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Reikai hadn't planned on being this late but her overly helpful nature had gotten in the way while she had been making her way to the gates of the Gotei. Helping others was just something that she couldn't ignore. She breathed a sigh of relief when the entrance came into view and the small-framed shinigami quickened her steps when she caught sight of someone already standing there. She recognized him as the taichou of the ninth squad, and immediately her nervousness increased when it finally hit her how important this was... Shaking her head to clear all unnecessary thoughts away, Reikai approached the captain, a little out of breath, and bowed so low, any further her body might have done a full ninety degrees. "I apologize for my tardiness!" She said quickly. "My name is Ishimara Reikai. I'm here for the captaincy interview."

Reikai had straightened, squeezing her eyes shut and holding herself as closely as possible when she felt a gust of wind blow past her. Only when it stopped did she open her eyes and focus on another shinigami that wasn't her supposed interviewer. He was now standing at her right side as if nothing had happened, but she was sure something did just now. But she had closed her eyes and didn't know what exactly that something was.

"Yo, I hear you're still not feeling well so I'm here to take over for you." So he was going to interview her? Reikai felt as if she could relax a little. He sounded like a nice person; and for some reason she felt almost as if he was her brother. She shook her head, dark brown curls smacking her in the face to wake her up. How silly could she get? Of course he wasn't Kenji, they weren't even remotely alike! She let her eyes shyly turn to the tall male, and then realized his attention had turned to her as well. Now that she was looking at him properly, she could see more details that helped her determine what kind of person her interviewer was. His blue eyes seemed to almost sparkle in a way that only friendly people could pull off, and his smile was warm and inviting; in no way was he intimidating, and Reikai almost let her guard down too far. But then she remembered that he wasn't here to befriend her, and it came right back up again.

"You may call me Nagi." He spoke first, and Reikai nodded, forcing herself not to let her eyes linger on Nagi's fluttering right sleeve for too long ('Does he have only one arm...?' She wondered.). Seeing as he had come when she had already introduced herself to Zaine, and Nagi had come after she had done so, she decided to do so again in case he hadn't heard her name. "My name is Ishimara Reikai. It's nice to meet you." She replied with a shy smile of her own, careful to be polite and not too casual. "Let's go for a walk, shall we? It's been a while since I've been in the Seireitei. I'd enjoy it if you showed me around if it's not too much trouble. We can talk while we walk." He gestured for her to lead the way and she bowed a little; not the low one she did earlier, but just a short, upper-body one. "Hai!"

Hoping she wasn't out of line, she turned to Nagi. "Um...If you don't mind me asking...Where did you go outside the Seireitei?" She asked, a little timidly. "I haven't been outside the Seireitei in such a long time...I was just wondering...how it is out there..." She scratched the side of her face, with a small, sheepish smile.

“I haven’t been in Soul Society at all to tell you the truth.” Reikai listened eagerly as he described the living world. How she longed to return and see how her home had changed in the past years she had died. She had always entertained the fact that maybe she might even run into her brother during that time...that he probably hadn't died at all and was leading a perfectly normal life there. But she was too scared to find out if it was true as well. She was afraid she would get jealous and end up doing something that might hurt him. "Unfortunately, it’s no place for a shinigami to reside for very long.” Reikai nodded in agreement, although a little sadly. Still, she couldn't help but long to be able to see it again.

She waited a little to see if he could tell her anything else, but it seemed that their conversation on life outside the Seireitei stopped there. Reikai couldn't really recall most of her past from before she died anyways. The only clear thing she did remember was her missing brother. "Still, it sounds like a nice place to visit from time to time..." She replied, almost wistfully. But this wasn't the time to be remembering things like that. She mentally shook it off and returned to the conversation.

”So, what division have you been assigned to currently? What do you think of it?”

"I was assigned to the tenth division. It's a very friendly division." She smiled a little at the memory of her first years in the Seireitei. "Everyone is very optimistic and outgoing. Kokurongai-taichou is actually really, really kind, even though he doesn't usually act it." She still hadn't caught on that it was because she was still a girl, and Kokurongai Jakkuras, the tenth division captain, was more lenient with woman partially due to his belief of their stereotyped frailty. "I'm very grateful that they took me in...Or else I might have ended up in the fourth division." She smiled sheepishly. True, she had been completely useless back in the day, unseated and lacking a proper Shikai. So useless, she would've definitely ended up in Healing and Maintenance if it hadn't been for Kasen Tsuin, the tenth division third seat, who had toughened her up and taught Reikai how to master her Shikai. It had been too offense-based for the fourth division and so she ended up in the tenth division. The thought of her (maybe) soon to be former senpai made her flush a little. If she had enough guts to speak her opinions out loud, she would've said that Kasen deserved to be a captain too (or she was probably being biased because it was kind of obvious that she harbored a crush feeling of admiration and respect for him)...

"I'm sure there was a very good reason why you didn't go to the fourth division other than the fact that it's kinda lousy." At this Reikai started. She realized she had made it sound like the fourth division was a horrible place to be sent to. "A-ah, I didn't mean it like that!" She quickly corrected herself. "I only meant that I'm not really suited for healing and things like that. I think that the fourth division isn't all that bad, it's just not for me...I don't like the thought of being left behind when I know I can do something out there."

"Fortunately it sounds like you ended up in the right one." Reikai smiled. "Hai..." She believed she had been fortunate to have ended up in the tenth division like she did. She felt a little sad that she couldn't have applied for the tenth division captainy position, but she believed that the tenth division already had quite the capable captain already.

"So, in saying you love you division very much, how do you feel about leaving it in order to fulfill your duties to another division as a commissioned officer?"

Reikai smiled gently. "I would be lying if I said I didn't feel a little sad. However, if I've learned anything, it's that even in death, life goes on. Besides, it's not like I won't ever be able to see them again. My duties as a shinigami is to keep the balance between life and death as well as the extermination of Hollows. If having to transfer to another division allows me to be able to gain the strength necessary to do so, then I won't feel any regret. We're all working together anyways, right? I can still be able to fight by their side, even in a different division." She realized how serious she sounded and smiled a little to light the mood, not wanting to be too much like her brother. "I've been trained so that I can help others. Becoming a captain means I'll just have more responsibility to do so and it's the very least I can do after all everyone's done to help me grow stronger. That's why, it doesn't really matter to me, what division I'm in, as long as I'm able to be side by side with my comrades."

Reikai breathed easier knowing that her ideas weren't wrong. She was paying close attention to her words, doing her best not to sound too eager, or too reluctant; neither of which would help her with her nerves the slightest. “This is no good.” Reikai blinked as she realized they had come to a stop by a small stream that had cut through the yard that ran close to the tenth division. “Surely somebody might not notice this and fall. Perhaps if we were to fix it, someone might not be so unfortunate.” Immediately, Reikai had the urge to fix it herself, but then wondered if she would be being too rude by doing so in the middle of her interview. Reikai decided it was and stood by politely as the navy-haired shinigami reached down to picked up a splinter. Maybe once the interview was over, she could do a double-back and come back to this spot...

”You may already know, that every structure here is made out of spiritron molecules.” Reikai glanced up at Nagi curiously, wondering where this conversation was going, and partially hoping it was what she thought it was. Reikai didn't know whether to call it being a perfectionist, or maybe she just had an OCD for seeing things neat and finished. "One with the ability may be able to manipulate them, much like the riatsu within ourselves." Reikai fidgeted with her fingers a little.

"If you were confident in your ability to focus your riatsu, how do you think we should go about fixing this railing?”

Reikai's eyes sparkled as she didn't even have to wait for Nagi to finish speaking before accepting the fragment from him. She wasted no time in pushing up the sleeves of her shihakushō from her forearms and dropping to a crouch so that she was face to face with the broken part of the railing. Sensing reiatsu and reiryoku was her specialty; and everything had a distinct reiatsu. She had yet to find two of the exact same of either. She frowned a little as she touched the railing. "Most of the original pieces have already gone downstream..." She murmured, only feeling faint traces of them left. "But I can still use the ones here." Freeing some of her reiryoku flow, which then turned into reiatsu, she felt for the pieces that were still within reach and, implementing a little of her own with the particles so they wouldn't be completely alien to control, proceeded to reconstruct the fracture, momentarily forgetting about her companion.

Luckily, the broken part was small, and as ever helpful as Reikai was, she wasn't confident in fixing anything bigger than a crack or a fissure. But it was a start; controlling reiatsu outside of her may not have been one of her stronger points, but she tried.

The fractured railing was no more by the time Reikai straightened again, letting the sleeves roll back to cover her wrists. She was blushing a little, realizing how strange she must have seemed, being so eager to help like that, as well as forgetting that Nagi was with her. "Please excuse me..." She smiled sheepishly. "I can't really help myself when I see things like that...It bothers me not to do anything about them..."

[ [ I hope I did this part correctly o.o ] ]

"No apologies needed. If you felt that it had to be done, then it had to be done." Reikai smiled a little shyly. At least he didn't think she was strange...She could kind of tell from his tone. She wondered if Nagi had been a captain before... "However, once you're a captain, ensure that your division picks up the menial work like this. You'll have much bigger matters to worry about." Reikai nodded. "Hai. I understand." She had seen how much work Jakkuras-taichou usually had...especially the paperwork. She mentally grimaced as she remembered the stacks and stacks of them whenever she had to report to the tenth division captain.

But she had come this far and was willing to push on through with sheer determination if she had to.

"It looks great. You did a wonderful job." They had come back to the topic of the fixed railing, and Reikai blushed at the compliment. "Th-thank you..." She half-mumbled, not really used to getting compliments.

"Now then, shall we proceed? I think I know where I'm at but I haven't been over here too much in the past. Can you tell me where we are and what makes it stand out to you?"

Now that Reikai actually looked around her, she made a small sound of realization where they were. "This is the tenth division." She explained. "It's usually most noticeable by the surrounding forests...Most of it is the training grounds, and deeper in is, um...'God's Pubes'. It's a kind of...special...mobile...forest..." She really didn't know how else to describe it...It was kind of scary if you wandered in. You'd get lost forever, most likely, what with all the rearranging and regenerating plants..."And beyond the forest just over there is Crater Mountain, which is the special training grounds." She then turned her attention to the surrounding area. "Most of the area around the tenth division is a field, usually training area for anyone who doesn't want to risk God's Pubes or go as far as Crater Mountain." And where she had been seen usually. "Other than that, we just have normal barracks and buildings."

“You have a beautiful division.” Reikai beamed and nodded enthusiastically. She certainly agreed. Even though it was kind of plain with just a basic militaristic style, she found it quite nice, actually. Everything was natural; there were no strange buildings or elaborate gardens, but Reikai didn't mind.

“Your captain has certainly taken care of it. When you get your own area to look after, do you think it’ll be this nice?”

Reikai hummed thoughtfully. "Actually...I hope I can make it even better." She replied. "I don't want to just stick with what I've been given. I would want to make the division a place where anyone could feel comfortable in, and something that reflects the division as a whole." She clasped her hands together in front of her. "Nagi-san, if I may..." She played with her fingers a little. "What was your division...before going to Earth?" She wondered what the Seireitei was like during Nagi's time...