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Mizu was happily enjoying the chat with Michiko at this point, when Suri came to offer them help. "No, thank you for the offer though. I think I can manage." She smiled politely at Suri.

She noticed Mock coming to sit beside them. She saw him holding a camera in his hand. It was second instinct to smile when a camera was being pointed at her. Mizu had only died two years ago, and was quite knowledgeable about electronics. The flash was a bit blinding. She hadn't been used to it for a long time now. As the flash went off, Mizu immediately sprang to her feet.

"OH YEAH! My room!" she exclaimed. She had still been blinded by the flash of the camera at this point, and she tripped over the leg of the coffee table that had been in front of them. She fell to the floor. When she fell, her dress folded over her, making it completely visible to see her pink lace undergarments. Her face turned a bright red. "Oops....I'm.....just going to go clean my room now......." Mizu pushed herself off the ground, and sprung up once more. She quickly dashed for the rooms upstairs.

Once she was in the beautiful hallway, she immediately noticed a picture of Tansen and a girl with blue hair standing next to him. "She...looks like.....me..... in a way, I guess. She remembered what she came to do upstairs. She entered the room, third from the left. As she peeked through the door, she saw a beautiful room, with peach-coloured walls, and red carpeting, giving it a royal feel to it.

The bed was to the right of the room, against the wall. It had satin, red covers, and a bed-veil hanging over top. To the far right, was an oak dresser, with a small, black television ontop. This seemed to be a quite modern house to it anyway. To the farthest wall, were glass doors, half covered by elegant red curtains. To the wall which the door was on, there was another door, that lead to the bathroom.

Mizu headed for he dresser. In the top drawers, she found large amounts of satin panties, in a variety of colours. In the drawers below, she found pairs of short-shorts, miniskirts, bras, shirts, and socks. She obviously had a large variety of clothes she could try on while she was here. I the very bottom drawer, she found towels, and shampoos to shower every-so often.

She pulled out a towel, to go put in the bathroom. As she pulled out the towel, she saw something below. She pulled it out. They were leather shorts, with fishnet stockings attatched to the very bottom. "I guess I can try these on some other time." She closed the drawer, and retrieved a blush-pink night dress, to sleep in. Mizu began to remove her clothes, sliding the dress she was currently wearing, down her body. She changed her underwear as well, and slipped on the night dress.

She had forgotten that the group had been waiting for some time now, and she headed back down the stairs, after flipping the lightswitch, and closing her door. When she got down, she hadn't noticed Tansen lying over Michiko. Mizu just decided to go sit on the couch she had been on earlier. Her foot got caught below Michiko's stomache, and Mizu tumbled forward over Tansen. She immediately got up, and dashed over to her couch. "I-I'm so sorry." She had a shocked look in her face, as she sat down. She blushed. Mizu had just fell over her Ex-Vice, so she just plainly, looked away.

Sure thing, Tansen-san!!!... Although Mock was a part of the Gotei 13, he somehow never got used to military ranks... So, calling someone by captain was a bit unsettling... He used the honorifics -chan and -kun a little too often!... He was a carefree individual, after all... He even use to call superiors in Seretei (those he new well, at least), by the honorific -san... Sometimes, that brought up conflicts with some people, but it was just his way...

This time, however, he did not wanted to mess things up! After all, this was an important mission!... So he used -sama, instead...

Mock was glad to know that he could address Tansen as Tansen-san!...

Okay people... If you all don't mind, I'm going outside for a while to smoke a cigarette... Mock said to everyone still remaining in the room, as he started rolling some tobacco leaves... I'll use this opportunity to do some guard duty... he said as he got up...

Before exiting the room, he looked back, over his shoulder... Don't mind me... I prefer sleeping outside anyway!!!... he said with his trademark smile... Old Rokongai habits tend to die hard!...

Mock noticed Toshiro's reiatsu as he passed near him and exited the mansion's premises... There's several barriers around this building... I guess it will be safe if I also take a stroll in the city... I want to take more pictures anyway!!! He said to himself while smiling...

MockaDash shumpoed to where Hitsugaya was Hi there!!! he said with a smile, after which he lighted his cigarette Do you mind if I join you for a walk???

After Mizu back through, and Tansen left, Michiko got up, and said, "Well, I'm finding myself somewhere as a room before I forget I guess." She didn't think she'd need one really, but it'd be good to have picked one in case of something. Careful not to trip again, she made her way to the staircase and ascended to the second floor, scarf trailing after her as always.

The second floor seemed eerily quiet to her after all the ruckus downstairs. Walking down the hallway she glanced into rooms, seeing most already tied for someone else's pick. Finally she came to a door on the end that seemed to be stuck. Struggling with the handle a bit Michiko finally unjammed it and slid it open, light filtering into the clouds of dust disheveled by her opening the door. Well obviously no one had come here yet.

Stepping into it she saw why. It was a storage closet of sorts, shelves on all sides, a small window at the back and a little bit of floor space in the middle. Stepping in, scarf over her mouth, Michiko rubbed some of the caked dust off the window, letting some more light in. As strange as it was, this reminded her a lot of the boat she and her parents lived on, and spotting a pile of old blankets on one shelf, she went to work at pulling them out and making the room into a makeshift sleeping area.

Mizu decided to go follow Michiko find a nice room. She climbed the stairs, trying to hide her underwear being seen from under her dress. She looked down the empy hall, and saw one of the doors open. She stood in the doorway. She saw all the dust, and the shelves, and Michiko, making a makeshift bed on the floor. She was apalled that she would even think of sleeping here.

She stood in the doorway, watching Michiko make a bed. Back when Mizu was living, she remembered now, that her room was quite large. She never did her bed, or cleaned everything. Watching Michiko willing to sleep here, made her look at Michiko as though she was stronger.

Mizu tapped Michiko on the shoulder. "Hey, you know, I'm sure Tansen has more rooms downstairs. Or, if you'd like, you can sleep in my room. I'm sure it would beat sleeping in a closet. It doesn't seem to suit you, sleeping in one." She smiled at Michiko, and picked up her blankets off the floor. "Your back is going to hurt, and I'm sure you need it, incase we get into any danger."

Mizu was reminded of her spar with Hitsugaya. She rememberd how it was one of her first fights, and Hitsugaya, practically let her win, by healing her, and not bothering to dodge some of her attacks. I'm sure it won't be like that now. We both have gotten much stronger, him specifically.

:Suri untangled her crossed legs and stood up gracefully. Most everyone had left. Mizu and Michiko were both upstairs finding rooms or settling in. Toshiro, Mocka, and Tansen had all gone to town. That left her, Razil, and Asuma still standing around. Casting a quick feel around the estate, Suri was sure that Mocka was not actually observing the guard duties that he had said he would do. In fact, he had left it up to the shields. It was no hassle though - Suri understood the excitement of being on Earth. She herself wanted to take a breath of fresh air outside.

Without commenting, Suri dashed back up to her room, taking the steps two at a time. She burst through the balcony doors, and with a effortless spring of her legs and an execution of a body flip mid-air, Suri landed on the roop. Finding the flat center, Suri sat down quietly, holding her zanpaku~to tight in her crossed arms. The hilt jutted over her left shoulder while the point dug into the ground between her legs.

Breathing deeply, Suri took in the scent of moist night air - Japan was still as humid as she ever remembered it to be. Though her past was not pleasant, there were things that Suri was fond of regardless, and the way the fresh air smelled was one of them. This was probably true since she had always had to sneak around to go outside, so it gave her a sense of unrestrained freedom.

"My bankai," Suri thought. "If I ever train there...I swear I will give myself wings from it. Somehow."

Watching a bird take flight from the treetops to her left, Suri whistled cheerily, sending out a tendril of friendly reiatsu. Chirruping, the bird landed softly on the top of Suri's hilt, its eyes gazing inquisitively into hers. Such a perfect night was rare to find.:

As minutes passed, Asuma could only sit and read the many books that were around him. In actuality, though, he wasn't really reading anything. All he could do was sit there and just stare at the pages, thinking to himself about what had happened in the past few days. His anger had subsided...for the moment, at least, and he wanted to keep it that way for as long as he could.

Getting up, Asuma's long blue coat dragged behind him as he walked out of the study, to the upstairs where a vacant room was. Walking inside one of the farthest down the hall, he walked inside, and stopped. Looking around, he could see the color of the walls were crimson, with golden, thin lines going down different parts of the walls. The bed was quite large, and the covers were crimson, as well as the pillow, and the bed itself was made of mahogany. "Looks like he saved no expense for this place..." There was a bookshelf, of course, stacked with too many books; some were even on the floor, as well as the desk next to it. Around the room, there were large curtains, one of which leading out to a balcony.

Walking outside, Asuma noticed that it had been longer than he thought it had been, sitting in that room alone. It was now night, and a nice one at that. Such nice nights in Seireitei were hard to find, especially when you had mounds of paperwork blocking the windows. Feeling a trace of reiatsu on the roof, Asuma turned around, disappearing from where he was, on the roof, to behind Suri. Looking up to the moon, Asuma could only stare at it. "A nice night, isn't it..." Walking forward, Asuma could only stare at the moon. It shined brightly, illuminating the whole mansion grounds in a pale light.

(( Will chicken teriyaki do??? It's one of my favorites xd ))