Sorry this took so long! School was really killing me. But now I'm back! Anyway here's a recap of what's been happening in the story so far. If you remember then feel free to skip it.

Sasada, Nishimura, and Kitamoto went into an abandoned house and ended up getting cursed by a youkai who told them that it would eat them if they did not find the Book of Friends and bring it back to it.

They talk about where the Book of Friends might be and decided to look for information on Reiko because the youkai brought her up.

Meanwhile, Natsume hears from a youkai that some humans are after the Book of Friends and he goes to ask Sensei about it…

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At Natsume's house

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"You're worrying too much," Sensei said calmly after Natsume explained what happened. "The youkai was probably lying to get his name back."

"But I told him I'd give him his name back later." Natsume said worriedly. "There was no reason for him to lie."

"He probably didn't believe you." Sensei said, opening a bag of chips. Natsume looked down while frowning. It really bothered him that someone knew about the book of friends.

"I'm going to ask around." Natsume said standing up. "Maybe some youkai know more about their people." He stood up and walked over to the door and headed out. Sensei looked up from his bag of chips and put it down. Although he thought the youkai was lying, he didn't want to take the chance that it might be telling the truth. If another human got their hands on the Book of Friends it would mean he would not get it.

"What a pain." Sensei groaned. "I guess I'll have to go look into this."

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Meanwhile…

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"Ok, what did you guys find!" Sasada said as they all met up.

"I've got nothing," Nishimura said glumly.

"Me too," Kitamoto sighed.

"Oh come on guys!" Sasado said.

"Hey, did you do any better?" Nishimura demanded.

"Yes actually," She said, "I found out that Reiko used to live around here."

"Used to?" Kitamoto asked. "Did she move?"

"I don't know." Sasada said, shrugging. "It was many years ago. If she's still alive she'd be old by now."

"Then how are we going to find her?" Nishimura asked.

"I was thinking we should look up more about her. I bet we could find a picture of her in the library somewhere. She used to attend school around here."

"Ok, so let's go to the library." Nishimura said.

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Later, at the library…

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"We've been looking for hours!" Kitamoto groaned. "Let's take a break."

"No, we need to find this!" Sasada said, frustrated. "Do you want to be eaten?"

Kitamoto sighed and continued looking. After a few minutes he said, "Hey guys I think I found her." Nishimura and Sasada ran over. Kitamoto was pointing to a name on a page. Although it was hard to read it did say Reiko on it.

"Yep, that's her name." Nishimura said, "But I can't read her last name. Darn it, that would have made our lives easier."

"Well at least there's a picture of her." Sasada said pointing to a picture on the next page. All three of them looked over at the picture. It was quiet for a moment.

"What? Isn't that…"

"The girl from the arcade." Nishimura finished Kitamoto's sentence. "Yeah, that's her."

"You know her?" Sasada asked surprised.

"Yeah, we've met her before. She wasted all our money on food and arcade games." Kitamoto said quietly. "She said she was friends with Natsume."

"I see," Sasada said. Frowning suddenly, her eyes lit up. "Wait, I know her! She was the girl that was with Natsume at the abandoned school."

"You've seen her to?" Kitamoto asked then he shook his head. "This is impossible! She wouldn't still look like that!"

"Unless she's not human." Sasada said.

"But she attended school." Kitamoto said weakly, "She has to be human."

"Maybe she was a youkai that could take human form?" Sasada suggested.

"What if she used to be human but then a youkai possessed her and took over her body?" Nishimura said.

"They can't possess people!" Kitamoto said nervously. "Can they?"

"I don't know." Sasada said.

"I thought you were a youkai expert!" Kitamoto said.

"I don't know everything about them!" Sasada said, sighing, "If they can possess items then maybe they can possess humans! That still doesn't explain why a youkai would possess her!"

"Maybe because it wanted the Book of Friends?" Nishimura suggested.

"Oh yeah, that might be it. Alright then, we now have two theories," Sasada said. "One, Reiko was a youkai or two Reiko was possessed by a youkai."

"What do we do now?" Kitamoto asked.

"Hmm I think we need to first figure out if youkai can possess people." Sasada said.

"No, we need to figure out more about Reiko." Nishimura said.

"Maybe we should ask Natsume." Kitamoto said.

"I thought you wanted to keep Natsume out of this?" Sasada asked.

"I do, but if he's friends with Reiko then he could be in danger too!" Kitamoto said. "If Reiko is a youkai then she might want to eat him! If Reiko is being possessed then she might want to possess him! Either way, he's in danger!"

"You're right." Sasada said quietly. "We need to warn him!"

"Hold on." Nishimura said. "Even if Natsume is in danger he probably wouldn't believe us. He knows her as a normal human being. Why would he believe us that she's evil?"

"We still need to do something!" Sasada exclaimed. "We can't just sit back and let that youkai kill him! We've seen how dangerous youkai are."

"I know that!" Nishimura said, frowning. "But we still shouldn't get him involved!"

"Let's try to figure out more about her." Kitamoto said. "If we can find where she is hiding, we can confront her."

"Where are we going to find her anyways?" Sasada asked.

"I don't know." Nishimura said. "Last time we found her around town. Maybe we should look around?"

"I guess we have to." Sasada sighed. "Alright, let's start looking!"

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Meanwhile

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"Humans are such a bother." Sensei grumbled as he sat in a tree. What started off as a short investigation turned out to be full on search. The more youkai he questioned the more the evidence piled up that there were humans after the Book of Friends. When further questioned, the youkai couldn't give any more detail on what the humans looked like because humans looked all alike.

"If humans didn't all look the same I would have figured out who they were by now." Sensei sighed. Then he had an idea. Youkai were hopeless in this situation but maybe the humans might know something. It was a long shot but it was worth a try.

"I can't believe I'm doing this." he growled as he changed into Reiko's form. He hopped out of the tree and walked down the street.

"Now, who to ask?" Sensei wondered, tapping his chin. "Maybe I should go ask Natsume's human friends. They seem dumb enough to tell me."

"Hey, you!" he heard someone yell. Sensei stopped and turned to see Natsume's friends running towards him.

"Well that was easy." he thought as they approached him.

"We have some questions to ask you." One of Natsume's friends said panting. Sensei raised an eyebrow.

"I have some questions to ask you to." he said.

"Answer our questions first." the girl demanded.

"What a bother." Sensei grumbled as he turned to walk away. There was no way he was going to answer the humans' stupid questions.

"Reiko, wait!" one of the boys yelled. Sensei froze and slowly turned around with his eyes narrowing.

"How do they know Reiko's name?" he thought angrily. "Did they hear it from a youkai?" Sensei shot forward and pinned one of the guys against the wall.

"How do you know that name?" he hissed. Natsume's human friend looked frightened.

"W-w-what?" stammered the guy.

"If you don't answer me I will eat you." Sensei snarled.

"Let him go!" yelled the girl as she tried to hit him. Suddenly, something hit Sensei on the head. He growled and let go of the guy. Natsume's three friends took off down the street. Sensei rubbed his head and looked down at the stone that one of Natsume's friends had thrown at him.

"They'll pay for that." he growled as he took off after them.

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