New Resources [Shura/Urahara]

At the mention of Shura Kurata seeking an audience with him, Kisuke could not help but chuckle. He had watched her endeavours with a passing fancy, wondering when she would come to darken his door, and yet this all felt too sudden. She was hardly a predictable woman, the swings in her attitude and actions were all too well known to a man with many eyes and ears across the Seireitei and beyond, so naturally he had no choice but to accept. The possibilities were, well, anywhere from quite tantalising to entirely amusing and he had already mulled over a few options whilst his door tasted Shura's gentle wrath.

He wandered with almost baited breath what had caused her sudden bout of modesty; having expected his door to be kicked wide open with the gusto of a youth that truly did not know her place, but found no answer in her question. Only disappointment. He had stood to receive her, poised behind the desk with the cane of Benihime resting easy in one hand to perhaps suggest that he was inviting her to challenge him, but the revelation that she had come to make a simple suggestion to him did leave Kisuke quite perplexed. Perhaps it was a ruse, one intended to distract him and throw his mind off kilter for a subsequent sneak attack, but it was a rather poor one at that so he was forced to quickly accept the reality of it all. She just wanted to talk business.

“Now that is quite dangerous.” He cut in to jab playfully as she mentioned the thoughts she was having, his shoulders sinking into a much more relaxed pose as a hand waved her to sit. “But I do so value the opinions of our brave combat division, though, so please, go on.”

Pulling at her strings might well have been his intention, as a smile slowly crept across his features. It certainly did not seem that his intent was malicious but he had cultivated quite an enigmatic image over the years and to say that he was a hard man to truly read was certainly an understatement.

“As your knowledge of Kido is so… ‘limited’, I feel it is my duty to outline some snags that your plan may encounter. Shall we try to unpick a few together, perhaps?” Much like Shura, Kisuke did not wait for a response before launching into the meat of the issue. “Firstly, for example: in Kaido, the user is often required to direct the flow of restorative energy to the desired area of healing or risk expending much greater energy than required for any amount of healing. Were I to possess the means with which to transport the raw energy of a Kaido spell in a portable container then it would still need to be extracted and applied with the same expertise that put it in there or much of the effect would be wasted. I imagine a member of the second division might be capable of such a feat, but having such a person on hand to assist you would defeat the core purpose of the tool, would it not?”