In the "front yard" of Squad 5.

[Aoife]

(OOC:....If Kael hurts Abyss, Aoi will get really mad at him. Don't worry Aby, Aoi's shikai secretes the antidote. You are safe from Kael's poisons. XD)

Abyss was almost too fast for Aoife to follow. Well of course he is. He is the captain of this squad. He would have to be fast... she thought as he tried to confuse her.

 It was working pretty well, until he stopped and tried to punch her. Laughing because she was prepared for that, AOife was suddenly surprised when he kicked her feet out from underneath herself. She landed on her back with an OOF! and laid there for a second looking up at Abyss.


(OOC: If you want to end it after this, we can. If not I will change the ending part so that it continues. Its just she still has a lot more to learn and doesn't have many more tricks. >_<)

[Abyss]

Abyss stood there once Aoi fell down to the ground. He chuckled a bit then stuck out his hand to help Aoi up.

"Sorry 'bout that. You did really well. In fact, I'm pretty suprised at how well you did. I'm interested in those tricks that "can cut through bone and flesh easily". There's no way you'll be a 5th seat for long." Abyss said with a smile.

[Aoife]

Sighing, Aoife took Abyss' hand and he pulled her up. She brushed the dirt and debris off of herself and blushed as she explained to Abyss. "T-thank you, Abyss...Well that bone cutting isn't a trick, its just extremely thin wire made of a strong metal. Thats how I got this."

Aoi held up her right hand, showing him the bandages she had on her finger, and then pulled out a bundle of wire. "I was practicing with them and one little slip up cut it to the bone. They can cut through flesh and bone pretty easily and can even cut through some metal. I don't know where they came from or what metal they are made out of though. Kael brought these home for our birthday one year...I think I will stay a fifth seat, I don't really want to move up too much."

[Abyss]

"Well, if you say so." Abyss said. "Go ahead and take the rest of the day off if you want. It's not like there's too much to do right now anyway."

[Aoife]

"Okay, Si-I mean Abyss. If you need anything, just send a hell buterfly my way. Thank you again." Aoife bowed one more time, and then went over to the wall. Picking up her shinigami robes, she shook them out and then donned them again. She buckled Heisei back on her waist, and with a smile and a wave, she flash stepped away.

[Abyss]

Watching Aoi picking up all of her equipment reminded Abyss that Marzaryn was probably still flying through the Soul Soceity.

Too lazy to go around and find him, Abyss just flash stepped back into the barracks to his office.

[Aoife]

Aoife walked out of the gate, and onto the front yard of Squad 5... Or atleast what had been the front yard. There was just smoldering rubble now, and no more buildings. Aoife stood there and stared in shock.

[Abyss]

Abyss followed through the gate after Aoife. As he walked out, he surveyed the surrounding area and stopped in his tracks. He was propelled forward and walked to the pile of rubble and debris that was once the main building.

All he could do was stand there. It was like his vocal chords just stopped working. He stood there in silence.

[Aoife]

"...Hmm... It will have to be completely rebuilt." Aoife walked towards an area she vaguely recalled as being the main building. Her captain was just standing there, so she pushed him foreward a bit. "Come on, Sir! We have work to do."

Sighing at Abyss, Aoi headed for the rubble and started digging to see what she could salvage.

[Abyss]

Abyss wanted to scream. All of the years of leading over this squad, gone. The many memories he had in the building, gone. The only thing that was keeping him from doing so was Aoife.

He set aside the temptation and sighed.

Abyss turned around and began slowly walking away... As silently as he could, he was planning on running away from his work.

[Aoife]

Aoife turned around to ask her captain for help, as she had found it was too hard for her alone.... Abyss looked like he was trying to sneak off, so she tossed a rock at his head. Looking a bit irked, she glared at her captain. "...You are going to help me try and salvage things, Abyss? Why thank you."

[Abyss]

"Sure... just answer my own question..." Abyss said, before walking back to where he was standing and dropped down to his knees and began digging around in the dirt like Aoife was.

He sighed.

"So. What happened when the base was blown up? Did I miss anything good?"

[Aoife]

Aoife thought for a minute, "Hmm...except for the running for our lives, just a little bit. A red haired man showed up and attacked the demon, and held him off so we could get away...Uh, Captain Daigo lost his memory for a bit...that same red haired man killed a few CFs, fought another captain and then ran off... We went searching for survivors... I think thats it."

The digging was getting them nowhere. Sighing, Aoi stood up and dusted herself off. "We should probably send for a bunch of CFs to help get rid of this rubble..." She summoned a Hell Butterfly, and sent it to the other reconstruction area. She laughed at her captain, "Looks like you get off easy now, Sir. The CFs can do most of the hard work."

[Abyss]

Abyss jumped straight up as if he knew this would happen. He was about to say something, when he heard something behind him... and felt a familiar spiritual pressure. Suddenly, it was gone.

Abyss could've sworn he saw something flash from the corner of his eye. He was about to turn around when a small envelope dropped down from the sky.

Abyss knelt down and examined it. He was founded two words printed on the envelope. It read 'Captain Abyss'. Abyss knew who it was from just by looking at the handwriting.

He picked it up and put it in a pocket quickly, hoping Aoife didn't see anything.

Finally he said something out loud.

"It's not like there's a problem with using CF shinigami. I'm not the only one to use them."

[TMM]

As if on cue, the clearing team of bobs and workers came in and got to work. "The captain got your message and sent us, Miss Murahana." a worker said. "We'll get this mess cleared in no time." he said before they continued on.