Kekkaishi, Vol. 9

By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi" - a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families are feuding over who is the "true practitioner" of the art.

The three kekkaishi-in-arms - Tokine, Yoshimori, and Gen - are not getting along! So much so that Gen's sensei, Atora, challenges them to a task requiring real teamwork. Meanwhile, when the Kokuboro princess falls ill, the ayakashi pursue her cure in increasingly nefarious ways. Plus, Gen receives a strange gift from an enemy - one that may reveal something about himself that he would prefer not to know!