Shimizu Yuki, she of Love Mode. It's a manga about a family of onmyouji types who employ kotodama, the power of words to become reality, in order to bring misfortune on selected clients ('There's a lot of call for that sort of thing' one says casually.) Because using kotodama curses can or does recoil on the sender they have shikigami, in this case the classic made from paper ones, who take the hit for them and/or heal them when they're wounded. Healing takes the form of touching with a mucous membrane- OK, it's BL, deal- usually kissing except with the female onmyouji and her shikigami and we won't go there thanks very much, even if the mangaka does.
There are three onmyouji and three shikigami living in the branch house where our naive and domestically gifted half-blood hero shows up, but the oldest onmyouji and the youngest shikigami aren't paired up. The oldest guy- Waki- is the one who made the three shikigami (he's a paper master so-called) and he spends most of his time so far drinking sake and amusedly watching the world go by, except when he doesn't. The youngest shikigami has existential issues about what's he good for and why's he alive, partly the result of having no onmyouji to protect and partly because jeez, he's made of paper and can't forget it.
There are unexplained power issues and backstory going on in the family. The youngest onmyouji is supposed to be head of the house but he left home for reasons unknown so it's his older brother who runs the family (we must assume younger guy is legitimate and older guy is not) and older brother also angsts a lot and has a Kyoto-ben-I-think speaking shikigami, inherited from his grandfather, who also runs away from home for a bit. So. Like that.
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There are three onmyouji and three shikigami living in the branch house where our naive and domestically gifted half-blood hero shows up, but the oldest onmyouji and the youngest shikigami aren't paired up. The oldest guy- Waki- is the one who made the three shikigami (he's a paper master so-called) and he spends most of his time so far drinking sake and amusedly watching the world go by, except when he doesn't. The youngest shikigami has existential issues about what's he good for and why's he alive, partly the result of having no onmyouji to protect and partly because jeez, he's made of paper and can't forget it.
There are unexplained power issues and backstory going on in the family. The youngest onmyouji is supposed to be head of the house but he left home for reasons unknown so it's his older brother who runs the family (we must assume younger guy is legitimate and older guy is not) and older brother also angsts a lot and has a Kyoto-ben-I-think speaking shikigami, inherited from his grandfather, who also runs away from home for a bit. So. Like that.