Let's get this shit started!

Slamming his twisted wooden cane against the pine floorboards of the captains meeting grounds Yamamoto let his spiritual pressure weigh down on the people attending the meeting.

With a deadly serious gaze he brought the ramblings of the captains to a stop.

"I call this session to order!" he rumbled past his beard causing several of the more traditional attendees to straighten their posture just a smidge.

"Now, as I'm sure you're all aware, the 5th division, and all its inhabitants have been completely incinerated, naught but ashes remain" glancing to his right imperceptibly he saw the white haired captain grip his fist until his knuckles popped, his small, but lithe structure bending slightly as his head dipped.

"Suspiciously, Captain Aizen's body was the only thing to survive the attack" he spoke in low, deliberate tones so that everyone understood the situation.

"The enemy either wishes to break us, to show that they can dispose of our own as one would an insect" at this thought, frames tensed as anger coursed through the veins of many.

"It is that, or Aizen Sosuke is still alive, I believe that Unohana taicho has evidence to support these findings" the leader of the 4th squad nodded and stepped forward into the middle of the path created by the captains "when performing the autopsy on Aizen sans body a disturbing fact became known to me" Retsu paused to let the captains process before continuing "Aizen sans body, despite being so close to the colossal power of the blast, was not incinerated as it should have been. With the friction that the particles inside the attack would most likely generate, the temperature within the attack would reach at least 4000°C. With the undamaged state of the body when we found it, I can only assume that the body is some sort of spiritual construct created out of reiatsu" she murmured quietly as the fact sunk in to everyone's heads, and with daunting horror, they realized there may just be more than one threat to the peace of soul society.

"As I'm sure you've all realized by now, there can be only two, distinctive possibilities, either Aizen taicho has latent quincy abilities in which he would be able to sufficiently manipulate the surrounding reiatsu into a believable corpse, or he wields an illusionary zanpaktou, much like the former captain Hirako Shinji, though I suspect it allows him to do so much more than create a mere corpse" her voice faded slowly from the room while she stepped back into line with the other captains, an unreadable look upon her face.

After a few minutes of tense silence Shunsui spoke up, his voice rough as ever.

"I do believe that the Ryoka and the execution can wait, because it seems we have a manhunt to get to" reaching up the old captain grasped the edge of his rice hat and tilted it down to mask his expression as he seemingly waited for orders.

Getting the hint Yamamoto slammed his cane against the pine once more "it is decided!" he announced, his face grave.

"Aizen Sosuke is wanted for the dissertation of the gotei 13, further sentencing will be decided when he's captured" the captain's nodded in response, still digesting the information that Aizen Sosuke of all people may be a traitor.

Sui Feng, leader of the Nibantai chose this moment to speak up "sir, if I may, can I suggest that I post several teams of my squad to hunt and detain the ryoka?" Sui Feng suggested, stepping forward as Yamamoto craned his neck slightly to look at the leader of the stealth squad.

"Denied, if Unohana taicho's deductions are true, Aizen Sosuke may be concealing hit full power, as of now we need to prepare for every possibility" Sui Feng snapped into a formal salute before retreating to her former position in the shadow of the 8th division captain.

Karakura Town- Isshin Kurosaki (He never did get enough screen time)

Clenching his fists Isshin looked down, disappointed at his shaking fists.

"Still not enough" he muttered seeing the air around said areas distort with his weak reiatsu output "but soon, Ichigo I'll stand by you, as the father I could have, and should have been".

Closing his eyes he leaned against the wall of the Kurosaki clinic, just out of his daughter's line of site.

"I'm sorry"

He heard the chair legs of the dining rooms seats slide back against the oak flooring.

"Ichigo"

Observing from above the shrine of penitence, the ryoka that was on everyone's minds smirked, his crouch slowly collapsing into a sitting position as he set his forearms on his knees, his usually tense hands relaxed for the moment as he laid back against the conical construct of seki seki that held his captive play-toy "yo, Rukia, you ok in there?" he called out, rolling his head to the side to look at the smooth, marble like stone.

"Ichigo!" A furious female voice hissed from inside the bland establishment "what are you doing here?" she hissed through the stone.

Drawing his hands up he idly scraped his thumb and forefinger together, a lazy, confident smirk on his face "visiting you, why else, I'll break you out soon you know".

He hear a sad sigh though the wall "don't bother saving me Ichigo, I deserve this" he scoffed loud enough for her to hear "right, I'm still breaking you out" sitting up he pressed an open palm down on his clothed knee to leverage himself to his feet "see ya later Ruki" just as he was about to feed the required reiatsu to his feet for a high speed shunpo alarm bells blared in his head.

Almost instantaneously, and as a defense mechanism he threw the abundance of reiatsu currently circulating his arm outward to form a barrier millimeters above his skin that guarded against the razor sharp edge of a grey zanpaktou that gleamed death in the fake sunlight as he brought his left arm up.

(BLEACH OST – INVASION)

The impact of the blade on his makeshift defence was one of a dull thud, like a hammer hitting a wall.

"Well good morning to you too sweet cheeks" he called out sarcastically as he stared into the steel grey eyes of Byakuya Kuchiki.

"Ryoka" the captain's response was cold, unemotional and to the point causing the shinigami substitute to smirk "what are you doing here, talking to the prisoner?" the 6th division leader questioned as he drew back his sword and charged a byakurai into the tense fingertips of his right hand.

"Hado no 4: Byakurai"

A bolt of elemental energy burst from his fingertips at close range, mere metres from Ichigo's position.

Unfortunately, upon the calling of the attack Ichigo anticipated the direction and flitted away in a shunpo.

Appearing behind the black haired captain Ichigo pressed a hand to the man's back

"Hado no 1: Sho!"

A pulse of reiatsu had Byakuya careening backwards from where he impacted heavily on the seki seki which began to sap his large reiatsu reserves before he rolled back over his shoulder and leapt off the rock into the air where Ichigo used the time to his advantage and dropped off the seki seki, utilising his shunpo to disappear.

Cursing silently Byakuya observed the almost pristine area that was their temporary battlefield "Ryoka, what are you up to?"

(MUSIC END)

After being cleared by the 4th squad leader Chad slunk along the darkened back alleys toward the destination the plaited medic had suggested he go to.

Carefully observing an intersection for several minutes he gauged the time intervals carefully before he slipped out of the crevice and sprinted across the street, his legs pumping furiously as he attempted to hide from any passing shinigami that may find him.

Reaching the end of the intersection he inserted himself in a small indent in the wall to hide for a few seconds as he caught his breath and let a couple of shinigami pass "just wait, Ichigo, I'm coming" with that mutter he stood to his height once again and sprinted down the path toward the destination.

With Orihime

Arriving at the barracks of squad 6 Orihime wore a scowl as she looked down through her translucent orange craft "squad 6" she muttered, grinding out the name "home to Byakuya Kuchiki" she let a smirk onto her face as she summoned Tsubaki to her side who was silent, as she focused on a specific area of the barracks.

"Koten Zanshuun"

An orange glow surrounded Tsubaki as he, commanded by Orihime's thoughts carved through the air, cutting horizontally through the roof of the captain's quarters and smashing through the low cut coffee table that was surrounded by 8 kneeling cushions.

Drawing the male fairy back she smirked and disappeared.

Appearing back in his quarters Byakuya, with clothed eyes stepped over to where he knew his sake was, pulling out a bottle he turned and was about to make his way to his table but stopped upon seeing a decimated area.

Knowing only one person in his division who could cause such chaos he twitched.

"Renji"

Said lieutenant burst through the door at the sound of his name "yes captain, what is it you, oh"

Byakya stood there a bolt of lightning burning on his fingertip that was pointed at the lieutenant who held his hands up "I swear it wasn't me!" he pleaded his case to the twitching man who had turned from the blubbering redhead to look at the decimation, mentally adding up how much it would take to restore

"Please don't kill me!" he heard the redhead say causing him to turn his head crookedly, his body turning 45° to allow him to talk directly to his lieutenants face with one that absolutely terrified his subordinate

"Renji" he muttered to the now meek man who buckled under the grim, ominous air.

"Y-y-yes captain" Renji stammered.

"Prepare your anus" Renji's face took on the features of a petrified man.

It was for that hour that Renji, for the first time in his life, screamed like a little girl.

Seated halfway in the darkness of the training area Ichigo Kurosaki smirked, one of his zanpaktou sheathed over his back while the other one was stabbed into the ground before him

"Mmm Ichigo Kun" Yoruichi mumbled as she snuggled further into his lap. Reaching down he gently brushed her head with the back of his hand causing her to purr.

Mext to the dark skinned goddess lay a pale, black haired woman, snuggled up to his hip "wont Byakuya kun be shocked after we finish" she mumbled as he chuckled, the thrum of his chest causing her to sigh happily.

"Yes Hana chan, yes he will, now let's go to bed now ne?" Unohana nodded and waited for him to lean back before she shuffled up and laid her head against his chest.

"Shatter: Kyoka Suigetsu"

With those words, his plan was set fully in motion, the pieces deployed, and the people prepared.

All according to plan.

BWAHAHA IM BACK! MOFO'S so what'd you thing eh, pretty good, bad, hey your opinion. College has been a bitch yes, it's like an annoying stalker that doesn't leave you alone, constantly reminding you that it's there somehow, but I'm happy to report I'm getting through it, as you know, by now I write as it comes to me, but I try to get a chapter out for this at least every two months, if not a month , most of it is done in my breaks but yeah, I'm still trying to get the second chapter of 'A different path' done but it's not going well, BUT I SHALL PREVAIL.

You know what I'm gonna go now, its 4 in the morning and I feel like shit, too much Pepsi, BUT I CANT GET ENOUGH.

Fuck

Yeah bye.

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