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A thunderous crash at the 11th squad's barracks sounded the start of the day as the spiky haired captain let out a deep laugh. "Come on Ikkaku! You'll have to hit me a lot harder than that if you want to draw blood!"

Ikkaku smirked at his captain and bashed the hilt of his sword to the end of it's sheathe.

"Extend, Hozikimaru!" he screamed as he leaped up into the air and thrust his Zanpakuto down towards Kenpachi's right shoulder.

Expecting this, the Captain raised his sword up horizontally in time to block the attack. What he didn't expect was how much force Ikkaku had put into his strike, causing his feet to be forced into the ground and air to explode out around them. Zaraki gave a wicked grin as he flung his blade outwards and sent Ikkaku flying through the air.

The bald-headed third seat twisted around mid-air, landing with both feet on the wall that Kenpachi expected him to be thrown through. Gathering reiatsu around his feet, Ikkaku pushed off of the wall, causing it to cave in slightly as he charged at Kenpachi.

Zaraki quickly moved his blade over to the left in order to block the attack, but he didn't apply enough force behind his block and Ikkaku's spear-shaped Zanpakuto grazed the very top of his left shoulder, drawing a small amount of blood.

The captain's grin widened even more as Ikkaku plunged his spear into the ground, causing him to pole-vault upwards with it, landing on top of a nearby roof.

"Hows that shoulder Captain? It looks a bit bloody!" Ikkaku yelled down.

Zaraki pointed to the slight wound and yelled back, "What, this? I couldn't tell if I was hit by your blade or if a tiny bug just bit me!"

Ikkaku smirked and readied his Zanpakuto for another strike, when he suddenly felt a massive spiritual pressure closing in on them at an incredible speed.

"Captain, is that who I think it is?" The bald man asked.

Kenpachi's grin grew to a frightening size as the source of the vast reiatsu suddenly appeared next to him.

"I have come to spar, Kenpachi Zaraki" said the Captain, with a carefully blank face..

"Ah Kuchiki, did you finally decide to get out of that pretty mansion in order to practice with that feminine sword of yours?" Zaraki asked in a taunting tone.

"Hisana doesn't like it when I shred Kurosaki to pieces with it, so I figured that you would be up to the challenge." Byakuya responded coolly.

"You're on Kuchiki!" Kenpachi roared.

The two captains slammed their blades against each other, causing and immense blast of spiritual pressure to explode outward, knocking Ikkaku off balance.

"All right, I get front row seats!" the bald man thought to himself.

Byakuya used his mastery of shunpo to his advantage, striking from every possible angle in a matter of seconds. Kenpachi struggled to block the intense flurry of attacks. He grunted as one of them was able to slip by, slicing him across his right forearm. "Come on Kuchiki, you can do better than that!" Zaraki taunted as he managed to punch Byakuya in the gut, sending him flying upwards.

"Very well, if you insist." said Byakuya in mid-air, holding out his hand. "Hado Number Thirty-two, Okasen."

An incredible blast of yellow energy came speeding out of Byakuya's palm and crashed down towards Zaraki. The spiky haired captain frowned as he jumped up and carved the energy in half with his sword, causing two large explosions beneath him.

"Come on, at least Kurosaki has the guts to fight me face to..." he was cut off as Byakuya used an impressive flesh step to appear right in front of him and slash him across the chest, drawing more blood.

"You were saying?" Byakuya taunted

Zaraki let out a howl of laughter. "Good, thats it Kuchiki! Now stay still!"

His sword came screaming down towards Byakuya's own chest, the nobleman raised his sword above him horizontally to block the vastly powerful strike but it was clearly in vain as he went crashing into the ground at a dizzying speed.

Byakuya groaned as he looked up and saw Kenpachi barreling down towards him, laughing loudly. He smirked and held up his sword.

"Scatter, Senbonzakura."


Ichigo sighed as he leaned back into his chair, still slightly worked up by his...encounter with the two Kuchiki's. He was exhausted from his vast lack of sleep but was defiantly in a good mood. With a slight smile on his face, Ichigo closed his eyes and dozed off.

"Can we see your dad now?" asked Ken'ichi in an excited tone. Nel smiled, she found it heartwarming that he called Ichigo her dad instead of 'Captain Kurosaki'.

"Sure, let's go!"

Nel darted towards Ichigo's room with Ken'ichi firmly in her arms.

"I hope Captain Kuchiki didn't slice him up again, I hate it when he does that." Nel thought to herself as she sped towards Ichigo. She instantly arrived in front of his door by using a quick sonido. She gave a soft smile when she saw that he was relaxing in his chair with no injuries.

"Hey Nel, how did the tour go?" Ichigo asked with his eyes still closed and a noticeable smile on his face.

Nel started to answer but Ken'ichi beat her to it. "It was awesome! Nel showed me everything and I decided that I want to be just like you when I grow up Captain!" Nel's smile grew larger, she was so proud to have Ichigo as a father.

Ichigo grinned and walked over to the small boy, ruffling his hair with his hand. "Is that so?"

"Yup! You're my favorite shinigami besides my sister!" expressed Ken'ichi with a colossal grin on his face.

"And just when I thought your ego couldn't get any bigger." said Rukia as she flash stepped beside Nel with her arms crossed and a smirk on her face.

"Shut it you, you're just jealous of all my adoring fans!" exclaimed Ichigo with a small grin.

Rukia jabbed him in the ribs with her elbow, "Well mister hero, he'll have to leave soon, so do you want to give him something to keep him going?"

Ichigo smirked, "Alright then, are you ready to see something cool, Ken'ichi?"

The boy beamed back up at him and replied, "Yeah! Let's go!"

Ichigo picked the boy up and put him on his right shoulder. "Alright girls, keep up if you can!"

Ichigo took off at an incredible speed, pushing his shunpo to it's limit, the two girls following behind him.

He flew past the 11th squad barracks and was surprised to see Kenpachi and Byakuya fighting each other, both of them were covered in dirt and a decent amount of blood.

'I think I'm just going to stay out of that one' He thought, much to his hollow's chagrin.

"Slow down you idiot! The boy could fly off of your shoulder!" Rukia screamed at her captain.

Ichigo looked over his shoulder to see Ken'ichi with an enormous smile on his face. "Faster, faster, faster!" the boy yelled as the skin on his face was smushed against the wind.

Ichigo grinned, "Alright, hold on tight! This is gonna get crazy!"

The orange haired captain suddenly stopped at the bottom of Sokyoku Hill and summoned an incredible amount of reiatsu around his feet and legs, causing it to turn from blue to black. Rukia finally managed to catch up, breathing heavily.

"Ichigo! What the hell are you..." She started, but was interrupted as Ichigo released the vast reiatsu, sending the two girls flying backwards several yards and rocketing himself up to the top of the hill, covering a distance of about a thousand feet in just a couple of seconds.

Ken'ichi had a vice grip on the captain's haori, but it wasn't enough.

He started to fall with the huge smile on his face slightly fading away. Ichigo quickly grabbed the boy up in his arms and in the blink of an eye, they were at the top outer edge of the massive hill. Ichigo sat the boy down on the ground and grinned, "How's that for fast?"

Ken'ichi fell over dizzy in response, but with a huge smile on his face "It...was..awesome!"

Ichigo turned around just in time to get punch in the gut by a very agitated Rukia. "What the hell was that you idiot? You could've killed him going so fast!"

The captain stood back up straight and smirked, scratching the back of his hair with his hand. "Nah, look at the little guy, he had a blast."

Rukia gazed over at the little boy who had now fallen on his back, looking up at the sky with an amused but dazed look on his face.

By this time Nel had caught up to them and let out a huge sigh of relief. The Espada scrunched her nose a little when she looked at the two shinigami, Sonido had never been her strong point.

When her eyes landed on the young boy She went over to him and picked him up, "Okay, I think he's had enough fun for today dad. Azumi is gonna be mad if he gets any more disoriented."

Hearing that the fun was apparently already over, Ken'ichi protested. "Aw come on, can we at least do one more thing? It doesn't have to be going fast again."

Unable to resist the kid's disappointed look, Ichigo sighed and started walking away from them. "Alright, I guess I've gotta end this little show with a bang eh?"

Rukia started to protest when Ichigo held up his hand. "Don't worry, he's not gonna be in any danger, just make sure you both shield him with your reiatsu and he'll be fine."

The two girls looked at each other slightly confused but did as he asked.

"Alright Ichigo, just make this quick, you're not getting out of your paperwork so easily." said Rukia in a stern tone.

Ichigo scowled for a brief moment before unsheathing Zangetsu from his back. The Zanpakuto's voice filled the captain's head, "Ichigo, must you use my power like this?."

Ichigo heard his hollow snicker before he answered, "Relax Zangetsu, I'm not even go into shikai, I just want to see how high I can push our reiatsu without unsealing you."

He paused for a moment and said, "But I want both of you to raise your reiatsu in perfect sync with me. Let's give Ken'ichi a good show."

Shirosaki laughed, "All right King, I'll go along with your little show. Just make sure you can keep up."

Zangetsu just sighed and replied, "Very well, I don't really see the point in all of this but I'll do as you ask."

Ichigo smirked and positioned his sword in front of him in his classic stance that he used to use to go bankai. "All right guys, here we go."

Rukia saw him enter into his bankai stance and cried out, "Wait Ichigo! Don't..." she was once again interrupted as an insane amount of reiatsu began pouring out of her captain.

A torrent of black and red energy began to swirl around Ichigo at an intense speed. It expanded around him in a fifty foot radius and continued to grow. Nel positioned herself between his reiatsu and Rukia. "Don't worry, mother, I'll help him out if it gets out of control again."

Rukia started to reply when Ichigo's black energy suddenly stopped expanding outwards and shot upwards with a gigantic roar, forming a small skyscraper of pure reiatsu. It held there for several seconds before the energy started to pull back inwards towards Ichigo, who had slowly started to raise Zangetsu straight up into the air above him. Once Zangetsu was directly above him, the black and red energy turned black with a blue outline. Rukia and Nel both gasped as they looked into his eyes, his right one was glowing blue and his left was black with a yellow iris.

Rukia's eyes widened as she could see the roots of Ichigo's hair start to turn black, which caused her heart to race with fear. 'What do I do? He's gonna lose control again!'Rukia thought to herself, panicking.

"Ichigo, stop it." Nel called out, well aware of the situation and that Ichigo still wanted to use this for the Captain's tornument.

Then, with a flick of his sword, the energy was gone. Much to the relief of Rukia, he opened his eyes which were both back to his normal amber color. He sheathed Zangetsu and silently thanked his sword and Shirosaki for their help. With a goofy grin carved into his face, Ichigo walked back towards Ken'ichi and got a drop kick to the face.

"What the hell, midget!" exclaimed Ichigo.

Rukia glared at him."What if you lost control again?"

Ichigo opened his mouth to retort when he caught himself and instead decided to smile. He pulled Rukia in and kissed her, holding her gently. She blushed slightly and returned the kiss before stepping back from him, looking down at the ground. Ichigo looked over to Nel who gave him a small smile.

Ichigo recovered his breath and walked over to Ken'ichi, who's mouth was still open in astonishment. "So what did you think of that Ken'ichi?"

That was the coolest thing I have ever seen! How did you do that Captain?" asked the boy.

Ichigo smirked and replied, "With a lot of practice and training. Those are two things that you really need if you want to be a shinigami."

Rukia rolled her eyes in embarrassment, he could be so cheesy sometimes.

"But above all else you need a motivation to make you excel at being a shinigami." Ichigo finished.

Ken'ichi nodded and asked, "So whats your motivation Captain, I wanna be like you."

Ichigo took a quick glance at Rukia and Nel before answering, "My motivation? Well that's simple, I use my powers to protect the people that I love."

Ken'ichi nodded once more "Alright then, I'll become a shinigami to do the same thing! Thanks so much Captain!"

Ichigo knelt down and ruffled the boy's hair, "Tell you what, look after your sister and if you work hard, I'll let you into my squad when you've passed the Shinigami Academy."

Ken'ichi's face glowed in excitement. "Really? You'd let me join your squad?"

Ichigo looked back at Rukia who nodded while she was trying (and failing) to hide a big smile.

"You bet, but remember you'll have to work hard and protect the ones close to you."

Ken'ichi hugged Ichigo which put a grin on the captain's face. Nel also transformed back into her child form and threw her self at Ichigo, big watery tears and snot falling down her face. "Nel is so happy to have Itsigo as her dad!"

The captain laughed and said "Yeah, I love you too Nel. Now we should probably head back to the barracks before Azumi comes back." He put the two children on his shoulders and turned to Rukia who was no longer holding back her smile.

"Alright Rukia, I've got an offer for you."

Rukia playfully raised her eyebrows, "Oh yeah, and what would that be Captain?"

Ichigo pointed in the general direction of squad five's barracks, "We're gonna race back to my office and if I lose, I'll do every bit of my paperwork without complaining, but if I win..." he gave her a funny grin "If I win you have to give me a kiss and let me go to sleep."

Rukia rolled her eyes, "You should do the paperwork anyway, but if you insist."

They both took off using flash step at the same time, moving as fast as they could. They blazed past squad 11's barracks once more to see Byakuya and Kenpachi sitting down, exhausted. Kenpachi pointed up to the pair,

"Well would you look at that Kuchiki, looks like the love birds are at it again."

Byakuya just sighed with a scowl on his face. "All right Captain Zaraki, time for round two."

Ichigo became distracted for a brief second as he heard yet another thundering clash below him. Rukia immediately took advantage of this and mustered as much reiatsu as she could, executing a maneuver that would impress even her brother. She quickly flash stepped behind Ichigo, grabbed up the two children from his shoulders, flash stepped in front of him and held out her right index finger.

"Bakudo Number Sixty-One, Rikujokoro!"

Ichigo had a stunned expression on his face as six, man sized rectangles of glowing, yellow energy slammed into his torso forming a circle, locking his arms in place and sending him plummeting to the ground. Rukia smiled as she heard him call out "Damn...it...midget!"

"I'll be waiting with the paperwork at your office!" she yelled as he fell down. Ichigo slammed into the ground hard, right in the middle of two very amused looking captains.

"Well Ichigo, if you're done showing off then maybe you'd like to put your skills to the test against the both of us!"

A slightly dazed Ichigo looked up to see a creepy looking Zaraki and a stern looking Byakuya. "Oh...uh...hey." Ichigo said in a worried tone.

Byakuya held out his sword in a stance that Ichigo had become far too familiar with. "This is for your actions with my sister earlier this morning. Scatter, Senbonzakura."

Ichigo sighed, 'Paperwork sounds pretty good right about now.' he thought to himself.


Written by Tenshot

(Edited by me)

(A/N) As you can see, I didn't actually write this chapter. It was written by Tenshot, who sent them too me because he liked the fic, so thank him. I just edited them and shifted the format around a lot.

I suppose some of you might find this irritating or a number of other things. Bad for lack of a better word, that I have updated with a chapter written by someone else. But at the end of the day the reason I find this story hard to write atm is that it's in an annoying section between the plot points, so it's basically all filler :/

Now, there is one more chapter written by Tenshot, then chapter 51 will be the start of the tournament which will mark the end of this story. Yes I have more idea's, but I'm afraid I just don't want to add another 20 or so chapters onto this story that I'm already finding difficult to write. I fear the quality would dip too much .

That's this end of this entirely too long A/N, but I hope you recognize that this is an important one. Please review as always and specifically I hope you will direct feedback on the chapter too him.