Changing the View
By Kaemon
November 3rd
Today was shocking to say the least. I never expected something like this to happen.
It was really just an average day. We all hung out at home while messing around with things. I spent most of my time with Mom doing just simple things or just sitting around watching TV with her. She's on a vacation of sorts and visiting someone else's house so of course she's very relaxed about a lot of things though she does help out with a lot of things such as cleaning and cooking, which I normal end up doing as well because of my tendency to follow her around. I think anyone would do that though if their only time they had with their parents was like mine. I like to grasp onto whatever precious time I have with her even if it means pretending to be a girl. It's not as bad as it was before since I have calmed down about the whole curse a little bit.
Dinner time came and Ryoga once again was glancing over at Sound and looking very suspicious. Finally he actually started to speak. He told everyone at the table that he had made an agreement with Soun to kick Happosai out of his room and he would be renting the room from the Tendous, which I assume brings in some much needed revenue to the household, and would be paying Soun for pretty much everything. Of course my first thoughts were 'How could Ryoga afford to do something like this' which were soon followed by 'I guess he doesn't want to be a freeloader anymore.' I was stunned when Ryoga pulled out a large amount of money, which he clamed to cover well over two months of rent, and handed it over to Soun. So not only does the guy not get lost and ends up here for almost two weeks; now he lives here for almost two months! Sure I have kind of wished Ryoga wouldn't get lost as often, but I never intended to end up living in the same place as him. It just brings him closer to interfering with me and Akane. It's not that I really have any intentions to go through with such a absurd agreement anyway it's just that Ryoga will probably jump on me any time I do anything with her which will no doubt be annoying. On the other side he's not as randomly violent as he used to be only a short while ago, and he actually tends to help me with things and help me train in the morning with the old man gone. During dinner for most of the time I just kind of stared at him in shock. I asked him how in the world he could afford this but he just said he would tell me later.
Later I had decided to actually go to bed early since there really was nothing else to do, well, besides watching some random television show with Mom, and those aren't exactly the most exciting things. I was actually just about to pull this book out and start writing when Ryoga comes into the room, though actually it was more like he barged into my room, he didn't even knock or anything. To make matters worse normally I sleep in my underwear, and since lately I've been writing this while lying in bed I was already set for it and because of that only wearing my underwear. That's really not a problem at all normally because most of the time it consists of an undershirt and boxers, but for the whole time Mom is here it tends to consist of actual women's underwear. The last thing I wanted was someone like Ryoga to see me in that because I knew the second he saw he would be mocking me for it for months. Surprisingly enough he was kind of shocked and quite literally fell out of my room. It was embarrassing to me surprisingly enough. I slipped back on a shirt and walked over to him and asked what he was doing just jumping into my room. He told me because he said he was going to explain how he could afford this. Apparently he didn't want everyone knowing about how he was able to do it.
So a few minutes later we were both sitting in my room and he told me exactly why he was able to afford everything. He was the 'last'. His grandfather had been very, very far from being poor, and when he died all that money moved to Ryoga's parents. With both of them gone there was really only one person it could go to; their only child Ryoga. Apparently he was renting out his house to people after having sealed off his room only and was getting money from that as well as the money from his parents. He told me that he would rather be around people he knows then live in a house alone with no one to help him with his sense of direction, besides he told me that he usually ended up here before he would ever end up at his own house.
He then kind of announced to me that after my mom left he would 'really' show me what he could do. I guess that means instead of just sparing and light training in the morning we would switch to some more heavy exercises. I don't quite understand myself why I hide exactly how much I could do from my mother. Though I bet she could recognize the old mans style even after all this time, and as much as I hate to admit it some things I do would be obviously picked up from him, and in general it would make it harder to hide my secret.
A lot was actually said and we just kind of talked about random things, but after about a hour passed Mom suddenly came in through the door but right away kind of jumped back out. It was exactly what I needed. Here I was sitting in nothing but a shirt and my underwear right across from Ryoga while alone in a room. I'm no expert but last I knew it's not normal to sit around dressed like that casually talking to your friends, especially ones of the opposite genders. Ryoga left pretty quickly after that. Mom came back in but all she did was apologize for interrupting our conversation. Apparently my plan for going to bed early was ruined thanks to Ryoga and now it really was time for people to be going to sleep. That's about it, now I'm done writing in this and about to go to bed.
Sorry about not putting up a chapter on friday. It was a mix of it not being ready and me having to change some things in this chapter to have it not conflict with something else.
Oh well, its still only 10 days up so far and 12 chapters, so I could skip another day. Hahah. I won't though.
Once again, any opinions are welcome. Good or bad.