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Touoku Matsumori casually wandered his way over to his folding chain and plopped down onto it. With his arms over the back of the chair as he sat in a reversed position he reached into his clothing and retrieved a wooden block from within. With his other hand he pulled out the short knife kept solely for the purpose of carving, Touoku began another piece of artwork. This time he planed on creating a sparrow at rest. With his knife he slowly began chipping away at the top and sides of the block in his hands as he waited patiently for the members of his squad to arrive. "Lets hope none of my members have a severe punctuality problem. Being late on a continual basis can smear ones artistic presence in this world." He thought aloud before humming a very uppity tune as the wooden block began to ever so slightly resemble something more than just another lump of plant flesh.

Touoku noticed the change in his peripheral vision as he felt another come into the vicinity he currently occupied. His hands were delicately shaving thin strips that could nearly serve as paper from the chunk of oak in his hands. This pattern was not halted as the captain took his eyes from his current task to look at the first arrival. He claimed to be the ninth seat of the squad. “Mattias Onewada, so this is going to be the first example I get of my squad.” He thought as he took in as much detail about the person before him. Other than being polite and formal, this one seemed to have a very warm and welcoming expression painted within his face. Quickly after the introduction the man inquired about sitting in more comfortably, this was understandable, while a formal position looked nice when sitting, comfort in that position was hardly ever found. “Yes, feel free to sit as you like.” Touoku said casually to the ninth seat, his face still had shown no positive or negative emotion towards Mattias while observing him carefully. With a sharp click, the knife in his hands was folded shut then placed with the half finished artwork into his gi pocket. He then proceeded to place his clothed left and bare left arms on the chair back before him. With interlaced fingers serving as a chin rest, the green haired man introduced himself “Hello Mattias, I am Touoku Matsumori, the newly appointed captain.” As he said this a weak gust of wind caught the right half of his haori that hung down his back, rustling the white garment as though the air was restating the obvious fact in his prior sentence.

Touoku continued into his next sentence without taking much bother from his hair and clothing sent into a small flurry by the temporary wind. “So, since this is literally my first experience with this particular squad, how do you like the working of things here?” The curiosity was clear in his voice, however, his real intention was to test the boy via his reaction to the question. This information combined with what Touoku intended to organize throughout the course of this meeting would most likely determine what forms of art composed the ninth seat. With any luck, Touoku expected to see at least some good potential laying dormant within his spirit that could be refined into a brilliant masterpiece one day.

There was loud commotion going on already near the meeting's Office and things were even hectic today so this meant that 8th squad would be a lively like always. A young boy was heading down the hall with his hands placed loosely in his pockets so if he needed to use his hands he could just easily remove them without any hassle. He was young slick blue hair that was not too long but also not short at the same time while he wore his shingmani robe since he had pretty good. His attire was mainly of Blue and Black which followed along the lines of his fashion. Continuing his stroll though the halls of the building the loud noise and commotion only continued to get louder and now he could tell that it was mainly voices. He simply closed his eyes for a brief moment then a small smile grew on his face as his snickered under his breath from the lively folk. Shortly after he opened his eyes and almost headed into a wall since the hall moved in a curve for some odd reason regaining his composure he continued on.

Finally he reached the peak of all the loud noise and commotion which was the meeting's Office simply noticing that the Office door was already open he simply just sat in the brim of the door removing his right hand slowly from his pockets he simply placed it on the henge of the door revealing his Glove that. This boy was not much older than everyone present maybe even the same age as them. He mainly kept to himself just watching them all be in their own little zone until he decided to enter the room finally returning his right hand back into his pocket as he strolled his way into the room as well as the almost chaotic yet loving atmosphere that was in the room. He noticed that the New Captain had made his appearance and bowed in respect then addressed himself "Hello New Captain, I am Axel Ike but call me Ike-san. Tell me why does everyone accepted new captain of the squad 8 many times?" his calm tone was pleasant as he rose his head slowly he gave off a warm smile then awaited a reply from him.

Matthias slumped his head and his body started to shake lightly at first but the shake turned into a deep tremble. Then he picked his head up slowly when the light hit his face he had a very happy smile on his face." Sir I thin you and I are going to get along very well..." He stood replacing his Zonpakuto on his left hip and he walked over to Axel Ike until he was standing on his right side. His gaze never left the Captian,"So Ike are you fond of up close or long range? I prefer up close and personal." Matthias rested his right hand on his sword hilt. As he gazed into the Captains eyes waiting for Axel's answer He thought he would make it intresting,"Captain I would like to tell you the sword style I will be using, It is BattoJutsu. If you know what it means this will be fun if not I still get a fight."

Touoku did react to the word batto-jutsu, however his reaction was a grin that was lined with hints of devilish glee. "Oh good, this might not go dull after awhile!" He said with a slight snicker following his speech. In a very relaxed manner he took up a very basic combat stance, right foot forward and pointing in the direction of his two subordinates while the back foot was perpendicular to it's twin. "I want to see what you two can do first, so I will be the nage.*" He said as he raised his arms to complete his stance and took a slow deep breath as he awaited Ike and Matthias to move after their crude form of a strategy meeting took place.

*Nage - defender basically

(Forgive my minor delay and lack of content, Ive got a college paper on my mind that's keeping me from this)

Touoku stared at Matthias as he preformed a high jump that normally would send him over and well past the captain’s current spot. The guy definitely thought he was creative, but that was hardly enough to impress the man who had seen many things like this before. In his mind one of two scenarios were going to play out. One, Matthias would simply use this jump as a decoy and positioning movement to attack his opponent from the rear. Two, the shinigami would alter his weight when the moment permitted to potentially launch a strike from the air in attempt to be unique. Since he doubted the teamwork skills between the two he was facing, Touoku instantly rejected the first thought. This left an aerial assault coming his way from the shinigami as the only possible option. Sure enough, as he wrapped up his inner observations they were acted out about five feet above the captain’s head.

The fact that he was attacking with a nosedive as his only opening move set a small frown upon Touoku’s face. “Wow... I think I may have expected too much from him. And the other one doesn't want to go right now it seems.” He initially thought as the opponent started his downward fall. This was, in the captain’s mind, a very risky and practically useless first move. Since the 9th seat first didn’t use any sort of shunpo, his speed was slow to his opponent. Then there was the fact that the only thing supporting him on all sides was just air, meaning he had no real support from any retaliation in the sky.

As Matthias was opening his eyes and was still removing his sword three feet from Touoku’s verdant bangs, the captain was still watching his movements and began his counter before he could complete the action. The captain let loose a thin, weak, wave of his red orange reiatsu underneath his soles as he jumped to meet the man head on. “Try harder.” He said in a blunt tone, the expressionless stare on his face as he rose up and smacked his palm onto the hilt of his opponents sword. The force had the potential to knock the weapon back into it’s scabbard were it would remain harmless. As he preformed this motion he took his left hand and held right into Matthias’s face. A single word escaped his mouth as he was about to palm his subordinate in the face. “Shou!” The spell was launched from his left palm in a wave his red orange colored reiatsu. Granted the first kidou was fairly weak when normally used, but any captain level reiatsu would make that simple force into something to be reckoned with.

Touoku landed on the ground a good second before his subordinate hit it and continued to move farther away. He stood casually, not in any sort of formal stance, legs about shoulder width apart and hands at his sides. He almost flinched as he was reminded that this was his squad member, and he was his responsibility now. He took a stiff breath in and reminded himself to not be too harsh in this, it counted as training for the both of them. This was one of the few fights he had to be controlled in, a difficult thing to do for those inexperienced in it, and as of right now Touoku was by far the most inexperienced captain out of any current ones when it came to combat. He let the shinigami gather himself and try making another move against him. “Well he definitely wont give up fast... I think.” He thought as his opponent quickly rose and came at a slow pace before halting to speak. It was a strange sight to see the guy wielding a sword with the sheath still on it, probably meaning that this was going to be something not found in any text book so to speak.

Matthias spoke and flung his wrist at the captain, launching the saya on a crash course with his face right before sliding right into a combination attack to his knee. Casually Touoku took one step at a 45 degree angle forward, keeping his upper body right in line with his seated member. The Saya hit the right shoulder area of the captain and bounced off into the sky somewhere, causing no major damage right as Touoku pushed his palm out to reach the chest of Matthias before turning his entire upper body to match the angle of his feet. As he turned he intended to slam his subordinate in the chest with his hand and push him either away again or at the very least knock him off balance enough to ruin the kick that was avoided for now but still potentially able to hit him if his opponent knew what he was doing.

(Its alright, I understand. I have been working my butt off for finals on Thursday anyhow so I haven’t been posting anywhere much lately.)