[h1][color=ed145b]Yukine[/color][/h1]

Though knowledge of yokai is a close-kept secret among only a small group of humans, perhaps it would not be so if people gave more heed to the stories told by the old folks of Kokona. Folk tales of kitsune are innumerable, but Kokona seems to have a few unique stories of its own. One old woman claims a white fox guided her out of the woods when she was lost as a child. Another old man tells the same story over and over about a woman he used to drink with. He swears he saw her disappear into the woods; everyone else swears he was drunk. Perhaps the only person who really knew the truth behind such tall tales was the three-tailed fox bathing in the sun in the courtyard of Obake Shrine. 

Yukine stretched and yawned, still in her fox form, as she awoke from her nap. She normally wasn't a morning person, but today was one day she didn't want to sleep in. The shrine was expecting a new group of Onmyouji today, and Yukine wanted to be there to meet them. She wondered what kind of people they would be. Perhaps the descendant of an Iga ninja... or maybe a tech-savvy inventor that would bring all kinds of new gadgets to the shrine. Her tails swished with excitement as she let her imagination get carried away. Of course, even if they were just relatively normal high-school students, that didn't mean they wouldn't be great people. More than anything, she was just eager to make some new friends, ones she didn't have to hide herself around and lie to. Perhaps she'd finally find an Onmyouji of her own among them.

She trotted up to the gate just in time to see Kyorinrin, their resident scholar, lecturing the newcomers about his books. Yukine giggled.
 [color=ed145b]"Now now, don't scare them away with all your rules, Kyo."[/color] It was a little habit of hers to truncate names to one or two syllables. Some people found it annoying, but those people were no fun and probably not ones she wanted to be around anyway. [color=ed145b]"You could at least tell them your name before you ramble on about your books."[/color] She gave the dragon a vulpine grin, which looked rather odd and unnatural in her fox form. Perhaps there was a bit of irony in the fact that she hadn't introduced herself yet, either. Then again, she wasn't talking to the group like he was.