A report reads...<br/><br/><em>[4 months ago], an incident occurred in Nanakamichi, a village near the northwest borders of Soul Society.  An indeterminate number of hollows, which eye-witness accounts identified as Adjuchas, attacked.  Eight Shinigami were dispatched: Six members of Squad 4 with an escort of 4th and 5th seats from Squad 1.<br/>  Reports have addressed the need to improve response time and deployment expediency in the post-succession of new Captains.  The selection of Shinigami reflected our projections that the village would have been annihilated by our arrival.<br/>  A supplemental report will be filed regarding Squad 4's apprehension to receiving an escort from Squad 11.<br/>  Remarkably, the village was found intact.  The survivors said that one of the long time residents, a woman known as Shuna, had attacked the Hollows and destroyed them, but with weapons unlike anything the Seireitei had record of.  And as soon as this Shuna had done so, she had destroyed her dwelling and left.</em><br/><hr/><br/>Uako was sitting in one of the alley ways between the innumerable buildings of the Seireitei.  She was dressed in a commonplace black uniform, and her face was unlike her usual one.  In fact, even to those that knew Uako from the old days wouldn't be able to recognize her just now.  She kicked her legs out playfully from the block she was sitting on, munching on a sweet sort of pastry she had brought with her to celebrate.  That was the first of three objectives, done.<br/><br/>It had been easy to get to the records.  She knew exactly where they were, their security detail, their archiving system, their duplicate protocols, and even most of their retrieval personnel.  Impersonating one of the archiving team had been extremely easy.  It was a stroke of luck.  The squads changed constantly, but the overall management of the Gotei belonged to Gennryusai.  And that he had barely changed anything in over 500 years.<br/><br/>Not only had she found the records on the pseudonymed Shuna from that battle in Nanakamichi, but she'd taken everything else regarding the search for Uako Kinme.  Taking her file as Captain would have been silly, although it was fun to read.  But everything else from the time she'd left until now was in the folds of her uniform.  Except for the Nanakamichi report, which she was reading.  It was what had brought her here: an inexcusable incident that put her back in play.<br/>And it was pretty badly written, to be honest.  Most of the data was from terrified eye-witnesses that didn't know what they were looking for.  The report neglected to mention the way the Adjuchas had moved was extremely efficient, perhaps even organized.  Uako sighed slightly, missing the place that had been her home and her lab for almost 11 years.  But another bite of her pastry, and she was reminded that she had cause to celebrate.  Once she had gotten a chance to properly examine the secured bundle of papers in her hakama, she would have a big-ass bon-fire with her friends and loved ones!  And then there wouldn't be any files at all!<br/><br/>She slipped the paper back into her robe and finished her pastry, grinning cheerfully.  Her second priority was the fun one!  Bombing the bejeebus out of that talentless, morally-impaired little maggot who was running the 12th Squad.  Funnily, her face shifting method was a direct result of research done on his little turn-to-goo-and-run-away device.  She checked her visage.. yes, it had about 4 more hours before it began to fade significantly.. and walked back out into the open street of the Seireitei, moving towards the 12th squad barracks.<br/><br/>Another stroke of luck, really.  Mayuri had been requesting the Uako File pretty frequently, so there wasn't any suspicion at all that he'd want it now.  Not to mention that Mayuri was the kind that you didn't question.  She giggled to herself.  If all went as planned, not only would she kill Mayuri, but she'd make the documents look like they got lost in his care.  One stroke, and this whole mess could be buried.  As she moved forward, she felt like she could taste the freedom she was about to give herself.<br/><br/>..Of course, as she passed the Ninth Barracks, she was distracted by the curiosity of a new Captain in a full argument with himself.<br/><br/>"That.. That's fantastic!!" she laughed.  Alright, new plan!  She moved closer to the ninth barracks and, looking around to make sure she was unseen, pulled out a sheet of paper.  Checking it to make sure it had the right marks on the sides, she set it down and whispered: "go."  The sheet suddenly changed color and texture to match the ground.  And then, it began to crawl into the barracks, slowly climbing up to the window into the barracks, pursuing the captain.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> She called them Scuttlers</div><div class="spoiler_body">    A scuttler is a simple thing.  A paper-thin sheet with 130 centipede-like legs on the edges.  There are two kinds of legs: one of which has bristles that allow it to walk on any surface, and function as storage compartments for energy, memory, and program protocols.  The other kind of leg can detect surface color and texture at the tips, and have a series of fine hair follicles that can detect and transcribe sound waves in the air.  Done in tandem with the sheet itself, these can be remarkably accurate.  The sheet itself was the tricky part, but she finally was able to give it a chameleon quality, able to assume shapes, colors and textures of surfaces.  The devices are programed to move to windless, acoustic parts of a room and record for up to 8 hours, after which they move to hide under roof tiles for retrieval.  If apprehended, the sheets eject their legs and flutter uselessly to the floor, and for all intents and purposes look like a sheet of paper.<br/>  [edit] She was working to get it so the energy would cause them to burst into flames instead.<br/>  A mobile, camouflaged audio bug.<br/>  Sadly, the systems required to detect line of sight require a light source, so it can't detect if someone's watching it.<br/>  But the other applications are amazing..<br/>  </div></div><br/>Having done this, which really was another test in some ways, the disguised Uako maintained her course toward Barracks 12.<br/>1) Retrieve the Records.<br/>2) Gather intelligence regarding Hollows.<br/>3) Murder Mayuri.<br/><br/>It was going well, so far!