A twitch began to develop as Kurogane shook his head. "Why is a little boy living with a bunch of women on a sacred mountain, huh?" he tried again, much more to the point, even as his hand went to the back of his wet hair, fingers going through shorn close locks.

Besides long hair did NOT make someone look like a woman! he thought in irritation, thinking of the long hair he'd lost when they banished him.