I do not own bleach or its characters, that credit goes to Kubo Tite and anyone else who also created bleach.

AN: This is my first Fic, go easy on me. I hope to make this an averagely long fic, but I might get caught up with school. Enjoy

Ichigo sat up, he slowly looked around the room, wiping sleep from his eyes. He stood up and walked to downstairs to see his dad and little sister Yuzu sitting on the couch watching T.V.
"Hey Dad, Yuzu. What's going on".

"Ichigo, your finally awake" Yuzu shouted sighing

"Why, is something wrong" He replied

"Not really, Daddy's crying again".

"Ichigo, this movie is so depressing" Isshin said

"It's Beautiful" Isshin whispered

Ichigo went back upstairs to his room and got changed into some casual clothing and left the house to see Uryu waiting outside in his usual white attire.

"what's up" Ichigo said

"Your late"

"What for?"

Uryu replied with an angered glance.

"Aw damn, lets run" Ichigo said hurrily

They immediately started sprinting to Urahara's shop. when they were arriving Urahara was sitting on the edge of the roof at the front of the shop.

"Your late, Ichigo" Urahara stated

"Yeah sorry, I forgot" he replied

"You forgot that Yamamoto was holding a competition, especially run to commemorate your win against Aizen!?" Uryu shouted

"uhh, what can I say. I only just got my Soul Reaper powers back, give me a break" he replied

"NO" Uryu shouted back

" Hey, can we go already" Urahara said annoyed

"yeah, yeah. Let's go then" Ichigo replied

They walked into Urahara's shop. Jinta was scolding Ururu for not relaxing and she was attempting to scold him back for not working. They continued down into Urahara's Training area and walked up to his gate.
Yoruichi appeared from behind the gate.

"Don't think you can take all the glory for us here in the human world, Ichigo" Yoruichi stated
"I want some of the fighting too"

Urahara opened up the gate and Ichigo, Uryu and Yoruichi went to the soul society. When they arrived, Ichigo could easily hear the sounds of the matches already started. They ran into the sei rei tei and up to
the announcers podium. The 3rd seats of squad 13 were announcing for the first day of the competiton.

"Hey you guys, we want to enter aswell" Ichigo shouted

"thats absolutely perfect" kisune replied
"we have four spots left, I'll just put you on todays fight roster. By the way each day of the tournement has a new rule which you all must follow along with the normal rules. Here is the rules list"

Ichigo grabbed the sheet and yoruichi and Uryu looked on as he read.

Soul Society Battle Tournament Rules

The matches you will fight are in a knockout competition against randomized opponents
Defeat your opponent to advance to the next round. There will be Three rounds per day.
Once you have defeated your opponent raise your weapon and call out to a referee.
If the match goes undecided after 2 hours, a challenge will be placed on the match.

A challenge means the next person to hit their opponent wins.

Official Rules

1. You must not kill your opponent, make your opponent yield or knock them out.
2. You must follow the days bonus rule or you will be disqualified
3. Stick to your designated fighting area, if you ight outside it, you will be disqualified
- you are allowed to reenter your area if you are knocked out of it.
4. Do not attack anyone but your opponent.
5. The bonus rules are as follows until further notice
1st day - No Hado type Kido attacks
2nd day - No Bankai or anything similar eg. Kenpachi's eyepatch must stay on
3rd day - Must use some form of Kido or a spiritual pressure releasing attack
4th day - All players must attack indirectly eg. Bows, kido, zanpakuto effects and No swords

"So many rules" Ichigo sighed

"I think it adds challenge" Yoruichi replied

"Are you guys ready?" Kiyone Asked

"Yeah" the three replied

"alright then. Ichigo, your up against Yumichika first. Yoruichi, your fighting Jidanbo and Uryu is up against Kukakku."
"please follow my fellow announcer" Kiyone smiled

They followed him to their designated matches and prepared to fight their opponents. Ichigo and Yumichika readied themselves on the right edge of the courtyard.

"Don't mess up my hair, Ichigo" Yumichika said glaring at Ichigo

" This will be over before I can do that" he replied

"Go" the referee called

Ichigo sprinted forward towards Yumichika and slashed zangetsu at him. Yumichika jumped quickly out of the way and released his Zanpakuto. Ichigo attacked again with an overhead strike.
Yumichika barely finished dodging before Ichigo had lunged again. the same pattern continued, Ichigo attacked and Yumichika dodged. All of a sudden Ichigo stopped running at yumichika
and swung his sword at Yumichika's feet, releasing a Getsuga tenshou. at the same time Yumichika jumped up in the sky dodge the attack. Ichigo followed and swung at Yumichika again.
Yumichika blecked and retaliated with a flurry of rapid strikes, all of which were easily deflected off of Zangetsu. Ichigo released another Getsuga Tenshou at point balnk range and Yumichika
fell to the ground. Ichigo came down and pointed Zangetsu at Yumichika.

"Yield" Ichigo said

"I yield" Yumichika said catching his breath

Ichigo pointed Zangetsu Up and called the referee. The referee called Ichigo's win and led him back to Kiyone to wait for the next round. when they returned Kiyone wrote up Ichigo's win on a big board
behind her which Ichigo then looked at.

Knock out Competition

ROUND 1

Matches
Name Name Winner
Kenpachi Ganji Kenpachi
Renji Hiyori
Rukia Momo
Byakuya Izuru Byakuya
Omaeda Hisagi Hisagi
Ikkaku Rangiku Ikkaku
Soifon Nanao Soifon
Toshirou Iba Toshirou
Shunsui Shinji
Ukitake Orihime Orihime - By Default
Komamura Mayuri
Chad Nemu Chad
Ichigo Yumichika Ichigo
Uryu Kukkaku
Yoruichi Jidanbo Yoruichi

"Orihime is here too. SHE BEAT A CAPTAIN, oh, by default. she sure is lucky to get Ukitake then." Ichigo thought to himself

Renji returned to the stage. Kiyone quickly updated the board according to the judges verdict.

"Hey, Ichigo, Let's hope I get to verse you later, I want you to see my new strength." Renji exclaimed

"Hi Renji, You can't beat me, and I'll prove it to you later" he replied

"We'll see, Ichigo, We'll see" Renji replied

Suddenly Rukia, Momo and Uryu returned to the podium. the referee gave his verdict for the matches and Rukia and Uryu both won their matches. Eventually everyone turned in their matches, only Komamura
and Mayuri's match went to a challenge resulting in a win to Mayuri.

"This concludes the first round of our knock out competition" kiyone stated.
"Please come and see who is in the next round and who you are fighting please, Thankyou" she finished speaking and everyone looked at the board

knock out competition

ROUND 1

Matches
No. Name Name Winner
1 Kenpachi Ganji Kenpachi
2 Renji Hiyori Renji
3 Rukia Momo Rukia
4 Byakuya Izuru Byakuya
5 Omaeda Hisagi Hisagi
6 Ikkaku Rangiku Ikkaku
7 Soifon Nanao Soifon
8 Toshirou Iba Toshirou
9 Shunsui Shinji Shunsui
10 Ukitake Orihime Orihime - By Default
11 Komamura Mayuri Mayuri
12 Chad Nemu Chad
13 Ichigo Yumichika Ichigo
14 Uryu Kukkaku Uryu
15 Yoruichi Jidanbo Yoruichi

ROUND 2

No. Name Name Winner
1 Toshirou Mayuri
2 Byakuya Uryu
3 Soifon Ikkaku
4 Hisagi Chad
5 Ichigo Renji
6 Shunsui Yoruichi
7 Kenpachi Rukia
Bypass Orihime

"Everyone, Round 2 starts. . . NOW"

AN: Ok that's the end of that chapter, I know It's short but this is my first fic. Comments/reviews are much appreciated and please leave me some advice too. I'd love to here some of that.
Also Ideas for future matches, and who should the final four be. See ya next time.