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An opening between trees, just next to the route from the royal family's dwelling place. Far enough not to disturb their peace, close enough to be safe for them to reach it without enhanced protection. Neat short grass covers the ground, daisies growing scatter across the plain. The trees surround the opening circularly, but they're not thick, far from any forest, just few lovely-grown birch trees.

Aryanne arrived at the location while pulling her right hand out of her bag, knocking the dust of her hands as she walked to her captain and Hidenobu.
"Sorry for being late, had to find 2 bottles of liquor before the mission started. 1 of the bottles is for when the noble family wants something to drink and the other one is for my own arsenal of tricks."
When she was in front of Ookami-taichou and hidenobu she glanced for a moment at the fifth seath before speaking again.
"If you want taichou, i can wake him up more if he is still too sleepy for you since it seemed he rather liked it how i woke him up." Her voice had a sweetness in it as if she was implying something, just to see their reaction.
Her captain would probably show nothing on her face, which was something Aryanne tried to change. After all, what fun would it be if they got a stiff captain who never showed their feelings?

Chiyo simply nodded as Aryanne explained the background of her delay, aknowledging her presence and the unnecessary apologize. Her gaze still locked towards the east, face an expressionless mask, she replied to her suggestion. "I think that won't be neccessary, thank you, Shiro-san." She was still inspecting the horizon as the 4th seat announced that their arrival will be unseen from the ground. If one would be observing her closely, one could see that she rolled her easy before she regained the stoic stance, annoyed at the caprices of the nobility. "Is that so?" she mumbled indifferently. "Let us gain some height then," she added, and appeared on the top of the tallest tree there was.

Hidenobu merely shrugged his shoulders at the captain's question about any strange happenings. Lots of things he considered strange - including the manner he'd been thrown out of his beauty sleep not long ago - were not a surprise to the purple-haired captain, and many things he considered perfectly normal worried her as hell.
After the arrival of the other two squad members and the vice-captain's suggestion, he got up, but not showing any reaction, not even a slight feeling of unpleasantless at the memory of the pain he had been subjected to in the process of waking up. Instead, he smiled widely, his gaze playful, as if daring Aryanne. If she thought he'll jump up in fright at the mention of her torturous methods, she was greatly mistaken. He might have done so when she woke him up, when he was in shock - but now, it was different. Social relations and keeping the appearances were his domain, and he was the one who could keep on smiling if he had to even with his gut spilled across the ground.
For some reason, he had not noticed Reizara until that moment - probably he was too concentrated on keeping up his perfect smile. He turned to her, bowed slightly, and greeted her. "Lovely to see you, Fankial-san. You look gorgeous today." It was one of his classic casual comments he nearly always added to the greeting while meeting women, an old habit of his - which actually proved surprisingly effective. The Captains decision to move few feet up interrupted him, and without further ado, he followed, appearing swiftly in the highest branches of a tree nearest to Chiyo's and nearly as tall.

Sighing slowly about the quick change of place Aryanne went to the branches under Chiyo-taichou.
"You know captain, it would be a nice change if you showed more of your feelings and not being this stiff in how you show yourself. It would allow your squadmembers to read the mood you are in better and act accordingly to it so that one doesn't accidentally say's something that ensures you want him to be tortured or something like that. But if you prefer to stay this indifferent then i wouldn't mind it much, it'd be a little bit harder to recognize pranks and their effect but whatever right?"

Alex jumped between a few little queries about liquor, ensuring he came at least 10 to 20 minutes too late in comparison to the others for this mission.
Angel, do you know a way to increase my speed while using shunpo? Hmm, yes i do know a way... Use reishi to enhance your speed or use shikai to remove the friction. Both options didn't sound very good since shikai would mean that he had to explain why using it while there was no need for it while the reishi one would mean that he drained someone else their energy for his own speed...
After stopping in front of the gate that led to the valley of screams he took a deep breath, guessed how far it was from there and estimated the amount needed for the distance and started gathering the reishi.
When the gate was completely open and his charging was complete Alex relocated the extra force to his legs and eyes before going to the meetingspot, only stopping to look around and jump in the air for a branch in the same tree as hidenobu.
"Sorry i am late Taichou, got in a bit of a fight while i was going to the meeting-point."

Chiyo nodded absent-mindedly as Reizara announced the arrival of the royal family. She inclined her head in a simple bow, and instructed others to follow her example. "Keep your heads down, no eye contact. Don't speak unless adressed directly. Mind your manners. This goes for you as well, Shiro-san." Her instructions were brisque, hoarsly whispered under her breath. If she had time, she would probably say more to the bold vice-captain, but this was no time for such discussions.

Hidenobu's gaze was transfixed high up in the clouds, searching for members of the royal family, wondering if there are any cute girls among them. But as he heard Chiyo's orders, he instantly bowed his head down. She and the commander were the only two people he obeyed without question - the only two that gained his recpect to such level than his problems with authority were practically inexistent.

[edited - I was writing this post where there were two posts less on this page, just added a bit to fit]

"Why not place Alex with Hidenobu as they take the right side while the three of us take the left side?" There was something about the white-haired boy that seemed different from other shinigamie, besides how he looked that was. And if she could see him fight then maybe Aryanne could discover what it was.

"I think our fair captain can decide for herself who will be placed with who for this mission Reizara-san and Aryanne san right? After alll, she didn't get that rank out of sheer luck."

"Captain, which shiro to which side if i may ask?" Her voice was calm, too calm almost while both shiro's waited sitting on the branch for an answer. After all, they both had their last name as shiro, which was why they called the other by the surname instead of their last name.

Chiyo looked at Aryanne questioningly, as if she didn't believe what she had just been ask. "Shiro-san, meaning Aryanne Shiro to the left, and just Shiro, meaning Alex Shiro to the right." It was interesting how Chiyo always showed more respect to women, adressing even lower-ranked female officers with -san, and nearly all men except equal and higher-rank with only their last names. It was a habit that was easy to notice since she did that constantly, so Aryanne's question did surprise her slightly.