Chapter 1 – I now Pronounce you…..

Aizen stepped out of the garganta above the west gate of the Seireitei, standing on condensed reitsu. He looked over his former residence and chuckled at the nostalgia his view brought back. As he began to step forward, creating a path of reitsu to walk on, he began to search for one persons reitsu in particular. Ichigo Kurosaki, the new captain of his former squad.

-meanwhile at the underground cave-

"Come on Yoruichi! You know that I can't follow you with Shunpo!" cried out a very playful Isshin Kurosaki, "I'm years out of practice!"

"Well dad, if you had told me about this sooner," yelled Ichigo form the sidelines, "we could have had you in better shape by now! Now just focus on Yoruichi, and if you try anything at all…." Ichigo didn't have to finish his sentence. Nearly all of the soul society knew that he and the Shihouin noble were engaged in more ways than one, and all the soul society knew that his dad wouldn't let something as simple as being engaged stop him from being a pervert around a gorgeous woman. Unfortunately, gorgeous wasn't the word that most people thought of when they saw the flash goddess. In fact the men couldn't think of a word to describe except for her title of goddess, and they were all jealous of Ichigo for doing what none of them could ever think was possible, proposing and getting a very excited yes from the goddess, her golden eyes filling with tears at the corners. Honestly even Ichigo was was surprised by her answer, but that never meant that he wasn't the happiest man in the Seireitei.

"My, my Ichigo," said Yoruichi as she flash stepped into her loves arms, "Feeling protective today?" she purred out the last two words, knowing that he couldn't help but be protective.

"Well Yorucihi," he said, pulling her closer to him, "since I have a dad whose perversion rivals that of Hat n' Clogs," he lowered his face towards hers, "I can't help but be protetective." He knew what his fiancé was wanting. He was wanting the same thing right now, but with his father nearby the couple would have to settle on a passionate kiss. Their lips finally parted, and as if by reflex, Ichigo threw a punch right behind Yoruichis back, effectively knocking his father back several yards. "I told you not to try anything old man," Ichigo said smiling as he ran his fingers through his goddess' purple hair. As soon as his father stopped to show signs of life, such as moving, Ichigo let out a sigh. "I'll be right back Yorucihi, just have to make sure that he's all right."

"All right Ichigo, just make sure to bring him the hot spring when you're done, me and everyone else will be waiting," Yoruichi said as she looked at him hungrily. He kissed her on the check and flash stepped over to where Isshin had stopped moving. "Damn bastards asleep," Ichigo said to himself as he looked his father over, making sure there were no fatal injuries, and then flash stepped him to the healing hot spring, where Yoruichi was waiting with the others that had been training down in the caves. He could hear the voices of his lieutenant, also known as his fiancé, and friends grow louder as he flash stepped closer.

"All right every one, make room for the idiot," he called as soon as he was next to the spring, dropping his father's sleeping body into the searing hot spring. If he said anything else, it was drowned out by the sounds of Isshin screaming as his body registered the searing heat of the hot spring on his body.

"Ichigo! That was mean even for you!" yelled out Isshin and almost everyone else. The exception being Yoruichi, who just giggled as her man, the god of flash, shrugged of the others statements. She was enjoying her time down here with him and his friends more than anyone could ever think, although she was enjoying the time with Ichigo the most.

"Youichi-sensei, it's not funny!" cried out an overly eccentric Orihime, one of her former pupils. "This might be a healing hot spring, but it still burns!" Orihime said as she helped Isshin into a sitting position in the spring. Everyone knew that that was not the reason Orihime was yelling at her former teacher for. Everyone except Isshin and the happy couple knew that she was jealous that Yoruichi had taken Ichigo for her own, even though it was he who proposed. She had had a crush on Ichigo since they were in middle school together, and never really admitted the fact to herself until Ichigo had announced to everyone that he and Yoruichi were engaged. She had tried to admit the fact that he was no longer for her, but she still couldn't help but look at him as though there was still a chance that he would change his mind.

"Orihime-chan, you're taking things a bit too seriously," commented Uryu, her current boyfriend, so to speak. Even though he was a Quincy, he was happy, surprised but happy, that Ichigo had found someone. He was even more surprised when Ichigo told him that he was invited to join him and the others in the Seireitei for the celebration of Ichigo becoming captain, compliments of Yoruichi. He looked around the hot tub to look at his friends and allies, knowing that if Orihime wasn't here, he'd be with his father honing his skills in the human world. As his gaze passed from friend to friend, eventually his girlfriend, he ran over the names in his mind one more time. Chad was in the hot spring, sitting next Tatsuki, who sat on the edge of the spring, her hand in his, both resting on his shoulder. He had never seen the couple happier than when they had finally started going out weeks before coming to the soul society. Next to Tatsuki was his own girlfriend, Orihime still trying to help Isshin into a sitting position to Uryu's left. On the other side of where Orihime was originally sitting, his right, was Rangiku Matsumoto and Toshiro Hitsugiya, Lieutenant and Captain of squad #. As he looked closer, he could see that the captain had grown nearly four inches since they last saw each other, and that his head was resting on Rangiku's right shoulder, his left arm behind her wrapped around her waist. Uryu wondered in his head how long they had been going out, finally deciding that his question could wait until he could ask Ichigo later. To Toshiro's right, he saw Yoruichi climbing in with her fiancé Ichigo, hand in hand and never looking away from each other, his amber eyes lost in her golden eyes. Uryu felt as if he was watching something deeply intimate as he watched them step in and lean in for a kiss. Quickly looking away from the couple he looked to Ichigos right, seeing Byakuya Kuchiki, sitting in-between Ichigo and Rukia. Rukia however, was siting as close to Renji as possible without sitting on him. He knew that they had been going out publicly, ever since they all saved Rukia from execution on Syokyuoku Hill, and that they were in no hurry to ask Byakuya his permission to get engaged, they were both afraid of what he would do if they even joked about asking. Finally Uryu had gone full circle, seeing Chad and Tatsuki sitting in the same spot as earlier, if anything they were slightly closer together.

"We've probably got another few weeks before Aizen makes his move," Ichigo said, drawing Uryu out of his mental reverie, "but all in all I just want to say, I've never been more proud to say that we all have made significant advances in our fighting techniques. If anything we might be able to hold our own against him and his Espada," He continued to look around the group, his eyes resting only on Yoruichi, "Unfortunately the only person whose having trouble advancing their technique, is Isshin, and I seem to be related to the ex-captain somehow, as impossible as it seems." This statement got a laugh out of every one but Isshin, but the person he wanted to hear laugh the most was sitting right next to him, laughing and holding onto his arm. "Anyway, thank you all for coming," he paused and leaned in close to Yorucihi, who had her devilish smirk on her face, and whispered, "not that way, but I like what you're thinking," kissing her check and then went back to talking to everyone. "I know I told you the reason you were coming was to celebrate my becoming a captain, but the truth is me and Yoruichi would like for you, Byakuya-sempai, to marry us. As head of a noble family, you have the rights to marry us." This caused everyone but Yoruichi and Byakuya to go slack jawed and wide eyed.

"Ichigo Kurosaki, Yoruichi Shihouin," Byakuya said turning his head to face the couple, "Do you plan on being together, through the best and worst of times, care for each other when ill, and more importantly until death?" Byakuya asked, using his own rendition of the ancient wedding vows used everywhere, causing everyone in the spring to do a double take and go slack jawed again, except of course for the god and goddess of flash. In unison the pair spoke saying, "I do."

"Then as head of the Kuchiki house hold, and friend of the couple, I pronounce you husband and wife. Please kiss the bride discreetly, we don't want to witness anything else that would follow," said the stoic man, a smile appearing on his face as he watched the two lovers kiss, finally belonging to each other, while listening to everyone slowly begin to cheer on the newlyweds.

"Well now that that's over," Ichigo said as he and Yoruichi parted lips again, "I would like everyone to know that I am moving to live in the Seireitei with my bride and lieutenant. If there's anything I would want to be said now, it's that I'm sorry that I'm leaving Yuzu and Karin alone with dad and Kon. Other than that, I will try to visit the world of the living as often as possi….." He stopped there, feeling a rise in spiritual pressure outside the cave. Everyone else felt the pressure too, knowing that only extremely high amounts of reitsu could be felt in this cave. Immeadiatly after sensing the increase in reitsu, everyone jumped out of the spring and changed into their battle ready clothes, mostly shiakushos, with the exception of Yoruichi, Chad, Orihime, Tatsuki, and Uryu. Yoruichi changed into her signature black pants, backless top supported by a tie around her neck, covered by and orange overshirt with white arm wraps and a badge on her left arm declaring her to be a lieutenant. Chad, Tatsuki, and Orihime changed into street clothes, each one summoning their own inner power as they finished dressing, Chad with his hollow arms, Tatsuki radiating reitsu from her hands and feet, and Orihime summoning the power of her hair pins, and Uryu changed into his pure white battle outfit and summoned his bow. Together the group left the underground cave, and headed towards the source of the reitsu, Ichigo and Yoruichi flash stepping ahead of everyone but Byakuya, the newlyweds never let their hands separate as they raced along.