You live in a small village, but the other children in your age don't want to play with you, because you are the next holy miko and can already see spirits. The priests who are taking care of you abusing you when you don't listen to them and can't even purify a simple radish. You normally stay outside as long as you can, but you aren't allowed to leave the village, because youkai can smell your powers and would attack you.

Just like every other day, you walk slowly around the village, already knowing every little stone and stick who lays around. The priests let you leave the small temple for a while, but just because you weren't able to purify a little youkai. It looked like a child and were so afraid, you couldn't hurt it and set it free instead, so the blood dripping from your nose doesn't really bother you that much. The people in the village think you get hurt like that from purifying youkai, so they don't want their children to stay close to you.

Even if you are the next holy miko, you are also the bad luck child.

You sigh quietly and look sad down, a few tears welling up in your eyes. 'I wanna go to mommy and daddy.' You flinch when a strong wind blows from behind your short hair up, seeing that your red ribbon slipped out of your hair and follows the wind. You quickly run after it, not wanting to lose the last item you got from your parents before you needed to leave them and got brought to this village from the priests. Without even thinking, you run out of the forest and the barrier build from the priests, running into the forest to catch the ribbon.

When the wind calms down again, the ribbon flies slowly down to the ground, making you smile. You reach your small hand out and grab it, slowing down and stopping to run, panting softly while you look down to the ribbon. You smile softly and hold it close to your small body, feeling relieved you got it back without that it got destroyed. You look up when you feel a very strong youkai power coming closer to you, so you quickly rush to a few bushes and jump inside, hiding inside them.

"Are you sure the deer run into this direction?" An unfamiliar voice ask annoyed. "Of course I am! It was running this way!" Someone else complains. "Maybe we should let Jyushimatsu hunt our dinner instead of you, Osomatsu." Someone sighs sadly. You grip the ribbon tight in your small hands, before you take the risk and push your head slowly out of the bush and peek at the voices. Your eyes widen when you can see six youkai, but they seem to be adults already, from how tall they are and from how strong their youkai powers feel like. ' ... They look like nice adults...'

You flinch when one of them suddenly disappears from your eyesight, but froze when a face is suddenly in front of you. "A human!" "Kyah!" Suddenly, something big grabs your white kosode and lift you up quick, pulling you out of the bush. "A child?" You shut your eyes tightly and huddle yourself together in the air, holding onto the red ribbon tightly. "Hmmmm ... maybe we should eat this child?" You flinch and look panicked and scared up, tears welling up in your eyes. "Pl-Please don't eat me!" The six youkai starring at you with big eyes, before you get placed down on the ground gentle. You tremble and crouch down, too afraid to run away or scream for help.

"Do you want me to put the ribbon in your hair?" You glance hesitating up, seeing a bake-danuki smiling cutely at you while he crouched down to be near your height. "D...Do you ... promise not to ... rip it?" You ask shyly, looking unwell away. "I promise." You get hesitating up and hold the ribbon out. He takes it very gentle from your hand, before he gentle takes it, but you are surprised to see how long and sharp his nails looking like. The youkai reach his hands up to make a small ponytail on the side of your head, making you look cuter like this. "There, now you look cute." You touch the ribbon and blush with a nervous smile when you feel the bow he made. "Thank you." You smile happy at them, but the six youkai blushing softly.

"Why're you alone here? Did your parents abandoned you?" The oni ask with a smile, crouching down next to you. "No ... mommy and daddy didn't. ... The priests took me away from them." You mumble sadly, looking down sulking. "And why?" The kistune ask calm, crouching down as well. "They said ... I'm the holy miko..." The youkai exchanging a glance, before the ao andon suddenly picks you up under your arms. "Then why do you smell like blood?" "Oh um ... they hit me, because I set a little youkai free." You look sad down, not really understand what you did wrong by doing so. " ... Do you know that my kind can heal injuries?" The ao andon smiles at you, causing you to look at him surprised. "Really?" He nods with a smile, before he holds you up with one arm and snap his fingers, a small blue butterfly flies onto your nose and you giggle from the warm feeling.

You become surprised when he pain faded away, smiling happy. "Thank you!" "No problem, my dear." The six youkai looking with half closed eyes to the direction where voices calling out, but they widen when they see the scared look on your face. " ... Do you want to go back to the priests?" The daitengu ask calm and you shake your head. "Th-They are scary. Every night they come into my room and petting my back and chest when they think I'm sleeping."

"Jyushimatsu, might wanna join me to slay-" But suddenly, your hears getting covered from the bake-danuki while the oni was talking. The inugami nods excited with a smile, before the two suddenly disappearing. 'Slay what? What does Oni-san mean?' The other four youkai starting to walk suddenly, while the ao andon continues to carry you. After a while, the hands getting removed and you can only hear the birds chirping and the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees. "What's your name?" The daitengu ask with a smile. "I-I'm Y/n." You say shyly, looking down and playing with your fingers. "That's a cute name. Mine is Todomatsu." The bake-danuki says with a cute smile. "Y-Your name is cute too." Todomatsu smiles amused and pet your head softly. "I'm Choromatsu." The daitengu says with a smile. "Ichimatsu." The kitsune says bored. "And my name is Karamatsu. The other two who left our group for a moment where Osomatsu, the oni, and Jyushimatsu, the inugami."

You nod with a smile, but hum when the other two coming back, but are confused when they have blood on their face and hands.