"Not as unusual as you would think.  It's not like the old days where if someone outside a Village tried to get a bloodline, they usually got their blood spilled for their greed.  I'm sure, one day, all of the Villages will have at least samplings of bloodlines from the other Villages, if not full blown families." Yuki waved it off.  The circumstances that sent him to the Village Hidden in the Sand were absolutely none of this woman's business, and he was not about to divulge that information.  If she started getting personal, he would have to shut off, but for now he could stay friendly and a little teasing, "and you already have my name, though you spoke it with a little more familiarity than I would have expected from a stranger."<br/><br/>She had, after all, called him 'Yuki-kun'.  That 'hearing clearly from underwater' technique was a pretty neat trick.