Natsume Yuujinchou
It just started raining all of a sudden.
Natsume, let's hide under that roof.
This is a really big house.
One of those old mansions, right?
Yeah.
I don't really want to get close
to any place where I can feel youkai.
What's wrong, Natsume?
I heard this weird voice from inside.
A voice?
Tanuma, let's go.
Natsume?
Oh, no. The youkai's coming out.
Huh?
Natsume-kun?
Tanuma-kun?
Taki?
And Nyanko-sensei?
The Thing Lurking In The Storeroom
So this is your house.
It's really big.
It's old and hard to clean.
Why is Nyanko-sensei here?
I took a look outside
after it started raining...
Fluffy! Fluffy!
The next thing I knew, I'd grabbed him.
I'm sorry.
Geez, when is she going to learn?
Don't think one thin slice of youkan candy will make up for this!
So it was sensei's scream
that I thought was a youkai.
Are you sure you want to help me clean the storeroom?
It's fine.
It's thanks for letting us get out of the rain.
Yeah.
Thanks. It's a big help.
Nyanko-sensei, do you sense any youkai?
I guesh becaw 'f the famry's hishtory, I can feel the lethover presensh of lotsha yoookai,
but nut'ing particu'ry odd.
I see.
Good.
Now then...
I've had my youkan candy so I'm leaving.
What's wrong?
S-s-scarecr...
I'm sorry.
That scarecrow wards off monsters, I heard.
I was really scared of it when I was a kid.
It'd scare off thieves, not just monsters.
Your family used to be Onmyouji, didn't they?
That was a long time ago.
My grandfather researched youkai,
even though he couldn't see them.
When I was young,
he used to teach me all kinds of things in this storehouse.
But my mom and dad were both creeped out by it.
I'm the only one who ever comes in here.
What's this?
A kappa, huh?
He must've been a strange person,
to want to see youkai.
Nothing good ever comes of it.
Natsume.
How long is it going to take you to open that window?
Sorry.
That scared me...
Kimonos?
I thought somebody was standing there.
Oh, sorry.
Those are to ward off monsters, too.
He was really strange.
We're done!
Thanks!
I'm sorry. I didn't know it would be so hard.
It was nothing.
I can get you some yakisoba, at least,
as thanks for helping.
Sounds great.
Huh?
Taki, did you put one of those kimonos away?
No.
There's two, just like before.
Huh?
But those two are kinda alike, aren't they?
Yeah.
They're good friends, right?
They sound alike, too.
Taki, hey...
What?
No... I'm going to to the bathroom.
I might be remembering it wrong.
I shouldn't scare them if it's nothing.
Jerk!
Oww...
Oh my, he saw me.
He saw me! He saw me!
Wait!
He saw me! He saw me!
Hey!
I've never seen you before, kid.
So you can see youkai?
Interesting.
Are you with that kimono youkai?
I just came over to visit.
When Shin'ichiro was alive,
I used to come here all the time.
Shin'ichiro?
You mean Taki's grandfather?
He couldn't see youkai.
That's right, he couldn't.
Never could, 'til the end.
What is that kimono youkai?
You tore off the upside-down picture didn't you?
Like an upside-down Buddha,
you shouldn't touch anything you find that's upside down.
There's a spell called "Gyaku-Fuuji", the Upside-Down Sealing.
Shin'ichiro did it once
while reading from some old scrolls.
He didn't know it, but the spell worked.
He sealed a rather nasty youkai that was here.
A youkai in an old doll.
When it was sealed, its body was split
and scattered all around this house.
Its torso and left hand were sealed in the storehouse.
It seems to be searching this house
for the rest of its body.
If it gets it back, you're going to have a problem.
Looks like its right leg is right under us.
Natsume?
Huh? This smell...
Natsume Yuujinchou
Natsume?
Is there something under the house?
A kimono monster, huh?
My grandfather sealed it?
Yeah.
Shin'ichiro's granddaughter?
What's wrong, Natsume?
Is there something there?
Uh, yeah. The one who told me about the kimono youkai.
There's a youkai there?
He had a bit of potential
but Shin'ichiro was never able to see her, she says.
Grandfather...
Natsume?
Did you hear that?
It sounded like
something was crawling along the second floor.
Wait, Natsume.
Natsume really does look like he's acting weird.
Yeah.
But if we knew what was going on,
we'd know that he was going to try
to protect us and this house.
Where is it?
This house has as many dark rooms as ever.
Stop talking from my shoulder.
You never played any tricks just because
Shin'ichiro-san couldn't see you, did you?
Well, you know...
Hey.
He really couldn't see us at all.
Look at that window.
Shin'ichiro sat there ever since he was a kid,
reading old scrolls and books about youkai,
enjoying them like they were picture books.
Right there.
I wish I could see them, just once.
It was so funny
how he never realized that we were right there.
Good times.
Natsume-kun?
I got it.
We can go up.
Tanuma?
I'm fine.
But this feeling... there's something up here.
The right side.
Uh oh, he's here, too.
Natsume!
Are you okay?
I'm sorry for grabbing you.
No, you saved us.
Thanks.
Oh my, I thought I'd felt that strange
spirit energy for the first time in a while.
The seal's broken?
Oh, I was here because I'd hoped
Shin'ichiro was back and had started something fun again.
Idiot.
Shin'ichiro left the world a long time ago.
Humans can't come back to life easily.
That's right. How boring.
What?
But Shin'ichiro is here!
No, this is what's called a "granddaughter".
You remember her,
she was the one who wouldn't stop sobbing at his funeral.
That's right.
How boring.
Natsume-kun,
what kind of youkai are over there?
They knew your grandfather.
They seemed to really like him.
Oww... oww...
Don't you dare say that!
He never even saw us!
Shin'ichiro was just our tool.
Oh, you can see us?
How rare.
How different from Shin'ichiro.
Then, child of man,
I shall give you a warning since you can see us.
The youkai standing on the wall
said that the kimono youkai is called "Kakura".
It's gotten its legs and its left arm back.
Its right hand is broken and rotted,
and all that's left is the head.
It's in the backyard?
Yes.
This way.
Tanuma...
I'm glad.
I was thinking you'd tell me
to wait here or go home again.
Yeah.
There are people who will listen to me,
and try to stay with me anyway...
Natsume-kun?
Natsume!
Where are you, Natsume?
Natsume-kun!
He's gone.
Did that youkai catch him?
How are we supposed to look for something we can't see!
That's right.
I can use the circle.
The circle?
You mean the one that lets you see youkai inside it?
Yes.
If I use it we might be able to get
the youkai he was talking with to help us.
It's here.
How dare you look at me, human.
They liked your grandfather a lot.
Natsume, where are you?
What are you doing?
I should ask you that, Ponta!
I came because he was late.
So?
Where's Natsume?
Please help me, youkai.
Tell me where Natsume went!
Please!
Answer me!
Please, please!
Taki!
Ponta came.
Let's go to the back yard.
Right.
Why didn't you go into the circle?
We had no reason to.
Nothing good comes of dealing with humans.
Hey, wake up.
Kid.
If you don't wake up, he'll cut off your right arm.
Where am I?
The back yard.
Look.
It can't take that out with one hand.
I see... good.
So it's going to take your power,
since you have strong spiritual energy,
and make your arm its own.
Don't touch my dessert!
Nyanko-sensei!
What is this house?
There's half-made barriers everywhere.
What?
That Shin'ichiro guy must've copied them out of something.
That's the problem with people with partial talent.
Natsume-kun!
It's dangerous!
Stay away!
Stop moving around!
Nyanko-sensei!
Oh my... I can't bear to watch.
That's right.
Good, get him.
Sensei, wait!
What happened?
Shin'ichiro doesn't read his books and he stopped
drawing those weird pictures.
It seems he's gotten sick.
How boring.
I know.
A person called a "doctor"
put both ends of a string with some kind of cylinder on it to his ears,
and was trying to heal Shin'ichiro by hitting his body with it.
It's just like it!
Will this heal him?
If a mere human can heal him,
then we should be able to, too!
Get better, Shin'ichiro!
Humans are so weak.
Get better.
Get better, Shin'ichiro.
We'll be so bored without you.
You're the one who wanted to see us.
Get better.
Get better!
Grandpa!
Somebody's crying.
Crying a lot.
With a little Taki.
Natsume-kun!
Good, you're awake.
Tanuma, Taki.
Where's Kakura?
I dragged him off and tossed him in a ditch, a long way away.
Sensei...
Are you leaving?
Of course.
I'm never coming back.
Humans are such trouble.
The youkai on the wall saved us.
We didn't save anybody.
That's right.
There's just a lot of interesting stuff here.
It's not because it's Shin'ichiro's house...
Thank you!
Thank you for coming to see my grandfather.
Farewell, granddaughter of Shin'ichiro.
Be well.
What is this smell?
Some kind of flower?
I know it.
When I was crying when my grandfather died,
I smelled a gentle scent like a flower.
Did they realize?
How sadly they called the name
of the man who could never see them?
In seeing something, we meet it.
Would you tell me?
About the youkai you've met.
I've been through so many meetings and partings.
Okay.
They were like a heavy secret,
but when I started to talk about them, they seemed to sparkle...
I couldn't put them into words.
That Which Is Not Human
Natsume Yuujinchou
You're...
My name is Matoba.
What are you trying to do by stealing the blood of youkai?
I've got a bad feeling about this.
We should stay away from him.
It's been a long time, Natsume.
I'm sorry I'm still so awesome.
Your bad feeling was right!
Watch us next time!
Okay, I've had my youkan candy, so I'm going home.