#urihime

[lisutarid-a]

I have to move forward, too. Overcome difficulties one by one. Continuing to strive to become the person I want to be.

[whosname]

[Id. Four Gintama x Natsume Yuujinchou panel comic. Gintoki arrives to a movie set with a delivery. He says, "I have an iced coffee for a Natori S.", to an assistant. On the back, Sasago, Hiiragi and Urihime inspect his moped. Hiiragi takes his helmet in her hands and Gintoki, looking back annoyed, says, "HEY!! Don't touch that!" The assistant, confused, asks him, "Who are you talking to?" Gintoki, very nervous, sweating, is surrounded by the shikis. Hiiragi tells him, "I don't think they can see us, Yorozuya." end id]

...an iced coffee for a [squints] Natori S.

[morimme]

"Have you heard? Young Natori got a shiki!"

[mojana]

Thinking about how in S3E7 Natori tells Sensei (while carrying him on his shoulder lmfao, sensei calls him shady then is totally glued to him) that the Matoba are collecting shiki as sacrifices. Then Sensei asks him "is that why you didnt bring yours along" and Natori is like. Obviously CAUGHT caring about yokai and just "well.. whatever tbh i just forgot to bring them" or something LMAOOOOO. It stings to know those 3 ( Urihime, Sasago and Hiiragi) are his only friends and theyre yokai and he doesnt want to admit how he feels abt them

[migila]

Dunno why but I just thought that Taki would get along with Sasago and Urihime like a house on fire.

[akabloom]

sometimes i just want them to be married again

[souenkun]

Sometimes I wonder why, exactly, did natori return to urihime, even though (1) she's a youkai, (2) it's confirmed early on during his first meetings with natsume (supposedly ~5 years after "a hand extended" took place in canon) that he still hated youkai at that point, and (3) he has no obligation to, especially after his arm was no longer cursed. Like, was there another factor contributing to it, aside from the kindness that natori actually inherently have (but had sadly not realized yet in his teenage years), and also him weighing on getting his own shiki?

These 4 panels might be the answer to that. Yes, urihime is born as the very same being that ruined natori's life, but she is also possibly the only one in his life back then who fully understood the weight of being hated so much for their presence and forsaken by everyone else because of it, to the point that one began to question why they were still alive after all that.

We also know that hiiragi was found in a similar situation (also a youkai who was forced to endure a life isolated in her own suffering, ready to let death take her when the chance was so near) until natori "saved" her again years later, even though natsume was the one who did the literal rescuing this time around. With this recurring theme, I wonder if natori had "saved" sasago too the same way, which would explain why his three shiki are so protective of him, even giving their all in doing so seemingly more out of love (judging from how they never want to leave him alone without at least one of them standing guard, or how they would jump to reassure him any chance they got), than because it was just their "duty" towards their master?

[airisu7425]

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