Disclaimer: Look in the first chapters.

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As soon as the two men realized exactly who it was that they were kissing, they both fell back and screamed at the same time. Hearing the screams, Kai ran out seconds later. "Doshta no?! Daijoubu ka?!" (What's wrong? Are you ok?!) (I bet I spelled doshta wrong)

Nuriko clambered up and glared at Tasuki. "Yeah. We're fine." After a pause, he added, "There was just a giant squirrel."

He stared as his redhead companion grumbled, "Jest peachy," spit, and walked inside, casting one more glare at Nuriko in the process.

Kai, trying to be understanding, turned to Nuriko and asked sympathetically, "Relationship problems?" Nuriko ignored the question and went inside as well. Left standing outside, alone, in the middle of the night, Kai sweatdropped. "What was that about?" She wondered aloud, then ran inside as well, where she found Tasuki seated cross-legged on the ground and Nuriko all the way across the room, still glaring at eachother. Trying desperately to break the silence, she spoke up. "Yeah, that giant squirrel has been bugging us ever since the night you two got here, don't worry about it, really!" She flashed the peace sign and grinned, but neither Tasuki nor Nuriko aknowledged this. After a few moments of akward silence, she couldn't take it anymore and stomped her foot. "What the hell is going on in here?!" She hissed, not wanting to wake any of the others up. Almost immediately, she got the same response from both of her companions-

"He kissed me!"

Kai just stared into the distance, one eyebrow raised, while Tasuki and Nuriko shouted stuff like "No! You did it!" or "Fuck you! Liar!"

"He?" She whispered to herself.

"Well I sure as hell didn't start it!"

"Blah blah blah, I can't hear you!"

"I didn't!"

"Yeah, you freaking leaned in!"

"Did-"

"Shut up! Both of you, shut up, shut up, shut up, open down, whatever!" The brunette shouted. When her companions remembered she was there and turned to face her, she narrowed her eyes and put her hands on her hips, then asked, louder this time, "HE?"

Nuriko blinked, trying to think of something to say, then an evil grin suddenly appeared on his lips. His eyes teasing, he turned to look at Tasuki, who went wide-eyed and slowly mouthed the word 'NO'. After a few seconds, the purple haired seishi turned back to face the confuzzled woman.

"That's right. HE. I don't think you knew this, but...Tasuki here is a man."

The flame-haired bandit jumped up and screamed, "NANI?! AN' YA NEVER TOLD-oh. ...Nevermind..." He plopped back down and buried his red face in his hands. After a small, very, very akward silence, he lifted his face again and bore a fanged grin. "It's true. I 'ave proof, if ya don't b'lieve 'im." Nuriko turned abruptly and stared wide eyed and his CLEARLY retarted friend. Kai did the same.

The purple haired seishi put his hands on his hips, closed his eyes, and sighed, "You are brilliant. Absolutely FREAKING brilliant."

Kai looked back and forth between her blushing brother and her blushing brother's blushing girlfriend, very confuzzled. Suddenly, she understood. Or at least, she thought she did.

"Eew. I'm going back to bed." When she walked into her room, she faced them one more time. "Eew." She quickly closed the door.

Ten minutes later, Tasuki had passed out, Nuriko was packing, and everybody else was sleeping-except Li'an, who was still giggling like crazy.

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Tasuki woke up to a huge hangover and an empty bed. He immediately knew what was going on, despite his head, and bolted out the door as fast as he could, to find Nuriko on his way to the palace.

"Dude! Whatcha doin'?! Ya can't leave yet!" Nuriko spun around, just in time to be pummeled in the stomach by a big orange thick round thing, causing both Nuriko and the owner of the big orange thick round thing (read: Tasuki's head) to fall to the ground.

Gasping for air, Nuriko choked out, "Why not?"

"Why so?" Taken aback by his friend's semi-witty retortion, the purple haired seishi defended himself.

"Well gee, Tasuki, let's think about this for a moment. Kai knows I'm a dude. Soon, EVERYONE will know I'm a dude. Then, EVERYONE will think I've gone back to being gay." Tasuki blinked. "You too, Tasuki. They will think you're gay too."

He blinked again. "It ain't like there ain't people who already think I'm gay. So long as it's nobody I gotta talk ta, I dun give a shit."

Nuriko sighed. "My rep's already pretty beat up. I gotta leave before someone recognizes who I really am."

The bandit went back to un-calm. "Please don't leave me here alone with them!" He was on his knees with his hands clasped.

His friend smirked. "You come back too. Nobody has to know. C'mon." He tried to pull Tasuki along with him, but the redhead resisted.

"Pretty pretty please? I'll do anythin'! Just stay here!"

Nuriko laughed humorlessly. "Anything, ne? I'll save that. For now, just give me five good reasons."

Tasuki started listing them immediately. "Cuz I'm stupid when I'm drunk an' I'm even more stupid when I'm sober an' I'm smart...ish when I got a hangover an' I'm really really really sorry even though I can't exactly remember what I did wrong an' my head hurts really really bad an' I can't think-a anything else ta say an' now I can an' I jest got out-a bed a few minutes ago an' now I'm hyper an' I can't face my family alone now an' yer in this way too deep ta be a chicken an' back out an' I can't breathe an' apparently I can't count right either cuz ya only asked fer five reasons an' I gave ya like forty-thousand an' I don't think your anti-drunkeness crap worked an'...an'...an' my head hurts really really really bad! Please help!" He gasped for air.

Umm...He said that all in one breath. Creepy. (Seriously...Try saying that without breathing. I tried and had to stop at 'anti-drunkeness crap'.) Nuriko shook the disturbed look off his face and smiled. "First of all: You said way more than five things. Second of all: Most of those made absolutely no sense. And third of all: Did you come get me with a hangover?" The bandit sadly nodded his head and whimpered, and Nuriko straight out laughed at the look on his face. "So, the medicine didn't work you say?"

"No! I've always been immune ta shit like th-" He suddenly clutched his head, and in the blink of an eye, he was lying on the ground, out cold.

He was probably thinking too much. Dammit, Nuriko thought as he hoisted the snoring bandit onto his shoulders and started heading back to the house.

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Everybody was astonished when Nuriko pounded in the front door, wearing men's clothers, with his readhead friend draped across his shoulders like it was nothing. The only sound was Tasuki's loud snoring as the strong seishi walked into his companion's room to lay him down. He then walked back into the living room, where nobody had moved a muscle.

"What? It's not polite to stare," He stated casually, rubbing his hands together. Aidou pointed a shaky finger and asked, "Kourin?!"

Nuriko grinned. I sooo saw this coming. "Nope. Hi. I'm Nuriko," He held out his arm. Tasuki's sister cautiosly shook it and asked, "Uh-huh. And you're here because...?"

Li'an spoke up. "You serisously haven't figured it out yet? Wow." She paused, as if waiting for someone to prove her wrong. "Ok, then I'll explain it. Shun'u doesn't really have a girlfriend, so he asked Nuriko-sama, who is also a seishi, to pretend to be his girlfriend, because Nuriko-sama used to be a gay-ass crossdresser." She looked thoughtful. "Well, that or they were just embarrassed. Either way, I gotta give you guys props for creativity."

Everybody stared at her. Another long silence. (they seem to happen alot in this story, don't they?)

"Gay-ass crossdresser? Wow. I didn't know my rep was that bad." Nuriko blinked and started tightening his sash. "...No. Actually, I'm here because Tasuki kept getting drunk and calling her a dude so she came back to the palace crying and I was gonna confront that moron but he had a hangover and passed out. Now, if you'll excuse me-"

"No! No no no! I-you-but...You liar! Where is Kourin then? Answer that, Mr. Smart ass!" Li'an put her hands on her hips, and Nuriko did the same.

"She's still at the palace. That's one of the reasons I gotta go back. I gotta talk her into coming here again. Tasuki may be a complete and total MORON, but he's the best thing that's ever happened to her, and they can't let something stupid like Tasuki being drunk...being constantly drunk...ruin their relationship. Hell, cookie's gonna hafta get used to him being drunk at least once a week, maybe even more, especially if they're gonna get married..." He shrugged it off. "Well, I gotta go now. Ciao!" The purple haired seishi smiled warmly and walked out the door backwards, flashing the peace sign and puffing out his chest proudly.

Everybody stared at Li'an, and Pa'liu burst out laughing.

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Wow! Finally updated! I bet some of you completely forgot about this story, ne? I have to say, Tasuki's Girlfriend, There's a Seiryu in my Living Room and Meet My Parents are my favorite stories of mine. Check out There's a Seiryu in my Living Room, because it's gonna be freaking awesome soon...you can seriously skip the entire first chapter and honestly not miss anything, too. XD That's what I would suggest doing, anyway.

I'm gonna go ahead and smack myself about, ne, THIRTY THOUSAND TIMES for no reason. Ciao! -walks out door backwards while flashing peace sign. yay!-

Ne, while you're down here, why don't you review? I have anonymous reviews enabled now, btw, so you can leave an...anonymous review now.