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((Just to be clear, and your post still works for it, he isn't throwing them at this point, but attacking melee style))

"Eh, here and there, you know." Maikeru continued his slashing advance on Kasen. He caught sight of the trail of glowing red cards just as the first was about to explode. "Bombs away," He laughed uproariously, "Nice one." He leaped forwards into the burgeoning explosion. The hot flames buffeted him and charred his clothing, but he ignored the pain of the minor burns as he continued his forward motion. A moment or two later he emerged from the flames, portions of his clothing still smoldering and on fire. Nonetheless are large impossible to miss smile dominated his face as he continued the assault on Kasen.

A moment later he backed off and skipped back a few feet. He planted his feet wide apart to the front and back, taking a ridiculously low stance with a dagger held to the front and the other to the back, his elbows bent. "Ready?"

Maikeru grinned and shot forward. His extremely low position and the nature of that particular stance gave him huge amounts of power and speed while sacrificing stability for things like blocking, luckily Maikeru didn't usually directly block strikes directed towards him.

He swept the leading dagger up intending to carve deeply into Kasen's flesh up the middle. He followed up with the rear dagger, twisting about and using the torque of the rotation to Bring that dagger crashing heavily into Kasen's sheath. Already, before that strike was completed the first dagger was slicing through the air towards his upper thighs.

"Eh, I thought about applying there first I'll admit, but they alway seemed so recalcitrant with their information, like they had something to hide. But Second division? Hiding something? I think not!" Maikeru laughed and his eyes widened in surprise as Kasen caught the dagger, that hand would be quite close to useless, he may still be able to use it, but with all the force that had been behind the strike many of the bones and tendons would be shorn and shattered. Even if he could garner and use from it, unless he had found a way to greatly lessen the force of the strike, the strength and dexterity of that hand would be severely reduced.

He shook his head out of it's reverie as Kasen was casting the Kido, "...Aiden." Aiden? What the hell is Aiden? He saw the electricity spark into the blade of the dagger and grimaced, this would hurt. He let go of the blade, pushing back with his legs as strongly as he could, but the electricity was faster than he at that distance, it breached the small gap he had left between himself and the dagger and shocked him, he felt as if his internal organs had been scorched on a backyard charcoal grill.

Are you finally going to give him what he wants?

And what would that be oh wise one?

Me, she muttered with a smile, show him me.

GODDAMNIT!! How the heck do you do that? You are a voice for goodness sake! How do you Smile?!?

Vin smiled again, Maikeru growled in frustration at his Zanpakuto he he sailed backwards, his legs still pedaling quickly. As he went he began throwing, first the other heavy dagger he held went strait for kasen. Next the smokebomb was dropped, to obscure his vision and in the next instant the air was filled with around twenty to twenty-four knives and darts Maikeru had sent sailing at different speeds and trajectories towards Kasen. Not all were aimed to hit, but if he dodged one, a new one would be on course immediately.

He skidded to a stop and tossed a few more knives up in the air, letting them thunk into the ground around him some distance away. "Ready to up the ante?" He was charged and in pain, and he felt as if he'd been charbroiled, he certainly had not been expecting that, but God did he feel good!

And then his Zanpakutou was in his hands, like it had always been there, seeminly flashing into existence in part thanks to Maikeru's quickly raising reiatsu levels, but mostly due to his skilled sleight-of-hand.

He held it in front of himself with one hand, twisting and twirling it slowly so it appeared as a slow moving silvery fan.

The explosion shattered the stream of flying blades into shards, each knife, dagger, and dart flew off on it's own trajectory scattering to the four winds. The last wisps of the smoke blew away and Maikeru saw Kasen bandaging himself. The last dagger thunked loudly into the ground a few feet behind Kasen, well loudly in comparison to the utter silence following the explosion he had set off.

"I'll take that as a yes." Maikeru's katana stopped it's slow revolutions and halted at a slight angle from being perpendicular to the ground. "You said you wanted to see my Shikai? Well Kasen, Vin would like to meet you as well." Maikeru's normally tame reiatsu exploded violently outwards, seemingly waves of a cool flowing mist exploding into motion and becoming visible to the naked eye at the same time. He let go of the blade and it remained in place carefully floating, bobbing slightly in the air, "Kiri Ni gōben kaisha, Vin." Actual mist exploded out of exactly nowhere, quickly obscuring Maikeru and the surrounding area in a thick dense fog. An instant later it was drawn back in as if sucked by a vacuum. Maikeru stood, the blade of his Zanpakuto shortened and the tip angled, six daggers mimicing the shape of the now shortened katana revolved slowly around Maikeru's sword hand. They all bore the characteristic black and white of Shikai.

Maikeru's eyes opened as the last bit of mist, real and reiatsu imitation, were pulled sharply back into the blades. Bold and bright blue lines led directly towards every metal source in his range...he still wasn't sure exactly how far that was. He smiled, noone else could see them, noone else could take advantage of the forces they controlled.

"Vin says hello."

Maikeru smiled ecstaticaly, this, was why he had gained Shikai. "Why yes, yes I have havn't I? Well how about that." Maikeru chuckled as Kasen clapped, this was going to be fun! He Pulled sharply on the spare katana Kasen had been using, it had flown several yards away during the blast. It quickly streaked through the air, point first, towards Maikeru. He stood calmly, nothing betraying his actions, not a twitch of a muscle or an extra ounce of reiatsu output from the slight effort. The blade sliced through the air towards him, he stopped Pulling and let it's momentum carry it the rest of the way. Before it impaled him upon it's length Maikeru snatched it out of the air by the hilt the instant before the sharp edge etched into his skin. He smiled again, albeit more with a more wolfish slant to it.

"Boo!" As he spoke he Pushed firmly on Kasen's Zanpakuto, some of the force dissipated as it was imbued with a large amount of reiatsu, but Kasen would still feel like a very large and strong man was shoving him backwards from the waist where his blade was anchored to his body.

Everyone always wondered what Maikeru's Zanpakuto did, not many figured it out, it had no overt signs, barely anything could give it away. Things seemingly just happened around him.

He laughed and leaped forwards towards Kasen, bringing his own blade to bear, the six daggers and short katana of his own Shikai anchored at his waist. He focused and Pushed extremely hard on a dart embedded in the ground behind him. His speed and momentum arubtly increased to a tremendous amount as he rocketed forwards, barely beneath Shunpo speed. He didn't swing the blade at all, just braced it, planning on using the momentum and force from his Push to slice Kasen in half. That was if it connected of course.

"Kasen, I normally don't reveal the powers of Vin here," He patted the blade at his side, "But seeing as how you were my first battle out of the academy I'll clue you in as long as you swear to not tell a soul, or lack of a soul, about it." He held the blade he had stolen from Kasen out in front of himself and let go, pulling his hand away. It simply floated in the air, calmly rotating slowly. "It gives me the ability to manipulate metal, know things about metal, that is the gist of it, Vin would kill me if I told you the specifics."

He Pushed the blade at Kasen as if to skewer him upon it, and then arubtly Pulled on it, stopping it quivering in midair a hair from Kasen's chest. "I'ts quite interesting what she has taught me to do with it, it is extremely versatile and powerful when used to correctly. Although, I must say, extreme dexterity and months of nonstop practice day and night was all that got me to this point." He Pulled and Pushed on separate ends of the katana, flipping it around almost instantly so the hilt was now facing Kasen. "I suggest you release your Shikai wolf, otherwise it'll be I carrying you to Squad Four this time."

"Hmm, very interesting, I never saw those. Impressive Kasen, but this isn't nearly over." Maikeru's Shikai floated calmly from it's place of rest, daggers and all, to his hand. "I said versatile for a reason, I don't need you to carry a sword for it to be useful." He smiled devilishly. He wouldn't hold back this time, Kasen could take care of himself, every time Maikeru had used his Shikai in the past he had held back for fear of hurting his sparring partner, the Wolf? Nah, he'd be fine.

Again with no sign visible to Kasen, no outpulse of reiatsu or anything, Maikeru Pulled on a dagger set into the ground behind Kasen. It slowly and silently lifted into the air, he Pushed and Pulled to rotate the tip towards his target, and Pulled. At that short of a distance (About five feet) the force and speed of the blade could severely injure him, and he would have no way of knowing it was on it's way. At the same time he Pushed one of the daggers made by his Shikai with even greater force towards Kasen, a simple pincer movement, though with deadly consequences.

((Just so you know, one of those daggers, the one being "dissolved" Is actually a part of the Shikai.))

Maikeru smiled, metal is metal after all. Then he frowned, that had been one of his favorites... "Hey! That wasn't cool man! Do you know how much it costs to get a knife that well balanced and well made? Not cool man! Not cool!" He suddenly smiled, "But I'll forgive you."

He Pulled on the hot melted-down dagger, each of the small glowing droplets of steel having it's own line. Each the size of a drop of water, moving at near the speed of a bullet, each of the hundreds of heated mettallic droplets sailed through the air at barely subsonic speeds towards Kasen's back, "Metal is metal is metal dearest." With that he Pushed even harder on the Shikai dagger now embedded in the claw formed around Kasen's hand, simultaneously Pushing against several knives in the ground behind him to transfer the weight of the earth itself into the dagger digging into Kasen's hand. He felt as if he was being crushed by an anvil on one side, but Kasen didn't weigh nearly as much in comparison, even when accounting for his momentum.