Bring back what once was Mine
This is My Everyday Life Now (Part 3)
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Sigh.
"Are you bored again, Hiyori?" Her uncle asked. They both were by his candy store, sitting down on the small porch in front. The sky was settling down and Hiyori could not share this feeling. How dreadful this feeling was. To think, it got her on edge as she dropped her head down to her knee cap. She sat there with one of her leg lifted and bent, her arm wrapped around it as she used it to rest her chin.
"Not exactly." She said honestly. She wasn't quite fond of lying flat out with her uncle. HIs voice and eyes made it very difficult to lie. Her only course was through omission.
He stared at her. Her sight was on the field that stretch afar. He very much preferred Hiyori's usual self. "Does it have anything to do with my upcoming marriage?"
Instantly, she let out a reaction. A simple jerk of her body that told the uncle everything he needed to know. She may be stubborn and difficult to deal with, but she was surprisingly honest about it.
"You know, just because I'm getting married doesn't mean it's the end of the world."
"I'm not really into change is all." She said as they continued to stare at the descending of the Sun.
"Then I better not change for your sake." He said, trying to lighten the mood for her and hopefully making her feel better; even by a bit.
HIyori let out a scoff. "Maybe you should change. Even as an adult, you're always acting like a child." Despite his age, he occasionally played tricks on her and some of his friends. It was no wonder he had a bruise mark somewhere on his pretty face, moreso from Hiyori. Then again, she preferred a good dropkick from time to time. Seeing him on the ground with all the air gone from his chest, felt good.
Urahara let out a chuckle. "Really? I thought you like me the way I am?"
Between them was a bowl of candies; products from his store. Taking one, he popped it in his mouth. Very sweet. He went to take another one from the pile and began to unwrap it.
"Sh-Shut up!" She said as she reached out and snatched said candy from his hand. "I-I'm saying that people will look down on you for being such a kid." She bit hard on the candy. The sound lit the area as they became aware of her.
"Hm..." Her uncle began, pondering over something. "Why should I care about what people that I never met think of me? It would be such a headache and I wouldn't be able to be myself." By the end of his sentence, he let out a goofy expression toward his niece.
Seeing it coming, she used his momentum of his head leaning toward her to give a good punch even more force. He fell back.
"Man, I feel like I'm the parent here." Hiyori said. "Maybe I should take care of you from now on." Her eyes lit up when she realized what she said. Her eyes went to his for a bit before quickly making them look back at the scene before them.
Urahara had a pleasant smile. He was on his back, staring at the ceiling. Then he became serious all of a sudden. "You should really be focusing on what you want to do with your life." Urahara started. "I'm happy living my life as it is since I got to do what I wanted when I was younger. I want the same with you, Hiyori."
How frustrating thought Hirori. Three years, and she hardly made any progress. Sure she changed her hairstyle a bit, and began to wear "different" clothes, but he still haven't notice. And he was now getting married to a long time friend. To Hiyori, the marriage seemed more like a marriage of convenience. They were hardly 'lovey-dovey', as they usually have witty conversation. In fact, the conversation would sometime get physical. The woman would kick Urahara down and complained how incompetent his inventions turned out. He in turn would complain that she simply was too strong of a brute and broke said device.
"Then you should make it to withstand even someone like me." She said, smiling and shifting her body.
"My my. If I do that, it would cost too much money. Then no one would be able to afford that." Her uncle got up as if it was nothing. Hiyori felt frustrated. Those two had history together. From what she learned from Tessai, her uncle's assistant, they were childhood friends. Both of them well versed in martial arts, as they trained under the same master. To make it more frustration, they were born one day apart. Her uncle on New Year's Eve (December 31st), followed by hers on New Year's Day (January 1 st).
"Hey, when is she coming?" She asked. She needed to know. Perhaps she had time to settle with the idea.
"Tomorrow."
Great. This was happening too fast for her. Tomorrow was coming and there was nothing she could do about it.
"I really don't like changes." She said after a long pause.
Changes brought out the destruction of the previously established. To her, it was simply her and her uncle. So for her, changes was going to destroy what she managed to have with her uncle.
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The end of part 3
Author's Notes:
Changes is certainly a scary thing. There is a sense of uncertainty hovering around the preestablished. Paying too much attention to it, you'll become susceptible. The tiniest thing will affect you in the biggest of ways. Living with her uncle for a few years, she got comfortable with her way of life. Now, her uncle was getting married with someone, a friend of his, that Hiyori has only seen a few times. The marriage was abrupt and certainly a blow. Enough said. Until next time! -sorrowXdarkness