~Jibaku-Pain of a bound soul.

shin concentrates...

"Same thing...it's weird. Should we go inside?"

'Drat,knew he'd say that.No helping it then.' With a heavy sigh she stop at huge window,all the glass has been broken off leaving a yawning black hole that could be used as entrance."Let's go in here.Er,why don't you guys go first."

shin somehow in his denial tone..


"Ah..okay..sure...of course we should...hehehe"

but he did go first still...

Jumping onto the window sill and then inside she lands lightly on the floor.The room is pitch dark except a small part of the light on the floor,where they're standing,coming from the broken window.Staying behind Shin she nervously looks around."I can't see a damn thing." Lifting a hand she concentrates her spirit energy onto the palm,creating a medium sized ball of it floating above her palm and giving of soft blueish light.Lifting her hand high and shining the light on the room it's revealed to be some kind of office.At least before the fire.Now the room is empty except for an overturned desk with walls scorched black and debris littering the floor,there's a door in a corner."This place is soo creepy."

Shiro slips into the building and moves through the darkened areas with ease. He turns to see Altria and snickers. "I don't know why you need a light. I can see perfectly in the dark." he smiles again. (shiro's eyes shine somewhat in the dark, but just faintly.)

"Oh shut up.Of course you can see in the dark.All Hollows can,they're natural night hunters.So excuse us for being more human like....jeez,you know your eyes are shining faintly,like a cat." Shivering slightly she takes one last look around the room and moves towards the door.Grasping the handle she pulls the door open,cringing as it gives a loud squeak,and peeks outside.Something dark falls from above and dangles in front of her held up by black strings."Gyah!" Jumping back she slams the door shut,mumbling."D-d-doll.."

Shiro snickers at altria's startled expression. "hee hee hee.... geez Altria, don't be such a scaredy-cat." ^^

Glowering at Shiro she slams a free hand into the wall,leaving a big dent."I am not a scary-cat!I just hate creepy stuff,alright." Mumbling something about how it's all Yueh's fault she wrings the door open again.There's nothing there."What the..I could have sworn..it was there just a moment ago.." Stepping out carefully she raises the hand with the glowing orb high in the air,looking around at the revealed surroundings.It seems to be a workplace,remains of cubicles still evident stretching towards the end of the big room and another door."..I hate this place,where's the stupid jibaku hiding.."

Shiro walks past Altria into the room and looks around. He pauses suddenly and turns to face the east wall. "Eh?" he squints his eyes trying to see what appears to be a doll hanging by a few black strings. "Hey.... wasn't that in front of the door when you opened it Altria?"

"Huh?"Walking up to the doll she examines it."Yeah..it dropped suddenly from the top of the door but what's it doing all the way here?" There's a sudden bang coming from behind the door at the end of the room,as if something fell over.Jumping up slightly and eying the door nervously she moves to stand closer to Shiro."Er..why don't you go first time and I'll follow?I've had enough jumping dolls.."

Shiro looks at Altria with a comforting gaze. "Alright... I'll go first..." Shiro walks towards the door and opens it. The room is empty except for some charred desks and broken machines. "seems alright..." he steps into the room and looks around. the ceiling above Altria starts to crack."!" Shiro turns around and tackles Altria just ast the ceiling above collapses.

shin sees the situation...

"Altria-san!..Shiro!"

he quickly gathers up his reiatsu to his hand and pointed it to the cracked parts falling ceiling...

"Hadou 54 - Haien"

shin though was only able to hit and incinerate some part of the falling ceiling but luckily it was those large cracked part of the ceiling that might've cause critical damages...

"whew...damn it...at least that would less the damage.."

A bit dazed after getting tackled she sits up,wiping the dust from her eyes.The place has fallen murky dark again as in her surprise the energy orb has died out."Thanks Shiro,that was too close for comfort,this place's literally falling apart.Nice idea with the hadou,Shin." Realizing there's now way for her to get up like that she sighs and looks to the side."By the way Shiro..could you please get off now?"

Shiro blushes slightly. "Oh! s-sorry." he gets up quickly and dusts himself off. "s-sorry... really." (he seems rather embarrassed.)

Turning a bit red she's glad it's dark.Getting up and dusting off clothes she mumbles,"No,no,it's fine.Thanks again." Making sure her face's not red anymore she raises a hand and concentrates spirit energy into it,recreating the glowing orb."Right,so...I'm still not feeling anything..no jibaku.."

Shiro squints his eyes at the sudden light. "gh! Altria..... I'm blind!" puts his arm up to shield his eyes

Uriko stumbles through the darkness. "EEk!" she trips and lands on the ground with a thud.

"Uwah,I'm sorry.Didn't mean tha-" There's an echoing sound from somewhere,something falling.Jumping slightly and glancing at the ceiling she moves closer to Shiro again.'Oh,yes.There's nothing creepy about this mission,damn liars,just wait till I get back.That jibaku like disappeared though the soul pager showed it here..wait,that's it!' Feeling around she finally pulls out a soul pager form a pocket."Here,this will show where that spirit is.And if jibaku's not around we're leaving.."

Thanks altria-san"

shin then wonders a bit feeling somehow annoyed that there's a possiblity that the mission would just be a waste of time...

"This is nothing like compare to our previous missions...i can't believe we're given this task to take care of.."

"Well,if there was a jibaku it could be dangerous.Never know when exactly he could turn and how powerful of a Hollow one can become.That said,if we came to this place and nearly got flattened for nothing I'm going to be seriously ticked off." Flipping the soul pager open and activating the program she looks at it in bewilderment."What the..that's impossible." Raising the glowing orb up high she looks around the empty room."The pager shows us surrounded..but there's nothing here!"

"What?!"

shin is surprise. he puts himself on guard and looks around.

"Seriously?"

Shiro closes his eyes and tries to sense around for the Jibaku's reiatsu. He picks up on uriko's reiatsu and a faint trail of the jibaku's reiatsu. ".... Well I'm definitely blind at the moment but I sense uriko over there," he points to the far wall, "and I definitely sense a semi-hollow like presence above us." he points towards the ceiling. "altria seriously could you dim that light a little? how can I help anybody if I can't see?" he crosses his arms somewhat annoyed.

"Semi hollow...?"

"and Uriko-san...where is she?"

"Sorry..it's basically my spirit energy solidified and this place is really creeping me out,hold on a sec.." Closing her eyes she takes a few deep breaths,the light flickers to a soft silvery glow."Alright.Semi-Hollow...so we're too late after all.That explains why the pager shows us surrounded.We have to get Uriko before it finishes reforming."

Shiro opens his eyes slowly, noticing that the light has dimmed he walks over to uriko and holds out his hand. "hey.... need some help?"