Takashi Natsume can see the spirits and demons that hide from the rest of humanity. He has always been set apart from other people because of his gift, drifting from relative to relative, never fitting in. Now he is a troubled high school student who has come to live in the small town where his grandmother grew up. And there he discovers that he has inherited more than just the Sight from the mysterious Reiko.

A beautiful white dragon has been shedding luminous scales in the skies over the neighborhood, but Natsume has never seen them land. When the mustachioed yokai Chobi breaks his beloved mother-of-pearl comb, Natsume decides one of the rare and lovely scales would make the perfect replacement! His quest to find one, however, ends up uncovering more than expected...