Rei Hino stood with her grandfather at the Entrance to the Cherry Blossom Temple. Today an exchange student from Australia was arriving, Chad had gone to the airport to pick him up. In the distance her eyes caught sided of a cab heading this way. It came to a stop in front of them, Chad opening a door stepping out, he was in the temple's uniform. The door opened on the opposite side, he was wearing a black t-shirt with the word 'Atticus' across it in white writing, he had Blue Jeans and skate shoes on. He wasn't what she expected. Firstly she had expected a female, though he wasn't even the cliché Australian Male. She had expected someone shorter, and broader with blonde hair and blue eyes, more tanned too. He was fairly tanned but much less then she had expected, his eyes were a sharp hazel, his hair Dark Brown. He was fairly tall and thin, on the ring finger on his right hand was a silver ring with carvings of waves, finally something that said 'Surfie' yet she didn't get the feeling he would be to keen on surfing. She finally spoke up "Hi, my names Rei, welcome to our temple" he smiled at her "Thanks, the names Aren it's a pleasure" His japanese was good but his accent made it sound a little funny she'd get used to it though. He walked to the boot of the cab taking out his bags. "I'll show you to your room" she offered, he nodded "Thanks, Rei wasn't it?" "Yeah, come on let's go" As they walked off Grandpa could see Chad didn't like him. "Something wrong Chad?" There was a definete tone of sarcasm to his voice. "No, I'm fine." His voice was forceful asif wanting to change the subject. "Jealous?" "What of him? No Way!!"

Rei and Aren walked through the temple, something wasn't write about him. What, she wasn't sure but there was something. She disregarded it, he's just different it's probably just that, he must find everything here weird, one hell of a culture shock.

"Here we are" She announced sliding open the door. They stepped in and Aren put his bags down. "There's a temple uniform in the draws, and tomorrow we can get your school uniform" "Thanks" he replied "I'm kinda beat, I'm gonna hit the sack, you know time difference and all" "Ok, I'll see you in the morning" She walked out of his room heading towards hers. Aren was nice but still. she had a bad feeling about him.