Changing the View
By Kaemon
November 1st
There is now a third guest staying in my room, and this one was quite a surprise to me. Before I write who or what it is I think it would be better to write the story about how it ended up this way.
I woke up really late today. It was already past nine and that is much later then when I normally get up. Mom appeared to have gotten up earlier because she wasn't in the room when I woke up. I quickly ran to the bathroom and checked to make sure no one else was in there. I locked up the place, windows included, so I could actually take a bath with Mom here and not have my life in danger. I didn't really waste any time and changed back into a girl as soon as I could and changed into some normal clothing. At that time Mom came in unannounced into the room to wake me up apparently, though I had already been up for a while now. Breakfast was ready and everyone else thought I was still asleep. I'm slightly insulted that they think just because I don't get attacked in the morning that I won't wake up. At this moment I learned that it's a bad idea to let her catch me when I'm getting dressed because she will tell me what she thinks I should wear and how I should look. Obviously by that I mean she picked out everything I would be wearing that day right down to the underwear. So for the entire day I was stuck in a skirt. It wasn't how I intended to spend my day at all. The second I put on the skirt I thought that Ryoga would laugh or something the moment he saw me and I was right. The second I came into his sight when I came downstairs he began to laugh. He claimed it was something else but I just knew that he was laughing at me; if I hadn't been dressed like that I would have attacked him right there. Of course if I hadn't been dressed like that he wouldn't have laughed at all which means it would have been pointless to attack him. He still deserved to be attacked though.
Breakfast was normal considering all the weird things that can happen around me. With the old man gone the table wasn't changed from how it had been days before. I sat between Ryoga and Akane while Mom sat directly across from me where pops normally sat. Everything was perfectly normal until Mom decided that it would be a have been a great idea today for us all to do something. When she decided that she would do something that involved me it usually meant trying to make me act like less of a guy, and that's a battle I will never lose.
The next thing I knew we were all walking around town going to random places. Ryoga was following 'just for fun' and Mom had no complaints about that. She figured that he could help us carry anything that we needed to be carried. I never intended on buying anything but obviously she had other ideas.
I don't know why every time she comes over she decides to go shopping and take us along. I think that might actually be my fault in a way. Since me and pops haven't come home and still stay at the Tendos' she's still left alone at home. So whenever she comes here since every treats her like family she treats us all like family and takes us shopping with her and everything. I guess that's why I go along with it as well. It's not like its bad going shopping with her. She doesn't try to force weird things on my anymore and now tends to just push the slightly more girlish things onto me. She's gotten me into a dress so far. I think to her she thinks she's doing a pretty good job.
After going around the stores for a bit we all stopped into a fast food place in order to get some lunch. We were all sitting there talking about things when I brought up the fact that there was a dog in the park that I was completely unable to pet even once no matter how much I worked at it. Akane still insisted that I was just a frightening person and scared away the dog and Ryoga pretty much agreed with her the entire time. So of course mom decided that we would all take a nice walk down to the park later to see the dog.
When we got there it didn't take long to find the dog. It was actually just sitting off to the side looking at people as they walked by. I of course was talking the whole time telling them that I was going to prove how the dog was avoiding me petting it and that it obviously had to try to avoid me, that it wasn't anything accidental.
So I walked strait up to the dog with everyone watching me and I stared straight down at it and it looked up at me. I then made my move to pet it, and it didn't move. It let me pet it. I was completely confused. I couldn't figure it out at all. It made no sense to me. The dog avoids me all this time but now that I had a crowd watching me and I had to prove it avoided me it decided to let me pet it? At that time Ryoga came over to laugh at me saying that I had just blown the entire thing out of proportion. He then reached over to pet the dog when it suddenly jumped away from him. He stared at the dog for a minute before trying to pet it again only to have it jump away from him again. For a few minutes he tried to pet the dog only to have it jump away from him.
As I watched Ryoga try and pet the dog I started to figure out why I could pet it now. First off I saw Akane pet it, but then it wouldn't let me pet it. Why wouldn't it let me pet it? Obviously since Ryoga couldn't pet it then was because it doesn't like guys. Obviously that's why I couldn't pet it and Ryoga couldn't as well, but I was a girl for a couple of the times I tried to pet it. There was only one difference that I could link between it not letting me pet it then, it letting Akane pet it, and it letting me pet it now.
It was the clothing. It would only let girls in skirts or dresses pet it. The dog only trusted people in skirts and dresses, because for some reason it had a problem being touched by people in pants. It's one mentally disturbed dog.
Eventually I told Ryoga and he gave up trying to pet the thing since it was managing to dodge every attempt of him trying to grab it. I told Mom and Akane about my discovery involving the dog and we all went to leave. As we were leaving the park I felt like I was being followed, when I turned around I saw that the dog had been following me. I tried to wave it away but it wouldn't move from where it was standing. I then figured that it would just sit there and so I continued to move only to notice it started following me again as soon as I had started moving.
About a half hour later I was sitting on the back porch of the Tendos' with the dog sitting next to me. Obviously it wasn't going to be leaving me alone any time soon. At that time I started to look at the dog. It's a girl for one, she isn't a very big dog actually, medium sized, which is something I don't see to often around here most of the time dogs are really small, and brown, white, and black coloring. I have no clue about breeds of dogs so I wouldn't know what to call it. I decided to name it and I wasn't going to do something boring like Taroo or something like that, but I never have been good at naming things. I actually sat there for about ten minutes trying to think of a name as I watched the sky. I was watching some clouds move through the sky when I realized it was November which means it's going to be getting very cold, and that brings snow. It wasn't the most original name to ever, but I decided to call the dog Yuki if it was going to be following me for the time being.
Yuki seemed like she had an owner before. I'd never seen the dog in the park before a little over a week ago and it did seem a little too clean to be just a random stray dog. Maybe she's just a runaway dog. Of course there are no markings on her that show any type of ownership.
When time came to make dinner Mom had Kasumi leave the kitchen because she decided that it would be a good idea if both she and I made dinner tonight. Yuki tried to actually follow me into the kitchen but I forced her to sit outside of kitchen and sit next to Akane. Oddly enough they had no problem with a dog just coming into the house and wandering around. It's probably because half the time a few of the people that live here are animals. Making dinner wasn't exactly a hard thing to do. I've cooked and baked things quite a few times and I tend to do things right most of the time. I'm no where near what Kasumi can do but I'm far better then Akane is. I thanked Mom that she didn't invite Akane to help us make dinner which of course she responded by telling me I should have more faith in Akane. Obviously she still doesn't get the full idea that Akane destroys anything she tries to make. What the whole making dinner thing turned into was basically me making things and Mom complimenting me when I did things right or correcting me. When I watch her sometimes I wonder if she actually wanted a daughter instead of a son. Even though I am her child, she doesn't know that yet she still treats me like one. I guess that's because she thinks I'm the parentless cousin of Akane and since even I think Soun isn't the best idea of a parent she must think that as well and wants to at least act like a parent figure around me.
It took me about an hour and a half to actually make dinner and it was around six thirty that we all ate. Yuki sat behind me and I fed her some small bit of what I made, but I wasn't sure if it was right to give a dog these kinds of foods since I've never had anything like a pet before. For all I know what I fed her tonight could be very bad for her though if it is she doesn't show any signs now. Every time I would go to give Yuki something to eat Ryoga would look back and glare at the dog. He was obviously feeling the annoyance I have been feeling for the past couple days. The funny thing is he can't change into a girl and put on a skirt and then pet the dog. I win this one. It's actually not that funny but it is a victory for me. Anyway, dinner went well and after that everyone just kind of went back to whatever they were doing before. I went up to my room and Yuki followed me. I really didn't have anything to do for the rest of the night so I just laid on my bed and stared up at the ceiling while I thought about random things such as Mom and the people I know. Really it was a pointless way to spend my time, but I had nothing else to do. School was still out till around the tenth maybe and even then they weren't sure so it wasn't like I could be doing school work, not that I'm thrilled to do it when I have it. I got bored after about an hour of nothing so I went downstairs, followed by Yuki, and watched the television. I actually fell asleep on the couch watching some news program and was woken up around ten thirty by Mom telling me I shouldn't be sleeping on the couch especially in my, what she seems to think is, normal clothing. Yuki had been resting on my leg the entire time it seemed. For a dog that was just sitting the park earlier today it really seemed to quickly attach to me. I don't know if dogs normally do that.
So at that point I just went up stairs, Yuki following me into my room, and started to write. Mom is already asleep it seems, and she didn't seem to mind Yuki staying in the corner. I suppose I should giver her a bath tomorrow or something. That's about it for today. I have nothing else to write about.
Ohhhh this is the longest chapter I have written for this story so far.
I put it up at this time today because I spent most my day watching E3 Press conferences... ohh some interesting stuff, but Sony was slightly dissapointing... oh well.
OFF I GO! Hahah...