While on the run from a fearsome youkai, Natsume accidently sits on a tiny mushroom youkai.  The mushroom youkai is incensed, as it has a meeting with a 'noble person' later in that day.  It insists on Natsume helping it prepare for its meeting with this 'noble person', and Natsume finds himself drawn into the strange story of its past...
They'll appear on the other 
side of this bamboo stand soon.
El cortejo debería pasar pronto
por esta zona.
Logo, eles passarão atrás deste bambuzal.