If you are otherwise unoccupied tonight, I would have you come to my home. It would be beneficial to follow up on the calligraphy lesson from last time.

[[An elegant violet box decorated with silver is delivered to Rukia's room. A card on a ribbon with Byakuya's unmistakeable writing states: To Rukia. May you have a most pleasant day. -Byakuya.
Inside is a lovely silk and paper wallscroll with a scene of small white rabbits in snowy fields.]]

[Private to Urahara-san (and back-timed to Wed afternoon, 'cause for sure he'd give more warning than this.XD) ]

Urahara Kisuke, I will accept your invitation for tea now. I have only a short time available to me. Let me know if Thursday 14th at noon would be acceptable.

[Private - The usual paper journal under lock and kidou]

( Unfavoured year, this is how you begin. )

[The following is shared with all the Captains who attended Ukitake's meeting:

-Byakuya sent out three of his seated officers to perform an experiment for him. The result was that the limb cut off from the monster reacted as normal against the Sekkiseki, which is to say that they repelled each other.
...So how did the things get in-The officers ( Read more... )

[Because Byakuya had his officers out looking for suspicious activity, he gets woken just after 2am on Jan 6 by a hell butterfly from his 6th Seat, Kimura Ren, reporting the slight earthquake ( Read more... )

[backdated to evening of Jan 1]
[After this lovely conversation with Gin, Byakuya follows his instincts to post the following:]

[Filtered to Sixth Division]Effective immediately and until further notice, all companies are to patrol Seireitei for any suspicious activity. Be attentive and report to your seated officer any unusual activity ( Read more... )

[This is timed forward to the morning of Jan. 1, but I'm posting now because Kohaku is paranoid anxious I'll be away until tomorrow afternoon ^.^o][This noble tradition of gift giving on New Years is meant to show appreciation to family, friends, bosses, and co-workers, in particular if any debt of gratitude is to be repaid. (Sometimes the gift is ( Read more... )

[Filtered to the Sixth Division]

This is a reminder that security rounds and regular duties will proceed as normally scheduled, including Friday January 1st. However, all training will end as usual on December 31 and will resume the morning of Saturday January 2nd ( Read more... )

[The usual. On paper, lock and kidou]

( Further betterment through training, and more fruits of research )