I'm still going in order of the alphabet, so I'm not doing 'J' right now. Anyway, here comes 'C'. Now, I couldn't decide which word I wanted to use when I was going through the words, so I want to find out how I could use both.
Conventional (adjective): Adhering to the accepted standards of conduct or taste.
Curmudgeon (noun): A bad-tempered, cranky person.
"Damn it Kagome, You ain't going home!"
I sighed at him for about the sixth time today and it wasn't even nine. "Why this time, InuYasha?" I'd heard it all before: this is the worst time for you to leave, we're so close to finding Naraku, you can't just bail out when we're this close to finding him and killing him. Blah, blah.
"This is the worst time for you to leave! We are so close to finding Naraku it isn't funny. You can't just up and leave when we're so close to finding him."
I rolled my eyes. "InuYasha do you want this to end the way it normally does?" I jutted my hip out to the side and crossed my arms.
He opened his mouth to say something, but then closed it. "Fine. You get ONE DAY to do whatever it is you do there." He angled his chin up higher, thinking he'd done something. He didn't even listen to me when I told him I was going beck for two or three hours to go get medicine, food and stuff like that. I'd stopped carrying the yellow bag because it's huge and unnecessary.
"I'll see you later." I turned around and walked off to the well I'd first come out of. I took the light blue bag and jumped down the well. I changed bags when I stopped carrying crayons and other stuff that wasn't needed. Shippo left his crayons at Kaede's hut now.
The blue light enveloped me and I popped out of the other side and climbed up. I wasn't going to school today, obviously, so I went in my room and changed into a yellow dress (the one she wore when she went on that date with Hojo) and went out the door with my purse over my shoulder.
When I got to the store my first reaction was to look around and try to find some jewel shards, but I wasn't back in InuYasha's time, so I had to act like I normally would in a regular society.
I thought back on the villages we passed through on our journey to find all the shards. The people all knew each other, and there was mostly always an air of peacefulness there, and it was great. Here, there is an air of business and rush, where no one has time to talk or be friendly or stop to talk the way the people did in InuYasha's era.
In one of the isles, I saw someone from my school, a boy named Ichijo. He looked like he didn't want to be there with his mom, so I went up to start a conversation, which isn't how things are done in this time period.
"Hi Ichijo, how are you?"
He turned his head, clearly startled that someone was speaking to him. "Hey, do I know you? Wait, I do know you. You're Higurashi Kagome, aren't you? How are you feeling?"
I smiled. "Much better, thank you. Shouldn't you be at school?"
He laughed. "You must be high on drugs, Higurashi Kagome. It's Saturday." He laughed some more.
I laughed along with him. "All the days just seem to mush together when you're sick. And please, just Kagome." A boy calling a girl by just her first name wasn't something that was done in this time, at least if you didn't know the girl that well.
"I can just imagine what it's like to be that sick."
"It isn't fun. It feels like you can't do anything. When my mom isn't there, Sota is at school, and gramps is out, I still have someone to take care of me."
"That's nice."
"He's a little crazy though, comes up with the strangest cures for illnesses, but they work. I remember when I had a nasty cold, he came by with some sort of potion that cured it in twelve hours. To this day, I do not know what was in it because Sota told him not to tell me."
We both laughed and his mom called for him to leave. "It was nice talking to you, Kagome. Get better. Why are you out today?"
"I was able to move and get out of the house, so I thought 'why not'. I'll see you when I get back." I smiled and waved, and we parted. I wonder why people here don't do that more often. I got new supplies and some small packages of nuts and dried fruit and went back home. I took a fast shower, shower, and got into my school uniform.
I like InuYasha's era much better. Here, it feels like I don't fit in much because of the way people did things in the feudal era. I didn't conform to the normal standard of society anymore, but I'm glad I didn't. It feels nicer to talk to people I don't know as well.
I jumped back in the well, and hopped out the other side, finding a cranky InuYasha.
"What are you doing all mopey and stuff?" I flung my legs over the side.
His head shot up. "Kagome? I thought you weren't coming back until tomorrow."
"If you had listened to me when I first asked you, you would've known I only said I'd be gone for two or three hours." I gestured to my newly filled backpack. "We needed more medicine, so I went home and got some more."
He looked shocked. "Oh, I didn't hear that." He stuttered a little, which was cute because you don't ever hear InuYasha stutter.
I think I like it better here because society won't hate me for talking to people I don't know well, or letting boys call me by my first name.
Not as good, but I'm still tired. I don't know why, but summer wrecks me. It just kills meh. Anyway, I'll see you guys later!
