We walked on for 15 minutes.' How far does this guy live?'

"Yuki? How much longer do we have to walk?" I asked.

He looked back at me.

"About 15 more minutes.Why?"I shrugged.

"Just wondering,"

We continued down the street. Sure enough 15 minutes later Yuki stopped in front of this forest. I had a chance now to ask why we had stopped because Joey finally shut up. For the past 15 minutes she had been shamelessly flirting with Yuki, but he looked like he enjoyed her company.Whooo…. .

"Here we are,"Yuki said.

I looked into the forest. There was a fairly wide path running into it.

"What? All I see is trees and that path,"Tori spoke up.

"I guess you could say this is the drive-way," he replied smartly.

I just shrugged and held my hand out in a 'move on' gesture.

"Shall we?" I wondered." Ladies first." I muttered the last part as Yuki went in first. (I really think he looks like a girl.)

We walked on for ten minutes or so when wee cam into a small clearing. Inside the clearing was a beautiful two-story Japanese style house.

"Whoa," was all I could say.

Tori was all"Oh I hope your cousin does say yes" and

Joey was like'Oh my god, Yuki, I can't believe you live in such a beautiful house."

Yuki just nodded and walked us to the door.

Inside we took off our shoes and followed Yuki into the living room.

"Please make yourselves comfortable, I'll be right back,"Yuki said pointing chairs and a couch.

"All right," we all answered.

Yuki left the room and closed the door as I found a seat on a chair and Joey and Tori sat on the couch. From somewhere on the ground floor we heard muffled voices. One was Yuki's and the other was male, but deeper, older.Suddenly the older voice yelled,

"Yay, now we won't be alone in this crap-shack anymore!"

Joey whispered "Crap shack? This place is huge."

I yelled back to the voice,"You can never be alone in this crap shack!"

The three of us started to laugh when suddenly a man, who appeared to be in his twenties, was standing in the doorway. He had longish hair, brown eyes. It looked like he only had one arm, until the other one appeared at his chin. He looked like was studying us.Yuki pushed past him and sat next to Joey on the couch.

"My, my you've picked some cute ones, Yuki"the man joked.

Yuki stared at him angrily.

"Shut up and sit down, Shigure,"he commanded.

The man, Shigure, waved a hand.

"Fine, just kidding though,"

He sat on the chair opposite of me.

"Yuki has just told me of your problem and if we agree to say yes there will be a few things we will ask of you,"Shigure explained.

"Okay," I said as Joey and Tori nodded.

"Alright then, First is no hugging or anything close to it.Second,Shigure will have to ask the head of our family.Last,will you please act as our house keepers,"Yuki cut-in.

I though most of it sounded reasonable.

"I have a question," Joey asked," Why did you say no hugging?"

That did sound a bit weird though. Maybe their gay?

"Hmm, well you see, our family has this disease that if we are hugged by someone of the opposite gender we burst out in an itchy, contagious rash with spots and boils, really nasty stuff." Shigure answered.

' Okay that's a bit gross'

"Ewww," exclaimed Tori,"That's disgusting!"

"I know," Shigure smiled.

Now it was time for Tori to ask a question.

"Is asking the head of your family such a big deal?"

"Yes, yes it is,"Shigure said simply.

I decided to ask about their final request. I didn't want to be left out of the questioning.

"What's with house keeping part?" I asked" This place looks pretty clean."

Yuki spoke up this time.

"I can answer that question," He said," Shigure, here, is a lazy idiot who stays home all day and doesn't clean the house and I'm usually to busy with school, studying or other things."

Auugh, men. They're always to busy with something else. I decided to ask the question us girls have been worrying about.

"So it a yes or no that we can stay?" I asked.

Shigure opened his mouth to answer, but before the words came out, the door to outside suddenly burst inwards and pieces of wood were flying everywhere. When the wood started flying everyone raised their arms up to protect their faces. Everyone except Tori and they person who just busted the door. She just sat there staring adoringly at the orange-haired boy who was now standing just beyond where the door once was, on the grass.