Natsume Yuujinchou(fanfiction)

Chapter 6: The civet cat

          Natsume carrying his tired body, pushing himself back to the Fujiwaras' household.
          When he arrived at the doorstep, a thought comes to his mind. 'Does Murasaki knows his way home anyway?'
          He runs up the stairs, back to his cozy room, opens the cabinet, shuffle though his grandmother's relics. Old books brought out of the bamboo box one by one.
          "Ah, got it! It's this book." His hand holds a book named "友人帐", he suddenly feels a bise flows into his room.
          "It's this book. Now, hand over the book!" 'It sounds like the lucky cat from this afternoon.           Natsume bends over unconsciously.
          He hears a thumping sound behind him, he turns his head and sees the lucky cat from before is sticking in the hole that was created by itself, its limbs moving back and forth.
          It mumbles:"Let me out of here! Hand over the book! Ah, no, let the noble me out of here first!"

~~~~~Timeskip~~~~~

          Natsume brushes a layer of glue on his pitiful cabinet. The cat who caused the trouble, has a bandage sticks on his back, enjoying its watermelon, like there's nothing happened.
          "Um......, there's a seed beside your mouth." Natsume points out.
          The cat quickly whips it off its face by using its chubby paws.
          "Human, call me Nyanko Sensei." The cat says while moving to the seteria viridis which Natsume holds. Natsume just hums in reply.
          Then, Natsume asks about the book.
          The cat says lazily:"Natsume Reiko, your grandmother, the human who gathers the beauty and the powerful youkai power. Whenever she sees a youkai, she has a competition with them. The loser has to writes their name so that the winner can order them to do anything they like. This is the book which gathers all the "losers"name, which also known as the "Book of Friends". As for the noble me, I was kept in a lucky cat container."
          Natsume then realises that its true that his grandmother has been here before.
          "*Knock, knock*, is anyone there?"
Natsume quickly rushes down to open the door. The door reveals one of the youkai that chased him earlier, hanging an evil smirk on its face.
          Then, the sound of Aunt Tohko's footsteps grow louder.
          On the other hand, Nyanko Sensei lying at the window, watching the golden hair carrying the "Book of Friends", running towards the forest.
          '*Sigh* That troublemaker.' With a second, the cat disappears from its place.
          Back to Natsume who's still panting and running, he suddeny feels a load on his back, he turns his head.
          "Nyanko Sensei! Why are you here?"
However, the cat just tells him to hide behind the bushes.
          Although Natsume had got out from the chase(temporarily), his heart still jumping ups and downs.
          "Look, the "Book of Friends" is a troublesome. So, give me the book!" Nyanko Sensei transforms itself into a huge monster with white furs covering its body.
          It says with a low voice:" Give me, or else I'll eat you! A-"  The proudness turns into a scream all because the mighty punch from Natsume.
          Natsume's golden orbs darken:"My grandmother dies in her early age, not much of my family remembers her, so I wants to keep it, plus its an important thing to my grandmother, isn't it?"
          Just one sentence of Natsume makes Nyanko Sensei sinks into its trains of thoughts.
          Later on, Natsume keeps asking about how to give back the youkai's names because he wants to finish what his grandmother hasn't finish.
          Natsume also says an attractive sentence :"Once I dead, the "Book of Friends" is all yours, I promise."
          'Hm......if I get the "Book of Friends " now,it will be less fun then. Good, I'll be his bodyguard from now on!
          "And, I still have Sensei, right?"
           'Hm......what he says is right. Wait, why I agree with him anyway?'
           Then, Nyanko Sensei teaches him about the way to return the names. 

           ~~~~~Timeskip~~~~~

           Natsume runs to the lakeside, finally found the youkai he was searching.
           "The one who protects me, please reveal your name."
           At the meantime, the pages of the "Book of Friends" flips and stops and page which has the youkai's names on it.
          Natsume detaches the paper from the book and inhale. The names flows back to its owner. The memories between the purple youkai and Reiko appears in front of him.
         
*[]=youkai                   ""=Reiko

          [I'm hungry~]
          Suddenly, a hand appeared out of nowhere, grabbed his steamed bun.
          "Its suck, its better at the Nanatsuji's ! Oh yes, have about having a fight with me. If you win, you can eat me ; if I win, you have to be my underling."
          However, the youkai lost the fight.
          [Why there's a wound on your face?]
          "Because they say I'm scaring them so they threw me some stones. Now, I have to go now, bye."
          She waved her hands and walked away.
          After that, the youkai waits and waits.
          [Lonely, its lonelier than before. Give me back! Give me back!]

~~~~present~~~~~

          The purple youkai starts to disappear, a little by a little into the sky, he hears Natsume.
          "Reiko was dead. I'm her grandson, Natsume Takashi."
          [Ah~ Reiko was dead.]
          'Bye,the kind friend of my grandmother, Hishigaki.'

          ~~~~~Timeskip~~~~~

          Natsume who is tired from the returning of names sits at the lakeside, beside him is the cat who was chasing the other youkai when Natsume deals with the other.
          Under the sunset, when they walk pass Nanatsuji, Natsume says to Nyanko Sensei:" There maybe has some delicious steamed buns."
          And with that, the cat who's sinking in its thoughts transform to a hungry civet cat.(Ijust love to tease him/it!!)
          "Let's go, Natsume! What are you waiting for?"
          Natsume sighs and asks:"Can cats eat sweets?" He only gets a "I'm not a cat!" reply.
          At the entrance, Natsume sees Murasaki carrying a box full of colourful steamed buns.
          Murasaki stares at Natsume coldly:"Natsume, you are carrying a trouble."(Obviously, that civet cat.)
          Murasaki turns to his back, calls out the hungry-when-it-sees-food cat:"Madara."

A/n: I'm back from my vacation and sorry for the late update!!! Once again, thanks to LaazyOtaku , PhilMcQueen and all the readers for supporting me! It's already midnight here, hope to see you guys soon!