Abe no Seimei Karen Aijo/Bond Story

*Abe no Seimei, an onmyoji of immense power, was feared by the people because of his birth. Nevertheless, he purged evil with a righteous heart in order to protect his country and people. From "YIN-YANG."*

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Bond Level 15 Talk
* Bond Level 30 Talk

Half Human, Half Fox

 **Karen:**Hmm, hmm...

 **Mahiru:**Karen-chan? What are you doing?

 **Karen:**I'm holding up my hands to the statue of the fox deity to see if it'll give me its power.

 **Mahiru:**Heh heh, well, I hope it works. The foxes here are guardians, right?

 **Karen:**Yeah, unlike a lot of shrines that have dog guardians, it's foxes here. The little red aprons make them look kinda mystical!

 **Mahiru:**I heard once that the animal statues at shrines are called "messengers," because they do the gods' bidding.

 **Karen:**Really? Mister Fox, make sure our wishes make it to the gods, okay?

 **Karen:**What did you wish for, Mahiru-chan?

 **Mahiru:**I wished for everyone's health. What about you?

 **Karen:**I told myself I'm gonna nail my performance for my assignment!

 **Mahiru:**I can't wait to see your Abe no Seimei.

 **Karen:**Thanks, Mahiru-chan.

 **Karen:**I admit I was surprised when the organizers picked me to play Abe no Seimei-san from "YIN-YANG"...

 **Karen:**But Seimei-san is a famous onmyoji hero! Michiru-chan gave a really cool performance as him last time, so this is gonna be a fun role.

 **Mahiru:**Mhmm. You mentioned how you practiced together the other day, too.

 **Karen:**Yeah! It was really fun...but something bugs me about Seimei-san having half fox blood...

 **Mahiru:**His father was a human and his mother was a white fox, right?

 **Karen:**Yeah. They say he doesn't have much human emotion because of his unique parentage, but...

 **Karen:**I don't really get the whole "no emotions" thing... Like, what, did he never get happy or sad?

 **Mahiru:**So you have to play an emotionless character and still make it appealing... That's a tough assignment.

 **Karen:**I thought if I went to a fox shrine, something might rub off on me, but I've got nothing.

 **Karen:**Hmmm, nope, can't think of anything. It wouldn't kill this fox god to lend me a hand—or a paw...

 **Mahiru:**Oh yeah, you know they have omikujis at the little shop over there, right?

 **Karen:**That's it! Let's go, Mahiru-chan!

 **Mahiru:**"Fox Omikuji." The container even looks like a little fox.

 **Karen:**Cool! All that fox power's bound to make the omikujis come true! Come on, let's draw some!

 **Mahiru:**Sure, of course.

***\*clatter\* \*clank\****

 **Mahiru:**Ooh, great fortune! What did you get, Karen-chan?

 **Karen:**Lucky! I got, let's see...

 **Karen:**Bad!? Come on!

 **Mahiru:**Welp, uh... Better luck next time. Wanna trade?

 **Karen:**Non, non, you drew that one fair and square. Besides, Seimei-san wouldn't let a bad fortune get to him!

***\*drip...\****

 **Karen:**Rain!? Is this because of the omikuji I drew!?

 **Karen:**Quick, let's go take shelter over there!

 **Mahiru:**Wait a second, Karen-chan! I have a...

 **Karen:**Aah! The raindrops are getting bigger! Hurry up, or we'll both get soaked!

 **Mahiru:**O-okay...!

 **Mahiru:**Whew... Good thing there was a place with a roof close by? ...Karen-chan?

 **Karen:**...Hey, Mahiru-chan. Onmyoji can make it rain, right? Do you think they can make it stop raining, too?

 **Mahiru:**Could Abe no Seimei have done it...?

 **Karen:****(Abe no Seimei)**
"Purify and cleanse with haste divine!"

***\*sssshhhhh...\****

 **Karen:**...Of course it wouldn't work!

 **Karen:**I'm sorry, Mahiru-chan. I could've stopped the rain if I was the real Seimei-san...

 **Mahiru:**Mm, but wouldn't onmyoji just be annoying if they kept messing with the weather because they felt like it?

 **Karen:**Urgh, you're right. Seimei-san wouldn't do that. Some onmyoji I am...

 **Mahiru:**Droughts and floods were national crises back then, so onmyoji prayers must have been really important.

 **Karen:**...You know, they could also use their powers to curse people and stuff, but Seimei-san only ever used his to help people, right?

 **Karen:**Would someone with no emotions really bother to do that? Now I'm getting even more confused!

 **Mahiru:**Oh, Karen-chan, look at that signboard! I think it might help.

 **Mahiru:**"Since antiquity, Japan has regarded foxes as divine, for they eat the rats that commonly disturb crops."

 **Mahiru:**"White foxes are considered particularly auspicious, bringing happiness to the populace, and are extolled at shrines to the fox deity as its messengers."

 **Karen:**So that's the kind of fox blood Seimei-san had! No wonder he became an onmyoji to help people!

 **Karen:**Mahiru-chan! It's all starting to click! I think Seimei-san was a really nice person!

 **Karen:**I'm sure that stuff about him having no human emotion was just because he was bad at showing it.

 **Mahiru:**Heehee, maybe you're right. So do you have an idea how to play him?

 **Karen:**Yeah! My Seimei-san's gonna have trouble showing his emotions, but he'll be super kind!

 **Mahiru:**Great! That sounds just like you. I'm sure it'll turn out great.

 **Karen:**All right! I'm gonna go home and practice till I drop!

 **Karen:**...Assuming the rain decides to stop sometime this century.

 **Mahiru:**Um, Karen-chan, you realize I have an umbrella, right?

 **Karen:**You do!? That's my Mahiru-chan♪

***\*swish\****

 **Mahiru:**It's a collapsible one, though. It might be a little small for two people...

 **Karen:**Don't mind me, coming through.

 **Mahiru:**Eep!

 **Mahiru:**K-Karen-chan! You're a little close!

 **Karen:**...? I kinda have to be, or I'll get wet.

 **Mahiru:**R-Right, of course...! We'd better go slow and watch our step.

 **Karen:**Hey, your shoulder's gonna get wet! Come on, get closer!

 **Mahiru:**O-Okay...

 **Karen:**Still, that great fortune you drew really isn't doing anything for you, huh?

 **Mahiru:**...You never know.

Seimei vs. Doman

 **Karen:**Hm hm hmm...♪

 **Hikari:**What's up, Karen?

 **Karen:**Oh, Hikari-chan! I needed a break from practice, so I thought I'd do some origami.

 **Karen:**Wanna join me? I'm pretty sure the book has instructions for a jellyfish, too.

 **Hikari:**...Interesting. Don't mind if I do.

 **Karen:**Awesome! Here's some blue paper. Perfect for jellyfish!

 **Hikari:**Thanks. But why origami, of all things?

 **Karen:**Michiru-chan gave me this when I went to Siegfeld for training a little while ago.

 **Hikari:**An origami person...?

 **Karen:**It's called a "yakko-san." She was like, "Isn't it cool? It's like a shikigami."

 **Hikari:**And shikigami are the familiars onmyoji use...

 **Karen:**Yeah, exactly! Michiru-chan says since Seimei-san was a really strong onmyoji, he had a ton of shikigami.

 **Karen:**Like, he'd throw a paper and it'd turn into a bird midair, or he'd cast a spell on a leaf and it'd crush a frog flat.

 **Hikari:**So onmyoji use paper as a medium for their powers... Sounds just like protective charms.

 **Karen:**Hey, you're right! Onmyoji sure are incredible if they can cause supernatural phenomena just by casting a spell on a flimsy little sheet of paper.

 **Karen:**I wish I could cast a spell on this origami to make it my shikigami...

 **Karen:**Let's see, fold on the line in the picture... Then mountain fold here... Mountain fold?

 **Karen:**Uhhh, which one's a mountain fold, again? It's not coming out like it's supposed to!

 **Hikari:**And you've done and redone it so many times, the paper's a mess...

 **Mahiru:**Well, you don't see this every day. Are you two doing origami?

 **Karen:**Mahiru-chaaan, help meee!

 **Hikari:**This is too hard...

 **Mahiru:**Here, let me see the book. Hmm, hmm...

 **Mahiru:**Karen-chan, give me that one you are working on. Do this, and...I think this?

 **Karen:**Ooh! You're amazing, Mahiru-chan!

 **Hikari:**You can even do origami...? I bow to you...

 **Mahiru:**I'm not that special... I'm just doing what the book says.

 **Karen:**Good, good! I'm always bad at reading instructions...

 **Mahiru:**Give me yours, too, Hikari-chan. See, it goes like this.

 **Hikari:**Are your fingers magic...?

 **Mahiru:**Ahaha. I remember my siblings said that a lot when I did origami with them, too.

 **Karen:**You should totally join us! Pretty please?

 **Mahiru:**Mm, sorry, Karen-chan. I'd love to hang out, but I was just on my way out to go shopping...

 **Karen:**Oh, that's too bad...

 **Karen:**Well, I'll do my origami just fine without you!

 **Hikari:**I won't let it beat me, either... I'll get a compliment from Mahiru if it's the last thing I do...

 **Mahiru:**Heehee, good luck. But make sure you clean up after yourself when you're done, okay?

**Karen & Hikari:**Okay!

 **Karen:**Uhhh, make a crease...then open and flatten...? What is this, a magic spell?

 **Hikari:**I messed up again...

 **Karen:**H-Hikari-chan, we're in trouble! Mahiru-chan's gonna be home any minute!

 **Karen:**And here we said we'd finish without her help...

 **Hikari:**If these were shikigami, we'd be horrible onmyoji...

 **Karen:**...! That's it!

 **Hikari:**...?

 **Abe no Seimei:**"Well, well, if it isn't Doman. What brings you to me today? Care to continue our battle from the other day?"

 **Ashiya Doman:**"I shan't forget the shame you caused me at court, Seimei... I know full well that when I guessed that the orange was in the chest, you were the one who turned it into a rat."

 **Abe no Seimei:**"Heh heh. I haven't a clue what you're talking about... What say we take a different tack today and pit our shikigami against each other?"

 **Ashiya Doman:**"Our shikigami, you say?"

 **Abe no Seimei:**"I have here a frog shikigami made of folded paper. It moves just as if it were alive, does it not?"

 **Ashiya Doman:**"Hmph. What child's play. I could do the same in my sleep."

 **Ashiya Doman:**"On Abiraunken Sowaka...! What do you think of my shikigami, Seimei?"

 **Abe no Seimei:**"A snake, so as to swallow my frog. Impressive, Doman."

 **Ashiya Doman:**"I have more, Seimei. Behold this crow. Is the beak not folded well?"

 **Abe no Seimei:**"I shan't be outdone. This shinigami is a fox, kin of my mother. You have no hope of matching the beauty of its tail."

 **Ashiya Doman:**"Heh heh... Haaahahaha! Impressive, Seimei."

 **Abe no Seimei:**"Heh heh, the same to you, Doman. Will you not use your prodigious talent to join me in safeguarding our land and her people?"

 **Hikari:**Thanks, Karen. That helped me finish my origami.

 **Karen:**No, I should be thanking you! I was really happy you played Doman for me!

 **Hikari:**Oh, it's nothing. I was just helping you practice...

 **Hikari:**Still, I never would've thought of acting and doing origami at the same time...

 **Karen:**I was just like, "I have to be confident, like when Seimei-san commands his shikigami," and it practically folded itself.

 **Hikari:**I guess we just couldn't get our heads in the game because we weren't confident in ourselves...

 **Mahiru:**Hey, guys, I'm home.

 **Karen:**Hey, Mahiru-chan! Check out all the stuff I folded!

 **Hikari:**Mine too. I did just as good as Karen.

 **Mahiru:**Ooh, look at all this! I'm very proud of you.

 **Mahiru:**I bought snacks to share with everyone, so how about the three of us get started a little early?

 **Karen:**Yippee! Thanks, Mahiru-chan.

 **Mahiru:**Give me a second and I'll get everything ready. You two clean up your stuff while you wait.

**Karen & Hikari:**Okay!

 **Karen:**Snack time, snack time♪ Boy, we folded a lot! A frog, a snake, a fox, and a crow!

 **Hikari:**Move your hands, not your mouth, Karen.

 **Karen:**Now that my shikigami and I have fought together, I'm starting to get attached to them... I think the frog is the one I'm proudest of.

 **Hikari:**My shikigami are cool too...

 **Mahiru:**Okay, I'm ready!

 **Mahiru:**...Is there a reason the table isn't any cleaner than it was a minute ago?

 **Karen:**M-Mahiru-chan! Ahaha, we kinda got carried away with round two of our origami battle...

 **Hikari:**It's the aftermath of the epic struggle between Seimei and Doman...

 **Mahiru:**Heeey! No snacks for either of you until you clean this table up!

 **Karen:**Aw, come on...

 **Mahiru:**Now, now. Karen-chan, you get the scissors. Hikari-chan, you get the leftover paper!

**Karen & Hikari:**Y-Yes, ma'am!

 **Karen:**Going to the fox shrine with Mahiru-chan helped me realize Seimei-san was a kind onmyoji. Thanks, Mahiru-chan!

 **Karen:**My origami session with Hikari-chan wasn't going so well at first...

 **Karen:**But once we turned it into an etude of Seimei and Doman showing off their shikigami, it all worked out!

 **Karen:**But we got so into the etude that we forgot about cleanup, and Mahiru-chan yelled at us. Oops...