A/N I hope you like the first chapter of The Nightmare Yokai! I know it was a little fast-moving but hey, this is only my second fanfic out of many. I will try to make this chapter go slower but I don't make any guarantees. Well, I hope you enjoy it anyway!

DISCLAIMER: RANDOM GUY: Repeat after me, I Moonie.

Moonie: I Moonie.

RANDOM GUY: Do not own.

Moonie: Do not own.

RANDOM GUY: Kamisama Hajimemashita.

Moonie: Ha-ha you admitted you don't own it!

RANDOM GUY: Alright show me the money that you to buy Kamisama Hajimemashita.

Moonie: I-I don't have the money to buy it so I can't own it.

"Nanami! Get up or you're gonna be late for school!" Tomoe bellowed, thrusting open the door to Nanami's room.

"Five more minutes Tomoe…" Nanami groaned.

"Yeah, five more minutes until the bus comes." Tomoe snapped.

"What?" Nanami exclaimed the best she could with being half asleep and suddenly shooting up. She quickly stood and Tomoe walked out of Nanami's room, little did she know it was actually a Saturday and Tomoe and the others were only getting her back for waking the up in the middle of the night. Three minutes later Nanami rushed out of her room, her hair brushed and her body dressed in her school attire, she was gone before the gang knew it. "I should go get her before she makes a fool of herself." Mizuki said, preparing to go after Nanami.

"Nah, if you go she'll be confused, if I go she'll still think we're going to school." Tomoe pointed out. Then Nanami burst through the shrine door, her face redder than a tomato, and most definitely going to kill someone in the shrine, and Onikiri and Kotetsu were off the hook. "TOMOEEEEE!" Nanami shouted.

"Yes Nanami?" Tomoe said in a sickening sweet and obedient matter holding up his signature fan and smiling.

"How DARE you fool me when you know what I have gone through on top of school and shrine duties. That was the most sleep I had gotten in WEEKS and it was nightmare free too. So now, not only was it the most sleep, it was also the BEST sleep. Also, Isobe was the one who told me it was Saturday, and that's worse than Minakura, the most popular girl in school telling me! You do not know how upset I am with you! For now I am leaving so I don't end up beating you." Then Nanami started to walk back over to the door until Mizuki said,"Nanami, you are still in your uniform."

"And it will be after I change out of my school uniform." Then Nanami dropped her backpack, turned back around, and stomped over to her room. "Wow, someone got up on the wrong side of the bed." Mizuki said simply.

"I'll be back in a while once Nanami leaves, I need to go out and buy some things for the next month or so, so I can make food for Nanami. You however, will stay here." Tomoe told Mizuki, heading to his room.

"That's not fair, now I'm gonna be alone with the morning shrine duties." Mizuki muttered. "Oh well, it's like this every morning anyway." Nanami the re-appeared in a light yellow dress that came down to her knees and she also had a light purple cardigan sweater on and her hair was down and flowing like it usually does. She walked outside and slammed the door behind her. Then she returned a few seconds later and said, "I almost forgot shoes." Then she grabbed a pair of sandals and walked back out.

Nanami walked around town for a long time until she realized she was lost for she was in an odd area of town that was dark and very eerie seeming. She stopped and looked around her, becoming a bit nervous. She decided to try to contact Tomoe or Mizuki to come and get her since she was lost, but as soon as she pulled out one of her talismans the wind picked up and blew it away. She reached in her pocket and found that the only other one she had, already had something written on it. She looked in the direction her blank talisman blew in a saw a dark seeming alley. "Just my luck, first Tomoe pranks me, then I get lost, and now I have no choice but to go in a dark and creepy alleyway if I ever want to go home again." Nanami muttered to herself, trying to gather up as much courage as she can before heading into the alley. She slowly walked in and her eyes dart from side to side, keeping a look out for her talisman and any possible danger. Soon she starts to hear singing? "You'll be okay; it will be alright, just stay by my side for tonight."

"Who is singing that?" Nanami muttered speeding up and heading towards the voice.

"I will protect you throughout the night, just stay here with me and you will safe and sound…"

"Well, whoever it is they're doing a really good job although they have a very high-pitched voice." Nanami continued to mutter to herself, then, after a little while of walking, she saw two small figures in the distance, one of them was higher up than the other, maybe it was sitting on something? She continued to approach when suddenly, she heard screaming. She broke out into a run towards the two then she slowed to a stop. She finally saw the two figures clearly now and on top of both of their heads was, a pair of ears? One of them, the one on the ground, was backing away from Nanami, while the other one, was looking up at the edge of one of the building that served as a wall for the alley way. Nanami knelt in front of the first little girl, the one who was sitting on the ground backing away from Nanami still, and said, "What's wrong?"

"P-p-please don't hurt me!" The little girl said quickly, her voice was awfully high-pitched and she was very, very small. Then the little girl stopped moving backwards, and curled up into a ball. Nanami looked confused. Nanami looked up at the other little girl who was now staring behind Nanami, her mouth gaping open and only one thing coming out,"N-n-n-n-n…" Nanami looked back down at the other girl and asked, "Why would you think I would hurt you?"

"Not you miss, him!" The girl cried out, pointing behind Nanami.

Then the other little girl finally got out, well more like screamed out," 'NAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!" Nanami turned around and much to her surprise; she saw Tomoe and Mizuki standing behind her, giving Nanami the most confused expression ever. "Tomoe? Mizuki? What are you guys doing here?" Nanami asked, turning so she sat on her bottom. The two little girls quickly darted from their spots to behind Nanami, where they apparently thought they would be safest.

"We came to get you, Nanami!" Mizuki said cheerfully, smiling.

"The true question is, what are you doing here?" Tomoe growled, obviously not pleased, Nanami her one of the little girls whimpering behind her. One of them, the youngest apparently, put something on Nanami's shoulder and said,"Hewe, use dis to save us Pease miss." Nanami looked over at her shoulder and saw her talisman that flew back into the alley. "Ah ha! That's where my talisman is! Arigatou!" Nanami said with a smile. She picked the talisman up off her shoulder and then said, but I can't get rid of them because they are my friends, they aren't going to hurt you two. Don't worry." Nanami continued, hoping to calm them down.

"You're their friend?" The younger one asked.

"You're the friend of the one who killed Okaa-san and Otou-san while they slept?!" The older one cried out, standing and backing away from Nanami, dragging the younger one with her.

"Wait what?!" Nanami asked, confused.

"A kitsune and a hebi came and killed our mother and father in the middle of the night a few weeks ago." The older one repeated, "And your friends look exactly like the kitsune and hebi too."

"I never remember killing anyone in my entire life except for a few people, but that was only in self-defense." Mizuki said, looking at Nanami.

"It's been years since I've used my claws in killing others through cold heartedness. I mainly use them now to defend Nanami, myself, and the shrine." Tomoe said, looking just about as confused as Mizuki.

"Liars!"

"Yeah! You liaws. Go to jigoku!"

"Sister! Watch your language! We are in front of strangers you know. Now apologize for your rude behavior!" The older one scolded.

"Sumimasen." The younger one apologized gloomily.

"It's ok." Nanami said, a bit stunned by what the younger one had said. Tomoe had a shocked look on his faced while Mizuki was still confused, but this time he was confused about how he should react to what the little girl said.

"So, are you two homeless?" Nanami asked.

"No, we have a home."

"Where is it?"

"You've already seen it."

"You guys live here?"

"Yep, it's been our home since mama and papa died."

"It doesn't seem like much."

"That's probably because all it is, is an alleyway."

"Hey, I have an idea, why don't you come with me?"

"Will the kitsune and hebi be with you?"

"Don't worry; I'll make sure they don't hurt you." Nanami reassured the little girl.

"Nanami, it's getting dark and we left Onikiri and Kotetsu by their selves." Mizuki said a bit nervously, pointing up at the sky.

"You guys did what?!" Nanami shouted, "You guys know that Onikiri and Kotetsu are scared of the dark, especially you of all people, and yokai Tomoe!"

"See, that's why we need to return!" Tomoe said, making sure he sounded like he was pointing out the obvious.

"Come on you two, once we get to the shrine I'll clean you both up." Nanami said, taking the two little one's hands. With that the two familiars led the way back to the shrine, Nanami trailing behind with the two young yokai trudging along, tired.