Author Note: (author lol) This is my first time posting, I wanted to try capturing how scary Natsume's experiences actually are (without going into first person). Either way, This is super short 1st part of first chapter because I'd really like to know if this is seems even remotely scary to anyone other than me :/ (or if people have difficulty understanding my writing) I don't mind critics
"... so I wanted to ask you to look after the house while we're gone" Takashi remembers the words gently spoken caressing his raw memory.
Eyes flutter open, the darkening hazel sky and treetops are the first things he sees.
Murmurs all around him. Growing louder. "...A human"
"Is it asleep?"
"...We shall eat him"
"Yes…"
"Yes.."
The conversation of spirits at dusk, too easily understood by the human child, Natsume Takashi. The spiritual powers flowing out of him draw the yokai close.
"NO!" He bolts to his feet and instinctively look around him. For what? The Book of Friends
Slightly to the left of him he finds his belongings and grabs them as he darts through the bushes, past the shadows, the voices, the branches, and the briar. His breath becoming hollow. Terrified. He wants to stop and catch his breath. He want to be warm at home with... He wants to think over what was happening. He want to be warm at home with…. He wants to not feel the chill of the wind. He want to be warm at home with…..
Shadows loom over him. Grey, slimy, overbearing, suffocating, eerie, smiling, drooling, rabid. Enclosing him, blocking out the sky. "Lets eat it!" An arm forms in front of him; Large and ominous like the darkness it came from. Takashi's running is halted by the arm closing in on him. Before he has a chance to react his wrist is seized and his body is flung up. Pain suggesting his arm just escaped being ripped from his body. Pain immediately numbed, his body dangling in front of hungry blackness.