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"This is gay,"

"Quin, shut up, now," Raven growled darkly at her boyfriend who sat in the backseat of her car. She had banished him to the back about thirty miles or so down the road, where he and Lin had had too trade places.

Raven was wearing a beautiful and form-fitting black Chinese-inspirded dress with a golden embroidered dragon design along the sides. Her arms were allowed free movement as she didn't have any sleeves. Her legs on the other hand were held fast from the knees down by the tight fabric. She wore a pair of cheap, yet comfortable, flat black shoes and had expertly glued some equally earrings [without the hooks!] onto them so it would match her outfit.
She had a cute hairpiece as well, a golden spider barrette that looked like it had seen better days.

Quinton on the other hand . . . was wearing a Chinese-inspired robe-- the traditional kind that was usually reserved for men of high standing. It had white undertones and the main color of yellow. His pants underneath the robes were white as well, but with flat, black shoes like Raven's.

"This is gaaaaaay~" Quinton once again whined from the back seat of the vehicle. "Guys shouldn't wear dresses,"

Raven twitched and the car abruptly revved, but slowed back into normal speed as quickly as it had revved. "You have pants on underneath," she knew from her many conversations with Lin that she had homosexual siblings. She didn't want Lin to get angry!
Quinton knew, but didn't care, in his mind, it was more of a slang term for something that he didn't like, not a prejudice term like Raven was taking it.

"But it's still a-- owwwh!" Quinton was assualted by the flying black and gold-embordiered purse that flew from the middle of the front seat into his face. "What the heck you got in there-- bricks!?"

"A dicitionary! And you had better not do anything to that purse! I'm borrowing it from Ressa!"

Kin was in the back passenger seat of his parent's car, almost out of eyesight from the trio in Raven's car, trying his best to give proper directions over the cellphone to Lin. He couldn't help but sweatdrop as he heard the lovebirds having a squabble over something silly.
He held his hand lightly over the speaker, "Mom? Did you have to be mean to Quin and give him robes?"

"Of course!" Ren said cheerfully from the front seat. "It was great fun for all of us," mostly because that wasn't all that they did. Raven and a few others from their email circle [Wolf, Ressa Niki, Sakura, and a few other relations and friends.] had also planned Kin's rather handsome attire for the evening . . .

Fluffy couldn't help but sigh at his wife, she was a little too thrilled about all of this. "Kin, tell them I'm going to slow down a little," he eyed his son in the back seat via the rear view mirror.

"S-sorry Lin! Tell Rave' to take a right up past the little church that's coming up, Dad's gonna slow down so you can catch up,"

"Okay, tell'em I said thanks," Raven smiled exasperatedly, before smacking at Quinton's hand that had forth from the back seat to tickle at her ear. "No touchy! Me driving!" she barely got both hands to function properly enough to turn at the appropriate time.

"Well, then, find a way to entertain me!"

"Lin, I give complete and utter permission for the rest of ever to smack the crap out of my boyfriend," Raven hissed menacingly, though it was easy to see that she was trying hard to keep the smile off her face and out of her voice.

Kin chuckled, "Tell Quin we're almost there, the driveway is just really hard to spot,"

Quinton's mouth clicked dramatically shut, his spine sat a little straighter, and he looked ahead of him like a good little soldier.
The rest of the way to Selena InuTaisho estate, all five minutes of it, was a quiet one.

Raven wasn't exactly sure what she had been expecting, perhaps a mansion like Lin's home. But not this. She could only stare in something akin to confusion and amusment as she got out of the car, careful of her borrowed dress.

Selena InuTaisho home was, to put it simply, a Siheyuan of an average size. It probably covered an acre or more, not including the surrounding property. A Siheyuan is a typically traditional Chinese courtyard house, often called a quadrangle for it's shape. Selena's home was no different.

In the middle of the square was a large, spacious, beautiful, and well kept garden. Or rather, what Selena liked to call a garden, it was more of an unclosed yard where she could sit and watch her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren play.

A continual porch surrounded the garden-yard, four pairs of stone steps in the cardinal directions. Guarding the aforementioned steps on both sides were knee-high statues of Four Guardians of the Compass guarding there respective directions.

To the North was a gentle sculpture of the Tortoise made of black stone. It was also functional as a rain-water gauge and bird bath.
To the South was a beautiful Phoenix that had risen from it's ashes, this statue had been made from a red dyed marble. It's belly had been carved out to hold a magical flame that gave off a lovely red light.
To the East was a fearsome Dragon made of jade that stood the tallest of the statues, guarding the precious treasure of scented wood for the magical flame.

To the West was a simple Red Bird that had been made from white marble, the adorning paint long since scratched off by the happy birds that ate from the bird feeder there.

In the middle of the courtyard a proud Sakura tree stood tall, watching over the house and it's occupants. In one of the branches a large good weather charm had been hung by a piece of rope.

There was an ethnic flaw in the design, if one were to have known about these kinds of things. Though really, it was very blatant and obvious! A normal Siheyuan would have a central gated entrance to the south for the sake of Feng Shui, but this entrance was much more Western.
Over to the left of where many Western homes had their entrance stood a normal porch, a complete break in the way the home looked. There was a simple stone stairway that led to an ordinary, if small, porch where stood a large, obviously custom, pair of French doors. Over to the side of the door was an new looking doorbell and over the top of it was a rather hastily put together mailbox.

Attached to the underside of the porch-roof was a set of what appeared to have been a wind-chime in it's prime. Fastened together with superglue, scotch tape, and a hell of a lot of love, it held fast with those somehow.

Inside of the home was a completely different and just as detailed story.



"Hey!" Kin waved to them as they got out of the vehicle. Behind his father was helping his mother out of the vehicle. Even after all these years, she insisted that it be Sasa that aide her, not her children.
"We're kind of early," Kin explained as he trotted over. "Dad's watch is fast,"

Kin was a sight to behold himself, it was the traditional shirt and paints number, but it showed everything that he had-- in a good way. He wore a tight fitting golden slightly Chinese inspired shirt.
It had very light colored stitching that appeared to be kanji. Around his waist he wore a nice sash that was meant to be a belt, as his shirt was actually hemmed a little short.
He wore a pair of plain black dress pants and black dress boots to match.

The entire outfit put an emphasis on his muscles, giving the illusion of greater strength then he had.

Ren was also wearing gold and red, though her kimono was rather plain with a simple Phoneix motif. It was her favorite-- her wedding present from her mother and father.
Her hair was up in a half-bun with a rather cute and traditional hair-piece and it bounced as she padded over in her geta to the trio. She wanted a better look at the girls, without her husband screaming that they were going to be late.

Sasanaemaru wore jeans and a T-shirt, but he had a plastic wrapped something hanging on a hook in his left hand. Apparently he would be getting changed once in the home.