Daisuke looked down at Nel and shrugged.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#804000">"I uh...don't really know,"</span>he chocked, then laughed a bit before continuing,<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#804000">"I mean, there's that guy uh...Ichigo, and he's been going to bat for breaking the mold.  He's gotta be the weirdest shinigami I've heard of, that's for sure.  Well, present company excluded,"</span>he commented, shifting Koichi a bit to make sure he was dragging too much.<br/><br/>He let the silence go for a second before continuing.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#804000">"Nah, what you should really worry about is yourself there.  We've got Koichi.  He started here, he'll be accepted here I'm sure.  But you?  Heh, just play nice and I'm sure things will go okay.  But try not to tick anyone off, okay?"</span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#804000"><i>You are so talking to the wrong chump,</i></span>Daisuke thought to himself,<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#804000"><i>I took a job as a tracker to avoid this crap.  I get to go off, chase after some idiot who broke the rules, and drag him back.  It means I don't have to deal with the bureaucratic morons as much.</i></span><br/><br/>--------------------<br/><br/>Jin stepped into the Squad 12 headquarters, which was also the headquarters of the R&D Department.  Taking a moment to enjoy being back on familiar grounds, Jin moved on to find his captain, Mayuri Kurotsuchi.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#008000"><i>Reporting that something he was personally working on was lost is not going to end pretty,</i></span>Jin thought dryly to himself.  Jin sagged a moment as he thought of how vicious his captain was.  While he was a brilliant genius, it seemed that genius had gone to his head.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#008000"><i>If the guy wasn't so arrogant, I'm sure he'd figure out it might be better for getting what you want if you showed a little courtesy once in a while.</i></span>