All rights belong to Tite Kubo and I do not own any of these characters.
Setting: After the final war.
It was like any other normal day in the Sereitei, as the captain of the 6th division set sipping his tea on the bench outside of his manor. So serene and quiet, the captain thought as he brought the cup to his lips to take another sip. Suddenly, a messenger arrived in front of the captain, kneeling before him as he nervously spoke.
"Excuse me, Captain Kuchiki" he said as he continued to his head down.
"Yes," the captain replied as he continued to sip his tea.
"The CC request your presence at a special Captain's meeting."
"Very well then."
Things can never stay peaceful, Captain Kuchiki said to himself as he arose to attend the special meeting. He pondered on what the meeting could be about since they had just had their scheduled Captain's meeting. He appeared before the mirror to ensure everything was in place, as this was one of his morning rituals; and exited the manor to attend to captain's meeting.
"Kenny, Kenny!" the pink-haired LT. yelled as she searched for her captain.
"What is it Yauchiro?" Kenny answered annoyed.
"You need to go to an emergency captain's meeting." She said jumping up and down.
"Tch, says who?" Kenny asked cutting his eyes towards the annoying Lt.
"A messenger arrived and left a message Kenny."
"Such a nuisance." Kenny replied as he got up leaving the 11th division. "This better not be a waste of my time." He said as continued walking towards the 1st division office.
College had been out for over a week and Ichigo was finding himself becoming more bored, even the Hollows appeared to have decreased coming to Kurakara town. It was still early as Ichigo finally awoke and rubbed his eyes as he peered out the window, but noticed it felt extremely hot even for a summer morning. Ichigo had nothing planned for the day and besides all his friends had gone to the beach for a week. Laying out in the heat of the sun, in Ichigo's mind was not the meaning of having fun. He quickly arose out of the bed to take his morning shower, when he heard a familiar noise from his Soul Reaper's badge. What is it now?, he hissed as he attended to the noise. Suddenly, he felt uneasiness rushed through him as he changed into his Soul Reaper form and shunpoed out of the window. He sped through the sky and he noticed a spiritual pressure coming from Urahara's shop; however, by the time he arrived at Urahara's shop the spiritual pressure had vanished and he could hardly believe the scene that was set out in front of him.
All the captains had assembled at the 1st division's meeting room. The man with the pink haori stood in the middle and called the meeting to start.
"There appears to have been a great disturbance in the world of the living that has caused a great concern from the report that I received last evening from the 12th division. I am sending a task force to look into the situation." Captain Commander Shunsui reported. As he was about to state the names that would be a part of the task force, a messenger arrived at the door kneeling on one knee.
"Excuse me captains, sorry to interrupt but I have an emergency message from Lt. Kurotsuchi of the 12th division. There has been an attack at Urahara's shop; and he along with his party has been severely injured to the brink of death." The captains standing in the meeting all looked bewildered and perplexed, except for Kenpachi, his face seem to have lit up at the thought of fighting. Byakuya had kept his composure while appearing to flinch his eyes at the latter part of the sentence. The CC thanked him and continued speaking, "Well, this presents a fine mess and a delicate one at that. Well, let me see that puts a whole new spin on things. Captain Zaraki, Captain Kuchiki, and two other people of your choice will be going to the world of the living-meeting –dismissed".
Byakuya wanted to protest the fact that he had to travel with such an idiot but decided that wouldn't serve any purpose. Byakuya decided to take Renji along and of course Ikkaku wouldn't go anywhere without Yumichika, so now Byakuya thought to himself, I am totally surrounded by idiots.
The captains and the Lt's arrived on the scene and found Ichigo standing there like a lost puppy without its master.
"Ichigo." Kenpachi said as he walked up to the scene carrying his zanpaktou over his shoulder.
"Kenpachi, what are you doing here?" Ichigo asked as if he wasn't supposed to be there, slowly observing the others as they walked up. "Byakuya, Ikkaku, and Yumichika, too!"
"Isn't it obvious as to why we are here? We came to investigate as it was ordered by the CC." replied Byakuya. Why am I the only one intelligent enough to speak? Sighed Byakuya ; as he walked around examining Urahara and the rest. Ichigo explained to them that he had just gotten there himself and didn't see who actually committed the atrocity, but only felt the spiritual pressure of someone powerful. The others walked around, while Renji called for SS to send a person from the 4th squad to tend to the injured. However, Byakuya continued to examine the property as if he was looking for someone.
"I don't see Yoruichi, I thought she would be here with the rest of them." Byakuya questioned Ichigo.
"I didn't search inside, because I thought everyone was out here, but she might be in the underground training room." Ichigo replied heading there.
The rest of the party continued to follow Ichigo and Byakuya to the training room, when they came upon Yoruichi's badly injured body. Byakuya froze in his steps and almost heaved. Kenpachi looked around as if the person who did this was still there; as the other three stood in amazement. Byakuya walked over to the person that he had such a disdain for and stooped down calling her name but got no response as she was unconscious. Byakuya ordered the Lt's to do a search of the place in case anyone was still there, when someone with a cloaked presence slashed Renji in the back causing him to fall forward on his face. Next the other two Lt's were faced with the same slashed in the back; as the cloaked person had such tremendous speed it could not be prevented.
"What is this? You cower around like a coward not showing yourself, slicing people in the back. Show yourself you bastard!" Kenapchi yelled.
"If I show myself, what could you possibly do, Kenpachi?" the cloaked voice responded. "Very well, I suppose I do owe you all that much." The cloaked figure revealed himself to the others and everyone stood there in awe.
"How can this be?" questioned Byakuya as he turned away from Yoruichi. How could he allow the person to do this to her live and how could this person who stood before him do such a thing. Of course these types of individuals had always been cold and ruthless. Byakuya was having all sorts of weird feelings that shouldn't be owned by him; why should he even care about her, he had always hated her for her less than noble actions. However, he stood here in sheer madness at the sight of seeing her hurt this way.
