Keep them safe.~Side-mission 1A.~

Some one watches from a nearby tree, and stares at shiro with interest.

"^^ hm.... well done.... Shiro-sama."

Running a hand over her zanpakuto she murmurs,"Hide away into the clouds,Tsukiyomi." It glows faintly before returning to unreleased state.Sheathing it she walks towards the bracelet and picks it up.

"??" Stares at the bracelet. "an amethyst?"

~Nearby.~
Watching the fight,she leans against a tree."Hm..strange,what happened to his powers?They were different before."

Inspecting the bracelet she runs a finger over the stone."That's what it looks like.The Urame guy dropped it.Why did he attack us in the first place?Nice fight by the way."

shin runs to them, with confusion..

"What is that?"

Shiro stares at altria, his expression is unusually calm.

Uriko goes over to Altria, and looks at the bracelet in her hand.

"??? um...... o-oneesan?..... m-may I.... see that?" uriko has a nervous look on her face.

shin noticed uriko's expression..

"What's going on uriko? Is it something relevant?"

"I....... I'm not sure........ but.... It looks...... familiar........" uriko continues to stare at the bracelet with confusion. (In thought) '??? it looks so familiar...... but i can't remember where i've seen it.............' uriko looks more confused.

Shiro turns and walks a little ways away. His flaming wings wrap around him and then disintagrate into a haze of blue embers. Shiro returns to his usual self, his sword reappears in his hand and sheaths it.

"phew.......... That took a lot out of me........" shiro seems wobbly and unstable, he walks a few steps back towards the other then drops to the ground.

"ZzzzzzzzZzzzzz........zzzzzzzzzzzZzz..........."

"Here Uriko,keep it.But be careful,if it's important he might come back for it." Handing Uriko the bracelet she walks toward sleeping Shiro.There's a sudden stabbing pain along her back.Biting her lip she reaches a hand and carefully touches there,it comes back covered in blood.'Drat,I forgot about the wound there.' Sitting down on the ground she tries to gather enough spirit energy to the wound to stop the bleeding.

Shiro twitches slightly, but remains asleep. 'zzzzzzzZZzzzz.......zzZZzzzzz...'

shin sits and rest as the wounds still hurts even they're already healed...

(in thought)
"It's been awhile since the last I was in battle..whew..I still need experience.."

Uriko accepts the bracelet, then notices the wound on Altria's back. "!? o-oneesan?" she goes over to altria and kneels down next to her and uses one of her more potent healing techniques.

Feeling the pain receed as the wound closes she smiles gratefully,"Thank you Uriko.I couldn't heal it for some reason.That Urame guy was a fast one,seems I need to train more."

Uriko stops after the wound closes and then looks at the bracelet carefully.
"?? eh?" her eyes widen with surprise. "I... I remember this bracelet......." She looks up at altria when she said 'Urame'. "U-Urame.......... !! I know that name......" Uriko's eyes have a strange glint in them. "Mikiru......... Urame...... " her voice trails off and seems a little distant.

Looks at Uriko in surprise,"Eh?You know this person?From where?"

Uriko stands up and turns away, a tear rolls down her face.
"....yes...... I know him..... he.... we were best friends....." she pauses her voice wavers with sadness. "until... he disappeared one day........ " her voice drops to a whisper. 'but..... why.... he's not the mikiru.... i remember....'

shiro stirs slightly then looks up after blinking awake.
"uhng.... Altria?" (he's still half asleep)

stands up and went to uriko..

"Wait...if you guys knew each other, he should've talked to you or something. when did you guys last saw each other?"

"Shiro,awake finally are we.Looks like you used too much power." Getting up with slight difficulty she takes a few steps to stand near Uriko."I'm sorry that your meeting was..well,like this.There must be some..reason for his change.."

shin then turns to somehow a sad look..

"And he's really really strong...i couldn't even take a chance in..."

then he shakes his head off trying to forget it...

"By the way, if he's your friend, why the hell is he attacking us?"

"Not to mention fast.Couldn't get a strike in either.If he's attacking then.." Falling silent she thinks it over.'If he's attacking us,shinigami,that would make him a..traitor to Seireitei.The strange looking senkaimon he opened..there's no way that leads to SS,but then where?This doesn't look good.'

Shiro stands up and is still off balance. 'oi..... what's going on?' he looks at uriko with a questioning look. 'hmmm..'