Daisuke looked to Nel, unsure of how to respond.  Finally deciding its best to<i>not</i>, he shrugged with a slightly nervous smile.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#804000">"Heh, ya know, why don't you save that one for Koichi.  I'll let him explain that to you.  In the meantime, it looks like you're stuck with me,"</span>he chuckled.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#804000"><i>Not that I have a frickin' idea what I'm supposed to be doing here.  She's frickin' arrancar, and now I've gotta keep an eye on her.  If this goes south and she gets herself in some kinda trouble...</i></span><br/><br/>It wasn't that he thought she'd actively try to do something bad, but from his limited experience with her she seemed kinda...trouble prone.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#804000"><i>Then again, maybe that's Koichi's fault.  Copycat's always had a knack for trouble, maybe it's contagious.</i></span>Chuckling at his own thought, he turned his attention back outward and returned his gaze to Nel.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#804000">"Uh, I was gonna actually go and get cleaned up.  All that dust in Hueco Mundo gets in some mighty annoying places.  I guess I'll show you my quarters if you mind waiting there a moment.  I'm not really sure where else to let you sit while we wait for their reply.  I'm betting it's gonna be quick though."</span>He chuckled at the end in acknowledgment of the oddity of the situation.<br/><br/>-----------------<br/><br/>Jin thought of returning a glare to his captain, but decided it better to just ignore the man's discomforting disposition.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#008000">"I'm afraid your item was misplaced.  It seems the device interfered with our travel back to the Soul Society, and instead transported us to Hueco Mundo instead.  The man assigned to carry the device was eaten by a hollow that attacked us.  There was nothing we could do, and said hollow was subsequently destroyed to ensure no possibility of the device falling into the wrong hands.  In the ensuing chaos that sprung from our unexpected visit to Hueco Mundo, we lost a second team member as well."</span>The thoughts of the losses of two team members made the usually calm shinigami simmer slightly with anger.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#008000"><i>Things shouldn't have gone that way.  It was merely a recovery mission and he we are stumbling back in, two dead from the original team and an additional person recovered but severely wounded.</i></span><br/><br/>Returning to his report, Jin sighed slightly as he continued.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#008000">"In the end, I was lucky to make it out with the few I could.  All and all, the device was lost the moment we arrived in Hueco Mundo...sir."</span>The formality at the end was merely that...just a formality.  While he respected the man's genius, his attitude was quickly reminding Jin of why he avoided Division 12 Headquarters.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#008000"><i>This man should be glad I made it back, otherwise he'd surely be losing another team trying to figure out what happen to us.</i></span>