[center][h2]Story[/h2][/center]

	The world has been protected by the Kazahana Clan since before there were even accounts of history.  They have been protecting the world from the supernatural for as long as they can remember, exterminating yokai, demons, shoki/yoki deposits, ethereal beings, anything considered out of this world or just a part of some fairy tale and they intend to keep those things as fairy tales to the rest of the world.  The Kazahana Clan has always had a very high level of spiritual power and they used their vast abilities to protect the world.  To help the Kazahana Clan are Shikigami or familiars to help in their line of work.  Shikigami are created as the result of the ability to reach inside oneself and manifest a connection to the Shikigami destined for them.  Once the connection was established the person’s spiritual power and a part of their soul would fuse together, then the Shikigami’s form would manifest around the soul and combine into one.  The shikigami would always be a part of their creator; however a Shikigami itself comes with its own mind and personality and is not just a simple servant.  This is believed to occur because the Shikigami itself is pulled from its own Shikigami dimension and attaches to a compatible soul to manifest itself in the real world.  Once the Shikigami became a regular in the clan’s battle against unnatural forces they managed to force the enemy into a sort of confinement in their own dimension, leaving humanity to go on without worry, except for a few stragglers and monsters that managed to sneak back into the real world.  Thanks to the powers of the Kazahana Clan and its barriers, peace reigned in Japan for a time.
	
	Over the course of time the Kazahanas grew wealthy, gaining high status in the world and managed to fix fairly well in society, perhaps too well.  To ensure spiritual purity and for the clan’s powers to remain intact, marriage was to be between clan members only, hoping to keep the clan at peak integrity to protect the land, however, in roughly 1884, Tachibana Kazahana fell in love with a woman outside the clan and married her.  Other members followed soon after or much later, wanting to have the freedom to do whatever they wanted, as suspected, with those clan members their children had reduced powers, the pure blood of their ancestors being diminished with the blood of those with little or no power at all.  They considered banning them but it appeared that such a motion would be bad for the clan, destroying morale and alienating their own members, however they still couldn’t deny the fact that they were thinning the blood of the clan, so the Kazahana-branch family was formed for those who married outside of the clan.  Although technically still a part of the clan they were not given as many benefits as the main house.  The clan never fully recovered from its losses due to the result of the branch family forming.

	As of right now the Kazahana clan is lead by Asuka Kazahana, who fears that their decline in power will eventually incite ayashi and other beings to attempt to cross the dimension barrier and enter into the real world.  Even worse is the apparent creation of Yokai ‘Pocket Zones’, special dimensions set up in the real world like forts so that the supernatural creatures can hid in them and avoid detection.  If they don’t manage to stop the creation of such zones and exterminate them, they could soon have a major crisis on their hands.  Asuka decided that in order to protect their future it was needed to start training all possible Kazahanas in order to ensure their future; this included allowing branch members to call upon their own shikigami as well, as it is hard for branch-members to call upon them without the head family’s help.  The Kazahana family is in need of members and shikigami to help the world remain in balance.