SCIENCE PROJECT

**Date Started:** January 1, 2022
**Date Completed:** Ongoing
**Next Role-Play**: N/A
**Users Involved:** User:EmperorSigma, User:Nearó\_Unlimited
**Setting:** Seireitei,
**Characters Involved**:
* **Gotei 13:** Tsuyuri Yamakage, Asura Hashimoto, Yoshino Jūsuke, Samasu Jū
* **Other:**
* **Mentioned:**

## FINDINGS

A few days following the meeting of the Gotei 13 captains, Tsuyuri Yamakage finally made the full transition to her role as the acting captain of the Twelfth Division. It was thrown around during the meeting, with a few of the slick words she said, that she was going to be the one who filled the void of that role. Tsunayoshi had practically been pleasing for her to join the Gotei 13 for years and now everything seemed to have finally fallen in line the way he wanted.

She stood within the S.R.D.I and looked to the many scientist and Twelfth Division members. Each face was unique and each person was different. The building was the perfect place to play around with many different possibilities. She flagged her arms up and held out the haori that bore the insignia of the Twelfth Division before flinging it over her shoulders, this was the final ritual needed in oder for her to *properly* assume her role.

"I am aware none of you know me, but I feel as though that'll make this journey, for what it is, all the more better." Her smile couldn't get any bigger, "My name is Tsuyuri Yamakage. I don't have a resume or any fancy gadgets to show you, so you'll be limited to bearing witness." She explained, swinging the giant scalpel over her shoulder with her left hand and using her right to place it on the head of a young boy. "This here is Asura Hashimoto, he could be considered my assistant, but I will need more than just the personal hands of his in order to achieve my duties as a Captain."

"Thank you for having us." Asura said, referring to himself and Tsuyuri.

She straightened herself up and removed her hand from Asura's head, "Now that my introductions have gotten out of the way, do any of you have any questions?"

The room went quiet as she called out to them. A few whispers and a few odd looks were exchanged between some of the people present, something which would at a glance suggest that there were between thirty and fifty of them in total. Out of all the divisions, they were one of the smaller ones but even these numbers weren't much to look at. But then again, the S.R.D.I had several facilities spread out across the Seiretei and most of them were fully operational. So who could say how many people under the 12th Division and the Shinigami Research and Development Institute as a whole. Amongst all of them however, merely one of them took a step forth. With the white coat signifying his profession as a scientist and half of his body coated in cybernetics, the young soul spoke out and asked what quite a few of them had been pondering in the last few days.

"Cap-..." Cutting himself off as soon as he'd started, it was clear even now that he wasn't sure how to adress the situation but he corrected himself nevertheless: "President Yamakage-sama... I think I speak for all of us when I say that it's a welcomed sight to have both of you with us.. But..." Again, the man's uncertainty was radiating from him as clear as the sun outside. Yet his hesitation wasn't his own, as seen by those surrounding him. "As you put it yourself, we don't know you nor do you have anything to show for it... Why were someone like yourself picked to be our Captain when someone like the Pres-... Jūsuke-sama have been with us ever since Captain Kurotsu-..."

"Because she has the experience most of us lack and is just what we need going forward." A familiar voice broke through the crowd as a pair of metal doors slid open from a level above them at the far end of the room, out of which Yoshino Jūsuke would emerge with the same tired eyes as always whilst leaning on that walking crutch of hers. Following just behind her was the same figure that had accompanied her to the meeting a few days ago, Samasu Jū. The door of whch they'd entered from stood just at the top of a staircase, to which both of them would start their descent as she continued.

"I shouldn't need to tell you why I'm not fit for the position or why any of you shouldn't have thought otherwise. But alas... Here we are." The echoing sound of wood hitting metal would verberate across the facility and cut through her words from time to time as she spoke, one step a the time. "She is everything I'm not... My body is frail when hers is strong and has experience on the field. I haven't achieved Bankai whilst she has either proven that to the higher ups or presented something of equal measure..." One loud tap came from the tip of her wooden cane, signalling her arrival as she now stood before the group next to their new Captain. "And lastly and perhaps most importantly... Whilst I've kept us focusing on the past by trying to recover what was never properly given to us. President Yamakage-sama's arrival will undoubetly signal our need to focus our efforts on the days to come."

Turning to face Tsuyuri, the red-haired woman noded her head whilst the robotic figure behind her would lower itself even further to that of a bow. No doubt that Yoshino would've done the same if not for the crutch at hand. "Welcome to the 12th Division and the S.R.D.I, Presient Yamakage-sama and Hashimoto-kun."

A lot was said after she asked if there were any questions and while these could have been seen as offensive in a manner, Tsuyuri didn't care much. She expected for many of the Twelfth Division to have their own questions and concerned and to hear Ju speak them out with no regard for the consequences only made her interest in him peak. She wanted to something to him. The locked up temptation within her almost escaped, but she collected herself to remain calm. It wasn't that she would go against him in a tempered manner, no. She simply wanted to go deeper into the conversation and dissect his brain through verbal conversation to deduce just *why* he felt that Yoshino would have clearly been the better option.

Yet, where Samasu had her interest, Tsuyuri quickly drew it from him and placed it on Yoshino. If there was someone who was the most interesting among the rest of the people present, it was the red-headed woman dressed in the shihakusho of the Shinigami. She may have been frail, but Tsuyuri could see right through that. "A Bankai.. from a Zanpakutō?" She questioned, her expression had briefly dropped from her usual smile as she asked the question back to Yoshino before bringing the smile back once again. "It's been well over two centuries since I've used my Zanpakutō and even longer since I have seen my Bankai." Tsuyuri looked down to Asura, trying to recollect her memory. "I am not the type to forget anything, but it may have even been longer than that, Yoshino-girl."

The noblewoman let out a soft sigh. "A body is but a shell to hold up what lies within it, Yoshino-girl. You should never measure yourself by what it can and can't do as they only two things that matter within it are you heart and for your like of work, the brain."

"I've never been good at political talk and introductions anyway, Kurome-girl and Kamui-boy have always hated my hosted dinners. Though, I suppose that could have been because of what happens *during* them." Removing her scalpel from her shoulder and slamming it into the ground, Tsuyuri looked around the lab and scanned quickly.

"So I ask, what projects are currently being worked on Yoshino-girl? I'd like to be filled in on everything you all have been doing so far. Tsuna-boy informed me there were quite a few things that needed my assistance, but it wasn't anything regarding the status of what was being done by the Twelfth Division and the department already." She then remembered Yoshino's words and thought, *"So, she finds pleasure in re-discovering what was left behind by those in the past. Not neccessarily my style, but I guess it's best to understand why rather than to judge."* Tsuyuri quickly returned to her previous statement, "What is it you are are working on?"