A Bright Young Man [Hinamori, Yuri]

It wasn't often that Yuri made her way to this section of the Sereitei, but as it were. For once, her duties as an Heiress came into play. The old Lady wanted her to take a bit more responsibilities from the household. And that meant paying visits to other Families in the area. Her head was already spinning a little. So many new faces, so many shallow platitudes. Walking out into the cool evening air, she let out a slow, steady sigh as she let her shoulders finally relax.

She'd said she was going out for a walk, but honestly, she just wanted a bit of space for herself. All of the actual work was done. Now everyone was just...socializing. But she was exhausted, and so she'd taken the opportunity o excuse herself. Walking out through the streets of the rukongai proper, her wits not quite about her. She just....walked.

As a mess of social puzzles, her work at the Gotei.

And of course...her own personal brand of inner turmoil.
If nothing else, it was nice to have everything outside of her head bea bit more quiet.
It was a start.

The soft impact of someone else startled her from her thoughts, and for just an instant, she cursed herself, wincing as the rounded on the other person, only to blink in surprise when she noticed the little woman that it was. A sheepish smile on her features, the last thing she needed was to make a scene. Stupid, she shouldn't have let herself get so distracted.

"I'm so sorry, are you alright?" She asked in the very same moment that Momo offered her own apology. A slight chuckle escaping Yuri as she took a moment to ...consider them. Some rukongai citizen? She herself thankfully was out of uniform, wearing something a bit on the fancy and formal side of things. She DID come from a party after all. Ugh, she really needed to change out of this.

"I hope none of your stuff was damaged." Not like she couldn't just reimburse them. This wasn't THAT rich of a district. "I'm very sorry, I'm just a bit distracted so I didn't see you." She noted, reaching up to gently brush her hair back before her hand froze and she blinked. Wait...

She gently felt around, and then touched her ear.

"Shit..." She hissed in a whisper, looking around. One of her damn earrings had popped out. And not the gaudy shit that she'd gotten as some gift from one of their neighbors. It was one of the ones Lady Yui had given her. A pair of little pale beads. Barely even noticeable, and most assumed they were marble or pearl. But she remembered so incredibly well the look on the woman's face. The absolute sly mischeif when she'd told Yuri that it was, in fact, glossed and polished bone. Rat bone in fact. And that she'd enjoyed nothing more than to get compliments on them whenever she want to more...upper class gatherings. She got a kick out of noblemen giving shallow platitudes abut what was essentially just a bit of rat carcass in her ears.

What a crazy old bitch.

Which was exactly why she never went to a party without them. And why she was determined to find the one that had dropped.

A brow raised slightly as she glanced at the woman. Huh, what a nice little thing. Still, she was a bit relieved to see that nothing was damaged, would have been a pain in her ass if she had to replace something. "Ah, well I'm glad. Still, that was my fault, I should have been looking where I was going." She noted with a sheepish smile before she proceeded on her little hunt for her earring. So focused on her search that she didn't even realize that the woman was still looking at her. A pause given as she glanced toward them and blinked a few times. Ah, she was still here.

"Ah no it's ... I just think one of my earrings came out. I need to just... hm. Stay still for a moment, if you don't mind? I'm going to see if I can find it. Don't worry this will only take a second" She assured the woman before letting out a sloiw, steadied breath and holding her hand up infront of her, raising a finger to her lips as she focused her spiritual energy. A soft bloom of spiritual energy at the very tip of her finger before a pulse gently spread out.

"Daichi Tenyō"

A Hadō spell of unique type, that pulse of spiritual energy which usually was used to levatate and attack with large pieces of rubble or by pulling up the ground. But this was intentionally power down significantly. Just enough so that a cloud of little particulates and small stones levatated off of the ground around them. Once the spell was cast, she lowered her hand and began looking around. Though Momo would see it not far from her. A little shining bead hovering in the air.

Almost instantly, she perked up when she noticed the shimmer of spiritual pressure, and for just an instant she wondered if this little bitch was about to attack her. But to her surprise, she noticed the intricate weave of a spell! She knew Kido! Yuri's expression lit up as she watched the woman not only show off her spell, but also presented her earring back to her! "Oh my! That was impressive. It's not often I run into a Kido user out in the rukongai, where did you learn that?" She asked with a smile, promptly pleased as she accepted the little earring and gently slotted it back where it belonged, a bright smile shining on her face, feeling much more complete with the set~

Then she turned her attention to Hinamori as they praised her use of the spell, offering a lopsided little smirk. "Oh? It's nothing special. I admit it's not usually something many people use. Since it requires a medium to manipulate, but I'm glad someone can appreciate the finer points of Kido Control." She hummed, a bit of snoot to her voice, but beneath that she was actually quite genuinely pleased. This woman wasn't JUST being nice and praising her, but also showed competence in something she herself was interested in, and that promptly had Yuri's full attention on the woman.

"The name is Yuri Aiban, bye the bye. Seventh Seat of Squad Six, and Heir of the Aiban Family." She introduced herself, no doubt something that would trigger a few things. First being that she probably would recognize her son's squad, potentially even Yuri's name if he had mentioned her. But also her family. While they weren't noble, they id have some reputation amongst rukongai familities in a couple of the mid rukongai districts. Nothing really impressive, but a last name she might recognize at the very least.

Yuri's brows perked as the woman offered quite a bit of information. Not only was this woman a shinigami, an interesting little insight to be sure, but she also was a former officer. And a famous one at that. No less, the very Mother of her own Subordinate, well. He couldn't be her subordinate much longer, but even so, she smiled as she folded her arms across her chest and chuckled softly to herself. "I quite agree. It's always refreshing to see Kido that strays from the beaten path. But more than that...I confess I'm not all that skilled. Creative? Certainly. But I can't quite pull off the unique feats someone of your calibur would." She noted in a surprising feat of humility for the woman. BEcause as it were, she quite respected the woman infront of her. Ancient history didn't interest her. Perhaps if she hadn't known Toki, things might have been different. But having seen the fine young man Hinamori had raised, well. She could think only of how pleased she was with the job she did.

"You must be Toki's mother then! Yes He's one of my subordinates. And one I'm rather fond of at that. Not often someone so fresh off the vine has the work ethic to throw themselves into things that that young man does. I admit it makes me a little jealous. " She hummed and closed her eyes, smiling a bit to herself. To someone else, it might have seemed like she was thinking of some fond personal memory.

No. She was just thinking about how often she got to his work for review and DIDN'T have to fix anything. Impressive thoroughness with paperwork. Excellent following of protocol. The man truly did care about this particular...example of a squad, and it took quite the special someone to appreciate it at times. Still, looking back up to Hinamori she couldn't help but smile behind her hand. "Honestly I should have expected his Mother would be just as helpful. I was about to take a bit of a walk. Why don't I walk you to your house? I can help you carry some of those, the least I can do for almost knocking them out of your hands." She offered. An excuse to NOT head back to the party? Yes please.