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((Alder, I'm not Hinata crying ))

In a flash, Rei lost her bearings on the positions of all of Alder's spears aside two; one on the ground in front of them and the other in the air.
What the....? Rei made a slight exasperated sound. Yeah, like, I don't have enough to deal with already. Now we have to prepare for the attack by the other six spears without the faintest idea of where the heck they are! Yes, now that they couldn't detect the spears' riatsu any longer, the job of finding them in this smoke become considerably harder.
But what about the ones that she could feel?
Feeling stupid and amateur but left with no other choice, Rei bumped back to back against Sayuri.
"Yamazaki- san, I must first apologize to possess such horrible leadership skills." The silver eyed shinigami admitted with calm. "You are free to change my plan anytime you want, since it is an obviously simple and stupid one." A breath of sadness for that. "You shall use Hado #4, Byakurai, to attack the two spears that you could sense, which I think Alder- san did on purpose simply to taunt us. While I, on the other hand, try to locate the rest of the spears and protect us from them as best I can and try to somehow stop them." Yeah, such a good plan. Rei thought to herself sarcasticly.
"Bakudo #8, Seki." She said quietly, and a small, circular disk appeared on her left arm; it's not much of a protection, but it would have to do.

((I'm gonna be gone for a few days, so if any of you guys want to go on without me, it's ok.))

The dust had cleared now; Rei and Sayuri could see the full area now. All they would see is the point of the spear sticking out of the ground, since the other four surrounding it were carefully hidden in the ground. Thankfully, the day was cloudy, so the sun couldn't cast Alder's shadow onto the ground. This was useful now, because he could observe how these two fought without consuming much reiatsu.

Like all other Shinigami, he would run out eventually and be forced to come down. With the little amount of reiatsu it took to manipulate the spears, he estimated he could be up here for another twenty minutes to a half an hour, due to the amount of reiatsu he'd already consumed using kidou and the waves from his spears. Those same spears were now hidden in the ground, just waiting for Rei and Sayuri to attack.

(Yeah...I've been waiting for Sayuri to post, but it looks like we've lost her for a while. I'm going to cut the spar off here, since we aren't making any progress just sitting here.)

Suddenly, all five spears shot out of the ground, and headed straight for the now advancing Rei. As they did so, Alder flew down from his perch above the battle, and landed somewhere behind the line of trees bordering the training grounds. The spears were close to converging on Rei when they all froze.

"That'll be quite enough for today." Alder's voice sounded from behind the trees. He sealed his Zanpakuto and his reiatsu, leaving Rei with no further injury. As he stepped out from the trees, a grin was spread across his face; these two had performed well against 'five' opponents. "I must say that I'm impressed. While you two didn't team up as much as I would've liked to see, I really did enjoy the fact that you can survive well on your own. That'll be enough for today's spar. I'll be at the bar if you need me further." Alder said with a polite, yet playful laugh as he left the training grounds.

(Exit, Alder.)

((Sorry, I've been having computer problems for the last two weeks. I'm sorry for being an enconvience sweatdrop ))

Sayuri stood in shock as the spears came rushing towards Rei. The female shinigami wasn't quite prepared for the spears to appear, mush less attack. Sayuri bent in her knees and perpared to try to protect Rei from the spears sailing towards her, but suddenly the spears stopped.
Whats going on? Sayuri asked herself as Alder showed himself to the two female shinigamis. Quietly and still confused, Sayuri listened to the black-haired shinigami. As he left Sayuri gave a quick bow, then she turned towards Rei. "I'm fine, Rei-sama. Are you alright?" Sayuri asked smiling as she bowed towards Rei. "I want to thank you for everything... Without you I'd be dead!" Sayuri said happily to Rei. As she finished, Sayuri bowed again and then slowly walked off of the field.

(Exit)

Hiroko entered the training grounds, "MY GOD I'M SssOOOOOO BORED!" He swung the stick on his back, losing his balance and falling to the ground. "Ow. Being a shinigami sthucks when there is NOTHING to do." He held the stick above his head as it splintered away into a sword. "What is your name?" He spun it around as the wood returned to the sword. "FFFUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKK!" He blew against the mask covering his face and stared into space.

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Hiroko's eyes rolled upwards as a shadow blocked his vision. Double checking his mask he said, "Hello new friend, want to play?" His feet rolled over his chest and over his head before planting firmly into the ground, soon after the rest of his body rolled up with it, then he turned around. His eyes locked on her tattoo, "Cute tat." He sized her up before saying, "13 right?"

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Hiroko smirked, "Actually I was guessing your age, you seem awfully young to me." He took her hand as she spoke his name and uneasily said, "Hiroko or Hiro please, we are just meeting after all, but the real question is this, how exactly did you know my name? I've made it a rather good point to stay invisible, but then again I suppose you could know me for many things." He sighed, "So whats up with you Miss Sugihara, it is miss isn't it? I don't want some guy threatening me later."