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Humming a tune she couldn't remember the words to, Yumi wandered to the stairs to the basement of the house. Pausing a moment as she grabbed the rail along the staircase, she descended to the lower level of the building. The darkness was stifling, and reaching along the side of the wall her gloved hands sought out and found the light switch.

The walls were covered in weapons, armour, battle outfits, and all sorts of stuff Quincy over the years had kept. Yumi didn't know much about most of these things, and had used to have a fascination with them. Walking through the room she stopped at a shelf laden with spell tubes. Little instructions and incantations were listed near each as though a catalog. Taking one in hand she raised a brow, wondering how it worked. She'd seen others use these in the past but she herself had never tried. Biting her lip and glancing around, even though clearly no one was watching she snatched up 4 of the nearest ones, and tossed two in each of her side pockets on her cargo pants, with the incantations as well. They were worth a shot in a fix she guessed.

Turning and heading back towards the stairs she turned off the light and the Quincy gear was once again shrouded in the dark.

Walking up the stairs Yumi stopped dead in her tracks. As she had flicked off the lights she had definitely heard movement and a creak in the floor upstairs. An intruder... Clenching her hands into fists, she paused where she was for a moment. Then an ever so slight grin came to her face. This burglar or whatever he was picked the wrong home.

With out more than another step she disappeared, using hirenkyaku, and appeared in the hallway. No one was in sight, and going on the defensive Yumi raised her right arm and called out her sanrei bow in a flash, the royal blue and white frame constructing itself in a flash. Eyes darting about, she called out, "Show yourself!"

Sensing the danger in the building, Tansen quickly entered the Quincy mansion through the open door, making sure to keep his reiatsu hidden as he moved along. Sensing the two hostile reiatsu's, one of which he was familliar with, the young shinigami calmly Shunpo'd over behind the mysterious Quincy and lightly put his hand over the young man's spirit bow.

"...I wouldn't do that if I were you. Unless she's had a complete mood change in the last three years, you won't last five minutes against her."

Stepping back, the young man calmly placed his hand on the emerald green hilt of his Zanpakutou, though hoping that he wouldn' need it. Standing tall at 6'1 and with his Captain's hayori flapping behind him, Tansen tried not to look hostile as he raised his voice for Yumi to hear.

"Neither of us will give you any trouble, Yumi. So will you please come out? I need to speak with you, it's an emergency."

"Scum sounds about right for someone who just walks into someone's house and makes their self at home without even knocking. Where's common courtesy in this day and age, hmm?" Looking at the kid now he seemed close to her age, but had an odd foreign look to him. His expression didn't seem all that happy either. Too bad for him. At his words to the shinigami, she rolled her eyes. "Pfft."

Turning her attention back to the shinigami with the white hair once again, she listened, her bow still out as a precaution up she heard it all. Seems a lot more had happened in these quieter years than expected. She should have know, quiet was fine, but too quiet was never any good.

As he finished she let her bow's form dissipate, her sanrei glove returning to its normal form. "Sounds like the lot of you in Soul Society are in your fair share of hot water, so firstly, you're forgiven for also coming in without knocking," she said at first, raising a brow, trying to make sure her point came across as to why her defenses were lowered. "Now let's to say that I do this, what sort of forces are you to expect in the way of forces will be coming at us guarding these pillars? I'm all for protecting the citizens, but I could very well attempt that without joining your forces." Her hands went to her hips, and she leant to the left slightly. Her expression kept its raised brow and tight mouth. "Well?"

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Disregarding Yumi's comment about not knocking, Tansen unfolded his arms and let them fall to his sides, away from his sword so as not to appear shifty.

"Most of our forces will be concentrating on taking out the hollow leaders before they can do any severe damage, so the pillars will most likely be attacked by their subordinates. They are high-level arrancar, and not to be underestimated. The pillars will only have one guardian each, but they are highly skilled warriors capable of defeating most enemies under captain-class. As for you being able to protect them on your own..."

Tansen looked Yumi directly in the eye as he chose his words carefully. He wanted to be aboslutely sure that the bossy Quincy knew just how serious the battle to come would be, but also didn't want to lose a potential ally.

...Don't be ridiculous. This isn't a simple fight, it's a full out war. If we're to have any chance of protecting the citizens, we need to work together to protect those pillars from harm. This isn't the time to be letting your strength go to your head, or hesitate to act because who we are. The Quincy, the Shinigami, none of that matters right now. You're either willing to put your life on the line for this or not. There are going to be amny casualties in this war, all I'm asking is that you help keep the number to a minimum. Will you help us?"

Gritting her teeth a little as he spoke, Yumi betrayed nothing else on her outside, listening intent enough to catch every detail necessary. Despite her attitude, she did care to know about these things. She was mostly annoyed to have heard nothing of this situation for these years and have someone contact their faction out of the blue when they were on the brink of war. If they wanted allies they could have been proactive. Still, this was someone who came, though not in the most entreating fashion. As he spoke of her letting her strength go to her head her expression changed to one of a silent outrage, but she waited for him to finish.

"I'm honestly insulted at what you assume. You think what I said there was supposed to be a high and mighty haughtiness or what? I'm hearing you out, and weighing this fairly as anyone who's faction that has been left out of a loop and then suddenly told of a whole new disaster that's been years in the making right before the detonation goes off, I'd say!" She threw a punch at the wall beside her, letting the thud resound in the thin wall before continuing. "I understand the seriousness here, it it will let you shut up your self righteousness, I'll have you know I was more than ready to accept, I more doubt your trust in my strength. Our clan is deteriorated, so I have to strive for it despite everything else. There's you answer, and its only for the citizens, not you secretive shinigami," She retorted, face flushed red.

She ignore the lieutenant through the time she came in and onward, not in the mood to deal with another one who was only spewing the same nonsense.