#natsume showing up at tanuma's house and seeing matoba there and they're both just [spiderman pointing meme]

[mayorofcattown]

I’ve seen quite a few different fics and such suggest the idea of tanuma’s dad having worked with the matoba’s before, and I’d never really thought too much abt it until now, seeing it again after having seen the [raws spoilers] chapter abt matoba and taki having already met, made me realise how insane that would actually be

putting this under a read more cause it got long lmao

like it makes total sense that tanuma’s dad would have dealings with exorcists given his work, and the matoba’s are basically the biggest exorcist family in the area, so it tracks. Idk if they’d sent out matoba himself to coordinate with some random monk, but tanuma could’ve at least met nanase if not matoba himself

but god there’s so much potential in this idea like can you imagine, there’s so many different ways it could go and they’re all hilarious. natsume just offhandedly mentions matoba’s name while telling tanuma abt some incident he had to handle with natori and tanuma just being like ‘oh matoba-san? that name sounds familiar, I think my dad once helped out an exorcist with that name’ and natsume just promptly has an aneurysm

or matoba coming over to tanuma’s house to work with his dad and mentioning to tanuma that he’s an exorcist, and tanuma without thinking just going ‘oh you’re an exorcist, do you know natori-san then?’ and now matoba’s the one having an aneurysm trying to figure out how he knows natori. like any other exorcist would be understandable, he’s the son of a monk its not surprising that he’d have met another exorcist before, but natori’s the one exorcist who’s trying to keep his identity a secret, so it’s unlikely he’d work with more civilian clients. so he very seriously turns and asks tanuma how he knows this and tanuma’s just like ‘oh yeah my friend knows him, we met once’ and matoba finally clicks and remembers he’s talking to a high school aged boy living in the same town as natsume, he’d just assumed tanuma’s powers were too weak to be relevant to that. he just straight up asks tanuma if his friend is ‘natsume-kun by any chance?’ and tanuma’s just :O

(and matoba of course bombards him with questions about his friendship with natsume. because of course he does)

tanuma tells natsume about this later and natsume is just frantic, making tanuma swear to never go near matoba again and insisting on walking Everyone with him to make sure nothing happens. honestly in the context of the suspicious visitor arc too tanuma would probably feel p bad abt this, like natsume’s just pushing him away again and not letting him get involved in youkai stuff, until he mentions it to nyanko and he’s just like ‘oh no you should stay out of it that guy’s a fucking dick, natume’s just worried that he’ll use you to try and blackmail him lol’

#the idea of like all of natsume's friends having known matoba this whole time is so funny #natsume showing up at tanuma's house and seeing matoba there and they're both just [spiderman pointing meme] #also you know upon hearing how intense matoba can be tanuma would joke that they're making it sound like matoba's going to kidnap him #at which point natsume goes very quiet and does not make eye contact #tanuma: please say sike #natsume yuujinchou #like realistically I don't think matoba would do anything to drastic cause he doesn't want to get murdered by natsume's youkai friends #but he would probably still be a little bitch about it #natsuyuu spoilers #natsuyuu manga spoilers