Changing the View
By Kaemon
Approved by the FDA
November 4th
Since I had seen Yuki at the park for a long time before she decided to follow me home and I had never seen any type of flyer or anything of the sort saying they were missing a dog I decided that I would actually make Yuki my dog, if for no other reason then to actually own a pet. I mean, almost everyone else I know has had a pet at least once. Apparently Akane even had a pet when she was younger. I missed a lot of things when traveling around with pops so I figure I may be seventeen but I still can't do things that people have normally done, and besides, I know older people who have pets as well.
So because of this decision I had to take her to the vet to make sure everything was good and she didn't have anything weird. Well, that was one reason to take her to the vet. Ryoga was bugging me and Yuki this morning and he kept trying to pet her rather forcefully and didn't seem to be giving up when Yuki bit him on the arm, lightly of course, but he still said that Yuki might have some horrible disease and that I now have to get her checked out. Of course I doubt that he would get anything from the small bite. It hardly even broke the skin.
So I spent a couple hours of the afternoon at a Vets office. Ryoga followed me around because he said he wanted to know right away what 'horrible' disease he had. They said to come back after a few hours once we dropped her off. Apparently they had to run some tests or something like that, so we had about three hours of nothing to do and we were quite far from home so it was pretty much pointless to head back. I think that Ryoga really wasn't too concerned about himself getting a disease, what I think he wanted to do was go out of the house for the first time in quite a while. Sure he leaves every once and a while but the past few times it has been with Mom along so everyone tends to act a little weird. I'm sure he just wanted to act normal around me. Which basically means blaming me for things that go wrong and all that. It's not as bad as before and I think he's mostly joking around when he blames me for some things. It's kind of odd actually, Ryoga a person who was always angry at me and blaming me seemed to change and become a calmer person. Of course this wasn't immediately noticeable by me. It really happened over quite a few months and climaxed with the whole conversation about his parents. I think now he trusts me more then he trusts the other people he knows. I'm kind of glad really, he was my only real friend I had during school that I knew for an extended period of time and still the only one I can count on for some things. Ukyo is less of a friend and more of a person who seems determined to control me. I wouldn't call Shampoo or Mousse a friend at all; those two seem out to make my life a bigger mess. Akane is what I could consider a friend though, but it's much harder to get along with her at times, because if I say one thing wrong she gets angry at me. She's still a very close friend and I care about what happens to her, but I've still known Ryoga longer.
So of course we did what any other teenager would do with free time in the middle of town, which is basically wander around and do nothing of importance. Of course I made Ryoga pay for everything pretty much since he was the one who came along of his own choice. It was his idea to go into the restaurant anyway and I didn't bring any more money then it would take to pay the veterinarian to do his job. Of course I didn't tell Ryoga this until it came time to pay. I had to lead him around the entire time because I knew the second I let go of the guy he would suddenly be in America somewhere and really it would all go downhill from there.
When we returned to the vet it was exactly as I expected, Yuki had no diseases of any kind and got the shots and treatment she would need to be just a normal dog that people can be around. I laughed and taunted Ryoga about how it was 'unfortunate' that he wasn't going to die from a strange disease. The veterinarian told me a few things about taking care of a dog after I asked him and then we left and took Yuki back to the Tendos.
That was about all the interesting things today. It pretty much was the entire day though.
I forgot about uploading this till 3:30... man.
I've been playing Harvest Moon DS, so that is what distracted me, I played 12+ hours yesterday and Almost all day till now. Quite a bit if you ask me... for such a repetitive and slightly pointless game it sure is entertaining.