Welcome to Gaia! ::

Hikari nodded understanding what he meant.
"Well you're half-right," she said. "Even if they didn't believe you. Looks like the ability to walk still eludes me."
Stop being an ingrate and thank him for carrying you around, the Presence commanded.
Yes, O master, Hikari replied sarcastically.
But of course she thanked Maximoru again. She even went so far as to explain what the second thanks was for.
"I didn't realize 11th was so far away from 12th," Hikari muttered. "We sure are taking longer than I thought we would. Oh and that's a rather interesting nickname. Care to explain?"

Hikari paled as he explained. And then laughed when she realized he was joking. At least, that's what she hoped.
"11th may be the Gotei 13's hotheads but we're still smart," she protested. "But that's pretty interesting that people think that. Do you really have that ability?"
She fell as they rounded the final corner.
"Oh wow, we're here," she said. The entranceway bringing back memories. Meeting Slash, training with him, getting hurt and then healed. Hearing the Presence, punching a tree and meeting Tenrai. It all happened in this squad. Her friends were here.
Hikari laughed and glanced up at Maximoru.
"It's amazing what one place can do to a person. Thanks," she said. "Do you think you could take me to my captain's office? I should let him know I'm back and I should meet him."

Sighing lightly, Maxi smiles despite himself and wanders into the entrance for 11th, "You know what lets go the quick way." And with that they both become encompassed in a light of pale green, then slowly start to fade away, "Try not to get sick while we do this ok?"

{Exit to captains office}

In a blink of an eye, Eme had arrived. She slid along the ground until she was in front of her old mentor, smirking a little. She tapped her shoes a little to kick off the dust. There was no sound or visible trail to show her movements until a few seconds later a slight gust of wind blew forth from her direction. She smirked and viewed upon the gate.

"I wanted to make sure you weren't gonna sneak back to fight that privaron. Shukuchi got me here fast enough." She smiled, referring to her movement technique she learned from Fefnir-taicho.

"If you may, Asuma-sensei." She said, bowing slightly, motioning for him to go through and that she would follow.

"I'm kinda surprised the hollow haven't found the gate. I figured it'd be destroyed or something.

A small circle of metal opens beside the left leg of the gate, followed by a 5 foot poll sliding up behind it and snapping into place. A light whirling can be heard along with the sound of someone whistling Green Sleeves, as a small platform rises slowly to the surface. As his unruly hair slips into view, Maximoru shifts to humming and quickly glances around then brings the platform to a stop as it finishes it ascent.

Stepping from the metal disc and watching as it returns to its original spot at the bottom of the shaft, Maxi suddenly glances off in the general direction of squad nine, as if sensing something nostalgic in the air, before turning his attention to the recently used gate and checking to make sure the protection he had set up in this new gate had keep out the arrancar as it was designed. Seeing that a Vice level person had used it and had not been followed by hollows, Maxi assumed his new software was working and looked to the sky.

Glancing down as Drift arrives, Maxi tries to remember the last time they met, and as flashes of the dessert fill his mind he smirks and nods silently to the question. "Hey Drift, its been a while. You sure picked a hell of a time to come visit me."

He smirks as he pushed a large clump of hair out of his face, letting it fall over his head and almost to the ground. "So what can I do for you my old friend?" His question warm but slightly rough due to the last year of not talking.