It was dinnertime. Rachael was sitting next to Ryu. Keiko and I sat together. We were having fishsticks and fries. Keiko's specialty. She is really loves making fishsticks. I personally hate them but I eat them for my Keiko.

"Fishsticks? Keiko made this for us when you began dating her! Does she always make this or something?"

"Rachael, if you don't have anything nice to say. Don't say anything at all," I said to her.

"Mikihisa. Rachael was speaking her mind and that was it," Ryu said sticking up for her.

I finished my dinner and just looked at Ryu. "I know she was speaking her mind. It was the tone of voice that she was using. It didn't sound very nice."

Keiko kept quiet. She wanted to punch her face in so bad. Keiko never got along with Rachael at all. Rachael trained as a miko like Keiko only Keiko took it seriously. Yes... seriously. No kidding. So Keiko and Rachael always knew each other. Rachael introduced me to Keiko so I am kinda grateful for that...

"So, Mikihisa. Where are the twins? Yoh and the evil one that burnt your face? Zeke?"

"Hao... Rachael... Hao was his name," I pointed out.

Rachael giggled "You and Keiko are so unresponisable. Letting your kids play with matches. That is low..."

Keiko finished her dinner. She put her knife and fork on her plate and gave Rachael the evil stare. Ryu was blushing around Rachael. He had developed feelings for the girl...

"I'll clean up," I offered.

"I'll help you," Keiko mumbled.

Keiko and I collected the plates and went into the kitchen and washed them. Ryu and Rachael went into the living and 'talked' about 'stuff'.

"So, Ryu... What age are you?" Rachael asked.

"17..."

Rachael looked shocked "Really? I thought you were 20 years old with that hair do and gotee. I am attarcted to guys with gotees."

Racheal started stroking Ryu's gotee. Ryu was grinning at her. Rachael had a suducing smile on her which is like a spider's web and the guys are the flies that fly in to it and her charm makes them stick to her and like a black widow she eats the life outta them. Ryu was her latest meal.

"You are so adoreable. I like your pretty eyes," Rachael said.

Rachael put her hand on Ryu's left cheek, Ryu grabbed her hand and felt the palm.

"Your hands are so soft," Ryu said feeling the palm.

"CAN YOU BELIEVE HER?" Keiko banged on.

I went over to see what she was looking at. I saw Ryu flirting with Rachael. Rachael is older than me and I found that pretty disgusting what she was doing to Ryu. He was gonna get his heart broken and it's too near the Shaman tourament to go through emotional stress.

"I will talk to Ryu about it, tomorrow. I promise!"

"You better! That woman is a black widow, she will have Ryu for Breakfast. Like that!" Keiko clicked her fingers.

Keiko walked off and decided the living room needed another vacum clean. That is why Keiko loved the vacum. It disturbs people...

"OH DON'T MIND ME! I AM VACUMING!" Keiko yelled at them as she barged in.

Tokagero came up to me and had the newspaper under his arm. He looked at Ryu with Rachael. It confused him alot. Tokagero tapped my shoulder.

"Is that girl Ryu is with named Helen Keller?" he joked.

"No... It's my sister..."

"The one who sold David Bowie's Dad? Man! I feel sorry for David Bowie. Having his father sold to a complete stranger. I mean I ate my parents but never sold them to a complete stranger," Tokagero went on.

"Tokagero... David's Bowie's Dad was the name of my mom's goldfish."

"Why didn't she call him, David Bowie instead?" Tokagero asked being more confused.

"I dunno!" I shurged my shoulders. "To be more original. I guess."

"Man! Modern folk today! First Victoria Beckham calls her son Romeo and then Gwenth Partol calls her daughter, Apple. What next?"

I never bothered listing to Tokagero... I kept watching Keiko vacuming. Ryu took Rachael's hand and they went into his room instead to get away from Keiko. I turned to Tokagero.

"I want to go through the vent here and hide in Ryu's room vent and listen in to Rachael and Ryu's conversation!" I demanded.

"With pleasure!"

Tokagero went into the air vents and listened in to Ryu's conversation with Rachael.

"That Keiko. She drives me insane!" Rachael growled.

"What did she do to make you hate her? Everyone I have met loves Keiko. Especially gay men."

"It was when I was 20 years old and she was only 17 years old..."

At Yohmei's Shrine
August 1979

"I can't wait for the Bon festival!" Keiko cheered.

"Yeah, you are so ugly you will scare the Ghosts and they won't get to eat their meal we prepared for them," Rachael sneered.

Keiko is a very emotional woman. She cried at movies like Watership Down, ET, Free Willy and all those crappy movies on Hallmark. Keiko began to cry at Rachael's last comment. Father and I rushed in to see if all was alright. That was the first time I met Keiko. She was crying.

"Rachael! What did you say to Keiko? She is only new here. I want her to feel welcome. Mikihisa, I want you to see if Keiko is alright."

"I SAID NOTHING!" Rachael shouted.

I nodded and went over to a crying Keiko. I offered my arm for her to hold on to. She took the offer and grabbed my arm and looked at me. She was faintly smiling.

I took her to our only bathroom. Father never had the money to have separate toilets for girls and boys. You get what I mean..

"That Racheal is mean!"

"Tell me about it..."

"I am only new to this shrine and she is being mean already. My parents think I should so more as a Miko they think it will make me more special but there are no jobs for Mikos these days..."

"There is not much here to do. I'm Mikihisa, I work as an Ascetic Monk at night. By day, I work as a salesman at the Hardware store. B.I.Y Buy it yourself!" I introduced.

Keiko giggled "You work at B.I.Y!"

I nodded "Yep. The pay is good too. I am hoping to get a reasonbly good job and have a great family. Live in the countryside and order stuff outta catalouges."

Keiko took my hand and started stroking it.

"You have nice hands and you look handsome yet you are so kind unlike Rachael. I really like you, Mikihisa," Keiko smiled at me.

I looked into her eyes and then for the first time, we kissed.

"Then that hoochie mama kissed Mikihisa and brainwashed him!" Rachael explained to Ryu. Making out that Keiko was the bad guy in all this.

"So she justed grabbed him and forced him to pay for the kissing, they did?" Ryu asked confused.

Rachael nodded.

"That is just the start of it all. She once food poisoned him with fishsticks. I also think she is evil. I mean she gave Birth to that Hao kid. His evilness is from her side of the family!"

So Rachael was brain washing Ryu and doing a very good job of it. The great spirit only knows what is gonna happen and I was not looking forword to know about it.

To Be Continued...