paniced at his place, knowing what could happen.

"Thief!"

"Please, if you let me go to the palace, I can get some from the Sultan."

"Do you know what the penalty is for stealing?" He grabbed her hand and pinned it down as he brought up a blade, with the intention of cutting her hand of.

"No, no please!" He swung, but was suddenly stopped by Kaito who grabbed is arm.

"Thank you kind sir. I'm so glad you've found her." he patted the man on the shoulder, then turned to Meiko. "I've been looking all over for you.! He scolded her.

"What are you doing?" She wisperd. "

Just play along." He wisperd.

"You know this girl?" The salesman gruffed.

"Sadly, yes. She is my sister. She's a little crazy." He circled his finger around his ear, but the man grabbed his vest.

"She said she knows the Sultan! Kaito chuckled.

"She thinks the chibi is the Sultan." Hearing this, Hachune quickly stopped picking pockets. Meiko played along and bowed down to her.

"Oh, wise Sultan. How may I serve you?"

"Well, blah blah blah blah." Hachune patted her head.

"Tragic, isn't it?" Kaito said while sneaking an apple from the stand a gave it to the man. "But, no harm done." He walked behind Meiko and steered her away "Now come along sis. Time to see the doctor."

"Oh, hello doctor. How are you?" She said to a camel

"No, no, no. Not that one." He looked at Hachune

"Come on, Sultan." Hachune bowed down, spilling out all the things she stole by mistake.

"Huh? What is it?" The man yelled. Hachune quickly picked up what she could carry and ran after Kaito and Meiko. "Come back here, you little thieves!"

In Luka's lab, Tako was scurring as fast as she could to power up a machine, on top of it, a storm was froming.

"With all due respect, your rottenness, couldn't we just wait for a real storm? Tako said, losing her breath.

"Save your breath, Tako. Faster!" Luka yelled as she place Al's ring in it.

"Yes, o mighty evil one." She scurried even faster, until a lightning bolt struck the ring, passing in to an hourglass below, the san inside it began to swirl.

"Ah, sands of time-reveal to me the one who can enter the cave." The sand breafly took the shape of the cave of wonders before showing a vision of Kaito climbing up a ladder.

"Yes, yes!" Luka shouted in exitment, finally having found what she was looking for.

"There he is. My diamond in the rough!"

"That's him?! That's the clown we've been waitin' for?" Tako lost concentration and suddenly got sucked into the gears, spinning as she screamed.

"Let's have the guards extend him an invitation to the palace, shall we?" The gears let Tako go, sending her flying into a wall upside down.

"Swell." She said weakly. Luka laughed maniacly, she was finaly going to get her lamp.

In the city, at sunset, Kaito and Meiko were climbing up on a roof as he was leading her to his home.

"Almost there." Kaito said, Meiko climed after but tripped and fell his arms. They looked at eachother for a second but she quickly backed away.

"I want to thank you for stopping that man."

"Ah, forget it." He took a pole.

"So, uh, this is your first time in the marketplace, huh?" He pole vaulted over to another roof top, leaving her behind.

"Is it that obvious?" She giggled

"Well, you do kinda stand out." He stared at her love sickly, she looked back at him. He realised what he was doing and snapped out of it. "I mean, uh, you don't seem to know how dangerous Vocabah can be." He put down a plank for her to walk over but as he bent down, she vaulted over his head, landing behing him. He and Hachune stared in amazement, Meiko threw her pole to Kaito.

"I'm a fast learner."

"Right. C'mon, this way." He took her hand and lead her inside the roof of a building. Dodging planks and beams as they went. "Whoa. Watch your head there. Be careful."

"Is this where you live?" Meiko asked him.

"Yep. Just me and little Hachu. Come and go as we please." He answerd

"Fabulous."

"Well, it's not much," He pulled back the curtain and exposed the palace. "But it's got a great view. Palace looks pretty amazing, huh?"

"Oh, it's wonderful." Meiko said as she saw how beautiful it was from the only side she hadn't seen it from, the outside.

"I wonder what it would be like to live there, to have servants and valets..."

"Oh, sure." Meiko rememberd its inside again "People who tell you where to go and how to dress."

"It's better than here. Always scraping for food and ducking the guards."

"You're not free to make your own choices."

"Sometimes you feel so-"

"You're just-"

"-trapped." They said in union. They looked at eachother for a moment. they realized they've found their perfext match, someone who could understand how hard their life had been. Kaito snapped out of this thought and took an apple and from Hachune rolled it down his arm to Meiko.

"So, where're you from?"

"What does it matter? I ran away, and I am not going back."

"Really? He took a bite of the apple and gave to Hachune who looked disgusted.

"Why you!" Kaito didn't hear it or ignored it and sat next to Meiko.

"My father's forcing me to get married."

"That's-that's awful." Kaito said but then he saw Hachune sneak behind the princess and try to steal her apple."Hachu!" Hachune ran back up and started to yell at him but she talked so fast and her voice became so squeaky, it was impossible to make out what she was saying.

"What?" Meiko asked Kaito, expecting him to know.

"Hachu says that-uh-that's not fair." He answerd for her.

"What?" Hachune looked at him in confusion.

"Oh did she?"

"Yeah, of course."

"And does 'Hachu' have anything else to say?" She said looking directly at Kaito.

"Well, uh, she wishes there was something he could do to help." They leaned closer and closer by the second.

"Oh, boy!" Hachune smacked her forehead.

"Hmm, tell her that's very sweet." Kaito and Meiko looked closed thier eyes and he leaned in to kiss her. But suddely they were interupted by the guards.

"Here you are!"

"They've found me!" They yelled at the same time and then looked at eachother. "They're after you?" they said to the other.

"My father must have sent them-"

"Do you trust me?"

"What?"

"Do you trust me?" He held out his hand to her.

"Yes." She took it.

"Then jump!" They both jumped off the roof and fell in a pile of salt. Kaito, still holding her hand, tried to run away with her but the path was blocked by a guard.

"We just keep running into each other, don't we, street rat?" Hachune hopped down and pulled own his turban once again, but that time three other guards had come as well. The first guard took Hachune and threw her in a vase while three other guards grabbed Kaito.

"It's the dungeon for you, boy."

"Hey, get off of me!" He yelled. Meiko ran up to the head guard and hit him.

"Let go of him!" She screamed. Not realizing who she was, the guard showed her away.

"Look what we have here, men-a street mouse." Meiko fumed as the guards laughed.

"Unhand him!" She stood up and pulled off her cloak. "By order of the princess!" The guards gasped and bowed.

"Princess Meiko."

"The princess?" Kaito looked on shocked.

"The princess?" Hachune said from her vase.

"What are you doing outside the palace? And with this street rat?" The guard asked.

"That's not your concern. Do as I command. Release him!" She demanded.

"Well, I would, princess, but my orders come from Luka. You'll have to take it up with her." The guards dragged Kaito away as Meiko looked at them bitterly.

"Believe me, I will."