Its been a while since I uploaded. Even though My school year is finished I decided to take summer school, which is tough. Hope i can write more stories... HOPEFULLY. don't get your hopes up... but i will try to update in a long while. (unless i die). -_-


Chapter 8: Real Identity

Natsume Takashi's POV

The Oni seemed very different. It was black. I remembered clearly that this Oni was supposed to be red from the dreams I had from Reiko's past.

Why is it black? I wondered.

"Natori-san. Are Oni's usually black?" I asked.

Natori looked up. "No. This is my first time seeing an Oni with the color black, they are usually the color of red or green."

"This Oni is being controlled" Mika interrupted.

"controlled?" I questioned.

Mika nodded. "I sensed another Youkai present, which is actually possessing the Oni. However I do not know what it is, since it's only a shadow-like form."

"I also found it odd too." Added Natori, "An Oni should not have the power to make these shadows. All they do is physical violence and usually tormented many villages a long time ago"

"Ha. So you do know your stuff, Mr. Exorcist" smirked Mika.

"I'm also quite surprised that a young lady like you knows this as well…" chuckled Natori.

The Oni suddenly swung his shadow mace towards the girl. The girl evaded the attack by jumping towards the side. Her fox companion started to breath blue fireballs toward the Oni.

It was a direct hit.

The Oni fell onto its knees and began to scream in pain.

I was amazed that the girl and the fox youkai were in sync during battle. I started to space out.

"Natsume!" I heard Nyanko yell.

The Oni noticed me, and threw its mace towards me. Nyanko-sensei came on time and rescued me.

"Thanks Nyanko-sensei" as he lowered me to the ground, far away from the Oni.

"Are you okay? Natsume" asked Natori-san, coming up towards me.

"I'm fine" I looked up, the girl and fox were still fighting the Oni as if they are trying to distract it away from us.

"This is bad, I don't think the girl hold up any longer" said Natori-san

"Natori-san, do you have any plan?" I asked.

Natori-san was in thoughts. He took out a small bottle, which seems to be a sealing item.

"I have this weak sealing bottle, we can try and sealing the Oni, but it can only seal one Youkai. If the girl was telling the truth that there was another Youkai being present, then I don't have any other sealing items that can seal the other Youkai"

"Don't worry, I can just eat that other Youkai then" smirked Nyanko-sensei.

"Sensei!" I shouted. I did not like the idea of killing.

"tch fine I won't"

"We can try to seal the Youkai that is controlling the Oni" said Natori-san "But I'm not sure if the Oni would stop its rampage"

"Let's just try it!" I said. "We can seal the other Youkai and deal with the Oni later"

Natori-san nodded, agreeing with me. "Young Lady!" Natori-san calling towards the girl.

The girl leaped off of her fox companion and onto the ground and ran towards Natori-san.

Natori explained his plan to the girl. The girl also agreed with the plan.

"Fine. You guys deal with the Youkai I'll deal with the Oni later"

"Are you sure?" I got worried. The girl seemed more exhausted, and injured.

The girl gave a small grin. "I'm fine. Thanks for worrying about me. Just focus on sealing the shadow Youkai"

I glanced towards Nyanko-sensei, as if I wanted to ask him a favor.

"Fine I got it. I won't give it a final blow" Nyanko-sensei, in his beast form, leaped towards the Oni, as he knew what to do.

"Ok. Let's do this, Natsume-kun"

I nodded, I watched Natori-san placing the small sealing bottle on the ground and took out a white chalk and drew a sealing circle.

When Natori-san finished drawing the circle, he placed the bottle at the center. I entered the circle, sitting behind the bottle.


Akamatsu Mika's POV

Everyone here seems to call that boy 'Natsume'.

He couldn't be that Natsume?! The grandson of Natsume Reiko, and the current owner of the Book of Friends.

But I didn't have time to think about it. I had a job to distract the Oni for the boy and the exorcist to finish with the sealing spell.

I noticed that the exorcist was done making the sealing circle, and gave me a signal that he was ready.

"Hey!" I yelled, trying to get the Oni's attention.

The Oni noticed me.

"N-a-t-s-u-m-e…." mumbled the Oni. The Oni slowly took a step, following me.

I began to run towards the exorcist with the sealing circle ready.

The Oni tried to reach his hands towards me in order to catch me.

I started to dodge the attacks a couple of times. By the time, I was almost towards the sealing circle. The Oni's arm made another extension of a shadow arm and caught me.

The Oni began grip me tightly in his hand.

"Young Lady!" yelled Natori.

Both Kyu-chi and the other beast which name was Nyanko-sensei, landed on top of the Oni. Nyanko-sensei was at his shoulder, trying to rip his shoulder apart. On the other hand, Kyu-chi bit the arm in order to save me. The Oni screamed in pain, and released me from his grasp. Kyu-chi caught me and gently lowered me to the ground.

"Mika-sama! Are you alright?!" shouted Kyu-chi.

"I'm fine, thanks Kyu-chi" I smiled. I knew that Kyu-chi was worried about me.

"Kyu-chi, Do me a favor, I think I dropped my recorder somewhere on this roof. Can you go find it for me?" I knew that I needed it later, after the exorcist and the boy sealed the shadow youkai.


Nyanko-sensei's POV

"Tch! It looks like that fox saved his owner" I guess its time to do my part.

I flew towards the back of the Oni and bit his neck. The Oni screamed in pain, as I began to tear something black from the Oni.

For some reason, I enjoyed the Oni's crying in pain.

It would seem that the shadow Youkai possessed the Oni.

Disgusting. The shadow Youkai tastes very awful, just like rotten eggs. I quickly ripped the shadow Youkai out of the Oni.

The Oni screamed even more.

I quickly flew towards Natsume. Natsume extended his arms, holding the bottle out towards my direction. I threw the shadow Youkai towards Natsume, as the youkai began to be sucked in by a vortex of the bottle.


Natsume Takashi POV

The pressure of the sealing bottle was heavy. I felt the shadow youkai being sucked into the bottle. As soon as the shadow Youkai was finally inside, I quickly got the bottle cap and used my spiritual powers to seal the bottle.

The shadow Youkai was sealed.

The fatigue began to develop from my body, as my body dropped to the ground.

"Natsume!" yelled Natori-san


Shuuichi Natori POV

"Natsume!" I yelled. I quickly ran towards Natsume's side.

"I'm fine" Natsume tried to sit up as he held the bottle in front of him. "We did it!"

I sighed in relief. I knew that Natsume had a strong spiritual energy to seal that Youkai.

Suddenly there was a loud shriek. The Oni was still in front of us. The Oni gave another powerful shriek. This time, it made me unable to move. It seems that Natsume also felt the pressure. Nyanko suddenly transformed into his smaller form. It seems that the shriek was powerful enough in order to not retain his bigger form. The Oni took a step forward. We were powerless. I tried to stand up, but my legs wouldn't let me.

Suddenly the young lady appears in front of me, and was standing in front of the me and the red Oni.

"Young Lady?!" I shouted in surprised.

"Its too dangerous!" shouted Natsume

"Don't worry!" said the girl. "Remember I told you that I would take care of the Oni afterwards"

I noticed the girl was holding onto a red-colored recorder, which I have never seen before. She holds both of her hands onto the holes of the recorder. She took a deep breath as if she was about to play a melody.


What is Mika's true power?! How would she beat the Oni!

p.s. in truth. I would think that Nyanko-sensei can beat the Oni... but i purposely made Nyanko-sensei powerless in order for Mika to shine~

To be Continued!