After his battles with Yumichika and Ikkaku, Torin had no trouble beating anyone else in his path, and soon he tracked down where Kenpachi was waiting.

Kenpachi stood in the middle of a street, large white buildings surrounded it. He wore his usual attire, a standard uniform underneath his tattered white haori. His sword rested at his side, it was a chipped and worn katana with a long blade to match Kenpachi's massive size.

Torin walked forward toward the captain, his own haori fluttering in the breeze, "Kenpachi Zaraki" he said "you know why I have come"

Kenpachi tilted his head "about that proposal of yours right?" He said "I'm still not interested in letting my squad fight alongside weaklings

Torin nodded "I know, which is why I have a challenge for you. We fight, if I win, you support my proposal and ensure your squad stays in line" he said

"And if I win?" Kenpachi asked

"I'll withdraw the proposal entirely, I have enough votes to force it through now, but without your squad it's pointless" Torin answered

Kenpachi thought for a moment, then smiled "alright I accept! When do we fight?" He growled, an evil gleam in his eye

"Right here, right now" Torin replied "one on one, no holds barred"

Kenpachi grinned "just the way I like it!" He said as he charged Torin and slashed

Torin drew his sword and parried the strike. The blades met in a shower of sparks, and the force of the combined strikes caused the ground between the two to split open.

"Impressive power" Kenpachi commented as he increased the force behind his blade

Torin frowned, he had never met someone, barring those significantly over his rank, who could match him in raw power. Normally he easily overpowered anyone stupid enough to directly challenge him. He increased his own force to match Kenpachi.

The two matched each other for several minutes, then broke apart.

Torin jumped back and raised his reiatsu to full power, there would be no holding back here. Gripping his blade tightly he dashed in and slashed downward. Kenpachi parried again and the ground shattered beneath them.

Kenpachi pushed Torin away, then darted forward and countered. Torin jumped over the slash and Kenpachi, twisting and spinning to slash at his back.

Kenpachi turned with surprising speed for a man of his size and parried once more, the force knocking Torin into the sky like a rocket.

"Ngh." Torin grunted as he formed a platform with his reiatsu and slid to a stop in the air"It's hard to cope with such power, unless I can plant my feet on solid ground I just get knocked back."

Torin knew he could match Kenpachi's power, if only he has a solid enough stance in ground strong enough to handle their strength.

Torin threw his sword into the ground, embedding it halfway to the hilt. "Grow" he commanded, releasing his shikai. As the blade expanded it cut the ground, using its power to turn it to crystal, the crystals rapidly spread to encompass the battlefield.

Torin landed next to his sword and drew it out of the ground, with the new footing his crystals provided, he charged again.

Kenpachi looked at the crystals with mild interest, then charged at Torin, meeting him halfway.

The two clashed swords again and locked blades. Torin planted his feet, then pushed Kenoachi's sword away and slashed.

Torin's blade sliced into Kenpach's chest, and he smiled triumphantly, the cut was both long and deep, it was a fight ending blow.

Kenpachi stumbled back a step, blood pouring from the wound before his reiatsu stopped the bleeding.

Torin took a step back and rested his sword on his shoulder, confident he had won

"Now that we've finished that..." Torin began

"Finished? Why would we be finished?" Kenpachi laughed as he darted forward and slashed.

Torin reacted fast and backed away, but still got a cut to the chest, blood spurted from the wound briefly, spattering Kenpachi's already demonic face.

"I'm just starting to enjoy myself!" Kenpachi said

Torin frowned "How are you still standing?" He asked, a blow like that should've dropped Kenpachi, and he should be turning to crystal, but he wasn't.

Kenpachi cackled "I am the Kenpachi, that title is only given to the one who never goes down, no matter how cut up I get, I will continue to fight!"

Torin assumed his battle stance, he had known Kenpachi fought solely for the love of battle, but he hadn't realized just what that entailed. He was prepared to beat down Kenpachi as much as necessary, but the fact that his shikai wasn't working on the man was bugging him

"Could it have to do with his reiatsu? Maybe it's frequency is opposed to my own or something?" Torin wondered

Kenpachi charged again, slashing at Torin with full force. Torin parried the strike and gave Kenpachi a horizontal cut to form an X with the first, but Kenpachi just laughed and attacked again.

Torin flipped over Kenoaxhi and cut him from behind, then ducked when Kenpachi spun and countered. Torin pressed the attack, but Kenpachi would not go down.

Torin leapt away, narrowly avoiding another attack

"This is ridiculous! Anyone else would be dead by now!" Torin thought as he looked at the demon before him. Kenpachi was a bloody mess, his body more wound than skin, and yet he was smiling and laughing! Torin couldn't wrap his mind around it, all the suffering caused by fighting, and this man reveled in it!

Kenpachi reached up to his eyepatch "finally" he said "finally someone other than Ichigo who I can go all out against!" He cackled as he ripped the patch off

"He's been...holding back!?" Torin thought in a panic "it's taken all I have to avoid getting hit so far, if he goes all our one of is liable to die here!"

Then Torin felt Kenpachi's reiatsu skyrocket, easily surpassing his own. Kenpachi was engulfed in a golden aura of overflowing power that took the shape of a skull.

"The eyepatch was a limiter?" Torin asked

"Smart one are you?" Kenpachi replied "that's right, I had this made for me to consume my reiatsu and limit my power, otherwise my fights end too quickly for me to enjoy them"

Torin gripped his sword tighter, he couldn't hold back either now, he had been trying to drop Kenpachi without killing him, but at this point.

Kenpachi charged forward and slashed, Torin tried to block, but Kenpachi cut his blade in two and nearly cut off Torin's arm along with it.

"What?" Torin thought as he stared at his broken blade and now useless arm

Kenpachi scowled "pitiful, you were so intimidated by my reiatsu that you lost control of your own. Weak, just like your squad, this is why I won't fight alongside the other squads. How can I fight as an equal with a bunch if spineless losers?"

Torin staggered back and nearly fell, but then regained his balance

"Say what you want about me, yeah, you freaked me out for a moment" Torin said as his blade regrew "but just because you got in a lucky shot..."

Torin's reiatsu skyrocketed, an aura of white surrounding him that rivaled Kenpachi's own. They were evenly matched again

"You don't have the right to insult my squad!" Torin roared as he cut his own shoulder with a piece he broke off his blade, turning his own shoulder to crystal to hold it together. It hurt like hell, but Torin ignored the pain.

Kenpachi smiled again "then prove me wrong!" He said as he raised his sword to slash down at Torin

Torin looked up and locked eyes with the huge man, "believe me, I'm going too" he growled, his eyes glowing with reiatsu.

As Kenpachi slashed Torin's sword burst into light, and he countered.

The blades met in a literal explosion of reiatsu as Torin unleashed a kurisutarubimu at the moment of contact. The wave pushed Kenpachi backwards, and Torin wasn't done.

As Kenpachi struggled with the first attack Torin moved behind him with shunpo.

"Kurisutarubimu" Torin said as he unleashed another wave from behind. Kenpachi turned and tried to stop the second attack with his spare hand, but Torin had expected this and moved to Kenpachi's side, which was now the front.

Torin slashed across Kenpachi's chest, inflicting a long deep cut that even the demon couldn't withstand.

Kenpachi redirected the two attacks from either side, then fell backwards, crystals forming in the wound.

Torin stood over Kenpachi, "I win" he said.

Kenpachi was silent, he didn't confirm Torin's victory, but he didn't dispute it either.

"You may not like my proposal, but you will support it, and you will make sure your squad doesn't cause trouble" Torin said "if we fight again over this, it will be your last fight. I will not stand for anyone endangering the Gotei for something as petty as pride, if it comes to it, I WILL kill you"

Torin sheathed his sword after returning the area to normal, then left.

Kenpachi lay still for a time, then a pink haired little girl appeared by his side. "So whatcha gonna do Kenny?" She asked

"Isn't it obvious?" Kenpachi said "I'm going to support his proposal, he beat me fair and square"

The girl shook her head "he hit you when you couldn't block, he cheated so you win!" She protested

"You said Ichigo cheated too Yachiru" Kenpachi said

"Well he DID" Yachiru pouted

Kenpachi chuckled at this and said "besides, that one is different from the other captains"

Yachiru cocked her head "whaddaya mean Kenny?"

"The others are all weak, they have power, but they shy away from conflict, they stick to their rules and traditions, and they squander it. That one though" Kenpachi said "he does what he needs to get what he wants, like me"

Yachiru thought for a moment, then said "I guess you're right Kenny! You're so smart!"

Yachiru stood up "I'm gonna go her someone to heal you, don't go anywhere kay?"

Kenpachi said nothing, it wasn't like he could move till he was healed anyway

Yachiru left, and Kenpachi closed his eyes and went to sleep