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Maikeru walked tiredly out onto the open field. He had been out on earth battling hollow after hollow for month upon month. He'd only come back from the assignment a few days ago and had arrived at the squad barracks to find it relatively abandoned. Life had been...Dull. For the first time in his life Maikeru was bored. But then miracle of miracles he had spotted Kasen. He hoped they would be able to have another spar. Their last had ended with Maikeru passing out from pain and exhaustion. He figured it would be another story this time. He wasn't sure if he would win, but he knew he would stand a chance. For one thing he knew Kasen's Shikai, Zaine and Takashi were the only ones with even a slight clue about Maikeru's.

He smiled as he fell backwards, his back straight as a plank. Right before his back and head crashed into the ground he stiffened the air beneath him with a quick flash of reiatsu and settle comfortably down. Laying unseen and smiling in the tall grass amid the fantastic smells, the sunlight and shadows playing across his face as the wind blew fitfully.

I wonder if Kasen will have the same idea? Will he appear here as well?

"Lazying Kasen? Why, would I do that? I assure you I undertaking a task of the utmost importance at this very instance. Assigned by the Central 46 themselves in fact..." His face broke into a smile as the facade cracked and he burst out into laughter, "Ahh, I couldn't keep it up, you have me nailed." The smile still plastered to his face Maikeru flipped up to his feet and picked a few pieces of grass off his uniform.

"Beautiful isn't it?"

Maikeru's eyes twinkled, it was ironic really. Kasen inquired about his progress with Shikai, asking if he had gone farther than combat with simple daggers, when his Shikai focused a good deal on daggers. Another bubble of laughter escaped his lips as he brushed a few stray strands of hair off his face. "Well, I certainly havn't gotten worse, but I'm warning you, I've gotten myself some mad skillz."

All of a sudden a small knife seemingly appeared from out of nowhere with absolutely nowhere, tumbling end over end on Maikeru's knuckles. His sleight-of-hand had improved drastically and it would seem like the knife had been present the entire time.

"Zaine did a pretty good job with me I must say." He loosened the ties at his neck keeping the clothing tight with the same hand tumbling the knife incessantly about, miraculously he wasn't cut. "So, how about it?"

"Well, something certainly can be said for devotion at that." Maikeru's eyebrow raised as Kasen raised his finger, waiting for a moment before firing off the Kido. His eyes had quickly traced the path the Kido would follow, and when he hear the number four he knew which it was, Byakurai.

"There once was a man from Calcutta," Maikeru ducked letting the Kido fly off to fizzle off into the distance, flinging the miniscule dagger as he ducked he continued, "His family was in such a flutter. " He twisted, staying low while spinning, two more knives quickly followed the first, "And when he came down, he said with a frown, Why! They all just turned to butter!" The two heavy and large daggers the length of his forearms were in his hands and he was rushing low to the ground, darting towards the purple-haired shinigami.

Maikeru laughed and began whistling a merry little tune as the blades changed course and whipped towards him. He shot to the side slightly, preceeding them on their path, and then leapt up, back flipping and twisting in the air. As he rotates his own large blades flashed out and severed the Bakudo where they gripped his knives. One quick revolution later his feet quickly snapped into each blade sending them back on their original path towards Kasen. They were accurate, though the spin was off so there was no guarantee if they would hit with the tip of the blade or the blunt pommel. He had been practicing before he left on his mission how to intercept high speed moving objects like that. It was jsut a plus he could look so cool while doing it.

"No worries, those may have been lost during delivery, but I'll send you a few more." Maikeru smiled from within the quickly expanding fog. He stood calmly for a few moments twirling the large daggers in his hands. He began slowly striding in the direction Kasen had been. After a few steps he broke into a trot, and from there a full sprint. He was at the edge of the still expanding fog in less than a few seconds. He could just barely see a horribly hazy outline in his vision. He smiled and skidded, his heels kicking up dust. A moment later he was flying into the air, out above the mist. He smiled down at Kasen as he flipped over head. As his revolution completed the sunlight glinted off the small weighted dagger Maikeru hadn't thrown, but just let go of. "Hado Number One, Sho." He smiled as the slowly falling dagger immediately shot towards Kasen with a small boom.

Right as he was about to land, but a few from the other shinigami he spoke again, "Bakudo Number Twenty-One, Sekienton." His ecstatic smile was quickly obscured by a thick smokescreen expelled from his dagger enclosing fists when they touched the ground. "My apologies," He said with a chuckle in the back of his throat, "Just thought you should know how it feels."

"But wait," he tilted his head quizzicaly, "it smells like you doesn't it?" He laughed good naturedly, "Sorry, I couldn't resist, they just come to me." Maikeru looked up in mock awe as Kasen passed over head, his blade flashing down seeking to carve into his flesh. He held his arms over his head, crossed his wrists, and subsequently crossed to two heavy daggers as well.

He crouched slightly as Kasen's blade wedged into the angle made by the crossing blades, the blows force distributing evenly among them, and then sprung upwards, jumping into Kasen's slash slightly. It should throw Kasen off balance and make is landing more sketchy.

He turned and darted towards his fellow shinigami, "Now now, I always picked you out as a more down to earth sort of fellow?" As he neared the shinigami after he landed he daggers began flashing about, numerous slashes and jabs intermingled with eachother in a general assault on Kasen's person.