Protecting everyone from the youkai is Natsume's top priority; protecting Him, who is blind to this malicious world. Maybe it's been the other way around recently, but without them, chaos is bound to happen. A dream lingers in the air, and youkai threaten to destroy close bonds.

Reunion-fic. Shion is living in fear of his new political self: the more time he spends without Nezumi besides him, the more he loses his personality and health to power struggles. Meanwhile, Nezumi is in constant war with his own mind, as he finds out that freedom doesn't necessarily means happiness.